CHOLMLEY, Ralph (by 1517-63), of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London.

Family and Education

b. by 1517, yr. s. of Richard Cholmley of Cholmondeley, Cheshire by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Randall Brereton of Malpas; Cheshire; bro. of Sir Hugh. educ. L. Inn 1535, called 1543. m. Elizabeth Pickering (d.1562), wid. of Robert Redman, printer, of London, s.p.Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. xviii), 64; (lix), 62; Ormerod, Cheshire, ii. 638; CPR, 1560-3, p. 423; E.G. Duff, Westminster and London Printers, 176; Machyn Diary (Cam. Soc. xlii), 294, 392.

Offices Held

Attorney, Chester and N. Wales June 1543; escheator, Kent, Mdx. 1546 – 47; bencher, L. Inn 1549, Lent reader 1553, 1558, 1559, treasurer 1557 – 58; j.p.q. Mdx. May 1547, Surr. 1554, Essex, Herts., Kent, Suss. from 1559; under-sheriff, London 1553 – 54, recorder from 1554-Apr. 1563; serjeant-at-law 1559; justice of assize, southern circuit 1559; commr. eccles. causes July 1559.LP Hen. VIII, xviii(l), p. 446; Ormerod, i. 69; CPR, 1547–8, p. 78; 1553–4, PP. 29, 36; 1555–7, p. 281; 1558–60, pp. 65, 118; A. B. Beaven, Aldermen, i. 289; Lansd. 1218, f. 57.

Parlimentarian

CHOLMLEY, Ralph (by 1517-63), of London.

Main residence: St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London.

Author

R.V.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

CHOLMLEY, Ralph (by 1517-63)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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