Sir Reade Stafford (1542–1605) was an English gentleman who twice was briefly a Member of Parliament in the late

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. Read was the eldest son of Thomas Stafford of Bradfield Place in

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, and his wife, Anne Best. Reade Stafford married Mabel, the widow of Francis Waferer of the

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and of Nicholas Williams of

Burghfield Burghfield is a village and large civil parish in West Berkshire, England, with a boundary with Reading. Burghfield can trace its history back to before the Domesday Book, and was once home to three manors: Burghfield Regis, Burghfield Abbas, ...

in Berkshire and daughter of Richard Staverton of

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, also in Berkshire, in 1570. He inherited Bradfield from his father in 1584. He was a Member of Parliament for

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in 1593 and

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, Cornwall 1597–1598, alongside Maurice Berkeley.

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