for whom he is said to have acted as a spy.

Family

In 1624 he married Rachel Byers, the daughter of an Edinburgh magistrate: they had four sons and four daughters, including Thomas junior, a popular dramatist and journalist.

References

*Adams, Sharon, "Sydserff, Thomas (1581-1663)", in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006
*Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688,

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