Henry de Thrapston (died c.1333) was an English cleric,

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and Crown official who spent most of his career in Ireland, where he became

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and

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He was born at

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. By the early 1300s, he was already a senior Crown official, and his Irish career began around 1301. He frequently returned to England, where he had a number of official duties, such as keeper of the lands of the Royal

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. He was also entrusted with arresting the attendees at a

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(presumably an illegal event) in

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. In Ireland, he became custodian of the

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and rolls of the Court of the

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in 1301. An order in the Close Rolls of that year survives for payment to him of 50 shillings, ''Close Roll 29 Edward I'' and there is a similar order in 1306, which suggests that his salary was in arrears. He was a witness to a

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between Robert Dardyz and Matilda Rochfort in 1303; an interesting detail is that Robert bound himself to pay his wife 200 marks in case the couple were

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.''Close Roll 32 Edward I '' In 1307 he was superseded as custodian by Nicholas Wynley, and ordered to hand all the records over to him.''Close Roll 1 Edward II'' He was appointed second Baron of the

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"during pleasure" in 1328.''Patent Roll 2 Edward III'' He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1330 so long as he was of good behaviour, and "so long as his bodily health allowed". This was presumably a reference to his advancing years and ill health, although he held the office for about three years, being replaced by

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in 1333. He was something of a pluralist: in addition to being Archdeacon of Cork he was parish priest of

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, and of

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Sources

*Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926

Notes

{{Reflist Barons of the Irish Exchequer Chancellors of the Exchequer of Ireland Archdeacons of Cork