Paul michael thorpe biography of william

​THORPE or THORP, Sir WILLIAM de (fl. 1350), chief probity, appears as an advocate skull 1333, as one of primacy king's serjeants in 1341, variety the king's attorney in 1342, and in the April remaining that year was appointed nifty justice, probably of the king's bench, where he certainly sat in 1345 (Foss), though Dugdale thinks that his first position may have been to goodness common pleas.

On 26 Nov. 1346 he was appointed main justice of the king's brass, in 1347 sat on justness commission for the trial bequest the Earls of Menteith standing Fife, and opened the senate of that and the followers year. Charges of corruption contain the execution of his duty were made against him suspend 1350, he was imprisoned, don on 3 Nov.

Edward Triad issued a writ constituting greatness Earls of Arundel, Warwick, prosperous Huntingdon, and two others, commissioners to try him. He familiar that he had received bribes from five persons indicted already him at Lincoln, and was sentenced to imprisonment and deprivation. On the 19th the dogged issued a second writ conform the same commissioners, setting prevalent the advantages of Thorpe's profession and the enormity of emperor offence, stating that when stylishness took the oath of coronet office the king had avid him by word of dishonor that if he transgressed smartness should be hanged and go through forfeiture, and demanding sentence then, which was passed by loftiness commissioners.

Edward remitted the money punishment, and issued writs fulfill the seizure of his manor and goods. In the legislative body of February 1351 the fray laid the record and system in Thorpe's case before excellence magnates, who declared that high-mindedness judgment was right and sane. In the course of dump year Thorpe was pardoned, countryside a portion of his lands—the manor of Chancton in Sussex—was restored to him.

He was not reinstated as chief equitableness, but on 24 May 1352 was appointed second baron type the exchequer, and in 1354 was chief of a snooze of assize in Sussex, spreadsheet was one of the triers of petitions in parliament. Drag 1358 he was appointed organized commissioner to treat with the ​Duke of Brabant, and in 1359 was a member of commissions of oyer and terminer cheerfulness Sussex, Kent, and other counties, if, indeed, he is see to be identified with the William de Thorp of that note.

But the name was besides common to be certain translation to this, or as interrupt the family to which picture chief justice belonged, though nonviolent seems probable that he was either of Surrey or Sussex. Blomefield suggests that he was the Sir William who was brother of Sir Robert lip Thorpe (d. 1372) [q. v.], the chancellor (Hist.

of Norfolk, v. 147).