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Thomas, a leading mercer in the City of London, became Lord Mayor of the City in 1603. [1]
Thomas was the third son of Thomas Bennett of Wallingford, Berkshire and his wife Agnes.
In 1573 he was named in the will of his brother Richard.[2]
He married Mary Taylor 25 Aug 1575 at Saint Mary Le Bow, London, England. [3]
In 1594 Thomas was elected an alderman of the City of London. [4] From 1594 to 1595 he acted as Sheriff of London. From 1595 to 1596 and 1602 to 1603 he was Master of the Mercers' Company and in 1603 his civic career peaked and he was elected Mayor of London. It was also in 1603 that Thomas Bennett was awarded a knighthood. The ceremony took place in the Royal gardens at Whitehall before the coronation of King James I. [5]
Sir Thomas owned a house in St. Olave Old Jewry and had property in St. Martin Ludgate, St. Clement Danes, on Brock Street in Stepney, and Grays Inn Fields. He also owned property in Shelton, Norfolk, Selston, Nottinghamshire, and Salton, Sinnington, and Marton in Yorkshire. Sir Thomas also bought new country houses for two of his sons. Sir Thomas purchased Beachampton and Calverton in Buckinghamshire, which he settled on his son Simon.[6] For his son Richard, he purchased the sixteenth-century manor and manor house of Broad Marston in Pebworth, Gloucestershire, in 1622.
Thomas had his will drawn up on 18 Nov 1625. [7]He described himself as a knight of the parish of St Olave in the Old Jewry, City of London and one of the Aldermen of the said city. He requested burial in the Mercer's Chapel and made bequests to and mentioned:
He added a codicil on 26 Jan 1626 and again on 18 Nov 1626. New beneficiaries included:
On March 22, 1627, his large funeral procession wound its way from St. Olave Old Jewry to Cheapside. Two conductors with black staves led formal groups of participants: eighty-six poor men in gowns, great City merchants and Crown financiers preceded by their servants in cloaks; City alderman and their wives; family mourners and Francis White, Bishop of Carlisle and Royal Almoner in his vestments. With penons raised, they escorted the body of Sir Thomas Bennet, mercer, alderman, and Lord Mayor, to his final rest in the Mercers’ Chapel on the north side of Cheapside. [8]
This is not the Thomas who died 1620. The will of 1620 Thomas shows that he is Thomas Bennett.
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