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unpopular with the Devon gentry - Tawstock Devon

Here lyeth ye bodies of Thomas Hinson Esquire and Anne his wife: this Thomas was borne at Fordham in Cambridgeshire, and was Master of Artes & sometime fellowe of Caius Colledge in Cambridge and tutor there to the right honourable William Earle of Bathe under whome he bore afterwardes divers offices and was untill his death Surveyor & Receaver Generall of all his lands and revenewes & Likewise in Comission of the peace in the Countie of Devon: and dyed the XVIIIth of Aprill 1614

Anne was the eldest daughter of Sir William Springe Knight and cosyne germain to the Earle of Bathe now livinge she had issue by the said Thomas Hinson five sonnes and nyne daughters whereof are surviving VI viz William Thomas Margaret Ellinor Elizabeth and Rebekah. The said Anne died in the true faith of Christ the seventh of May Ano Doni 1600"

 

Thomas was the 3rd son of Thomas Hynson of Fordham,

Cambs

He m Anne eldest daughter of Sir William Springe 1599 of Pakenham and Anne daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson / Kytson of Hengrave 1541 and Margaret Donnington (as the inscription says she was a cousin to the Earl of Bath - her mother being the sister of Frances www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Y1f268 mother of the 3rd Earl whom her husband tutored and later served as surveyor & receiver general )

Children - 5 sons and 9 daughters

1. William m Mary Lawrence

2. Thomas m .......... Lawrence

3. Margaret m John Brograve

4. Elinor m Robert Vyvian

5. Elizabeth m John Rascarrock

6. Rebecca m Thomas Flloyd

7. Frances m Robert Southwell

 

Thomas was MP for Barnstaple, but at times as a nobleman’s servant and a stranger to the county, became unpopular with the Devon gentry even being imprisoned at one stage and examined by the Privy Council. www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member... - Tawstock church Devon

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