Palmer. Palmer was sent to serve on the border with Scotland during the war of the Rough Wooing. In January 1548 Palmer and the Italian military engineer "Master John" made plans to improve the fortifications at Broughty Castle near Dundee. Palmer reported to Grey of Wilton that the ground by the castle was rocky and impossible to dig with a spade, and the site was overlooked by a nearby hill. In 1548 he several times distinguished himself by bringing provisions into Haddington. Edward VI head of these exploits and mentioned Palmer and Thomas Holcroft in his journal. Holcroft suffered a bad defeat as a commander of a company of lances in an expedition from Berwick. He continued to hold his appointments at Calais. On 11 June 1550 he was sent with Sir Richard Lee to view the forts on the Scottish border, and provide for their repair. Somerset's fall and Lady Jane Grey Palmer, on 7 October 1551, was the first to disclose Somerset's treason, the declaration being made in the Earl of Warwick's garden. He had evidently hoped to rise with Warwick, shortly known as John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland. Having secured several monastic grants, he was building himself a house in the Strand. On 18 February 1552, he had a pardon for all treasons, clearing him from suspicion as a former follower of Somerset; and on 3 March following he was appointed a commissioner for the division of the debatable land on the borders. He was an adherent of Lady Jane Grey, and had been too prominent to escape when Northumberland fell. He was sent to the Tower of London on 25 July 1553, arraigned and condemned on 19 August 1553. Palmer was the only accused man on that day to protest and he shouted that the judges themselves had formed Jane's council and they deserved as much or more punishment than him, and the trial was unlawful. He was brought out for execution on 22 August, with Sir John Gates and the Duke of Northumberland. He had heard mass before execution, and taken the sacrament in one kind; but when he came on the scaffold, covered with the blood of those who had just been beheaded, he made a speech in which he said that he died a Protestant. Family Of Sir Thomas's two elder brothers, the first, Sir John, known as 'Buskin Palmer' or 'Long