Sir William Eure of Bradley was an English aristocrat and political intriguer.
Overview
Sir William Eure of Bradley was an English aristocrat and political intriguer.
He was a son of William Eure, 2nd Baron Eure and Margaret Dymoke, and uncle of William Eure, 4th Baron Eure, two years his junior, with whom he must not be confused..
With other members of family, he visited and harassed Thomas Posthumus Hoby and his wife at Hackness, near Scarborough, leading to well-documented litigation and counter-claims. The Eure family were traditional and Catholic recusant landowners in the area and Hoby was a relative newcomer and Puritan.
He was employed at the Scottish border by Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby.
