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LUCAS, Thomas (1530/31-1611), of the Inner Temple, London and Colchester, Essex.

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b. 1530 – 31, 1st s. of John Lucas of London and Colchester by 1st w. Mary, da. of John Abell of Essex. educ. Trinity Hall, Camb. matric. 1549; I. Temple, adm. 1550. m. Mary, da. of Sir John Fermor of Easton Neston, Northants., 2s. 3da., 2 other ch. suc. fa. 13 Sept. 1556. Kntd. Sept. 1571.Aged 80 at death. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 71, 235-6; Vis Suff. ed. Howard, ii. 13-14; PCC 20 Ketchyn; Morant, Essex, i. 124, app. 22-23.

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Bencher, I. Temple 1568–71.

J.p.q. Essex 1564–?d.; sheriff 1568 – 69, 1583 – 84; commr. musters 1572 – 73; recorder, Colchester c.1575.Essex RO, Ass. 35/7–32; Morant, i. 124; APC, ix. 340.

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LUCAS, Thomas (1530/31-1611), of the Inner Temple, London and Colchester, Essex.

Main residences: the Inner Temple, London; Colchester, Essex.

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Lucas, Thomas (1530/31-1611), of the Inner Temple, London and Colchester, Essex.

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On the attainder of the 3rd Duke of Buckingham in 1521 the last great marcher lordship still in private possession escheated to the crown. While Bishop Veysey remained president of the council in the marches no advantage was taken of the opportunity to bring marcher administration into line with that in the principalities of North and South Wales, but in 1534 Veysey was replaced by the more vigorous Rowalnd Lee.

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1586

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Elizabeth refused to attend the state opening of her sixth Parliament, summoned as it was with the sole purpose of condemning her cousin Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, who had been a prisoner in England since 1568. The 1584-5 Parliament stood prorogued when the Babington plot to assassinate Elizabeth, including incontrovertible evidence of Mary’s complicity, was discovered in late August 1586.