Family and Education
b. c. 1524, 1st s. of Richard Jeffrey of Chiddingly by Elizabeth, da. of Robert Whitfield of Wadhurst. educ. ?an inn of chancery; G. Inn 1544, called 1546. m. (1) c.1553, Alice (d. 28 May 1570), da. and h. of John Apsley of London, at least 4s. (all d.v.p.) 3da. (2 d.v.p.); (2) c.1576, Mary, da. of George Goring I of Ovingdean, Suss., s.p. suc. fa. 1544. Kntd. Oct. 1577.PCC 21 Watson; Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 13; W. Berry, Co. Genealogies, Suss. (Comber’s copy at Chichester), 156; Foss, Judges, v. 513-14; H. R. Mosse, Mon. Effigies of Suss. 42.
Offices Held
Lent reader, G. Inn 1561; serjeant-at-law 1567; Queen’s serjeant 15 Oct. 1572; j.p. Cornw., Devon, Dorset, Hants, Som., Suss., Wilts. from c. 1573; j. Queen’s bench, 15 May 1576; chief baron of the Exchequer 12 Oct. 1577.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Chiddingly, Suss.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
JEFFREY, John (c.1524-78)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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