HARRISON, John (c.1589-1669), of St Olave, Hart Street, London, and Balls Park, Great Amwell, Herts.

Family and Education

b. c. 1589, 12th s. of William Harrison of Aldcliffe, Lancaster, Lancs., and Margaret, da. of Christopher Gardiner of Urswick, Lancs.Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xv), 354; Fanshawe Mems. (1907), 21. educ. Warton g.s.;PROB11/338, f. 121v. Queen’s, Oxf. 1 July 1603, aged 14.Al. Ox. m. (1) 6 Sept. 1616, Margaret (d. 30 July 1640), da. of Robert Fanshawe of Dronfield, Derbys. 3s. (inc. William*, Richard†) d.v.p. 2da.; (2) Jan. 1646, Mary (d. 14 Feb. 1706), da. of Philip Shotbolt alias Battalion of Ardeley, Herts. 1s. 1da.Fanshawe Mems. 18, 19-20, 39; H.C. Fanshawe, Hist. of the Fanshawe Fam. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1927), 39, 42-3, 142; St Olave, Hart Street ed. W.B. Bannerman (Harl. Soc. Reg. xlvi), 31, 32, 36, 38, 173; Madron Par. Regs. ed. G.B. Millett (Penzance, 1877), 37; Clutterbuck, Herts. ii. 157, 186. Kntd. 4 Jan. 1641.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 208. d. 28 Sept. 1669.Fanshawe Mems. 21.

Offices Held

Central: clerk to Sir John Wolstenholme†, c.1611–38.Fanshawe Mems. 21. Collector, pretermitted customs, outports 1620–4.E351/779–83. Farmer, sugar duties, 9 Sept. 1626–?32;E122/235/17; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 573. petty farm, 25 Mar. 1632–8, 25 Mar. 1641 – ?; gt. farm, 25 Dec. 1640–?Stowe 326, f. 100; CJ ii. 164a; R. Ashton, The Crown and the Money Market (Oxford, 1960), 105, 108, 110–1. Member, cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642.Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 378b. Commr. customs, 20 Sept. 1660–2; farmer, 29 Sept. 1662–29 Sept. 1667.CTB i. 226, 431; iii. 252, 1127.

Mercantile: member, Virg. Co. 13 Feb. 1622–?Recs. of the Virginia Co. of London ed. S.M. Kingsbury (Washington, DC, 1906), i. 599. Treas. Fishery Co. by 8 Mar. 1637–?CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 489. Member, Co. of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa, 10 Jan. 1663–d.CSP Col. W. I. 1661–8, p. 121.

Local: j.p. Herts. 11 May 1638 – 15 July 1642, 11 Sept. 1660–d.C231/5, pp. 292, 530; C231/7, p. 38. Commr. subsidy, 1641; Lancs. 1663; further subsidy, Herts. 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642, 1664; Norf. 1664;SR. loans on Propositions, Herts. 12 July 1642;LJ v. 207b. levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. rebels’ estates (roy.), Berks., Bucks. and Oxon. 11 Jan. 1644; tendering oath of loyalty (roy.), Oxf. 12 Apr. 1645;Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 128, 268. loyal and indigent officers, London and Westminster 1662.SR.

Civic: freeman, Queenborough 16 Mar. 1640–?Kent Hist. and Lib. Centre, Qb/JMs4, f. 138v.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 1664–d.N. Carlisle, Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber (1829), 174.

Parlimentarian

HARRISON, John (c.1589-1669), of St. Olave’s, Hart Street, London; later of Balls Park, Herts. and Beaumont, Lancs.

: of St Olave, Hart Street, London and Balls Park, Great Amwell, Herts.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

HARRISON, John (c.1589-1669), of St Olave, Hart Street, London, and Balls Park, Great Amwell, Herts.

Will

21 Sept. 1669, pr. 5 Feb. 1672.PROB11/338, f. 121.

Estates

by 1625, renting a house in St Olave, Hart Street, London.Fanshawe Mems. 17. In 1637, purchased Hertford priory manor and mansion house of Balls Park, Herts.VCH Herts. iii. 412, 507. In 1643, estate valued at more than £1,800 p.a.Stowe 184, f. 161. In 1646, estate consisted of manor of Scales Hoo and half manor of Fittons, Norf.; messuages and property in Theydon Garnon, Essex; three quarters of manor of Stoke Rochford, Lincs; manor and grange of Beaumont, Lancs.; fishing on the River Lune, Lancs.; priory of Hertford, capital messuage of Balls Park and copyhold lands in manors of Brickendon and Little Amwell, Herts.; lease of a watermill in Hertford; and lease of chambers in Gray’s Inn, Mdx. – in all worth £1,454 p.a. bef. civil war.SP23/94, pp. 845-6; SP23/203. pp. 791-2, 809-12. In 1650, estate inc. manor of Mincingbury, Herts. and manor of ‘Bolton’, Lancs.Fanshawe, Fanshawe Fam.46. In 1669, estate reckoned to be worth £1,600 p.a.Fanshawe Mems. 22.

Oxford 1644

Yes

1640 Volume

oxford

Addresses

Montague House, Bishopsgate, London (1642).Fanshawe Mems. 24.

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