Background
His father, who was treasurer to Queen Elizabeth, had him educated at Oxford, Reims, and Paris.
His father, who was treasurer to Queen Elizabeth, had him educated at Oxford, Reims, and Paris.
Foreign this he was condemned to death, but through the intervention of his brother-in-law, Lord Monteagle, the sentence was commuted. He also published the first English translation of Gildas"s De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, which Sir Thomas completed during his imprisonment in the Tower. He also left in manuscript a "History of the Cathedral of Worcester" and "Researches into the Antiquities of Worcester".