Born: ABT 1492
Died 4 Sep 1558
Married 1: Mary MIRFYN 1537, London
Married 2: Agnes / Annys 1542, London
Married 3: Mary MATHEWS 7 Feb 1551/2
Third son. In 1509 London apprenticed to John Buknell, "a Skinner and Merchant of the Staple of Calais" for 8 years. 23 Mar 1517 First evidence of him as Merchant of the Staple, so released at least a little early from his apprenticeship. On this date he paid the duty for a cargo of wool shipped to Calais. "Thereafter his name occurs frequently".
In 1520 "took up his freedom as a member of the Skinners' Company" London. 1520-1521 Fraternity of the Assumption of Our Lady, London; paid 4 shillings "entry money"; high on their list 1524. 1522-1523 Fraternity of Corpus Christi, London; "the account books of the Skinners show ... that Andrew Judde paid 20 shillings on becoming one of the 'Newe Brethern'".
Mary Mirfyn was born circa 1521. Married Sir Andrew Judde in 1537, London. Died 14
Nov 1550. "Her funeral is entered both in Wriothesley's Chronicle, and in Machyn's Diary, both of which have been published by the Camden Society".
In 1523 London co-executor of his father-in-law's will with Mirfyn's own son. 1533 Master of the Skinners' Co "and five times thereafter". Merchant of the Staple of Calais. 12 Jul 1541 Alderman from this date ward of Farringdon without, London. Widowed before 1542? Had had five children with Mary; 2 not in his will. Married Agnes / Annys (----) in 1542 London; 2nd wife, no children, nothing more known. In 1547 Treasurer of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, when it was remodelled. "Certainly one of the richest and most prominent of overseas merchants in early Tudor London". 1550 Lord Mayor of London: "he had to deal with the problems caused by dearth and by the 1551 'calling down' of the coinage". One dau. survived from the 3rd marriage. In May 1553 Tonbridge School obtained letters patent for the erection of a free school with the Skinners' Company as trustees. One of the Aldermen who signed the device of King Edward VI. In Sep 1555 Staple Inn, London, Felipe of Spain (consort of Queen Mary) passed the night at the Staple Inn, and "Sir Andrew presented the King with a purse containing a thousand marks in gold". Circa 1556 Skinners Hall, London, Judde and Sir John Champneys donated money for the ceiling of the hall, and the Skinners had the arms of both carved as ornaments for the hall. Between 1556 and 1558 "At this time Sir Andrew was buying manors at Ashford and places adjoining from Sir Anthony Aucher, soon to lose his life at Calais. This estate passed to his daughter Alice and so to her son Sir Thomas Smyth, who in his turn was a benefactor of Tonbridge School".
1557 and 1558 "Surveyor-general of all the London hospitals" London.
Before 1558 Resided at Eshetisford - Essetisford - Ashford, Kent. Will London; "Sir Andrew Jud, skinner, mayor 1551, erected one notable free school at Tunbridge in Kent, and alms houses nigh St. Helen's church in London, and left to the Skinners lands to the value of 60 pounds 3 shillings and 8 pence the year; for the which they be bound to pay 20 pounds to the schoolmaster, 8 pounds to the usher, yearly, for ever, and four shollings the week to the six alms people, and 25 shillings and 4 pence the year in coals for ever".
Buried Sep 1558, St Helen's Bishopsgate, London. Probate Mar 1558 - 1605 Prerogative Court, Canterbury, Kent, Ref. 58 Noodes, 54 Welles ("De bonis non adm.") grants, March 1558-9 & Aug 1605. Properties in St. Helene, London and Eshetisford, Kent, "etc."
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See Wriothesley's Chronicle for the year 1550-1551 when Andrew was Lord Mayor
of London.
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