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b. c. ,STAC 8/201/17, f. 12. His funeral monument, however, states that he died aged more than 63, while the heralds who visited Worcestershire in 1582 said he was then aged 40: Nash, Worcs. ii. 196; Vis. Worcs. (Harl. Soc. xxvii), 16. 1st s. of Thomas Bigg of Lenchwick and Maud or Magdalen, da. of William Hoby of Leominster, Herefs. Vis. Worcs. 16; VCH Worcs. ii. 350. m. by 1577, Eldest son aged 17 when he matriculated in 1594, and 45 at his death in 1621. Al. Ox. (Bigg, Thomas); Survey of Worcs. by Thomas Habington ed. J. Amphlett (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 1896-9), ii. 216. Ursula (d. 13 Aug. 1601), da. of Clement Throckmorton† of Haseley, Warws., 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da. (2 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1581; Kntd. 23 July 1603. d. 4 May 1614. Survey of Worcs. ii. 215-17; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 123; C142/341/45; PROB 11/123, ff. 494v-5v. sig. Tho[mas] Bigge.
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Commr. to take the defendants answer in Sir Edward Hoby* v. Bartholomew Kighley et al. 1586; E112/49/Worcs./2. escheator, Worcs. 1592–3; List of Escheators comp. A.C. Wood (L. and I. Soc. lxxii), 188. commr. i.p.m., Worcs. 1593, CPR, 1592–3 (L. and I. Soc. cclxxxii), 48. sheriff 1593–4; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 158. j.p. by 1595 – d., Evesham, Worcs. at d.; CPR, 1594–5 (L. and I. Soc. cccx), 132; C66/1898, mm. 23d-24d; Evesham Bor. Recs. of Seventeenth Cent. ed. S.K. Roberts (Worcs. Hist. Soc. n.s. xiv), 15. commr. to survey the tithes of Broadway, Worcs. 1597, SP46/40, f. 279v. eccles. causes, Worcs. 1598, C66/1478, m. 8. subsidy, 1598, 1600, 1603, 1608, 1610 – 11, Evesham 1608, 1611, E179/201/240; 179/201/239; 179/201/273; 179/201/274; 179/201/275; E115/134/113; SP14/31/1. charitable uses, Worcs. 1599, 1600, 1601, 1605, C93/1/35; 93/1/8; 93/1/2; 93/2/20. to take surrender of letters patent from Sir Fulke Greville* 1601, CPR, 1582–3 (L. and I. Soc. cclxxxvi), 106, 112. to determine issue in Edward and Margaret Marsh v. Timothy Smyth, by 1604; HMC Hatfield, xxiii. 206–7. alderman, Evesham 1605–d.; G. May, Descriptive Hist. of Town of Evesham, 459; Evesham Bor. Recs. 10, 15. bailiff, Blackenhurst Hundred, Worcs. by 1606–8; Cal. Q.S. Pprs. ed. J.W. Willis Bund (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 1900), i. xcix; Evesham Bor. Recs. 4. commr. oyer and terminer for the Gunpowder plotters, Worcs. 1606, C181/1, f. 132v. inquiry estate of Sir Philip Kighley*, 1609, SP46/69, ff. 75–83. gaol delivery, Evesham 1610, C181/2, f. 127. sewers, Worcs. 1611. Ibid. f. 143v.

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BIGG, Sir Thomas (c.1554-1614), of Lenchwick, Worcs.
Main residence: Lenchwick, Worcs.
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Commons 1604-1629
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BIGG, Sir Thomas (c.1554-1614)

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