Thomas Lower, MD

of Tregangreeves & Pennance, Cornwall.

"In August 1662 Thomas Lower and Thomas Salthouse and another Friend were arrested at the house of Thomas Mounce at Liskeard, though later set free." May be buried at the Quaker Devon burial ground at Grindle. https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2632351/memorial-search?page=1#...

source

~• for details on this person's life read Isabel Ross' Margaret Fell Mother of Quakerism , 412 pages 2nd edition (1984)

10 children of whom only 5 lived to grow up

• Took dictation from George Fox when George was assembling his memoirs: (op.cit.)

• Moved with his wife to Marsh Grange where his mother-in-law Margaret Fell had grown up

• p. 359 "Thomas Lower was also chosen with George Whitehead and Daniel Quare to appear before William III to present him an account of the sufferings of Friends still in prison to pay tithes, and to take oaths"

• p, 159 from the Cha. 1661-3 "Thomas Lower and his father Humphrey came of an ancient famili 'seated in Saint Winoow parish and a t Clifton in Landoulph'. Thomas was at this time a widower, having recently lost his wife Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Sir John Trelawney, first Baronet. He was a nephew of Loveday Hambly, and lived at her home."

• p. 321 release from prison arranged (Thomas being held at Launceton Castle, Essex < p. 326)