John Hynde

Sir John Hynde (died 1550) was an English judge, prominent in the reign of Henry VIII.

Life

He was of a family settled at Madingley in Cambridgeshire, and was educated at Cambridge.[1] He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn, and was reader there in 1517, 1527, and 1531. In 1520 he was elected recorder of Cambridge. His name appears frequently in the commission of the peace and commissions to collect subsidies for Cambridgeshire in the middle of the reign of Henry VIII. In 1526 and 1530 he was in the commission of gaol delivery for the town of Cambridge, and in 1529 in the commission to hear chancery causes, and was recommended by the lord chief justice in 1530 as among the best counsel of the day.

In 1532 he was in the commission of the peace for Huntingdonshire, and in 1534 in the commission of sewers for the same county. In 1531 he was appointed serjeant-at-law, and on 2 January 1535 was promoted to be king's serjeant. In 1536 he prosecuted the rebels in the west, and during the northern rebellion was one of those appointed to reside in Cambridgeshire, and to be responsible for order there. In December 1540 he received a commission from the privy council to inquire into charges of sedition alleged against Thomas Goodrich, bishop of Ely.

Madingley Hall, built by Sir John Hynde

An act of parliament, 34–35 Hen. VIII, c. 24, was passed to confirm to him and his heirs the manor of Burlewas or Shyre in Cambridgeshire and lands at Madingley, subject to an annual charge for the payment of the knights of the shire, and in addition to this property it appears, from grants in the augmentation office, that he received portions of the church lands at Girton and Moor Barns, Madingley, Cambridgeshire. In 1539 he received as a result of the dissolution of the monasteries the property later known as Anglesey Abbey.[2] On 4 November 1545 he was knighted, was next day appointed a judge of the common pleas, and became a member of the council of the north in 1545. He died in October 1550, and was buried at St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street, London, on 18 October.

Sir John Hynde married Ursula Curzon, daughter of Sir John Curzon or Cursonn of Beck Hall (in Billingford and Bylaugh, Norfolk[3]): his elder son and heir was Sir Francis Hynde, M.P., of Madingley.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Hynde, John (HND519J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ↑ Parks and Gardens UK: Anglesey Abbey, Lode, England
  3. ↑ Of the family of Sir John Curson M.P. (d. c.1415), for whom see History of Parliament
  4. ↑ J.W. Clay (Ed.), The Visitation of Cambridge made in Anno 1575, Continued and Enlarged with the Visitation made in the same County by Henery St George, in Anno 1619, Harleian Society Volume XLI (for year 1897)(London 1897), p. 113.

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