Manor of Scadbury

Scadbury is a historic manor in the parish of Chislehurst in the London Borough of Bromley, England.

[2] In 1424 it was purchased by Thomas Walsingham (died 1457)[3] a wealthy wine and cloth merchant in London and a Member of parliament.

[8][10] His second son was William Walsingham (died 1534), of Foots Cray in Kent, who was the father of Sir Francis Walsingham, Principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth I. James' eldest son and heir was Sir Edmund Walsingham (c. 1480 – 10 February 1550), a soldier, Member of Parliament, and Lieutenant of the Tower of London during the reign of King Henry VIII.

He was an MP and was patron of Christopher Marlowe,[12][13] who was known to have been staying at Scadbury just before his violent death in 1593.

[citation needed] Many of the Walsingham family's marriages are represented heraldically in stained glass escutcheons dated 1562 now forming the east window of Mereworth Church in Kent.