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Note for:   Thomas Malet,   1582 - 19 Dec 1665         Index

Individual Note:
     -Solicitor-General to QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA
-Judge of the King's Bench,1641
-committed to the Tower by the Parliamentarians, 1642, released 1644
-received from Charles II a patent of baronetcy, 1663, which however
he omitted to have passed the Great Seal
-had four sons and 4 daughters.
-evidently of Pointington, Devon (from will, leaving money to the poor).
N45.d37 Prelude to civil war, 1642 : Mr. Justice Malet and the Kentish petitions / T.P.S. Woods ; with an introduction by Ivan Roots.

Records of the Parliament Office, House of Lords House of Lords: Parliament Office: Journal Office [Access Conditions] All records are open. House of Lords: Journal Office: Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10 House of Lords: Journal Office: Main Papers 1509-1700 FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/127 - date: 2 Jul 1642 - 8 Jul 1642 [from Scope and Content] 6 July 1642 -- Receipt to Mr Justice Malet for sixteen parcels of writings, touching the Lord Magguire, Hugh MacMahun, and Lieutenant Colonel Reade, now prisoners in the Tower. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/131 - date: 10 Aug 1642 - 26 Aug 1642 [from Scope and Content] 23 August 1942 -- Petition of Sir Thomas Malet, Knight, one of the justices of the Court of King's Bench, praying for his enlargement. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/137 - date: 15 Nov 1642 - 3 Dec 1642 [from Scope and Content] 25 November 1642 -- Petition of Sir Thomas Malet, justices of the Court of King's Bench, prisoner in the Tower; is sorry to have offended their Lordships and prays for liberty. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/145 - date: 1 Mar 1643 - 18 Mar 1643 [from Scope and Content] 17 March 1643 -- Petition of Sir Thomas Malet, one of the Justices of the Court of King's Bench. Prisoner in the Tower. Prays that he may have leave to go abroad with his keeper and return to his prison every night. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/148 - date: 14 Apr 1643 - 29 Apr 1643 [from Scope and Content] 29 April 1643 -- Petition of Sir Thomas Malet, Knight, one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench. Prays for further liberty. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/175 - date: 12 Oct 1644 - 6 Nov 1644 [from Scope and Content] 6 November 1644 -- Petition of Sir Thomas Malet, Knight, one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench, now prisoner in the Tower of London; thanks the House for allowing his wife in allowing her to go into the country to her children; she, however, has denied herself this comfort in order to stay with him.

His last will:
First I Commend My Soule to God and my Body to Christian buryall my house and all my Lands tenements and Hereditaments in Pointington in the County of Somersett I do by this my last Will and Testament give and Devise unto my good and loving wife Jane Mallett And I do also constitute and appoint her to be the sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament and also do give unto her All the Estates I have of in or to any house or Tenement in Stowell within the County of Somerset All the rest of my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances whatsoever also I have within the Countys of Somersett Devon Somersett and the Citty of Exeter or the Suburbs thereof I doe hereby give and Devise unto John Malet Esq. my Eldest sonne and heir apparent saving all such Estates or Leases as I have formerly made or granted thereof or of any parte thereof unto any of my Children __________ under my hand and seale Also I give unto my Sister Anne Garrett ____ pounds Also I doe acquit Release and Discharge my Loving Daughter ___ Chafe of and from the payment of fifty pounds which hath been long due and from her unto ___ And I hereby give unto Jane Chafe and Dorothy Chafe her Daughters the sum of forty pounds to be equally divided between them And twenty pounds more to be likewise equally divided between the rest of their Daughters Also I give unto Baldwin and William the elder sonnes of the said John Malet all my books to be divided between them as the said John Malet their father shall appoint or thinks fittest for them Also I give unto Thomas Malet my Grandchild being the sonne of my sonne Thomas twenty pounds Also I give unto my very loving Friend Mr. Fox the Parson of Pointington five pounds And unto John Day my very good Neighbour and friend fifty shillings I give unto Johan White my Wife’s Maid Servant five pounds And unto Henry Peyford(?) my sometimes servant fifty shillings And to my long and ___
Servant John Gifford forty shillings And to the poore of the parish of Pointington five pounds to be distributed as my wife shall think fittest and to have most need thereof Lastly I give to William Day my Servant Thomas Mallet the 26th of May 1664 Sealed and published in the presence of Richard Yong the marke of Matthew King the marke of Lawrence King.

In Somerset archives:

    1661 Copies of documents at Longleat: petition concerning brief for
Watchet quay 1661, letter from Thos. Malet concerning
Mendip lead n.d., letter to Sir John Thynne concerning a
quarrel with the earl of Pembroke n.d. (5 items)
804
Judge Defender to the cause of King Charles I.
    1642 Letter from Charles I to Sir Thomas Malet of Pointington and
St Audries, judge of assize in Surrey, requiring him to return
home at the end of his circuit and promising him the escort of
the sheriff of Surrey.
(Endorsed with a later note on career of Sir Thomas, his
death, and motto. Also transcripts etc and note that the letter
was exhibited at Dunster Castle, Blake Museum, Bridgwater
and to West Somerset Village History Society in Chargot
1992.) 31 July, 1642. [NRA PRC/1] (4 items)
805
    1663 Grant of baronetcy to Sir Thos. Malet Kt. 19 May, 1663. [NRA
FHP/1] (1 doc.)
806
    1663 Receipt for £100 paid for the above
19 May, 1663. (1 doc.)
807
    1621-c.1815 Copy of Thomas Malet's appointment as steward of the courts
of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
4 May, 1621. [NRA PP/AP/2]

827
1642, 1766,
1972-1979, 1985 Correspondence with Thomas Woods of Pointington manor
and Hugh Malet concerning the former's book on Thomas
Malet of Pointington Prelude to the Civil War, 1642 with draft
of chapter 13, review , photocopies of Thomas's letter of
protection from Charles I and TSS of his petitions from the
Tower in H.L.R.O., extract from Clarendon and photograph of
a posset jug said to have belonged to Sir Thomas; engravings
of Admiral van Trump, Oliver Cromwell [1766] and an ambush
by Kessel and Snayers; receipt for loan of portraits of Thomas
and Jane Malet for an exhibition at the County Museum.
(63 items)

On Sir Walter Raleigh
    Though he left his native country at fourteen, and lived so long, yet sometimes one might find a little touch of our pronunciation. Old Sir Thomas Malet, one of our judges of the King's Bench, knew Sir Walter Raleigh, and said that, notwithstanding his great travels, conversation, learning, etc., yet he spoke broad Devonshire to his dying day.