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b. c. 1565, yr. s. of Humphrey Wilson (d. c.1583), of Sheepwash, Canwick, Lincs. and w. Alice.Lincs. AO, Consistory Ct. wills, 1583/2/262. educ. ?Stamford g.s. Lincs.; St. John’s, Camb. 1581, BA 1584, MA (Trin. Hall) 1587; Reg. Stamford Sch. 1532-1960, p. 117; Al. Cant. travelled abroad (Italy, Germany) 1596; Clement’s Inn; I. Temple 1599. Oxford DNB; I. Temple database of admiss.; Lismore Pprs. (ser. 2) ed. A.B. Grosart, ii. 114. m. 19 July 1593, Jane, Lady Cornwallis, Private Corresp. p. xlix. Margaret, da. of Henry Meautys of West Ham, Essex, 1da. Clutterbuck, Herts. i. 93. Kntd. 20 July 1618. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 169. bur. 17 July 1629. St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxvi), 245.
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Sec. to Robert Cecil†, 1st earl of Salisbury by 1601–10; CSP Ire. 1600–1, p. 202; A.G.R. Smith, ‘Secretariats of the Cecils’, EHR, lxxxiii. 482, 497, 503. consul, Valladolid, Spain 1604–5; SP94/10, ff. 73, 87, 104; 94/11, ff. 4–5. clerk of imposts in Exch. 1609–12; C66/1829. dep. kpr. State Paper Office 1606 – 10, kpr. (jt.) 1610–d.; F.S. Thomas, Hist. State Pprs. Office, 7; C66/2024. commr. petitions 1618. CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 534, 557.

Member, Virg. Co. 1609. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iii. 336.

Commr. annoyances, Mdx. 1613, 1625; C181/2, f. 200; 181/3, f. 157. j.p. Herts. 1615 – 21, 1625 – d., Mdx. 1616 – 21, 1625 – d., Westminster 1618–d.; C231/4, ff. 8, 22; C181/2, f. 331v, 181/3, f. 15v; C193/13/1; C66/2527; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, pp. 9, 11, 21. commr. sewers, Herts. 1617, Westminster 1627, C181/2, f. 297v; 181/3, f. 213v. gaol delivery, Newgate, London 1619–d., C181/2, f. 351v; 181/3, ff. 23, 243. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 1619 – d., London 1620 – d., Herts. 1622, C181/2, ff. 351v, 352v; 181/3, f. 21, 22, 46, 69v, 243, 244. game preservation, Mdx. 1622, CSP Dom. 1619–23, p. 352. new buildings, London and Westminster 1624, Rymer, vii. pt. 4, p. 96. survey Tower liberties 1626; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 471. collector, Forced Loan, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster 1626–7. Harl. 6846, f. 341v.

Parlimentarian
WILSON, Thomas (c.1565-1629), of Westminster and the Castle Gatehouse, Hertford, Herts.
Main residences: Westminster; the Castle Gatehouse, Hertford, Herts.
Author
V.C.D.M.
R.C.L.S.
Volume
Commons 1604-1629
Web Title

WILSON, Thomas (c.1565-1629)

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