Edward Cheeseman

Entering on a legal career, he became first a filacer, or issuer of writs, and later an attorney in the Court of King's Bench.^[4] His final post was as a senior member of the royal household of King Henry VII, when he became Cofferer of the Household some time after September 1505.^[5] As such he attended the funeral of the King in April 1509, but himself died in August, asking to be buried in Blackfriars church in London.^[2]

His will was proved in November 1510,^[6] and he left extensive landholdings in Middlesex and Kent to his son.^[4] These included in Middlesex the manor and mansion house of Dormanswell in Southall,^[2] together with the manor of Southall which he had bought in 1496, and the manor of Norwood,^[7] together with the manors of Osterley and of Wyke.^[8] In Kent, he left land at Sundridge, Chevening,^[9] and Lewisham.^[10]

Before 1485 he married Joan Lawrence, from Lancashire,^[1] and they had six known children:

Robert;^[1]

Eleanor;^[1]

Mary, who first married a man called Catesby from Bedfordshire and secondly John Tawe, a lawyer;^[1]

Grace, said to have married a Keeper of Windsor Forest;^[1]

Elizabeth I, married first Thomas Carminow (died 1529), of Respryn near Bodmin, a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber,^[1] becoming the mother of John Carminow and Nicholas Carminow, and after his death married secondly Edward Cleker;^[11]

Elizabeth II (died after 1547), a nun first at Holywell Priory and later at Kilburn.^[1]

His widow married John Banester and died in 1536.^[3]