Thomas Eyre (16701715) was an English

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. Eyre was born on 23 December 1670 to a family settled at Eastwell, Leicestershire. He studied at the College of St. Omer, was admitted into the

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in 1687, and was professed of the four vows on 8 March 1705–06. He was chaplain to the court of the exiled James II at the

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; became professor of

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(170104); and in 1712 was ''socius'' (a sort of secretary and chief of staff) to a Provincial (regional administrator) of his Order. In 1712, he served for a time as chaplain at the court of

James Francis Edward Stuart James Francis Edward Stuart (10 June 16881 January 1766), nicknamed the Old Pretender by Whigs (British political party), Whigs or the King over the Water by Jacobitism, Jacobites, was the House of Stuart claimant to the thrones of Ki ...

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. Eyre died in London on 9 November 1715. Dr Kirk believed him to be concerned in a biography of JamesII.

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