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- [S336467] History of Parliament Online, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993, (The History of Parliament Trust ), "VERNEY, Francis (1531/34-59), of Salden in Mursley, Bucks. and London", http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/verney-francis-153134-59 .
"b. 1531/34, 4th s. of Sir Ralph Verney, and bro. of Edmund. m. lic. 2 Apr. 1548, Margaret, da. of Sir Nicholas Vaux, 1st Lord Vaux of Harrowden, wid. of Sir Francis Pulteney of Misterton, Leics."
- [S42] Letters and Papers of the Verney Family, John Bruce, (London: John Boyer Nichols and Sons, 1853), 51-52.
"[Ralph's] marriage, to which we have before alluded, may be esteemed, in some respects, to have been a fortunate one, but its prospects were curiously chequered. The lady was Elizabeth, one of the six daughters, and for a long time one of the presumptive co-heiresses, of Edmund the first lord Bray, the inheritor of the great wealth granted to his uncle sir Reginald Bray by king Henry VII. These six ladies were also in the same manner presumptive co-heiresses of Jane lady Bray, their mother, who was an heiress of the name of Halighwell, and, through her mother, heiress also of a family of Norburys. Such a marriage was ad vantageous to sir Ralph Verney in point of connection, and extremely promising on the score of property. But shortly after the marriage of sir Ralph and Elizabeth, her mother, lady Bray, added a son to her already goodly family of daughters. The boy grew up to manhood. He succeeded his father in 1539, as John second lord Bray, and is described as a youth of great promise, 'a paragon in court, and of sweet entertainment.'"
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