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Family and Education
s. and h. of Robert Hewster (fl.1408) of Lichfield, Staffs., by his w. Sarah. His parentage is proved by a final concord levied in 1412, where he is described as ‘Thomas, son of Robert Hewster of Lichfield’: CP25(1)/211/21/70. Robert and his w. Sarah, as resident in Lichfield, paid 3s. to the poll tax of 1379: Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xvii. 163. Robert lived to see at least the beginning of his son’s career. In Nov. 1408 he was party to a fine concerning property in Great Barr: CP25(1)/211/21/54. m. (1) by Mich. 1405, Eleanor, wid. of Henry Brown (fl.1402) of Lichfield, Staffs., s.p.; (2) by 18 Jan. 1417, Elizabeth (fl.1462), da. and h. of Thomas Lyttleton (d.1422/3) of Frankley, Worcs., by Maud Quatermayns (d. by 1448), ?4s. inc. Edmund Westcote†, 4da. According to a lost memorial window in Frankley church: Genealogist, n.s. xxxviii. 19.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Worcs. 1425, 1429, 1432, 1435.

Second prothonotary, ct. of c.p. Easter 1403-Mich. 1416; first prothonotary Hil. 1417 – d.

Master, guild of St. Mary, Lichfield Dec. 1405–6, 1412–14. T. Harwood, Lichfield, 401–2.

Associate justice of assize, Berks., Oxon., Worcs. by Mar. 1406 – aft.Feb. 1428.

J.p. Staffs. 20 Feb. 1407 – Mar. 1410, Mar. 1410-July 1415 (q.), 4 Dec. 1417-July 1423 (q.), Worcs. 12 Feb. 1422-July 1424 (q.), 20 July 1424-Dec. 1431, 14 Apr. 1435–d. (q.)

Commr. of gaol delivery, Oxford castle, bef. Oct. 1408, Feb. 1416, Feb. 1438, castles of Gloucester, Oxford, Worcester July 1414, Worcester Aug. 1416 (q.), Feb. 1417, Feb. 1426, May 1427, Feb. 1429, Mar. 1431, June 1432, July, Nov. 1433, Feb., Mar. 1437, July 1438, Gloucester, Hereford, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Worcester Feb. 1420, June 1421, Jan., July 1422, Feb. 1423, July 1424, June 1426, Gloucester, Worcester July 1425, Stafford May 1426, Gloucester Feb., June, July 1428, Feb. 1439, Hereford June 1428, Feb. 1431, Feb. 1432, Jan. 1438, Jan. 1439, Gloucester, Oxford July 1430, Hereford, Worcester Feb. 1433, Shrewsbury Feb. 1434, Gloucester, Hereford, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Windsor, Worcester Feb. 1435, Hereford, Oxford, Worcester July 1437; inquiry, Oxon. June 1414 (riots at Nuneham), Berks., Glos., Herefs., Oxon., Salop, Staffs., Worcs. Feb. 1422 (escapes); oyer and terminer, Glos. July 1414 (counterfeiters), Oxon. Aug. 1416 (complaint by abbot of Abingdon against Sir John Drayton†), Dec. 1418 (dispute between the abbot of Oseney and men of Oxford), Worcs. Jan. 1439 (treasons, etc.); to take assizes of novel disseisin, Glos. Feb. 1427, July 1428, Feb. 1434, Oxon. June 1435; treat for loans, Worcs. Mar. 1430, Mar. 1431; assess subsidy Jan. 1436.

Parlimentarian
HEWSTER, Thomas (d.1439), of Worcester and Cowsden, Worcs.
Main residences: Worcester; Cowsden, Worcs.
Westcote
Author
S.J.P.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
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