Thompson of Esholt

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.…