Birth
Thomas Coningsby was the son and heir of Humphrey Coningsby, of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Inglefield, judge of the common pleas. His father was gentleman-treasurer to Queen Elizabeth.
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“Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
Their life a general mist of error,
Their death a hideous storm of terror.”
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