• General Notes

  John D'Oyly, Esq. of Adderbury, eldest son and heir, was born about 1592, and after his father was made a lunatic, and himself had attained years of discretion, waged a perpetual warfare with his stepmother respecting the family property, and in 1631 successfully petitioned the Court of Wards to increase his allowance thereout.[602] This was induced by his being then married. John D'Oyly's wife was Anne, second daughter of Capt. John Bray, of Fifield, co. Oxon, who recorded his pedigree and arms at the Oxfordshire Visitation, 1634 (being directly descended from Reginald Bray, brother of Edmund Lord Baron Bray, and of Sir Edward Bray, grandfather of the husband of Susan D'Oyly of the Merton family,) by Mary his wife, daughter and heiress of Robert Palmer, of Dunnington, co. Gloucester.[603] The Bray arms have already been given. In 16 Car. I. John D'Oyly succeeded his father absolutely in the manors of Browne's and St. Amond's; but is stated to have sold a large portion of the family estates before his death. Living, as he did, during the great rebellion, he attached himself to the Parliament; and after the siege of Banbury, in October 1642, was one of the four great rebels in that district whom King Charles excepted from his Declaration of Pardon, sent forth immediately after, viz. 3d November 1642; the three others being the Lord Saye, Nathaniel Fiennes, and Sir William Cobb of Adderbury.[604] After this John D'Oyly seems to have quietly resided at Adderbury till his death. He made his will January 1653, styling himself "Esquire," bequeaths to his loving life, Anne, two shillings, and twelve pence to each of his sons, Bray, Robert, Charles, Ralph, and Edmond ; constitutes his daughter Elizabeth sole executrix and residuary legatee, and the Hon. James Fiennes (afterwards Lord Saye and Sele) overseer. He died æt. about 63, and was buried at Adderbury November 1656: his will being proved February 1656-7, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.[605] By Anne Bray, who survived him, and was living his widow in 1656, when she released her dower to her son Bray D'Oyly (and was probably the person interred at Adderbury, November 1687), John D'Oyly had issue six sons and one daughter,

Details of John's family with Anne Bray