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Henry Macwilliam

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Henry Macwilliam (c. 1532 – 1586) was a member of Parliament for Dorchester (1571), Liskeard (1572), Appleby (1584) and Carlisle (1586).[1]

He was the son of Henry Macwilliam (died 1539) and his second wife Elizabeth Leyes, a daughter of Sir John Leyes. His sister Anne married Arthur Stourton.[2][3]

His home was Stambourne Hall, Essex. He became Keeper of Colchester Castle.

He died on 27 December 1586.

Marriage and children

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He married Mary Cheke, daughter of Richard Hill, sergeant of the wine cellar to Henry VIII, and widow of John Cheke (died 1557), a lady of Elizabeth I's privy chamber.[1] His children included:

References

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  1. ^ a b MACWILLIAM, Henry (c.1532-86), of Stambourne Hall, Essex and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx. The History of Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  2. ^ 'STOURTON, Arthur (by 1525-58)', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
  3. ^ The history of the noble house of Stourton, 1, p. 315
  4. ^ Thomas Wright, The history and topography of Essex, vol. 1, p. 640.
  5. ^ Sarah Williams (historian), Letters written by John Chamberlain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (London: Camden Society, 1861), p. 52.
  6. ^ PEMBERTON, Sir Goddard (c.1573-1616), of Hertingfordbury, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
  7. ^ Victoria Burke, 'Anne, Lady Southwell', George Justice & Nathan Tinker, Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 99, 117 fn. 31.