AUDLEY. 203 AUDLEY (of Stratton Aurlloy). Baron by /. Hugh Audley, of Stratton Audley, Oxon, yst. s. of •nr r it James Audley or de Aldithley, of Heleigh, co. Stafford, a powerful feudal Baron, and the only s. of his father by his 2nd wife Ela, da. of I. 132 1, William Lo.NOESl'E, obtained from his mother, soon after her husband's to death, a grant (1272-73), 1 Ed. I, of Stratton Audley, aforesaid, which 1325(?) liatl been her inheritance (see " AUDLEY "of Heleigh, Barons by ten- ure, under the 5th Baron, p. 198). He was in the French wars, 1294, &e. ; in the Scottish wars, 1299-1302 ; and again 1313, and was Governor of Montgomery Castle, 1309. He was sum. to Pari. 10 May 1321, as a Baron (LORD AUPLEY), the writ being directed " Hugh de Audley, Senlori," to distinguish him from his second s. Hugh Audley, Junior, who had been so sum. in 1317 (see p. 202). In 1322 he joined the insurrection of the Earl of Lancaster, but was tiken prisoner and confined to Wallingford Castle, whence he is said to have escaped. He to. Isolda, willow of Sir Walter de Balun, da. of ( — ) Mortimer, who brought him the manor of Eastington and the Castle of Thornbury, eo. Glouc. He d. before J325,( s ) and though he is said to have been pardoned and his estates restored to his family, his title was in all probability forfeited by attaiuder.( b ) AUDLEY, OR ALDITHLEY. Baron by 1. James Audley, or de Aldithley is asserted by WritP Dugdale (vol. i, p. 751) to have been "of this family also" and to have "had summons to Pari., after the eldest branch went off with 1121, daughters and heirs, from 8 H. V [1420-21] until 33 H. VI to [1454-55] inclusive." It seems certain that this is the same 1455. person as "James (Tuchet), vth (12th) Lord Audley, "who was sum. from 8 Hen V to 33 Hen. VI by writ directed to him as "Jacobus de Audley." AUDLEY OF WALDEN. Bar on. /, Thomas Audley, s. of Geoffry A. of Earls Colne, I. 1538 Essex, was b. there 1488, is presumed to have been ed. at Cambridge ^ ' and was admitted in 1516 a Burgess of Colchester, where he became Town Clerk. Banister (Inner Temple) and Autumn Reader, 1526; 10 ' l *• M.P. for Essex, 1523 ; Speaker of the House of Commons, Nov. 1 529, when the first attack was made on the Papal power ; Attorney for the Duchy of Laucaster, 1530 ; King's Sergeant, 1531 ; Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations ; Loud Keeper, 30 May 1532 ; Lord Cuancellor, 24 Jan. 1533, till his death 12 years later.( c ) Being a zealous promoter of the King's various schemes (whether just or otherwise) he obtained a large share of Abbey ( a ) lnq. on the death of his mother, 19 Ed. II, finding that the manor of Stratton Audley was then in the King's hands by reason of the rebellion of Hugh, and that James de Audeley was s. and h. of this said Hugh. See Beltz's " Order of the Garter," p. 82. ( b ) Sir James Audley, his s. and h., never assumed the title, but was styled " of Gloucestershire," and served in Gascony in 1324, and in Scotland in 1327. By his wife Eva, formerly wife of his cousin Thomas Audley (see page 19S, note " e ") he was father of two sons, viz., Sir Peter Audley, who d. s.p. 1359, ami the celebrated 6>ir James Audley, KG. 1344, the hero of the battle of Poictiers (1356), who also «■ s.p. 1369, when the issue of Sir James, the elder (their father), appears to have become as the family estates in Oxon and co. Gloucester passed to the family of otittord in right of descent from Hugh Audley the younger (Earl of Gloucester), ," f r' llu elller ' aud uncle o£ tlle younger Sir James. See " AUDLEY," Baron, 1317. (°) These twelve years were " a period more disgraceful in the annals of England than any of a similar extent. Within it were Comprehended the King's divorce from
