YOUNG, Thomas I

More may be added to the earlier biography. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 939.

When up at Westminster for the Parliament of 1425 Young went to the court of common pleas with a man from Guernsey to file a suit against a spicer from Otford in Kent for a debt of £21. CP40/658, rot. 234d.

It is unlikely that he was the man of this name who subsequently settled in Battle, a few miles to the west of Winchelsea. That Thomas Young was styled ‘weaver’ when he acquired tenements in Battle in the 1440s: Huntington Lib., San Marino, California, Battle Abbey mss, deeds 925, 1362. In 1452 he sued men from the locality for breaking his closes there (CP40/766, rot. 95), and he also held land in Hoo and Hawkhurst. He was survived by a widow named Margaret and two daughters, but his son, another Thomas, pre-deceased him: C1/40/125-8.