 Since then, the land had been continuously owned and occupied by three families – the de Ispania family, the Kempe family, who acquired it when Margery de Ispania married Nicholas Kempe in the early fifteenth century, and the Ruggles family (later the Ruggles-Brise family).After the Kempe line ended, the house was bought in 1760 by Samuel Ruggles, a clothier from Bocking.His descendants, the Ruggles-Brise family, lived in the house until recently.