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Bindoff, 1982<br />Available from <a href="https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-history-of-parliament-the-house-of-commons-1509-1558-3-vols-hb.html" target="_blank">Boydell and Brewer</a></div> </div>  <div id="sidebar-right"> <div id="member-picture" class="block"> <div class="content"> <img src="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/files/imagecache/frontpage/silhouette.jpg" alt=""/><div class="member-title"></div> </div> </div> <div class="view_full_wrapper"> <span class="view_full_img"> </span> </div> <div> <div id="block-hop-5" class="block "> <div class="content"> <div id="biography" class="block"> <h2 class="title">Biography Detail</h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="cufon"> <li><a href="#constituency">Constituency</a></li> <li><a href="#family-relations">Family & Education</a></li> <li><a href="#offices-held">Offices Held</a></li> <li><a href="#biography">Biography</a></li> <li><a href="#end-notes">End Notes</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-hop-7" class="block "> <div class="content"> <div id="resources" class="block"> <h2 class="title">Related Resources</h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="cufon"> <li><a href="/research/members/members-1509-1558">1509-1558 Members</a></li> <li><a href="/research/constituencies/constituencies-1509-1558">1509-1558 Constituencies</a></li> <li><a href="/research/parliaments/parliaments-1509-1558">1509-1558 Parliaments</a></li> <li><a href="/research/surveys/surveys-1509-1558">1509-1558 Surveys</a></li> </ul> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="member-content-left"> <div> <div id="block-hop-6" class="block "> <div class="content"> <ul class="custom-pager custom-pager-block"><li class="previous"><a href="/volume/1509-1558/member/venables-sir-thomas-1513-80" title="VENABLES, Sir Thomas (by 1513-80), of Kinderton, Cheshire.">Previous<br/>Biography</a></li><li class="key"></li><li class="next"><a href="/volume/1509-1558/member/verney-edmund-1528-58" title="VERNEY, Edmund (1528-58), of Pendley in Tring, Herts.">Next<br/>Biography</a></li></ul> </div> </div> </div><div class="hop_short_description"></div><div class="hop_member_node"><div id="member-constituency"><div class="table_row"><h3 id="constituency" class="title header-cons">Constituency</h3><h3 class="title header-dates">Dates</h3></div><div class="table_row"><div class="cons_name"><div class="country-"><a href="/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/cambridge">CAMBRIDGE</a></div></div><div class="cons_date">1558</div></div><div class="table_row"><div class="cons_name"><div class="country-"><a href="/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/cambridge">CAMBRIDGE</a></div></div><div class="cons_date">1559</div></div></div><h3 id="family-relations" class="title">Family and Education</h3><p><em>b.</em> by 1526, prob. 2nd s. of Robert Ventris of Cambridge by Agnes. <em>m.</em> Joan, 3s.<a class="see-footnote" id="footnoteref1_asah9b5" title="Date of birth estimated from first reference. Camb. Univ. Arch. vice-chancellor’s ct. wills, 1, f. 63; PCC admons. act bk. 1581-95, f. 21; Req.2/124/16." href="#footnote1_asah9b5">1</a></p><h3 id="offices-held" class="title">Offices Held</h3><p></p><p>Treasurer, Cambridge 1547, common councilman 1552, mayor 1559-60, alderman by 1561; commr. gaol delivery 1561.<a class="see-footnote" id="footnoteref2_ldwoztp" title="C. H. Cooper, Cambridge Annals, ii. 22, 66; F. Blomefield, Coll. Cant. 225; CPR, 1560-3, p. 406." href="#footnote2_ldwoztp">2</a></p><h3 id="biography" class="title">Biography</h3><p>There were at least two Cambridgeshire men of this name at the time but the more likely of them to have been mayor and Member was the Cambridge man whose father Robert made a will in 1541 as a privileged person entitled to have it proved in the vice-chancellor’s court. Thomas Ventris was for some time vintner to the university, but he lost the appointment to <a class="xref" title="John Edmonds " rel="nofollow" href="EDMONDSJXXXX">John Edmonds</a> because of ‘his ingratitude to the university in denying that he was beholding to the university for that licence to sell wine there’. By the reign of Elizabeth he probably did not need the university’s custom, for the borough treasurers’ accounts show that he supplied all the presents of wine given to noblemen, counsel and others by the corporation as well as that consumed by municipal officers themselves. In later life he also dealt in foodstuffs.<a class="see-footnote" id="footnoteref3_zieykni" title="Vis. Cambs. (Harl. Soc. xli), 53; Cooper, ii. 205, 427; Downing Coll. Camb. Bowtell mss Liber Rationalis 1510-60 passim; Req.2/288/28." href="#footnote3_zieykni">3</a></p><p>It was probably this Thomas Ventris who leased Cambridge property formerly owned by the Austin friars. In 1549 Ventris was described as a former master of the Cambridge merchant guild, then abolished; he went to London in 1555 as one of the borough’s spokesmen in its dispute with the university, but otherwise he did not take a leading part in borough affairs until the reign of Elizabeth. He was probably related to John Ventris, a Marital exile, and in 1564 was himself described by the bishop of Ely as a ‘godly’ justice. He left no will to confirm this opinion but died intestate late in 1581, administration of his estate being granted to his wife and sons.<a class="see-footnote" id="footnoteref4_4gxlrql" title="LP Hen. VIII, xix; Cooper, ii. 47, 97; C. H. Garrett, Marian Exiles, 317-18; Cam. Misc. ix(3), 25; Req.2/124/16; PCC admons. act bk. 1581-95, f. 21." href="#footnote4_4gxlrql">4</a></p><h3 id="volumes" class="title blue">Ref Volumes: 1509-1558</h3><h3 id="authors" class="title blue">Author: D. F. Coros</h3><p></p><h3 id="end-notes" class="title blue">Notes</h3><ul class="footnotes"><li class="footnote" id="footnote1_asah9b5"><a class="footnote-label" href="#footnoteref1_asah9b5">1.</a> Date of birth estimated from first reference. Camb. Univ. Arch. vice-chancellor’s ct. wills, 1, f. 63; PCC admons. act bk. 1581-95, f. 21; Req.2/124/16.</li> <li class="footnote" id="footnote2_ldwoztp"><a class="footnote-label" href="#footnoteref2_ldwoztp">2.</a> C. H. Cooper, <em>Cambridge Annals</em>, ii. 22, 66; F. Blomefield, <em>Coll. Cant.</em> 225; <em>CPR</em>, 1560-3, p. 406.</li> <li class="footnote" id="footnote3_zieykni"><a class="footnote-label" href="#footnoteref3_zieykni">3.</a> <em>Vis. Cambs.</em> (Harl. Soc. xli), 53; Cooper, ii. 205, 427; Downing Coll. Camb. Bowtell mss Liber Rationalis 1510-60 passim; Req.2/288/28.</li> <li class="footnote" id="footnote4_4gxlrql"><a class="footnote-label" href="#footnoteref4_4gxlrql">4.</a> <em>LP Hen. VIII</em>, xix; Cooper, ii. 47, 97; C. H. Garrett, <em>Marian Exiles</em>, 317-18; <em>Cam. 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