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Richard Fettiplace of Shefford, the eldest son, married Elizabeth, the only child and heiress of William Besils, (and his wife Alice, daughter of Sir Richard Hareourt) of Besils Leigh, Berks, whose family had been settled here, as Leland says in his quaint language, "syns the time of Edward the first. The Bessells cam out of Provence in France and were men of activitye in feates of arms as it appearith in monuments at Legh; how he faught in listes with a straunge knyghte that challengyd hym, at the whitche deade the kynge and quene at that time of England were present".

Birth	1465	Besils Leigh, Berkshire, England
Marriage	Abt 1485	Shefford, Berkshire, England - Sir Richard Fettiplace
Burial	1520	Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England

Spouse	Sir Richard Fettiplace (1460 - 1511)
Child	Anne Fettiplace (1496 - 1568)

Father	William Bessiles (1444 - 1515)
Mother	Alice Harcourt (1445 - 1526)

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