Thomas Thursby

Thomas Thursby (died 1510[1]), was a merchant, three times Mayor of King's Lynn and the founder and benefactor of Thoresby College.

Agnus Dei

He was the son of Henry Thursby, four times Mayor of Lynn and Burgess for Lynn,[2] in turn son of John Thursby, Mayor of Lynn Regis 1425[3] and Deputy-Mayor 1435.[2] Thomas' brother, Robert Thursby, was Burgess for Lynn 1462–3, 1482–3 and 1487, holding the manors of Ashwicken and Burg's Hall in Hillington before his death, 29 October 1500.[4]

In his will he leaves 'my special good lord of Oxenford' a tabernacle of our Lady of gold.[4]

At the time of his death, he was married to Elizabeth[1] (d. 1518[5]), the widow of Robert Aylmer, Mayor of Norwich.[5]

Children

In his will, he mentions the following children:

  • Thomas Thursby[1] (d. 1543[6]), m. Anne[4] Knyvett, lady in waiting to Katherine of Aragon. Anne Knyvett was the daughter of Sir Thomas Knyvett and his wife Muriel, widow of John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle, and daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, in 1527.[7][8] Anne Thorysby is one of the witnesses of Cecily Aylmer's will in 1541.[9] Anne Knyvett remarried to Henry Spelman,[10] the son of Sir John Spelman (d.1546) and the father of Sir Henry Spelman[11] and of Erasmus Spelman, whose son Henry went to Virginia, by license dated 26 January 1543/4.[12]
  • Margery, married name Gryndell,[1] mentioned as 'my Sister Grenall' in the will of Cecily Aylmer in 1541. The will of Cecily Aylmer also mentions Elyn, Alexander, Mary and Jone Grenall.[9] It is possible Margery's husband was James Gryndell, alderman of the gild in King's Lynn.[13][14]
  • Elizabeth,[1] the wife of Thomas Gibbon (Guybon) (1470/71–1531), of West Lynn, Norfolk[15]
  • Elyn,[1] probably the 'my Aunt Thursby' of Cecily Aylmer's will in 1541[9]
  • Beatrice,[1] who married firstly William Trew (d. 1510/12) of Lynn and secondly William Coningsby (by 1483–1540) of the Inner Temple, London and Lynn, Norfolk[16]
  • Margaret,[1] the wife of Francis Mountford (1474/76–1536) of the Inner Temple, London and Feltwell, Norfolk.[17] Married before 11 September 1512, when Richard Aylmer dies. He mentions 'my brother ffrannces mountford' in his will.[18]

Thomas Thursby was married several times, so there is some uncertainty as to who the mother of his children was.[4] If the birth date given for his son of the same name, 1487,[4] is correct, he cannot possibly be the son of Elizabeth, as she was still the wife of Robert Aylmer (d.1493) then.

Nor does she refer to him as her son in her will, in which she gives Thomas Thursby a silver and gilt Agnus Dei with holy wax therein, and to his wife a silver and gilt image of our lady.[5] This of course suggests that Thomas Thursby was married once before his marriage to Anne Knyvett, as Elizabeth died in 1518 and preparations for his wedding to Anne was underway 31 May 1527.[7]

The wills of Elizabeth's son and granddaughter, however, describe the Thursby daughters in specific family terms. Richard Aylmer writes of 'my brother ffrannces mountford', the husband of Thomas Thursby's daughter Margaret,[17] in his will.[18] Richard's daughter Cecily mentions ' my aunte Thorysby' in her will, leaving her a spoon of silver,[9] indicating that at least one of Thomas Thursby's children was by Elizabeth. She also mentions her 'sister' Grenall,[9] which must be Margery Thursby, married name Gryndell.[1] The names of Thomas Thursby's daughters, Elizabeth, Ellen, Beatrice, Margaret and Margery, correspond almost perfectly with known Aylmer given names.

Cecily does not mention Elizabeth, Beatrice or Margaret in her will. At least both Elizabeth and Margaret had passed away by then, as their husbands both predeceased Cecily, and both of those husbands had remarried after the deaths of Elizabeth and Margaret.[15][17]

Richard Aylmer's will may be dated 11 August 1509, and is certainly written before his death on 11 September 1512, so Elizabeth was married then.[17] Margery is married when her her father writes his will on 23 October 1510.[1] This might indicate that they are the eldest, and if they can be inferred to be the children of Elizabeth, due to the family terms of the wills, it might stand to reason that their younger sisters were also the daughters of the wife their father had at his death.

Elizabeth is not the daughter of John Burgoyne who in the Visitations of Cambridgeshire marries 'Thomas Thorseby of Norfolk', as that Elizabeth is still alive and apparently a wife in 1528, when she receives an inheritance from her mother Margaret.[19] Nor can she be the wife of his son, as that Thomas Thursby was marrying Anne[4] Knyvett in 1527.[7] Anne Thorysby along with Elyn Grenall are two of the witnesses of Cecily Aylmer's will in 1541.[9] She is probably the Isabel, late the wife of Thomas Thursby, who is involved in a suit in 1532–38.[20] Isabel and Elizabeth were considered the same name in the period.

There is a small possibility that it is this Thomas Thursby and his wife that Elizabeth is referring to in her will, though that seems unlikely.

One possibility is that Elizabeth is the daughter of the Sir William Knyvett with whom she was involved in a suit seemingly shortly after the death of her first husband in 1493.[21] He had two daughters named Elizabeth, one from each of his two first wives. The youngest is likely the one who also died in 1518, while in the household of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, as the Duke refers to her as 'my cousin'.[22][23] The two were related through her mother, Lady Joan Stafford. Sir William was known to show favouritism towards the children of his second marriage at the expence of those of his first.[24][25]

His elder daughter Elizabeth's mother was Alice Grey, daughter of John Grey, Esq., of Kempston, eldest son of Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn by his second wife, Joan Astley.

Name Confusion

With three Thomas Thursbys in the same geographical area in the same time period it is perhaps not surprising that there are some confusion as to who is whom.

Controversy

The confusion between which Thomas Thursby is which attains some degree of seriousness because one of them was a rather sinister character.

The Lowestoft Archaeological and Local History Society sums it up thus:

Farming practices. Partly as a result of falls in population and partly in response to the demand for wool, there was a change from the traditional three-field system, which required a lot of labour, to grazing sheep. Richard gave several examples of “flockmasters”. These were men who bought up land that had once been open arable fields and converted it into enclosed sheep pasture. Thomas Thursby (1450-1510) was one of the most well documented as he was mayor of King’s Lynn several times, also Lord of the Manor of Gayton and an ancestor of Prince William through the Spencer family. Others were Henry Fermur in Thorpland, William Day in Alethorpe, Edmund Jermyn in Sturston, and William Fermur (son of Sir Henry) in Pudding Norton. The behaviour of these, and others like them, towards the landless peasants was often very poor and one of the main causes leading to Robert Kett’s rebellion in 1549.[26]

The Ruined Church of St. James in Bawsey
The deserted village of Bawsey. Several villages are documented to have existed in this area until at least up to the 16th century. It was during that period that the then landowner - Thomas Thursby and his son - evicted their tenants by pulling down their dwellings and depriving them of their commons in order to turn the area into farmland that was converted to sheep pasture in numerous villages (four of which now lost), reminiscent of the Clearances in Scotland. The small settlement of Bawsey was destroyed by enclosures in the early 16th century and a century later the church, now in ruins, had started to deteriorate.

This same person was responsible for the disappearance of the medieval villages of Holt[27] and Cecily Aylmer's Myntlynge, Mintlyn. The landlord Thomas Thursby was accused of appropriating most of the common land for himself, by enclosing it and converting it to pasture for his sheep, and of evicting tenants from their homes before demolishing them.

Many sources, like the above one does, today identify him with the Thomas Thursby who was Mayor of King's Lynn in 1502 and died in 1510.

M.J. Medlar, however, in The Gaywood River Valley in the Post-Medieval Period writes:

Nationally, especially in the Midlands, there was a trend for large landowners of small communities to depopulate the villages and convert the arable to enclosed pasture for large flocks of sheep. Sheep farming, relying on only a few shepherds, was much cheaper to operate than arable farming, and the late fifteenth century was a prosperous time for the wool and cloth trade of England. Norfolk landowners also followed this pattern - the most famous being the Townshends of Raynham and the Fermors of East Barsham, who owned huge flocks in the Fakenham area. In an inquiry of 1517, Thomas Thursby, lord of the manor of Gayton, was accused of enclosing arable lands in Ashwicken, Leizate and Bawsey, as well as depopulating the hamlet of Holt in the parish of Mintlyn. Frequently, only one farm in a parish survived this type of enclosure, and this appears to be what happened in Bawsey, Ashwicken and Leizate. A map of about 1690 shows there were still approximately ten houses in Mintlyn, and even the modern Ordnance Survey maps record Mintlyn Farm close to the ruined church, and White House Farm near a moated site in the south-east of the parish[28]

Since this inquest took place in 1517,[29] they would have had some difficulty in summoning the Thomas Thursby who died in 1510.

Both Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica[2] and E.M. Yates in The Dispute of the Salt Fen[30] links the Thomas Thursby who was Mayor in 1502 with the Thomas Thursby who died in 1510.

The Thomas Thursby who is the object of this article, had a brother, Robert Thursby, Burgess for Lynn 1462–3, 1482–3 and 1487, who held the manors of Ashwicken and Burg's Hall in Hillington. Robert Thursby died 4 November 1500, his Inquisition post mortem took place on 29 October 1500. The two also had a sister, Beatrice, who married John Fincham and had issue.[4]

This Robert had a son, Henry Thursby (1476–1506), who succeeded to his father's manors. He died on 20 September 1506, with his Inquisition post mortem taking place on 14 October 1507. He had married Ellen (b.1477), daughter and coheir of Thomas Fotheringhay, niece and coheiress of John Doreward. He left behind two sons, Thomas Thursby (b.1498), to whom his father devised the manor of Ashwicken, and Henry Thursby, to whom his father devised the manor of Burg's Hall in Hillington.[4]

That leaves two possible candidates, this Thomas Thursby's son by the same name, and his great-nephew by the same name.

The son of Thomas Thursby (d.1510), the founder of Thoresby College, was definitely alive in 1543:

By Thomas Thorysby of Mintling, esquire, to the Mayor and burgesses to convey to them four pieces of pasture in Gaywood which were given to them by the will of Thorysby's father Thomas on condition that the Mayor and burgesses appoint a priest as master of the Charnel to instruct 6 poor children in grammar and song but were re-entered by Thorysby because the conditions were infringed. The Mayor and burgesses undertake to appoint the priest to celebrate mass in the Charnel chapel at the west end of St Margaret's church and instruct the 6 children, 1 October 1543.[31]

This means that he was not the husband of Isabel, who was dead before 1538,[20] that was probably the great-nephew.

Anne Knyvett, the widow of Thomas Thursby, remarries, by license dated 26 January 1543/4[11][10][12]

As for the encloser, there is some definite proof as to who this character was:

Thoresby, dead by the time the complaint was made, had enclosed eight years before, that is in 1540, a year after Lynn Priory was dissolved. Depositions were taken on 25 April 1549 before Sir Nicholas Lestrange, Sir Thomas Hollys, Edward Beawpre and John Dethyk.[30]

This points to the Thomas Thursby who died in 1543 and married Anne Knyvett.

Both Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica[2] and E.M. Yates in The Dispute of the Salt Fen[30] identify him as the son of Thomas Thursby (d.1510), Mayor of King's Lynn.

Since the other Thomas Thursby was dead by at least 1538, and this enclosing took place in 1540, that should settle the question. However, this other Thomas Thursby left behind a son, also named Thomas. And to further complicate matters, the Thomas Thursby who is notorious for enclosing land is tied with the manor of Ashwicken, and Anne Knyvett was to marry Thomas Thuresby of Asshewykyne.[7] And Ashwicken was left to this other branch of the family, it can be found left to the great-nephew Thomas Thursby in 1507.[4][32]

On the other hand, to possess the kind of wealth needed for the amount of property Thomas Thursby the encloser bought, it seems more natural that he was the beneficiary of the will of Thomas Thursby (d.1510), who left his son by the same name great wealth.

The perhaps most natural explanation is that one cousin bought Ashwicken from the other, with some of that great wealth. But those records, if clarifying, concerning as they do, two men of the same name from the same place, may not longer exist, if they ever did so.

However, Francis Blomefield, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, writes the following:

After this, John Jenkin, Gent. conveyed by fine, in the 28th of Henry VIII. the 3d part of the manor of Glosthorpe, with lands in Wyken, Lesyate, Holt, Geyton, &c. to Thomas Thuresby, Esq. (as in Glosthorp) and the said Thomas Thorisby died seized of the manor of Ashwyken, with its appertenances, in the 36th of Henry VIII. The Thorisbys seem to have lived here at this time. Edmund Thoresby, Esq. son of Thomas, by his last will, dated December 20, 1547, desires to be buried in the church of Ashwyken, appoints Ursula his wife executrix, and mentions his brother, Francis Thoresby, Esq. proved January 9 following. (fn. 4) In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Thomas Thoreshy, Esq. had livery of the manors of Ashwiken, Bawsey, Glosthorp, &c. being son and heir of Edmund. In this family it remained till about the year 1700, when Francis Thoresby, Esq. of Geywood, sold it to John Drury, Esq. who in 1675 presented to the rectory as lord.[33]

It seems that the great-nephew had sold the lordship of the manor of Ashwicken either directly to John Jenkin or to somebody who sold it on again to him, and he again sells it about 1527 (i.e. 28th of Henry VIII) to Thomas Thursby, the son of Thomas Thursby (d.1510), just in time for his marriage to Anne Knyvett the same year, perhaps to impress his chosen bride. Thomas Thursby, if the birth year in Miscellanea genealogica of 1487 is correct, would have been 40 years old, Anne Knyvett about 20.

Furthermore, tantalisingly, there is some suggestion that the other branch of Thursbys relocated somewhere else altogether.

Visitations in Norfolk refer to the son of Henry Thursby and Ellen Fotheringhay as 'Thomas Thursbye of Bocking'.[34]

There seems to be general agreement that his great-grandson Christopher Thursby[34][35] was of Bocking.[36][37]

Even Christopher's father, Edward Thursby, gentleman is described as' of Bockinge in Essex'.[36][37]

There is even a primary source reference in 1541 referring to Edward Thursby as of Bocking in Letters and Papers Henry VIII, 1541, g. 580/74:

74. Edm. Beaupre. Annuity of 10l. issuing from the manor of Bocking, Essex, which belonged to Thos. Thurseby, dec., in reversion; during the minority of Edw. Thuresby, s. and h. of the said Thomas; with wardship and marriage of the said heir. Hampton Court, 18 Jan. 32 Hen. VIII. Del. Westm., 16 Feb.—P.S. Pat. p. 5, m. 55.[38]

Track North of Church Road – The Deserted Village of Bawsey

Burke gives us the answer. This branch of Thursbys inherited Doreward Hall in Essex from Helen/Ellen Fotheringhay's Doreward relatives.[3] Her mother was Elizabeth Doreward, and Elizabeth was the heiress of her father William Doreward, and Helen/Ellen herself was the coheiress of her uncle, John Doreward.[3][4]

This is the same line that would later be known as Thursby of Abington.[3][39][40]

Mary Neville Fiennes, Lady Dacre

References
  1. Will of Thomas Thursby, Burgess and Merchant of Lynn Bishop, Norfolk – National Archives. 23 October 1510. In the name of god amen the thirde day of May In the second yere of the Reigne of king Henry the ayth [...] I give unto John G[...]dell son[?] unto Margerie my doughter to [...] above appoynted to Elizabeth my wif during hir life after the decesse of the same Elizabeth and also of the [...] my doughters or their heirs of their bodyes shalhave the same lands and ten[emen]ts after suche [...] any of the said Elizabeth Elyn Beatrice Margarete or the said John Gryndell [...]
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  3. Burke, John (1833). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Univested with Heritable Honours. H. Colburn.
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  5. "CatalogueRef: NCC will register Gylys 97. Title: Thursby, Elizabeth, widow, 'Robert Aylmer late my husbond', of Norwich. Date: 1518. Description: Will. Level: Item. Repository: Norfolk Record Office". nrocat.norfolk.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-27. In the name of god Amen the ciij daye the monyth of Decemb In the yere of o[u]r lord god ye ccccc [...] I Elizabeth Thursby of norwiche widow in my good mynde and hole Remembrance beyng (laudyd be god) at norwiche make this my testament and last last wyll in this wyse ffirst I comend my soule to allmythi god and too o[u]r blessed lady Sancte Marie and mother to criste Jhu. Sancte Laurance myn [...] and to Sancte Andrew and to all the holy sanctes in hevyn and my body for to be burid in the churche of Sancte Andrew in norwiche by the sepultcre of Robert Aylmer late my husband whos hey altar ther I bequethe xxd I bequethe to the Reparacons and admo[...] of the sayd churche x marcs It[e]m I will have a wexe [wax] candyll of a pownde to beurne[? burn] dayly upon my grave by the space of one hole yere nexte after my decesse. And in the myghtye within the same yere I wyll have a lampe brenning duryng the sayd yere And I geve and bequethe to hym that shall kepe and give attendance to the same [...] the yere aforesayd, It[e]m I bequethe to the sayd churche of Sancte andrew my best [...] masse bok and my best chales gylte It[e]m I bequethe to the hey altar of the churche of Sancte Laurance in norwiche [...] and to the Reparacon of the same churche [...] marcs [...] and my nexte best chales gilte It[e]m I will thatt myn executores ffynde a seculer preist to syng and pray for my Sowlle my husbands Sowlles Robert John and Thomas, my childers Sowlles Richard Thomas and Cecyly my frende and benefactors Sowlles within the churche of Sancte Andrew aforesayd by the space of [...] yeres nexte after my deceasse takyng [...] yere to hir [...] It[e]m I wyll thatt myn executores shall ffynde a nothis [...] preiste to syng and praye for my Sowlle and for the Sowlles aforesayd within the churche of Sancte Laurance aforesayd by the space of ij yeer nexte after my deceasse [...] It[e]m I bequethe to the churche of Sancte George of Colegate my [...] and xxb, It I bequethe to the Reparacons of thes churches folowyng that [...] too say Sancte Martens att the parish gate, Sancte [...], Sancte John of Madermarket and Sancte Peter of Mancrofte to iche of them xxb, It[e]m I will thatt myn executores shall kepe my dirige and messe solemnly amyt in the [...] and masse to iche of them ijd It[e]m to the clerke and [...] of the same churche of Sancte Andrew [...] for ther labor and attendance in tollyng of the belles an ij att the clokke att after none to the dirige and for tollyng of the belle the nexte day att [...] of the clokke to masse [...] I bequethe to iche of them for ther labor and attendance iijd, It[e]m I will have ij children att the sayd dirige and messe in ther [...] att the sayd diriges and masses to pray for [...] It[e]m I bequethe to the curate in the sayd churche for the [...] the fyrst day of September nexte after the date hereof It[e]m I bequethe to dame Elizabeth canf my goddoughter beyng a nune in blakburyh abbey [Blackborough Priory] xxb, It[e]m too Anne Canf xb, Item I bequethe to the [...] It[e]m I bequethe to iche anker and ankerisse in norwiche [...] It[e]m I bequethe to the presoners in the castell and in the Guyldhall of norwiche att the day of my buryall to iche of them in mete and money ijd, It[e]m I bequethe to iche person beyng a Lazar [...] att the Lazar houses att the w. gates of norwiche ijd It[e]m I bequethe to the Sisters of normans within norwiche iiijd It[e]m I bequethe to the churche of Sancte Clement in London where my Sonne Thomas Aylmer lighe buryd xxb It[e]m I bequethe to the Reparacons of the of the churche of Sancte Margaret in [...] It[e]m I bequethe to Helene Ayllmer, Elizabeth, Margrett and Cecely Aylmer the daughters of my Sonne Richard Aylmer whenne they [...] to the age of [...] yeres to Iche of them x marcs and to iche of them an the sayd age in plate [...] of the sayd Helen, Elizabeth Margrett and Cecily or all to dcesse[?] by for the age of the sayd [...] I wyll thatt the sayd Legatt made to the sayd chylde and childers to [...] of pythe and charite for my Sowlle my husbands Sowlles and all cristen Sowlles by myn executores It I wyll thatt my place lyyng in Sancte Andrews parishe be sollyd by myn executores and the monye ther of c[...]yng to go to the pformance of this my [...] testament, [...] It[e]m I bequethe to Nicholas Gapston[?] Willm Amyes and Nicholas Osborn to iche of them [...] marcs It I wyll have a manne to goo in pylgrimage for my Sonne Thomas to o[u]r lady of malsynggny [Marcigny] and he too have for his labor iijb iiijd It[e]m I wyll have a manne to goo in pilgrimage to Sancte Antonye att Camb[irs]ton [Camber] in Sussex and he to have for his labor [...] It[e]m I bequethe to Thomas Thursby an agnus dei Silver and gilte withe holy wexe [wax] ther in and too his wyff A Image of o[u]r lady Silver and gilte It I bequethe to Elizabeth Westgate A payre of Smalle corall be[a]ds of [...] dyspose for my Sowlle myn childers Sowlles myn husbands Sowlles and all my frendes Sowlles in [...] to the moste plesire of god and comfort to my Sowlle [...] I orden and make my welbelovyd in criste
  6. "Impington: Manors and other estates | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-30. The other half manor, FERME PART, was held by Thomas Thursby (d. 1543), his son Edmund (fn. 49) (d. 1547), and for life by Edmund's widow Ursula, wife of Erasmus Spelman. Ursula's son Thomas Thursby, of age c. 1565, (fn. 50) held it by 1567 (fn. 51) and sold it in 1579 to John Pepys, the lessee from c. 1569.
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  8. "Norfolk Record Office - NROCAT: on-line catalogue". nrocat.norfolk.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-05. CatalogueRef: BL/O/X/12. Title: Copy of covenant for a marriage settlement on Ann Knyvett, one of the Queen's gentlewomen and one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Knyvett deceased, and Thomas Thuresby [Thoresby] of Asshewykyne, esq., for conveyance by said Thomas Thuresby to Sir Robert Dymook [the King's champion], chancellor to Queen Katherine, Sir Philip Tylney, Gryffyth Richards, Christopher Jenny, John Scott, Charles Bulkley, Sir John Cressener, William Conningesby, Thomas Guybon senior, Francis Mounfforde, John Fyncham of Fyncham, esq., and Thomas Guybon, son and heir of above Thomas, of manors of Rustons and Redehall, moiety of manor of Bawdsey and all possessions in Gayton, Gaytonthorpe, Congham, Rydon, Bawsey, Walton and Rysing. Date: 31 May 1527. Level: Piece. Repository: Norfolk Record Office. Extent: 1 roll
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  14. Catalogue Description: Alderman v Gryndell. Plaintiffs: The alderman, keepers, and 'skabyns' of the gild merchant of the Holy Trinity, KING'S LYNN. Defendants: Margery, late the wife of James GRYNDELL, alderman of the gild, and James his son, executors of the said James. Subject: Account of money and goods of the gild. Norfolk. RHP Date: 1538-1544 Held by: The National Archives, Kew. 1538–1544.
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  19. "Impington: Manors and other estates | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-28. John's widow Margaret held Impington until her death in 1528, (fn. 34) when it passed under a settlement of 1512 to their daughters Margaret, wife of George Heveningham, and Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Thursby.
  20. Catalogue Description: Thursby v Calybut. Plaintiffs: Isabel, late the wife of Thomas Thursby. Defendants: John Calybut of Castleacre. Subject: Profits of the manor of Southacre whereof defendant is tenant. Norfolk. SFP. Date: 1532-1538. Held by: The National Archives, Kew. 1532–1538.
  21. Catalogue Description: Knyvet v Aylmer. Plaintiffs: Sir William Knyvet, knight. Defendants: Elizabeth, late the wife of Robert Aylmer, and William Ferrour, his executors, and Thomas Cause and John Westgate, executors of John Wellys. Subject: Detention of property of Robert Toppis. Norfolk. 9 documents. Date: 1493-1500. Held by: The National Archives, Kew. 1493–1500.
  22. "Henry VIII: May 1521, 11-20 | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-30. Paid to Eliz. knevet at Easter last, money due to her at Lady Day, 20l. To M. Geddyng, toward the burying of my said cousin, 15l.
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  30. Yates, E.M. (1982). The Dispute of the Salt Fen (PDF). Norfolk Archaeology 38. pp. 73–78.
  31. "Norfolk Record Office - NROCAT: on-line catalogue". nrocat.norfolk.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-05. CatalogueRef: KL/C 58/2/1. Title: Deed of covenant of Thomas Thorysby. Date: 1543. Description: By Thomas Thorysby of Mintling, esquire, to the Mayor and burgesses to convey to them four pieces of pasture in Gaywood which were given to them by the will of Thorysby's father Thomas on condition that the Mayor and burgesses appoint a priest as master of the Charnel to instruct 6 poor children in grammar and song but were re-entered by Thorysby because the conditions were infringed. The Mayor and burgesses undertake to appoint the priest to celebrate mass in the Charnel chapel at the west end of St Margaret's church and instruct the 6 children, 1 October 1543. Harrod reference Bb 6. Level: Piece. Repository: King's Lynn Borough Archives. Extent: 1 parchment
  32. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Entries 401-450 | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-04. C. Series II. Vol. 21. (55.) 413. HENRY THURSBY of Asweken. Writ 3 December, 22 Henry VII; inquisition 14 October, 23 Henry VII. Robert Thursby, father of the said Henry, was seised in fee of the under-mentioned manors of Asweken and Burhall, and granted by deed to Henry Thursby aforesaid and Ellen his wife an annuity of 10 marks for life in survivorship out of the issues of the manor of Asweken, with a clause of distraint for non-payment. Afterwards, by charter dated at Asweken, 4 November, 15 Henry VII, he enfeoffed Thomas Guybon, John Fyncham of Owtwell, Thomas Thursby, Humphrey Karvyle and William Burwell and their heirs of the said manors for the performance of his last will. By his said will he directed that after his death the said feoffees should be seised of the manors to the use of the said Henry Thursby, his heirs and assigns; and on his death they were seised thereof accordingly. Subsequently the said Henry made his last will of the premises, and thereby directed that after his death his executors should take the issues and profits of the manor of Asweken until Thomas Thursby, one of his sons, should reach the age of 24 years, the proceeds to be employed in the payment of his debts and the performance of his said will; that on reaching the age of 24 years Thomas should have the said manor in tail; that the executors should similarly take the issues and profits of the manor of Burghall until Henry Thursby, his other son, should reach the age of 24 years; and that on reaching that age the said Henry the son should have the said manor in tail. Henry the father died 20 September, 22 Henry VII. The said Thomas Thursby, aged 9 years and more, is his son and heir. NORFOLK. Manors of Asweken (worth 5 marks) and Burhall in Hyllyngton (worth 40s.), held of Thomas, marquess of Dorset, as of his hundred of Frebrygge, in socage, by service of 4s. 4d. yearly.
  33. "Freebridge Hundred and Half: Wyken, alias Ashwyken, Lesiate, and Holt | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  34. Rye, Walter; Hervey, William; Cooke, Clarenceux; Raven, John. The visitacion [i.e., visitation] of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, anno 1563, enlarged with another visitacion [sic] made by Clarenceux Cook : with many other descents, and also the vissitation [sic] made. Family History Library. p. 283.
  35. Rye, Walter; Hervey, William; Cooke, Clarenceux; Raven, John. The visitacion [i.e., visitation] of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, anno 1563, enlarged with another visitacion [sic] made by Clarenceux Cook : with many other descents, and also the vissitation [sic] made. Family History Library. p. 284.
  36. Metcalfe, Walter C. (Walter Charles). The visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634 : to which are added miscellaneous Essex pedigrees from various Harleian manuscripts, and an appendix containing Berry's Essex pedigrees v.13. Family History Library. p. 298.
  37. Metcalfe, Walter C. (Walter Charles). The visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634 : to which are added miscellaneous Essex pedigrees from various Harleian manuscripts, and an appendix containing Berry's Essex pedigrees v.13. Family History Library. p. 502.
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