MOYLE, Thomas (by 1500-60), of Gray’s Inn, London, Clerkenwell, Mdx. and Eastwell, Kent.

Family and Education

b. by 1500, yr. s. but event. heir of John Moyle (d.1500) of Eastwell by 2nd w. Anne, da. of Sir Robert Darcy of Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex. educ. G. Inn. m. by 1528, Catherine, da. of Edward Jorden of London, 2da. Kntd. 16 Jan. 1542.Date of birth estimated from father’s death. CIPM Hen. VII , ii. 246, 422; Vis. Kent. (Harl. Soc. lxxv), 13; City of London RO, Guildhall, jnl. 13, f. 51; LP Hen. VIII, iii; DNB.

Offices Held

Ancient, G. Inn 1528, Lent reader 1533, 1539.Dugdale, Origines Juridiciales, 292.

J.p. Kent 1537 – d.; gen. surveyor, office of gen. surveyors 1537 – 42, ct. gen. surveyors of the King’s lands 1542 – 47, ct. augmentations 1547 – 54; commr. benevolence, Kent 1544/45, chantries 1546, contribution 1546, relief 1550, heresies 1552, 1556, Rochester bridge by 1557; sheriff, Kent 1556 – 57; warden, Rochester bridge by 1557.LP Hen. VIII, xii-xxi; W. C. Richardson, Ct. Augmentations, 78, 155; Elton, Tudor Rev. in Govt. 240; Rep. R. Comm. of 1552 (Archs. of Brit. Hist. and Culture iii), 9, 75; CPR, 1550–3, p. 355, 355; 1553, p. 355; 1555–7, pp. 24, 368.

Speaker of House of Commons 1542.

Parlimentarian

MOYLE, Thomas (by 1500-60), of Gray’s Inn, London, Clerkenwell, Mdx. and Eastwell, Kent.

Main residences: Gray's Inn, London; Clerkenwell, Mdx.; Eastwell, Kent.

Author

H.M.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

MOYLE, Thomas (by 1500-60)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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