Commons 1509-1558

Page, household of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond by 1532 – 36; servant, household of William, Baron Parr, later Earl of Essex and Marquess of Northampton by 1543; sewer, household of Queen Catherine Parr by 1544–7 or 8; gent. privy chamber by 1549 – 53; under treasurer, Tower II mint 25 Dec. 1549 – 24 June 1552; keeper, Brigstock park, Northants. 14 Sept. 1553 – d.; j.p. Northants. 1558/59; ambassador to France 1563 – 64, to Scotland 1565, 1567; chamberlain, the Exchequer 21 June 1564 – d.; chief butler, Eng. and Wales 28 Nov. 1565–d.Add. 5841, p. 252 seq.; Soc. Antiq. (1790), p. 167; LP Hen. VIII, xvi; Brit. Numismatic Jnl. xlv. 69; APC, iv. 76, 77, 84; CPR, 1549–51, p. 137; 1553, p. 9; 1563–6, pp. 118, 234; CSP Dom. 1601–3, Add. 1547–65, pp. 503, 561.

Servant of Thomas Cromwell by 1538, Sir William Parr, Earl of Essex and later Marquess of Northampton by 1547 – 80; keeper, Little Easton park, Essex by 1552; j.p. Essex 1558/59, q. 1583.LP Hen. VIII, xii; CPR, 1547–8, p. 212; 1569–72, p. 224; Stowe 571, f. 50; M. L. Robertson, ‘Cromwell’s servants’ (Univ. California Los Angeles Ph.D. thesis, 1975), 573.

Attorney, council in the marches of Wales 1550 – 54, member of council 1558 – d., v.-pres. 1565 – 69; steward, manor of Feckenham 1552 – d.; under steward of Westminster 1557 – d.; master of requests 1553 – 59; recorder, Coventry 1553 – d., Worcester 1559 – d., Ludlow, Shrewsbury by 1560; j.p.q. Warws. 1554–79 or later, Welsh and marcher counties 1558/59–79 or later; justice of Chester, Denb. and Mont. 1558 – 79, of Denb. 1566; commr. eccles. causes, diocese of Chester 1562, piracy, Cheshire 1565.CPR, 1549–51, p. 299; 1550–3, p. 236; 1553–4, p. 269; 1557–8, pp. 461–2; 1560–3, pp. 280–1; 1563–6, pp. 41–42; P. H. Williams, Council in the Marches of Wales, 359–60; Westminster abbey reg. 4, f. 10v; APC, iv. 324; vii. 284; Coventry Leet Bk. (EETS cxxxiv), ii. 806; B. Poole, Coventry, 384; Dugdale, Warws. 149–50; A. D. Dyer, Worcester, 201; Ormerod, Cheshire, i. 63.

J.p. Warws. 1510 – d., Bucks. 1525 – 32, Worcs. 1531 – 44; esquire of the body by 1511, knight by 1533; commr. subsidy, Warws. 1512, 1523, Worcs. 1512, 1514, Bucks. 1524, loan, Warws. 1542, benevolence, Warws. and Coventry 1544/45, musters, Warws. 1546, relief, Warws., Worcs. and Coventry 1550, goods of churches and fraternities, Warws., Worcs. and Coventry 1553; other commissions 1523 – d., steward or keeper, Brandon, Warws. 1512 – d., Yardley, Worcs. 1512, Berkswell, Claverdon, Lighthorne, Moreton, Warws. by 1513 – 45, Harlington, Newton Closenfield, Bucks. 1514 – d., Evesham abbey 1527, Halton and Haseley, Warws. 1529, Tamworth, Warws. 1530 – 44, Maxstoke, Wroxall, Warws. 1535 – d., Balsall, Warws. 1539 – d.; King’s spear by 1513; sheriff, Warws. and Leics. 1526 – 27, 1543 – 44, Worcs. 1542 – 43; steward, lands of bpric. of Worcester in Warws. and Worcs. 1528 – 40, for Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, unknown property by 1548; custos rot. Warws. in 1547.LP Hen. VIII, i-v, vii, viii, xii, xvii, xx, xxi; CPR, 1547–8, p. 90; 1550–3, pp. 396–7; 1553, pp. 360–1; Statutes, iii. 85, 86, 112; Coughton Ct. mss boxes 1–33, no. App. 188; box 59; Worcs. RO, 009:1, BA2636/177 92509; 178 92517 ex inf. C. Dyer; E163/12/17, nos. 38, 51, 54.

Gent. at arms by 1544, gent. pens. in reversion by Feb. 1547; gent. pens. by Apr. 1549–61/4; commr. musters, Warws. 1546; comptroller of petty customs, London 12 Sept. 1553; gov. household of Anne of Cleves 1554; master of Queen’s hawks in 1570.A. L. Rowse, Ralegh and the Throckmortons, 10; LC 2/2/ff. 41–43; 2/3(1), p. 113; E179/69/62; 407/1/2, 3, all ex inf. W. J. Tighe; Stowe 571, f. 31v; E407/1/1, 2; Lansd. 3(89), f. 197; LP Hen. VIII, xxi; CPR, 1553–4, p. 1; APC, v. 29; CSP Dom. 1547–80, p. 367.