BEALE, Robert (1541-1601), of Barn Elms, Surr., Priors Marston, Warws. and of London.

Family and Education

b. 1541, 1st s. of Robert Beale, mercer, of London by Amy Morison. educ. at Coventry; ?Camb.; Strasbourg. m. Edith, da. of Henry St. Barbe of Som., sis.-in-law of Francis Walsingham and cos. of Edward Lewknor, 2s. 9da. (all but 4 ch. d. young).DNB; Strype, Annals, iv. 116; PCC 10 Populwell; Lansd. 72, ff. 197-8; J. Comber, Suss. Genealogies. Lewes Centre, 161-2; Vis. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 78-9; Vis. Suff. ed. Metcalfe, 184. suc. fa. by 1548.

Offices Held

Employed in the embassy at Paris 1564; sec. to Walsingham there 1570; clerk of PC from July 1572; acting sec. of state during absence of Walsingham 1578, 1581, 1583; dep. gov. mines royal 1580 – 95; sec. and keeper of signet, council in the north 1586; bailiff, duchy of Lancaster liberty, Warws. and duchy feodary Warws. 1590; j.p. Dur., Westmld. 1591.Read, Walsingham, i. 150–7 et passim; APC, viii. 78; BM Quarterly, xix. 3–9; Lansd. 84, f. 4; Reid, Council of the North, 255; Somerville, Duchy, i. 563.

Parlimentarian

BEALE, Robert (1541-1601), of Barn Elms, Surr., Priors Marston, Warws. and of London.

Main residences: Barn Elms, Surr.; Priors Marston, Warws.; of London.

Author

J.C.H.

P.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

BEALE, Robert (1541-1601)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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