TREGARTHEN, Thomas, of Tregarthen, Cornw. and Plymouth, Devon.

Family and Education

educ. adm. L. Inn bef. 1450-1. L. Inn Adm. i. 11. m. 1s. Many aspects of Tregarthen’s later career are difficult to distinguish from those of his synonymous son.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Cornw. 1467, 1478.

King’s serjt. by 20 Apr. 1447. CPR, 1446–52, p. 53.

Bailiff, stannary of Penwith and Kirrier 20 Apr. 1447–1460. CPR, 1446–52, p. 53. He accounted from 1450: SC6/816/1–4; 821/7–9, 11; Duchy of Cornw. Off., ministers’ accts. 54, 55.

Jt. water-bailiff, Dartmouth ?c.1458-c. July 1461. H.R.Watkin, Dartmouth, 399, 402; CPR, 1446–52, p. 221; 1461–7, p. 23.

Commr. of inquiry, Cornw. Nov. 1464 (Hungerford lands); arrest Nov. 1475.

Mayor, Plymouth 1481–2. This date is suggested by an entry in ‘Tregarthen’s Book’, although the list of mayors in the later ‘Black Book’ dates Tregarthen’s mayoralty to 1480: Plymouth Mun. Recs. ed Worth, 15, 87.

J.p. Cornw. 27 Sept. 1485 – Feb. 1487, 17 Feb. 1488–?d.

Coroner, Cornw. ?Oct. 1485–?d. C261/2/22.

Parlimentarian

TREGARTHEN, Thomas, of Tregarthen, Cornw. and Plymouth, Devon.

Main residences: Tregarthen, Cornw.; Plymouth, Devon.

Tregardyan, Tregarthon, Tregarthyn

Author

H.W.K.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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