Thomas Browne (died 1460)

Career

Property

• Betchworth Castle, which Browne purchased from his father in law, Thomas FitzAlan.
• Tonford Manor, Thanington, Kent, called 'Toniford', 'Tunford' etc., which came to him from Sir Thomas Fogge, through the Brownes, who in the 27th year of Henry VI obtained a grant of liberty to embattle and impark and to have free warren etc. within this manor.
• Morris-Court, Bapchild, Kent, situated within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Rochester and deanery of Sittingbourne.
• Eythorne Manor, Kent. Browne obtained the grant of a fair at the neighbouring village of Wimlingswold, to be held on the feast of St. Margaret the Virgin, but which is now held yearly on Old May-day.
• Hoptons Manor in the parish of Alkham, Kent.
• Kingsnorth Manor, Ulcombe, Kent. In the 27th year of the reign of Henry VI, Browne obtained licence for a fair in this parish on the feast of St. Michael, and that same year had licence to embattle his mansion there and to enclose a park, and for freewarren in all his demesne lands within the manor.
• Westbury Manor, Wateringbury, Kent, which Browne purchased from Richard Fishborne in the 33d year of Henry VI's reign. Now called Manor Farm.
• Swanscombe Manor, Greenhithe, Kent.
• Tong Castle and Manor, Tong, Kent, which had been in possession of Richard, Duke of York, but was taken by the crown in anno 38 Henry VI, and granted to Browne prior to his being knighted and appointed comptroller and treasurer of the King's household. Browne soon afterwards obtained a grant of a fair at this manor on St. James's day yearly, and another for liberty to embattle his mansion and to impark his lands here.
• The manor of Barfreston, Kent

  Family

• William Browne.
• Sir George Browne, beheaded in 1483. His estates were confiscated, but were afterwards restored to his heirs in 1485 by Henry VII.
• Thomas Browne.
• Sir Anthony Browne.
• Robert Browne, esquire, of Luddenham, Kent, Comptroller of the Household to Thomas FitzAlan, 17th Earl of Arundel, who married a wife named Anne, by whom he had a daughter, Eleanor Browne, who married firstly, before 9 December 1509, Thomas Fogge, esquire, sergeant porter of Calais, younger son of Sir John Fogge, and secondly Sir William Kempe of Olantigh, Kent.
• Leonard Browne.
• Edward Browne.
• Catherine Browne, who married Humphrey Sackville, of Buckhurst Park, Sussex, son of Sir Edward Sackville and his wife Margaret Wakehurst.
• Jane Browne.