ROOKWOOD, Nicholas (by 1511-57), of Lincoln’s Inn, London and Euston, Suff.

Family and Education

b. by 1511, 2nd s. of Edmund Rookwood of Euston by 1st w.; half-bro. of Brice Rookwood. educ. L. Inn, adm. 20 Nov. 1525. m. by 1554, Elizabeth, da. of George Peryent of the diocese of Norwich, wid. of Sir Humphrey Style (d.1552) of Beckenham, Kent, 1s.Date of birth estimated from education. Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 235; Vis. Norf. (Norf. Arch.), i. 140-2; Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 156; C142/112/146.

Offices Held

Chief prothonotary c.p. by May 1533 – d.; commr. gaol delivery, western circuit 1537 – d., clerk of assize by 1552; j.p.q. Kent, Suff. 1554–d.Black Bk. L. Inn, i. 235; LP Hen. VIII, xii-xviii, xx; CPR, 1547–8, p. 78; 1550–3, p. 249; 1553–4, p. 30; 1554–5, p. 103; 1555–7, p. 418.

Parlimentarian

ROOKWOOD, Nicholas (by 1511-57), of Lincoln’s Inn, London and Euston, Suff.

Main residences: Lincoln's Inn, London; Euston, Suff.

Author

R.V.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

ROOKWOOD, Nicholas (by 1511-57)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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