Thomas Street (judge)

Sir Thomas Street, MP, KB, JP (1625–1696) was an English politician and judge. He became a Baron of the Exchequer in 1681. He represented Worcester in the House of Commons from 1659 to 1679. In 1667, he became the Mayor of Worcester, as his father had been before him. In 1677, he became the Chief Justice of Brecknock, Glamorgan and Radnor. Following Monmouth's Rebellion in 1685, the Catholic King James II took to contravening the Test Act and began filling the military high-command with Catholics, leading to a confrontation with Parliament which took shape as the case of Godden v. Hales (1686), which was to be settled by the King's Bench. Of the ten judges who constituted the last King's Bench before the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Sir Thomas was the only one to rule against King James II's contravention of the Test Act in 1687.