Edmund Pelham

[2] The fact that his wife Ellen Darrell belonged to an openly Roman Catholic family no doubt hindered his career.

Allowing for an element of self-congratulation in his own description of the assizes, he seems to have been highly successful in this task: he wrote that "the people reverenced him as though he had been an angel from Heaven, and prayed him on their knees to return to minister justice unto them".

[6] Sir Arthur Chichester, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, praised him as a diligent and very worthy judge,[1] but regretted that his illness had impaired the efficient running of the Exchequer.

Edmund was on good terms with his wife's brothers George and Christopher, and became a partner in their iron foundry.

[7] Little appears to be known of Edmunds' children, except for his eldest son, Herbert, and his daughter Ellen, who was charged with recusancy in 1609, along with her mother.

He compared the practice colourfully to a pig wearing a saddle, for which remark he was reported to the authorities by the local churchwarden in 1611.