John Cheney of West Woodhey

Gentleman at Arms in the Royal Household
MP for Dover 1554. MP for Winchelsea 1558
Married Dorothy Yate in 1531 when West Woodhay, Berkshire was settled on them.

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ch...
John Cheney, of West Woodhay, Berks
b. by 1510, died 19 March 1567, married Dorothy Yates.

also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cheney_(gentleman_at_arms)

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7121646
Folio: 95 Short title: Ashton v Yate
Plaintiffs: Christopher Ashton
Defendants: John Yate, Thomas Yate, John Cheyney, and others
Subject: Riot concerning the manor of Fylberds [Philberds Court in Hanney]
County: Berkshire
Document Type: Bill
Date: 1538-1539

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9253566
REQ 2/6/234 1540 Apr 22-1541 Apr 21
Maud Flackett (widow of Thomas Flackett) and their son Robert Flackett v John Cheney of West Woodhay, Berkshire: a tenement and land in the manor of Enborne, Berkshire. 14 mm.

About 1550 Killed Robert Parrys & the Privy Council ordered that his goods be retained by his wife for maintenance of their children. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol4/pp242-245

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/164f342f-bede-4...
Reference: LM/1739/1
2 copies of petition to the King for letters patent pardoning John Cheyney esq, late of Westwoodhaye, Berks, for his part in the murder of Robert Parrys in the Wasshe Lane ende, Newbury, in Oct 1550 [HMC p.604a] [Held by Surrey History Centre]

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7501343
Reference: C 1/1344/10 Date 1553-1555
Short title: Cary v Cheyney.
Plaintiffs: John CARY, parson of Linkenholt.
Defendants: John CHEYNEY of Woodhay, co. Berks, who shamefully moordered your Lordeshipps servante gentle Maister Parrys.'.Subject: Claim to a lease of complainant's parsonage. Hampshire