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Tailor, Robert: clk, inst 23 Jan 1557 hospital or free chapel of Magdalen, Clothall, Hert, Geo. Burgoine, pat. (CRP, no. 1816)–resig bef. 18 Aug 1558 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 144v; LI2, no. 610)

Talbot, Francis, 5th earl of Shrewsbury (1500-1560): son George Talbot, 4th earl and Anne, da William Hastings, 1st baron Hastings; jp 1532 Derbys, Staff and N. York; carried queen’s sceptre at coronation Anne Boleyn (qv); spent most of life on Scottish borders; KG 17 May 1545; 19 May 1547 lord lieut. of Yorks, etc; pc 1549 and leading part in trial of Sir Thomas Seymour; several times president council of north; secretly supported Mary’s claim to throne and declared for her with [H. fitz Alan] Arundel (qv); welcomed religious changes (Old DNB); met Pole at Cobham, Kent on arrival as legate (CRP 2, p. 364); objected to Elizabeth’s act of uniformity and prayer book although appted to comm to enforce it (Old DNB); pat. Anthony Blake (qv); † at Sheffield Castle (Old DNB); bib: G. W. Bernard, The power of the early Tudor nobility: a study of the fourth and fifth earls of Shrewsbury (Brighton: Harvester, 1985)

Talcarn, Robert: member ca. 1546 HER (CRP, no. 509); deputy ‘in absentia confratrum’ (1553), vice-custos 1554, 1557, and 1561, custos 1558, 1559 and 1560, and chamberlain 1561 and 1562 (Kenny, p. 270), still in hospice at visitation 1576 when called ‘procurator et collector Hospitalis antiquus confrater’ (BAV, Vat. lat. 12159, fo. 181r); gave hospice pewter chalice (ibid., fo. 184r)

Tanner, Robert: oc Baptist term 1553/4 clk Cant cath (CCA, DCc/MA 39, fo. 4r), 1555/6 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 50r), still 1557/8 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 65v); vicar choral, summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564)

Taylor, Edward: prob. 1545 scholar Peterhouse, matric 1546 pensioner; nom 19 Dec 1546 fell. TCC with John Christopherson, Nicholas Morton, John Atherton, John Brooke, John Orphinstrange, John Yonge, Richard Copley, William Glynn and Henry Wilsha (all qv) (L&P 21:2, no. 648.43); BA 1548; MA 1551 (AlC 4, p. 203); ?inst [n.d.] 1555 rect Bedford St Paul (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28a, fo. 84r; LI1, no. 492); disp 7 May 1557 orders (CRP, no. 1973c); Worcester dioc, ord acol and subd London 4 Mar 1558 with John Bewley and William Turnbull (both qv) (GL, 9535/1, fo. 68r-v), deac and priest 28 Mar 1558 at Buckden (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28a, fos 3r and 3v); ?rect Bedford St Mary [and Peter of Dunstable] 1559 (AlC 4, p. 203), vac (resig) bef. 15 July 1561 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28a, fo. 200r; LI2, no. 1069)

Taylor als Milner, Richard:1 Austin friar, York, ord acol 30 Mar 1531, York (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 184r); of Tickhill,2 disp 29 Jan 1539 (FOR, p. 172); ?inst 24 Apr 1554 rect Kirton, Nott, Sir William Hollis, Houghton, Nott, pat. (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 1, fo. 2v)–† bef. 4 Apr 1559, bur. 27 Dec 15583 (BI, Adm 1559/5; Calendar of Admissions papers); acol, Burton parish,4 Nott, York dioc, disp 17 May 1557 orders (CRP, no. 1994a)

Taylor, Robert: aft. 4 years’ study of civil law and 5 of canon BCnL 1534 (GBΓ, p. 281); inst 11 Sept 1534 vic Stone in Oxney, Kent, St Augustine’s Cant, pat.–resig bef. 20 Sept 1535 when pres vic Glynde, Suss5 (LPLCR, fos 350v and 356r); inst 30 Jan 1540 vic Leake, Linc, John Coke, master of Nicholas de Cantilupe’s chantry, Linc close and Richard Taylor, consocium suum [i.e., chantry priest], pats.–resig bef. 7 Dec 1545 for 40s pension (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 70v and 85r);6 ?comp 13 Oct 1541 rect Maresfield, Suss £10 16s, Richard Leukenor [Lewkenor], Maresfield, gent and John Whytewood, St Saviors Southwark, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 58v); comm 10 May 1550 dean S. Malling (LPLCR, fo. 60r-v), again 3 July 1554 (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fos 2v-3r), renewed 1 June 1556 when ordered to visit (CRP, no. 1579); inst 19 July 1551 Wisborough preb, Chich, Richard Bellingham, pat. phv (F3 2, p. 61), instal 27 Sept by proxy (Peckham, no. 507)–prob. depr bef. 11 Nov 1559, protested for residence 27 Apr 1558 (F3), worth £6 (VE 1, p. 300); 3 Nov 1551 comm with John Worthiall as keeper Chich (LPLCR fos 129v-30v); inst 17 Feb 1554 vic Fletching, Suss, Stephen Adams, pat., when simultaneously resig Westham, Suss (WSRO, Ep/ I/1/6, fos 97v-8r; cf. MP 1095, p. 181), vac bef. 10 Aug 1556 (John Lort qv), worth £13 6s 8d (VE 1, p. 340); oc 20 Aug 1556 vg Chich when appted with Richard Brisley (qv) Pole’s sede vacante deputy (WSRO, Ep/II/9/1, fo. 107r), still 1 Jan 1559 (TSW 1, p. 301); still held court sessions in outlying areas of Ad Lewes 1557 (Stephen Lander, ‘Church courts and the Reformation in the diocese of Chichester, 1500-58’, in Felicity Heal and Rosemary O’Day, eds, Continuity and change: personnel and administration of the Church of England, 1500-1642 [Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1976], pp. 218-35, p. 235); inst 16 June 1556 rect Barcombe, Suss, crown pat. (WSRO, MP 1095, p. 186 from Ep/I/1/6, fo. 113)–depr bef. 17 Nov 1559 (WSRO, MP 1095, p. 197 from CCA, Reg U2, fo. 46), worth £18 10s 7d (VE 1, p. 334); instal 7 Mar 1556 by proxy Welton Beckhall preb, Lincoln (LincCA 3, p. 126), oc in accts Sept 1571 (F3 9, p. 123); 6 Apr 1558 rep. Brisley as Ad Lewes (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 4r), instal 27 Apr (Peckham, no. 568), protested same day for residence forthwith (aft. H. Turnbull [qv] made dean), oc residentiary 6 Sept 1558 (Peckham, no. 572), depr bef. 8 Nov 1559 (CPREI 1558-60, p. 4) or vac bef. 11 Nov 1559 (SVI, p. 32); matric 9 June 1563 Louvain Lincolniensis, presbyter pauper (Henry De Vocht, ‘John Ramridge, exul pro fide catholica’, Sacris erudiri, 7 [1955], pp. 367-80, p. 378n); when murdered in 1568 J. Ramridge (qv) carrying 20 florins for ‘Archdeacon of Lewes [or Chich] Thomas Taylor’ from Pyning (qv/5) (de Vocht, ‘Ramridge’, p. 374, citing AGR, FUL, 3076, doc. 1, 13 and Wainewright, ‘Archdeacons’, p. 10); pd 21 Apr 1572 to Robert Taylor and John Darwycke [sic; recte Barwyke (qv)] ‘2 English priests’, actually from Pate’s bequest via Goldwell and Holland (all qv/5) (Coppens, pp. 13-14); on list of archdeacons vel vincti vel exules as Catholics (Sander, DVM, p. 690)

Taylor, Rowland: born Rothbury, Northumb (ODNB); ord acol 1528; [n.d.] off. Ad Ely; converted by Hugh Latimer’s (qv) sermons; marr aft. 1534 (ODNB); BCL 1530, prin7 Burdon hostel, DCL 1534 (GBΓ, pp. 245 and 285); oc 7 Nov 1537 Latimer’s comm

and frequently later (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(ii), p. 25); [n.d.] Mar 1538 coll rect Hanbury, Worc (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(ii), p. 31)–† (ODNB), as such, disp 10 Aug 1539 for 2 bens (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iii), p. 6; FOR, p. 194 where place guessed as Brandby); preached at Kidderminster 1538 (ODNB); disp 31 July 1539 for priest’s orders9 (FOR, p. 191); inst10 13 Oct 1539 rect Worcester St Swithun, Worcester priory, pat.–resig bef. 29 Aug 1544 (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iii), p. 6 and (iv), p. 14); adm [n.d.] 1539 advocate of Arches (Squibb, p. 146); coll 29 Aug 1542 Inkberrow preb, Heref (Bannister, p. 8), instal 7 Sept 1542 in corpus of preb (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iii), pp. 65-6), instal by proxy 30 Aug, in person 5 Oct, depr 9 Apr 1554 for marr (HCAB 7031/1, fos 88v, 89r 125r-v); investigated Prebendaries’ Plot 1543 (ODNB); comp 2 Apr 1544 rect Hadleigh, Suff £40 11s 9d, Anthony Vaughan, abp Canterbury’s household, gen and Edward Wade, Southwark St Olave, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 11r), coll11 16 Apr (LPLCR, fo. 392r), served by curates; preached during 1547 roy visitation (ODNB); pres 14 Aug 1547 3rd preb Roch, crown pat.–depr 15 Mar 1554 (F3 3, p. 63); Ad Bury St Edmunds May 1548 (ODNB); sede vacante comm [n.d.]12 to visit Norwich and receive dean’s oath (LPLCR, fo. 108r-v); abp’s domestic chap, with John Barlow (qv) comm 10 Jan 155513 keeper Worcester (LPLCR, fos 128v-9r); 6 Preacher, Cant 1551; 1551-2 on committee to revise canon law; 1552 Ad Exeter (Old DNB); arrested 25 July 1553, again 26 Mar 1554 (ODNB); examined 29 Jan 1555 by Gardiner (qv) (Foxe [1570], p. 1655), perhaps with comm from Pole (CRP, no. 1053, dating his exam 30 Jan), record of exam in BL, Harl. 590, fos 64r-8r; condemned 22 Jan 1555 (ODNB); executed 9 Feb 1555 at Hadleigh14 (Foxe [1570], pp. 1700-1703)

Tempest, Nicholas: younger bro Sir Robert Tempest;15 of Bashall near Clitheroe, Lanc; marr Beatrice da John Bradford, Heath, Yorks; captured 21 Oct 1536 by north Craven commons; led rebels to Whalley abbey; helped Sawley Abbey, which led to execution (ODNB under Tempest family) in cooperation with Sir Stephen Hamerton (qv);executed 25 May 1537 (HPT 3, pp. 430-1); attainted 19 May 1539 with Pole (CRP, no. 268a); bib: E. B. Tempest, ‘Nicholas Tempest, a sufferer in the Pilgrimage of Grace’, Yorkshire archaeological journal, 11 (1891), pp. 247-78

Thayte [Thawyte (sic), Thwate], Edward: son Anthony, Hardingham, Norf, esq (AlC 4, p. 240); BA 1543, MA 1546, BTh 1553 (GBΔ, pp. 2, 32 and 88); ord 27 Feb 1548 deac Norwich (AlC); vic Hardingham 1553 or inst 1541, father, pat.–still 1603, vac bef. 1632 (AlC and Blomefield, 10, p. 227); disp 6 Feb 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1062a), taken 10 Feb to its title (GL, 9535/1, fo. 43r-v); rel Thomas Twayte of Norwich, ord priest same day to same title (GL, 9535/1, fo. 43v)

Thirlby, Thomas (ca. 1500-26 Aug 1570 [ODNB]): born Cambridge, son of town clk John Thirlby and Joan da William Campion, London (ODNB); DCL 1528 aft. 6 1/2 years’ study post-BCL, DCnL 1530 (GBΓ, pp. 236 and 247); 1528 and later

legal business for Cambridge University; Gardiner (qv) most important early pat.; oc 1532 off. Ad Ely; 1532 rect Ribchester, Lanc; roy chap 1533 prob. by Cranmer’s pat. (ODNB); oc Ad Ely 24 May 1534 (L&P 7, no. 703)–promotion to Westm (F2 4, p. 19);16 1534 provost St Edmund’s Coll., Salis (ODNB); adm 7 Feb 153617 Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 147); inc by prev disp Ripley [?W. York] and Cheste [sic; ?mistake for Ribchester], York dioc, disp 12 Feb 1536 for 3 bens (FOR, p. 56); coll 12 June 1537 Yetminster Prima preb, Salis-promotion (F2 3, p. 101); cooperated closely with duke of Norfolk (qv) in suppressing Pilgrimage of Grace; pres 218 Oct 1537 canon St Stephen, Westm (L&P 12:2, no. 1008.7); failed mission to France with Gardiner 1538; 1 Oct 1538 comm against anabaptists with Cranmer, Stokesley, Sherborne, Heath and Edward Crome (all qv) (L&P 13:2, no. 498); 23 Dec 1539 mr St Thomas’s Hospital, Southwark (L&P 14:2, no. 780.37)–surrendered 14 Jan 1540 (L&P 15, no. 60); July 1540 prolocutor lower house of convocation; oc 9 July 1540 bp-elect Westm (ibid., no. 860), pres 17 Dec 1540 (L&P 16, no. 379.30), temps 20 Jan 1541 (ibid., no. 503.33),19 cons 19 Dec-surrendered to crown 30 Mar 1550 when trans to Norwich (F3 7, p. 69); by Apr 1541 dean Chapel Royal; pc from June 1542; major role in King’s Book (1543); 1545-14 Apr 1548 resident ambassador to empire; voted 15 Jan 1549 against Uniformity Bill; 12 Apr 1549 heresy comm, again 18 Jan 1551; enthroned bp Norwich 28 Apr 1550; pc 25 Oct 1553 (ODNB); met20 Pole in Brussels Jan 1554 but refused to help him gain admission to England when Pole asked him to write Mary about peace (CRP, no. 809); nom 5 Apr 1554 abp York [recte Ely] (CRP, no. 848), congé d’élire 10 July, elec 30 July (F3 7, p. 7), aft. 19 Aug abs and restoration by Pole to Norwich and trans to Ely 20 Aug (CRP, nos 926-7), comp 12 Sept £1421 8s 6d (?), worth £804 (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 196r), temps 15 Sept, enthroned by proxy 24 Sept (F3), prov 21 July 155521 (ASV, Arch. Concist., Acta vicecancellarii, 7, fos 262r-3r)– depr 7 July 1559 (Phillips, Extinction, p. 111; Machyn, p. 203 gave 5 July followed by Strype, Annals 1:1, p. 211; bef. 18 July [F3]); with Viscount Montagu (Sir Anthony Browne, qv) met Pole at Dover 20 Nov 1554, thereaft. consulted abt restoration of papal obedience (CRP, nos 989 and 990); with Montagu and Sir Edward Carne (qv) headed obedience mission to Rome 1555 (CRP, no. 1108 and ODNB), resulted in papal confirmation of deal about church property (CRP, no. 1379);22 on comm that condemned Bradford, Saunders and Rowland Taylor (all qv) (Foxe [1570], p. 1699); aft. Gardiner’s death Mary wanted as lord chancellor but Philip put forward Paget and Heath (both qv) chosen as compromise (ODNB); among Pole’s consecrators 22 Apr 1556 (Stubbs, p. 104); among negotiators of treaty of Chateau-Cambrésis 3 Apr 1559 (ODNB); imprisoned 3 June 1560 (‘Prisoners’, p. 56 and Strype, Annals 1:1, p. 220);

transferred to Abp Parker’s custody Sept 1563 and † at Lambeth (ODNB) where bur (Phillips, Extinction, pp. 353-6)

Thomas, Maurice ap: ap Thomas ap Llan ap Rys, inst 4 Feb 1536 vic Llansannan, Den (LPLCR, fo. 358v; Willis’s St Asaph 1, p. 362), priest, abs 30 Jan 1557 simony in obtaining it (CRP, no. 1827); comp 9 Dec 1547 vic Abrisker,23 Brec 59s 6d, Edward Games, Brecon and Owen ap Howell, Devenock, Brec, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 134r); coll 17 Dec 1557 by Goldwell (qv) canonia seconda,24 StA, perhaps resig when coll to Llansannan (Willis’s St Asaph 1, pp. 233 and 361) but not if preb Llanufydd or Llanyfydd, StA,25 resident 1560 (Willis’s St Asaph 2, p. 138; Parochiale, p. 222); participated in elec Bp T. Davies (Reg. Parker, p. 85) (qv); coll 26 Dec 1557 cursal preb,26 StA and portion of rect Llansannan (G. M. Griffiths, ‘St Asaph episcopal acts, 1536-1558’, Journal of the historical society of the Church in Wales, 9 (1959), pp. 3269, p. 47); coll 20 Mar 1558 portion of Llansannan held by Richard Thorneden (qv)– resig bef. 24 Sept 1558 (NLW, SA/MB/14, fo. 20v; Griffiths, ‘St Asaph “register”’, pp. 39 and 40); ?will 1585 Wanstead, Ess 14 Windsor (BRS, 25, p. 13)

Thomas, Rowland († bef. 7 May 1588): from Ang, MCC27 (AtC 2, p. 120); BA 1553, MA 1556, DCL 1567 (GBΔ, pp. 83, 112, 205 where called Thomas Rowland; AtC 3, p. 113), ‘Rowland Tomson’, incorp MA at Oxford 6 Sept 1566 during Elizabeth’s visitation (RUO 1, p. 264); disp 18 May 1557 orders (CRP, no. 1998); ord priest at Buckden 26 Mar 1558 to title of MCC (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28a, fo. 4v); fell. ChCC 1558-64 (AlC 3, p. 494); inst 26 July 156328 rect Llangynhafal, Den (Pryce, p. 18), still 11 July 1569 when appeared at visitation (LPL, Grindal’s register, fo. 101v); 1 Oct 1566, proc in London for Bp-elect Robynson (qv) (Reg. Parker, p. 123); inst 12 July29 1569 rect Llandyfrydog, Ang-resig bef. 13 Nov 1570 (Pryce, pp. 19 and 20); inst 26 Sept 1570 dean Bangor30 (AtC)–† (will); oc 16 July 1576 rect Estweok and Llanfynnyan, Menay deanery,31 Bangor (LPL, Grindal’s register, fo. 102v); will 3 Jan 158732/prov 7 May 1588 (TNA, PROB 11/72, fo. 292v PCC 37 Rutland; BRS, 25, p. 411): places: Bangor cath, Bodedern, Ang, Ykay Helig [unidentified], persons: bro Foulke Thomas, nephews (exec John Thomas, Roland Thomas, John Roland), cousin Thomas Morgan (exec), cousin Hugh Hughes of Lincolns Inn, svt Robert Vachan, Hugh ap John, Hughe ap Jevan, godson Humphrey Robinson, maid Elizabeth Corrun, curate of Estiviog, John Licke, usher John Martin, Dr William Mericke, legacies: cash (over £18, 20 nobles to Bangor cath), doles, 5s each to poor ‘elected’ scholars of free

school, real estate, rings, clothing, books of statutes to nephew Rowland Thomas, bur as nr predecessor as possible33

Thomasonne, Heliseus [prob. Elizeus Thompson]: inst 13 Aug 1556 rect Kencot, Oxon, William Hyde, pat. phv (OA, ODP d105, p. 169), vac bef. 25 Mar 1571 (Reg. Parker, p. 997), worth £6 5s 5d (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 26r); priest, disp 4 Mar 1557 Kencot and vic Clanfield, Oxon (CRP, no. 1885), vac bef. 27 Jan 1567 (OA, ODP d105, p. 237)

Thompson, John (ca. 1520-23 Apr 1571 [memorial]): York dioc, born Pocklington, E. York;34 BA 1539, MA 1541, BTh35 1551, fell. SJCC 1540, elec senior fell. 10 Dec 1551 (AlC 4, p. 224 and AtC 1, p. 295); ord priest 16 Apr 1541 (NRO, DN/ORR/1 (a), fo. 35v); epigram in Bucer memorial collection (Martin Bucer, Scripta anglicana [Basel: Pietro Perna, 1577], p. 904); college preacher 23 Sept 1548, Lady Margaret preacher on Ascham’s (qv) nomination 4 Mar 1552-54 (AlC and AtC); inst 2 June 1554 rect N. Stoke, Oxon (OA, ODP d105, p. 154)–† (Reg. Parker, p. 998); pres 18 July 1554 vic Bisley, Glos (CPRPM 2, p. 213), involved in tithe suit 1555, farmed as of 1556 (GRO, GDR 11, pp. 76 and 245), if inst, vac bef. 11 June 1572 (GRO, GDR 27A, p. 26); inst 25 Aug 1556 Minor pars altaris preb, Salis (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 68r; F3 6, p. 58 gives coll 25 Sept), instal 29 Sept, James Brooke (qv), Pole’s subdelegate, pat. (SCAB 14:2, p. 96)–resig bef. 6 Nov (W&SRO, Reg. Capon, fo. 74r);36 coll 3 Oct 1556 Gloucester preb held by William Collynge (GRO, GDR 11, p. 253), vac bef. 16 Oct 1559 (F3 8, p., 51);37 inst 5 Sept 1558 rect Pewsey, Wilt, earl of Pembroke, pat. (CRP, no. 2275)38-† (will); ?inst 9 July 1558 rect Rotherfield Peppard, Oxon, Sir Francis Stonor, pat. (OA, ODP d105, p. 182)–resig bef. 18 Feb 1562 (OA, ODP d105, p. 212); ?presiding beginning 18 Jan 1559 in CC Gloucester, at least once as deputy to John Williams (qv) (GRO, GDR 15, pp. 176 and 177); inst39 29 Mar 1565 Durnford preb, Salis, Christopher Molineux [Mullenax, qv], pat., instal 12 June by proxy-† (F3 6, p. 38); pres 29 June 1563 canon of Windsor, † 23 Apr 1571, bur there, memorial says 51 years old (AtC 1, p. 295); will 21 Aug 1570/prov 3 May 1571 (TNA, PROB 11/53, fo. 141v PCC 19 Holney; BRS, 18, p. 307): places: Windsor, N. Stoke, Oxon, Pewsey, Alderkirk [Algarkirk, Linc], persons: wife Alice Thompson (res leg and exec), sis Jane at Winterton at Humberside, Linc and husband Hugh Cooke, bro-in-law Thomas Boyse of Kirton in Lindsey, Linc, sis Isabell of Alderkerke in Holland [Algarkirk], Linc and husband John Cooper, cousin Thomas Brumbie and wife Elizabeth, cousin Thomas Thompson at Winterton, cousin Margaret Thompson at Kirton in Lindsey, cousins Margaret and Anne Cooke, George

Gylder, rect Collingtree, Ntht, legacies: cash (over £96), doles, real estate, ring, St Augustine’s works to Gylder

Thompson, William: incl in special comm for orders 12 Mar 1557 (CRP, no. 1903); ord deac London 13 Mar 1557 to title of 6 marks granted by Henry Lacy, Stamford, Linc, gen (GL, 9535/1, fo. 61r)

Thorneden or Thornden, Richard (ca. 1492 [BRUO2]–† 21 Jan/3 Mar 1558): novice 1511 Cant cath priory, professed 1512-dissolution 1540 when pensioned on £10, still in receipt 1556 (BRUO2), as such ord subd 26 Mar 1513 (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 266v), deac 23 Dec 1514 at Dorchester (LincRO, Epis. reg. 25, fo. 111r), priest bef. 12 Apr 1517 (ODNB); fell. 1514 Cant Coll., still 1521, appt 1840 Mar 1524 warden, vac 1534 (BRUO2 pp. 564-5); aft. 8 years’ study BTh 21 June 1521, DTh 5 Feb 1531 (RUO 1, p. 118 and BRUO2);41 university preacher 1527; ‘cancellarius natus’42 1532 (BRUO2); reported to Cromwell on nun of Kent (ODNB); als Lestede, appt 8 Apr 154143 1st preb Cant at foundation (L&P 16, no. 779.5)–† bef. 10 Mar 1558 (CRP, no. 2195; F3 says bef. 13 Mar), income of £40 (LPLCR, fo. 55r); comp 27 May 1541 rect Great Chart, Kent £22 15s 4d, Nicholas Reynolde and Henry Courte, both yeom, Cant, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 36r), coll 28 May (LPLCR fo. 380v)–† (CRP, no. 2213); involved in Prebendaries’ Plot (BRUO2); coll 3 Apr 154644 rect Wrotham, Kent (LPLCR fo. 400r) and comp £46 7s 2d, John Lane, St Magnus the Martyr, grocer and William Ley, vic choral Cant cath, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 84v)–† bef. 21 Mar 1558 (CRP, no. 2201); cons 1545 suffragan bp of Dover-† (HBC, p. 287)45 bef. 3 Mar 1558 wrb Thomas Chetham [qv] (Foxe [1570], p. 2299); comp 20 Apr 1546 vic Tenterden, Kent £30 5s 6d,46 John Freman and Thomas Batherst, aldermen of Cant, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 85v)–resig bef. 15 Mar 1555 (SVI, p. 127); conformed 1547-54 although little known (ODNB); 31 Mar 1554 with N. Harpsfield, Richard Faucet and Hugh Glasier (all qv) appt heresy comm by D&C Cant (CCA, Reg. V1, fo. 62v); comp 7 Apr 1554 rect Bishopsbourne, Kent £35 19s 3d, Stephen Thorneherst, Cant, gen and Nicholas Reynoldes, Cant Northgate, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 135v), pres 13 June (CPRPM 1, p. 331), 2 tithe cases 16 Feb 1557 (CCA, DCB, Y.2.19, fo. 24r-v); called Goldwell’s (qv) ‘old friend and master’ in letter of 16 June 1554 reporting that Pole unhappy because had proceeded too fast in restoration of mass and had poor reputation for past tergiversations; nevertheless, given as broad faculties to resolve as N. Harpsfield (qv), excluding clergy (Foxe [1583], p. 1669); pres 1 Oct 1554 rect Adisham, Kent (CPRPM 2, p. 225), comp 2 Nov, but cancelled and marked ‘non sigillaverunt’ (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 208r), comp 28 Jan 1555 £25 4s 10d, Thomas and Richard Awgustyne, Adisham, Kent, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 2r), pd 1st instalment 7 Mar 1556 (TNA, E 334/6, pt 2, fo. 43v)–† bef. 12 Mar 1558 (CRP, no. 2197); 3 tithe cases 20 Nov 1554 as rect Lydd,47 Kent (CCA, DCB Y.2.17, fo. 151r-v), 3 more 30 Apr 1555 (CCA, DCB Y.2.17, fos 172v-3r), † holding bef. 14 Mar 1558

(CRP, no. 2198), worth £46 13s 4d (VE 1, p. 94); ?heresy comm Dec 1554 from Pole (ODNB);48 involved in John Bland’s exams with Robert Colens and N. Harpsfield (both qv), often cooperated with both in heresy cases (Foxe [1570], pp. 1846-52 and passim, chapter 10); with N. Harpsfield, Fawcet, Glasier and Robert Colens (all qv) reappt 22 May 1555 heresy comm for Cant (CRP, no. 1228), another (or garbled copy of this) 7 [month missing] 1555 (CCA, DCc, Reg U3, fo. 52v); jp Kent 1555 (ODNB); comm 24 Sept 1556 to collect subsidy (CRP, no. 1697), as such gave acquittance for £318 17s 3d, tenth due from Cant cath (Christ Church Canterbury, letters, 1, no. 148 cited in HMC, Var. colls., 1, p. 226, mistakenly called Rogers); 1556 pd £3 10s for extraordinary expenses at Pole’s consecration (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 56r); coll 31 Oct 1556 portion of vic Llansannan, StA (NLW, SA/BR/1, fo. 86r)–20 Mar 1558 (NLW, SA/MB/14, fo. 20v [Griffiths, ‘St Asaph’, p. 47] and NLW, SA/BR/1, fo. 84v); 25 Apr 1556 on quorum of Cant heresy comm (CRP, no. 1549b), sat as such 7 Dec 1556 with Collens, Fawcet and Warren (all qv) (BL, Harl. 421, fo. 103r); comm of D&C Cant. 8 Dec 1557, 21 Jan 1558 (CCA, DCc Reg 3, fo. 80r); motto ‘Spes mea in Deo est’, set up in prebendal house of Cant which he built or heavily restored (BL, Lans. 980, fo. 220r); ‘cruel persecutor’, † while playing bowls on Sunday (Foxe [1570], p. 2299)49

Thurbane, William: mr St Lawrence Pountney, London (Fielding, Rochester, p. 551); priest, coll 21 May 1558 rect Sundridge, Kent (CRP, no. 2237), vac bef. 19 Dec 1561 (Reg. Parker, p. 786; next inc apparently 1558 acc. Fielding p. 273; on p. 551 called Thurstane), worth £22 13s 4d (VE 1, p. 114); coll 21 May 1558 vic Wrotham, Kent (CRP, no. 2238)–depr 1559 (Gee, p. 265) or vac bef. 27 Apr 1563 (Reg. Parker, p. 801), worth £22 5s 10d (VE 1, p. 114)

Thurketyll, Richard (ca. 1497-† bef. 21 Apr 1561): BA 1512 (GBΓ, p. 88; ?mistakenly 1552 [AlC 4, p. 219]); ca. 1529 vic Eye, Suff (Bullen, ‘Suffolk clergy’, p. 316), still 11 Aug 1557, MA,50 60 years old, apparently in residence (CRP, no. 2082)–† bef. 21 Apr 1561 (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 48v), as such, bp Heref’s51 chap, disp 13 Dec 1543 for 2 bens (FOR, p. 228); inst 26 July 1540 Morton magna preb, Heref (HRO, AL/19/14, fo. 31r), comp 2 Aug 1541 £18, John Fuller, Inner Temple, gent and John Stokes, bp Heref’s household, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 50r), instal 3 Sept (HCAB 7031/1, fo. 86r), still 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 60), vac bef. 17 Apr 1561 (Bannister, p. 14); coll 28 Sept 1542 rect Whitbourne, Heref (HRO, AL/19/14, fo. 55v), comp 5 Dec 1543 £13 4s 9d, John Stokes, Hanley, Worc, gent and John Ferleigh, Bosbury, Heref, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 171v), vac bef. 8 May 1561 (Bannister, p. 14); signed in Norwich dioc (Gee, p. 115)

Thurland, Thomas (ca. † 7 Oct 1574 [AtC 1, pp. 324-5]): BA 1514, MA 1518 (GBΓ, pp. 123 and 157 cited in AtC 3, p. 119); BTh 1548 (GBΔ, p. 52); inst 2 July 1530 rect Rushden, Hert, James Thurland, gen, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 122r), lawfully vac bef. 30 Aug 1554 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 139r; LI2, no. 528), this man ord subd 19 Sept 1534, deac 13 Mar 1535, both at York (BI, Reg. 28, fos 188r and 191v), priest 27 Mar (with Richard Turnbull, qv) (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 44r); inst 17

Dec 1537 rect Gamston, Nott, Edward Thurland, arm, pat. (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 58r)–† bef. 30 July 1575 (BI, Inst.AB.3, fo. 82v), failed to appear at 1559 visitation or as rect Cromwell, Nott (RVAB, fos 151r and 152r); pres 2 Oct 1546 St Andrew’s preb, Beverley, E. York, crown pat. (AtC 1, p. 561); ?als Jones, Matlock, Derbys, convicted of felony in roy courts, purgation 1 Dec 1551 (DRO, EDRC 17, unfoliated); queen’s chap, pres 1 June 1554 rect All Cannings, Wilt (CPRPM 1, p. 151) vac by depr John Fisher (qv), comp 18 June £28 13s 3d, William Horseleye, Rampton, Nott, gen and Thomas Taveram, Norton Cockney, Nott, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 168r), inst 5 July via proxy (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 58v)–resig bef. 17 Feb 1558 (CRP, no. 2181), possibly as such bef. 5 May 1556 sequestration for repairs (W&SRO, D1/43/2, fo. 16v and W&SRO, D1/39/1/1, fo. 86ar); office case 22 Nov 1554 over inst rect Clayworth, Nott with complicated advowson ultimately from George Henneage, dean Lincoln (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 1, fo. 17r-v), inst 26 Nov, Richard Lee by grant ultimately from dean Lincoln, pat. phv (BI, Register 5/A, fo. 696v), comp 20 Dec £23 17s 9d, Charles Fitzwilliam,53 Clayworth, gen and Thomas Catisbye,54 Christ Church Newgate, merchant taylor, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 217v)–resig bef. 23 June 1558 (ibid., fo. 38v), actually 7 June (BI, Adm 1558/15; Calendar of Admissions papers; see also BI, Reg. 28, fo. 58r and Dickens, p. 38, from Reg. 5A, fo. 664v [old foliation]), wrb Roger Dallyson (qv) (RVAB, fo. 59v); 14 Dec 1558 roy clerk of closet (Page, ‘Uniform’, p. 418); 6 Oct 1559 ovs will of Roger Jackson (qv); coll 29 July 1560 Caistor preb, Lincoln, inst via proxy (LI2, no. 926), but cf. F3 9, p. 46 for likelihood that Stephen White actually held preb until at least 1572; about now unsuccessful mining works in Cumb with 3 Germans (AtC); ?resig bef. 11 Mar 1562 vic Cheshunt, Hert [Ad Mdx] (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 123v), Edward Thurland inst 18 Sept 1526, Westm abbey, pat. (GL, 9531/10, fo. 20r); depr55 29 July 1570 mr of Savoy for waste and Elizabeth said to be adamantly opposed to his restoration, for which begged 1574 (AtC 1, pp. 324-5 and 561 and 3, p. 119); admon PCC 28 Nov 1574 to sis Katherine Catesbye (F1 2, p. 128 and AlC 4, pp. 238-9)

Thurman, Robert (ca. 1511/2-?): canon of Erdbury56 ord 3 June 1531 reg deac (LRO, B/A/1/14 (ii), fos 213r and 218r); pres 7 May 1557 rect Ashby parva, Leic, crown pat. (CRP, no. 1973a), another pres 19 Aug 1557 (CPRPM 4, p. 248), vac bef. 20 Feb or bef. 20 Mar 156257 (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 51r), rect and chancel in maximam ruinam in 1556 when vic vacant (Strype, EM 3:2, p. 400), worth £5 7s 6d in 1576 (Foster, Lincoln, p. 38); inst 5 Nov 1558 rect Croft, Leic, John Turvile, esq, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 129v; LI2, no. 414), still bef. 20 Feb or bef. 20 Mar 156258 when unmarr priest, educ, resident, only ben (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 51r), still 1576, worth £12 3s 4d, resident, aged 64, unmarr, ord by Bp Blythe of Lichfield, ignorant (Foster, Lincoln, p. 38)–resig bef. 31 Aug 1584 (LPL, Whitgift’s register I, fo. 377v)

Toky, John: 21 Sept 1555 ord subd London to title of inheritance from father John Tokye (GL, 9535/1, fo. 52r); subd, Peterborough dioc, disp [day missing] Sept 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1388a); Tokee, vic Exton, Rutl, † 1557 (Longden, 12, p. 237) or Tokey, deac 11 Feb 1572-3, priest 16 Mar 1573 (Longden, 12, p. 239), vac bef. 10 Dec 157659

Tollett, Richard († bef. 26 Apr 152860 [ECA, 3551, fo. 49r]): Worc, BCL bef. 1500 (BRUO1), incorp Cantab 1503 aft. 7 years’ study (GBΓ, p. 14), incorp DCL Cantab 1504, sup 28 Jan 1511 for incorp at Oxon. (BRUO1 pp. 1882-3); bef. 1505 member Drs Coms (F. D. Logan, ‘Doctors’ Commons in the early sixteenth century: a society of many talents’, Historical research, 61, no. 145 [1988], pp. 151-65, p. 160; called Collett in Squibb, p. 122); ord priest 29 Mar 1510; inst 17 Feb 1501 moiety of Ufton Decani preb, Lichfield (BRUO1)–† (LRO, B/A/1/14 (i), fo. 27v); inst 23 July 1505 rect Branston, Leic, crown pat.–resig bef. 15 Nov 1508 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 23, fos 254r and 262r); 26 Apr 1507 at ‘Endebyr’ proc for John Veysey at inst vic Coventry St Michael (LRO, B/A/1/14 (i), fo. 5r; Tim Cooper, The last generation of English Catholic clergy: parish priests in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield in the early sixteenth century [Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1999], p. 53 incorrectly calls him vic Coventry Holy Trinity now, but see bel.); inst 17 Sept 1508 rect Ellington, Hunt, Ramsey abbey, pat.–resig bef. 25 June 1510 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 23, fos 377v and 379v); oc 1509 vic Wilmcote, Warw (BRUO1); coll 5 May 1509 St Teath, Corn preb (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 34r-v)–† (BRUO1 citing Reg. Veysey, 1, fo. 35v); oc 21 Sept 1509 vg, sitting only occasionally (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 35r), again 2 Aug 1514 (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 57v), 2 Dec 1519 (DRO, EDRC 15, fo. 1r), but commission as vg 6 [?day missing, but this opening date given at head register] Nov 1519 in DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 1r (cf. D. H. Pill, ‘The administration of the diocese of Exeter under Bishop Veysey’, Reports and transactions of the Devonshire association for the advancement of science, literature and art, 98 [1966], pp. 262-78, p. 276 who gives Tollet alone at this time) to Richard Norton,61 sitting as vg 20 Jan 1520 (DRO, EDRC 15, fo. 2v), still 4 Aug 1521 (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 9v), comm to Norton, him and Brerewood (qv) 24 May 1521 (DRO, EDRC 15, fos 8v-9r) and he doing most of the work in EDRC 15, comm to him alone 6 Apr 1523, but Thomas Wise (qv) acting as such same month, still 3 Oct 1525 (DRO, EDRC 15, fos 16v, 18r, 33v), oc Dec 1520 ordaining, last comm to ordain 4 Apr 1527 (DRO, EDRC 14, unfoliated list of ordinations at end vol.), chancellor of Exeter as of 6 Sept 1526 (ECA, 3551, fo. 33v); coll 29 Oct 1509 Exeter preb (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 35v), distributions 1513-2d quarter 1528-9, but 3-4 only 1516-17 and missed 1517-18 (ECA, 3707), steward common chest 1521, 1522, 1523 (ECA, 3551, fos 3v and 8v), present 29 Sept 1522 (fo. 8v), he and Rise (qv) alone made coll 5 Jan 1523 (fo. 12v), 25 Mar 1524 proc for John Chambers and Thomas Brerewood (fo. 16v), presiding 20 Mar 1524 (fo. 18r), inst alone 26 May 1524 (fo. 18v), conceded days on chapter business 23 July 1524 (fo. 19v), presiding 21 Mar 1525 (fo. 25r)–replaced 26 Apr 1528 (fo. 49r); coll 2 May 1510 vic St Breock, Corn (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 40v)–† (BRUO1); exhibited 12 May 1511 via proxy bull of plurality of 12 Apr 1511 for St Breock and St Teath (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 43r-v); coll 13 May 1511 rect St Erme, Corn (DRO, EDRC 13,

fo. 44r)–† (BRUO1); coll 3 July 1512 (see bel.) rect Lanivet, Corn-† (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 36v); coll 15 Apr 1513 precentor of Crediton (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 50v), vac bef. 19 June 1519 (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 81r; BRUO1 says 1518); coll 13 May 1515 subdean Exeter (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 60v)–resig bef. 28 Apr 1518 (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 76r); coll 19 Jan 1518 Ad Barnstaple (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 74r)–† wrb Brerewood (qv) (ECA, 3551, fo. 49r); coll 4 June 1518 Rydge preb, Crediton (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 77r)–† (BRUO1 citing Reg. Veysey, 1, fo. 36r calling preb. Rugge); oc 1520 rect Rousham, Oxon (BRUO1); inst by Brerewood 20 July 1522 vic Collumpton, Dev, Magister John Callwoodlegh, pat.–† (DRO, EDRC 14, fos 12v and 36r); proc for Pace (qv) at inst 10 Nov 1523 rect S. Molton, Dev (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 17v); coll [blank] June 1524 Crantock, Corn preb-resig bef. 8 May 1525 to Nicholas Weston for 4 mark pension (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 21r and 24v Choyerton); inst/coll 9 Jan 1525 vic Coventry Holy Trinity, bp pat. (see bel.)–resig bef. 23 Jan 1528 for £30 pension (LRO, B/A/1/14 (i), fo. 13v; Cooper, Last generation, p. 53 says 1527, but dating a little ambiguous); exhibited bef. Brerewood in St Katherine’s chapel 26 Jan 1526 bull of plurality of 16 Apr 1516, 12 Apr 1511 to unite St Breock, for incompatibilia of 17 Apr 1512, 9 Apr 1517 for St Vendon [?Wendon] preb, Exeter [?recte C&L], 19 Jan 1522 for Collumpton, plus collation and institution to Lanivet, Corn, 3 July 1512, Ad Barnstaple 19 Jan 1518, Collumpton 20 July 1522, vic Coventry Holy Trinity 9 Jan 1525 from bp Lichfield, Brerewood ordered transumpts (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 26v); vic Plymouth at † (BRUO1); will 27 Mar 1528/prov 26 June (TNA, PROB 11/22): bur bef. Lady Chapel, Exeter cath betweeen chantries of Bp Oldham and Sir John Speke, £3 to fabric, 30s to common chest, £4 to fabric of Crediton, 40s to rect Exeter St Martin ‘in recompense of my duties there’, £10 for highway between Ashburton and Plymouth, same between Exeter and Crediton, and between Exeter and Collumpton, £10 each to nephews Roger (and all law books and bedding) and Richard Tollett for educ to be given to Dr Robert Davel, Ad Northumb,62 bedding and 40s to Sir Trygges, my priest63 and to svt Lancelot Harnage (also plate he has), plate to his son my godson, £8 to nephew Hydley for educ, £8 to Thomas Chertsey, Chelmsford, Ess, bro of William Chertsey, grocer of London and goblet to William’s wife, plate to nephew Richard Atwill, son of Nicholas of Opsam,64 fancy cup to bp Exeter, ovs, Davel with Thomas Michell (qv) and William Parkhowse,65 residentiaries of Exeter, res legs, plate to all 3

Tompson, John († 1589): matric pensioner from ClCC 1552, fell. 1557; BA 1555, MA 1558; witn to will of William Masterson, rect Horseheath, Camb by whom left books (AlC 4, p. 225); subd, Lincoln dioc, disp 29 June 1556 orders (CRP, no. 1630a); inst 5 Nov 1562 vic Wrawby, Linc, ClCC, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 216r; LI2, no. 1194; LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 5v [LI1, no. 44] gives 1562 only), in 1576 worth £9 14s 4d, reported that ord priest by suffragan bp Hull 24 Aug 1556, resident, aged 44, unmarr, well educ (LER, p. 174), still 1585 when gave ord date as 23 Aug, vac bef. 1590 (Foster, Lincoln, pp. 91 and 153); will CC Lincoln 1589/32 (BRS, 28, pp. 309-10) which we have not seen

Tompson, Robert († bef. 25 Nov 1575): comp 30 May 1554 vic Boughton under Blean, Kent £8 6s 2d, crown pat., Robert Walker, St Bridget, innholder, sur (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 153v)–resig bef. 10 Nov 1574 (Reg. Parker, p. 1130); inst 4 Nov 1558 rect Goodnestone nr Faversham, Kent, Sir Thomas Kempe, pat., (CRP, no. 2303), worth £4 12s 4d (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 46v)–† bef. 25 Nov 1575 (Reg. Parker, p. 1159)

Tompson, Thomas: curate of Godmersham, Kent, executed exc dated 2 Aug [1556] (CCA, DCB, Y.2.19, fo. 7r); priest, coll 27 Apr 1557 vic Godmersham (CRP, no. 1954)–resig bef. 23 Feb. 1562 (Reg. Parker, p. 787), worth £9 3s 8d (VE 1, p. 91)

Tomson, John († bef. 12 May 1560): inst 24 Mar 1534 vic Cotham, Nott, John Markham, pat. by grant from Thurgarton priory (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 52r), vac (†) bef. 19 Dec 1561 (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 2, fo. 8r);66 pres 12 July 1556 vic Long Benington, Linc (CPRPM 3, p. 520)–† bef. 12 May 1560 (LI2 no. 873); priest, disp 20 Oct 1556 for both (CRP, no. 1745); ?alias Bowar, inst 30 Dec 1558 vic E. Markham, Nott (BI, Inst.AB.1, fo. 42r)–depr bef. 24 Aug 1559 (Thomas Marsar, qv); ?inst 2 Apr 1560 rect Edlington, W. York, Hugh Groves and Thomas Thompson, pats. by grant of Henry, Lord Scroperesig bef. 5 Sept (BI, Inst.AB.1, fos 64r abd 74r)

Tonge, James: ?(or rel) BA 25 June 1562, MA 14 July 1567, from Kent at CCC 9 June 1558, fell. 21 June 1560 (RUO 1, p. 247); scholar KSC, summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564)

Tonory,67 John: native of Kilkenny;68 OSA, nominated by Mary bp of Ossory, mandate for cons 31 Dec 1553, confirmed by Pole69-1565 (HBC, p. 440); prob. mistakenly omitted from Eubel, p. 264 who makes it appear that John Bale remained bp until 1565 which he certainly did not, although Eubel did note that Gams gives Tonory as enthroned ca. 1 Jan 1554; 2 disps directed to him in 1556 (CRP, nos 1625a and b)

Topham, Antony († 23 Dec 1590/21 Apr 1591): York dioc, ord subd London 25 Mar 1543 (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 99r-v); oc 1543 and 1544 stipendiary of Pampisford,70 Camb (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fo. 161r and fo. 163r); comp 14 July 1547 vic Pampisford £7 4s, William Wynborne, Witchford, Camb and John Crudde, Ikelton, Camb, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 125v), prob. vac 1562 when went to Arncliffe (D. J. Crankshaw, ‘The Elizabethan Faculty Office and the aristocratic patronage of chaplains’ in C. Cross, ed., Patronage and recruitment in the Tudor and early Stuart church, Purvis Seminar Studies, Borthwick Studies in History, 2 [York, 1996], pp. 20-75, p. 68) or vac bef. 6 Dec 1571 (CUL, EDR G/1/8, fo. 162r); inst 2 June 1554 vic Elmdon, Ess, Thomas Crowley, arm, pat. (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 178v), comp 9 July £15 18s, Robert Thyrkelbye, Panxworth, Kent and John Watson, Sawston, Kent, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 176r)–depr bef. 5 Aug 1568 (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 146v), as such signed ca. 1560 (LPL, Carte misc 13/2/57, fo. 4v); priest, disp 18 July 1556 for both (CRP, no. 1623); as chap to earl of Cumberland disp 4 Jan 1562 for Elmdon and

another ben, comp 27 Jan 1562, no ref to Pole’s disp (Crankshaw, ‘Faculty office’, p. 68); inst 23 Nov 1563 vic Arncliffe, N. York, Henry Cuver of Bradley and William Bayne of Steadhouse by grant of Durham Coll., Oxford, pats., auto. signature71 (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 2, fo. 17v)–resig 27 Oct 1585 wrb Henry Topham (BI, Inst.AB.3, fo. 180r); inst 14 May 1567 rect Marton in Craven, W. or N. York, Henry earl of Cumberland, pat. (BI, Reg. 30, fo. 2v)–† bef. 21 Apr 1591 (BI, Inst.AB.3, fo. 233v), as such signed 2 Oct 1571 (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 3, fo. 139r); will 23 Dec 1590/prov 1 May 1591 (BI, Reg. 31, fos 125v-26v): bur Arncliffe, head against font, 5s for bur, 6s 8d to preacher at funeral, Mr Shutt or nephew Henry Topham, clk,72 also bedding and husbandry implements to him and bro Anthony,73 brewing apparatus and bedding to Henry’s wife, household goods to their das Hester and Judith, bedding and clothing to Anthony, 20s to husbandmen and 20s dole at Marton, sermon at distribution, 13s 4d to Arncliffe to buy bull or gelding, 6s 8d dole in Arncliffe township, 3s 4d dole at Litton, N. York, 2s 6d dole Hawkswick, N. York, 2s dole at Civlecootts,74 4d to godchil, 53s 4d to nephew William Topham, 5s to his son Anthony, 5s to John Topham’s son at Boston [?Spa, W. York], £4 and household goods to nephew Lawrence Topham, 5s to be divided between Anthony’s chil Anthony, Thomas and Elizabeth, 6s each to Lawrence, Henry, Thomas and Lancelot Parish, sons of William Parish, best bed and cloth to his wife, 10s and shirt to Adam Squier, bed to his wife, 5s to Robert Topham, 2s 6d to Helen Wyldman, 2s to Margaret Claphamson, 12d each to Thomas Coulton, Robert Houghton, and Alice Parish, 8d to Jane Atkinson, 6d to Isabel Johnson, 7d [sic] to each clergyman at funeral, 1d to scholars and poor attending, furniture and bedding to godson Anthony, cloak to his wife Jennet, clothes and table to Thomas Abraham, bedding and cloth to his wife, gown and cloth to sis Isabel Topham, hose to Alexander Houghton, gown to his wife, clothes and £3 of annuity on Arncliffe to Robert Topham, 30s of it to any nephew of Henry Topham, and 6s to his das, 6s of it to Anthony Topham’s son Anthony, 6s of it each to nephews William and Lawrence, 2s of it each to Em [sic] Parish, Agnes Squier and Isabel Abraham, unless annuity void (suit pending in Chancery), in which case settlement to be divided proportionately, nephews Henry, Anthony, William and Lawrence res. legs and execs, witns William Parish and Robert Atkinson

Tregonwell, John (by 1498-13 Jan 1565): prob.75 son John Tregonwell with whom bef. 11 May 1521 farmed St Issey, Corn (see bel.) (ECA, 3551, fo. 2r); from Corn,76 scholar Nov 1512 London Coll., Oxford (BRUO2, pp. 575-6); BCL 30 June 1516, DCL 21 July 1522 (RUO 1, p. 99); 1516 witn doctoral examination at Ferrara (BRUO2); inst 26 Feb 1520 vic St Issey, Corn (BRUO2)–resig bef. 29 Sept 1522 wrb Robert Tregonwell77 (ECA, 3551, fos 8v-9r); formerly proc of Arches (possibly protégé of Christopher Midylton), adm 9 Dec 1522 Drs Coms (Squibb, pp. 123n4 and 140); formerly of Broadgates Hall, bef. 1527 principal Peckwater Inn, Oxford (ODNB and

Wood, Fasti, 1, c. 60, accepted by HPT 3, pp. 476-8, doubted by BRUO2); senior roy proc at divorce hearing 1529; member earl of Wilthire’s (Thoms Boleyn, qv) embassy (1530), other diplomatic activity (BRUO2); proc 1532 for Edward Carne (qv) when pres Edward Sepham vic Brixworth, Ntht (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 133v); appt 5 May 1533 roy counsel with £40 salary (L&P 6, no. 578.10); in minor orders,78 formerly proc, judge of court of admiralty bef. 1535 (Squibb, p. 140); oc 1535 vic Hope All Saints, Kent (BRUO2 citing VE 1, p. 49); visited Salis cath 1535, esp. interested in status of ‘Customary of St Osmund [recte of Bishop Richard Poore]’ (Statutes of Salisbury, pp. 367-8); chief agent in dissolution of monasteries in West Country; acted 1536 for crown against Thomas More (qv) et al. (BRUO2); mr in chancery by 1536, 4 times heard cases vice chancellor (HPT); Apr 1539 involved in drafting Act of Six Articles (ODNB); 23 Feb 1540 bought for £1000 site and buildings of Milton Abbas, Dor, which became chief residence (BRUO2); move brought conflict with John Horsey, but both execs of Sir Giles Strangways (HPT); 20 June 1543 granted advowson of preb in Bosham, Suss (ECA, 3551, fos 154v-5r); ca. 1547 co-exec with John Dakyn (qv) of Bp Knight (HPT);79 headed comm 5 Sept 1553 to restore Bonner (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 57r); MP Scarborough Oct 1553; knighted 2 Oct 1553 at Mary’s coronation (HPT); sheriff 1553-4 Som and Dor; pc Feb 1555-?58 (HPT); pat. phv 20 Nov 1557 Alton Borealis preb, Salis (CRP, no. 2127); jp Dor 1558/9-† (HPT); † 13 Jan 1565; bur north aisle Milton Abbas (BRUO2), recycled monument with new brass80 (John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner, Dorset [Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972; The buildings of England], p. 288); marr 1) [n.d.] ?Elizabeth Bruce, 2) [n.d.] Elizabeth, da Sir John Keilway, Rockbourne, Hant, widow Robert Martin of Athelhampton, Dor (HPT; both DNBs reverse the order); will 1 and 3 Dec 1563 and 8 Jan 1565/prov 30 May 1565 by the oath of William Saye (qv), with inventory (TNA, PROB 11/48, fos 125r-34r PCC 17 Morrison): of Milton Abbas, Catholic committal clause, places: Salis and Bristol caths, Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, Dorchester, Shaftesbury, Hilton, Cheselbourne, Stoke Wake, Ibberton, Dewlish, Melcombe Horsey, Stickland, Milborne St Andrew, Wooland, Witcombe, Athelhampton, Widford, Lowke [unided], E. Pulham, Abbotsbury, Litton Cheney, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Holworth, Burlestone, Milborne St Andrewe, all Dor, Huish [two in Dev], persons: William Knight, late Bp B&W, wife Elizabeth (exec), Master Martin, wife’s late husband, son Thomas Tregonwell, son-in-law Sir Richard Rede (ovs), son-in-law Robert Thornehill, esq, late das (Anne Rede and Joan Thornehill), da Elizabeth Thornehill’s da, William Thornhill, father of Robert, sis Alice Southecotte, nephews John (Justice of the Pleas and ovs) and Nicholas Southcotte of London, nephew John Bowthcotte of London, cousin and heir apparent John Tregonwell (exec), his son Thomas Tregonwell, also heir apparent, John’s sis Elizabeth Tregonwell, John Wadham (qv), esq of Merrifield, Devon (ovs), svts (Nicholas Couche, George Bingham), ‘a poor innocent person’ Richard Miller, Sir William Kelwaye (ovs), Nicholas Martin, esq (ovs), Nicholas

Straker (ovs), Sir William Petre (qv), George Strangways, gent, Thomas Shepperd, Dame Anne Delalyne, Thomas Martin, Thomas Alsey, William Walshe, William Adlington, Christopher Martin, William Straker, legacies: cash (over £298), 4d daily for life, year and three quarters wages to female svts, doles, annuity, real estate, plate, household goods, jewels, livestock, clothing, horses, saddle, room and board, linen, armor and weapons, plows, yokes, rect Milton Abbas with chapels, 20s pension from Whitchurch, 5s 8d pension from Burlestone, tithes of Holworth and Milborne St Andrew, items of interest: bequest for prayers for souls, a hanging with Tregonwell arms and the figure of the rood in inventory for the Strangwish chamber

Tresham, Clemence († 1567):81 professed bef. 1518, sis of Syon at refoundation 23 Feb 1557 (CRP, no. 1873); sis of next

Tresham, Sir Thomas (ca. 1500-1 Mar 1559): 1st son John Tresham, Rushton, Ntht and Isabel82 da Sir James Harington, Hornby, Lanc; marr 1) Anne, da Sir William Parr, Lord Parr of Horton, 2) Nov 154083 Lettice, da Sir Thomas Peniston, Hawridge, Buck; by 1516 extraordinary esq of body (ODNB); knighted by 1524; sheriff Ntht 1524Jan 1526, 1539-40, 1555-6;84 jp 1531-†; various comms 1531-†; helped suppress Pilgrimage of Grace 1536 and Ket’s rebellion 1549; MP Ntht 1539, 1542, both 1554, Lancaster Oct 1553 (HPT 3, p. 482); fought in France 1544; proclaimed Mary at Northampton (ODNB); instal 1 Dec 1557 grand prior of England, knights of St John of Jerusalem (CRP, nos 2131-3); † 1 Mar 1559,85 bur Rushton 16 Mar (HPT); alabaster monument (ODNB); Luigi Schivagnolia [Schiffanoia] (qv/5) apparently his chap; will 28 Nov 1557 and 11 Sept 1558/prov 4 May 1559 (TNA, PROB 11/42B, fos 148r-51r PCC 19 Chaynay; BRS, 18, p. 313): of Rushton, Ntht, about to become Lord Prior of St John of Jerusalem, places: Rushton, Brixworth, Haselbech, all Ntht, Lyveden [unided], St John’s at the Clerkenwell (house), Worth [unided], Aldwincle, persons: Pole (fulsome flattery), son George Tresham, late son John Tresham, his chil (Mary, Isabell and William Tresham), late son William Tresham, his chil (Mary, Lettice and Thomas Tresham), sons and das of cousin John Tresham, cousins (Alice Whightyng, John Mallorye), Katherine Leycetour (amongst poor das of kin), tenant John Palmer, Sir Robert Tyrwhit the elder (exec), Sir George Gifforde (exec), Thomas Briges, esq (exec), Thomas Moulso, esq (exec), William Tresham, clerk, DTh (qv), Miles Hampden, esq, Thomas Pigott, esq late of Beachampton, Buck, William Lovelas, esq, William Cordell (qv), Master of the Rolls (ovs), Edward Griffith [Gryffyn, qv], Attorney General (ovs), William Ermested, clerk (qv), Queen Mary, ‘my lord’ Abbott of Westminster [John Feckenham], ‘my lady’ Cheyney, Bp Peterborough [John Chamber of Borough, qv], Mistress Bellingham and Katherine, svts to Lady Voux of Harrowden, Margaret Jeffrey, Sir Robert Throckinton, Ralph Radclyffe, svts (Gilbert Hussey, gent, John Hilton and wife Katherine, James Hurst, John Lomley, gent, Nicholas Fenne, Richard Nele, Henry Lee, Henry Brownloow, John Staples, James Mercer, Henry Fynton, John Scalehorn, William Conllours, Richard Radclyff, Thomas Mydleton) legacies: cash (over £934), £200 to poor das of kin, £200 in recompense of money taken out of Clerkenwell, dole, annuities and fees, real estate,

debts of sons totaling £160 to be pd, plate, household goods, marriage of heir, horse, one year’s rent forgiven to cottars in Ntht, items of interest: indebted as exec of wills of Lady Cheyney and Bp Peterborough, bequests for prayers; bro of last

Tresham, William (ca. 1495-1569):86 born Great Newton, Ntht,87 son of Richard Tresham and Rose, da. of Thomas Billinge (Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 324); BA 16 Jan 1515, MA 15 July 1520, BTh 17 July 1528, DTh 8 July 1532 (RUO 1, p. 92); elec 16 Dec 1517 fell. MerC, vac ca. 1529; adm 1529 canon primi ordinis Cardinal Coll.– dissolution 1531; many Oxford university offices, incl. commissary88 1532-47, 1553, 1555 and 1556 (BRUO2, pp. 576-77); appt 18 July 1532 canon King Henry VIII Coll. with Richard Croke (qv) (L&P 5, no. 1207.38), still 1535 (VE 2, p. 253); specially ord ben acol 22 May 1526, subd and deac 23 May, priest 26 May with disp from Wolsey of 5 Mar 1526 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fos 15r and 15v); inst 17 July 1534 rect Oxford St Mary Magdalen, John Snowe, Oxford, pat.–resig bef. 28 Sept 1537 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 193v and 197r); oc 1535 rect Dorchester Holy Trinity, Dor when worth £17 8s 6d (VE 1, p. 243), vac bef. 1543 (BRUO2); instal 6 Mar 1539 chancellor Chich and Middleton preb (F3 2, pp. 12 and 45)–depr bef. 189 July 1560 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 17v), of preb bef. 11 Dec 1560, protested for residence 23 Feb 1560 (F3 and p. 72); inst 28 Feb 153990 rect Towcester, Ntht (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 140v), vac bef. 1569 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 1, p. 272); inst 27 June 1541 Asgarby preb, Lincoln, crown pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 14r), instal by proc 16 July (LincCA 2, p. 52)–depr bef. 6 Sept 1560 (F3 9, p. 32 and LI2, no. 955), worth £12 10s clear (LincCA 2, p. 187); inst 1 Feb 1542 rect Bugbrooke, Ntht (Old DNB); appt preb CCO at refoundation 26 Jan 1546 (L&P 21:2, no. 476.9)–depr bef. 25 July 1560 (F3 8, p. 89; 5th F1 2, pp. 102 and 519), as such on list of Catholic cath dignitaries (Sander, DVM, p. 692); public disputation 28 June-1 July with William Chedsey (qv) vs. Pietro Martire Vermigli (qv/5) in Oxford published as Disputatio de eucharistiae sacramento contra Petrum Martyrem (1549), MS in CCC,91 English translation published in Disputations of William Cheadsey and Morgan Phillips (1568) (Wood, 1, col. 375) (ODNB, original in BL, Harl. 422); imprisoned in Fleet 21 Dec 1551 (BRUO2 citing APC, 1550-2, pp. 429-30 and 450); inst 22 Apr 1552 rect Greens Norton, Ntht (Longden 14, p. 19 cited in BRUO2); disputant Apr 1554 at Oxford esp. with Ridley and claimed 600 errors in Cranmer’s Defense of the sacrament (Foxe [1570], pp. 1592-93, 1600-01, 1606, 1620-21, 1624-25 and 1629-30); ca. 60 years old, witn vs. Cranmer testifying mainly about his books and earlier heresy proceedings in Oxford (‘Processus Cranmer’, pp. 507-8); 1554-60 vic Bampton, Oxon; discussed Apr 155692 with Pole protecting premises of St Mary’s Coll., Oxford perhaps leading to provision that next principal serve pending its restoration to the Augustinians (R. W. Jeffrey, ‘A forgotten college of Oxford’, Brazen Nose, 4 [1924-9], pp. 260-88, pp. 269-70 and RUO 2:1, pp. 286 and

10), order from Pole (via Niccolò Ormanetto) 23 Feb 1558 to pay him for money spent on its clock and church (Bodl. Tanner MS 456, fo. 1 [c. 1046]);93 rect Pevensey, Suss, former pat. 11 Sept 1556 its vic (CRP, no. 1677), as chancellor Chich pres Christopher Malton (qv) to Pevensey; non-resident in Pevensey, no rectors listed in TSW, 4, p. 316, William Dycheborne oc 2 July 1555 curate, vac bef. 26 May 1561 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 17v), worth £18 7s 8d (VE 1, p. 341); v-c Oxon. 1558-9 (Wood, Fasti, 1, cols 154 and 156); with Thomas Raynold (qv) sent by Oxford to congratulate Elizabeth on accession (Old DNB); 1)94 depr of canonry for refusing oath of supremacy, in custody at Lambeth but allowed to retire to Bugbrook, soon depr, † there 1569 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 324); ca. 1561 to remain in Ntht (Gee, p. 182); 2) in Tower ca. Apr 1570 (‘Prisoners’, p. 57); 3) † at Bugbrook 1569,95 bur in chancel (F1 2, pp. 102 and 519), but Old DNB says at Towcester since depr Bugbrook; must be rel man of same name to whom Great Newton rect impropriated tempore Edward VI, † 1553-4 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 324)

Tucke or Tooke, John († 1565): JP Kent 1540 (L&P 16, no. 379.14), possibly continuously into Edward’s reign (TNA, E372/393; E101/567/4; and E372/396), attended all four sessions of assizes 1551 (E372/397), none in 1552 (E372/398), twice in 1553 (E372/399), attended both Cant sessions 1554 (E101/567/5), 4 days 1555 (E372/401), 1556 (E 372/402), 1557 and 1 day 1558 (E 372/403-4), still JP Feb 1559 (BL, Lansdowne MS 1218), gone bef. summer; escheator of Kent 1549-50; heresy comm 25 Apr 1556 in Cant (CRP, no. 1549b); esq, Great Chart † 1565 (archdeaconry will vol. 39, fol. 25)96

Tucker, William: Salis, fell. ASC 1519, still 1535, arts dean 1524-5, bursar 1527-9, 1532-3, subwarden, 1534, 1535; MA 27 July 1523, BTh 19 Nov 1537; ord priest 15 Apr 1525; gave ASC 1524-6 Jerome and 1529 Augustine (BRUO2, p. 578); nom warden 15 July 1558 (CRP, no. 2264)

Tunstall, Cuthbert (1474-† 18 Nov 1559 [ODNB]: born nr Hornby Castle, Hackforth, N. York, illegit son of Thomas Tunstall, Thurland Castle, Lanc and da Sir John Conyers; adm ca. 1491 BCO where became friends with Thomas More (qv) and others; 1496 scholar King’s Hall, Cambridge; 1499-1505 at Padua when IUD,97 studied under Niccolò Leonico Tomeo98 (qv/5) and Pietro Pomponazzi; friends with Richard Pace (qv) and printer Aldo Manuzio99 (ODNB); prob. advocate, adm ?1506100 Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 125); DCL, ord acol 24 Mar 1509 (GL, 9531/9, fo. 167r), deac 7 Apr 1509, priest 19 Apr 1511 all to title of Stanhope (LPL, Reg. Warham, fos 264r and 265v);

inst 25 Sept 1506 via proc rect Barmston, E. York, Margaret Boynton, pat. (BI, Reg. 25, fo. 57r)–resig bef. 26 Mar 1507 (Old DNB and BRUO1, pp. 1913-15); coll 1508 rect Stanhope, Dur (Old DNB); 21 June 1509 vg103 London (Irene Churchill, Canterbury administration: the administrative machinery of the archbishopric of Canterbury illustrated from original records, 2 vols [London: SPCK, 1933], 2, p. 245); auditor of causes to Abp Warham (ODNB); resig bef. 3 July 1509104 rect Aldridge, Staff (LRO, B/A/1/14 (i), fo. 20r); inst 17 Nov 1509 rect Sutton Veny, Wilt, vac Feb 1510; inst 20 Feb 1510105 rect Steeple Langford, Wilt, vac bef. Apr 1511; vac Dec 1511 rect E. Peckham, Kent (BRUO1); comm 25 Aug 1511 PCC106 (Churchill, p. 236); coll 16 Dec 1511 rect Harrow on the Hill, Surr-resig bef. 23 Sept 1522 (LPL, Reg. Warham, fos 344r and 375v), may have resided (ODNB); instal 15 Apr 1514 Stow Longa preb, Lincoln (F2 1, p. 112); embassy 1515 to Low Countries with More (qv) when became close to Erasmus (qv/5) who claimed to have high opinion of him and from whose pat. profited greatly; 12 May 1516 mr of rolls-20 Oct 1522 (BRUO1); inst 8 Oct 1519 Botevant preb, York-promotion to London (F2 6, p. 38); inst 17 Nov 1519 Ad Chester-promotion (F2 10, 14); amb to Charles V 1520-21 (ODNB); coll 26 May 1521 Coombe and Harnham preb, Salis-elec 6 June 1521 dean, instal by proxy 10 June-promotion (F2 3, pp. 47 and 5); prov 16 May 1522 bp London, temps 5 July, cons 19 Oct, enthroned 22 Oct-translation to Durham (F2 5, p. 4); arithmetic treatise De arte supputandi (1522); collaborated in mid-1520s with John Fisher (qv) in anti-Lutheran propaganda and in censoring books; 25 May 1523 keeper of privy seal-promotion; 1525 amb to Charles; persuaded Thomas Bilney to recant; among negotiators of Treaty of Cambrai (1529); among Queen Katherine’s defense counsel (ODNB); gave books to Cambridge 1528-9 (BRUO1 with list of surviving titles); translated to Durham 21 Feb 1530, temps 4 Feb, plenary restitution 25 Mar107 (F2 6, p. 109)–depr 14 Oct 1552, restored Apr 1554 (ODNB), depr 27/28 Sept 1559 (Machyn, p. 214 and Phillips, Extinction, p. 176); June 1530-June 1538 president council of north; by May 1534 accepted invalidity of Aragon marriage; ambiguous attitude to Pilgrimage of Grace (ODNB); May 1536 Pole asked for him as reader of De unitate; having read it at least once with Thomas Starkey (qv/5) Tunstall replied with sharp criticism to which Pole in turn replied in Aug; controversy continued in 1537 with John Stokesley (qv) joining Tunstall (CRP, nos 97, 101, 110, 115, 118 and 144); involved in Bishops’ Book; mostly in north aft. 1542; good relations with Protector Somerset and government until 1550 (ODNB); De veritate corporis et sanguinis domini finished 1551, first known edn Paris, 1554 (Old DNB); to Tower under Northumberland’s regime, released 6 Aug 1553 (ODNB); preached at Paul’s Cross 14 Oct 1554 (Maclure, p. 197); on comm Jan-Feb 1555 that condemned Bradford, Saunders and Taylor (all qv) (Foxe [1570], pp. 1696, 1697 and 1699); questioned 4 Feb 1555 Robert Ferrar (qv) (Foxe [1570], pp. 1722-3); in Matthew Parker’s custody aft.