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Thomas was greatly beloved by King Edward, and was made a Knight at his coronation in 1547. As a youth of 15, Thomas served as a volunteer in the army of King Edward's uncle, the Duke of Somerset (brother of Jane Seymour), and behaved with great bravery at the Battle of Pinkie, near Edinburgh. William Healy, History and Antiquities of Kilkenny (1893), p.94: https://archive.org/details/historyandantiq00healgoog/page/n103/mode/2up