William Chester (mayor)

568:, Buckinghamshire. They had one son and heir, Anthony Chester. William and Judith were married in 1558, the year after William was made free of the Draper's Company. Judith (born 1542) was cousin to William on the Lovett side: her grandfather Thomas Lovett (1495–1523) was elder half-brother to William Chester's mother. William and Judith resided mostly in London but Anthony became master of Chicheley, which remained in the Chester family for many generations. Judith died in 1570, and William remarried to Anne, daughter of Robert Frere, of the family of the manor of Blanketts, 428:

prayer, and for right religious observance and the reinstatement of deprived ministers, was renewed, and Chester was appointed to another to investigate the counterfeiting of currency. In Elizabeth's second parliament, which met on 11 January 1562/3, he sat as one of the representatives of the City of London. In March 1563, with Sir William Garrard, Sir Thomas Offley and Sir Christopher Draper, he represented the aldermanry at David Woodroffe's funeral. His fourth term as Master Draper was in 1563-64.

2138: 404:, Northamptonshire. By her he had six sons and eight daughters, three of whom died in infancy. It was a very grand ceremony, with a procession of 100 men in new gowns and women likewise, aldermen and heralds with pennons, and singing clerks to St Edmund, Lombard Street, the street and church hung with black cloth and armorials. 613:

of Calais. His will is an important source of genealogical information, and he is named in Sir William Chester's inscription on his wife's tomb. Francisca died in 1559, in which year Sir William Chester challenged the claim of Anna Harrison, alias Adeson, Tempest's natural sister, in the administration of Tempest's will.

137:'s reign, in March 1551 Mr. Chester reported to the Drapers that the repurchase of the lands and benefits of their obitts would amount to £1402.6s. payable to the City's Trustees (Richard Turke, William Blackwell and Augustine Hynde). Closely involved in the refoundation of the Hospitals, and serving as Treasurer of 612:

Francisca Chester, married (before August 1550) Sir William Chester's apprentice Robert Tempest, citizen and Draper of London, Merchant Adventurer and Merchant of the Staple of Calais, who died without issue in 1551. Among his bequests he left £300 for the foundation of a school for the poor children

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In 1544 the art of refining sugar was first practised in England by Cornelius Bussine and four partners, of whom Chester was one. These adventurers set up two sugar bakeries which continued without rivals for twenty years and brought great profit to the proprietors. Dame Joan Milbourne dying in 1545,

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against Queen Elizabeth. Dame Joan died in 1572 and was buried on 23 December in St Lawrence's church beside her first husband. Chester became a Fellow-commoner of his college, and subscribed to a petition to amend the university statutes on 6 May 1572. Soon afterwards he retired from business and

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head the list of those incorporated as Merchants of the Staple of England in Elizabeth's Charter of 1561, and John Marshe, Emanuel Lucar, Leigh, Garrard and Chester lead those newly reincorporated to the freedom of the Merchant Adventurers of England in July 1564. The commission upon uniformity of

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John Hill (died 1516). By his first marriage John Chester had a daughter Alice (Grene), living in 1542 a widow and nun. Joan had previously been married to Richard Welles, Mercer, who died in 1505, and she had a son Anthony Welles, living in 1513. John and Joan Chester had two sons, Nicholas and

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at the time of its loss to the French. Richard was 'a great shipper of wools', and obtained good sales worth £5000 on the eve of the fall. They are said to have had several children who were brought up in godly fashion and in good manners of life, and received instruction from their grandfather

110:, where her son erected a monument in 1563. By his mother's will (of which he was executor and chief beneficiary) Chester received a considerable addition to his fortune. This probably enabled him to weather the storm which befell the English Merchant Adventurers in that year, when the Emperor 343:

with great treasure and sums of money upon his arrival in England. In that year his eldest son William Chester was made free of the Drapers' Company. Following the fall of Calais it fell necessary for Mary to license Chester and other Merchants of the Staple (including aldermen Judd, Offley,

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At the onset of Elizabeth's reign Chester, now a very wealthy man, with various others participated in a loan of £30,000 to the Crown and was granted rights to receive interest at ten per cent. With them he received grants of reversions and rents in 1560. He transferred to the ward of

388:(then Sheriff), he was among the principal mourners at the public funeral of Anthony Hussey. Hussey's will (in which he further endowed Edmund Campion) shows his closeness to Chester, before whom his final codicil was declared in 1560, but his executors were Thomas Lodge and 90:) he and his brother Nicholas built their position within it, appearing as Freemen Householders of the Company in the Chapterhouse list of 1537. A Warden first in 1542-43, William Chester with Thomas Blower assisted William Roche (then Lord Mayor) in taking possession from 548:(who died in 1593) by William Chester, his son and heir. In 1595 a grant of Administration of Sir William's estate was made to his son John Chester. Sir William Chester died at Cambridge, but was buried in London in his vault in St. Edmund's, Lombard Street. 456:

in the same years. The Guinea mercantile trading voyages met with various misfortunes. With Martin Bowes and William Garrard Chester led a royal commission to inquire into the petition of Sir Thomas Lodge, Lord Mayor, at the time of his bankruptcy.

444:, and also in the 1564–65 expedition, all of which were for mercantile trade returning to England. His son, John Chester, took part in this expedition. In these ventures he was associated with Sir William Garrard, Sir Thomas Lodge, Anthony Hickman, 473:

in 1566 and 1567 to Garrard and Chester as Governors of the Muscovy Company, then receiving its new Charter. Queen Elizabeth spoke of Chester in a dispatch of 27 September 1571 as one of her greatest and best merchants trading with the Shah.

416:), assuming office towards the close of that year, and on 3 October his sons Thomas and John were admitted to freedom of the Drapers' Company by patrimony. In April 1561 obsequies were resumed when Dame Alice Hewett died and was buried at 498:, took to his second wife Beswick's widow Joan, daughter of John Turner of London. This union affirmed their Offley kinship, since Joan's daughter Agnes had married William Offley and Chester's daughter Jane was wife of Richard Offley, 544:: William Wilmer, who had served with one William Chester, completed his term that year with Ambrose Saunders, brother of the martyr Lawrence.) His mansion in Lombard Street, which he had leased to Richard Offley, was later sold to 494:. On 2 May 1567 the Senate of the University of Cambridge awarded him an honorary M.A. degree. In 1567 he served out the incomplete term of Draper Mastership for William Beswick (who died in that year), and in November, at 118:, writing from Brussels early in 1545, remarked: 'Some in dede shall wynne by it, who owe more than they have here, but Mr. Warren, Mr. Hill, Chester, and dyvers others a greats nombre are like to have a great swoope 335:, Lord Mayor, by Queen Mary at Greenwich. This unusual honour for an alderman (especially one being of contrary religion) is said to have been bestowed because he was a merchant of great account in the city of 502:, both half-brothers of Sir Thomas. He then served his own fifth full term as Master of the Drapers in 1567–68, and lastly in 1568–69 completed the term of Richard Champion, who died in November 1568. 320:(with Andrew Judde). He witnessed the exchange of royal gifts with the Russian ambassador in London in 1557, and afterwards with Judd, Hussey, Garrard and Barne sent report of the death of 540:

of 16 Elizabeth (1574) refers to 'the goods of Sir William Chester deceased, late alderman of the city of London.' (Nicholas Mewes, who became free in 1576, had served William Chester

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by it, having much here, and owing nothing or little'. His second term as Draper Warden was in 1546-47, and his third in 1549-1550, on each occasion in the Masterhood of John Sadler.

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Jane Chester, married before 1568 Richard Offley 'the Merchant', Merchant Taylor (Master of that Company in 1572 and 1582), younger half-brother and factor in Calais to Sir

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graduate, who longed to return to his religious studies. Chester released him from his bond, and during Edward's reign Saunders preached in the Midlands until appointed to

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The date of his death is not exactly known, and was formerly thought to have been during the 1590s, but is now known to have been before 1574. A litigation noted in the

1290:, Vol. III: North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part II: The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage (E. & G. Goldsmid, Edinburgh 1886), p. 151, and 49:

Born about 1509, William Chester was the second son of John Chester, citizen and Draper of London, and his second wife Joan, née Hill, sister of the London citizen and

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The seventh (and second surviving) volume of the Drapers' Wardens Account Books commences (after a lapse of six years) in the Mastership of John Milbourne: Herbert,

86:. He was made free of the Drapers' Company by patrimony in 1529, and in the path set by his stepfather (who died in 1536, his obit being kept on 5 April at the 1174: 1123: 361:

in 1559, vacant by the death of alderman John Machell, and embarked upon his third term as Master of the Drapers' Company. Chester and his Wardens brought to

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Susannah Chester, married John Trott of London, citizen and Draper. They had two sons and numerous daughters. John died in 1601 and Susannah survived him.

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into the custody of the Sheriff of Essex, Chester intervened to allow him a leave-taking from his wife, and offered her his own house in which to await.

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Considerations on the Original and Proper Objects of the Royal Hospital of Bridewell: also the charters of the royal hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem

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decree a claim concerning a twenty-year-old legacy in the Company's trust of 12,000 gold ducats, provision for the orphaned kin of a Welsh merchant in

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The Godly aduertisement or good counsell of the famous orator Isocrates, intitled Parænesis to Demonicus wherto is annexed Cato in olde Englysh meter

1157: 20:(1509 – c. 1574) was one of the leading English Merchants of the Staple and Merchant Adventurers of the mid-16th century, five times Master of the 598:, Buckinghamshire in 1593, and John Chester died at St James, Clerkenwell in 1603. John was granted administration of his father's estate in 1595. 193:

Chester was elected on 5 August 1553 to his first term as Master of the Company, and (with the alteration of religious policy on the accession of

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with an immense procession of mourners, heralds, the livery of the Clothworkers, and the aldermen with Chester the Lord Mayor in their midst.

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resigned from the aldermanry. He devoted his last years to the pursuit of classical and theological learning at the University of Cambridge.

210: 161:, making "the bricke wals and way on the backe side, which leadeth from the said new Hospitall, unto the Hospitall of Sainte Bartholomew". 1397:(Images in Robert Palmer's Anglo-American Legal Tradition website (University of Houston/O'Quinn Law Library). Also C 4/30/22 (Pleadings). 380:, and to restore the ecclesiastical supremacy of the Crown. For the City he was made a commissioner for purchasing the site of Gresham's 1084:'Letters Patent for the Limitation of the Crowne' from the transcript of Ralph Starkey in MS Harl. 35, fol. 364, in J.G. Nichols (ed.), 385: 1744:'The first voyage of the worshipful and right valiant knight Sir John Hawkins.... made to the West Indies 1562,' in E. Goldsmid (Ed.), 50: 984:

John Howes' MS., 1582, Proceedings in the First Erection of the Three Royal Hospitals of Christ, Bridewell and St. Thomas the Apostle

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in January 1552-3. It was however as a senior Merchant of the Staple or Merchant Adventurer that he was among those summoned by the

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Emme Chester, married (January 1562) John Gardener of London, grocer, a colleague of Sir William's in the sugar refinery business.

2157: 594:' slaving voyage to Africa and the Americas. He married in 1566 to Elizabeth. She died without surviving issue and was buried at 682: 1140: 1262: 408:

gave her funeral sermon. For her monument Chester composed Latin verses of valediction. Amid these solemnities he was elected

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in 1553. Although warned against taking up his benefice he did so, and preached against the Roman errors. He was arrested on

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The Survey of London; contayning the Orignall, Increase, Moderne Estate and Government of that Citie, begun by Iohn Stow

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The remarriage date is shown by an indenture of 1515/16 establishing a Fellowship at St Catherine's College, Cambridge.

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for the reception of vagrants and mendicants. Chester made generous private benefactions towards the reconstruction of

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began in earnest: they were obliged to superintend executions of Reformers, in first place the distinguished divines

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in 1510 and became Lord Mayor in 1521. There were no children by the marriage of Sir John and Dame Joan Milbourne.

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Will of John Hill, Haberdasher of London (P.C.C. 1516, Holder quire). Hill had one child, Anne or Agnes Corbet.

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The children of Sir William Chester and his first wife, Elizabeth Lovett, are shown as follows. They had sons:

146: 1748:, Vol. XV: America, part IV; West Indies; Voyages of Circumnavigation (E. & G. Goldsmid, Edinburgh 1890), 1746:

Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English nation collected by Richard Hakluyt

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Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English nation collected by Richard Hakluyt

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John Chester, was made free of the Draper's Company on 3 October 1560 by patrimony. In 1664-5 he took part in

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On 23 July 1560 occurred the funeral of his first wife, Dame Elizabeth Chester, daughter of Thomas Lovett of

533: 441: 83: 79: 82:, but did not proceed to a degree. On leaving the University he entered at once into trade as a draper and 2090:

Will of Robert Tempest, Draper and Merchant of the Staple at Callais of London (P.C.C. 1551, Bucke quire).

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obtained for Garrard, Lodge, Chester and others safe conduct and privileges for trading by Obdowlocan of

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In 1556 Chester was elected to his second term as Master of his Company, and transferred to the ward of

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Select Statutes and other Constitutional Documents illustrative of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I

1341: 1325: 846: 729: 2174: 1533: 1207:(In fletestreate, at the signe of the Rose Garland, by William Coplande, London 1557). (Full text at 576: 510: 495: 253: 158: 150: 134: 98:, Earl of Essex, which had been purchased by the Drapers for their Company Hall following Cromwell's 25: 1284:

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, collected by

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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, collected by

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Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley, Their Ancestors and Descendants

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G.C. Bower (ed.), 'A Manuscript relating to the family of Offley', in H.W. Forsyth Harwood (ed.),

1680:, Vol. VII (Blackwood and Ballantyne, Edinburgh 1812), Part II Book III, Chapter VII, Section X, 1411: 1072: 491: 340: 321: 202: 169: 2000:

H.S.G., 'Pedigree of Freer or Frere of "The Blanketts", Worcestershire', in J.G. Nichols (ed.),

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W.J.J., 'Chester, Sir William (c.1509-c.95), of Lombard Street, London', in P.W. Hasler (ed.),

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Although not named an officer or assistant in King Philip and Queen Mary's 1555 Charter to the

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to George Killingworth and others in Russia by a mercantile fleet in which both ships sailed.

229: 198: 194: 165: 63: 36:. He should not be confused with his contemporary, William Chester, merchant of Bristol, M.P. 1208: 1191: 1089: 1012: 949: 2022: 580: 545: 154: 1786: 1782: 1749: 1715: 1664: 1291: 1229: 452:

as being among the promoters of the voyages involving human trafficking from Guinea to the

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See short summary in P. Collins and S. Fischer, 'The story of Chicheley Hall' (Reports),

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M.K. Dale, 'Chester, William (bef.1489-1558), of Bristol, Glos.', in S.T. Bindoff (ed.),

579:, was made free of the Draper's Company on 3 October 1560 by patrimony. He was appointed 1524:(HRIonline/University of Sheffield). The verses are shown in correct measure in Waters, 1394: 1390: 2152: 565: 561: 445: 401: 301: 257: 245: 222: 177: 33: 2060:

Records of London's Livery Companies Online: Apprentices and Freemen, 1400-1900, ref:

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Records of London's Livery Companies Online: Apprentices and Freemen, 1400-1900, ref:

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Chester. Richard died soon after his brother Sir Thomas and was survived by his wife.

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in Flanders, and to pardon their disregard of the statutes during the previous year.

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Records of London's Livery Companies Online, Apprentices and Freemen 1400–1900 ref:

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The Correspondence of Reginald Pole. 4: A Biographical Companion: the British Isles

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R.J.W. Swales, 'Hussey, Anthony (1496/97-1560), of London', in S.T. Bindoff (ed.),

405: 384:, and contributed £10 towards the fund. In June 1560, with Sir William Garrard and 328: 313: 142: 54:

William. John died in 1513, his annual obit being kept by the Drapers on 26 May at

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The National Archives (UK), Chancery Final Decrees, C 78/16 no. 34 (1 Elizabeth),

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Will of Sir John Mylbourne, Alderman of City of London (P.C.C. 1536, Hogen quire).

1156:(Pickering and Inglis, Glasgow 1903), p. 14 & passim (download available at 537: 453: 180:

for the Limitation of the Crown, when the death of King Edward was anticipated.

1324:(Quarterly), New Series XIX (London and Exeter 1903), pp. 2-11, 83-88, 149-53, 2077:

Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation

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Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation

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Faith and Fraternity: London Livery Companies and the Reformation 1510-1603

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Fourth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, February 28, 1843

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Will of Dame Jane Milbourne, Widow of London (P.C.C. 1545, Pynnyng quire).

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for uniformity of prayer, to regulate the grievances of prisoners in the

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Will of Willeam Beswicke, Draper of London (P.C.C. 1567, Stonard quire).

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Frances Chester married Francis Robinson, citizen and Grocer of London.

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as his colleague, in the mayoralty of Sir John Lyon. In their term the

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Index to Acts of Administration in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury

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The Origin, the Organization and the Location of the Staple of England

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Will of John Chester, Draper of London (P.C.C. 1513, Fetiplace quire).

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J.D. Alsop, 'Chester, Sir William (c.1509–1595?), mayor of London',

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He was appointed a royal commissioner (1559 and 1562) to implement

1932:, III: 1581–1595, British Record Society Vol. 76 (1954), 1595.135. 58:, and by 1515 Joan remarried to Sir John Milbourne, Master of the 436:

He was an investor in the 1562–63 and 1563 trading adventures to

217:. Chester's humanity towards the sufferers was highly praised by 1305:

The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London

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Alumni Cantabrigienses: Part 1: From the earliest times to 1751

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Will of Richard Welles of London (P.C.C. 1505, Holgrave quire).

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The History of the Worshipful Company of the Drapers of London

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in 1563. Their names recur in the grant of privileges by the

141:, he was appointed in 1552 one of twelve persons, led by Sir 922:(1720), V.xv, 'The Temporal Government': Refiners of Sugar, 221:

and contrasted with Woodroffe's harshness. Before giving Dr

1307:, Camden Society (London 1848), Original Series Vol. XLII, 1086:

The Chronicle of Queen Jane, and of Two Years of Queen Mary

268:, his wife's nephew, dedicated to him a translation of the 244:'s orders, imprisoned in London, condemned as a heretic at 1663:, Vol. XI: Africa (E. & G. Goldsmid, Edinburgh 1889), 1069:

The Aldermen of the City of London Temp. Henry III to 1912

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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558–1603

564:, married Judith, daughter and coheir of Anthony Cave of 482:

His last move as alderman, from 1566 to 1573, was to the

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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels

1532:(Internet Archive). The monument was destroyed in the 1487:

Will of Anthony Hussey (P.C.C. 1560, Mellershe quire).

1045:(Elizabeth Purslow for Nicholas Bourne, London 1633), 1026:

A History of the Royal Foundation of Christ's Hospital

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William Chester of London, son and heir, Constable of

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In 1571 he was appointed to the special commission of

1109:(Internet Archive), citing Court Books fols. 543-44. 114:

placed an embargo on English merchandise. Secretary

2004:, V (J.G. Nichols and R.C. Nichols, London 1870), 724:'Chester', in J.J. Howard and G.J. Armytage (eds), 308:as Consuls. Chester was a joint owner of the ships 1393:, C 78/26 no. 34 and C 78/27 no. 18 (6 Elizabeth) 1007:abstract in 'Review of new publications, no. 23', 256:, also took a sustained interest in the career of 2121:'A Manuscript relating to the family of Offley', 1582:(University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1908), 1518:A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster 920:A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster 587:in 1580 or 1582, and died at Killiathan in 1584. 572:, Worcestershire: they had two further children. 1071:(Corporation of the City of London, 1913), II, 423:Sir William Chester, Sir Thomas Offley and Sir 288:, Chester was of the founding fellowship under 2161:. Vol. 10. 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