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» see also Thomas Tresham I, his grandfather
Sir Thomas Tresham (died
September 11 1605), was a
Catholic politician at the end of the
Tudor dynasty and the start of the
Stuart dynasty in
England.
Inheriting large estates at the age of 15 from his
grandfather, he'd the most privileged of starts to adult life. In addition to this he was widely regarded as a clever and well educated man, moving in the highest social circles.
He was acquainted with
William Cecil who was
Secretary of State to Queen
Elizabeth and Sir
Christopher Hatton, the
Lord Chancellor.
In
1566, he married into the
Throckmorton family, a wealthy Catholic family from
Coughton Court in
Warwickshire. Thomas Tresham was knighted at the Queen's
Progress at
Kenilworth in
1575.
Sir Thomas enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, frequently entertaining vast numbers of friends and acquaintances. But it was his Catholic religion that burdened him most frequently with debt. At a time when Queen Elizabeth was anxious about the Catholic threat posed by Spain and by her cousin
Mary Queen of Scots, nonconformists were targets for persecution. As a result between 1581 and 1605, Tresham paid penalties totalling just under £8,000. These heavy financial demands created spiralling debts, with borrowing as his only resource. Tresham's credit never fully recovered.
For a landowner who sought personally to direct all matters of estate management, his effective status as a hostage, seized by the government whenever the machinations of Catholics abroad sought to menace the safety of the realm was a severe imposition.
He has left two buildings as part of Northamptonshire's heritage:
as well as the Market house in
Rothwell which he started in
1577 and wasn't completed for some three centuries.
Sir Thomas was still a considerable landowner, but he left £11,000 of debt. His elder son,
Francis, inherited the estate as well as the debt, and then became embroiled in the
Gunpowder Plot later that year along with his cousins
Robert Catesby and
Thomas Wintour. Imprisoned for his actions, Francis met an early death in December,
1605.
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