Thomas Raymond

Thomas Raymond may refer to:

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Thomas Raymond (MP)

Thomas Raymond (died 1418), of Simpson in Holsworthy, Devon, was an English politician.

Family

He was the father of Richard Raymond.

Career

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Barnstaple in 1372, January 1377 and October 1377, for Dartmouth in October 1377, for Plympton Erle in 1381 and for Exeter in May 1382, February 1388 and January 1404 and for Tavistock in October 1377 and November 1384.

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Thomas Raymond (judge)

Sir Thomas Raymond or Rayment (1626/7 — 14 July 1683) was a British judge. Born to Robert Raymond, he was educated at a school in Bishop's Stortford before matriculating to Christ's College, Cambridge on 5 April 1643. On 6 February 1645 he joined Gray's Inn, being called to the Bar there on 11 February 1651. In October 1677 he became a Serjeant-at-Law, before being appointed a Baron of the Exchequer on 1 May 1679 and knighted on 26 June. On 7 February 1680 he became a Justice of the Common Pleas, and on 24 April 1680 transferred to the Court of King's Bench. He died on 14 July 1683, leaving behind a set of law reports titled Reports of divers special cases adjudged in the courts of king's bench, common pleas, and exchequer in the reign of King Charles II, which were published in 1696, 1743, 1793 and 1803. His son, Robert Raymond, also later became a judge. Commentators of the time identified him as having "extraordinary servility" and being an "unprincipled judge", with his failure in a witchcraft trial to point out the "irrationality" of the defendants' confessions leading to their death.