- William Cordell
Sir Willian Cordell (1522?-1581)
Master of the Rolls andSpeaker of the House of Commons during the reign of Queen Mary I.Knight ed 1558, member ofLincoln's Inn 1538, called to the bar 1544, bencher 1553, reader 1554, a founding member of theRussia Company , received a grant of arms for his father in 1548 and one for himself (quartering Webb) in 1549, Solicitor General to Mary I 1553, master of the rolls and a member of theprivy council 1557, sat in five parliaments between 1545 and 1571, Speaker of the House of Commons 1558, executor to Queen Mary I,Cardinal Pole , andArchbishop Parker , founded a hospital; the Holy Trinity atLong Melford , first visitor and supporter of the foundation ofSt John's College, Oxford ,By his will it is found that he left charitable bequests to Cambridge and Oxford including £20 to be distributed among the poor scholars of the universities ‘unto suche as be moste towardes in vertewe and learninge’.
Cordell married Mary Clopton (d. 1584), the daughter of Richard Clopton of Groton
References
*J. H. Baker, ‘Cordell, Sir William (1522-1581)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6306, accessed 11 May 2005]
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* Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol. 25, pp. 1-47 (1920)
*STAFFORDSHIRE RECORD OFFICE D615/D 45 (1)1, STAFFORDSHIRE RECORD OFFICE D615/D 45 (1) 2, STAFFORDSHIRE RECORD OFFICE D615/D 45 (1) 3, STAFFORDSHIRE RECORD OFFICE D615/D 45 (1) 5, SRO D615/D48(8-24)10
*(Glover and Flower's Visitations).
*The 1567 will of HENRY SAVILE, Esq., of Lupset and Barrowby, will 5 Jan., 1568-9, proved 16 May, 1569 (Reg. Test., xviii, 11 York, and Sheffield 2, P.C.C.); Inq. p. m. 7 Sept., 12 Eliz. (1570).
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