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Robert Drury, son and heir of Sir William and Elizabeth Sotehill, died one day before his father

From - The National Archives PROB 11/40, ff. 127-8

.. Robert Drury, died in December 1557, predeceasing his father by only a few weeks.
His wife, Audrey Rich, was one of the nine daughters of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (1496/7-1567), a member of the council of Oxford's grandfather, John de Vere (1482-1540), 15th Earl of Oxford, and later Lord Chancellor of England. The testator appoints Lord Rich as supervisor in his will below. By his wife, Audrey Rich, Robert Drury (d.1557) is said to have had the following children:
his son and heir, Sir William Drury (1550-1590), who succeeded at Hawstead;
a second son, Thomas; two other sons, Henry and Robert, who died without issue;
and eight daughters,
1. Ann, wife of John Thornton of Soham, Cambridge;
2. Mary, wife of Robert Russell of West Rudham, Norfolk;
3. Elizabeth married first Thomas de Grey of Merton, Norfolk, and secondly, Nicholas Mynne of Walsingham, Norfolk;
4. Susan, wife of Robert Baspole;
5. Winifred, wife of Edmund Marchant of Colchester, Essex;
6. Bridget, wife of Richard Zouch of Pitton, Wiltshire;
7. Dorothy, wife of Edward Barnes of Soham, Cambridge.
However the will of their grandmother, Elizabeth (nee Sothill) Drury (d.1575), makes no mention of either Anne or Elizabeth, and mentions another daughter, Audrey.