Family and Education
b. by 1508, o.s. of George Guildford of Hemsted by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Robert Mortimer of Mortimer’s Hall, Essex. educ. G. Inn, adm. 1530. m. (1) by 1534, Barbara, da. of Thomas West, 8th Lord la Warr, 6s. inc. Thomas 6da.; (2) Mary, da. of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton, Northants., wid. of John Shelley of Michelgrove, Suss., 1s. suc. fa. ?by 1537. Kntd. 1542.Presumed to be of age at election. Pylgrymage of Sir Richard Guylforde, (Cam. Soc. li), ped.; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. lxxiv), 44, 77; Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 37; M. E. Finch, Five Northants. Fams. (Northants. Rec. Soc. xix), ped.; Wards 7/10/123; LP Hen. VIII, xii.
Offices Held
Bailiff, Winchelsea, farmer, Higham, Suss. 1534 – d.; j.p. Kent 1537 – ?38, sheriff 1552 – 53; commr. benevolence 1544/45, chantries 1546, relief, Kent and household of Anne of Cleves 1550, church goods, Kent 1553; other commissions 1539 – d.; chamberlain, household of Anne of Cleves 1546.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Hemsted, Kent.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
GUILDFORD, John (by 1508-65)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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