Thomas Snetterby (died c.1463) was an Irish barrister, King's Serjeant and Crown official of the fifteenth century.
[4] Reginald came from a family with a history of producing senior judges, including Thomas de Snyterby (died 1316), who came to Ireland from Snitterby in Lincolnshire in 1285, and was a justice of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) 1295–1307,[5] and Nicholas de Snyterby, who was King's Serjeant in 1316, Baron of the Irish Exchequer and justice of the Common Pleas at intervals for some twenty years from 1337 onward.
[7] The office of Serjeant was an onerous one: he was not only the senior legal adviser to the English Crown (at that time outranking the Attorney General) but effectively in modern terms a Government minister.
[3] Presumably Snetterby made the same complaint, although not until he had been in office for three years: by a statute of 1450 it was ordained that he was to receive the same additional payment of 100 shillings per annum as Somerton had, charged on the rents of Chapelizod and Leixlip.
[3] A statute of the Irish Parliament in 1463 confirmed the right of dower of the widow of "Thomas Sueterby", which was an alternative spelling of Snetterby.