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In Master Staunford there is force and weight, and no common kind of stile; in matter none hath gone beyonde him, in method, none hath overtaken him; in the order of his writing hee is smoothe, yet sharpe, pleasant, but yet grave; famous both for Judgement in matters of his profession, and for his
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From 1542 to 1555, he was appointed to many royal commissions, some ranging over all England and Wales and some limited to Middlesex. In 1543 he was made a
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Davidson, Alan (1982), "STANFORD (STAMFORD, STAMFORD, STAUNFORD), William (1509-58), of Hadley, Mdx. and London", in S.T. Bindoff (ed.),
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He made his will on 4 April 1558 and died at Monken Hadley on 28 August, leaving his wife as executrix and his eldest son as heir.
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for treason was unsuccessful (with Throckmorton praising him for his erudition and honesty), he was appointed a justice of the
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Sir Robert (1540-1607), the eldest son, who remained a Catholic and moved to Perry Hall in Staffordshire, becoming
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great skill in forraigne learning, And surely his method may be a Law to the writers of the Law which succeed him.
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for Middlesex, later sitting on the bench for Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
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in the 1547 Parliament. Though based in Middlesex, he developed Staffordshire links by buying the
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received the abbreviation "P.C." or "Plc", so the work is cited as "Stamf. P.C.", or similar.
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In historic legal citations, Stanford's name is abbreviated "Stamf.", "Stanf.", or "Staunf.".
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Quoted in G. R. Elton, 'The rule of law in sixteenth-century England',
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and in 1557 published the first textbook of English criminal law;
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Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume I
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Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Stafford
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He married Alice, daughter of John Palmer (died 1542), of
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558
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He is said to have prepared the first printed edition of
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Konig, David Thomas; Zuckert, Michael P., eds. (2019).
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Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie
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Index

William Staunford
English
Monken Hadley
Middlesex
mercer
City of London
Rowley Regis
Staffordshire
University of Oxford
Gray's Inn
called to the bar
Reader
Thomas Wriothesley
Henry Stafford
MP
Stafford
Newcastle-under-Lyme
manors
Perry Barr
justice of the peace
serjeant-at-law
Mary I
Queen's Serjeant
Nicholas Throckmorton
Court of Common Pleas
knighted
Catholic
Protestants
Glanvill
Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie

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