Other Events:

• Office: Bailiff of Winchelsea
• Office: 1552–53; Sheriff of Kent
• Residence: Hempsted, Benenden, Kent, England
• Residence: Great Bromley, Essex, England
• Office: 1529; Burgess (M.P.) for Gatton
• Office: 1542; Knight of the Shire for Kent
• Office: 1546; Chamberlain of the Household of Anne of Cleves
• Office: 1553; Burgess (M.P.) for ?New Romney
• Will: 4 May 1560
• Probate: 11 July 1565

Notes:

He was heir male in 1534 to his uncle, Sir Edward Guildford, of Halden and Hempsted (in Benenden), Kent. In 1536 he reached agreement with Sir John Dudley and his wife, Jane, daughter of his uncle, Sir Edward Guildford, regarding settlement of his uncle's estate, by which he received the manors of Brocket, Upper Forsham, Lower Forsham, and Frencham, Kent.

"In 1542 he and his wife, Barbara, conveyed the manor and the advowson of the church of Great Bromley, Essex, to William Cardinal, Gent."

Sources cited in Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed. (2011), volume 2, pages 181–2:

1. Morant, Hist. & Antiqs. of Essex, 1 (1768): 441.


2. Blore, Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland, 1(2) (1811): 100–102 (La Warre / West ped.).


3. Brydges Collins’ Peerage of England, 5 (1812): 1–28 (sub West, Earl Delawarr).


4. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, 2 (1826): 605–608 (will of Thomas West, Lord La Warre).


5. Bentley, Excerpta Historica (1833): 309–310.


6. Coll. Top. et Gen., 2 (1835): 8–9.


7. Watson, Tendring Hundred in Olden Time (1877): 161–164.


8. Birch, Cat. Seals in the British Museum, 3 (1894): 46 (seal of Sir John Guldeford dated 1543 — A firebrand flamant.  Crest of GULDEFORD).


9. Clutterbuck, Notes on the Parishes of Fyfield, Kimpton, Panton Mewsey, Weyhill & Wherwell (1898): 181–185 (will of Thomas West, K.G.).


10. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 69.


11. Benolte & Cooke, Vis. of Kent 1530–1, 1574, & 1592 (H.S.P. 74) (1923): 11 (1530–1 Vis.) (Guyldeforde ped.: "John [Guildford] = Barbara d. to the lorde Delawarre"), 77 (Add'l Peds.) (Guildford ped.: "Sr. John Guldeford, Knt. = Barbara dau. to Thomas West Lord La Ware").


12. Comber, Sussex Gens., 3 (1933): 304–306 (sub Lords West).


13. Davis, Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 92–93.


14. VCH, Sussex, 6(1) (1980): 10–21.


15. Bindoff, House of Commons, 1509–1558, 2 (1982): 265–266 (biog. of John Guildford).


16. National Archives, E 328/52 (Indenture of agreement dated 23 Nov. 1538 between John Duddeley Knt., and Dame Jane, his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Edward Guldeford Knt., son and heir of Sir Richard Guldeford, Knt., deceased, and (2) John Guldeford Esq., son and heir of George Guldeford Esq., second son of said Sir Richard, re. a dispute between the parties on right to manors etc. in cos. Kent and Suss., late of Sir Richard Guldeford).

Will:
P.C.C. 25 Morrison

Requested burial beside his first wife at Benenden, Kent, England.

Probate:
P.C.C. 25 Morrison

John married Hon. Barbara West before 1534. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Fitz William. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir Thomas Walsingham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: George Harlakenden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Cromer. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]