STANHOPE, Edward II (c.1547-1608), of London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1547, 4th s. of Sir Michael Stanhope, and bro. of John, Michael, Sir Thomas and Edward Stanhope I. educ. Trinity Coll. Camb. scholar 1560, BA 1563, minor fellow 1564, MA 1566, major fellow 1569, LlD 1575; incorp. MA Oxon 1566, suppl. DCL 1578. unm. KB 25 July 1603.DNB; Vis. Essex, ii. 562; Lansd. 94, f. 137.

Offices Held

Prebendary of Botevant, York 1572 – 91; adv. Doctors’ Commons 1575; master in Chancery 1577; chancellor, diocese of London 1579; eccles. commr. from 1587, commr. fines office 1589; rector of Terrington, Norf. 1589; prebendary of Kentish town in St. Paul’s 1591; receiver of petitions, Parliaments from 1593; commr. ‘touching Jesuits and other disguised persons’ Mar. 1595, for Chancery 1593, oyer and terminer, London Feb. 1594, to survey eccles. cts., London diocese 1594, piracy 1601, to try Ralegh and others for treason 1603, to examine books printed without authority 1603; jt. vicar-gen. Canterbury 27 June 1605.Lansd. 22, f. 52; 28, f. 150; HMC Hatfield, xv. 224; xvi. 290; CSP Dom. 1591–4, p. 311; D’Ewes, 458, 525, 600; Churchill, Canterbury Administration, i. 598 n.

Parlimentarian

STANHOPE, Edward II (c.1547-1608), of London.

Main residence: London.

Author

S.T.B.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

STANHOPE, Edward II (c.1547-1608)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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