216:, known as Herringby Spencers and Herringby Fenns, and was patron of the church. Another enterprise was acquiring a wardship, with the right to choose the spouse of an under-age heir, which in 1466 he did in partnership with William Essex (later one of his executors) for Nicholas Carew. A further area was
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He made his will on 24 February 1476, asking to be buried next to his mother's tomb in the chancel of
Herringby church, and presumably died a few days later. He left a widow called Eleanor and one child, a daughter called Margaret. She was already the wife of
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