Sir Richard Elyot, SL (died 1522) held large estates in Wiltshire and in 1503 became serjeant-at-law and Attorney-General to the Queen consort, Elizabeth of York. Soon afterwards he was commissioned to act as Justice of Assize on the western circuit, becoming in 1513 judge of the Court of Common Pleas. His first marriage with Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas De La Mare of Aldermaston House in Berkshire and widow of Thomas D'Abridgecourt of Stratfield Saye House in Hampshire, brought him a son, Thomas Elyot, who became a well-known diplomat and author, and two daughters, one of whom was mother to the supposed literary writer, George Puttenham. Richard married, secondly, Elizabeth widow of Richard Fettiplace of East Shefford and daughter and heiress of William Bessels of Besselsleigh, both also in Berkshire (the latter now in Oxfordshire).
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