Family and Education
b. bef. 1561, 1st s. of Thomas Godwyn, bp. of Bath and Wells 1584-90, by Isabel, da. of Nicholas Purfrey of Shelston, Bucks. m. (1) Frances (d.1588); (2) Margaret, da. of William Bowerman of Wells.
Offices Held
Porter of the south gate, Canterbury 1578; collector of tithes and subsidies, diocese of Wells 1586; freeman, Wells 1586.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Barnwell, Som.
Notes
This biography is based on E. M. Hembry ‘Bps. of Bath and Wells’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1956), 200-58; and ‘The death of Thomas Godwyn, bp. of Bath and Wells’, Procs. Som. Arch. Nat. Hist. Soc. xcvi. 78-107.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
GODWYN, Thomas (b. bef.1561)
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Oxford 1644
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