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Birth:          1402 of Bechworth, Surrey, England
Death:          20 Jul 1460 
Cause of Death: beheaded for treason

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Sir Thomas Browne (1402 – 29 July 1460) was a Member of Parliament and Chancellor 
of the Exchequer. He was beheaded for treason on 20 July 1460.
Career[edit]

Thomas Browne was born in 1402, the son and heir of Sir Robert Browne of 
Betchworth and a nephew of Stephen Browne MP.[1] He was sworn to the peace in 
Kent in 1434.[citation needed] He was Justice of Peace for Kent from 1436 to 24 
December 1450.[citation needed] He was High Sheriff of Kent in 1439 and Member of 
Parliament for Dover in the same year, and Knight of the Shire for Kent in 1445.[2] He 
was present at Parliament in 1447 and 1449 as Under Treasurer.[citation needed] He 
was MP between 1449 and 1450 for Wallingford.[citation needed]

He served as Treasurer of the Household to Henry VI.[2] He was knighted 
1449/1451.[citation needed] During the reign of King Henry VI, his highest post was 
that of Chancellor of the Exchequer, which he held between 1440 and 1450.[citation 
needed] He was later Justice of Peace for Surrey from 20 July 1454 till his death.
[citation needed]

Browne was convicted of treason on 20 July 1460, and immediately executed. 
According to some sources he was beheaded, [2] while according to other sources he 
and six others were executed at Tyburn.[citation needed]

Property[edit]
Betchworth Castle, which Browne purchased from his father in law, Thomas FitzAlan.
Tonford Manor, Thanington, Kent, called 'Toniford', 'Tunford' etc., which came to him 
from Sir Thomas Fogge, (died anno 9 Henry IV) through the Brownes, who in the 27th 
year of Henry VI obtained a grant of liberty to embattle and impark and to have free 
warren etc. within this manor.
Morris-Court, Bapchild, Kent, situated within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the 
diocese of Rochester and deanery of Sittingbourne.
Eythorne Manor, Kent. Browne obtained the grant of a fair at the neighbouring village 
of Wimlingswold, to be held on the feast of St. Margaret the Virgin (20 July), but which 
is now held yearly on Old May-day.
Hoptons Manor in the parish of Alkham, Kent.
Kingsnorth Manor, Ulcombe, Kent. In the 27th year of the reign of Henry VI, Browne 
obtained licence for a fair in this parish on the feast of St. Michael, and that same 
year had licence to embattle his mansion there and to enclose a park, and for 
freewarren in all his demesne lands within the manor.
Westbury Manor, Wateringbury, Kent, which Browne purchased from Richard 
Fishborne in the 33d year of Henry VI's reign. Now called Manor Farm.
Swanscombe Manor, Greenhithe, Kent.
Tong Castle and Manor, Tong, Kent, which had been in possession of Richard, Duke 
of York, but was taken by the crown in anno 38 Henry VI,[3] and granted to Browne 
prior to his being knighted and appointed comptroller and treasurer of the King's 
household. Browne soon afterwards obtained a grant of a fair at this manor on St. 
James's day yearly, and another for liberty to embattle his mansion and to impark his 
lands here.
The manor of Barfreston, Kent[4]

Family[edit]

In about 1437, Browne married Eleanor FitzAlan, daughter of Sir Thomas FitzAlan, 
third son of John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel (d. 14 August 1390), and Elizabeth le 
Despenser (d. 10 or 11 April 1408), by whom he had seven sons and two daughters:
[5][6]
William Browne[2] (of Tavistock, Devon).[citation needed]
Sir George Browne, beheaded in 1483.[2] His estates were confiscated, but were 
afterwards restored to his heirs in 1485 by Henry VII.[7]
Thomas Browne.[2]
Sir Anthony Browne.[2]
Robert Browne, esquire,[2] of Luddenham, Kent, Comptroller of the Household to 
Thomas FitzAlan, 17th Earl of Arundel, who married a wife named Anne, by whom he 
had a daughter, Eleanor Browne, who married firstly, before 9 December 1509, 
Thomas Fogge (d. 16 August 1512), esquire, sergeant porter of Calais, younger son of 
Sir John Fogge, and secondly Sir William Kempe (d. 28 January 1539) of Olantigh, 
Kent.[8][9][10][11]
Leonard Browne.[2]
Edward Browne.[2]
Catherine Browne, who married Humphrey Sackville, of Buckhurst Park, Sussex (1426 
– 24 January 1488),[2] son of Sir Edward Sackville and his wife Margaret Wakehurst.
[12]
Jane Browne.[citation needed]

Parents
BROWNE Robert (ABT 1371 - )
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Siblings
BROWNE Thomas (1402 - 20 Jul 1460)

Marriage To FITZ ALAN Eleanor (ABT 1415 - )
    m. ABT 1437 

Notes

Parents
FITZ ALAN Thomas (ABT 1390 - 1430)
MOYNS Joan (ABT 1398 - )

Children by FITZ ALAN Eleanor ABT 1415 - 
BROWNE William (ABT 1441 - )

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