BRETT, Thomas (c.1568-1638), of The Strand, Westminster

Family and Education

b. c. 1568, 2nd s. of Percival Brett (d.1617) of Tenterden, Kent and Elizabeth Forde. educ. St. Mary Hall, Oxf. 1583, aged 15. unm. London Vis. Peds. (Harl. Soc. xcii), 29; PROB 11/179, f. 71v. bur. 14 Dec. 1638 14 Dec. 1638.

Offices Held

Lt. of ft. Brill garrison by 1592; capt. of ft. Brittany 1592 – at least94, Ostend 1595, List and Analysis of SP For. V: 1593–4, pp. 274, 538; vi. 85. We are grateful to David Trim for these refs. employed in raising troops in Eng. 1601, APC, 1601–4, pp. 84, 89, 258, 275. ? Cadiz expedition 1625, J. Glanville, Voyage to Cadiz ed. A.B. Grosart (Cam. Soc. n.s. xxxii), 122. Ile de Ré expedition 1627; CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 251. ? sgt.-maj. ft. in Sir Christopher Blount’s regt. 1596 expedition. S. and E. Usherwood, Counter-Armada, 35; T. Birch, Memoirs of Reign of Eliz. ii. 16.

Muster-master, Kent 1605-at least 1614; Arch Cant. lxxxii. 125, 135; HMC 9th Rep. i. 162. freeman, New Romney, Kent 1626; E. Kent Archives Cent. NR/AC2, f. 54. lt. gov. Portsmouth garrison, Hants by 1630-at least 1634. C. Dalton, Life and Times of Sir Edward Cecil, ii. 304; CSP Dom. 1633–4, p. 519.

Recvr.-gen. to William Cecil*, 2nd earl of Salisbury 1612–14. L. Stone, Fam. and Fortune, 130; HMC Hatfield, xxii. 2, 11.

Commr. exacted fees 1630. CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 179.

Parlimentarian

BRETT, Thomas (c.1568-1638), of The Strand, Westminster

Main residence: The Strand, Westminster.

Author

P.J.L.

A.D.T.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

BRETT, Thomas (c.1568-1638)