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SIR THOMAS BROMLEY (1530-1587)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 633 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THOMAS See also:BROMLEY (1530-1587)  , See also:English See also:lord See also:chancellor, was See also:born in See also:Staffordshire in 1530 . He was educated at See also:Oxford University and called to the See also:bar at the See also:Middle See also:Temple . Through See also:family See also:influence as well as the patronage of See also:Sir See also:Nicholas See also:Bacon, the lord keeper, he quickly made progress in his profession . In 1566 he was appointed See also:recorder of See also:London, and in 1569 he became See also:solicitor-See also:general . He sat in See also:parliament successively for See also:Bridgnorth, See also:Wigan and See also:Guildford . On the See also:death of Sir Nicholas Bacon in 1579 he was appointed lord chancellor . As an'See also:equity See also:judge he showed See also:great and profound knowledge, and his See also:judgment in See also:Shelley's See also:case (q.v.) is a landmark in the See also:history of English real See also:property See also:law . He presided over the See also:commission which tried See also:Mary, See also:queen of Scots, in 1586, but the See also:strain of the trial, coupled with the responsibility which her See also:execution involved upon him, proved too much for his strength, and he died on. the 12th " of See also:April 1587 . He wasbutied'in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey . See See also:Foss, Lives of the See also:Judges; See also:Campbell, Lives of the Lord Chancellors .

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