Did they have a daughter Jane who married Sir Edward Bray? (Sussex of 1530 & 1634, pub Harleian 1905, Bray p. 20)
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From: ADRIANCHANNING@aol.com
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Subject: Browne Betchworth > Baltomore
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 00:08:43 +0000 (UTC)

Burke's American Families, which was originally a supplement to the 1939
edition of the Landed Gentry showed a connection from Brownes of Betchworth
Castle, near Dorking, Surrey to Brownes of Baltimore, Maryland.

Part of the pedigree includes the following:

Edward Browne, whose name does not appear in the visitations, but is found in
the will of his father, Sir Matthew Browne, who left legacies to `...Philip,
Robert and Edward Browne, sons of my decease son Edward.`  He m. a lady called
Piper, and d.v.p.
The line then continues through this 3rd son Edward.

I have just gone through the Will of Sir Mathew Browne.  There is a deceased
son Edward whose son is named Philip, but there is no mention of Edward's
other two sons Robert and Edward so this pedigree would seem to fail.

Brief genealogical data from Sir Mathew's Will is as follows:

PRO Web page indexed as: Sir Mathew Browne of Dorking, Surrey; 07 September
1557; PROB 11/39

Mathew Browne (-4 Dec 1554 x 7 Sep 1557 to be bur Dorking); knight; Of West
Betchworth, Surrey; held manors of Kingsnorth and of Milton both in Kent; Held
property in Kent (some in Gavelkind), Surrey, Sussex and London; son of George
Browne knt; m Frydyswyde (-<4 Dec 1554 bur Dorking)

He left
a)Henry (-<Dec 1554) eldest son (who had m Katheryn (-<Dec 1554) d of William
Shelley (-<Dec 1554) knt and left Thomas s&h);
b)Edward (-<Dec 1554) (left Philip Browne)
c)Richard
d)George
e)Walter
f)Owen (often spelt Olken in the Will, but I assume the final occurrence of
this name where it is written Owen is correct)
g)Agnes for her marriage (other evidence give 6 daughters, but I guess Sir
Matthew is providing for the remaining unmarried daughter)

Adrian Channing has kindly allowed me to use his transcription of Matthew Browne's will.  First his annotations, then the will itself:

[ / = line end; // new page; my remarks in square brackets; ^text^ is either
raised characters or a word inserted; "____" are words I cannot work out, and text followed by [?] are words I am not sure about or look wrong.  There are quite a few contractions, and much use of the symbol "p" but with the tail crossed through which stands for per or par, thus p'f' in my transcription is short for perfect.  The spelling is a bit weird at times, "said" is always given as what looks like "sared", but for ease of reading I have changed this
throughout, sometimes "paid" is given a similar spelling.  Richard is Richarga couple of times, and the name Olken would seem to be Owen.  At one point, when listing his sons, Walter has been omitted.  I assume these are errors copying the Will into probate.]


In the name of god Amne the iiij ^th^ day of the month of December / in the
year of our lord god a thousand fyve hundred liij in the first yere of the Reyn' lady ^sovreign?^ mary by the grace of / god Queen of England ffrance and Irland defender of the faith vc[?]  I Mathew Browne of west bechworth / w'tin the p'ys of dorking in the Countie of Surrey knight being of whole mynde and in good and p'f'' / remembrance laude and prayse be unto almightie god I forsake and renowse all my foym' and last wills / and make and ordayn and declare this my prsent testament conteyning my last will in man' and forme / following  ffist I bequest and comende my soule unto almightie god my maker and redem'  And my body / to be burial in the Church of Dorking near unt' the place where ffrydyswyde my late wyf lyeth buryall or else / where it shall please god that my body shall dep't  Item I bequueth toward the reaniton[?] of the same church of / dorking x^s^  Item I will and my mynde and intent' is that all such debtes and denfics[?] as I owe of right / or of consident[?] to any person or persons be well and truly contented and paid by myn executors hereafter / in this my present will and testament named or ells ordyned and so to be paid wythout any delay or / contridiction  Item I gyve and bequeth to Agnes my daughter toward
her maryage thre hundecth markes w'ch / I will to be remyted and levyed of
the rents revenues and p'fitts of the manner of kingesnoth and mylton / wythin the countye of kent  And that the yssues rememns[?] and profitts of the said man's of kyngsnothe and / mylton afowsaid be ymployed to no other use untill the said som of three hundeth marks be paid to my / said Daughter  Item I will that my said executors at the tyme of my dep'ting distributed and gyven in / almes to certen poor people as they shall think good by their discretions tenne pounds  Item I gyve and / bequeth to Thomas Browne sonne and heyre of Henry Browne my late sonne and heire apparant deceassed / whos soule Jhus pardon all my ymplements of household w'ch I have in west betchworth that is to saye / hanginge bedsedills[?] formes tabells coverds brewyng vessells polts of yron panns of yron and yridspytts[?] / of yron pewter vessell lattred can'sticks tables valts stolis elpesce[?] etreting[?] cheynes all fether bedds all / covletts all boulsters all pillowes all blanketts all payers of lynnyn shetts all cornterwynts all / payer of complete harnes all bilts [or bitts] for the warrys all besers of beddes all cuysshens and all man' of lyanyng[?] / and instuf[?]
whatsoev' yt be, my chayne of gold and all my plate of sylve and gilte spones of silver / and baser and ewer of silv'  Item I will that my said executers paye unto my s'ants [servants] ymedeatly after / my deceasse all such wage as I owe theym for their service[?]  And I will to any of my s'ants being in my / s'vyce at the day of my deceasse or dep'ting my lyf from this transytory world any one of theym one quartes / wages The residue of all my goods and catalls not willed before written nor[?] hereafter in this my p'sent / will and my last testament I gyve and bequeth to the said Thomas Browne and Richard Browne my / sonne whom I ordeyn and make my executors and they to pay my debtes and ffuneralls charge and to p'forme / this my last will and testament  Item in my most hartie wyse I desyre John Oaryll esquire to be my / ov'seer and hym I make to be my sole ov'seer of this my last will and I gyve hym for his cormpell[?] / and labor therof xl^s^  ffor the dispositon of my landes first I will and myn intent and mynd is that / Thomas Browne sonne and heire of my late sonne Henry Browne my heir apparent esquirer deceassed / have hold and injoye all my man's lands tenerments rents rev'sions servyce[?] and hereditaments what / so ev' they
be wythall and singular there appertenning Stitnat[?] lynig and being in the
counties of Kent / Sussex Surrey and the citie of London except and forprysed out of this my will and gifte the third / p'te of all such lands and tenements rents and sevice[?] as or holdyn of our said soverign lady the queens[?] / grace in cheapse [?] by buyghte [=burgage?] servyce[?]  And also except and forprised[?] all such my man's lands tenitments rents / Servics and other my hereditaments whatsoev' they be in the said counties of Kent wherof Gavilkynd / tenure according to the custome of the said countie of Kent to have and to hold the said man's lands tent's / rents revisions servyce[?] and hereditament w'tall and singuler their appertening ^_____^ before excepted to the said / Thomas Browne and to his heyres mayles of his body lawfully begotten according and after the trenet[?] / meanyng and intent of the last will and testament of Sir George Browne knyght my father and in / fulfilling and p'formyng all covenanets grants and agrements made and contyned in a payer of / Indentyres betwene me the said Sr Mathew Browne knyght on the one p'te ["and" crossed out] and Sr
Will'm Shelley / knyght deceassed on the other p'te concernying maye [=made] solernpinsed and hadd by my said sonne Henry Browne / deceassed and Katheryn his late wif also deceassed and daughter of the saied Sr Willi'm Shelley and to / the residue of my said landes [crossed out or underlined] man's lands and other the p'miss wyth their appurten'ts of the tenure / and nature of Gavylkynde in the countie of Kent aforesaid my very will and mynd is by this my / last will and testament that the said man's lands tenemnents and all other the p'misss last before / mensioned shalle by me the said Sir Mathew willed alloted gyven and declared in advoding of debate and / stryfs that might herafter come and grow amongst my children and the said Thomas Browne and / unto Philip Browne sonne of Edward Browne my late sonne  And in avoding of the said debate // and styfes between the said p'ties I gyve and bequeth to the and Richard Browne George Browne / Walter Browne and Olken [=?Owen] Browne my sonnes and Phillip Browne any of thym x^li^ by the yer[?] of / yearly rent and annuytie to have hold and yerely p'mynt[?] the yearly rent and ann[u]ytie of x^li^ by the yere / to any of the said Richarge George Wa[l]ter Olken and Philip Browne their executors and assynes during / there naturall lyffes and the longer lyfe of theym
out of all the said man's lands tenements and other the / p'miss being the
Gavylkynde lands in the said countie of Kent at the ffeastes of the annutiacon of our blessed / lady and saynt mary all thar channgell by evyn porcons and yf it happen the said yerly rent or annuytie / of tenne pounds by the yere ^be^ behynde unpaid to any of the said Richarde George Walter Olkyn [=Owen?] and Philipp / Browne their executors or assignes at eny of the said ffeasts above mentioned by the space of xx^t^ dayes and / laufully asked that then yt shalbe lawfull for the said Richarde George Walter Olken [=Owen?] and Philip Browne / and everry of theym sev'ally or joyntly their executors or assynes to enter and distrayn into the man's lands / Tenements and other the p'miss of Gavylkynd land and any p'te [=part] and p'cell therof and the distresses their so / takyn yt to lede dryve impark retayne and kepe unto such tyme the said yerely rent or annuytie of tenne / pounds by the yere be to any of the said Richard George Owen [no Walter?] and Philip Browne sonne of the said / Edward wyth the arrerayes of the somme, yf any be, be fully satisfied contented and paid and I gyve / will and allot by this my last will and testament All my said man's lands te'nts rents ser[v]yce and / hereditaments whatsoev' they be being Gavylkynd lande to the said Thomes Browne his heirs and / assignes to have and to hold the said man's lands tenements and all other the p'misses called Gevylkynd / landes wyth all singuler their appurtaning to the said Thomas Browne his heirs and assignes for ev' / In wytness hereof to this p'snt my last will and testament I the said Sr Mathew Browne here / suscribed my name and putto my seale the day and yere above said in the p'sents of Sir Mathewe / Browne

Probatum .....