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Maternal Family Tree: Anne Reade 1510-1585
After 8th April 1527 Giles Greville (age 61) and [his mother] Anne Reade (age 17) were married. The difference in their ages was 44 years.
In 1530 Adrian Fortescue (age 54) and [his mother] Anne Reade (age 20) were married. The difference in their ages was 34 years.
After 9th July 1539 [his father] Thomas Parry (age 24) and [his mother] Anne Reade (age 29) were married.
In 1541 Thomas Parry was born to Thomas Parry (age 26) and Anne Reade (age 31).
On 15th December 1560 [his father] Thomas Parry (age 45) died.
In 1571 Thomas Parry (age 30) was elected MP Bridport.
In 1575 Thomas Parry (age 34) was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire.
In 1585 [his mother] Anne Reade (age 75) died.
In 1586 Thomas Parry (age 45) was elected MP Berkshire.
In 1601 Thomas Parry (age 60) was knighted and appointed English ambassador to France for four years.
In 1605 Thomas Parry (age 64) was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 4th January 1610 Thomas Parry (age 69) was elected MP St Albans.
In 1614 Thomas Parry (age 73) was elected MP Berkshire. After being censured for interference in the election at Stockbridge, was dismissed from the House on 11th May 1614.
On 30th May 1616 Thomas Parry (age 75) died. he was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].
Letters of John Chamberlain Volume 2 243. [8th June 1616] Sir Owen Oglethorp died on Sonday at the earle of Excesters (age 74), leaving litle or nothing (they say) behind him scant so much as a goode name; he was buried the next night in temebris [darkness], and so was Sir Thomas Parry (deceased) that died a day or two before him. Sir John Deckham newly knighted succeeds in the chauncellorship of the Duchie (wherof he had the graunt and patent before,) but all the counsaile stoode against him alleaging the invaliditie of such patents and reversions of places of judicature, as beeing directly against law besides the meannes of the man, and that he had ben detected of divers fraudes and fowle dealings, specially in the pardon propounded the last yeare for the earle of Somerset: these exceptions suspended his admittance for five or sixe dayes, but I always saide quod defertur non aufertur [what is deferred is not taken away], when I understoode what sure cardes he had for him, and that Sir George Villers (age 23) and the prince betted on his side. Sir Fraunces Bacon (age 55) was in election to be sworn of the counsaile on Sonday last and missed yt narrowly, by the opposition almost of the whole table, not so much in shew against his person, as his place of atturny, as beeing incompatible for many reasons, wherof among others this was not the least, that yt was unseemly he shold plead before his fellow counsaillors uncovered but yf that be all, he hath precedents in store, and for more suretie the King is so well affected to him, and the Lord Chauncellor (as well in spite to the Lord Cooke as favour to him) so pliable that yt is thought he will part with the great seale upon goode composition, wherby he may take his ease, and the other become Lord Keper, whiles in the mean time the King shall not want the Lord Chauncellors service yf he be preferred to President of the counsaile.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Vaughan
GrandFather: Henry Vaughan of Tretower Court
Father: Thomas Parry
GrandFather: William Reade
Mother: Anne Reade