Thomas Bromely

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Thomas was born in 1530, the son of George Bromely and Jane Lacon. The place is not known.

He died on 12 APR 1587. The place is not known.

His wife was Elizabeth Fortescue. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. They had no known children.

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!Source: https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/sir-thomas-bromley

Sir Thomas Bromley died on 12th April 1587 and was buried in the chapel of St Paul in Westminster Abbey. He was born in 1530, the second son of George Bromley of Hodnet in the county of Shropshire and Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Lacon.

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Sir Thomas Bromley died on 12th April 1587 and was buried in the chapel of St Paul in Westminster Abbey. He was born in 1530, the second son of George Bromley of Hodnet in the county of Shropshire and Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Lacon. He was descended from an ancient family established since the reign of King John at Bromleghe in Staffordshire. He was educated at Oxford and entered the Inner Temple in London as a lawyer and he was also a Member of Parliament. In 1579 he became Lord Chancellor and presided at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue, and she was buried at St Margaret's Church Westminster on 2nd June 1602 . Thomas' elder brother George was also an eminent lawyer and M.P. and married Joan Wannerton.

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Thomas and Elizabeth had four sons and four daughters. The sons were Sir Henry who inherited Holt Castle near Worcester ; Thomas who married Mary Viner; Gerard who married Elizabeth Darell and Edward who was born in 1570. The daughters were Anne who married Richard Corbet; Muriel who married John Lytellton ; Joan who married Sir Edward Greville M.P., and Elizabeth who married Sir Oliver Cromwell .

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His large monument in the chapel, incorporating his alabaster effigy dressed in an embroidered robe, shows carved figures of his eight children kneeling at the base of the structure. The Latin inscription can be translated:

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Thomas Bromley, knight, remarkable for his wisdom, piety and knowledge of the Law, Privy Counsellor to Queen Elizabeth, and Lord Chancellor; when he had for eight years delivered equity with singular integrity and temper of mind, being snatched hastily away, to the grief of all good men, was here buried. He lived 57 years, and died the 12th of April, anno 1587. He left by his Lady Elizabeth, of the family of Fortescues, eight children, Henry his son has to the best of fathers erected this monument.

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At the feet of his effigy is a cock pheasant, the family crest. His coat of arms appears at the top of the monument: "per fess indented gules and or" .

Further reading for Sir Thomas and several other members of the Bromley family

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Sir Thomas Bromley

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History of Parliament online for Thomas, son Henry, and brother George

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For various wills of the family search at The National Archives and order copies from them