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The Manor of Alderton 3rd edition
20 th March 1631 242 and lived “during the stirring events of the seventeenth
century” 243 .
Thomas Gore was baptised at Grittleton on Easter Tuesday of 1632, the
preacher being Elias Woodroffe. As was common his godfathers were related
to him, being William James 244 of Alderton and Thomas Ivey 245 , his godmother
was Anne Venner, wife of Tobias Venner of Bath.
Thomas was educated at Tetbury, then Magdalen College, Oxford in either May
1650 246 or May 1654 247 depending on the authority consulted. As Thomas’ own
writings give May 1650 248 this is more likely to be the correct date. He was
first tutored by John King and then, when this scholar obtained a country living
he received permission to have Thomas Tully 249 as his tutor. He needed
permission for this as Tully was at that time senior tutor at Queens College.
242 Gore, T (1666) ibid
243 Stratford, J (1882) Wiltshire and its worthies: Notes technical and Biographical
Bron & Co London p20
244 His aunt Anne was married to Gyles James
245 The relationship here is rather distant, his great grandfather’s first wife was Mary
Ive, but the families were still local to each other.
246 BM Addit. MSS 28020 ff 130-7, quoted in DNB
247 Bliss (ed) Wood’s Athanae Oxonensis, iv, 132 quoted in Stephens & Lee, ibid
248 Gore, T (1666) Syntagma Genealogicum or A genealogical treatise of the family of
the Gores of Aldrington or Alderton p303 p 305
249 DNB vol XIX p1237
Thomas Tully BA, MA was born in Carlisle in 1620 and was educated at Queens College,
Oxford and was a Fellow of the College (1643). He retired to be headmaster of the
Grammar School at Tetbury after the Parliamentarians occupied Oxford, where he
tutored Thomas Gore [Gore makes no mention of this and it may not be correct –
author]. He returned to Oxford in 1657 and in 1658 was appointed Principal of St.
Edmund Hall and also Rector of Grittleton. Despite his “strict adherence to Calvinism”
(which according to Wood hindered his advancement) he was a Royal Chaplain after the
Restoration and was appointed Dean of Ripon in 1675.
He was at one time engaged in a dispute with Mr Bull, the rector of Suddington near
Cirencester, over Catholic doctrine as “Dr Bull was a zealous Catholic” (Jackson, Rev
JE (1843) History of Grittleton Wiltshire Topographical Society)
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