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occasion, a gift which must have been most gratifying to him, 
being a jewel from the hands of the Lord Protector’s wife. 
Sir William Sandys, eldest brother of Edwin, subsequently 
Archbishop of York, had the ill fortune to be slain in this battle. 
He was cousin to the Sandys of Rottington. 
We next find Chaloner nominated to a task which, although he 
was no doubt a devoted follower of the Lord Protector, could not 
be otherwise than most disagreeable to him. The ambition of the 
Lord Admiral, the Protector’s younger brother, had grown to the 
dimensions of treason against the state, and he had on more than 
one occasion treated remonstrances, and even commands, with 
contempt. His wife, Catharine Parr, had died shortly before, and 
Lord Seymour of Sudeley was dreaming of a marriage with the 
Princess Elizabeth. He was suddenly seized and committed to 
the Tower on the 17th January, 1549, and on the following day 
Sir Thomas Chaloner, Sir Hugh Paulett, and John Yernley, were 
sent to search his house at Bromham, in Wiltshire. 
He was one of the witnesses against Bonner in the same year. 
' Some years previous to this he had married Joan Cotton, widow 
of Sir Thomas Leigh, one of the greatest suppressors of monasteries, 
who had obtained a grant of a lease for twenty-one years of the site 
of the monastery of Guisborough, and lands in the hands of the 
canons at the time of the suppression, at the rent of £49 55. 4d. 
It was let to him for thirty years, on July 2oth, 1547, (and this 
date indicates that Chaloner had previously married the widow,) 
and finally he purchased the same absolutely, October 31st, 1550, 
for the sum of £998 135. 4d. 
The suspicious correspondence with the Pope, which I have 
mentioned as having been detected at Ratisbon, was revealed by 
him to the Privy Council during the proceedings against Gardiner, 
in December, 1550, which resulted in that prelate (who had 
already spent some time in the Tower,) being sent to a meaner 
lodging and harsher treatment. 
In the last year of Edward VI. (1553), Sir Thomas received a grant 
of the manor, rectory, and cell of St. Bees, with all its rights, etc., in 
St, Bees and Ennerdale, not granted away by the Crown before, to 
