GARDENER, Sir Robert (c.1540-1620), of Elmswell, Suff.; Breckles, Norf. and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London

Family and Education

b. c. 1540,W.A. Copinger, Manors of Suff. i. 288. o.s. of William Gardener, yeoman, of Hartest, Suff. and Alice, wid. of one Ling. Suff. RO (Bury St. Edmunds), Sudbury archdeaconry wills 32, ff. 346, 429; inf. from Amanda J.E. Arrowsmith, county archivist. educ. L. Inn 1562, called 1570. LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. i. 372. m. (1) aft. 1567, Anne (d.1587), da. of Robert Cordall, brewer, of London, 1s. at least 2da. all d.v.p.; (2) Thomasine, da. of John Barker†, merchant, of Ipswich, Suff., s.p.; (3) aft. 1601, Anne, da. of John Trelawny of Poole, Menheniot, Cornw., wid. of John Spring of Pakenham, Suff., s.p. suc. fa. 1566; PROB 11/32, f. 128; 11/117, f. 221; Copinger, i. 288; CSP Ire. 1586-8, p. 410; 1592-6, p. 488; Add. 19131, f. 56. Kntd. by 11 Aug. 1591. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 88; CSP Ire. 1588-92, p. 408. d. 12 Feb. 1620. C142/402/143.

Offices Held

Reader, Furnivals Inn 1575, L. Inn 1584; bencher, L. Inn 1582–7; Readers and Readings in Inns of Ct. and Chancery ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. xiii), 130, 203; LI Black Bks. i. 424, 433. c.j.k.b. [I] 1586–1603; Patentee Officers in Ireland comp. J.L.J. Hughes, 55; CSP Ire. 1603–6, p. 114 sjt.-at-law 1587–d. Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 513.

J.p. Suff. by 1579 – d., Norf. by c.1609–d.; SP12/145, f. 37; C66/1786; 2174. commr. plantation, Munster [I], 1587-at least 1595, CP and CR Ire. ii. 129, 172, 352. inquiry, manorial boundaries, Cambs. 1602, Fenland 1605; C181/1, ff. 32, 122. collector, Privy Seal loan, Suff. 1604 – 05, 1611–12, HMC Hatfield, xvi. 385; E401/2585, ff. 61–2, 65–6, 138–9; J.J. M[uskett], ‘Suff. directory’, East Anglian, n.s. viii. 295; E403/2731, f. 194v. commr. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. 1605 – d., sewers, Fenland 1605 – 18, Suff. 1609 – 19, Suff. and Essex 1617, inquiry, lands of the Gunpowder plotters, Suff. 1606, C181/1, ff. 104v, 131; 181/2, ff. 3v, 94v, 272v, 326v, 349v; 181/3, f. 4v. subsidy, Suff. and Bury St. Edmunds 1608, SP14/31, ff. 37v, 38v. commr. and collector, aid 1609, 1612–13; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 520; SP14/43/107; E163/16/21; Harl. 354, f. 68v. commr. sea breaches, Norf. and Suff. 1610, 1616, piracy, Suff. 1612, C181/2, ff. 127v, 174v, 263v. charitable uses 1617. C93/9/4.

PC [I] 1586-at least 1602; CSP Ire. 1586–8, p. 60; 1601–3, p. 381. commr. to examine witnesses in Chancery [I] 1587, ecclesiastical causes [I] 1593, Crown debts [I] 1594 – at least1600, lease royal lands [I] 1594 – at least1600, Court of Wards [I] 1594 – at least1604; ld. justice [I] (jt.) 1597–9; CP and CR Ire. ii. 124, 287, 290, 466–7, 564; Patentee Officers in Ireland, 55. government, Channel Is. 1607, HMC Hatfield, xix. 282. inquiry into Parl. [I] 1613. APC, 1613–14, pp. 154–5.

Parlimentarian

GARDENER, Sir Robert (c.1540-1620), of Elmswell, Suff.; Breckles, Norf. and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London

Main residences: Elmswell, Suff. and Breckles, Norf. and Serjeants' Inn, Chancery Lane, London.

Author

J.P.F.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

GARDENER, Sir Robert (c.1540-1620)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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