Thomas Hoyle sometimes spelt Hoile (born 29 January 1586,http://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/timeline/M8CG-Z79 http://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2256/images/32355_248909-00059 died 30 January 1650 Yorkshire Genealogist with which is incorporated Yorkshire Bibliographer Edited by J Horsfall Turner published by T Harrison & Sons 1890 p250-251) was mayor of York and member of

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during the

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. Hoyle was son of Thomas Hoyle of

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, Yorkshire, England. In 1628, the two parliamentary seats for York were initially awarded to Sir Thomas Savile and

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. However, because of election irregularities, the

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’ committee for privileges overturned the appointment of Savile in favour of Hoyle, who then served as

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for York. Hoyle was elected

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in 1632. Elected again to Parliament in November 1640, Hoyle represented York in the

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. Hoyle sided with Parliament in the

. After taking York from the Royalists in 1644, Parliament appointed Hoyle to resume duty as Mayor of York. Despite speaking against and entering his dissent in the debate upon the King's Answers constituting a ground for peace, Hoyle was not excluded under

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, and continued as an MP in the

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.Notes and Queries Oxford University Press Year 1917 / 02 Vol. s12-III; Iss. 61 On the first anniversary of the execution of King Charles I, that is 30 January 1650, Hoyle killed himself. Hoyle married firstly the daughter of William Maskew, named Elizabeth, who died 9 December 1639. He married secondly to Susannah of unknown parentage.

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