page_title: Richard Bunny (died 1584)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Bunny (died 1584) / Career
caption_attribution_description: Bolton Percy Church
context_page_description: Richard Bunny, of Bunny Hall, Wakefield and of Newland and Normanton, Yorkshire, was an English politician.
context_section_description: He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Bramber in 1547 and for Boroughbridge in 1559. He held a number of Court offices, including the position of   Treasurer of Berwick-upon-Tweed  1550-1554. He was removed from this office on the discovery of his  record of embezzlement and forgery (charges which  he always denied), and went into exile, using the pretext that as a staunch Protestant he had incurred the disfavour of Queen Mary. On the accession of Elizabeth I  he returned to England to resume his political career. Much of his time was devoted to the acquisition and  management of land,  although in his last will he referred to his "molestation" of his own estates. Like most landowners of the time he was extremely litigious, even over such minor matters as a neighbour's right to erect a pew  in the parish church.
  He died on 30 Apreil 1584 in Bolton Percy, the home of hi son Edmund, to whom he left much of his personal property. He explained in his will that he had decided not to leave Edmund any land, not because of any ill-feeling between them but because of the burden which would be placed on him. due to Richard's mismanagement of the estates. At the same time he maintained his innocence of the charges of corruption  brought against him thirty years earlier, arising from  his service as Treasurer of Berwick.
caption: All Saints Church, Bolton Percy, where Bunny's son Edmund was vicar
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