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Sir Leonard Chamberlain

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334: 92:, to bring Sir Edmund Peckham and Chamberlain in to strengthen the Tower guard. At the end of the reign of Edward VI, Chamberlain served for a second time as of Sheriff of Berkshire. On 22 July 1553 the privy council wrote to Sir John Williams, Chamberlain, and others of the gentry of Oxfordshire, directing them to dismiss soldiers (a muster to ensure Mary Tudor's succession, while 166:. Francis Chamberlain, who in 1555 was joined with him in the government of Guernsey, and who continued sole governor till his own death in 1570, was his eldest son. His second son George was the father of 347: 462: 73:; and the following year the king granted to him and Richard Andrews land in several counties, including abbey lands and other ecclesiastical property. He was 414: 404: 377: 74: 120: 104: 442: 62: 437: 162:
Chamberlain had four wives including; Dorothy, fourth daughter of John Newdigate, king's serjeant-at-law, and Margery Vaughan, widow of
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Chamberlain was knighted by Queen Mary at Westminster on 2 October 1551, the day after her coronation, and he sat for
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in the parliament which assembled on 5 September. Mary in the first year of her reign granted him the site of
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in 1546–7, and at the funeral of Henry VIII he bore the banner of the king and Queen
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to the parliaments which sat on 2 April and 12 November 1554. At the trials of
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to stabilise the military position there against the French threat during the
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Chamberlain, Edward II (by 1509-57), of Fulwell, Oxon. and Astley, Warws.
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Chamberlain, Sir Leonard (by 1504-61), of Shirburn and Woodstock, Oxon.
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for heresy in January 1555 he was involved in the proceedings.
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In October 1549 members of the privy council opposed to
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Index

Leonard Chamberlayne
Governor of Guernsey
Sir Edward Chamberlayne
Shirburn Castle
Oxfordshire
Edward Chamberlain
Ralph Chamberlain
Hampton Poyle
High Sheriff of Berkshire and Oxfordshire
Catherine Parr
Protector Somerset
lieutenant of the Tower of London
Lady Jane Grey
Mary I of England
Scarborough
Dunstable Priory
Bedfordshire
Castle Cornet
Oxfordshire
Rowland Taylor
John Bradford
Channel Islands
William Wynter
Italian War of 1551–59
Alderney
Sark
Stephen Vaughan
George Chamberlain
Bishop of Ypres
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