Family and Education
b. by 1579,Age calculated from date of admiss. to university. 2nd s. of Richard Eden† (d.1604) of South Hanningfield, Essex, and Margaret, da. of Christopher Peyton of Bury St. Edmunds, Suff. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 390-1; LMA, DL/C 338, f. 183. educ. Sudbury g.s. Suff.; Pembroke Coll. Camb. c.1593; Trin. Hall 1596, LLB 1600, LLD 1614. unm. d. 18 July 1645. Al. Cant.; J. Ward, Lives of the Professors of Gresham Coll. 240-1. sig. Thomas or Tho. Eden.
Offices Held

Fellow, Trin. Hall 1599 – 1626, master 1626–d. Warren’s Bk. ed. A.W.W. Dale, 153, 159.

Prof. of civil law, Gresham Coll. London 1613–40; Mercers’ Hall, London, Gresham Repertories, i. 1596–1625, p. 198; ii. 1626–69, p. 72. adv. PCC 1614; LPL, Abp. Abbot’s reg. i. f. 180. member, coll. of advocates 1614, 1615–42 (full admiss.), treas. 1634; G.D. Squibb, Doctors’ Commons, 170; B.P. Levack, Civil Lawyers in Eng. 227. judge, Ct. of Delegates by 1617-at least 1622, DEL 5/5, f. 160; 5/6, f. 141. Ct. of Audience by 1619 – at least21, Ct. of Arches, Canterbury prov. by 1619 – at least25, PCC by 1619-at least 1624; DEL 8/70, ff. 16–17, 22, 33, 35, 39v, 54. commissary, archdeaconry of Sudbury 1621-at least 1640, Bodl. Tanner 135, ff. 161–2; CSP Dom. 1640–1, p. 195. Westminster; W. Stevenson, Suppl. to 2nd edn. of J. Bentham’s Hist. and Antiqs. of Ely Cathedral, 21. Dates of tenure unknown. proctor, Ely dioc. bef. 1623, Ibid. 20. chan. by 1623 – 26, 1628 at least 1641 (kpr. of the spiritualities 1626–8); Add. 4274, f. 157v; C181/5, f. 195; Stevenson, 20. master in Chancery 1625–40; Cat. of Lords Chancellors comp. T.D. Hardy, 91. dep. judge, Admlty. Ct. by 1626-at least 1640; HCA 24/82/70, 73–4; 24/101/74. surrogate to the official of the archdeacon of London by Jan. 1629-at least July 1629; GL, ms 9051/7, ff. 39, 52v. commr. visitation, Norwich dioc. 1636; Bodl. Tanner 68, ff. 22, 52. assessor to earl marshal, Ct. of Chivalry, c.1638. CUL, ms Dd. iii. 64, f.40.

J.p. Cambridge, Cambs. 1615-at least 1625, C231/4, f. 6; C181/3, f. 122. Suff. 1619 – at least40, I. of Ely, Cambs. 1622-at least 1640; C231/4, ff. 92, 149; C66/2858, dorse. commr. piracy, London, Mdx., Essex, Kent and Surr. by 1619 – at least39, Suff. 1640, HCA 1/32/1, f. 21v (undated, but 1619); C181/5, ff. 130v, 176. Forced Loan, I. of Ely and Suff. 1626, C193/12/2, ff. 18, 55. sewers, Gt. Fens 1629-at least 1638, C181/4, f. 30v; 181/5, f. 101v. reform abuses in the king’s chapel in the Tower 1632, Cal. of the Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry, 1625–40 ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts, pt. i (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv), 37–8. gaol delivery, I. of Ely 1636-at least 1641, C181/5, ff. 45, 195. court martial, London and Westminster 1644, New Model Ordinance 17 Feb. 1645 – d., assessment 21 Feb. 1645–d. A. and O. i. 487, 621, 637.

Member, Convocation, Ely dioc. 1625. SP14/88/16.

Member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1633–41, R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 350. great seal (roy.) ?1642–d., Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6 ed. W.H. Black, 276. Admlty. and Cinque Ports 19 Apr. 1645–d. A. and O. i. 669, 783.

Main residences: Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Doctors' Commons, London.
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Commons 1604-1629
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EDEN, Thomas II (by 1579-1645)

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