CATLYN, Richard (by 1520-56), of Norwich and Honingham, Norf. and Serjeants’ Inn, London.

Pens. L. Inn 1548, marshal 1549, Autumn reader 1551, 1552.

Counsel to Norwich 1544, steward, sheriff’s ct. 1547 – d.; counsel to Yarmouth 1546–53 or later, Lynn 1548–55; j.p. Norf. 1547 – d.; commr. chantries, Norf., Suff. and Norwich 1548, relief, Norf. and Norwich 1550, goods of churches and fraternities, Norwich 1553; other commissions 1551 – d., bailiff for Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, unknown property by 1548; serjeant-at-law 1552, King’s and Queen’s serjeant Apr. 1556.Norwich ass. procs. 2, ff. 187v, 201v; 3, f. 26v; Gt. Yarmouth chamberlains’ accts. 1546–7, 1547–8, 1553–4; Lynn congregation bk. 4, ff. 91v, 228; CPR, 1547–8, p. 87; 1548–9, p. 136; 1550–3, pp. 144, 355; 1553, pp. 186, 357, 361, 416; 1553–4, pp. 22, 27; 1555–7, p. 244; E163/12/17, nos. 37, 50, 54.