LYTE, Thomas (c.1410-c.1468), of Oakley and Lytes Cary, Cornw.

Family and Education

b. c.1410, Reg. Bekynton, ii (Som. Rec. Soc. l), 1637. s. and h. of John Lyte (fl.1449) of Lytes Cary, by Agnes, da. of John Aysshe and Agnes (d.1428), sis. and coh. of Gregory Marlborough of Loders, Dorset. m. c.1439, Joan, ?da. of – Fitzjames of Redlynch, Wilts., 1s. H.C. Maxwell-Lyte, ‘The Lytes of Lytescary’, Procs. Som. Arch. Soc. xxxviii (2), 1-100.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Som. 1449 (Feb.), 1449 (Nov.), 1450, 1455, 1460, 1467.

Bailiff of Grovely forest, Wilts. by appointment of John Holand, duke of Exeter, bef. Aug. 1447–?d. CIPM, xxvi. 539.

Commr. of inquiry, Som. Aug. 1449 (lands granted in mortmain without licence, and pertaining to the Crown by forfeiture).

Coroner, Som. to 10 Dec. 1450. Dismissed as unfit: CCR, 1447–54, p. 203.

Bailiff of the hundred of Bruton, Som. by 1451–2. Som. Archs., Lyte mss, DD\X\LY/3, p. 35.

Parlimentarian

LYTE, Thomas (c.1410-c.1468), of Oakley and Lytes Cary, Cornw.

Main residences: Oakley; Lytes Cary, Cornw.

Lute, Luyt, Luyte

Author

L.S.C.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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