to the said John Hamilton. Anne Thurloe, 2nd daughter, married to Francis Brace of Bedford, by whom she had issue: John Thurloe Brace, a Member of Parliament for Bedford; ***Francis Brace; John Thurloe Brace, who married a lady of the name of Harris, by whom he had one son, Harris Thurloe Brace, and a daughter, Anna Maria, married to Godfrey Copley of Yorkshire. Death and burial John Thurloe died on 21 February 1668 in his chambers in Lincoln's Inn and was buried in the chapel. His monument is inscribed as follows: "Here lyeth the body of John Thurleo, Esq; Secretary of State to the Protector Oliver Cromwell, and a member of this honourable Society. He died Feb. 21, 1667. Here lyeth the body of Francis Brace, Esq; a member of this society. He was son of Francis Brace, esq; of the town of Bedford, by Anne, one of the daughters and co–heirs of the late John Thurleo. He died on the 6th day of April 1721, in the 34th year of his age." His correspondence is kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford and in the British Museum. Thomas Birch published part of it in 1742. Landholdings He owned several manors including Whittlesey St Mary's and Whittlesey St Andrew's and an estate at Astwood in Buckinghamshire worth £400 per annum. He held the rectory of Whittlesey St Mary's, in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. He purchased the Wisbech Castle estate, sold off some of the land, cleared the remains of the bishop's palace and built and furnished a mansion (demolished c1816 by Joseph Medworth) just before the Restoration of the Monarchy, after which it was restored to the Bishop of Ely. Thurloe Square, Thurloe Street and Thurloe Place in South Kensington, London, are all named after him. They were built in the 1820s on land he once owned. Legacy Apart from building his mansion in Wisbech, in 1658 he gave £50 to purchase books for the church library, £50 for making a road 'from the corn market to the little sluice' and £150, the interest to be applied towards putting out poor children apprentice. A portrait of Thurloe was presented to Wisbech & Fenland Museum by D.Gurney in 1847. A photograph of this is held on the National Portrait Gallery website. There is a Thurloe Close in Wisbech. Two of his portraits now in the local museum are in the online