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m. (1) 1s. Thomas II*; Plymouth and W. Devon RO, Woollcombe mss, 710/938. (2) Katherine; C1/29/74. It is just possible that this Katherine was the wid. of the London mercer Henry Osbarn, who is known to have married a Thomas Gille. Yet this is more likely to have been the Thomas Gille who was admitted to the Mercers’ Co. in 1421-2 on completion of an apprenticeship with Robert Domenyk, which he had begun in 1405-6: Med. Acct. Bks. of the Mercers ed. Jefferson, 192-3; A.F. Sutton, Mercery of London , 284; eadem, ‘Alice Domenyk-Markby-Shipley-Portaleyn’, Ricardian, xx. 27, 30, 32-33; CPR, 1436-41, p. 330; CP40/678, rot. 329d. (3) Joan. CP40/825, rot. 421.
Offices Held

Commr. of arrest, Cornw. May 1431, Cornw., Devon June 1431 (q.), Aug. 1432, Nov. 1435, Devon June 1436, CPR, 1429–36, p. 608 misdates this comm. to 1435. Cornw., Devon Apr. 1452, Devon Nov. 1455; to arrest ships Feb. 1434; of inquiry Sept. 1434 (injuries done to John de Port), SC8/135/6718. Cornw., Devon Nov. 1436 (export of precious metals and customs evasion), Devon May 1439 (will of Roger Bolter), Hants. Jan. 1440 (customs evasion), CIMisc. viii. 137. Devon Feb. 1441 (robbery, piracy), Nov. 1442 (piracy), C145/311/3. Cornw., Devon Nov. 1447 (unlicensed trade with Iceland), Bristol, Cornw., Devon Feb. 1448 (concealments), C145/313/11. Dorset, Hants., Som., Wilts. May 1448 (lands of William Horsy), C254/145/2; E159/235, recorda Easter, rot. 5. Cornw., Devon Dec. 1451, CPR, 1446–52, p. 536; KB27/768, rex rot. 5; 771, rex rot. 6; KB9/270/30–33. Cornw. Mar. 1452 (piracy), Devon Aug. 1452 (lands of John Boyville), July 1454, Aug. 1455, Apr. 1458, Dartmouth Sept. 1460 (piracy); to requisition ships, Exeter Mar. 1436, Cornw., Devon, Dorset, Hants, Som. Mar. 1439, Bristol, Bridgwater, Fowey, Plymouth, Dartmouth, Exeter, Melcombe Regis, Poole, Southampton May 1439, Cornw., Devon Jan. 1440, Southampton Nov. 1441, Devon July 1446; take musters, Kent July 1436, CPR, 1429–36, p. 611 misdates the comm. to 1435. of the duke of York’s forces May 1441, Plymouth Dec. 1442; The muster was taken on 11 Feb. 1443: E101/695/40. survey ships, Cornw., Devon Dec. 1447; enjoin ships to sail to Plymouth, London Mar. 1453; of array, Devon June 1454.

Collector of customs and subsidies, Exeter and Dartmouth 17 Aug. 1433–24 Nov. 1440, E122/40/33; 183/18; 222/2/38/1, 2; E403/721, m. 8; 734, m. 1; 736, m. 9. 20 June 1447–31 Mar. 1455, E356/19, rots. 17–18d; 20, rots. 56–57; E403/769, m. 6; 773, m. 9; 786, mm. 1, 4; 791, m. 3; E102/2, rots. 16, 17d, 18, 20, 23, 25–28, 32, 34; E122/113/57/6. Southampton 18 Jan. 1440–25 Jan. 1442. E403/740, m. 9; 743, m. 5; E356/19, rots. 17d-18d; 20, rots. 56–57

Escheator, Devon and Cornw. 23 Nov. 1436–7, 4 Nov. 1447 – 6 Nov. 1448, 13 Nov. 1452 – 3 Dec. 1453.

Surveyor of royal officials, Bridgwater, Fowey, Plymouth, Dartmouth, Exeter, Melcombe Regiss, Poole 27 May 1447–?June 1450. E403/769, m. 6.

Bailiff of Haytor hundred, Devon, for Sir John Dynham of Nutwell by Apr. 1448. KB9/258/6; KB27/749, rex rot. 4.

Bailiff, Dartmouth Mich. 1463–4. H.R. Watkin, Dartmouth, 141.

Parlimentarian
GILLE, Thomas I (d.1466), of Nethway and Hatch ‘Arundell’ in Loddiswell, Devon.
Main residences: Nethway; Hatch ‘Arundell’ in Loddiswell, Devon.
Gill, Gylle
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H.W.K.
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Commons 1422-1461
Will
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Oxford 1644
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