Edmond Anderson

a Cadet of a gentile Family living in the Parish of Broughton in Lincolnshire, as being a younger Son of Thomas Anderson (descended from the Addersons of Scotland,) who lived first in Northumberland, and afterwards at Broughton before-mentioned, did spend some time in Oxon, (in Linc. coll. as it seems,) from whence being sent to the Inner Temple, did, by his indefatigable study, obtain great knowledge in the Municipal Laws. In the 9. of Q Eliz. he was either Lent, or Summer, Reader of that House, in the 16. Double Reader, and in the 19. of the said Queen’s Reign Serjeant at Law. In 1582. he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas, in the place of Sir Jam. Dyer deceased; and in the year following he was made a Knight, being then esteemed a zealous promoter of the established discipline of the Church of England, as afterwards a severe prosecuter, in his Circuits, of the Brownists. In 1586. he sate in judgment on Mary Q. of Scots, at which time he was Chief Justicer of the Bench, as a certain (f)(f) Camden in Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1586. Vide in Chronserie per Gul. Dugdale sub an. 1582. author stiles him, being then a learned Man of the Law. He wrote much, but nothing is printed under his name, only,

Reports of many principle Cases argued and adjudged in the time of Q. Elizabeth in the Common Bench. Lond. 1664. fol.

Resolutions and judgments on the cases and matters agitated in all the Courts at Westminster in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth.—Collected by Joh. Goldesburg Esꝫ and by him published at Lond. in qu. This Sir Edm. Anderson died at London on the first of August in sixteen hundred and five, 1605 and on the 5. of Sept. following, his Funerals were solemnized (g)(g) Lib. Certif. in Offic. Armorum, l. 16. p. 212. at Eyworth or Eworth in Bedfordshire, (where he had an Estate,) leaving issue several Sons, whose Posterity remaineth there, and elsewhere, to this day. In the place of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (h)(h) Camlen in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 1605. suceeded Sir Francis Gaudy of the Inner Temple.