Family and Education
b. c. 1535, 1st s. of William Cardinall I by his 1st w. Joan, da. of John Gurdon. educ. St. John’s, Camb.; G. Inn 1553, called 1555. m. (1) Mary, da. of Henry or William Wentworth of Mountnessing, Essex, 1da; (2) Julian, wid. of one Mason, s.p. suc. fa. August 1568.Morant, Essex, i. 442-3; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), i. 33, 172; PCC 97 Lewyn; Wards 7/11/112.
Offices Held
Reader, G. Inn 1574, 1586, treasurer 1578; j.p. Essex from c. 1574, Notts. from c. 1583; recorder, Colchester 1577 – 78, Newark 1594 – 98; member, council in the north from 1582.
Main residences: Great Bromley, Essex; Egmanton, Notts.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
CARDINALL, William II (c.1535-c.98)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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