SHEFFIELD, Sir Robert (by 1462-1518), of the Inner Temple, London, West Butterwick, Lincs. and Chilwell, Notts.

Family and Education

b. by 1462, 1st s. of Robert Sheffield of South Cave, Yorks. and West Butterwick by Jane, da. of Alexander Lounde of West Butterwick. educ. I. Temple. m. (1) by 1485, Ellen (d.1509 or later), da. of Sir John Delves of Dodddington, Cheshire, 1s. 4da.; (2) by 1518, Anne. Kntd. 17 June 1497; suc. fa. 18 Aug. 1502.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., CIPM Hen. VII, ii. 566. DNB; LP Hen. VIII, i; Gt. Chron. of London, ed. Thomas and Thornley, 277; Stow’s Survey of London, ed. Kingsford, 179; PCC 15 Ayloffe; C142/54/85.

Offices Held

Gov. I. Temple 1511–?d.

Commr. sewers Lincs. 1485 – d., oyer and terminer, London 1495, 1503, benevolence 1500, subsidy Lincs. 1504, 1512, 1514, 1515, London 1504; other commissions Lincs., Yorks. and London 1495 – d.; steward, bp. of Durham’s liberty of Howden, Yorks. Mar. 1493, manor of Stoke Bardolph and others in Notts. Feb. 1508 – d., manor of Kirton, Lincs. and crown lands in Kingston-upon-Hull and elsewhere in Yorks. 20 July 1509 – d.; recorder, London by 21 Sept. 1495 – Apr. 1508; j.p. Lincs. 1495 – 97, 1510–16 or later, Notts. 1511–16 or later; jt. keeper, Lincoln castle 10 Feb. 1501 – d.; ‘councillor’ in 1508; custos rot. Lincs. (Lindsey) by 1516.CPR, 1485–94 and 1494–1509 passim; LP Hen. VIII, i-iii; Statutes, iii. 89, 119, 172; Rot. Parl. vi. 534, 542; Somerville, Duchy, i. 583; B. Andrew, Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858 ed.), 115.

Speaker of House of Commons 1512.

Parlimentarian

SHEFFIELD, Sir Robert (by 1462-1518), of the Inner Temple, London, West Butterwick, Lincs. and Chilwell, Notts.

Main residences: the Inner Temple, London; West Butterwick, Lincs.; Chilwell, Notts.

Author

A.D.K.H.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

SHEFFIELD, Sir Robert (by 1462-1518)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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