CHARLTON, Thomas (c.1417-65), of Edmonton and South Mimms, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. c.1417, C139/126/18. s. and h. of Sir Thomas Charlton*. CFR, xvii. 335. m. 21 Jan. 1442, Benedicta (d. bef. May 1463), da. of Sir Richard Vernon*, CCR, 1441-7, pp. 42-43; 1461-8, p. 181; The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 713. 2s., 3da. PCC 8 Godyn (PROB11/5, f. 60); CCR, 1461-8, pp. 181-2; Westminster Abbey mun. 5471, f. 18v. Kntd. between 19 Apr. 1451 and 16 Feb. 1453. CFR, xviii. 198; CPR, 1452-61, p. 60.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Mdx. 1449 (Feb.), 1450. The Thomas Charlton who headed the Mdx. attestors in 1429 and 1432 and found sureties for the elected knights on the former occasion was not styled a knight, but on account of the younger Thomas’s probable age at this date it is likely that this was the result of a clerical oversight: C219/14/1/54, 3/49.

Commr. to distribute tax allowances, Mdx. Mar. 1442, June 1453; treat for loans Sept. 1449; of arrest Feb. 1453, Sept. 1464; oyer and terminer Nov. 1455, London, Mdx. July 1460; KB9/75/1; PROME, xiv. 44–45. array, Mdx. Sept. 1457, Dec. 1459; to assign archers Dec. 1457.

J.p. Mdx. 30 June 1449 – d.

Speaker, 16 Feb. – 17 Apr. 1454.

Sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 11 Dec. 1455 – 17 Nov. 1456.

Controller of the Household c. Aug. 1460-Feb. 1461. Westminster Abbey mun. 6625, m. 7; PROME, xiii. 350–1.

Parlimentarian

CHARLTON, Thomas (c.1417-65), of Edmonton and South Mimms, Mdx.

Main residences: Edmonton; South Mimms, Mdx.

Charleton, Cherleton

Author

H.W.K.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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