April 27 – An important Elizabethan judge and a Tudor and Stuart adventurer

On this day in Tudor history, 27th April 1584, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, civil lawyer and judge, David Lewis, died in London.

David ap Lewis was an important judge, being involved in Elizabethan maritime legal cases.

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And on this day in history, actually in the Stuart period, 27th April 1609, Sir Edward Michelborne, member of Parliament, soldier and adventurer, died.

Michelborne had survived an unsuccessful naval campaign against Spain, being implicated in a rebellion, and an attack by pirates. He died a natural death at his home in Hackney.

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