Background
Palmes was the son eldest son and heir of William Palmes of Naburn and Eleanor, daughter of William Heslerton of Heslerton.
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Career
In 1496 he became recorder of York in succession to Sir William Fairfax, and in the following year was made a Freeman. He proved more diligent in attending the York council than some recorders, twice supervising elections when a mayor died in office. a year. His and his first wife’s membership of the city’s Corpus Christi guild, and his own of the merchants’ guild, suggest that he engaged in trade.
When in December 1509 Palmes was elected to Parliament he at once resigned the recordership.
The city rarely elected its recorder and the choice of Palmes may have been influenced by his recent despatch to London with two aldermen, one of them his fellow-Member William Nelson, on unspecified business. Unlike Nelson, he was not to be re-elected, perhaps because he was made a serjeant in 1510, but his continued standing in the city and shire is reflected in his appointment to nine subsidy commissions between 1512 and 1515.
Little of a personal nature has come to light about his later years. Palmes married first Ellen Acclome, the daughter of John Acclome of Moreby Hall, Yorkshire.
Nicholas Palmes (d 1551), succeeded his father to Naburn Hall.
George Palmes, died unmarried
William Palmes, died unmarried
Richard Palmes, died unmarried
Agnes Palmes, married in 1559 Sir William Babthorpe of Babthorpe and Osgodby. They were the parents of two children. Palmes" portrait depicts him wearing a signet ring on his index finger.
This ring was lost by his descendant in the Battle of Marston Moor and it was found during the 1860s when a farmer was ploughing the battle site.
The will was proved on 11 January 1520 and an inquisition post mortem held at York castle on 27 (?)April 1520 found that Palmes had died on 1 October (sic) 1519 leaving as his heir a 20-year-old son Nicholas.
At his death Palmes held the manors of Naburn and Gate Fulford, and lands, some of them acquired recently, scattered over a wide area of Yorkshire.
Membership
He was a member of the Palmes family, an ancient upper-gentry family that had been seated at Naburn Hall since the 13th century. In his own will of 31 October 1519 Palmes asked to be buried in his parish church of Saint George, York, whither his body was to be escorted by friars from the four York houses and by members of the Corpus Christi guild, and to have prayers said for him and his family locally for seven years and at Roecliffe for ever.
