William Walsingham served as a member of the commission that was appointed to investigate the estates of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1530, and his elder brother, Sir Edmund Walsingham, was Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
William Walsingham tjente som medlem af den kommission, der blev udpeget til at undersøge kardinal Thomas Wolseys ejendomme i 1530, og hans ældre bror, Sir Edmund Walsingham, var løjtnant af Tower of London.