BATES, Thomas (by 1526-87), of Morpeth and Holywell, Northumb.

Receiver for William, 3rd Lord Dacre, Wem in 1547 – 48, Morpeth in 1549 – 50; j.p. Northumb. 1558/59; surveyor, Exchequer, Northumb. by 1561–?d.; escheator Northumb. 19 Mar. 1563, 12 Feb. 1586; commr. concealed lands, Hexham 1568, for Bamburgh castle 1575; chief steward for Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Alnwick by 1570 – d., constable by 1578; feodary of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland by 1586; clerk of the courts of the water of the Tyne by 1587.Arch. Ael. (ser. 4), xiv. 65–66; Hodgson, Northumb. ii(2), 531; B. N. Wilson, ‘Ref. in Durham and Northumb.’ (Durham Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1935), 472; Northumb. Co. Hist. i. 52; iv, iv. 32, 207; ix. 86, 96; E164/37/114; Northumberland Estate Accts. (Surtees Soc. clxiii), 55.