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BARON See also:THOMAS See also:AUDLEY AUDLEY (c. 1488-1544)  , See also:lord See also:chancellor of See also:England, whose parentage is unknown, is believed to have studied at See also:Buckingham See also:College, See also:Cambridge . He was educated for the See also:law, entered the See also:Middle See also:Temple (becoming autumn reader in 1526), was See also:town clerk of See also:Colchester, and was on the See also:commission of the See also:peace for See also:Essex in 1521 . In 1523 he was returned to See also:parliament for Essex, and represented this See also:constituency in subsequent parliaments . In 1527 he was See also:groom of the chamber, and became a member of See also:Wolsey's See also:household . On the fall of the latter in 1529, he was made chancellor of the duchy of See also:Lancaster, and the same See also:year See also:speaker of the See also:House of See also:Commons, presiding over the famous See also:assembly styled the See also:Black or See also:Long Parliament of the See also:Reformation, which abolished the papal See also:jurisdiction . The same year he headed a deputation of the Commons to the See also:king to complain of See also:Bishop See also:Fisher's speech against their proceedings . He interpreted the king's " moral " scruples to parliament concerning his See also:marriage with See also:Catherine, and made himself the See also:instrument of the king in the attack upon the See also:clergy and the preparation of the See also:act of supremacy . In 1531 he had been made a See also:serjeant-at-law and king's serjeant; and on the loth of May 1532 he was knighted, and succeeded See also:Sir See also:Thomas More as lord keeper of the See also:great See also:seal, being appointed lord chancellor on the 26th of See also:January 1533 . He supported the king's See also:divorce from Catherine and the marriage with See also:Anne See also:Boleyn; and presided at the trial of Fisher and More in 1535, at which his conduct and evident intention to secure a conviction has been generally censured . Next year he tried Anne Boleyn and her lovers, was See also:present on the See also:scaffold at the unfortunate See also:queen's See also:execution, and recommended to parliament the new act of See also:succession . In 1537 he condemned to See also:death as traitors the See also:Lincolnshire and the See also:Yorkshire rebels . On the 29th of See also:November 1538 he was created See also:Baron See also:Audley of See also:Walden; and soon after-wards presided as lord steward at the trials of See also:Henry See also:Pole, Lord Montacute, and of the unfortunate See also:marquess of See also:Exeter .

In 1539, though inclining himself to the Reformation, he made himself the king's instrument in enforcing religious conformity, and in the passing of the Six Articles Act . On the 24th of See also:

April 1540 he was made a See also:knight of the Garter, and subsequently managed the See also:attainder of Thomas See also:Cromwell, See also:earl of Essex, and the See also:dissolution of Henry's marriage with Anne of See also:Cleves . In 1542 he warmly supported the privileges of the Commons in the See also:AUDRAN See also:case of See also:George See also:Ferrers, member for See also:Plymouth, arrested and imprisoned in See also:London, but his conduct was inspired as usual by subservience to the See also:court, which desired to secure a See also:subsidy, and his See also:opinion that the See also:arrest was a flagrant contempt has been questioned by See also:good authority . He resigned the great seal on the 21st of April 1544, and died on the 3oth, being buried at See also:Saffron Walden, where he had prepared for himself a splendid See also:tomb . He received several grants of monastic estates, including the priory of See also:Christ See also:Church in London and the See also:abbey of Walden in Essex, where his See also:grandson, Thomas See also:Howard, earl of See also:Suffolk, built Audley End, doubtless named after him . In 1542 he re-endowed and re-established Buckingham College, Cambridge, under the new name of St See also:Mary Magdalene, and ordained in the statutes that his heirs, " the possessors of the See also:late monastery of Walden," should be visitors of the college in per petuum . A See also:Book of Orders for the Warre both by See also:Sea and See also:Land (Harleian MS . 297, f . 144) is attributed to his authorship . He married (I) See also:Christina, daughter of Sir Thomas Barnardiston, and (2) See also:Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas See also:Grey, marquess of See also:Dorset, by whom he had two daughters . His See also:barony became See also:extinct at his death .

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