STANFORD (STAMFORD, STAMFORD, STAUNFORD), William (1509-58), of Hadley, Mdx. and London.

Family and Education

b. 22 Aug. 1509, 2nd s. of William Stanford of London by Margaret, da. and h. of one Gedney of London. educ. Oxf.; G. Inn, adm. 1528, called 1536. m. Alice, da. of John Palmer of Kentish Town, Mdx., 6s. inc. Robert 5da. Kntd. 27 Jan. 1555.Date of birth given in DNB. Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. v(2), 279-80; Harl. 897, f. 18; Lansd. 874, f. 60; Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. 1501-40, p. 535. No evidence has been found for the statement in Shaw, Staffs. ii. 108 that Stanford married Elizabeth Comerford.

Offices Held

Autumn reader, G. Inn 1544, Lent 1551.Dugdale, Origines Juridiciales, 293.

Attorney, ct. gen. surveyors of the king’s lands 1542 – 28 Dec. 1546; commr. sale of crown lands 1543, benevolence, Mdx. 1544/45, chantries, London, Westminster, Mdx. 1546, contribution, Mdx. 1546, of Admiralty in Nov. 1547, relief, Mdx. and Westminster 1550, eccles. law 1552, goods of churches and fraternities, Westminster 1553, survey crown possessions 1557; other commissions 1553 – 55; j.p. Mdx. 1543 – d., Cornw., Devon, Dorset, Hants, Som., Wilts. 1554; serjeant-at-law 17 Oct. 1552; Queen’s serjeant 19 Oct. 1553; j.c.p. by June 1554; receiver of petitions in the Lords, Parlt. of 1558.LP Hen. VIII, xvii, xviii, xx, xxi; CPR, 1547–8, p. 86; 1550–3, pp. 354–5, 396; 1553, pp. 186, 356, 361, 417; 1553–4, pp. 17–19, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, 32, 162; 1554–5, p. 105; 1555–7, p. 313; APC, iii. 382; Machyn’s Diary (Cam. Soc. xlii) 26–27; LJ, i. 513; HCA 14/2.

Parlimentarian

STANFORD (STAMFORD, STAMFORD, STAUNFORD), William (1509-58), of Hadley, Mdx. and London.

Main residences: Hadley, Mdx.; London.

Author

A.D.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

STANFORD (STAMFORD, STAMFORD, STAUNFORD), William (1509-58)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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