Edmund Withypoll, Esquire,, of London, of Walthamstow, Essex, and of Ipswich, Suffolk, was an English merchant, money-lender, landowner, sheriff and politician, who established his family in his mothe
The retinue guesthouse near the Curson residence in Ipswich
Thomas Seckford or Thomas Sakford Esquire was a senior lawyer, a "man of business" at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, a landowner of the armigerous Suffolk gentry, Member of Parliament, and public ben
Edmund Withypoll
…own literary interests are shown in extracts included in essays by Harvey, including these lines translated by Edmund from a Latin epigram dedicated to Thomas Seckford: "Our merry dayes, by theevish bit are pluckt, and torne away, And every lustie growing thing, in short time doth decay, The pleasaunt Spring times…
William Cecil presiding over the Court of Wards: the supposed Seckford figure is seated mid-left.
Porch of Great Bealings church, with carved inscription and angel turrets. The Seckford arms appear in the dexter spandrel of the arch
Seckford Hall, Great Bealings: main range entrance, south-western side (begun after 1553)
Woodbridge Shire Hall, built by Seckford as an open market with courtroom above, later modified