Richard Caudray

{{Short description|English cleric (c. 1390–1458)}}

Richard Caudray (c. 1390–1458) was an English cleric. He was a clerk of the king's council, a chancellor of Cambridge University, and dean of the College of St. Martin le Grand, London.{{Cite journal |last=McSheffrey |first=Shannon |date=2018 |title=Richard Caudray (ca. 1390–1458): Fifteenth-Century Churchman, Academic, and Ruthless Politician |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26630022 |journal=Medieval Prosopography |volume=33 |pages=167–180 |jstor=26630022 |issn=0198-9405}} He was Henry V's secretary in France.Sebastian Sobecki, “The Handwriting of Fifteenth-Century Privy Seal and Council Clerks,” Review of English Studies 72/304 (2021): 253–79, at 257–63. As a Westminster secretary, he would have had various literary connections, such as to John Hethe, John Offord, and Thomas Hoccleve; he was also a personal friend of John Shirley.{{Cite journal |last=Sobecki |first=Sebastian |date=2024-07-01 |title=Quo vadis, Adam Pinkhurst? Scripts, Scribes, and the Limits of Paleography: A Response Essay |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730765 |journal=Speculum |language=en |volume=99 |issue=3 |pages=780–804 |doi=10.1086/730765 |issn=0038-7134}}

He is likely the author of the Libelle of Englyshe Polycye.{{Citation |last=Sobecki |first=Sebastian |title=Parting Shots: Richard Caudray's Libelle of Englyshe Polycye |date=2019 |work=Last Words |pages=101–126 |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/32335/chapter/268579901 |access-date=2024-07-12 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/oso/9780198790778.003.0003 |isbn=978-0-19-879077-8}}