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204 AUDLEY — AUGHHIM. lands, particularly in 1581 those of the Holy Trinity, or Christchurch, Aldgate [subsequently called " Duke's Place "], and of the rich monastery of Walden in Essex in (1. 38-39) 30 Hen. VIII. On 29 Nov. 153S he was ,-r. BARON AUDLEY OF WALDEN, CO. Kssex. and OB 23 April 1540, KG. He resigned the Great Seal (nine days liefore his death) 21 April 1544. He m. firstly ( — ) da. of Sir Thomas BausakiusTon of KetUin, Suffolk, hut she d. a.p. He m. secondly, in April 1538 Elizabeth, da. of Thomas (GitKY), 2nd Mahqubss OF Dorset, by his 2nd wife Margaret, da. of Sir Robert Wotton.C 1 ) He <l. s.p.m. 30 April 1544, aged fill, when his Pmaqe became ex.[ e ) He was bur. in a chapel he had erected at Saffron Walden. 51.1. Will dat. 19 April 1514, pr. IS Feb. 1544-5. His widow m. George Noiiton. AUDLEY OF DRIER. i.e. " Arni.Kv of Drier, go. Armagh," Baron [I.] ; see " Castleiuvex," Earl of [I.], it. 1814, ex. 1777. AUGHRIM, scu AGHRIM. one Queen, after a union of 22 years, under pretence of a scruple of conscience; the repudiation of another after a few day's intercourse, on the mere ground of personal antipathy : the execution of tieo Others, one of them sacrificed to obtain a new partner; and innumerable judicial and remorseless murders, those of Sir Thomas More anil Bishop Fisher leading the dreadful array." " Audley has acquired the character of undoubtedly equalling, if he did not aseeed all his contemporaries in servility." "His interpretations of the law on the various criminal trials.it which he presided area disgrace not only to him, but to every member of tin- bench associated with him, while both blanches of the legislature are equally chargeable with the ignominy of passing the acts he introduced, perilling every mans life by the new treasons they invented, and every man's conscience by the contradictory oaths they imposed." — See "Judge! of Knghuid," by E. Foss, F.S.A. He " has always been considered as the founder of Magdalen Coll. Cambridge, which he endowed with large estates, and ordained that his heirs, the possessors of the late monastery of Walden, should be Visitors of the College in perpetuum and enjoy the exclusive right of nominating the master, which appointment is still vested in the owner of Audley Kiul." — See " History uf Audley End by Richard, Lord Braybrooke," London. 1S3G, 4to., pp. 332. In this work is au engraving of the Lord Audley from a picture by Holbein at that mansion. ('•) " There is extant a metal plate, like a small Garter plate, with the arms, enamelled, of The noble it ralijanl Knygth Syrt Tlimmis Audi* iy Lnrde Vliamylkyr oj Yenr/lond. It was lately, and probably is now [1885], in the possession of Mi-. Joseph Clarke, F.S.A., Architect, At the top is the date " Anno CritU (sic) 1638." The arms are not those usually attributed to Lord Audley (and used by Magdalen College, Cambridge), but are, Or, on a fess, azure, between 3 hares courant, table, M n«ny martlets, argent. Impaled with this coat are the arms of Grey — 8 quarters. The plate seems to have been made on the marriage. Its height is rather more than tiin. ami its width rather less than 5. The armory of this family of Audley is a curious subject. The arms of Harper, Lord Mayor of London 1561, and founder of Bedford school, must be in some way connected with the later coat of Audley, but it is not easy to see how." Ex inform, H. Cough, who has a tracing of the plate alluded to. if" Liter and well known coat is on the Garter plate, 1540, and Wies probably conferred, or confirmed, in 1533, on the creation of the Peerage. (°) He had two (laughters and coheirs by his second wife, viz. (1) Mary, who unni (2) Margaret, who hi. firstly, Lord Henry Dudley, who ( /. s.p. 1557. She m. secondly, as his second wife, Thomas (Howard), 4th Duke of Norfolk, by whom she had a s. (who was h. to his mother), viz. Thomas Howard, sum. in 1597 as Lord Howard dt Walden, and or. in 1600 Earl of Suflblk.— See " Howard dc Walden" Baron, er. m. He appears to have had two brothers, both also named Thomas, who inherited the manors of Berechurch and Gosbecks near Colchester,