The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Thomas Gower, Second Baronet (1604/5 - 1672)

Politician, serving twice as High Sheriff of Yorkshire, in 1641 and 1662. In 1663 he was part of a commission tasked with investigating the Yorkshire Plot (also known as the Farnley Wood Plot) to overturn the monarchy. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/46974 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

85. The Informations, Examinations, and Confessions concerning the Yorkeshire Plot 1663, under the Parties own Hand. This is the Original taken before Sir Tho. Osborne (afterwards Duke of Leedes) Sir Jo. Dawney (afterwards Lord Downe), Sir Jo. Goodrick, Sir Jo. Armytage, Sir Godfrey Copeley, Sir R. Mauleverer, Sir Tho. Gower, Sir Tho. Wentworth, Sir Rob. Hildyard, and other Justices who have attested the several Informations, under their own Hands. The Present of the Judges Associate.