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Gascoigne, John (1510 - 1568)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1510-00-00
Death Date: 1568-04-04

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Scargill, Margaret ( - 1575)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1531
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1541 (possibly knighted after 15 Nov. 1538)

General Lands Note

Livery of lands 12 May 1541

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
MP, Bedfordshire 1542
Sheriff, Bedfordshire 1542 -11 -22 1543 -11 -23
Sheriff, Buckinghamshire 1542 -11 -22 1543 -11 -23
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Norfolk 1544/5
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Suffolk 1544/5
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cambridgeshire 1544/5
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Huntingdonshire 1544/5
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Bedfordshire 1544/5
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Buckinghamshire 1544/5
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Norwich 1544/5
MP, Bedfordshire 1545 Possibly held this office
Commissioner of Musters, Bedfordshire 1545/6
JP, Bedfordshire 1547 1568
MP, Bedfordshire 1553 -10
MP, Bedfordshire 1558
Recorder, Bedfordshire 1566

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Cardington, Bedfordshire
    Acquired: 1541-05
    Divested: 1562-06
    Patrimony; alienated

Lands

  • Bedfordshire: Bushmead Manor and Priory
    Acquired: 1541
    Divested: 1562
    Patrimony (included additional lands in Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire); alienated
  • Bedfordshire: Cardington Cotton End (alias Cotes, Cotton, Eastcotts) Manor
    Acquired: 1544
    Divested: 1566
  • Bedfordshire: Cardington Manor
    Patrimony
  • Bedfordshire: Franklins Manor
    Divested: 1563
    Sold
  • Bedfordshire: Little Staughton Manor
    Acquired: 1541
    Divested: 1545
    Patrimony

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - St Mary's Church, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire Sir John Gascoigne's Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir John Gascoigne's Players Gascoigne, John (1510 - 1568) Players 1

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Bindoff, S.T. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1509–1558. 3 vols. London: Secker & Warburg, 1982
  • Blaydes, Frederic Augustus, ed. The Visitations of Bedfordshire, Annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634. London: npub, 1884
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I [1558–78]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1939--82
  • Doubleday, Herbert Arthur. The Victoria History of the County of Bedford. 3. Westminster: A. Constable, 1904-1912
  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Shaw, William Arthur. The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. 2 vols. London: Sherratt & Hughes, 1906