Thomas Buttes


A: Thomas Buttes of Riburgh

A look at the historical snapshots of Great Ryburgh's Lord of the Manor


B: Thomas Buttes: A man of means

Buttes' wealth as found in the pages of the Wodehouse Muniments


C: The Will of Thomas Buttes late of Great Riborowe

A conflation of the two sources of the will of Ryburgh's C16th. Lord of the Manor


D: An Inventorye of the Goodes and Chattelles of Thomas Buttes Esquier 1592

The Probate Inventory of Buttes' household at Catton made on February 25th 1592 about a month after his death in January


E: Rectors appointed by Dr Wm. Buttes and his son Thomas to St Andrew's

A look at the appointments of Incumbents to St. Andrew's through the turbulent early years of the Reformation Church in England through their wills and other documentary sources.


F: Thomas Buttes and his troublesome rector

Some of the story of a suit in Chancery between Thomas Buttes and his appointed Parson Clarck of Great Ryburgh, Thomas Waterman


G: Richard Harris and his sources of remuneration as Rector of Great Ryburgh.

Thomas Buttes carefully filed the bills and acquitances recorded by Richard Harris during his term as Rector of Great Ryburgh and included in his papers a record of the enormous debt owing to local people at the time of his departure.


H: The Wills of Edmund and Sir William Buttes

Transcriptions of the wills of Thomas Buttes' brother who both predeceased him.

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