Thomas Magnus

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Thomas Magnus, (1463/4–1550), English administrator and diplomat; Archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire 1504, employed on diplomatic missions 1509–19 and 1524–7; present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold 1520; Privy councillor c. 1520; awarded a doctorate by the University of Oxford 1520; canon of Windsor 1520–49; Prebendary of Lincoln 1522–48; paymaster of the forces and treasurer of the wars in the north 1523; custodian of St Leonard's Hospital, York 1529^[1] He was also the founder of the Thomas Magnus Grammar School, Newark c. 1530.

When the "Valor Ecclesiasticus" was drawn up in 1534, Thomas Magnus was warden of Sibthorpe.^[2] Regarding Sibthorpe College, "we have some evidence of the dimensions of the building in a letter written by Thomas Magnus, who was warden of the college in the reign of Henry VIII, to Cardinal Wolsey."^[3]

Magnus died on 18 August 1550, and is buried in Sessay in the North Riding of Yorkshire, his epitaph reads "Here lyeth Mr Thomas Magnus, arch-deacon of the East Riding in the metropolitan church of York, and parson of this church, which died the 18th day of August, anno domino 1550, whose soul God pardon."^[4]

Mission to Scotland

After waiting at Newcastle for instructions from Henry VIII and Wolsey, and a Scottish safe-conduct, Magnus and Roger Radclyff arrived in Edinburgh on 29 October 1524. They delivered letters to James V and Margaret Tudor at Holyroodhouse on All Saint's day. Then trumpets and shawms blew, and the court went into the Abbey for mass, during which James V read the letters with Gavin Dunbar. After mass, Magnus and Radclyff gave James a sword and a coat of cloth-of-gold, gifts from Henry VIII. James put on the coat straight away.^[5] Magnus visited Margaret Tudor at Perth in March 1525, bringing certain news of the defeat of Francis I of France at Pavia and a letter from Henry VIII that made her weep uncontrollably for an hour. In April Magnus claimed that James V had told him he would rather be in England with his uncle than in Scotland, and Margaret agreed.^[6]

References

↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992: Thomas Magnus, p.1916
↑ Colleges: Sibthorpe, A History of the County of Nottingham: Volume 2 (1910), pp.150-152
↑ Hawton, Thorpe, Cotham, and Sibthorpe, in Cornelius Brown, A History of Nottinghamshire, 1896
↑ Robert Thoroton, "A History of Nottinghamshire, volume 1, page 403
↑ State Papers Henry VIII, vol. 4 part 4 (1836), 208-9, Magnus & Radclyff to Wolsey, 3 November 1524.
↑ State Papers Henry VIII, vol. 4 part 4 (1836), 348, 366, Magnus to Wolsey.

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High Medieval	Ranulph William of York Hugh de Puiset John of Canterbury Ralph de Warneville Geoffrey Burchard de Puiset/du Puiset Eustace Hamo Walter de Wisbech Walter de Taney Walter de Woburn Simon of Evesham Robert of Scarborough John de Crowcombe/de Craucombe

Late Medieval	Bertrand de Fargis William de Ayremynne Denis Haverel Aymer Cardinal Robert John de Cestre William de Walcote Walter Skirlaw John de Hermesthorp William de Waltham Francis Cardinal Renzio de Alifia Bartholomew Cardinal Oleari OSB William Feryby Christopher Cardinal de Maronibus William de Waltham (again) Henry Bowet John Wodham Richard Tone Robert Clifton John Walter Edmund Audley Edward Pole William Poteman Henry Carnebull John Hole Richard Mayew Thomas Magnus

Early modern	John Dakyn William Rokeby Martin Parkinson John May Richard Remington Marmaduke Blakiston John Cosin Clement Breton Robert Hitch William Brearey Heneage Dering Jaques Sterne Robert Oliver Thomas Constable Darley Waddilove Francis Wrangham Robert Wilberforce Charles Long

Late modern	Richard Blunt James Palmes Charles Mackarness Unknown/vacant Malet Lambert Bernard Heywood, Bishop of Hull Henry Vodden, Bishop of Hull Frank Ford Donald Snelgrove Michael Vickers Hugh Buckingham Peter Harrison David Butterfield

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Name	Magnus, Thomas
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