Thomas Crewe

He was a son of John Crewe and Alicia, a daughter Humphrey Manwaring of Nantwich.

He went to Woodstock Palace in September 1603, where the royal family had gone to avoid plague in London, and sent a letter of news and business to Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury.

[1] He entered Parliament in 1604 as Member for Lichfield, and was later MP for Northampton (1621–2), Aylesbury (1623–1625) and Gatton (1625).

In 1621 he drew attention to himself by defying the King, declaring the liberties of Parliament to be "matters of inheritance".

[2] Some of their children include: He lived at Stene, Northamptonshire, and died on 31 January 1633.