Edmund of Merton Grey [46623] ²⁵

  General Notes:

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Member of Parliament for Lynn 1545. Educated Gray's Inn, admitted 1524. Treasurer, Gray's Inn 1540, Lent Reader 1543. Commissioner gaol delivery, Norwich 1535; other commissions, Norfolk 1540-death; chief steward, Buckenham priory, Norfolk by 1535; steward, sheriff's court Norwich Mar 1536-Aug. 1540, recorder 13 Aug 1540 - death; justice of the peace Norfolk 1540-death. Edmund Grey did not live to emulate his father-in-law the judge, whom he survived by only three years, but he made his mark locally, being retained as counsel by both Lynn and Norwich. His representation of Norwich in a dispute between the city and the dean heard before the Council early in 1539 may mean that he was the man elected with Augustine Steward to the Parliament of that year, before the city received Cromwell <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ThomasCromwell(1EEssex).htm>'s letter asking for the return of John Godsalve: the exchange would have been smoothed by their membership of the same inn of court, and Grey's speedy promotion to the recordership could have been a reward for his accommodation in the matter. Although he was not to sit for Norwich he is likely to have favoured the choice of his kinsman Richard Catlyn as a fellow-Member of the Parliament in 1545. Nothing is known about his part in the House. By a will made nine days before his death on 20 Aug 1547 Grey provided for his children and named his mother-in-law, his kinsman Sir Edmund Bedingfield and Richard Sandell executors and Sir Richard Southwell <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/RichardSouthwell1.htm> supervisor; in the following Oct the wardship of his 17 year-old son was acquired by Thomas Gawdy.

Edmund married Elizabeth Spelman [46624] [MRIN: 551611165], daughter of John of Narborough Spelman [45255] and Elizabeth Frowick [45256], on 31 Dec 1524.