Having agreed she found herself working for him and then marrying him; and after him a second citizen of London and then a third, who had the honour of being elected Lord Mayor.
As his widow Thomasine, Lady Percival, devoted her considerable wealth to supporting charitable works.
[3] Both authorities state the young woman's name as Thomasine Bonaventure, though the surname might refer to her good fortune rather than her ancestors.
There is no dispute that she founded a school and library there around 1510, which was much used by the people of Cornwall and to some extent Devon, until it was suppressed in the reign of Edward VI.
[2] A copy of her will, with which she endowed the school, was bound for a buyer overseas in 1972, when it was purchased for the British Library.