Thomas de Everdon

He is thought to have been the Thomas de Everdon who first appears in the official Irish records in 1343, when he was presented with the living of Ardkeen, County Down in 1345, although he must then have been a very young man with almost seventy years of life ahead of him.

In 1382 following the death of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, Thomas jointly with Walter de Brugge, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland), received custody of his lands at Moylagh, County Meath, during the minority of the heir.

Cranley was frequently unable to perform his duties as Chancellor through a combination of age, ill health and the pressure of business.

[7] At the very end of his life he was pursuing John Philpot or Fulpot, a merchant of Drogheda, for a debt of 40 shillings before the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland).

[3] In addition, he was employed by the Crown to carry out numerous administrative tasks: Mason states that they seem to have mainly involved the keeping of accounts for the Army, and the hiring of troops.

[1] Mason wondered if there were in fact two officials of the same name: he doubted when one man could have performed so many varied duties nor whether, given the life expectancy at the time, he could have had a career lasting so many decades.