Family and Education
b. 1509 /10, 1st s. of William Cardinall of Great Wenham, Suff. educ. G. Inn, adm. 1533. m. (1) settlement 1535, Joan, da. of John Gurdon of Dedham, Essex and Assington, Suff., wid. of John Cole of Dedham, 1s. William 3da.; (2) by June 1556, Lettice, da. of William Knightley of Norwich, Norf., wid. of John or William Clipsby of Clippesby, Norf., 4 or 5s. 1da. suc. fa. 1551.Aged 58 at death, Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. n.s. iv. 166. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 33, 172 (where Cardinall’s mother is incorrectly identified, PCC 32 Martyn); Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 77; C142/151/52; Wards 7/11/112; NRA 8606 (Gurdon pprs. 458. 3/1); Morant, Essex, i. 433, 441.
Offices Held
J.p. Essex 1547, 1558/ 59-?d.; receiver-gen. to 16th Earl of Oxford by 1558; recorder, Colchester 1560 – 61, 1562–3.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Great Bromley, Essex.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
CARDINALL, William (1509/10-68)
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Oxford 1644
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