Constituency Dates
Winchelsea 1426, ,1431, ,1435
Family and Education
prob. s. or gds. of Thomas Thunder† of Winchelsea. m. 1s. Thomas II*.
Offices Held

Mayor, Winchelsea Easter 1419 – 21, 1422 – 23, 1424 – 25, 1435 – 37, 1444 – 46; jurat 1430 – 35, 1440 – 44, 1446 – 47.

Address
Main residence: Winchelsea, Suss.
biography text

More may be added to the earlier biography.1 The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 610-11.

As a Portsman Thunder claimed exemption from taxation on his moveable goods at Udimore and Icklesham until the 1440s.2 E179/226/71; 228/118. His ship, the Thomas of Winchelsea, was among the vessels from the Cinque Ports used to transport Henry VI’s queen Margaret of Anjou and her entourage over to England from France in 1445.3 Add. 23938, f. 19d. Towards the end of his life, on 8 Dec. 1446 he sued out a pardon as ‘merchant and former mayor of Winchelsea’.4 C67/39, m. 13. Thunder was interred in St. Thomas’s church at Winchelsea, where his son and namesake chose to be buried in his turn.5 PCC 15 Wattys (PROB11/6, f. 108).

Author
L.S.C.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Notes
  • 1. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 610-11.
  • 2. E179/226/71; 228/118.
  • 3. Add. 23938, f. 19d.
  • 4. C67/39, m. 13.
  • 5. PCC 15 Wattys (PROB11/6, f. 108).