Family and Education
bap. 27 Oct. 1609, o.s. of Robert Minors of Uttoxeter, Staffs. and Gertrude, da. of Edmund Hurt of Marchington, Staffs.St Mary, Uttoxeter par. reg.; Vis. Staffs. ed. H.S. Grazebrook (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 214; Wedgwood, Staffs. Parlty Hist. ii. 99. m. (1) 7 Aug. 1635, Sarah (bur. 29 July 1667), da. of John Burnes, mercer, of Lichfield, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) Dorothy, da. of William Jesson of Lichfield, s.p.St Mary, Lichfield par. reg.; PROB11/355, f. 38; Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 214; Vis. Staffs. (Harl. Soc. lxiii), 168; Wedgwood, Staffs. Parlty Hist. ii. 99-100. suc. fa. Dec. 1633;St Leonard, Shoreditch par. reg.; Staffs. RO, D786/20/16. d. 7 Sept. 1677.Staffs. RO, LD126/3/2, unfol.
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sheriff, Lichfield 1642 – 43; common cllr. by ? 1642 – ?62; jnr. bailiff, 1648 – 49; snr. bailiff, 1657–8.Harwood, Lichfield, 426, 427; A.G. Matthews, The Congregational Churches of Staffs. (?1924), 72. Feoffee, Lichfield Conduit Lands trust by Apr. 1657–d.P. Laithwaite, Hist. of the Lichfield Conduit Lands Trust (1947), 79.

commr. assessment, Lichfield 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660,An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). 1664, 1672, 1677; Staffs. 24 Nov. 1653, 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. maintenance of ministry, 4 Apr. 1648.LJ x. 178b. J.p. Staffs. 30 Sept. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 269. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Staffs. and Lichfield 5 Oct. 1653; militia, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Lichfield 1660.SR.

Staffs., of Sadler Street, Lichfield.
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MINORS, Thomas (1609-77), of Sadler Street, Lichfield, Staffs.

Will
3 July 1677, pr. 12 Oct. 1677.PROB11/355, f. 35.
Estates
in 1666, his house on Sadler Street, Lichfield, assessed at 9 hearths.‘Hearth tax for Lichfield’ ed. P. Laithwaite (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 3, 1936, pt. ii), 152. At his d. estate inc. mansion house of Hollingbury Hall, Uttoxeter; a new messuage ‘lately builded’ and another messuage and numerous closes in Stramshall, Uttoxeter; lands in lordship of Uttoxeter and a sixth part of that lordship; a messuage on Uttoxeter high street; a house on Sadler Street, Lichfield; messuages, lands and closes in and near Lichfield; and a messuage in Hadley, Salop.PROB11/355, ff. 35-40. His personal estate was inventoried at £2,331.PROB4/5879. His mansion house of Hollingbury Hall and adjoining estate were sold aft. his d. for £1,071.Staffs. RO, D786/18/2i.
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