Background
Brasbridge was born in 1547, of a Northamptonshire family, but lived at Banbury in his childhood.
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Thomas Brasbridge
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He was elected a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1553, a probationer fellow of All Souls" in 1558, when he graduated Bachelor of Arts (18 November), and a fellow of Magdalen in 1562. At Oxford he studied both divinity and medicine, and remained to tend the plague-stricken during the severe epidemic of 1563-1564.
Career
He proceeded Master of Arts on 20 October 1564. He supplicated for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity on 27 May 1574, but does not appear to have been granted lieutenant About 1578 he resigned his fellowship.
He describes himself as an inhabitant of London in that year, and engaged in tuition there.
He subsequently obtained a living at Banbury, where he also opened a school and practised medicine. At Christmas-time 1558 he was seriously assaulted by a number of his parishioners belonging to the hamlet of Wickham, who refused to come to church.
His assailants, who preferred "dancing, or some other like pastime" to church-going, were charged with recusancy before the privy council in March 1588-1589.
