HENDLEY, Walter (by 1499-1550), of Cranbrook, Kent and Gray’s Inn, London.

Family and Education

b. by 1499, 1st s. of Gervase Hendley of Cranbrook by Elizabeth, da. of Walter Roberts of Cranbrook. educ. G. Inn. m. (1) by 1520, Ellen (d. by 1523), da. of Thomas Ashburnham of Guestling and Winchelsea, Suss. and London, 3da.; (2) lic. 1 July 1527, Margery, da. of Thomas Pigott of Whaddon, Bucks., wid. of Thomas Cotton of Landwade, Cambs. suc. fa. Nov. 1533/May 1534. Kntd. by 18 June 1547.Date of birth estimated from marriage. Vis. Kent. (Harl. Soc. xlii), 94; (lxxv), 104; Vis. Bucks. (ibid. lviii), 100-1; PCC 10 Bodfelde, 14 Hogen, 30 Coode; LP Hen. VIII, iv; CPR, 1547-8, p. 157. According to the Roberts pedigree in Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 5), vi. 172 Hendley’s mother was born on 13 Mar. 1492 but it has not been possible to determine whether this is a mistake or a pointer to some confusion in the Hendley pedigree.

Offices Held

Lent reader, G. Inn 1530, 1535.Dugdale, Origines Juridiciales, 292, 293.

J.p. Kent 1531 – d., Suss. 1532 – 45; solicitor, ct. augmentations 1537 – 40, attorney 18 Mar. 1540 – 2 Jan. 1547; commr. for suppression of monasteries 1539, benevolence, Kent 1544/45, chantries, Berks., Hants, I.o.W., New Windsor, Southampton and Winchester 1546, Kent, Canterbury and Rochester 1548; other commissions, Essex, Kent and Suss. 1537–47.LP Hen. VIII, v, viii, x, xii-xviii, xx, xxi; CPR, 1547–8, pp. 76, 79, 85; 1548–9, p. 135; W. C. Richardson, Ct. Augmentations, 43 n. 32, 140 n. 93, 492.

Parlimentarian

HENDLEY, Walter (by 1499-1550), of Cranbrook, Kent and Gray’s Inn, London.

Main residences: Cranbrook, Kent; Gray's Inn, London.

Author

H.M.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

HENDLEY, Walter (by 1499-1550)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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