AUDLEY, THOMAS AUDLEY, BARON (c. 1488-1544), lord chancellor of England, entered Parliament in 1523 for the county of Essex. In 15 29 he was Speaker of the House of Com mons, presiding over the famous Black Parliament which abol ished papal jurisdiction in England. He supported Henry VIII. in seeking a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and became lord chancellor on Jan. 26 1S33. He presided at the trial of Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas More in 1535, and in 1536 he tried Anne Boleyn. He was raised to the peerage in 1538, and received the garter in 1540. He presided at the trials of Henry Pole (Lord Montacute) and the marquess of Exeter, managed the attainder of Thomas Cromwell, and the dissolution of Henry's marriage with Anne of Cleves. He resigned the lord chancellorship on April 21 and died on April 3o. His subservience to Henry VIII. was rewarded by the gift of many monastic estates. He re-endowed Buckingham College, Cambridge, under the new name of St. Mary Magdalene.