Richard Tracy

From Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies 1841:

Richard Tracy obtained from his father the manor of Stanway, in the County of Gloucester, part of the lands of the Abbey of Tewksbury, which came to him by grant from the crown. "This Richard," says an old writer, "was well educated, and wrote learnedly of his father's faith several Treatises in the English tongue, and that most remarkable one, entitled 'Preparations for the Cross,' written experimentally, having suffered much in his estate for his father's reputed heretical will: he also wrote prophetically, anno 1550, (few years before the beginning of Queen Mary,) another Treatise, 'To teach one to die,' which is annexed to his 'Preparations to the Cross,' which was reprinted, and falsely ascribed by the editor, to be composed by John Friths, being one of the three that was found in the belly of a cod brought into the market to be sold at Cambridge, A D 1626, wrapped about with canvas, very probably what that voracious fish plundered out of the pocket of some shipwrecked seaman." In the 2nd of Elizabeth, he was sheriff of Gloucestershire, and having married Barbara, daughter of Thomas Lucy, Esq of Charlecote, had with three daughters, three sons, Paul Nathaniel, and Samuel.