Constituency Dates
Carlisle 1435
Family and Education
prob. s. and h. of John Thompson† (fl.1421). m. Katherine, da. and h. of William (or John) More of Carlisle.1 The Chancery petition from which this information is drawn names her father as both William and John: C1/26/239.
Address
Main residence: Carlisle, Cumb.
biography text

Nicholas was probably the son of the city’s MP for the Parliament of 1421 (Dec.). He was certainly a citizen of Carlisle. This is apparent from a petition he presented to the chancellor at some date before the spring of 1426, complaining that another citizen, Thomas More, a feoffee to the use of Nicholas’s wife in two messuages in the city, had refused to make estate to her. One of the pledges for the prosecution of the petition was a London brewer, John Thompson, who was presumably a kinsman. Beyond his election for the city in 1435, no more is certainly known of him, although he is perhaps to be identified with the namesake who, in 1439, was a tenant of Sir William Leigh* at Blindcrake, some miles to the south-west of Carlisle.2 C1/26/239; C219/14/5; CIPM, xxv. 250; CCR, 1435-41, p. 296.

Author
S.J.P.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Alternative Surnames
Thomson
Notes
  • 1. The Chancery petition from which this information is drawn names her father as both William and John: C1/26/239.
  • 2. C1/26/239; C219/14/5; CIPM, xxv. 250; CCR, 1435-41, p. 296.