Thomas Archbold

[2] William Archbold, a senior member of the Royal household who was appointed one of the Irish Barons of the Exchequer in 1378,[3] was his ancestor.

[7]He is first heard of in 1465 when he was having great difficulty collecting a debt: according to Elrington Ball, he had to make forty journeys between Dublin and County Meath in pursuit of it.

[7] He was appointed Attorney General for Ireland, or Narrator Regis,[3] in 1478 (presumably, although the Patent Rolls state clearly that he was a goldsmith,[6] he had also acquired some legal qualifications) and in the same year he was made Master of the Royal Mint in Ireland,[1] an appointment confirmed by a statute of the Irish Parliament.

Portlester and his allies, undeterred, continued their defiance of Lord Grey, who, despairing of being able to establish his authority, left Ireland within the year.

[10] Sketch for a Great Seal of Ireland, designed by Nicholas Hilliard for Queen Elizabeth I Soon afterwards Archbold was appointed a Baron of the Court of Exchequer for life, but he was later superseded.