Thomas Burgess (ca. 1540 – 13 August 1623), of

Truro Truro (; kw, Truru) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Cornwall, England. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its ...

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, was an English merchant, and was Mayor of Truro in 1589 and an

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of the town at the time its coat of arms was confirmed in 1620. He was

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for

in the Parliament of 1604–1611.

References

* * ''Vivian's Visitations of Cornwall'' (Exeter: William Pollard & Co, 1887

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