Sampson family additional support documentation:

"MEDIEVAL GENTLEWOMAN Life in a gentry household in the later middle ages" by Ffiona Swabey, teacher, writer, and broadcaster. copyright 1999, MA in Women's History at Royal
Holloway, University of London

On page 31, Ffiona identifies Alice de Bures, the subject of the book, as having a paternal grandmother 'Alice' who was the daughter of 'Sir John de Raydon of Overbury Hall in Layham Suffolk'.

On page 32, a de Bures family tree with coat of arms, depicts this Alice de Bures with her father and mother as Sir Robert de Bures (d.1361) and 'Joan de Sutton' (d.1406), and also depicts Alice
as the step daughter of Sir Richard Waldegrave (d. 1410). ( Douglas Richardson, in Royal Ancestry volume V, page 292, has this Joan de Sutton as 'Joan' the daughter of Robert Silvester.)
This tree also shows Alice de Bures' first cousin Margaret de Bures as the wife of William Sampson (d. 1439) with Sampson offspring of Agnes and Thomas. Alice de Bures would ultimately
marry Sir Guy Bryan. Both Margaret (de Bures) Sampson and Alice (de Bures) Bryan are shown as great-granddaughters of 'Sir John de Raydon of Overbury Hall in Layham Suffolk'. Sir
Richard Waldegrave (d. 1435), son of the previously mentioned Richard, is also on this family tree as the half brother of Alice (de Bures) Bryan.

This 210 page book shows how Alice not only managed, and documented a set of estates, but also how she socialized with family and acquaintances through time. Ffiona descibes that the
Sampson family visited often, and that she was also regularly visited my her half brother Sir Richard Waldegrave. Ffiona leaves an impression that the Sampsons were not as well off as Alice,
or her step brother Sir Richard, who would go on to become Speaker of the House of Commons.

William Sampson's son Thomas would bring the Playford manor into the Sampson family with his marriage to Margery Felbrigg. Perhaps Alice and her half brother Sir Richard Waldegrave had a hand
in making the connection with Sampson family.