LOVELACE, William (d.1577), of Bethersden, nr. Ashford and Canterbury, Kent.

Family and Education

1st s. of William Lovelace by Alice Stevens, wid. of one Shawe. educ. G. Inn 1548, called 1551. m. (1) Anne, da. of Robert Lewis, alderman of Canterbury, 2s. 1da.; (2) Mary, da. of Sir Thomas White of South Warnborough, Hants, wid. of Thomas Caryll, 1da. suc. fa. 1540.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 125-6; (lxxiv), 65; (lxxv)l 64; Arch. Cant. x. 189, 197; DNB (Lovelace, Richard); Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 82.

Offices Held

Counsel to Cinque Ports 1557, to Canterbury 1559, to Faversham by 1564; j.p. Kent from 1561, q. from 1564, many other counties from c. 1573; reader, G. Inn 1562, 1567; serjeant-at-law by 1567; justice of assize by Dec. 1571.Indexes of Great White Bk. and of Black Bk. of the Cinque Ports, 253; Cantenbury burmote bk. 1542—78, f. 127; Arch. Cant. x. 198 n; Dugdale, Origines Juridiciales, 294; HMC 9th Rep. pt. 1, p. 156.

Parlimentarian

LOVELACE, William (d.1577), of Bethersden, nr. Ashford and Canterbury, Kent.

Main residences: Bethersden, nr. Ashford; Canterbury, Kent.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

LOVELACE, William (-d.1577)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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