Edmund Poley (1544–1613), of Badley,

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was an English politician. He was a

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of the

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for

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in 1572–1581, for

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in 1584 and for

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in 1586. Edmund was the son of John Poley and Anne, daughter of Thomas Wentworth. Thomas Poley, MP, was his uncle. He married Catherine Seckford, sister of

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, MP.

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