^ Huntington Library, San Marino, STT Manorial, Box 9, Item 21.^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - entry for Sir Peter Temple.In the Stowe papers at the Huntington Library there are a large number of letters written to Sir Thomas and a small number of letters written by him to other family members. In the early 17th century, the Temple family wrote and received many letters - both official and personal. Sir Thomas was allowed to sell the land, but he had to make a payment to Sir Peter. Eventually, the legal case between father and son was settled by an arbitrator. He took his Sir Thomas to court to prevent the sale. His son, Peter, claimed that the land could not be sold because it was entailed to him.
In the 1620s, Sir Thomas was planning to sell some land to reduce his debts. With such a large family, he had to meet significant expenses whenever his children got married - particularly dowries for his 9 daughters. Sir Thomas also had other drains on his wealth. The wool industry on which the Temple family fortune had been founded had been suffering since the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1606, Thomas served as sheriff of Oxfordshire he was sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1616 and of Warwickshire in 1620. This was a rotten borough and several generations of the Temple family served in parliament for this seat. In 1604, Temple purchased the Borough of Buckingham. He was knighted by James I in 1603 and purchased a baronetcy in 1611. He was elected MP for Andover, Hampshire in 1589 as a result of the influence of his father in law - the first member of his family to serve in Parliament. Her father built a magnificent marble monument to her that can still be seen in the "Penyston chapel" in Stowe church. Martha died of smallpox in January 1619/20 and she was buried in the Temples' parish church at Stowe. Around 1619, Martha became the mistress of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset. Martha was described as "a dainte fine lady". His daughter Martha's husband was the step-son and ward of Sir Thomas' younger brother, Sir Alexander Temple. Thomas Temple, was a proprietor and governor of the English colony of Nova Scotia from 1656 to 1670. Through his son, John, Temple's grandson, Col. Sir Thomas and Hester had fifteen recorded children, 2 of whom died in infancy of the remainder, 4 were sons and 9 were daughters. He married Hester Sandys, daughter of Miles Sandys in about 1585 or 1586. The memorial to Sir Thomas' daughter Martha, in Stowe church
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