Family and Education
b. c. 1591, 1st s. of Thomas Penyston of Dean, Oxon. and Rochester, Kent, and Mary (d. 1607), da. and coh. of John Somer of Newland, Kent, later w. of Sir Alexander Temple† of Stowe, Bucks; half-bro. of James Temple*.Vis. Oxon 1669 and 1675 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xii), 24-5; Vis. Kent 1619 (Harl. Soc. xliii), 21; St Bride, Fleet Street, par. reg. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 13 Mar. 1607, ‘age 15’; ?BA St Edmund Hall, 15 June 1609;Al. Ox. Clement’s Inn; I. Temple, 13 Nov. 1609.I. Temple database. m. ?(1) Anne, da. of Sir William Stonehouse, ?1st bt. of Radley; (2) 27 July 1611, Martha (d. Jan. 1620), da. of Sir Thomas Temple (d. 1637) of Stowe, 1 da. (d.v.p.); (3) Elizabeth (bur. 2 Mar. 1685), da. of Sir Thomas Watson of Halstead, Kent, and wid. of Sir William Pope (d. 1624); 2s. (?1 d.v.p), 2 da. suc. fa. c.1601. cr. bt. 24 Sept. 1612.CB; Cornwell par. reg. d. betw. 17 Sept. 1642-May 1644.PROB10/641/162, ff. 328–9.
Offices Held
Local: commr. Forced Loan, Oxon. 1627.
: of Cogges and Cornwell, Oxon.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
PENYSTON, Sir Thomas (c.1591-?1644), of Cogges and Cornwell, Oxon.
Will
17 Sept. 1642, pr. at Oxford May 1644, pr. at London 7 July 1647.PROB10/641/162, ff. 328-9; PROB11/201/153.
Estates
1611-1624, land at Leigh, Suss.;CB; Burke Dorm. and Extinct Baronetcies, 404. ?aft. 1620 Cornwell, Oxon; 1630s, Cogges manor in right of w. Elizabeth;VCH Oxon. xii. 59-61, 69-72. 1642, assessed at 27s 6d at Ardley and £4 in Woolstone;Oxon. and North Berks. Protestation Returns (Oxon. Rec. Soc. lix), 104, 109. in 1642 lands in Wales, Suff. and Lincs. left to eldest son (with Cornwell); 1,000 marks each left to daughters.PROB11/201/153.
Oxford 1644
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