Bath.
"_Thompson of Esholt_" (Vol. ii., p. 268.).--In an old pedigree of the
Calverley family, I find it stated that _Henry Thompson of Esholt_ (whose
only daughter _Frances_ William Calverley of Calverley married, and by her
acquired that property) was great-grandson to Henry Thompson,
"One of the king's gentlemen-at-arms at the siege of Boulogne (temp. H.
7.), where he notably signalised himself, and for his service was
rewarded with the _Maison Dieu at Dover_, by gift of the king;
afterwards, in the reign of Edward VI., exchanged it for the manor and
rectory of _Bromfield_ in Cumberland, and the site of the late
dissolved nunnery of Esholt."
Further particulars regarding the above grant of _Bromefield_, and a
_pedigree_ of the Thompsons, are published in _Archæologia Oeliana_, vol.
ii. (1832), p. 171.