Comments on Thomas Billing

Question

On 31 Mar 2024 Cindy (Brown) Croxton wrote on Billing-2:

https://www.hellfirefrancis.co.uk/uploads/1/8/0/0/18007783/browne_willis_the_history_and_antiquities_of_the_town_hundred_and_deanry_of_buckingham.pdf Pg 153 gives the brass inscription from his tomb. Also mentions his will, 2nd wife Susan, names children. Significant differences from what is given here?

Answer 1

As posted on his profile: Wrong Thomas Billing.  The inscription for the Thomas Billing of the profile, who died in 1481, is on p152.

Comments

No, it is the correct one. Below Billing d 1508 is the will of Justice Billing.

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On page 153 it has "here lies Thomas Billing the son and heir of Thomas Billing, king's justice, who died 23 March 1508." This is the son who died in 1508.

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Please read the paragraph just below Thomas d 1508. It gives info on Thomas the Justice, wife, children.

Answer 2

I have one correction for that profile. In the inscription for Thomas Billing on page 152, it says he was a justice coram rege. This is King's Bench, not Common Pleas.

Edit:
For example as shown here, in TNA 1470-71: 
"Thomas Byllynge, chief justice of the king's bench"
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4943160