THYNNE, Sir John (1555-1604), of Caus Castle, Salop; Longleat, Wilts. and Cannon Row, Westminster.
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Family and Education
b. 21 Sept. 1555,Ex inf. Dr. Kate Harris, librarian at Longleat. 1st s. of Sir John Thynne† of Longleat and Christian, da. of Sir Richard Gresham, Mercer of London; bro. of Thomas I† and half-bro. of Charles*.Vis. Wilts. (Harl. Soc. cv-cvi), 160; R.C. Hoare, Hist. Wilts. ‘Heytesbury Hundred’, 61.educ. Oxf. BA 1573.Al. Ox.m. ?26 Feb. 1576,Two Elizabethan Women ed. A.D. Wall (Wilts. Rec. Soc. xxxviii), p. xix. Joan (d. 3 Mar. 1612), PROB 11/119, ff. 179v-80; Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxix), 461; Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 164. da. of Sir Rowland Hayward†, Clothworker and ld. mayor of London, of Philip Lane, Cripplegate, London, A.B. Beavan, Aldermen of London, i. 131, 349; CP, vii. 352; London and Mdx. Arch. Soc. vi. 509-27. 2s., incl. Thomas*. suc. fa. 1580; PROB 11/82, f. 67. Kntd. 11 May 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 105.d. 21 Nov. 1604. C142/290/110. sig. John Thynne.
Offices Held
Steward, various Crown manors in Wilts. 1580–d.; E315/309, f. 46; 315/310, ff. 5, 35. j.p. Wilts. and Som. by 1583–d., Wilts. RO, A1/150/2, f. 7; Mins. of Procs. in Sessions ed. H.C. Johnson (Wilts. Rec. Soc. iv), 140; Hatfield House, ms 278. Glos. by 1583 – 87, 1596–d., SP13/F/11, f. 15. Hants by 1583 – 87, 1597–d., C231/1, f. 27. Salop 1601–d.; C66/1549. sheriff, Wilts. 1593–4;List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 154. capt. militia horse, Wilts. by 1597; Longleat, Thynne Pprs. vii. f. 102. commr. subsidy, Wilts. 1598–9, E179/198/326, 330. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 1602 – d., Oxf. circ. by 1602–d., C181/1, ff. 27, 51, 52. sewers, Som. 1603. Ibid. f. 129.