Family and Education
bap. 5 Feb. 1581,Cent. Kent. Stud. P285/1/1, p. 21. s. of John Stanley of Oxenhoath, W. Peckham and Dorothy, da. of Thomas Totesham of Peckham. m. (1) aft. 11 Aug. 1606,Cent. Kent. Stud. U522/T128/2. Margery (bur. 29 May 1633), da. of one Edgate of Essex, wid. of one Leiston of Gravesend, Kent , s.p.; (2) lic. 14 Aug. 1633, Anne (bur. 24 Apr. 1634), da. of Capt. Long, wid. of John Harvey of Broxbourne, Herts., s.p.; (3) lic. 10 Sept. 1634, Mary, da. of Manasses Norwood of Chilston, nr. Boughton Malherbe, Kent, wid. of William Duling of Gillingham, Kent, 1da. suc. fa. 1617. d. by 4 Apr. 1669.‘Letters of Thomas Stanley’ ed. W.A. Scott Robertson in Arch. Cant. xvii. 356; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 55; Bp. of London, Mar. Lics. 1611-1828 ed. G.J. Armytage (Harl. Soc. xxvi), 213; Canterbury Mar. Lics. ser. 2. 1619-60 ed. J.M. Cowper, 931; Cent. Kent. Stud. P285/1/1, pp. 48, 53, 54.
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Freeman, Gravesend 1606, member of the Twenty-Four, 1607, jurat 1608 – at least22, Portreeve, 1611 – 12, 1616–17;Cent. Kent. Stud. GR/AC1, pp. 123, 134, 137, 140, 150, 205, 293, 295. jurat, Maidstone by 1625 – 44, 1660–?d., mayor, 1625–6, 1641–2;Maidstone Recs. 115, 144, 273. capt. militia ft. Kent c.1628–42;Arch. Cant. xvii. 362–3, 367. ?churchwarden, Peckham by 1630-at least 1633.Cent. Kent. Stud. U522/A3, f. 9.

Under clerk to Chancery six clerk by 1609,C2/Jas.I/S26/53. dep. clerk of the enrolments (jt.) by c.1630-at least 1640.E215/4; Cent. Kent. Stud. U522/A3, f. 4v.

Main residences: Hamptons, West Peckham; Earl's Place, Earl's Lane, Maidstone, Kent.
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STANLEY, Thomas (1581-1669)

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