WALSINGHAM, Sir Thomas I (1561-1630), of Scadbury, nr. Chislehurst, Kent; Walsingham House, nr. the Tiltyard, Whitehall and St. Stephen’s, Coleman Street, London.

Family and Education

b. 1561, C24/499/105, f. 13. 3rd s. of Sir Thomas Walsingham† (d.1584) of Scadbury and Dorothy, da. of Sir John Guldeford of Benenden, Kent. m. by 1589, Audrey (bur. 20 May 1624), da. of Sir Ralph Shelton of Shelton, Norf., 1s. 1da. d.v.p. suc. bro. Edmund 1589; Arch. Cant. xvii. 390-1, although this misdates his wife’s death and omits his daughter. Cf. Soc. Gen. transcript Chislehurst par. reg. and E.A. Webb, G.W. Miller and J. Beckwith, Hist. Chislehurst, 137, 144. Kntd. 21 July 1597; Arch. Cant. lxix. 220-1. d. 10 or 11 Aug. 1630. His i.p.m. and the Chislehurst par. reg. say he 11 Aug., but his son records that he on the 10th: C142/467/71; Soc. Gen. transcript Chislehurst par. reg; Cent. Kent. Stud. U119/A2, unfol. sig. Thomas Walsingham.

Offices Held

Capt. militia ft., lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, Kent by c.1595-at least 1621; Staffs. RO, D593/S/4/38/9; HMC Finch, i. 42. commr. subsidy, Kent 1595, 1608, 1610, 1621, 1624 – 26, Rochester, Kent 1621, 1624, Staffs. RO, D593/S/4/38/16; SP14/31/1; E115/524, f. 18; 115/22, f. 1; 115/136/118; C212/22/20, 23. grain, Kent 1595–6; Staffs. RO, D593/S/3/7. dep. lt. Kent 1595-at least 1626, C231/1, f. 5v; J.J.N. McGurk, ‘Letter Bk. relating to Ltcy. of Kent’, Arch. Cant. lxxxii. 128, 133–4; Add. 64884, f. 92v; C193/8, no. 84. j.p. Kent by 1596–?d.; Webb, Miller and Beckwith, 137–8; C66/2527. freeman, Rochester by 1597; kpr. Eltham Park, Kent by 1601-at least 1613; PSO5/2, unfol. Dec. 1601; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 397. compounder and collector for purveyance, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone 1602-at least 1616; Staffs. RO, D593/S/4/58/1, S/4/60/6; J.R. Scott, Scott, of Scot’s-Hall, pp. xix-xx, xxiii.; Cent. Kent. Stud. U1115/013/6. recvr. (jt.), revenues of lands of 11th Lord Cobham (Henry Brooke alias Cobham†), Kent 1603–5; E351/412. commr. survey, Eltham manor, Kent 1605, E164/44. charitable legacies of John Ady of Deptford, Kent 1607, Webb, Miller and Beckwith, 142. charitable uses, Kent 1608-at least 1626, E. Hansted, Kent: i. Hundred of Blackheath ed. H.H. Drake, 23; C93/6/18; 93/7/7; 93/9/11; 93/10/25. aid 1609, SP14/43/107. sewers, Gravesend to Ravensbourne, Kent 1610-at least 1627, C181/2, ff. 106, 210, 216v; Cent. Kent. Stud. S/NK/SO7, ff. 1v, 5v. oyer and terminer, the Verge 1613 – 21, Kent 1615, the Marshalsea 1620 – 23, Kent, Canterbury and the Cinque Ports 1627; Ibid. ff. 179v, 228; 181/3, ff. 1, 97, 213, 215v. asst. bridge warden, Rochester 1615 – d., snr. warden 1616, 1622, ?jnr. warden 1629; Traffic and Pols. ed. N. Yates and J.M. Gibson, 294. commr. inquiry, revenues of Wye Coll., Kent 1622–3, C181/3, ff. 66, 78, 83v. recusants’ lands, Kent 1622/3, CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 449 (misdated). martial law, Kent, 1624, 1626, T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 4, p. 170; C193/8/84. Forced Loan 1626–7. Harl. 6846, f. 37; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 498; Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 155.

Kpr. (jt.), Anne of Denmark’s Wardrobe, 1608-at least 1610; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 420; C66/1758/17. commr. inquiry, lands of Henry Brooke alias Cobham†, 11th Lord Cobham 1608; C181/2, f. 64v. ?sub-commr. exacted fees 1623. Bodl. Tanner 101, no. 67.

Cttee. Virg. Co. 1612. A. Brown, Genesis of US, 543.

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WALSINGHAM, Sir Thomas I (1561-1630), of Scadbury, nr. Chislehurst, Kent; Walsingham House, nr. the Tiltyard, Whitehall and St. Stephen’s, Coleman Street, London.

Main residences: Scadbury, nr. Chislehurst, Kent and Walsingham House, nr. the Tiltyard, Whitehall and St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, London.

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A.D.T.

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Commons 1604-1629

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WALSINGHAM, Sir Thomas I (1561-1630)

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Oxford 1644

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