GERARD, Sir Gilbert (1587-1670), of Flambards, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. 23 Oct. 1587, 1st s. of William Gerard† of Flambards, and Dorothy, da. of Anthony Radcliffe, Merchant Taylor, of London.C142/308/156; Mdx. Peds. (Harl. Soc. 1xv), 19-20. educ. ?Harrow sch.; G. Inn 3 Aug. 1592;G. Inn Admiss. 83. Trinity Coll. Camb. Easter 1602.Al. Cant. m. c.1614, Mary (bur. 4 May 1666), da. of Sir Francis Barrington, 1st bt.† of Barrington Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, 9s. 7da. (at least 1 d.v.p.).Essex RO, D/Dba/F17; Mdx. Peds. 20; CB; HP Commons 1604-29, ‘Gilbert Gerard’. suc. fa. 23 Aug. 1609;St Mary, Harrow-on-the-Hill Par. Regs. ed. W.O. Hewlett (Beverley, 1900), i. pt. 2, p. 83. cr. bt. 13 Apr. 1620. d. 6 Jan. 1670.CB.

Offices Held

Central: clerk of council, duchy of Lancaster 22 Jan. 1608–7 Mar. 1640;Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 29. chan. 17 Mar. 1648-c.Jan. 1649, 14 Mar.-9 July 1660.LJ x. 118a; PRO30/26/21, p. 23; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 2, 3. Commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642;SR. treaty payments to Scots, 22 June 1641.CJ ii. 182b. Member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288b. cttee. for examinations, 17 Jan. 1642.CJ ii. 385a. Treas.-at-war (parlian.), 30 July 1642-Mar. 1645.CJ ii. 695a; vi. 12; LJ v. 249a, 281b-282a. Member, cttee. of safety, 9 Aug. 1642;CJ ii. 712a. cttee. of navy and customs, 19 Aug. 1642;CJ ii. 728a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 31 Dec. 1642;CJ ii. 909a. cttee. for sequestrations, 27 Mar. 1643;CJ iii. 21b. council of war, 2 Aug. 1643;CJ iii. 191b. cttee. for compounding, 28 Sept. 1643,CJ iii. 258a. 8 Feb. 1647;A. and O. cttee. for foreign plantations, 2 Nov. 1643;LJ vi. 291b. cttee. of both kingdoms, 16 Feb., 23 May 1644. Commr. for maintenance of army, 26 Mar. 1644. Member, cttee. for the army, 31 Mar. 1645, 23 Sept. 1647; cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645; cttee. for revenues of elector palatine, 8 Oct. 1645; cttee. for Westminster Abbey and Coll. 18 Nov. 1645. Commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646; exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647.A. and O. Treas. relief of Piedmont Protestants, 25 May 1655.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 182. Member, cttee. relief of Piedmont Protestants, 1 June 1655;CSP Dom. 1655, p. 197. cttee. for trade, 1 Nov. 1655;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 1. cttee. for statutes, Durham Univ. 10 Mar. 1656;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 218. cttee. of appeals, forests, 26 June 1657. Cllr. of state, 25 Feb. 1660.A. and O. Commr. maimed soldiers, 17 Dec. 1660.CJ viii. 213a.

Local: j.p. Mdx. 20 June 1615 – Sept. 1621, 9 Jan. 1624 – 2 Aug. 1626, 6 Mar. 1629 – 10 Jan. 1638, 27 May 1641 – 4 July 1642, by Oct. 1645–?, by Oct. 1653–d.;C231/4, ff. 3v, 160, 208, 265v; C231/5, pp. 449, 533; C193/13/4, f. 60; APC 1621–3, p. 52; Coventry Docquets, 58, 74; CJ iv. 315a. Westminster Mar. 1660–d.A Perfect List (1660). Commr. subsidy, Mdx. 1621, 1624–5;APC 1621–3, p. 52; C212/22/20–1; C212/22/23; E115/100/52. sewers, River Colne, Bucks., Herts. and Mdx. 13 May 1624-aft. June 1625;C181/3, ff. 116, 184. Mdx. 7 Apr. – aft.Oct. 1645, 31 Jan. 1654 – 5 Feb. 1657, 19 Aug. 1667;C181/5, ff. 261v, 262; C181/6, p. 4; C181/7, p. 409. London 15 Dec. 1645;C181/5, f. 266. Deeping and Gt. Level 31 Jan. 1646–?, by May 1654-aft. Nov. 1658;C181/5, f. 269; C181/6, pp. 26, 247, 333. Mdx. and Westminster 10 Jan. 1655 – 8 Oct. 1659, 31 Aug. 1660–17 Oct. 1667.C181/6, pp. 68, 243; C181/7, pp. 37, 253. Dep. lt. Mdx. 24 Apr. 1624–?C231/4, f. 164; Eg. 860, f. 82v. Sheriff, Bucks. 6 Nov. 1626–7.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 9; Coventry Docquets, 360. Commr. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 2 Apr. 1634–30 June 1638, 30 Nov. 1641 – aft.Jan. 1645, by Jan. 1654 – 10 Nov. 1655, 5 July 1660–d.;C181/4, ff. 172, 189; C181/5, ff. 57v, 213, 231, 246v; C181/6, pp. 3, 63; C181/7, pp. 3, 508. London 12 Jan.1644-aft. Nov. 1645;C181/5, ff. 230, 243v, 265. disarming recusants, Mdx. 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 24 Nov. 1653, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664; Bucks. 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Westminster 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, Mdx. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May 1643; Mdx. and Westminster 3 Aug. 1643; defence of London, 17 Feb. 1644; commr. for Bucks. 25 June 1644; Mdx. militia, 25 Oct. 1644, 2 Aug. 1648;A. and O. gaol delivery, Newgate gaol 16 Nov. 1644-aft. Nov. 1645;C181/5, ff. 243v, 265. New Model ordinance, Mdx. 17 Feb. 1645; militia, Mdx., Tower Hamlets 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; Bucks. 2 Dec. 1648; Westminster 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Custos. rot. Mdx. 1 Mar.-June 1660.CJ vii. 856b; C231/7, p. 5. Commr. poll tax, Mdx., Westminster 1660; subsidy, Mdx. 1663.SR.

Colonial: member, Providence Is. Co. 19 Nov. 1630 – aft.Feb. 1650; dep. gov. 15 May 1634–7 May 1635.CO/124/2, ff. 1, 198; CSP Col. 1574–1660, pp. 178, 206. Member, Somers Is. [Bermuda] Co. by Oct. 1644–?d.Mems. of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas ed. J. H. Lefroy (1877–9), i. 590; ii. 237.

Parlimentarian

GERARD, Gilbert (1587-1670), of Flambards, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Mdx.

: of Flambards, Mdx., Harrow-on-the-Hill.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GERARD, Sir Gilbert (1587-1670), of Flambards, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Mdx.

Will

11 June 1668, pr. 2 Mar. 1670.PROB11/332, f. 287v.

Estates

in 1632, purchased from Bedford Level Adventurers a quarter lot (1,000 acres) in the Great Level, which he had either sold or exchanged by 1656, retaining property in Glatton and Holme, Cambs.TSP v. 475; F. Wilmoth, E. Stazicker, Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fenns 1658 (Cambridge, 2016), 60-1. By 1638, renting a house in St Helen, Bishopsgate, London, worth £34 p.a.Inhabs. of London, 1638, 69. In 1640, estate consisted of manor and advowson of Aston Clinton, Bucks. and manor of Flambards, Harrow-on-the-Hill, with mansion house and demesne property in Harrow-on-the-Hill, Greenford, Northolt and Pinner, Mdx.Bucks. RO, D-X1/72. In 1657, Lady Ann Moulson bequeathed to Gerard, her nephew, residue of her substantial personal estate, after payment of her legacies and debts.PROB11/306, ff. 204v-205; ‘Ann Moulson’, Oxford DNB. Estate reckoned to be worth about £600 p.a. in 1660.Burke, Commoners, i. 690.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

the Little Almonry, St Margaret, Westminster (by Apr. 1644-aft. 1650).SP28/167, pt. 4, unfol.; WCA, SMW/E/47/1580-92.

Religion

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