Submitted by legacy on
Family and Education
b. 1506 /7, 1st s. of William Pope of Deddington, Oxon. by 2nd w. Margaret, da. of Edmund Yate of Standlake, Oxon. educ. Banbury sch.; Eton c.1520-4. m. (1) ?Elizabeth Gunston (div. 11 July 1536); (2) 17 July 1536, Margaret (d.1538), wid. of Sir Ralph Dodmer of London, 1da.; (3) Elizabeth, da. of Walter Blount I of Blount’s Hall, nr. Uttoxeter, Staffs. and Osbaston, Leics., wid. of Anthony Basford (d. 1 Mar. 1538) of Bentley, Derbys., s.p. suc. fa. 16 Mar. 1523. Kntd. Oct. 1537.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., C142/40/56. DNB; H. E. D. Blakiston, Trinity Coll. Oxf. 35.
Offices Held

Clerk of the writs, Star Chamber 1532, jt. clerk 1534 – d.; warden of the mint, the Tower of London 1534 – 36; treasurer, ct. augmentations 1536 – 40; master of the woods, south of the Trent by 1545 – 53; clerk of the crown in Chancery by July 1537, jt. (with John Lucas) Feb. 1538–44; j.p. Oxon., Surr. 1541 – 47, q. Kent, Oxon., Surr. 1554; commr. benevolence, Surr. 1544/45, contribution 1546, chantries, Surr., Suss. and Southwark 1546, Surr. 1549, of Admiralty in Nov. 1547, relief, Herts., Oxon., Surr. and Southwark 1550, heresy 1557; PC by July 1544 – ?47, 4 Aug. 1553 – ?58; custos rot. Surr. c. 1547; sheriff, Essex and Herts. 1552 – 53, 1557–8.LP Hen. VIII, v, vii, xi, xiii, xv-xxi; W. C. Richardson, Ct. Augmentations, 71, 304–5, 331n, 492; C66/801; 193/12/1; CPR, 1547–8, pp. 88, 90; 1548–9, p. 115; 1550–3, p. 141; 1553, pp. 354, 357, 362; 1553–4, pp. 20, 23–24, 35, 138, 176, 195–6, 265, 302, 507; 1554–5, pp. 90–91, 107, 343; 1555–7, p. 281; Manning and Bray, Surr. iii. 115; Rep. R. Comm. of 1552 (Archs. of Brit. Hist. and Culture iii), 76; C. E. Challis, The Tudor Coinage, 30, 84; HCA 14/2.

Parlimentarian
POPE, Thomas (1506/7-59), of Clerkenwell, London and Tittenhanger, Herts.
Main residences: Clerkenwell, London; Tittenhanger, Herts.
Author
T.F.T.B.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title

POPE, Thomas (1506/7-59)

Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
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