GREY, Thomas, Ld. Grey of Groby (c.1623-57), of Bradgate, Groby, Leics.

Family and Education

b. c. 1623, 1st s. of Henry Grey, 1st earl of Stamford*.London Mar. Lics. ed Foster, 277; CP. educ. G. Inn 16 Mar. 1641.G. Inn Admiss. m. lic. 4 June 1646, Dorothy, da. and coh. of Edward Bourchier, 4th earl of Bath, 1s. 2da.London Mar. Lics. ed Foster, 277; CP; J. Richards, Aristocrat and Regicide: The Life and Times of Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby (2000), 439. d. betw. 4 Apr. and 8 May 1657.PROB11/263, ff. 377v-378.

Offices Held

freeman, Leicester 23 Oct. 1640–d.Freemen of Leicester ed. Hartopp, 126.

commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, cttee. for examinations, 18 Feb. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee for Examinations’; CJ ii. 396a, 439b. cttee. for sequestrations, by May 1645;SP20/1, f. 377. cttee. for the army, 15 Dec. 1648,CJ vi. 96b; LJ x. 630b. 17 Apr. 1649, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652;A. and O. cttee. for the revenue, 18 Dec. 1648;CJ vi. 99a; LJ x. 632b. cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112b. Derby House cttee. 6 Jan. 1649. Commr. for compounding, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 113b. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 19 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 121b. cttee. of navy and customs by 8 Feb. 1649;Bodl. Rawl. A.224, f. 13. cttee. for excise, 10 Feb. 1649.CJ vi. 137b. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650, 13 Feb. 1651, 25 Nov. 1652.A. and O.; CJ vii. 220b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 22 May 1651.CJ vi. 577b.

commr. disarming recusants, Leics. 30 Aug. 1641.LJ iv. 385b. Dep. lt. Rutland 5 July 1642–?CJ ii. 652b; LJ v. 183. Commr. for associating midland cos. Leics. 15 Dec. 1642;A. and O. Leics. militia, 16 Jan. 1643, 10 July 1644;An Examination Examined (1645), 15 (E.303.13); A. and O. assessment, Leics. 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Rutland 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Northants. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; sequestration, Leics. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; New Model ordinance, Leics., Rutland 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O. Kpr. Olney Park, Bucks. by Apr. 1645–?;Luke Letter Bks. 513. Holdenby House, Northants. by Mar. 1646 – aft.Sept. 1648; Whittlewood Forest, Northants. and Bucks. by Mar 1646-aft. Oct. 1649;Bodl. Nalson XIV, f. 218; [C. Walker*], Hist. of Independency (1648), 172 (E.463.19); CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 367. Hyde Park c.Mar. 1650–7 Feb. 1653.CJ vi. 384b; SP18/38/72, f. 144. Commr. defence of Rutland, 21 June 1645.A. and O. J.p. Rutland 15 Jan. 1647-bef. Oct. 1653;C231/6, p. 74; C193/13/4, f. 79v. Leics. 18 May 1649–d.;C231/6, p. 151. Bucks. by Feb. 1650 – 12 July 1653, 4 Oct. 1653–d.;C193/13/3; C231/6, pp. 259, 270. Northants. 2 Mar. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C231/6, p. 176; C193/13/4, f. 71. Commr. militia, Leics., Rutland 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. Beds., Northants., Notts. 24 Aug. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 303. Custos. rot. Leics. 18 May 1649–d.;C231/6, p. 151. Rutland 10 Dec. 1649-c.1653.C231/6, p. 170 Steward, Honor of Leicester 4 Sept. 1649–d.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. Somerville, 179. Commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 14, 214. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 12 June 1654.C181/6, p. 37.

capt. of horse (parlian.) by 15 July 1642–?SP28/170, pt. 3, unfol. Serg.-maj.-gen. E. Midlands Assoc. 24 Dec. 1642-c.Apr. 1645.CJ ii. 901b. Col. militia horse, Leics. 5 June 1648,Desiderata Curiosa ed. F. Peck (1735), pp. ii, lib. ix, 45; HMC Portland, i. 468; CJ v. 620b. 5 Mar. 1650;CSP Dom. 1650, p. 505. c.-in-c. Leics., Northants. and Rutland 12 Aug. 1651.CSP Dom. 1651, p. 516. Gov. Ashby-de-la-Zouch 29 Aug. 1648–?CJ v. 692a.

Parlimentarian

GREY, Thomas, Ld. Grey of Groby (c.1623-57), of Bradgate, Groby, Leics.

Ld. Grey of Groby (c.1623-57), of Bradgate, Leics., Groby 1623 – 57.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, attrib. R. Walker;Private colln. oils, unknown;Newnham Paddox, Warws. oil on canvas, unknown, eighteenth century.NT, Dunham Massey.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GREY, Thomas, Ld. Grey of Groby (c.1623-57), of Bradgate, Groby, Leics.

Will

4 Apr. 1657, pr. 8 May 1657.PROB11/263, f. 377v.

Estates

in 1650, purchased for £1,930 fee farm rents in Leics. and Rutland worth £226 p.a. – some, or all, of which he had sold by late 1653.SP28/288, f. 5; SP46/109, f. 73; Stowe 185, f. 38. In 1651, mortgaged lands in Aunby, Careby and Essendine, Lincs. for £800.Lincs. RO, Holywell 54/16, 18-19, 23. In 1653, Grey and three other gent. purchased Combe Abbey, Warws. from treason trustees for £42,000; Grey reportedly selling land worth £800 p.a. to help finance this purchase.C54/3705/7; CCC 1624; Clarke Pprs.v. 86. In 1654, Grey, Thomas Beaumont*, Thomas Pochin* and another gent. sold manor and advowson of Whepstead, Suff. for £5,840.C54/3820/13-14. At his d. estate inc. manor of Broughton Astley and lands in Primethorpe and Sutton-in-Elms, Leics.PROB11/263, f. 377v.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Exeter House, St John’s, Clerkenwell, Mdx. (1644-5).Luke Letter Bks. 343, 513.

Religion

presented Charles Asfordby to rectory of Hartest cum Boxted, Suff., 1650; Henry Coleman to rectory of Little Laver, Essex, 1653.Add. 36792, ff. 5v, 86v.

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