CREWE, Thomas (1566-1634), of Gray’s Inn, London and Steane, Northants.; later of Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street, London.

Family and Education

b. 3 Apr. 1564, J. Hall, Hist. of Nantwich, 458. 3rd s. of John Crewe (d.1598) C142/292/167. of Nantwich, Cheshire, and Alice, da. of Humphrey Mainwaring of Nantwich; bro. of Ranulphe*. Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 1, p. 314; Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. lix), 68-9. educ. Shrewsbury sch. 1580; G. Inn 1585, called 1591. Shrewsbury Sch. Regestrum Scholarium ed. E. Calvert, i. 69; GI Admiss. m. c. Aug. 1596, Add. 4120, f. 117. Temperance (d. 25 Oct. 1619), Bridges, Northants. i. 200. da. and coh. of Reynold Bray of Steane, 4s. 5da. (1 d.v.p.). Baker, Northants. i. 685. Kntd. 17 Nov. 1623. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 183. d. 1 Feb. 1634. C142/515/88. sig. Tho[mas] Crewe.

Offices Held

Reader, Barnard’s Inn 1599; ancient, G. Inn 1603, reader 1612, bencher 1612–23; PBG Inn, i. 146, 162, 196. asst. to Banbury corp., Oxon. 1608–d.; Banbury Corp. Recs. ed. J.S.W. Gibson and E.R.C. Brinkworth (Banbury Hist. Soc. xv), 98, 128. fee’d counsel to Anne of Denmark by 1619; LC2/5, f. 33v. sjt.-at-law 1623, king’s sjt. 1625–d.; Order of Sjts.-at-Law, 181; C66/2306, 2327. fee’d counsel, City of London by 1624. CLRO, Reps. 38, f. 129v.

Commr. charitable uses, Northants. 1603, C93/2/6; Peterborough Local Admin: Feoffees Accts. ed. W.T. Mellows (Northants. Rec. Soc. x), 207. gaol delivery, Northampton 1613; C181/2, f. 196. j.p. Northants. 1616–d.; C231/4, f. 14; SP16/212, f. 44v; J.H. Gleason, JPs in Eng. 173. freeman, Northampton 1620; Northampton Bor. Recs. ed. J.C. Cox, ii. 495. commr. subsidy, Northants. 1622, 1624, C212/22/21, 23; Northants. Subsidies ed. J. Wake (Northants. Rec. Soc. iii), 174. Forced Loan 1627, T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 1626–33, C181/3, f. 206; C181/4, f. 146. martial law, Northants. 1628, APC, 1627–8, p. 299. sewers 1633. C181/4, f. 140.

Commr. survey [I] 1622 – 23, 1625; CSP Ire. 1615–25, p.346; Rymer, viii. pt. 1, p. 46. member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1625–d.; R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 349. feoffee for impropriations 1632–d. E112/211/533; E.W. Kirby, ‘The Lay Feofees: a Study in Militant Puritanism’, JMH, xiv. 6.

Speaker of the House of Commons 1624, 1625. CJ, i. 670b; Procs. 1625, p. 34.

Parlimentarian

CREWE, Thomas (1566-1634), of Gray’s Inn, London and Steane, Northants.; later of Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street, London.

Main residences: Gray's Inn, London; Steane, Northants.; Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street, London.

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Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

CREWE, Thomas (c.1566-1634)

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Oxford 1644

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