Dear John ~ "John Leland, writing in 1538, refers to 'Robert Englyshe and Thomas Thurland, Maiors of Nottingham, riche merchants, buryed in St. Maire's Churche.'" END OF QUOTE. Reference: Hood, An Account of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham (1910): 23. The above mentioned Thomas Thurland is evidently the Thomas Thurland, the great merchant of Nottingham, who died in 1471. If Leland is correct, then Thomas Thurland was buried in the church of St. Mary's, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. Power and Postan, Studies in English Trade in the 15th Century (1933): 87 indicates that Thomas Thurland was Mayor of the Staple of Calais in or about 1441. "Thomas Thurland, merchant and burgess of Nottingham, put his son Richard into Lincoln's Inn in the 1450s but the family remained town-based and Richard's son (and Thomas's heir) Thomas junior was mayor of Nottingham in 1484-5." Reference: Thomson, Towns and townspeople in the fifteenth century (1988): 31. In 1484 Thomas Thurland, Esq., son and heir of Richard Thurland, son of Thomas Thurland, merchant, released to the Mayor, Sheriffs, Burgesses and men of Nottingham his right in the piece of vacant land near the Gild Hall bequeathed to the town by John Pool's will. Reference: Records of the Borough of Nottingham, 2 (1883): 421, which may be viewed at the following weblink: https://books.google.com/books?id=1gVNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA421 The 1484 document was witnessed by Gervase Clifton, Knt., which individual was the step-father of the grantor, Thomas Thurland, Esq. Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah