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John Beaumont (judge)

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754: 19: 161:, was nominated as early as 10 May. Beaumont formally surrendered his office, and admitted his defalcations on 28 May, and by the same document assigned all his manors, lands, goods and chattels, with the issues and profits of the same, to the king in satisfaction of his claims. On 4 June he acknowledged a fine of his lands, which were entailed upon himself and his wife, and signed a covenant to surrender his goods. 401: 215:) the question whether she was not entitled as tenant in tail under the original settlement was raised and elaborately argued with the result that a new point in the law of settlement was established, viz. that the barring of an entail by one of two joint tenants in tail, while it is inoperative to put an end to the entail, is yet sufficient to preclude the issue from inheriting. 156:
On 9 February, when he had been in office little more than a year, he was arrested on these charges and put in prison. He subsequently (4 June) admitted their truth, but retracted his confession on the 16th, only again to acknowledge his guilt on the 20th. Of that, however, there appears to have been
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renders either party to the contract liable to forfeit the full value of the lands. Beaumont, however, did not stop short at champerty. He endeavoured to corroborate Lady Powis's title by forging the signature of the late Duke of Suffolk to a deed by which that nobleman purported to grant the lands
136:, by which Lady Anne Powis agreed to sell the benefit of her suit, if she should be successful, to the judge for a sum of money. The selling of titles by persons not having possession of the lands was, even as between private individuals, a corrupt practice by English law, and a statute of 164:
By what may have been either a curious oversight or an intentional act of grace, his wife was not made a party to the fine, and on Beaumont's death her estate tail, never having been barred, "survived" to her. She entered within five years thereafter upon the estate of
74:. The Beaumont barony had already fallen into abeyance in his time through the death of the 7th baron and 2nd viscount without issue in 1507. The viscounty then became extinct. The sixth baron had been distinguished as the first viscount ever created in England. 211:, the second son of Sir Francis. Sir Henry had settled Grace Dieu upon his heirs male, with remainder to his brother John and his heirs male. Accordingly, on Sir Henry's death, John took possession, but Barbara being of tender years and ward to the king ( 102:), as a person appointed for the second time was then called. In 1547 he was elected treasurer of that society. His name is not to be found in the year books of Henry VII's reign, nor in any of the reports belonging to the reign of Edward VI. 82:
The earliest mention of John Beaumont appears to be a memorandum in the books of the corporation of Leicester, under date 1529–30, to the following effect: 'Agreed to give to John Beaumont, gent., 6
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subscribing to the king's spiritual supremacy, a commission was appointed to take an ecclesiastical survey of the county, and Beaumont was placed thereon. In 1537 he was appointed reader at the
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in question to the lady. He was also guilty of appropriating to his own use funds belonging to the royal revenues coming into his hands in his capacity of judge of the
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King Edward's Journal in Burnet's Hist. Ref. Church Eng. Appendix, under date 1552, 9 February, 4, 16, and 20 June
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He was the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Beaumont, of Bachuile, in Normandy, and great-great-grandson of
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According to Nicolas, she was one of the two daughters and coheirs of Sir Richard Hastings;
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The family acquired further distinction in a legal aspect by a celebrated case decided in
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In 1550 he was appointed Recorder of Leicester, and in the same year
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These references are found in the DNB article referred to above.
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Nichols's County of Leicester, i. part ii. 274, 391, 393
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He concluded a corrupt bargain, known to lawyers as
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Hayward's Life of Edward VI in Kennet's Hist. ii. .
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Grace Dieu
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Master of the Rolls
John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont
Knight of the Garter
abbot of Leicester
Inner Temple
Master of the Rolls
Robert Southwell
Lord Chancellor Rich
Lord Chancellor Goodrich
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Charles Brandon
Duke of Suffolk
Henry VIII
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Robert Bowes
Grace Dieu
Earl of Huntingdon
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings
Francis Beaumont (MP)
Francis Beaumont
Inner Temple
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