CHEYNE, Sir Thomas (1482/87-1558), of the Blackfriars, London and Shurland, Isle of Sheppey, Kent.

Henchman, royal household temp. Hen. VII; esquire of the body by 1509 – 15, knight 1515 – 26; constable, Queenborough castle, Kent 1512 – d., Rochester castle 1525 – d., Dover castle 1536 – d., Saltwood castle 1540 – d.; commr. subsidy, Kent 1512, 1514, 1515, 1523, 1524, tenths of spiritualities 1535, coastal defences 1539, loan 1542, benevolence 1544/45, array 1545, chantries 1546, goods of churches and fraternities 1550, relief, Kent, London, Canterbury, Household 1550, church goods, Kent 1553; sheriff, Kent 1515 – 16; j.p. 1526 – d.; gent. privy chamber 1526 – 39, ld. warden, the Cinque Ports 17 May 1536 – d.; ?high steward, lands of abpric. of Canterbury by 1536 – 16 Nov. 1540, treasurer, the Household 9 Mar. 1539 – d.; PC 1539 – d.; ld. lt. Kent 1551 – 53; bailiff, Sandwich 16 June 1553 – d., Dover 24 Oct. 1557 – d.; numerous minor offices. LP Hen. VIII, i-xxi; Statutes, iii. 79, 112, 168; CPR, 1547–8, p. 79 passim to 1557–8, p. 122; Val. Eccles. i. 7; Somerville, Duchy, i. 606, 609; APC, iii. 258, iv. 49, 277; R. E. Brock, ‘The courtier in early Tudor soc.’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1964), 27, 43, 320–1.