Wrentham Hall was a large now-demolished Manor House to the north-west of the village of

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, England and which stood on what is now Blackmoor Farm. The Tudor brick mansion of Wrentham Hall (now lost) is said to have been built around 1550 by Humphrey Brewster, Esq. (c. 1527-1593), the elder son of Robert Brewster (of a well-established Suffolk family) and his wife, daughter of Sir Christopher Edmonds of Cressing Temple, Essex. If so, he did not then hold the manor in chief. The lordship of Wrentham Southall, or Perpounds, belonged to Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre (executed in 1541) and passed from his widow Lady Mary (Neville) to her son Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre, who had licence to

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the manor to trustees in 1571. So it became vested in his cousin Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, who in 1576 had licence to alienate it to Humphrey Brewster. Brewster appears as lord of the manor of Wrentham Southall in a

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. The lordship of Wrentham Northall, or Poinings, belonged to Sir

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, until 1567, when he sold it to Arthur Choute, who sold it to Humphrey Brewster in 1577. The Hall was built to a conventional Elizabethan E-plan. It passed down in the Brewster family from Humphrey to his son Francis (1566-1644) and from Francis to his son Robert Brewster (1599-1633), a Parliamentary commissioner during the Civil War and MP for both Dunwich and

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. From Robert it passed to his son

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(1623-1671), also MP for both constituencies, and then, Francis having no sons, to Francis' brother Robert (died 1681). After several more generations it descended to Humphrey Brewster, who died unmarried in 1797. The hall and its land were soon afterwards sold to Sir Thomas Gooch, 4th Baronet of

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, who auctioned the contents and demolished the hall in 1810.

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