Re: Sir William Brenchley

Ye Old One wrote:
During your research did you come across anything that gives an
indication to his date of birth or to when he was knighted?


Hello Bob,

I'm afraid I was just sweeping quickly through the Patent Rolls
looking for references to his judicial career. However I think I did
notice that at that some point he began to be referred to sometimes as
Sir William. If you use the online Patent Roll site to identify the
first reference to him as a knight then that should give a rough idea
of the date of his knighthood.

As to his birthdate, I don't think I noticed anything which might
help. However you might be able to get a very rough idea of it by
applying the career/age information about sergeants at law which I gave
in a posting a couple of weeks ago (under the heading 'King's
Sergeant circa 1445') to what is known about his career. I ought to
mention that contrary to what I said above about him having probably
become a sergeant at law in about 1377, I now think he probably
wasn't called to the coif until the 1380s. Partly because it wasn't
unknown for up-and-coming apprentices-at-law to be appointed to
judicial commissions even before they became sergeants, partly because
1377 was over 20 years before he was appointed to the bench until 1398
or 1399 and I don't think it was normal to have to wait so long for
that promotion.

Anyway, if he was 45 when he became a sergeant, and he became a
sergeant in 1385, then he would have been born in 1340, or earlier.
But that's a very rough guess.

Regards,

Matt Tompkins

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