He was connected by marriage with the 3rd Duke of Norfolk-his father-in-law John Leigh being a half-brother of Queen Catherine Howard-and his fellow-knight and kinsman Christopher Heydon was a son-in-law of the sheriff Sir William Drury. A parliamentary apprenticeship in 1542-4 would also help to explain Paston’s choice as first knight for Norfolk at the next election, when even his knighthood and his standing at court might otherwise have yielded to his brothers’ seniority. If he was a Member, he could have been the second knight for Norfolk, whose name is lost, or if (Sir) Richard Southwell was re-elected on this occasion Paston could have sat for Thetford. The probability that Paston promoted these Acts from a seat in the Commons is strengthened by the appearance of his signature on the originals. Two of Paston’s land transactions were the subject of Acts of Parliament: in the first session of the Parliament of 1542 an Act confirmed his exchange of a prebend of Salisbury cathedral, granted him in 1540, for the manor of Godalming, Surrey, and in the second session another registered an exchange of manors in Norfolk between him and the bishop of Norwich. The loss of the inquisitions for Norfolk and Suffolk makes it impossible to say which of these properties he retained the surviving inquisition for Essex mentions only the manor of Bronden. Gregory at Sudbury, Suffolk, and in 1548 nearly £500 for a Suffolk chantry. In 1545 he paid nearly £1,300 for the site and possessions of the college of St. His services also yielded Paston, through grant or purchase, a considerable estate in Norfolk and elsewhere, chiefly from monastic sources. The King bequeathed him £200 and, according to Paget, intended to make him steward for the duchy of Lancaster in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk he received the appointment after the King’s death and on his own it passed to his brother John. He campaigned in France in 1544 and was knighted after the capture of Boulogne.
Paston’ who in December 1539 accompanied the King to supper with the Earl of Hertford. First found there in February 1538, when as a gentleman of the privy chamber he was granted an annuity of £46 13 s.4 d., he was probably the ‘Mr. Thomas Paston spent most of his comparatively short life at court. steward, manors of Navestock, Pyrgo and Stapleford Essex 1545-7 steward, duchy of Lancaster, Cambs., Norf. (with William Sharington) steward and constable, Castle Rising, Norf. privy chamber by 1538- d., keeper of armoury Greenwich 1541- d. of Sir John Leigh of Stockwell, Surr., 2s. of Sir William Paston of Caister and Oxnead, Norf., and bro.
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