LOWE, Sir Thomas (c.1546-1623), of Broad Street, London and Putney, Surr.

Family and Education

b. c. 1546, Lansd. 91, f. 29; C24/303/26; J. Stow, Survey of London (1720) ed. J. Strype, bk. 2, p. 113. 2nd s. of Simon Lowe alias Fifield (d.1577/8), Merchant Taylor of Bromley, Kent and London bridge and Margaret (d.1595), da. and co-h. of Christopher Lacy. educ. ?appr. Thomas Aldersey†, Haberdasher c.1561; G. Inn 1599, M. Temple 1614. m. c.1575, Anne (d. 28 Jan. 1626), da. of Gabriel Colston of London, Grocer, 4s. 6da. (4 d.v.p.). Vis. London (Harl. Soc. i.) 76; PROB 11/60 ff. 100-1v; PROB 11/141 ff. 245-6; G.E. Cokayne, Mayors and Sheriffs of London 1601-25, pp. 20-1; GI Admiss.; M. Temple Admiss. Kntd. 26 July 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 128. d. 11 Apr. 1623. sig. Thomas Lowe.

Offices Held

Freeman, Haberdashers’ Co. 1572, GL, ms 15857/1, f. 109v. asst. 1592, GL, ms 15482/1, f. 59v. renter warden 1593 – 94, master 1594 – 95, 1602 – 03, 1604 – 05, 1608 – 09, 1612 – 13, 1615 – 16, 1618–19; I. Archer, Haberdashers’ Co. 237–9. Merchant Adventurer by 1579, W.R. Baumann, Merchant Adventurers and Continental Cloth Trade (1560s-1620s), 197. gov. by 1612 – 14, 1616-at least 1621; CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 119; Nicholas, Procs. 1621, ii. 204. gov. Levant Co. 1605–d. A. Friis, Alderman Cockayne’s Project and Cloth Trade, 82.

Capt. militia ft. (East Regt.) London, by 1588, col. by 1608-at least 1616; HMC Foljambe, 39; Lansd. 255, f. 493; G. Goold Walker, ‘Trained Bands of London’, Jnl. of Hon. Art. Co. xvi. no. 181, p. 3. trustee, Gresham Coll., London 1589-at least 1622; Mercers’ Hall, London, Gresham Reps. i. 1596–1625, pp. 94, 249. alderman, Billingsgate ward, London 1594 – 1609, Broad Street ward 1609 – d., sheriff (jt.) 1595 – 96, mayor 1604–5; A.B. Beaven, Aldermen of London, ii. 45. gov. St. Bart.’s hosp. 1596 – d., almoner 1596 – 98, surveyor 1597 – 98, pres. 1610–d.; St. Bart.’s Hosp. London, HA1/3, ff. 164, 181, 192v, 206; N. Moore, Hist. St. Bart.’s Hosp. ii. 801. collector (jt.), Privy Seal loans, London 1597–8, E401/2583, ff. 15v-19. 1601 (Dutch merchants), CSP Dom. 1598–1601, p. 539. 1604; E401/2585, ff. 5–6. asst. to piracy commrs., London 1601; T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 2, p. 15. commr. subsidy, London 1604, 1608 – 10, 1621, E115/277/2, 128; SP14/31/1; E315/524, f. 20; C212/22/20. sewers, Surr. and Kent 1603, Mdx. and London 1606 – d., Surr. 1613, C181/1, f. 46; C181/2, ff. 20, 191; C181/3, f. 26v. gaol delivery, Newgate, London 1603–d., C181/1, f. 69; C181/3, f. 23. oyer and terminer, Mdx. and London 1605-at last 1621, C181/1, ff. 125v, 126; 181/3, f. 21, 46v. gaol delivery, London 1605-at least 1621, C181/1, f. 127; C181/3, f. 23. aid for Prince Henry, London 1609, SP14/43/107. Princess Elizabeth 1612–13, C.M. Clode, Early Hist. of Merchant Taylors’ Co. i. 333; E403/2732, f. 173. to compound with landowners for building New River 1609, C193/6, no. 190. to build New River 1610-at least 1611, C181/2, ff. 126v, 149. annoyances, Surr. 1611, Mdx. 1613, Ibid. ff. 142, 199v. inquiry, goods of Alexander Bradshaw, London 1612, goods of Agnes Phillips, Surr. 1620-at least 1622. Ibid. f. 167; 181/3, ff. 3v, 41v.

Commr. starchmaking 1607 – 08, 1620, HMC Sackville, i. 155; CD 1621, vii. 438, 442. E. Indies and Muscovy trade 1615, CSP Col. E.I. 1513–1616, p. 394. abuses in silk dyeing 1620. HMC Rutland, i. 458.

Parlimentarian

LOWE, Sir Thomas (c.1546-1623), of Broad Street, London and Putney, Surr.

Main residences: Broad Street, LondonMar. Lics. issued by Bp. of London, 1520 to 1610 ed. G.J. Armytage i. 265; GL, ms 11588/2; p. 353.; Putney, Surr.

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A.D.T.

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Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

LOWE, Sir Thomas (c.1546-1623)

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Oxford 1644

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