Edden 'with great oaths and with levers brak up the doors.' In 1564 he was lessee of The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay. The great-grandson of Richard Fettiplace (d. 1511) and Elizabeth Besil was Besil Fettiplace, Sheriff of Berkshire in 1583.<ref>26 Eliz. (i.e.1583) (Guillim)</ref> John Fettiplace of Chilbrey in Berkshire was created a baronet in 1661. The Bessiles family had been settled at Besils-Leigh in Berkshire since the reign of King Edward I, but originated in 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". Marriages and children He married twice: Firstly to Elizabeth Hungerford, a daughter of Sir Anthony Hungerford, MP, of Down Ampney in Gloucestershire; Secondly to Jane Covert, a daughter of John Covert, MP, of Slaugham in Sussex and widow of Sir Francis Fleming, MP, by whom he had two sons and two daughters, including: Bessels Fettiplace, eldest son, whose daughter-in-law, Elinor Fettiplace, in 1604 wrote what is now known as Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book, a rare manuscript on the subjects of household management and cooking, which became well known in later centuries. Richard Fettiplace; Margaret Fettiplace. Death and burial He died in 1580 and was buried in Appleton Church in Oxfordshire, where survives his fine mural monument with recumbent effigy. Further reading Dunlop, J. Rentyon, The Fettiplace Family, published on website: David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History'' References FETTIPLACE. John (1526/27-80) of Besselsleigh, Berks 1527 births 1580 deaths People from Vale of White Horse (district) Members of the Parliament of England for Berkshire English MPs 1558 High Sheriffs of Berkshire