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

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.

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.

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.

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