Sir Thomas Flmch [28218] ²⁵

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In the fifteenth century a Cornwall family called Moyle came to Kent. They began to acquire wealth through land when in 1537 one Sir Thomas Moyle became a member and later Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, which administered the monastic property seized by Henry VIII <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutHenryVIII.htm>. He hunted down heretics zealously, and with his rewards was able to buy the estate of Eastwell from the daughters of Sir Christopher Hales, Henry VIII <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutHenryVIII.htm>'s Attorney-General. Sir Thomas Moyle married Catherine Jordan or Jourdain, dau. of Sir Edward Jourdain. Their daughter Catherine married Sir Thomas Finch, a member of the then middling minor gentry of Kent. This man had distinguished himself on the battlefield and fighting at sea. Sir Thomas was knighted for his share in suppressing Sir Thomas Wyatt <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ThomasWyatt(Sir)2.htm>'s rebellion <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/Wyatt%20Rebellion.htm> in Kent against Queen Mary <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutMary.htm> in 1553, was a soldier of note, and was the son and heir of Sir William Finch, who was knighted in 1513.

Thomas married Catherine Moyle [28219] [MRIN: 12873] on 1 Mar 1552. (Catherine Moyle [28219] was born about 1529 and died on 9 Feb 1585/86.)