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'''Sir Anthony Browne''' [[Queen's Serjeant|QS]] (1509–1567), sometimes referred to as '''Antony Browne''', was
==Life==
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In 1545, he became a [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]], and in 1554 a bencher of Middle Temple.
He was made a [[Serjeant-at-law]] in 1555 under the patronage of the [[John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford|Earl of Oxford]], and was then immediately made [[Queen's Serjeant]], obliged as the junior serjeant of his inn to give a reading, which he did on the subject of the Statute of Jeofails.{{sfn|Baker|2004}}<ref>Jeofail, from ''jeo (je) fail'', "I fail") is an admission of an error or oversight in pleading a case. (''[[OED]]'').</ref>
==Execution of William Hunter==
In 1555 Browne was responsible for the execution of [[William Hunter (martyr)|William Hunter]] one of the [[Marian martyrs]].
On 5 October 1558, Browne was appointed [[Chief Justice of the Common Pleas]] by [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]; his appointment was reconfirmed in November by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. He was removed by Elizabeth in the following January by means of appointing him a [[Puisne Justice]] of the Queen's Bench, most likely due to his religious disagreements with the new queen; while it was not serious enough to demand removal from the court, it would be unthinkable to have the head of a major court in religious disagreement with the monarch.
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Plowden described him at his death as a judge 'de profound ingeny et graund eloquence' (of profound ingenuity and grand eloquence), and the Spanish ambassador called his death a great loss to the [[Catholic]] faction in England. His funeral was performed, per his request, with the traditional Catholic ceremonies, and at his funeral various friends were given gold [[mourning ring]]s in the style of those of Serjeants-at-Law with 'Wee dye' engraved on the outside and 'Forgett nott' on the inside.<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-3666|title=Browne, Sir Anthony (1509/10–1567), judge|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/3666}}</ref>
He was buried in St Peter's Church in [[South Weald]], but his tomb was badly damaged in the 1868 church restoration, leaving only a headless figure in judicial robes and part of an inscription, which gives his age at death as fifty seven.{{cn|date=September 2022}}
==Family==
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