Family and Education
b. 1519 /20, s. of Thomas Cradock of Stafford by Emma, da. of Nicholas Meverell. m. by 1546, Elizabeth, da. of one Peake, 5s. inc. Francis 5da.Date of birth estimated from age on 20 May 1546, ‘26 years or thereabouts’ (City of London RO, Guildhall, jnl. 15, f. 246v), and from that on 31 Aug. 1590, ‘70 years or thereabouts’ (Req.2/96/27). J. C. Wedgwood, Staffs. Parl. Hist. (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), i. 345 is inaccurate. Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. 1885, p. 100; Add. 19125; C142/239/97.
Offices Held
Bailiff, Stafford 1549 – 50, 1556 – 57, 1579 – 80, burgess by 1553; commr. musters 1580.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Stafford.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
CRADOCK, Matthew (1519/20-90/92)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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