This Thomas died about 1580, leaving only daughters, and after him, in 1584, died John Paycocke, sadly commemorated in the parish register as 'the last of his name in Coxall'.

So the beautiful house passed out of the hands of the great family of clothiers who had held it for nearly a hundred years.[12] Of Thomas Paycocke's personal character it is also possible to divine something from his will.

He was obviously a kind and benevolent employer, as his thought for his work-people and their children shows.
He was often asked to stand godfather to the babies of Coggeshall, for in his will he directs that at his burial and the ceremonies which were repeated on the seventh day and 'month mind' after it there were to be 'xxiiij or xij smale childryn in Rochettes with tapers in theire hands and as many as may be of them lett them be my god childryn and they to have vj s.

viij d.

apece and euery oder child iiij d.