Francis Hynde

[11] In March 1555 Hynde was implicated, together with 'master Bowes and master Cutt' in a conspiracy suspected to have been planned in Suffolk,[12] was committed into custody of Sir Giles Alington and not released from his recognizances until 1559.

He was named Executor in the will of his brother-in-law Sir John Cutts of Childerley[13] of 1554,[14] who as a Marian exile died of pleurisy at Venice in May 1555 leaving a ten-year-old son.

For many years he withheld an annual rent of 50 shillings owing out of the Manor of Girton, which was eventually recovered for the College by the Master, Matthew Parker, with the assistance of Sir Nicholas Bacon.

[17] In 1570 Francis with his younger brother Thomas conveyed the Manor of Rycotes and the advowson of the church at Little Wilbraham, formerly their mother's property, to Trustees of Corpus for £830.

[18] In 1587 the Master Dr Robert Norgate purchased lands at Stow-cum-Quy from Sir Francis, but soon ran into trouble over questions of title.

[23] A supposed haunting of Madingley Hall has been imagined to represent the figure of Sir Francis's mother, Lady Ursula Hynde, wringing her hands in grief over this action.