Wife Lady Elizabeth (Plate and jewellery and 200 marks, other household items)
Daughter Margaret (Plate to value of £40 at the age of 15)
Daughter Mary (Plate to value of £20 at the age of 15)
Brother Thomas Audley (£20 value, other items), His 3 sons (£10 Value at 18). Thomas the eldest to receive properties on death of wife. Also Berechurch, Gosbecks and others immediately on his death. Thomas his second son (£8pa) John youngest son to have reversions in woods called Butlers in Abberton and Peldon (All sons under 18 at time of Will)
Supervisors: Lord Marquess Dorset, Sir William Herbert
Executors : Wife Lady Elizabeth, Sir Edward North, Sir Thomas Pope. [Edmund Martyn, Thomas Barbour, servants]
Witnesses: Henry Dorset, Thomas Pope, Robert Huyck, Thomas Barbour, John Christmas, George, Christmas, Ralph Copinger, John Fowler, Edmund Martyn, Thomas Powle, Edmund Dey.
Research Notes
History of Parliament has his father as Thomas, which is out of step with Cokagne and others but taken probably from visitations of Essex[6]
Berechurch Origins. A freehold estate near West Donyland, was held in 1385 by Roger Bulbeck. It passed to his daughter Alice who married John Algood of Colchester before 1419, and then descended in the Algood family until 1464 or later. Sir Thomas Audley had acquired it by 1519 when he conveyed it to Elizabeth Barnardiston, mother of his wife Christine, perhaps as part of a marriage settlement. In 1530 it was called Algoods manor. The name Berechurch was apparently used solely for the church of St. Michael until c. 1536 when Sir Thomas Audley, adopted it for his estate by which time he had acquired lands adjoining Algoods, including Friday wood and Cannons field which had belonged to St. Botolph's priory, lands held by John Wentworth of the manor of East Mersea, land in West Donyland and Fingringhoe bought from John Christmas, and the glebe of Berechurch church. Kirton wood was probably acquired somewhat later. [7]
Possible brother Henry [Henricus Audley armiger, a°. 29 H. 8, cui idem Rex concessit maneriu de Gransden Magna in com. Hunt.] [8]
Sources
↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Audley, Thomas, Baron Audley of Walden (1487/8–1544) L. L. Ford
↑ The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormantby Cokayne, George E. (George Edward), 1825-1911; Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron, b. 1880; Warrand, Duncan, 1877-1946; Gibbs, Vicary, 1853-; Doubleday, H. Arthur (Herbert Arthur), 1867-1941; White, Geoffrey H. (Geoffrey Henllan), b. 1873 Publication date 1910 New Edition Vol 1Page 348
↑ A P Baggs, Beryl Board, Philip Crummy, Claude Dove, Shirley Durgan, N R Goose, R B Pugh, Pamela Studd and C C Thornton. "Outlying parts of the Liberty: West Donyland," in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 9, the Borough of Colchester, ed. Janet Cooper and C R Elrington (London: Victoria County History, 1994), 408-418. British History Online, accessed June 18, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol9/pp408-418.
↑ 4.04.1AUDLEY, Thomas I (1487/88-1544), of Berechurch and Audley End, Saffron Walden, Essex. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982 Available from Boydell and Brewer. Authors: D. F. Coros / Alan Davidson
↑ The visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634 : to which are added miscellaneous Essex pedigrees from various Harleian manuscripts, and an appendix containing Berry's Essex pedigrees v.13 by Metcalfe, Walter C. (Walter Charles) Page 338
↑ A P Baggs, Beryl Board, Philip Crummy, Claude Dove, Shirley Durgan, N R Goose, R B Pugh, Pamela Studd and C C Thornton. "Outlying parts of the Liberty: West Donyland," in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 9, the Borough of Colchester, ed. Janet Cooper and C R Elrington (London: Victoria County History, 1994), 408-418. British History Online, accessed June 18, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol9/pp408-418.
↑ The visitation of the county of Huntingdon, under the authority of William Camden, Clareneaux king of arms, by his deputy, Nicholas Charles, Lancaster herald, A. D. MDCXIII by Charles, Nicholas, d. 1613; College of Arms (Great Britain); Ellis, Henry, Sir, 1777-1869; Camden, William, 1551-1623
Publication date 1849 Page 54
See also
The Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 by Stephen, George Smith, Leslie Stephen , Sidney Lee, Robert Blake, Christine Stephanie Nicholls Publication date 1885 Page 251
The history of Audley End. To which are appended notices of the town and parish of Saffron Walden in the county of Essex by Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron, 1783-1858 Publication date 1836 Page 1
[S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 52. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
www.audley.one-name.net The Barons Audley Audley Family ZW 1st & Last Baron Audley of Walden & Berechurch, Essex Lines. pdf file
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History of Parliament states that Sir Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, was the son of Thomas Audley of Berechurch. However, Nina Green (oxford-Shakespeare.com) states that Geoffrey Audley, bailiff to the earl of Oxford at Earl's Colne, was the father of the two Thomas Audleys.
In the Aynho, Northamptonshire parish register states within a list of Rectors: at dissolution in 1544 Adrowson was given to Thos Audley with the Abbey of Walden and came by default to the ??? illeg word of Suffolke family who sold it to Rich Cartwright Esq. 1618 - the whole family now enjoys it!
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