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THOMAS CHALONER
Thomas Chaloner was born at Steeple Claydon in 1595; after leaving Oxford he went abroad, and returned from foreign travel a perfect gentleman.” He married a Miss Southabie, whose brother “died from drinking two much sack.” He, was M.P. first for Richmond, and then for Scarborough. In 1651 he became Master of the Mint and his brother James (M P. for Aldborough, and Governor of the Isle of Man) both signed Charles 1st death warrant. In 16i6 at Steeple Claydon he “built a house with a clock, for children to be taught in, and impaled part of the waste about the raid house which was called the school-yard. and planted trees within the pale for the defence of the house, and settled £l2 . per annum for main tenancy of the schoolmaster.’ At the Restoration he was excluded from the amnesty, and fled to Holland, where he died in 1661, aged 66. Charles 11. granted the estate to Richard Lane, who hail enabled him to escape after the battle of Worcester; be got hold of the title deeds, and refused to pay the endowment, greatly to the (Ramey of the parishioners who vainly petitioned for it. Subtle. subsequently the Chaloners bought beck the estate, and lived there until they sold it to the Verney. in 1705.
Bucks Herald April 1902
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