Thomas Thirlby
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Thomas Thirlby (or Thirleby; c. 1506–1570), was the first and only
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Thomas, was the son of John Thirleby,
In 1533 he was one of the king's chaplains, and in May communicated to Cranmer "the king's commands" relative to the sentence of divorce from
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On 1 April, following his resignation of the see of Westminster, he was constituted
At heart a Roman Catholic, Thirlby was soon high in Queen Mary's favour, and in July 1554 he was translated from Norwich to Ely, the temporalities of the latter see being delivered to him on 15 September.[23] He was one of the prelates who presided at the trials of Bishop Hooper, John Rogers, Rowland Taylor, and others, for heresy; and in February 1554–5 he was appointed, together with Anthony Browne, viscount Montague, and Sir Edward Carne, a special ambassador to the pope, to make the queen's obedience, and to obtain a confirmation of all those graces which Cardinal Pole had granted in his name. He returned to London from Rome on 24 August 1555 with a bull confirming the queen's title to Ireland, which document he delivered to the lord treasurer on 10 December. A curious journal of this embassy is printed in Lord Hardwicke's State Papers.[24]
After the death of the lord chancellor,
On the assembling of Queen Elizabeth's first parliament Thirlby sent his proxy, he being then absent on his embassy in France. On 17 April 1559 the bill for restoring ecclesiastical jurisdiction to the crown was committed to him and other peers. He opposed this measure on the third reading. He also dissented from the bill for uniformity of common prayer.
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After his deprivation Thirlby had his liberty for some time, but in consequence of his persisting in preaching against the Reformation, he was on 3 June 1560 committed to the Tower, and on 25 February 1560–1 he was excommunicated.[32] In September 1563 he was removed from the Tower on account of the plague to Archbishop Parker's house at Beaksbourne.[33] In June 1564 he was transferred to Lambeth Palace, and Parker, who is said to have treated Thirlby with great courtesy and respect, even permitted him to lodge for some time at the house of one Mrs. Blackwell in Blackfriars. He died in Lambeth Palace on 26 August 1570. He was buried on the 28th in the chancel of Lambeth church, under a stone with a brief Latin inscription in brass.[34] In making a grave for the burial of Archbishop Cornwallis in March 1783, the body of Bishop Thirlby was discovered in his coffin, in a great measure undecayed, as was the clothing. The corpse had a cap on its head and a hat under its arm.[35] His portrait is in the print of the delivery of the charter of Bridewell.
Notes
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 135 cites: Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, ii. 262.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 135 cites: Strype, Eccl. Mem. ii. i. 279.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 135 cites: Addit. MS. 5825, p. 36.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 135 cites: Hatcher, Hist. of Sarum, p. 701.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, xii. 350.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: ib. xii. 320, 350.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: Harl. MS. 7571, f. 35.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: Addit. MS. 25114, f. 297.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: Wilkins, Concilia, iii. 836.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: Strype, Cranmer, p. 90.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: Acts P. C. ed. Dasent, vol. i. passim.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: State Papers, Hen. VIII, x. 428.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: Rymer, xv. 120–1.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: Cal. State Papers, For. i. 24.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: Gasquet and Bishop, Edward VI and the Book of Common Prayer, pp. 162, 164, 166, 167, 171, 256, 263, 403, 404, 427.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: Original Letters, Parker Soc. ii. 645, 646.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 136 cites: Bentham, Hist. of Ely, p. 191.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: Stow, Survey of London, ed. Thoms, p. 170.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: Rymer, Fœdera, xv. 221.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: Hist. of the Reformation, ed. 1841, ii. 753.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: Acts P. C. iv. 246, 390.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: Cooper, Annals, ii. 132, 265.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: Rymer, xv. 405.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: i. 62–102, from Harleian MS. 252, art. 15.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: Despatches of Michiel, the Venetian Ambassador, 1554–7, ed. Paul Friedmann, Venice, 1869.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: Burnet, i. 531.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: Fuller, Church Hist. ed. 1837, i. 395.
- ^ G.M.G. Woodgate (1931). Wisbech in the Ely Episcopal Registers. The Isle of Ely and Wisbech Advertiser. p. 28.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: Strype, Life of Whitgift, i. 229.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 137 cites: cf. Zurich Letters, i. 20.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 138 cites: Strype, Annals of the Reformation, ii. 580.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 138 cites: Strype, ib. i. 142.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 138 cites: Parker Correspondence, pp. 122, 192, 195, 203, 215, 217.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 138 cites: Stow, Survey of London, ed. Strype, App. p. 85.
- ^ Cooper 1898, p. 138 cites: Lodge, Illustrations of British History, ed. 1838, i. 73 n.
References
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 851.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cooper, Thompson (1898). "Thirlby, Thomas". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 56. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 135–138.
- Knighton, C. S. "Thirlby, Thomas (c.1500–1570)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27184. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)