[4] In the year of his marriage, 1564, Buckle petitioned to have his house "at the Bisshoppeshead" (in Pope's Head Alley, in that parish) included among the forty "permitted taverns" fully licensed to operate in the city of London.
[7] The proving of his will by the oath of his widow and executrix Joan on 8 November 1563[6] shortly preceded the marriage of Johane Davye to Cuthbert Buckle on 24 January 1563/64.
[8][9] Although resident in London, Buckle maintained his Westmorland connections, for in 1576 he presented to Brough-under-Stainmore "a handsome reading desk", which was inscribed as his gift and was at some time kept in St Michael's church.
[12] Elizabeth's will shows that she was the niece of Alice Bradbridge (died 1604), the silk merchant who was married to the London Alderman, Sheriff and Master Draper, Francis Barnham (died 1576), a relationship confirmed in Alice's will of 1604:[13] in the pedigree of Robinson of Cheshunt shown by Sir Henry Chauncy it is shown that Sybil the wife of Thomas Marston (and mother of Elizabeth) was indeed the sister of William Bradbridge, bishop of Exeter.
[19] In August 1585 he dined with Aldermen Rowe, Woodcock and Sir Rowland Hayward, and others, as they conducted their inspection of the decayed pipes at the conduit-heads.
[20] On 14 December following, he and Henry Billingsley were deputed by the Court of Aldermen to hear the complaints of the Basketmakers against Christopher Johnson: their Report gave much satisfaction and was entered in the Repertory.
In particular, the number of leaves or sections to be sewn in folio, decimo and octavo volumes (respectively) was specified, and that they were to be sewn on a sewing press and never stitched or pricked through (the Statutes of Parliament excepted): that only apprentices and immediate members of the family (stipulated) should be put to work in binding, folding or sewing of books for a bookbinder, with penalties to be approved: and that booksellers and retailers should never put out any unbound books to be bound by any foreigner or Stranger, or indeed to anyone who was not a freeman of the city, as was already laid down in an Act.
[27][28] Buckle and Prannell, senior Vintners, each stood for loans of £500 heading the Company's required contribution to national defence at the time of the Spanish Armada, 1588.
A letter was addressed in April 1593 by the Privy Council to Sir Richard Martin, Anthony Ashley, Alderman Cuthbert Buckle and others, as commissioners appointed by the then Lord Mayor (William Rowe), concerning the Dutch Church Libel.
They were to take extraordinary pains to discover the author and publisher of various malicious libels which had been set up in the city:"Theis shalbe therefore to require and aucthorize you to make search and aprehend everie person so to be suspected, and for that purpoze to enter into al houses and places where anie such maie be remayning, and uppon their apprehencion to make search in anie the chambers, studies, chestes and other like places for al manner of writings or papers that may geve you light for the discoverie of the libellers.
[16] The speech of the Recorder of the City of London (Edward Drew), made before Queen Elizabeth at the time of Buckle's oath-taking, is preserved in full.
[36][37] It has been conjectured that Buckle came to an agreement with two Councillors, Lord Howard and Henry Carey, for a permanent ban on the use of city inns for plays.
Her physician-in-chief, Dr Roderigo Lopes, a learned Portuguese man of Jewish heredity who lived as a Christian in England, had served her for many years and had established himself successfully.
"[43]Richard Robinson, a citizen of London, and a "large writer in prose and verse",[44] in 1587 produced an English translation of a religious work - an exposition of Psalm 87 - written originally in Latin by Urbanus Rhegius, the Lutheran pastor of Celle ("Zella") in Lower Saxony, in 1536;[45] this was dedicated to Sir George Barne as Lord Mayor.
[53][3][56][57][58] By his will, Sir Cuthbert Buckle left a rent charge of £8 out of the Spittle estate near Bowes,and lands thereto belonging, to support a schoolmaster at Stainmore, to teach children "to read, write, cypher and cast account."
A bill to establish the charity was presented in Chancery between Henry Blenkinsopp and Roger Salkeld, clerk, as plaintiffs and John Alderson, Christopher Buckle and George Utley as defendants.
[67] Some account of his descendants is to be found in the catalogue description of the "Buckle Papers", an extensive family archive held in the West Sussex Record Office.
In his will, Buckle refers to his mansion house in Mark Lane, in the parish of St Mary-at-Hill, which is believed to have been his principal city residence.
After his death the house is mentioned in 1600 when it was used as the temporary residence of the Russian embassy from the court of Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia, led by Grigory Ivanovich Mikulin.