Family and Education
b. 1498 /99, and but 1st surv. s. of Walter Taylard of Diddington by Alice, da. and coh. of Robert Forster of London. educ. M. Temple, adm. 2 Nov. 1520. m. (1) Margaret, da. of Edmund Mordaunt, 10s. 4da.; (2) Dorothy, da. of Thomas Roberds of Willesden, Mdx., wid. of Alan Horde (d.1554) of the Middle Temple, London and Ewell, Surr. s.p. suc. fa. 1515. Kntd. 4 Feb. 1531 /16 Feb. 1532.Date of birth estimated from age at grandmother’s and brother’s i.p.m.s, E150/68/3, 71/4. Vis. Hunts. (Cam. Soc. xliii), 89-90; Mill Stephenson, Mon. Brasses, 487; Vis. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 52, 222-3.
Offices Held
J.p. Hunts. 1522 – 45, 1554 – d.; escheator, Cambs. and Hunts. 1523 – 24; commr. subsidy, Hunts. 1524, musters 1541, benevolence 1544/45, relief 1550; other commissions 1534 – 69; sheriff, Cambs. and Hunts. 1546 – 47, 1555–6.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Diddington, Hunts.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
TAYLARD, Lawrence (1498/99-1573)
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Estates
Oxford 1644
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