Sir William Cheyne, born sometime between 1370 and 1380 and died in 1443, was an English legal official who served as Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1424 to 1438. With the support of Thomas FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, he became a serjeant at law in 1412, was appointed justice of the King's Bench in 1415, and was promoted to chief justice in 1424 on the death of William Hankford, retiring in 1438 likely due to ill health. He was married more than once and had at least two children, and on his death he left estates in Sussex and Dorset to his son John, being buried at St Benet Paul's Wharf in London.
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Sir William Cheyne was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1424 until 1438. He has been described as "one of the most obscure chief justices of the late medieval period".
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