Thomas Chaloner

, Son of Sir Thom. Chaloner Knight, by Ethelreda his Wife, Daughter of Edward Frodsham of Elton in Cheshire, was educated in Magd. coll. where he was held in esteem for his Poetry; but taking no degree, travelled beyond the Seas, and at his return became a compleat Gentleman. In 1591. he received the honour of Knighthood, and being esteemed a learned, prudent, and sober person, when K. James the first came to the English Crown, he therefore by him was appointed Tator (and afterwards Chamberlain) to his Son Prince Henry the lively joy and delight of Britain, and about that time was actually created Master of Arts, as in the Fasti, under the year 1605. I shall tell you. This person, who was a learned searcher into Natures Works, did first discover an Allum-mine near to Gisburgh in Yorkshire, (being possessed of Land there,) about the latter end of Q. Elizabeth; but being adjudged to be a Mine-Royal, was rented by several, and little benefit came to Sir Thomas. At length the Long Parliament which began in 1640. voted it a Monopoly, and restored the benefit thereof to the former Proprietaries. He hath written several things, but all that I have seen is only,

The Virtue of Nitre, wherein is declared the sundry cures by the same effected. Lond. 1584. qu. and other matters pertaining to Virtuosity, and something, as it seems, to Pastoral, but whether extant, I cannot tell. He died about the 17. Nov. in sixteen hundred and fifteen, 1615 and was buried in the Parish Church of Cheswich in Middlesex, near to the body of Elizabeth his first Wife, Daughter of Will. Fleetwood, sometimes Recorder of London, by whom he had Issue Will. Chaloner of Gisburgh in Yorkshire, soon after his Fathers death made a Baronet, Thomas, James, &c. which two last were of the number of Judges that sate in Judgment on King Charles 1. of Blessed Memory, as I shall tell you at large. He had also several Children by his second Wife Judith, Daughter of Will. Blount of London, some of whose Posterity (as I think) liveth at, or near, Steeple-Claydon in Bucks, where Sir Thomas had a fair Estate.