DANVERS, Thomas (c.1430-1502), of London and Waterstock, Oxon.

Family and Education

b. c.1430, He was said to be aged 47 and more at the death of his gt. uncle in 1477: C140/62/44. yr. s. of John Danvers* by his 2nd w.; yr. half-bro. of Robert* and Richard*, and er. bro. of William†; coh. of his maternal gt. uncle Richard Quatermayns* (d.1477). educ. I. Temple. C1/90/34, where he states he was sometime fellow ‘of the Temple’ with John Catesby, serj.-at-law. m. (1) a da. of James Fiennes*, Lord Saye and Sele, ?1s. d.v.p. ; (2) by Apr. 1479, Sibyl (d. 8 July 1511), da. of William Fowler*, wid. of Robert Brecknock of Clewer, Berks., F.N. Macnamara, Mems. Danvers Fam. ped. between pp. 154 and 155, 155-6. For his son, ‘who died young’, see pp. 165-6. s.p. Kntd. 14 Oct. 1501. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 33.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Hants 1478.

Collector, tunnage and poundage, London 17 Oct. 1456-Mich. 1457, E122/203/4. customs and subsidies, Sandwich 29 Sept.–7 Dec.1458; Although appointed on 2 Aug., he only accounted from Mich.: CFR, xix. 197; E356/20, rot. 43. controller, Southampton 10 Mar. 1477 – 24 May 1483.

J.p.q. Oxon. 16 Mar. – Nov. 1458, 28 Feb. 1474 – Nov. 1475, 23 May 1480 – June 1483, 5 Dec. 1483 – Sept. 1485, 12 Dec. 1485 – d., Oxf. Univ. 5 Apr. 1475-c.1476, Hants 12 July–Nov. 1477, 19 Jan. 1478 – Nov. 1486, Oxford 3 Oct. 1480-c.1485, 19 Oct. 1498 – d.

Envoy to treat for prorogation of the truce with the duke of Burgundy 1 Oct., 26 Nov. 1459. C76/142, m. 22.

Commr. of array, Oxon. Dec. 1459, May, Dec. 1484; gaol delivery, Oxford castle Dec. 1459 (q.), Jan. 1460, Wallingford castle Dec. 1482, Oxford castle May, Oct. 1484 (q.), Stokenchurch Mar. 1485 (q.), Wallingford castle May 1485 (q.), C66/488, mm. 4d, 12d; 550, m. 27d; 555, m. 11d; 558, m. 8d; 559, mm. 11d, 19d. Nov. 1490, Feb. 1497, Oxford castle Aug. 1497; to assess subsidies on aliens, Hants, Oxon. Apr. 1483, Hants Aug. 1483, Feb. 1484; of oyer and terminer, Berks. July 1485; to summon landowners to supply archers for King’s army for Brittany, Oxon. Dec. 1488; of inquiry July 1496 (escapes from Oxford gaol).

Treasurer of Wolvesey for Bp. Waynflete of Winchester ? Nov. 1476–1486. Hants RO, bp. of Winchester’s pipe rolls, 11M59/B1/206, 207 (formerly 155841–2).

Bailiff of Bp. Waynflete’s lordships of Adderbury, Oxon., and Harwell, Berks. by Mich. 1478-aft. Mich. 1480. Ibid.

Parlimentarian

DANVERS, Thomas (c.1430-1502), of London and Waterstock, Oxon.

Main residences: London; Waterstock, Oxon.

Author

L.S.C.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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