of her first husband, King Henry VIII urged her to marry Sir William Coffin. In 1519 Margaret had attended Catalina of Aragon at the Field of the Cloth of Gold and was a fellow courtier with Sir William Coffin, her second husband. Margaret was one of the gentlewomen sent to wait (and spy) upon Anne Boleyn in the Tower. Some accounts give the name as "Mistress Cosyns" but this is a mistake for Coffin (presumably the confusion was caused by the use of the long "S"). In Jane Seymour's household Margaret was a Lady of the Bedchamber. Shortly after Sir William Coffin's death in December, 1538, she remarried to Sir Richard Manners (died 1551) of Garendon, Leicestershire, MP for Leicestershire in 1542, a younger son of George Manners, 11th Lord Ros. Sir William Coffin died without children. Death and burial Sir William Coffin died on 8 December 1538 at Standon, Hertfordshire. His death was sudden and he had made his will on the day he died. He was buried in the middle of the chancel of Standon Church, where survives his inscribed memorial stone. Succession Sir William Coffin left no children. He bequeathed most of his leases and goods to his wife, whom he appointed his sole executrix. His Devon lands were inherited by three of his nephews; his lease of East Hagginton in Berrynarbor, Devon, he enfeoffed to the senior nephew Richard Coffin (died 1555), his eldest brother's son and heir. His properties in Bakewell, Derbyshire, he left to two of his servants, Henry Ireland and Robert Roo. Sources Black, C. J., biography of Coffin, William (by 1492–1538) of Porthledge, Devon and Bakewell, Derbys, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509–1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982 Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 208-11, pedigree of Coffin Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, (ed.) The Lisle Letters, 6 vols, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1981, vol.1 References Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Coffin, Sir William (b. in or before 1492, d. 1538), courtier by Catharine Davies. 1495 births 1538 deaths 15th-century English people English courtiers Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber High Sheriffs of Derbyshire High Sheriffs of Nottinghamshire Members of the Parliament of England for Derbyshire English MPs 1529–1536 William Court of Henry VIII