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 * Article title: Abell, Thomas
 * Author: Gairdner, James
 * LEAD: ABELL, THOMAS (d. 1540), catholic martyr, studied at Oxford and took the degree of M.A. in 1516. Nothing else is known of his early life, nor when it was that he entered the service of Katharine of Aragon; but it was certainly before the year 1528, when he received a new year's gift from the king as her chaplain.
 * LEAD: ABELL, THOMAS (d. 1540), catholic martyr, studied at Oxford and took the degree of M.A. in 1516. Nothing else is known of his early life, nor when it was that he entered the service of Katharine of Aragon; but it was certainly before the year 1528, when he received a new year's gift from the king as her chaplain.
 * LEAD: ABELL, THOMAS (d. 1540), catholic martyr, studied at Oxford and took the degree of M.A. in 1516. Nothing else is known of his early life, nor when it was that he entered the service of Katharine of Aragon; but it was certainly before the year 1528, when he received a new year's gift from the king as her chaplain.

General

 * Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses
 * Calendar of State Papers of Henry VIII, vols. iv.–vii
 * Statute 25 Henry VIII, c. 12
 * Bourchier's Historia Ecclesiastica de Martyrio Fratrum (Ingolstadt, 1583)
 * Newcourt's Repertorium

Cites

 * Newcourt, Repertorium, ii. 84
 * Calendar of State Papers, Henry VIII, vol. v., Nos. 1256, 1432