TYRELL, Thomas (c.1413-77), of Heron in East Horndon, Essex.

Family and Education

b. c.1413, s. and h. of John Tyrell*; nephew of Edward*; bro. of William I* and William II*. CIPM, xxv. 5. According to P. Morant, Essex, i. 208, Tyrell was John’s second but eldest surviving son. m. bef. July 1428, CFR, xxi. no. 830. Anne (d.1484), da. of Sir William Marney† (d.1414) of Layer Marney, Essex, and Kingsey, Bucks., 4s. (2 d.v.p.), 2da. Ric. III, Crown and People ed. Petre, 212-13; The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 694; PCC 31 Wattys (PROB11/6, ff. 237-41). Morant, i. 209, accepts that Sir William Marney was the MP’s father-in-law but refers to Tyrell’s wife as ‘Emma’. Elsewhere, however, it calls her father ‘Sir John Marney’: ibid. ii. 54. Both HP Biogs. ed. Wedgwood and Holt, and Ric. III, Crown and People, 203, 212-13, state he married twice, on each occasion to a lady from the Marney family (of whom the first was Emma, daughter of Sir John Marney) but no evidence to support this assertion has been found. Kntd. c. 1445. Between Nov. 1444 and Feb. 1446: CFR, xvii. 303; CPR, 1441-6, p. 470.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Essex ?1432, 1435, 1449 (Nov.), 1450. HP Biogs. 891, assumes that the Thomas Tyrell who attested the return of the county’s knights of the shire to the Parliament of 1427 was the MP, but at this date the subject of this biography was only some 14 years of age. As for the election of 1432, it is unclear whether the MP (then technically still a minor) was the attestor in question.

Commr. of inquiry, Essex July 1439 (non-payment of customs and subsidies and other offences), Oct. 1446 (lands of Bartholomew Page), Sept. 1447 (complaint of abbey of St. Mary, Stratford Langthorne), Essex, Herts. Feb. 1448 (concealments), Kent Jan. 1451 (treasons of Jack Cade and other rebels), Essex Feb. 1451 (heretics and lollards), May 1455 (escapes of felons), Feb. 1457 (felonies and murders), Essex, Norf., Suff. July 1466 (illegal shipment of merchandise), Essex Oct. 1470 (felonies, murders and other offences), Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Dec. 1473 (lands of the late earl of Wiltshire), Dec. 1474 (complaint of Prussian merchants); to distribute tax allowance Mar. 1442, Aug. 1449; treat for loans, Essex, Herts. June 1446, Essex Sept. 1449, Dec. 1452, Apr. 1454, May 1455; PPC, vi. 239. of sewers June 1448 (Thames estuary), Nov. 1454 (river Thames between Bow and East Tilbury), Feb. 1456 (Bow to Wigborough); assess subsidy, London, Essex Aug. 1450, Essex July 1463; rally King’s lieges and arrest and imprison traitors Sept. 1450; of oyer and terminer, Kent, Suss. Dec. 1450 (treasons and other offences), Colchester July 1451 (treasons and felonies), London Oct. 1451 (treasons and felonies of Thomas Daniell*), Essex Nov. 1454 (treasons and other offences), Essex, Kent, Suff. Sept. 1458, Essex Oct. 1470 (felonies, murders and other offences), Feb. 1472 (treasonable offences of Sir Thomas de Vere and others); gaol delivery, Colchester Jan. 1451, Nov. 1453, Colchester castle Jan. 1451, Nov. 1454, Mar. 1457, June, Aug. 1458, Feb., June 1463; C66/472, m. 18d; 478, m. 21d; 479, m. 20d; 482, m. 7d; 485, mm. 2d, 8d; 500, m. 25d; 505, m. 6d. to take musters, Devon May 1451; of array, Harwich July 1451, Essex Sept. 1457, Sept. 1458, Feb., Dec. 1459, Mar. 1472; to take an assize of novel disseisin Oct. 1453, Nov. 1457; C67/478, m. 21d; 484, m. 10d. assign archers Dec. 1457; arrest pirates, Essex, Suff. Mar. 1460.

Sheriff, Essex and Herts. 4 Nov. 1440–1, 6 Nov. 1444 – 3 Nov. 1445, 14 Nov. 1459 – 6 Nov. 1460.

Jt. steward (with his brother William I) of duchy of Lancaster in Essex, Herts., London, Mdx., Surr. 5 Nov. 1440–3 Mar. 1461. R. Somerville, Duchy, i. 605; R.A. Griffiths, Hen. VI, 342. From 1437 until Nov. 1440 William I had held the office alone.

J.p. Essex 3 Jan. 1443 – July 1461, 20 Mar. 1463 – d.

Treasurer and receiver of subsidy granted in Parl. of 1449 (Nov.). CPR, 1446–52, p. 377.

Parlimentarian

TYRELL, Thomas (c.1413-77), of Heron in East Horndon, Essex.

Main residence: Heron in East Horndon, Essex.

Author

C.E.M.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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