Thomas Soulemont

A native of Jersey, he entered Henry VIII's and then Cromwell's service, and was clerk of the parliaments in 1540.

[7] On 5 January 1538–9 Thomas Wriothesley (afterwards first Earl of Southampton) received license to alienate to Soulemont the manors of Forwood and Fowey, Cornwall.

[8] On 13 July 1539 he was granted a lease of some buildings on the site of Greyfriars, London, and on 13 December following he received the nunnery of Canonleigh, with the tithes of Hokeforde rectory and Burlescombe church, Devonshire.

[8] He died on 12 July 1541, his heir being his brother John Soulemont, aged forty years.

[8] A work by him entitled Select Antiquities relating to Britaine is quoted in Harrison's Description of Britain, prefixed to the 1586 edition of Holinshed,[10] but neither it nor The Acts and Ghests of St. Thomas of Canterbury, also attributed to Soulemont, is known to be extant or to have been printed.