Thomas Philipot, son of John Philipot, Somerset herald, by Susan, his wife, only daughter and heir of William Glover, was admitted a fellow-commoner of Clare Hall, Cambridge, on 10 February 1632–1633, and matriculated on 29 March 1633.
[1] Wood says "he was, by those that well knew him, esteemed a tolerable poet when young, and at riper years well versed in matters of divinity, history, and antiquities".
[3] By his will, dated 11 September 1680, after devising certain premises to Clare Hall, Cambridge, for establishing two Kentish fellowships, he left his houses in the town of Eltham and a field (sold in 1866 to the commissioners of woods and forests for 650l.)
to the Clothworkers' Company to establish six almshouses for four people from Eltham and two from Chislehurst, allowing them 5l.
[1] His genuine works are: He contributed English verses to (α) Fisher's Marston Moor, 1650; (β) Cartwright's Comedies, 1651; (γ) Benlowes's Theophila, 1652; (δ) Boys's Æneas his Descent into Hell, 1661; (ε) Southouse's Monasticon Favershamiense, 1671.