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 Abt 1505 - 1584 (~ 79 years)
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| Name |
Lodge, Thomas |
| Born |
Abt 1505 |
Of West Ham, Essex, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
28 Feb 1583/84 |
St Mary Aldermary, London, England |
| Person ID |
I06560 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
29 May 2015 |
| Family 3 |
Luddington, Anne, b. Abt 1527, London, England , bur. 31 Dec 1579, St Mary Aldermary, London, England (Age ~ 52 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1553 |
| Children |
| | 1. Lodge, William, c. 29 Sept 1553, St Michael Cornhill, London, England , d. Bef 1563, Of London, England (Age ~ 9 years) |
| | 2. Lodge, Benedict, b. Abt 1554, Of London, England , d. Aft 1579 (Age ~ 26 years) |
| | 3. Lodge, Johann, b. Abt 1554, Of London, England , bur. 24 Jul 1583, St Peter Cornhill, London, England (Age ~ 29 years) |
| | 4. Lodge, Thomas, c. 23 May 1556, St Michael Cornhill, London, England , bur. 4 Jun 1556, St Michael Cornhill, London, England (Age ~ 0 years) |
| | 5. Lodge, Thomas, b. Abt 1558, London, England , d. Aft 1579 (Age ~ 22 years) |
| | 6. Lodge, Robert, b. Abt 1560, Of London, England , bur. 18 May 1561, St Peter Le Poor, London, England (Age ~ 1 years) |
| | 7. Lodge, Nicholas, c. 27 Apr 1561, St Peter Le Poor, London, England |
| | 8. Lodge, William, b. 18 Apr 1563, London, England , d. Aft 1579 (Age 16 years) |
| | 9. Lodge, Henry, c. 14 Apr 1566, St Peters Cornhill, London, England , d. Aft 1579 (Age ~ 13 years) |
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| Last Modified |
29 May 2015 |
| Family ID |
F01921 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- After the death of Margaret Sir Thomas again soon remarried, since on September 29, 1553, William, the eldest child of his third marriage, was christened at St. Michael's. His third marriage was undoubtedly more successful, financially and socially, than his second, for Anne Lane was not only the widow of a fairly prosperous grocer, but also the stepdaughter of the wealthy Sir William Laxton, a former Master of the Grocers' Company, who had held the office of Lord Mayor of London in 1544. Her mother was Lady Laxton, formerly Joan Luddington, who married Sir William Laxton after the death of her first husband, Henry Luddington (also a grocer), in 1531.3 Anne Lane was one of three surviving children by her mother's first marriage and, since Sir William had no children of his own, might reasonably expect to inherit some portion of his estate.
A second son, Thomas, was christened at St. Michael's on May 23,
1556, but died the same year. After this date Sir Thomas' connection with the parish of St. Michael's, Cornhill, ceased, and the next record in the history of the Lodge family which has so far come to light is the christening of Harry or Henry Lodge at St. Peter's, Cornhill, on April 14, 1566. Some time between the death of the first Thomas in 1556
and the birth of Henry in 1566, Thomas Lodge the writer was born...the busy life of the alderman whose civic
ambitions were probably realised when, on March 8, 1562/3, as
Lord Mayor of London, he was knighted at Westminster.1 He had
then held responsible positions in his guild and in the city, and his
activities had not merely been confined to business and civic duties,
but had included services to the state as well.2 By overseas trading
ventures (by no means restricted to his business as a grocer) he had
amassed sufficient wealth to enable him to enjoy the luxury of holding
the expensive office of Lord Mayor. In this very year, however,
Sir Thomas' star suffered an eclipse, and at the end of his term of
office he was bankrupt. Professor Sisson has shown that by the
autumn of 1563 he was imprisoned in the Fleet for debt.8 Some
light is thrown on his financial crisis by a petition which he addressed
to Elizabeth on April 20, 1564,* asking for a commission to be
appointed to examine his affairs and arrange terms with his creditors.
He reminds Elizabeth of his long-standing reputation for integrity
and confesses that heavy losses have left him unable to pay the large
sums of money he owes :
In most humble wise sheweth ynto your highnes your humble Suppliant
Sir Thomas Lodge knighte who for the space of these fyve and twentie
yearea and more hathe kepte howse and dwelte within the Cittie of
London . . . in the state of a marchaunt in good regarde of honestie
not only here but likewise in all forren Realmes where any the marchauntes
of England do trade or haue traded vntill nowe that of late through greate
and extreme losses aswell by sea as lande by evell debters and otherwise
is fallen into decaye standing indebted to diuerse men in greate sommes
of money whereof he hathe not to paie.
He describes the efforts he has made to come to terms with his
creditors
by three sundry offers made vnto them That is to say he hathe offred to
paie euery man his whole somme vpon his owne bond at thende of syxe
yeares or to put them in suerties to paie them at thende of eighte yeares
or fynally to delyuer vnto them all that he hathe in the worlde in goodea
landes and debtes;
but his creditors had refused the offer, and friends who before would have entered into bonds for him had withdrawn their aid ; his credit
was therefore ruined and his chance of recovery lost, so that
your said Supplyant of necessytie shalbe compelled to leave of occupying
to the utter vndoyng foreuer of your said Supplyant his Wief and Children....The financial situation of the Lodge family must have been eased
somewhat on the death of Lady Laxton in 1576. Under Sir William
Laxton's will,1 Lady Laxton had held a life interest in certain parcels
of property which now came (by Sir William's bequest) to Sir
Thomas and Lady Lodge ; she had also held a life interest in much
of Sir William's other property and died a wealthy woman. In
addition to the lands held in trust for them under her husband's
will, Lady Laxton left the Lodges certain lands in Essex held in her
own right and appointed Lady Lodge her sole residuary legatee and
executrix.2 A part at least of their inheritance was devoted to the
purchase of property for settlement on their children. On December
7, 1576, for £150, they bought the manor of Barkers and two other
messuages in Stoke Nayland (Suffolk).3 On December 31 the
same year they paid £2,000 for a moiety of the manor of Rolleston,*
and in March and April the following year they spent £430 on
property in the parishes of St. Peter's, Cornhill,8 and St. Giles',
Cripplegate.9
After the death of Lady Laxton, Sir Thomas and Lady Lodge
moved from the city to one of the houses in West Ham which they
had inherited. Lady Lodge died in 1579 and Sir Thomas survived
her by about three years. During the last few years of his life
Sir Thomas seems to have resumed many of the activities
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Will of Sir Thomas Lodge of West Ham, Essex 07 June 1585 PROB 11/68
Will of Thomas Lodge 03 October 1583 PROB 11/66
Sentence of Thomas Lodge 22 May 1585 PROB 11/68
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