HOLCROFT, Sir Thomas (1505/6-58), of Vale Royal, Cheshire.

Family and Education

b. 1505 /6, 2nd s. of John Holcroft of Holcroft, Lancs. by Margaret, da. of Hamnett Massey of Rixton, Lancs.; bro. of Sir John. m. Juliane, da. and h. of Nicholas Jennings of Preston, Lancs. and London, 1s. Thomas 1da. Kntd. May 1544.Aged 50 in 1556, R. C. Shaw, R. Forest of Lancaster, 201. Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. xviii), 124; Chetham Soc. n.s. lx. 95; VCH Lancs. vii. 215.

Offices Held

Sewer of the chamber 1536; bailiff, duchy of Lancaster, West Derby, Lancs. 1536 – 45, receiver, Lancs. and Cheshire 1538 – 52, ?1553 – 58, master forester, Quernmore and Wyresdale, Lancs. 1540 – 45; j.p. Cheshire 1539 – d., Lancs. 1546; esquire of the body 1540; jt. (with bro. Sir John) receiver, lands formerly of Lenton priory, Notts. 1540 – 45; sheriff, Lancs. 1545 – 46; commr. musters 1546, chantries, Cheshire, Lancs. and Chester 1546, goods of churches and fraternities, Cheshire 1553, loan 1557; v.-adm. Lancs. and Cheshire 1547; custos rot. Cheshire 1548 – d.; keeper, Redholme park in Bowland forest, Yorks. by 1552; knight marshal May/June 1556–?Mar. 1558.LP Hen. VIII, vii, xiv, xv, xix-xxi; CPR, 1548–9, p. 134; 1553, p. 417; 1554–5, p. 94; APC, v. 127; CSP Scot. i. 174; Somerville, Duchy, i. 496, 505, 508; Harl. 2020, f. 493; SP11/11, f. 120; J. B. Watson, ‘Lancs. gentry 1529–58’ (London Univ. M.A. thesis, 1959), 97; Stowe 571, f. 72v; information from J. Murphy.

Parlimentarian

HOLCROFT, Sir Thomas (1505/6-58), of Vale Royal, Cheshire.

Main residence: Vale Royal, Cheshire.

Author

R.J.W.S.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

HOLCROFT, Sir Thomas (1505/6-58)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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