General Notes

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Robert De Bracy, his son, is mentioned in June 1333, when he and his brother Richard were accused of hunting unlawfully in Malvern Chase. Robert De Bracy was clearly a great huntsman; in 1334 there was a complaint against him for breaking the bishop's park at Blockley; in 1347 Hugh Le De Spencer
complained that Sir Robert accompanied by his brother Richard and Walter De Bradeles, the parson of Madresfield, had entered his chase at Malvern, co. Worcester, and carried away his deer and fish (Patent Roll, p. 469). There was a like charge against Sir Robert in 1354. However, this did not interfere with his appointment to act on a variety of comissions in the county, nor with his service a a justice of the peace. He was commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, when about 1343 he investigated the shortage of the Collector for the town of Wyche in Worcester. In 1345 he was Lord of Madresfield. He fought as a knight at Crecy in the division of the Prince of Wales. He was with Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and was therefore in the thickest of the fight. Wrottelsey in his "Crecy and Calais" (p. 179) says: "Among those who served in person who were exonerated from the assessment to find men at arms and arches, was Sir Robert Bracy who served in the retinue of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, at the date of
the passage of the Hogue in Normandy and at the Battle of Crecy and siege of Calais." In 1348 Sir Robert Bracy was Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer to investigate the death of John, son of
William De Cartere, killed at Worcester. It was found that certain persons had violated the sanctuary of the Church of St. Mary at Worcester and killed the said John (Patent Rolls, p. 179). Also in 1348 he was exempted for life from serving on assizes, etc. (Patent Roll, p. 452). He was knight of the shire
of Worcester in 1361 (Close Rolls, pp. 65-66), but was dead before 1378, as Juliana _____, his wife, as relict of Robert De Bracy, was patron of the church at Warndon in 1378 (Nash II, 452). In the deeds of Madresfield, Robert II De Bracy appears only between 1344 and 1357. But he may be identified with the
Robert De Bracy who was on the commission of peace for Worcestershire in 1362, and was a commissioner of array in that county in 1366. The Robert De Bracy who was keeper of Salcey Forest, Northants, in 1378-89, forester of Dean in 1384, and warden of the Marshalsea in 1383, is probably the younger son of Robert II.
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