Sir John Mallory of

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(1555 – 14 August 1619) was an English politician. He was the son of Sir William Mallory of Hutton Conyers, Yorkshire who was the first in the family to become an MP, shortly after the Tudor monarchs began to modernise the parliamentary system. In January 1569 there were plans for

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to spend a night at Hutton Conyers with William Mallory or at Norton Conyers, as she travelled between

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and

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.Joseph Bain, ''Calendar State Papers Scotland'', vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1900), p. 605 no. 959. John Mallory succeeded his father in 1603 and was knighted the same year. He was elected to Parliament for

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in 1601 and for

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in 1604. He and his family were regarded with suspicion by the Protestant monarchy due to their relation to

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, who assisted in the planning of the Spanish Armada. His son, Christopher, was a religions recusant who fled to the Spanish-ruled Netherlands in exile shortly after the

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in November 1605. John then attended the key conference with the Lords about reform of the recusancy laws (3 Feb. 1606). He married by 1578 Anne, the daughter of

William Eure, 2nd Baron Eure William Eure, 2nd Baron Eure (10 May 1529 – 12 September 1594) was a Tudor-era English nobleman, soldier, and official in the Scottish Marches. Early life William Eure was the son of Ralph Eure, eldest son of William Eure who had been c ...

of Malton, Yorkshire and had 9 sons (of whom 3 predeceased him) and 6 daughters (of whom 2 predeceased him). He was the father of MP

William Mallory William Mallory (died 1646) of Studley Royal, Yorkshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1614 and 1642. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War. His father, John Mallory (died 1619), w ...

and Priest

Thomas Mallory (priest) Thomas Mallory was a seventeenth-century English priest. Mawdesley was born at Studley Yorkshire and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Caius from 1592 to 1600. He held livings at Romaldkirk and Davenham. He was Archdeaco ...

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