Walter Chaundler, Merchant in 1540, gentleman by 1546, Mayor of Winchester, 1530-1531
Dates: Died 1546
Biography
Winchester merchant who acquired the Abbots Barton lease from Thomas Wriothesley in 1540 and was described as a gentleman at his death in 1546.
Notes / Sources
His probate evidence is unusually direct: he described Hyde Barton as a manor held of the King.
Research sources:
- Walter Chaundler's will, 5 October 1546, PROB 11/31, summarized and transcribed in Nigel Fradgley, Elaine Lewis and Edward Roberts, 'The Chamber over the Hall: Two Early, Post-Medieval Houses in Hampshire', Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, Proceedings, vol. 51 (1995), pp. 116-123; Hampshire Record Office, 5M53/313. — https://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/1990s/vol51/Fradgley%26others.pdf
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