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- [S336467] History of Parliament Online, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993, (The History of Parliament Trust ), "PECKHAM, Henry (by 1526-56), of Denham, Bucks.", http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/peckham-henry-1526-56.
"b. by 1526, 2nd s. of Sir Edmund Peckham of Denham by Anne, da. of John Cheyne of Chesham Bois; bro. of Sir Robert. m. lic. 6 Nov. 1547, Elizabeth, da. of Robert Dacres of London and Cheshunt, Herts."
- [S42] Letters and Papers of the Verney Family, John Bruce, (London: John Boyer Nichols and Sons, 1853), 67.
- [S336467] History of Parliament Online, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993, (The History of Parliament Trust ), "PECKHAM, Henry (by 1526-56), of Denham, Bucks.", http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/peckham-henry-1526-56.
"Despite his support for the Queen [Mary] at her accession Peckham soon showed reservations about her plans. He was re-elected for Chipping Wycombe to three of her five Parliaments, only missing one before his death, that of November 1554 when Mary asked for inhabitants. He was returned for both Wycombe and the newly enfranchised borough of Aylesbury to the second Parliament of the reign, but evidently he preferred to sit for Wycombe as Humphrey Moseley took his place in the House for Aylesbury. In October 1553 Peckham 'stood for the true religion' against the initial measures to restore Catholicism. Two years later he attended the meetings at 'Harondayle's house' where the parliamentary opposition discussed its tactics, and he followed Sir Anthony Kingston's lead in voting against one of the government?s bills. If his activities outside and within the House on this occasion cost Peckham a spell of imprisonment, as it did some others, it did not deter him from joining the Dudley conspiracy in 1556. Several meetings by the plotters were held in Peckham's lodgings at his father's home in the Blackfriars and it was proposed to store stolen bullion there. Peckham agreed to raise Buckinghamshire and it was he who persuaded Francis Verney and several other kinsmen to join the plot. At Sir Anthony Kingston's instigation he prevailed on Edward Lewknor to obtain a copy of Henry VIII's will, which he annotated for use in publicly defending the rising. Peckham was one of the first to be arrested and despite his elder brother's intervention and his own confession he was hanged on 7 or 8 July 1556."
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1526 - 1556 (~ 30 years)