Shropshire Wroxeter
Chief Justice Sir Thomas Bromley 1555 and second wife Isabel Lister
Thomas was the second son of Roger Bromley of Mitley and Jane daughter of Thomas Jennings
He m1 (?) Elizabeth daughter of John Dodd
He m2 Isabel daughter of Richard Lister / Lyster of Rowton and Agnes Fitzherbert daughter of Sir Ralph Fitzherbert 1483 of Norbury & Elizabeth Marshall 1490 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0t95Mm
having an only child by Isabel
1. Margaret 1521-98 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2059497080/ m Sir Richard d1570 son of Thomas Newport and Joan / Ann daughter of Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet by Elizabeth Vernon www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7852471574/ (ancestors of the earls of Bradford).
Inscription says he was "lord chyffe justes of Englond also beyng on of the executors to the kyng of most famous memorye Henry the eyght" who bequeathed him £300, Chief Justice of England under Edward VI and Queen Mary.
Monument made of alabaster attributed to Richard Parker of Burton On Trent . "On whose sowles God have mercy"- Cock pheasant emblem by his head .
He was second cousin to another Sir Thomas Bromley 1587 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/B5xuAp leaving him an allowance of 40 shillings a year for 10 years if he continued his legal studies which he did becoming Lord Chancellor.
He entered the Inner Temple in1532, He was made serjeant-at-law and King's serjeant in 1540 and in 1544 he succeeded Sir John Spelman as a judge of the king's bench. On the regency council to Edward VI ; avoiding political entanglements for some time, he became implicated in Northumberland's scheme for the succession of Lady Jane Grey. The duke summoned to court Montagu, chief justice of the common pleas flic.kr/p/98fCbc , Bromley, Sir John Baker, and the attorney- and solicitor-general, and informed them of the king's desire to settle the crown on Lady Jane. They replied that it would be illegal, and prayed an adjournment, and next day expressed an opinion that all parties to such a settlement would be guilty of high treason. Northumberland's violence then became so great that both Bromley and Montagu were in bodily fear; and 2 days later, when a similar scene took place, and the king ordered them on their allegiance to despatch the matter, they consented to settle the deed, receiving an express commission under the great seal to do so and a general pardon. Bromley, however,avoided witnessing the deed, and consequently, when Mary sent the lord chief justice to gaol, she made Bromley "a papist at heart" chief justice of the King’s Bench in place of Sir Roger Cholmeley in 1553.
However in 1554 he presided at the trial of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton and others indicted for treason He allowed Throckmorton such unusual freedom of speech as to provoke complaints from the queen's attorney,. Yet Bromley was not throughout impartial, but even refused Throckmortonr leave to call a witness, though he was in court, and denied him inspection of a statute on which he relied. His summing up was so defective, 'for want of memory or goodwill,' that Throckmorton supplied its defects, as if he had been an uninterested spectator. and he was acquitted:to Mary's annoyance the jury being punished for their verdict. Sir William Portman succeeded Bromley as chief justice in on his death in 1555.
Bromley built up a substantial estate in Shropshire, partly from monastic land www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=3512&am...
Lower picture with thanks - copyright Pamela Estep www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/533113674616813056/
Shropshire Wroxeter
Chief Justice Sir Thomas Bromley 1555 and second wife Isabel Lister
Thomas was the second son of Roger Bromley of Mitley and Jane daughter of Thomas Jennings
He m1 (?) Elizabeth daughter of John Dodd
He m2 Isabel daughter of Richard Lister / Lyster of Rowton and Agnes Fitzherbert daughter of Sir Ralph Fitzherbert 1483 of Norbury & Elizabeth Marshall 1490 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0t95Mm
having an only child by Isabel
1. Margaret 1521-98 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2059497080/ m Sir Richard d1570 son of Thomas Newport and Joan / Ann daughter of Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet by Elizabeth Vernon www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7852471574/ (ancestors of the earls of Bradford).
Inscription says he was "lord chyffe justes of Englond also beyng on of the executors to the kyng of most famous memorye Henry the eyght" who bequeathed him £300, Chief Justice of England under Edward VI and Queen Mary.
Monument made of alabaster attributed to Richard Parker of Burton On Trent . "On whose sowles God have mercy"- Cock pheasant emblem by his head .
He was second cousin to another Sir Thomas Bromley 1587 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/B5xuAp leaving him an allowance of 40 shillings a year for 10 years if he continued his legal studies which he did becoming Lord Chancellor.
He entered the Inner Temple in1532, He was made serjeant-at-law and King's serjeant in 1540 and in 1544 he succeeded Sir John Spelman as a judge of the king's bench. On the regency council to Edward VI ; avoiding political entanglements for some time, he became implicated in Northumberland's scheme for the succession of Lady Jane Grey. The duke summoned to court Montagu, chief justice of the common pleas flic.kr/p/98fCbc , Bromley, Sir John Baker, and the attorney- and solicitor-general, and informed them of the king's desire to settle the crown on Lady Jane. They replied that it would be illegal, and prayed an adjournment, and next day expressed an opinion that all parties to such a settlement would be guilty of high treason. Northumberland's violence then became so great that both Bromley and Montagu were in bodily fear; and 2 days later, when a similar scene took place, and the king ordered them on their allegiance to despatch the matter, they consented to settle the deed, receiving an express commission under the great seal to do so and a general pardon. Bromley, however,avoided witnessing the deed, and consequently, when Mary sent the lord chief justice to gaol, she made Bromley "a papist at heart" chief justice of the King’s Bench in place of Sir Roger Cholmeley in 1553.
However in 1554 he presided at the trial of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton and others indicted for treason He allowed Throckmorton such unusual freedom of speech as to provoke complaints from the queen's attorney,. Yet Bromley was not throughout impartial, but even refused Throckmortonr leave to call a witness, though he was in court, and denied him inspection of a statute on which he relied. His summing up was so defective, 'for want of memory or goodwill,' that Throckmorton supplied its defects, as if he had been an uninterested spectator. and he was acquitted:to Mary's annoyance the jury being punished for their verdict. Sir William Portman succeeded Bromley as chief justice in on his death in 1555.
Bromley built up a substantial estate in Shropshire, partly from monastic land www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=3512&am...
Lower picture with thanks - copyright Pamela Estep www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/533113674616813056/