Person:Thomas Thorne (7)

Information on Thomas Thorne

Thomas Thorne of Yardley, County Northants

Will Made - 29 Oct. 1588, Proven 9 May 1589

Coat of Arms - Thorne: Sable, 3 Fusills in Fess, Argent

From "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register", Volume 66, by New England Historic Genealogical Society, pg. 341-342, pub. Jan. 1912:

Another important discovery was that of the will of Thomas Dome, of Thorne, of Yardley Hastings, an abstract of which follows.

The Will of Thomas Dorne of Yardley Hastings, Gent., 29 October 1588. To the reparacons of the Churche of Yardley 20s. Towards the reparacons of the Churche of Syersham 20s. To the poore and most needye in Yeardlie 20s. To the poore and most needye in Syersham 15s. To the poore and most needye of Olney 10s. To the poore of Easton Mauditt 3s. 4d. To the poore and most needie of Frendon 3s. 4d. To the poore of Ashbie David [Castle Ashby] 3s. 4d. To the poore of Denton 2s. 6d. To Mary Dome, my loving wiffe, £10 of English money to be paid to her out of the manor of Syresham aforesaid, the whole linnen in my house at her discretion to dispose of, the use of all the furniture of my house, my windmill, and the Dome [?] house which I have of Raynold Hull of Yeardley, during her naturall life, on condition that the said Marye shall give a bond of £10 that she will not give away the said furniture, etc, but give it all to the children and heires of the said Thomas; also to the said Marye the wholle furniture of my Chambre where I do now lye to her owne use, and to Dispose that at her owne pleasure to whom she seeth it good. If my sonne Robert Dome should come home, my said wiffe shall suffer him to have a convenient chambre within my said house, and also to have meat and Drink for himself, and sufficient Keeping for his horse, on condition that he shall be obedient unto his Mother in everything during her naturall life. To the Children of Edward Dome, my Sonne, £3 lis. 8d. To the Children of Paul Strelley likewise £3 lis. 8d. To the Children of my Sonne Pender [?] likewise £3 lis. 8d. To Margery La we, daughter of Basil 1 La we, my Sonne-in-Law, £10. To the Children of Andrew Plume [?] as before £3 lis. 8d. To the Children of Frauncis Worsley £3 1 Is. 8d. To the Children of Arthur Dorn £3 lis. 8. To the Children of Susan Dudley, my Daughter, widow, £10, to be equally divided. To Mr Leonard Brothers, my nephew, 20s. in gold, to make him a ring of remembraunce. To Willm Dome thelder 20s. in gold, to make him a ring of remembraunce. To every one of my servants one quarters wages. To every one of my Godchildren 12d. To Thomas Strelley, my Godsonne, towards his Exhibition in the Universitie of Cambridge, £3 lis. 8d. To my sonne Arthur Dome all mine apparelle and all mine artillery, one Crosbow excepted, which I doe give to my sonne Robert Dome. After all legacies are paid and all debts, all the remainder to Edward Dome and Arthur Dorne, my sonnes, and they to be Executors. Paule Strelley and William Thorn, Gent., overseers. Proved 9 May 1589. (Northampton Registry of Wills, Book 5, pp. 328-330.)

Additional information about the Thorne, or Dorne, family is derived from the following entries in the parish register of Yardley Hastings:

1550 Anna filia Thomae Dorne bapt. .

1551 Katherina Dorne bapt. 11 September.

1552 Artliuris Dome bapt. 15 May.

1558 Willm Dorne bapt. 6 December.

1559 Susanna Dome bapt. 5 March [1559/60].

1560 Robt Dome bapt. 3 May.

1561 Isabell Thome bapt. 3 June.

1582 Basill Law and Isabell Thorne maryed 14 January [1582/3].

1588 Thomas Dorne gent buryed 9 November.

Cotton Mather's statement, that Thomas Dudley was aided in obtaining his education by Mrs. Purefoy, "a gentlewoman famed in the parts about Northampton for wisdom, piety and works of charity," and also by Judge Nichols, " being his kinsman also, by the mother's side," together with the mention of a Thomas Dudley in the will of John Purefoy, 1579 (register, vol. 49, p. 507), had already been regarded as pointing to a connection between the Purefoys and the Dudleys.* It was known also that Mary Purefoy, sister of the above-mentioned John Purefoy, was the wife of Thomas Thorne of Yardley Hastings, and that Thomas and Mary (Purefoy) Thorne had four sons, Anthony \_sic~], Edward, Robert and Thorney, and two daughters, of whom Katherine married Francis Worsley and Susanna, according to the printed pedigrees of the Purefoy family, married a Rogers. (See note by Dean Dudley in Register, vol. 49, pp. 507-508, where his account of the Purefoy family is based on Nicholls's History of Leicestershire, and on the Visitation of Leicestershire in the Publications of the Harleian Society, vol. 2.) But an examination of the original Purefoy pedigree in the British Museum (Harleian MS. 1189, fols. 18, 19) shows that Susanna Thorne married Roger, a very different statement from that of the printed pedigree, which gives to her a husband surnamed Rogers and omits his Christian name. The will of Thomas Dome, or Thorne, supplies the surname that is missing in the Harleian MS., and proves that the husband of Susanna Thorne was Roger Dudley. It is evident, therefore, that Thomas Dudley was descended from the Purefoys through his mother, Susanna Thorne, who was a daughter of Mary (Purefoy) Thorne, and was baptized at Yardley Hastings 5 March 1559/60.

Since Susanna (Thorne) Dudley was already a widow on 29 October 1588, the date of her father's will, her husband Roger Dudley could not have fallen in the battle of Ivry, 14 March 1590, as some writers have asserted. (Dean Dudley's Supplement to the History of the Dudley Family, p. 8; Stokes Records, vol. 1, p. 93.)

The arms of the family of Thorne, alias Dome, "de Com. Northton, nuper de Brylowe," are inserted at the end of Harleian MS. 1467, fol. 69, in the British Museum. In Metcalfe's Visitations of Northamptonshire, p. 168, they are given, quartered with Brudenell of Deane, as Sable, three fusills in jess argent. A William Thome was patron of the living of Yardley Hastings in 1531 (Bridges's Northamptonshire, vol. 1, p. 398), and Bridges says that this was probably during the minority of Peter Compton, son of Sir William Compton, who died 20 Hen. VHI. A William Thorne of Yardley Hastings, probably the man of that name mentioned by Bridges, made his will 8 March 1537, as follows:

To be buried in the church " before the rood." To wife Alys certain lands. To son Thomas all my other lands, my copyhold in Yardley, and also in Syersham and other places. To youngest son George £10. To daughter M[torn] 20s. My wife Alys to be executrix. " To my ghostly father, Thomas Smyth, 2s. to pray for me." "Witnesses: brother Nicholas Thome and Thomas Smyth, parson of Yardley.