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Thomas Thorpe (speaker)

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He had married Joan and was succeeded by his son and heir Roger. Some sources may give the dates of his Speakership as being between 1452 and 1453 as, at the time, the new year did not begin in England until a date in March. The dates given above are on the basis of the year starting on 1 January.
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but his enemy the Duke of York accused him of intercepting messages to the King which might have prevented the Battle of St Albans and Thorpe was stripped of all his public offices. On his return to favour in 1457 he was made keeper of the privy wardrobe in the Tower of London for life and in 1458
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and brought back to London as a prisoner and once more stripped of his offices. He escaped from prison, but was recaptured and sent to the Tower. He escaped a second time but on 17 February 1461 was caught in Harringay by a London mob and summarily beheaded.
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in 1453. In 1454 he was imprisoned in the Fleet Prison for falsely confiscating property of the Duke of York and was replaced as Speaker by
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Parliament and politics in late medieval England, Volume 2 p. 175 et seq By John Smith Roskell
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in 1452. His parliamentary career began in October 1449 when he was elected junior
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He worked as a clerk in the royal Exchequer, reaching a position of Third
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and was elected Speaker for the first part of the 19th Parliament of
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Thomas Thorpe (disambiguation)
House of Commons
England
Baron of the Exchequer
knight of the shire
Northamptonshire
Thomas Tresham
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King Henry VI
Sir Thomas Charlton
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Baron of the Exchequer
Battle of Northampton
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