SAUNDERS, Edward (1506-76), of Whitefriars, London; Westminster, Mdx. and Weston-under-Wetherley, Warws.

Family and Education

b. 4 Apr. 1506, 1st surv. s. of Thomas Saunders of Sibbertoft, Northants. by Margaret, da. of Richard Cave of Stanford, Northants.; bro. of Robert. educ. Camb.; M. Temple, adm. 3 May 1524. m. (1) by 1540, Margery (d. 11 Oct. 1563), da. of Sir Thomas Englefield of Englefield, Berks., wid. of George Carew (d.1538) of (?Bury St. Edmunds) Suff., 1da.; (2) by 1566, Agnes, da. of one Hussey. suc. fa. 8 Mar. 1528. Kntd. 27 Jan. 1555.[footnote]

Offices Held

Autumn reader, M. Temple 1539, bencher 1539.

Servant of Cromwell by Dec. 1537; j.p. Northants. 1539 – d., Warws. 1544 – d., Cumb., Yorks. (W. Riding) 1554 – 58, Leics. 1554 – d., Berks., Glos., Herefs., Oxon., Salop 1562 – d.; serjeant-at-law 1540 – 47; recorder, Coventry 1541 – 53; King’s serjeant 1547 – 53; j.c.p. 4 Oct. 1553–7; c.j. Lancaster 1554; c.j.KB 1557 – 59; retained of council, duchy of Lancaster 1558 – d.; receiver of petitions in the Lords., Parlts. of 1558, 1559, 1563, 1571, 1572; chief baron of the Exchequer 29 Jan. 1559–d.M. L. Robertson, ‘Cromwell’s servants’ (Univ. California Los Angeles Ph.D. thesis, 1975), 555–6; Stowe 571, f. 18v; CPR, 1547–8, p. 182; 1553–4, p. 71; 1555–7, p. 363; 1558–60, pp. 58, 65; CSP Dom. 1547–80, p. 61; Somerville, Duchy, i. 320 n. 3, 456, 470; LJ, i. 513, 542, 580, 666, 703.

Parlimentarian

SAUNDERS, Edward (1506-76), of Whitefriars, London; Westminster, Mdx. and Weston-under-Wetherley, Warws.

Main residences: Whitefriars, London and Westminster, Mdx. and Weston-under-Wetherley, Warws.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

SAUNDERS, Edward (1506-76)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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