GLEMHAM, Sir Thomas (c.1598-c.1650), of Burwell, Lincs. and Glemham Hall, Little Glemham, Suff.

Family and Education

b. c. 1598, 1st s. of Sir Henry Glemham* and Anne, da. of Thomas Sackville†, 1st earl of Dorset.Vis. Suff. ed. Metcalfe, 140. educ. Trin., Oxf. 1610, DCL 1645; travelled abroad 1613-16. Al. Ox.; APC, 1613-14, p. 199. m. (1) 21 May 1619, with £4,000, Catherine (d.1627), da. of Sir Peter Vanlore, merchant, of Fenchurch Street, London, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da.; (2) 22 July 1630, Mary, da. of Thomas Perient of Birch, Essex, wid. of John Soame of Burnham-Westgate, Norf., s.p. R.W. Goulding, ‘Notes on the Lords of the Manor of Burwell’, Associated Architectural Socs. Reps. and Pprs. xxiv. 78; Add. 19132, f. 54; Clifford Diary ed. V. Sackville-West, 103; H.W. Billing Wayman, ‘Loans from Suff., 1627’, East Anglian, n.s. xiii. 7; Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 157. Kntd. 10 Sept. 1617; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 166. suc. fa. 1632, aged 33. Goulding, 78. d. by 13 Mar. 1650. PROB 11/211, f. 297.

Offices Held

Commr. sewers, Suff. 1620 – at least37, fens 1635, 1640–2, C181/3, ff. 13v, 201v; 181/5, ff. 10, 24v, 82, 181, 196v. commr. subsidy, Aldeburgh, Suff. 1621 – 22, 1624, Suff. 1642; C212/22/20–1, 23; SR, v. 156. j.p. Suff. 1622-at least 1636, C231/4, f. 142; SP16/405. capt. militia ft. by 1626, col. 1628, Add. 39245, ff. 101v, 140v. commr. Forced Loan 1626–7, T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 144; C193/12/2, f. 55v. piracy 1627, 1640, C181/3, f. 232; 181/5, f. 176. dep. lt. 1628-at least 1639, Add. 39245, f. 136v; Add. 15084, f. 4. commr. knighthood compositions 1631, E178/7198, f. 12. gaol delivery, Etheldred liberty, Suff. 1632, C181/4, f. 127. navigation, Ouse, Suff., 1635, Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry, 1625–40 ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv-vii), 306. swans, Suff. and Essex 1635, oyer and terminer, Suff. 1640, Beds. 1640, C181/5, ff. 28v, 175, 179v. array 1642, Northants. RO, FH133. excise (roy.), Berks., Bucks., Northants., Oxon. and Warws. 1645, regulation, Berks., Bucks. and Oxon. 1646. Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6 ed. W.H. Black, 277, 286.

Capt. of ft. 1627, HMC Gawdy, 124. lt.-col. 1639, E351/292. col. 1640, E351/293. col. (roy.) 1642 – 46, col.-gen. (roy.) Northumb. 1643–4; P.R. Newman, Roy. Officers in Eng. and Wales, 158. vol. Dutch army 1629; H. Hexham, Historical Relation of the Famous Siege of the Busse, (1630), unpag. gov. of Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks. 1640–1, HMC Var. ii. 258; CSP Dom. 1640–1, p. 364. York (roy.) 1642 – 43, 1644, Carlisle, Cumb. (roy.) 1644 – 45, Oxford, Oxon. (roy.) 1645–6. Newman, 158