Family and Education
bap. 1 Oct. 1570,All Hallows Bread Street (Harl. Soc. Reg. xliii), 8. 3rd s. of Richard May (d. Sept. 1587), PROB 11/71, f. 93. Merchant Taylor, of Watling Street, London and Rawmere, and Mary, da. of John Hillersdon of Membland, Devon; bro. of Sir Humphrey*. J. Nichols, Hist. and Antiqs. of Leics. iv. 548; Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 104. educ. St John’s, Oxf. 1586, BCL 1594; M. Temple 1595. Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss. unm. d. ?aft. 1629. E.M. Hance and T.N. Morton, ‘The Burgess Rolls of Liverpool during the Seventeenth Cent.’, Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, xxxvi. 146.
Offices Held

Freeman, Liverpool, Lancs. 1618, G. Chandler, Liverpool Under Jas. I, 207. Preston, Lancs. by 1622. Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 76.

Dep. clerk, Star Chamber c.1617–23; Add. 41661, f. 76; Stowe 418, f. 2; Lansd. 639/1. v.-chan. co. palatine of Lancaster 1618–20. Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 94.

Main residences: the Middle Temple, London; Rawmere, Suss.
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Volume
Commons 1604-1629
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MAY, Thomas (1570-at least 1629)

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Oxford 1644
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