Mary Capell

Mary Browne, c.1527 - after 1592, was the daughter of Sir Anthony Browne (June 27, 1500-May 6, 1548) and Alys Gage (d. March 31, 1540). She married Lord John Grey, a younger son of the marquis of Dorset (c.1527-November 19,1569). He was imprisoned along with his brother, Henry, duke of Suffolk, after Wyatt’s Rebellion in 1554, but Mary’s family, who supported Queen Mary, contrived his release. Under Queen Elizabeth, Grey was granted Pyrgo and the queen visited him there in 1561. Mary’s children with John Grey were Henry (1547-July 26, 1614), Frances, Elizabeth, Edward, Thomas, John, Jane (c.1550-c.1619), Anne, and Margaret (1559-August 14, 1604). After her first husband’s death, Mary married Henry Capel or Capell of Hadham Hall (1514-June 22, 1588). Her daughter Margaret married his son Arthur. The queen visited Hadham Hall on progress on September 13, 1578. On Capel’s death, Mary inherited, among other things, her coach and the two horses that went with it. She moved to the other Capel seat, Rayne, Essex, while Arthur took possession of Hadham Hall.