HETLEY (HEDLEY, HEADLEY), Thomas (c.1569-1637), of Brampton, Hunts. and Gray’s Inn, London; later of Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London
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Family and Education
b. c. 1569,Assuming him to have been aged 18 at entry to Gray’s Inn. o.s. of William Hetley, tanner of Brampton and Janet, da. of Percival Worme of Peterborough, Northants.Vis. Hunts. (Cam. Soc. xliii), 108; Vis. Northants. ed. Metcalfe, 204-5.educ. Staple Inn; G. Inn 1587, called 1595.GI Admiss.; PBG Inn, i. 108.m. 13 Jan. 1606, Elizabeth (admon. 13 Jan. 1650), da. of Richard Gore*, Merchant Taylor of Bow Lane, London, 2s. 4da. (1 d.v.p.).St. Mary Aldermary (Harl. Soc. Reg. v), 11, 71-4, 166; Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 2), ii. 246; PROB 6/25, f. 8v.suc. fa. 1596/7; PROB 11/89, ff. 205-6. Kntd. 17 Nov. 1623. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 183.d. 13 Feb. 1637. C142/556/104.sig. Tho[mas] Hetley.
Offices Held
J.p. Hunts. 1602 – d., Huntingdon, Hunts. by 1604–d.; C231/1, f. 136v; C181/1, f. 87; 181/3, f. 244. commr. sewers, Gt. Fens 1605 – 09, 1618, C181/1, f. 120; 181/2, ff. 63, 84v, 327. aid Hunts. 1609, E179/283/12. swans, Cambs. and Hunts. 1616, subsidy, Hunts. 1621 – 22, 1624, C181/2, f. 258; C212/22/20–23. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. 1631 – d., survey, estates of Trin. Cambridge 1631. C181/4, ff. 69v, 90v.
Ancient, G. Inn 1603;PBG Inn, i. 162. recorder, Huntingdon, by 1604–?d., C181/1, f. 87. Godmanchester, Hunts. 1617–36; R. Fox, Godmanchester, 163. reader’s asst. G. Inn 1614;PBG Inn, i. 208. official reporter, Chancery 1617–?23; C66/2131/3. bencher, G. Inn 1618–23;PBG Inn, i. 233, 252. sjt.-at-law 1623.Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 333.