Thomas de Thelwall

[2] In 1369 he accompanied Sir William de Windsor, the new Lord Lieutenant, to Ireland; he became Master of the Rolls in 1372, at a fee of £20, and a prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

[1] Otway-Ruthven describes him in 1374 as Clerk to the Irish Privy Council, one of the first men to have held this office.

[5] This was by operation of statute merchant, an early and now obsolete form of security for a loan?

[5] However it seems that the real beneficiary of the statute merchant, in this case, was Sir William de Windsor's wife Alice Perrers, the notoriously rapacious mistress of King Edward III, who as a woman of her time was obliged to act through male agents.

[5] As a senior royal official, and a colleague of her husband, Thomas no doubt knew Alice personally.