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dowries for his 9 daughters. In the 1620s, Sir Thomas was planning to sell some land to reduce his debts. His son, Peter, claimed that the land could not be sold because it was entailed to him. He took his Sir Thomas to court to prevent the sale. Eventually, the legal case between father and son was settled by an arbitrator. Sir Thomas was allowed to sell the land, but he had to make a payment to Sir Peter.
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The wool industry on which the Temple family fortune had been founded had been suffering since the beginning of the seventeenth century. Sir Thomas also had other drains on his wealth. With such a large family, he had to meet significant expenses whenever his children got married - particularly
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Dictionary of National Biography - entry for Sir Peter Temple
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Britain and the American Colonies
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Catherine (b. 1599), who married Sir
William Ashcoombe in 1613
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101:Thomas Temple married Hester Sandys, daughter of
145:John (b. 1598), who married Dorothy Lee by 1613
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292:Foster, Alumni Oxoniensis, s.n. Thomas Temple
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424:Some Account of the Temple Family
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369:Thomson, Elizabeth, ed.
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