Thomas Bache (judge)

Thomas Bache (died c.1410) was an Anglo-Italian cleric and judge who held high office in Ireland in the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.

[2] They had a long-standing connection with the English Court: for several decades two "merchants of Genoa", who were both named Antonio Bache, and who were presumably father and son, supplied the Royal Household with spices and other luxuries, and also loaned the English Crown substantial sums of money.

[2] In Irish records he is frequently called Thomas Bathe, a name much more familiar to the Anglo-Irish than Bache.

[7] He achieved high office in the political and judicial spheres, being appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland in 1376, and serving as Lord Treasurer 1400–1402.

[2] In 1381 Bache, by now a judge, John Brettan, a judicial colleague who was also the Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer of Ireland, and Richard Walsh, another Exchequer official, petitioned the Crown for compensation, on the grounds that they had been at great labour to levy and collect the King's debts in seven counties, without any reward.