Extract from DNB GAWDY, Sir FRANCIS (d. 1606), judge, was, according to the pedigrees in the Harleian MSS., the son of Thomas Gawdy of Harleston, Norfolk, by his third wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Shires, and therefore half-brother of Thomas Gawdy, serjeant-at-law, who died in 1556, and of Sir Thomas Gawdy [q. v.] Coke tells us that his ‘name of baptism was Thomas, and his name of confirmation Francis, and that name of Francis, by the advice of all the judges, in anno 36 Hen. VIII, he did bear, and after used in all his purchases and grants
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