Sir John Cutts (or Cutt) (1545–1615), of Horham Hall, Essex; Shenley Hall, Hertfordshire and

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and granddaughter of

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(died 1471) and Isabel Ingaldesthorpe. After John's death in 1528, leaving a son little more than an infant, Luce remarried to Sir Thomas Clyfford. The child married Sybil, daughter of Sir

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(who died in 1550), and being of age in 1547 became Sir John Cutts of Childerley and Horham Hall. This gentleman became implicated in a suspected conspiracy planned in Suffolk with his brother-in-law Sir Francis Hynde and, having gone into exile in Italy, died of pleurisy in

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in May 1555.Will of Sir John Cutts, Proved 18 November 1555, see H.W. King, 'The descent of the Manor of Horham, and of the family of Cutts', ''Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society'' IV (Colchester 1869), pp. 25-43
at pp. 35-36.
/ref> His widow Sybil (Hynde), mother of the present Sir John Cutts, M.P., remarried to the politician John Hutton. John was educated at

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and trained in the law at

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. He was knighted by the Earl of Leicester in 1571. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Cambridgeshire in 1579, Hertfordshire in 1582 and Essex in 1586. He was a Member (MP) of the

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for

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1584, 1586 and 1601. He served as Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1572–73 and 1601-2 and as

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for 1588–89. He married twice: first to Anne, the daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy of Huntingdonshire, with whom he had a son and two daughters, and secondly to Margaret, the daughter and coheiress of John Brocket of Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, with whom he had another son. He was succeeded by his son John.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cutts, John 1545 births 1615 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Members of Gray's Inn English knights People from South Cambridgeshire District People from Uttlesford (district) People from Shenley English MPs 1584–1585 High Sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire High Sheriffs of Hertfordshire English MPs 1586–1587 English MPs 1601