| DACKOMBE FAMILY A Seventeenth Century Cavalier - Brune Dackombe |
Brune Dackombe, the son of Edward of Corfe Castle by his second marriage to Anne, daughter of Henry Brune of Athelhampton, was born in 1617 at York; this date is based on the Visitation of Dorset in 1623, but is at variance with the date given in the Alumni Oxonienses. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford - having matriculated at 15.
He married under a marriage settlement dated 11th November 1639, Mary, the daughter of Sir Lawrence Bernard. Their son and heir, Edward, is the only child ascribed to them in the Corfe Pedigrees but in later Composition Papers, Brune states 'his four children'.
As described in the preceding Corfe history, he inherited the lease of the Manor house in Corfe from his father, and this was given as his residence at the Hearth Tax Assessment in 1662-1664; also living there was Lady Grace Lawrence and other members of the Dackombe family.
In 1645, after the famous seige, Corfe Castle fell to the Roundheads, and Brune's lands, valued in 1641 at £100 p.a., were sequestered; it is clear that he had already declared for the King, and was imprisoned in the Castle about 1646 where he 'languored for some months'.
In April, 1646 he appealed for the restoration of his sequestered estate, but it appears that some dispute had arisen as to the payment of his Delinquency fine. He made claim on his estates for the upbringing of his four children and the guardianship of William Fortesque's children.
In a letter dated 23 May, 1664 from Brune to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor, concerning a Bill of Chancery, he states that he 'had to borrow money to meet a Delinquency fine from Thorpe Groome - London (shoemaker) on security of a mill at Corfe Castle'.
It is not yet established when Brune died, but his son Edward's children were on the Pedigree from 1672 and it is to be presumed that Brune was deceased before this date.
The Purbeck stone has lasted a little longer - both the mill and Manor House still stand.
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