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 | | On the fall of the latter in 1529, he was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the same year speaker of the House of Commons, presiding over the famous assembly styled the Black or Long Parliament of the Reformation, which abolished the papal jurisdiction. |
 | | On 29 November 1538 he was created '''Baron Audley of Walden'''; and soon afterwards presided as Lord Steward at the trials of Henry Pole, Lord Montacute, and of the Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter Marquess of Exeter. |
 | | In 1542 he endowed and re-established Buckingham College, Cambridge, under the new name of St Mary Magdalene College, Cambridge St Mary Magdalene, and ordained in the statutes that his heirs, "the possessors of the late monastery of Talden," should be visitors of the college in per petuum. |
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