William Drury , born about 1500 , was the elder son of Sir Robert Drury ( before 1456 – 2 March 1535 ) , Speaker of the House of Commons , and Anne Calthorpe , daughter of Sir William Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe , Norfolk . He had a younger brother , and four sisters : Drury was admitted to Lincoln ’s Inn on 12 February 1517 , and entered the service of King Henry VIII before his father 's death . In 1521 he accompanied Cardinal Wolsey to Calais . He was knighted in 1533 at the coronation of Anne Boleyn . In 1536 he was High Sheriff of Suffolk and Norfolk , and in the same year equipped 100 men to accompany the King 's forces under Thomas Howard , 3rd Duke of Norfolk , at the time of the Pilgrimage of Grace . In 1539 he was a commissioner for the defence of the coast of Suffolk . In the following year he was appointed a Groom of the Privy Chamber when Anne of Cleves arrived in England as Henry VIII 's fourth bride . In 1544 he was again appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk and Norfolk
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
William Drury (died 1558)