BOYS, Thomas (1502/3-63), of Calais and Walmer, Kent.

Family and Education

b. 1502 /3, 3rd s. of John Boys by 1st w. m. by 8 May 1534, Malyn, da. of Nicholas Leigh of Addington, Surr., 6s. 3da.Aged 60 at death according to MI, Mill Stephenson, Mon. Brasses, 225. Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 39; Vis. Surr. (ibid. xliii), 13-14.

Offices Held

Dep. comptroller to Lord Edmund Howard, Calais 1538; yeoman of the guard by 1540–53 or later; gen.-receiver, Guisnes 13 June 1541; j.p. Kent 1542; capt. the Evangelist Jude 10 Aug. 1545; master of the ordnance in the north 1546; victualler, Calais 1546 – 47, mayor in 1548; capt. Deal castle, Kent 20 Feb. 1550–11 June 1555.LP Hen. VIII, xiii, xvi, xvii, xxi; The Gen. n.s. xxx. 22; Soc. Antiq. (1790), 170; LC2/2, f. 38v; SP, i. 811; APC, i. 549; ii. 36–37; P. T. J. Morgan, ‘The govt. of Calais, 1485–1558’ (Oxf. Univ. D. Phil. thesis, 1966), 301, 312; CPR, 1554–5, pp. 73–74. According to his MI Boys was ‘two years together mayor’ of Calais.

Parlimentarian

BOYS, Thomas (1502/3-63), of Calais and Walmer, Kent.

Main residences: Calais, France; Walmer, Kent.

Author

A.D.K.H.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

BOYS, Thomas (1502/3-63)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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