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b. 21 Sept. 1555, Ex inf. Dr. Kate Harris, librarian at Longleat. 1st s. of Sir John Thynne† of Longleat and Christian, da. of Sir Richard Gresham, Mercer of London; bro. of Thomas I† and half-bro. of Charles*. Vis. Wilts. (Harl. Soc. cv-cvi), 160; R.C. Hoare, Hist. Wilts. ‘Heytesbury Hundred’, 61. educ. Oxf. BA 1573. Al. Ox. m. ?26 Feb. 1576, Two Elizabethan Women ed. A.D. Wall (Wilts. Rec. Soc. xxxviii), p. xix. Joan (d. 3 Mar. 1612), PROB 11/119, ff. 179v-80; Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxix), 461; Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 164. da. of Sir Rowland Hayward†, Clothworker and ld. mayor of London, of Philip Lane, Cripplegate, London, A.B. Beavan, Aldermen of London, i. 131, 349; CP, vii. 352; London and Mdx. Arch. Soc. vi. 509-27. 2s., incl. Thomas*. suc. fa. 1580; PROB 11/82, f. 67. Kntd. 11 May 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 105. d. 21 Nov. 1604. C142/290/110. sig. John Thynne.
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Steward, various Crown manors in Wilts. 1580–d.; E315/309, f. 46; 315/310, ff. 5, 35. j.p. Wilts. and Som. by 1583–d., Wilts. RO, A1/150/2, f. 7; Mins. of Procs. in Sessions ed. H.C. Johnson (Wilts. Rec. Soc. iv), 140; Hatfield House, ms 278. Glos. by 1583 – 87, 1596–d., SP13/F/11, f. 15. Hants by 1583 – 87, 1597–d., C231/1, f. 27. Salop 1601–d.; C66/1549. sheriff, Wilts. 1593–4; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 154. capt. militia horse, Wilts. by 1597; Longleat, Thynne Pprs. vii. f. 102. commr. subsidy, Wilts. 1598–9, E179/198/326, 330. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 1602 – d., Oxf. circ. by 1602–d., C181/1, ff. 27, 51, 52. sewers, Som. 1603. Ibid. f. 129.

?Esq. of the body by 1603–d. LC2/4/4, f. 70v.

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THYNNE, Sir John (1555-1604), of Caus Castle, Salop; Longleat, Wilts. and Cannon Row, Westminster.
Main residences: Caus Castle, Salop and Longleat, Wilts. and Cannon Row, Westminster.
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Commons 1604-1629
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THYNNE, Sir John (1555-1604)

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