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yr. s. of Sir Thomas Hoo (d.1420) of Luton Hoo, Beds. and Wartling, Suss. by his 2nd w. Elizabeth (d.1465), da. of Sir William Etchingham of Etchingham, Suss. and Alice, da. and coh. of William Battisford of Benenden, Kent; CP, vi. 567; Suss. Arch. Collns. viii. 110; Archaeologia Cantiana, xxviii. 199, 228, 230-1. yr. half-bro. of Thomas Hoo I* and stepson of Sir Thomas Lewknor*. educ. M. Temple. J.H. Baker, Men of Ct. (Selden Soc. supp. ser. xviii), i. 120. m. (1) bef. 1447, Alice, da. and h. of Walter Urry*; The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 692-3. (2) Alice (fl.1491), s.p. Dist. 1465.
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Attestor, parlty. election, Suss. 1453.

Commr. to hold assize of novel disseisin, Suss. July 1446; C66/462, m. 5d. of inquiry Mar. 1448 (smuggling), Apr. 1451 (capture of a Portuguese vessel and theft of its cargo at Winchelsea), May 1451 (treasons and felonies), Kent Jan. 1454 (assisted escape of a prisoner), Suss. Dec. 1456 (smuggling), Feb. 1457 (escapes from bp. of Chichester’s prison), July 1457 (admiralty jurisdiction in estates of bp. of Chichester), May 1458 (homicide), Surr., Suss. Sept. 1462 (lands of John, 3rd duke of Norfolk), Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms); to assess tax allowances, Suss. Aug. 1449; treat for loans Sept. 1449, Surr., Suss. Dec. 1452, May 1455; PPC, vi. 240. assess tax on incomes from land, Suss. Aug. 1450; find contributors for cost of an army to relieve Calais, Surr., Suss. Jan. 1452; of arrest, Kent, Surr., Suss. Dec. 1452, Suss. Aug. 1453; gaol delivery, Maidstone July 1453 (q.), Guildford Dec. 1453 (q.), May 1456 (q.), Aug. 1470, Guildford castle Feb. 1474 (q.), July 1481 (q.), Apr. 1482 (q.), Dec. 1484 (q.); C66/477, m. 36d; 478, m. 21d; 481, m. 13d; 526, m. 6d; 532, m. 12d; 548, m. 6d; 549, m. 23d; 558, m. 21d. array, Suss. May 1454, Aug. 1456, Sept. 1458, Dec. 1459, Jan. 1460, Feb. 1470, Mar. 1472, May, Dec. 1484; sewers May, Sept. 1455, May 1456, Nov. 1457; to assign archers Dec. 1457, watches for coastal defence Feb. 1458; levy money for coastal defence July 1462.

J.p. Suss. 7 Aug. 1448 (q.)-Oct. 1450, 14 Oct. 1450 – Nov. 1451, 16 Nov. 1451 (q.)-Nov. 1458, 16 Feb. 1468 (q.)-Nov. 1470, 20 June 1471 (q.)-Nov. 1474, 24 Nov. 1474–5, 23 June 1477 (q.)-Nov. 1478, 22 Nov. 1478 – May 1479, 26 May 1479 (q.)-Sept. 1485, 2 Oct. 1486 – d.

Steward of the estates of Sir John Pelham in Suss. by Sept. 1447-aft. 1455; Suss. Arch. Collns. lvi. 123; Ct. Rolls Rape of Hastings (Suss. Rec. Soc. xxxvii), pp. xxxviii, xxxix. jt. (with John Goring†) of the estates of Bp. Kemp of London in Surr. and Suss. 12 May 1460-aft. Dec. 1478. SC6/1140/25–27.

Steward for the 3rd and 4th dukes of Norfolk at Bosham, Suss. by Mich. 1453-aft. 1481, barony of Lewes by Mich. 1457-aft. 1481, Bramber and Lewes, Suss. and in Surr. by 1472-aft. 1479; W. Suss. RO, Bosham Acc. 939/II/A19–21; L.E. Moye, ‘Estates and Finances of the Mowbray Fam.’ (Duke Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1985), 437, 439, 441; KB145/7/21; Arundel Castle mss, A1871; Recs. Rape of Lewes (Suss. Rec. Soc. xliv), 67. constable of Framlingham castle, Suff., and treasurer of the household of the 4th duke prob. by Sept. 1462-aft. June 1466; R. Loder, Hist. Framlingham, 397; Howard Household Bks. ed. Crawford, i. 149, 151, 165–6, 452; Moye, 424; C.F. Richmond, Paston Fam.: Endings, 135n; Norf. RO, Phillips mss, Phi/606/1–8. master forester of St. Leonard’s forest, Grinstead by 1472 – 26 June 1475, jt. with Sir Henry Roos† 26 June 1475-aft. 1479; Moye, 440; DL29/454/7312, 7313; VCH Suss. vi (3), 25. bailiff for the 4th duke, Surr., Suss. at Easter 1474, of rape of Lewes Easter 1475. E368/247, rot. 2d; KB27/855, fines rot. 1d.

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HOO, Thomas II (d.1486), of Roffey in Horsham, Suss.
Main residence: Roffey in Horsham, Suss.
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