Ralph Swillington was Recorder of Coventry

Coventry

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 and Attorney General to Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

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Swillington was Attorney General for the short period of time between 1524 and his death in the following year. In his will (dated 11 July 1525), he left land in Driffield

Driffield

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, Yorkshire

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, to his nephew, George Swillington. A monument in St. Michael's Church, Coventry, commemorates Swillington, his wife Elizabeth (Babthorpe) and her other husband, Thomas Essex.

Sources

John Astley, The monumental inscriptions in the parish church of St. Michael, Coventry (1885)

John WIlliam Clay, North Country Wills (1912)