event
Date:
1554
Description:
Early in 1554 he was put on the Suffolk bench, and the following autumn he attended his only Parliament. It was to Gardiner that he owed his election. He sat with his kinsman by marriage Sir Edward Waldegrave, a Privy Councillor returned senior knight of the shire for Somerset, and he was not among the Members who absented themselves from the closing stages of the Parliament. Within a year of its dissolution he received the chancellor’s parting gift, a bequest of ten marks.
Sources:
- Thomas Eden - History of Parliament
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