In 1448 Henry Thoresby [Thomas's father] was an Alderman of Lynn. In the 26th of Henry VI. Henry Thoresby, alderman, and the keepers and scaburnes and brethren of the fraternity of the merchants guild of the Holy Trinity of Lynn Bishop, purchased of Sir Thomas Scales and Imania his wife, and William Godend, by fine, then levied, the mill called Scales mill in South Lynn. (Fin. Norf. 26 Hen. VI. L. 2, N. 116)
Thomas Thoresby was said to be "a man of old and deep roots, who owned land in the parishes of West Lynn, Fincham, Dersingham, Gayton Thorpe, Congham, Roydon, and MIntling, and derived from the Thoresby's of Lincolnshire." He was Mayor of Lynn several times between 1477 and 1502. He built the south chancel aisle in St.Margaret's Church, and in 1500 founded the Thoresby College in Queen Street, as a college for 13 priests as spiritual guardians of the people of Lynn. Over the front doorway is written "Pray for the soul of Thomas Thoresby". The building was extended in the 17th century.[1]
He had a son and five daughters. In his Will he states his wife is Elizabeth. However it is possible he married twice.
On an inquisition taken in 1561 by certain commissioners (see in Trinity Guild) the jury present, that there was a charnelhouse in St. Margaret's churchyard, which is now a school-house; the founders thereof were Thomas Thursbye, Walter Coney, and — Locke, merchants of the said town, but to what use it was founded they knew not; to which there belonged one bell, taken down by the mayor, since the death of Henry VIII. In what year they knew not; and that there did belong to the charnel-house, certain lands and tenements lying and being in King's Lynn, Wigenhale St. Mary, and Gaywood, in the tenure of divers men, whose names they knew not, to the value of 10l. pee annum. [It is unclear whether this school-house was founded by this Thomas Thoresby or his son Thomas.]
This person was created through the import of Consolidated Coningsby.GED on 11 March 2011.
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