Sir, Lord Mayor of London Thomas White
Sir Thomas White (1492-1567) Born: 1492 at Reading, Berkshire Lord Mayor of London Died: 12th February 1567 Gloucester Hall, Oxford University, Oxfordshire
Sir Thomas White, the founder of St. John's College, Oxford, was born in Reading in 1492, the son of William White of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, clothier, and his wife Mary, daughter of John Kebblewhite of South Fawley, Berkshire. He was probably taught first at the Reading Grammar School, founded by Henry VII, to which he gave two scholarships; but he was brought up "almost from infancy" in London. He was apprenticed at the age of twelve to Hugh Acton, a prominent member of the Merchant Taylors' Company, who left him £100 upon his death in 1520. With this and his small patrimony, he began business for himself in 1523. In 1530, he was first renter warden of the Merchant Taylors' Company. From this, he passed on to the senior wardenship about 1533, and was master probably in 1535.
Thomas appears in 1533 as one of those to whom the nun of Kent made revelations. In 1535, he was assessed for the subsidy at £1,000, which shows him to have been, by this time, a prosperous clothier. In 1542 and 1545, he made large loans to the cities of Coventry and Bristol. He resided in the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, and, in 1544, was elected by the court, ninth alderman for Cornhill. On his refusing "to take upon himself the weight thereof," he was committed to Newgate and the windows of his shop were ordered to be "closed so long as he should continue in his obstinacy". He was not long recalcitrant. In the same year, being then alderman, he contributed £300 to the city's loan to the King. In 1547, he was sheriff. In 1549-50, he aided his guild with money to purchase the obit rent charges. In 1561, the trust-deed between his company and the city of Coventry was drawn up, by which large sums became available after his death for the charity loans & co. In 1553, he was one of the promoters of the Muscovy Company. On 2nd October 1553, he was knighted, in the presence of the Queen Mary, by the Earl of Arundel, Lord Steward. He was elected Lord Mayor of London on 29th October 1553. Machyn records the splendour of his pageant.
Daughter of Consalo, Count of Asturias, and his wife Teresa.
A fellow crusader with Surety John de Lacie, died in the Holy Land.
Daughter of Hugh Keveliok, Earl of Chester
Sir Mayor of London William Capel
Notes: Lord Mayor of London 1503. Bought the manor of Hadham, near Bishop's Stortford, and Hadham Hall became their chief seat.
Chidiock Paulet owed any success he achieved to his father. He attended the Inner Temple, where in 1535, at his father's request, he was pardoned all offices and vacations and received a licence to dine with the clerks. Soon after his father became steward of the Household he received a minor appointment there and a lease of the manor of Odiham, Hampshire, together with the bailiwick of its lordship. It was from Odiham that in the summer of 1545 Paulet led 200 men to Portsmouth during the threat of invasion by the French. In the following year the townsmen of Southampton provided him with a gallon of wine ‘when he lay at Netley to see how far our guns would shoot’. His official duties concerned the defence of the Hampshire coast, and this responsibility became more particularly his in 1554 on his appointment as captain of Portsmouth.
Paulet replaced Sir William Sharington in the Parliament of 1547 as one of the Members for Bramber, a Sussex borough with which he had no ties. The date of his by-election is not known, but his name ‘Chidiocus Powlet miles Dominus Powlet’ appears on the list of Members for the last session (1552). Paulet was presumably nominated by the Council, of which his father was president, as a man who could be relied upon to comply with official intentions. He was not re-elected at Bramber for the following Parliament and is not known to have sat elsewhere, but after the accession of Mary he was returned to the first Parliament of her reign for Gatton, a borough owned by the Copley family. Either he or his father may have approached Thomas Copley, a junior colleague at the Inner Temple, for his place on this occasion.Paulet left a large estate in Hampshire and some property in Buckinghamshire when he died on 17 Aug 1574. He had acquired most of this property during Edward VI's reign. The will he made three days before his death omits his lands entirely. He bequeathed to his wife all the plate, hangings, bedding, brass and pewter he had received at their marriage in Borley, Essex, and all his household silver. His daughters Elizabeth and Susan received £900 between them, his son Thomas a £20 annuity, and his stepson Charles Waldegrave a horse. William Paulet, his son and heir, was appointed executor.
King of Navarre from 1000 to 1035. Through his marriage with Munia, daughter of Sancho of Castile, who died 1017, this king united the two imdportant houses of Castile and Navarre, to which Aragon was later added.
Daughter of Sancho of Castile.
Lord Treasurer, Earl of Wiltshire, Ist Marquess of Winchester William Paulet
Sir William Paulet, K.G.: Baron St. John, of Basing, Hants (1538/9); Earl of Wiltshire (1548/50); and 1st Marquess of Winchester (132 Oct 1551). Executor to the Will of Henry VIII; Lord Treasurer of England through the Reigns of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I "by being a willow, not an oak"; built Basing House. Paulet is a good example of how a Tudor noble survived during the changing times of his era. Henry VIII gave Paulet the home of Sir Thomas Moore after Moore's execution. Paulet was Great Master for the Household of Edward VI, later for Mary I, and also for Elizabeth when she came to the throne. His religious beliefs were as the government dictated. Thus, under Edward he was Protestant, under Mary a Catholic and, later a staunch supporter of Elizabeth's Church of England. He died at the 1572 at the age of 97 and is buried in the Chelsea Old Church.
Married Richard Stawell of Cotherston.
Married Sir William Berkeley.
Married Sir William Waller of Old Stoke.
Married Sir Richard Pexsall, of Beaurepaire.
2nd Marquess of Winchester John Paulet
Listed as 2nd Marquess of Winchester.2nd Marquess of Winchester.
Listed as Thomas of Cossington, Somerset.
Listed as Giles of Cokels, Wilts.
Sir Mayor of London William Capel
Notes: Lord Mayor of London 1503. Bought the manor of Hadham, near Bishop's Stortford, and Hadham Hall became their chief seat.
Moved his family from near Chapel Hill, Orange County NC to TN about 1797.
Court records show that Thomas Hall was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and indicate the names of the officers under whom he served. He enlisted in March 1780 in Captain Richard Christmas's Company of Colonel Timmon's NC Regiment. Had been residing in Orange Co., NC. Battles in which he engaged included that known as Guilford Court House, NC. Was in the siege of Charleston and was taken prisoner by the British May 12, 1781 and was held prisoner until October 1781 when he was exchanged. Hall moved his family from near Chapel Hill, NC to Tennessee about 1797. Thomas received a land grant of 649 acres for services in the Revolutionary War. He settled on the north side of Black Oak Ridge in Hines Valley, Knox Co., TN. "Halls Crossroads" is where Hall preempted land and put in a country store 7 miles north of Knoxville. Knoxville has grown and now encompasses "Halls Crossroads", Zip Code 37918. (See Hall's Crossing photo)
Thomas Hall held a Commission as Ensign in the Regiment of the County of Knox, State of Tennessee, awarded him by Archibald Roane, 2nd Governor of the State of Tennessee. Commission granted on 1 September, 1802. He also fought in the War of 1812.
Applied for and was approved for a Revolutionalry War Pension, Pension File S1829, in Knox Co., TN on 13 Aug 1832 when he was 74 years of age.Headstone Inscription:
IN MEMORY OF THOMAS HALL BORN MARCH 1, 1758, MARRIED NANCY HAIS, SEPT. 25, 1788, DIED A.D. 1833.