Thomas Hungate (c. 1516 – 1579) of Saxton, North Yorkshire, was an English politician. He was a Member of the Parliament of England (MP) for the seat of Maldon in 1554, Lancaster in 1555 and Newport Iuxta Launceston in 1558.[1]
Thomas Hungate | |
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 Arms of Hungate of Saxton: Gules, a chevron engrailed between three hounds sejant, Argent | |
| Member of Parliament for Maldon | |
| In office 1554–1554 | |
| Preceded by | Anthony Browne |
| Succeeded by | Anthony Browne |
| Member of Parliament for Lancaster | |
| In office 1555–1555 | |
| Preceded by | Richard Weston |
| Succeeded by | William Rice |
| Member of Parliament for Newport Iuxta Launceston | |
| In office 1558–1558 | |
| Preceded by | William Stourton |
| Succeeded by | Richard Grenville |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1516 |
| Died | 1579 (aged 62–63) |
| Resting place | All Saints' church, Saxton 53°49′34″N 1°16′43″W / 53.826°N 1.27872°W |
| Spouse | Isabel Metham |
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Early life and marriage
editHungate was born about 1516, the third son of William Hungate (d. 1547) of Saxton and Alice Gower, daughter of Sir William Gower of Stittenham, Yorkshire.[1][2]
He married Isabel Metham, daughter of Sir Thomas Metham of Metham, with whom he had two sons:[1]
Career
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Hungate was a servant of Sir Anthony Browne by 1535; avener to Queen Jane Seymour by 1537, to Anne of Cleves and Catherine Parr; commissioner of sewers, for Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire in 1545; member of the household of Princess Mary by 1551 to 1553; forester, Galtres, Yorkshire from 1554 to 1572; esquire of the body by September, 1554 to 1558.[1][6][7]
In July 1553 Princess Mary wrote to the Privy Council from Kenninghall, demanding that it renounce Jane Grey and recognize her as queen, as her father's will decreed.[8][9][10]
Mary sent her servant, Thomas Hungate, to deliver her letters to the Council in London. Hungate, who had "eagerly offered himself for this task, despite is danger", hurried to London where he "bravely delivered the queen's commands to Northumberland and the other noblemen and gave them her letters."[8][11]
Hungate arrived on 10 July, while the Council was in session, with letters from Kenninghall dated the day before. The Duke of Northumberland told him that at his age, he should have had more sense. He was immediately sent to the Tower of London.[9]
He received no preferment during the reign of Elizabeth I.[1]
Death
editHis wife and sons had died before he made his will which was dated 16 April 1578.[1] The supervisors of his will, in which he left legacies to a number of relations, were Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, Sir William Cordell and Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex; Cordell and Sussex were to share an annuity of £20 "for the great goodness heretofore I have found and for the great goodness I hope hereafter mine shall find at their hands". He died in 1579 and was buried in the Hungate quire of Saxton church.[1][2]
Notes
edit- ^ a b c d e f g Coros 1982.
- ^ a b Wheater 1882, pp. 45–46.
- ^ a b Foster 1875, p. 114.
- ^ Delaram, Francis. "The Mightie Princesse Marie by the Grace of God Queene of England, France and Ireland". The British Museum. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ^ Hearn 1995, p. 67.
- ^ MacCulloch 1984, pp. 252–253, 295 note 16: "He became one of the four principal esquires in ordinary for the queen's body".
- ^ Madden 1831, p. 158.
- ^ a b MacCulloch 1984, p. 253.
- ^ a b Ives 2011, p. 191.
- ^ Whitelock 2009, p. 177.
- ^ Whitelock & MacCulloch 2007, p. 277.
References
edit- Coros, D. F. (1982). "Hungate, Thomas (by 1516-79), of Saxton, Yorks". In Bindoff, S. T. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 – via The History of Parliament Online.
- Glover, Robert; Saint-George, Richard (1875). Foster, Joseph (ed.). The Visitation of Yorkshire, Made in the Years 1584/5, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald; to which is Added the Subsequent Visitation Made in 1612, by Richard St. George, Norroy King of Arms, with Several Additional Pedigrees, Including "The Arms Taken Out of Churches and Houses at Yorkshire Visitation, 1584/5," "Sir William Fayrfax' Booke of Arms," and Other Heraldic Lists, with Copious Indices. London: Privately printed for the editor. p. 114. OCLC 1403155103.
- Hearn, Karen (1995). Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England, 1530-1630. London: Tate Publishing. pp. 66–67. ISBN 9781854371690. OCLC 33952678.
- Ives, Eric (2011). Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 191, 228. ISBN 978-14443-5018-0.
- MacCulloch, Diarmaid, ed. (1984). "Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae of Robert Wingfield of Brantham". Camden Miscellany XXVIII. Camden fourth series. Vol. 29. Edited and translated by Diarmaid MacCulloch. London: Royal Historical Society. pp. 181–301. ISBN 0-86193-101-7.
- Madden, Frederick (1831). Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, Daughter of King Henry the Eighth, Afterwards Queen Mary: With a Memoir of the Princess, and Notes. London: William Pickering. p. 158. OCLC 65256667.
- Wheater, W. (1882). The History of the Parishes of Sherburn and Cawood, with Notices of, Wistow, Saxton, Towton, &c (2nd ed.). London: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 45–46.
- Whitelock, Anna (2009). Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen. New York: Random House. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-4000-6609-4.
- Whitelock, Anna; MacCulloch, Diarmaid (June 2007). "Princess Mary's Household and the Succession Crisis, July 1553". The Historical Journal. 50 (2): 265–287. doi:10.1017/S0018246X07006061. JSTOR 4140130.
External links
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- HUNGATE, Thomas (by 1516-79), of Saxton, Yorks. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-155, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982.