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Family and Education
bap. 24 Apr. 1622, ?4th s. of William Mason of Bury St Edmunds, Suff. and Gray’s Inn, custos brevium in k.b. (d. bef. Apr. 1629) and Anne, da. Robert Canton of Swaffham, Norf., later wife of one Phillipps of Herefs.Bury St. Edmunds St. James par. reg.; SP23/102, p. 81; PROB11/155/404; Berry, Pedigrees of Kent, 338. m. (1) ?, 1s. 1da.;PROB11/318/693. (2) 21 Dec. 1647 Sarah, da. of George Dodington of Nether Stowey, Som., 4s. 2da.Nether Stowey par. reg.; SP23/102, p. 82; PROB11/318/693. d. 1665.PROB11/318/693.
Offices Held

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), lifeguard of 3rd earl of Essex, 13 Dec. 1642-Apr. 1645;SP23/112, p. 363. regt. of John Fiennes*, Aug.-Oct. 1644.SP23/112, pp. 363–5. Lt. militia, Herefs. ?1654–60.Narrative of the Late Parliament (1658), 14 (E.935.5).

Local: sequestrator, Som. 18 Feb. – 10 May 1650, 30 Oct. 1650–14 Nov. 1650;CCC 173, 216, 345, 355. Herefs. 4 Dec. 1651 – 28 July 1653, 3 Nov. 1653–60.CCC 515, 646, 659. Commr. repair of Hereford Cathedral, 1652;Impostor Magnus (1654), 21. assessment, Hereford 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Essex, Herefs., Som. 9 June 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). J.p. Herefs. by Oct. 1653-Mar. 1660;C193/13/4, f. 42v; SP18/95/72i. Glos. 7 Mar. 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 361; C193/13/5, f. 44. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth, Herefs. 21 Sept. 1655;C115/67/5871. ejecting scandalous ministers, 14 Aug. 1656.CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 72.

Parlimentarian
MASON, Benjamin (1622-65), of London and Pixley Court, Herefs.
: Herefs.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MASON, Benjamin (1622-65), of London and Pixley Court, Herefs.

Will
5 May, pr. 19 Dec. 1665.PROB11/318/693.
Estates
at d. held manors of Pixley, Munsley, Cottley, Herefs; lease of manor of Goldcliff, Mon. Other lands in Herefs. and Essex.PROB11/318/693.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Barbican, St Giles Cripplegate, London, 1644;SP23/112, ff. 297, 367. Nether Stowey, Som. 1650.CCC 221.
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