VASSALL, Samuel (1586-1667), of St Mary Axe, London.

Family and Education

bap. 5 June 1586, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John Vassall (d. 1625), mariner, of Ratcliff, Mdx. and his 2nd w. Anna Russell, also of Ratcliff.C.M. Calder, John Vassall and his Descendants (1920), 5; PROB11/146/473; GLRO, St Dunstan’s, Stepney par. reg. educ. appr. Drapers’ Co. 16 Jan. 1604. m. 28 June 1612, Frances, da. of Abraham Cartwright, merchant of London, 8s. (6 d.v.p.) 4da. (3 d.v.p.).Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 308; GL. MS 4109/1-2; Calder, Vassall, 7; St Olave, Hart Street (Harl. Soc. Reg. xlvi), 33; W. Vassall, Vassall Pedigree, 1500-1890 (1890), 1, 8-9. d. 1667.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Drapers’ Co. 18 Mar. 1611; liveryman, 1619 – 36; third warden, 1636 – 37; member of ct. 1636 – 59; master, 1645–6.Johnson, Drapers iv. 412, 417, 452, 467; E.J. Creek, ‘Life and Times of Samuel Vassall’ (typescript, 1975, GL B/V 337), 12.

Local: member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 8 Feb. 1614;Ancient Vellum Bk., 20. ct. of requests, London 28 Sept. 1629.CLRO, Rep. 43, f. 302. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1641, 21 Feb. 1645, 16 Feb. 1648;SR; A. and O. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; customs, 25 Feb 1660.A. and O.

Mercantile: asst. Levant Co. 1620, 1625, 1628, 1640;SP105/148, ff. 122, 181; SP105/149, f. 377. asst. Massachusetts Bay Co. 1629.F. Rose-Troup, Massachusetts Bay Co. (New York, 1930), 156.

Central: recvr. subsidy, 1641; asssesment, 1642.SR. Member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288b. cttee. for examinations, 13 Jan. 1642;CJ ii. 375b. cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 378b. cttee. for Irish affairs, 3 Sept. 1642;CJ ii. 750b. cttee. of safety, 12 Sept. 1642.CJ ii. 763a. Commr. for navy, 15 Sept. 1642.A. and O. Member, cttee. for advance of money, 26 Nov. 1642.CJ ii. 866a; CCAM, 1, 14. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647.LJ vi. 55b; viii. 411a; ix. 500a. Member, cttee. for foreign plantations, 2 Nov. 1643;A. and O. cttee. for foreign affairs, 24 July 1644;CJ iii. 568a; LJ vi. 640b. cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645;A. and O. cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 30 June 1645.LJ vii. 468a. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646;A. and O. cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 4 Mar. 1648.CJ v. 476b; LJ x. 88b.

Parlimentarian

VASSALL, Samuel (1586-1667), of St Mary Axe, London.

: of St Mary Axe, London.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

VASSALL, Samuel (1586-1667), of St Mary Axe, London.

Will

admon. Oct.-Nov. 1667.PROB6/42, ff. 136v, 142.

Estates

jt.-owner of tenth of Massachusetts plantation, c.1629;Pearl, London, 190. manor of Bedale, Yorks, acquired on m.; houses in St Mary Axe, London, bef. 1656.Vassall, Vassall Pedigree, 1; Calder, Vassall, 6.

Oxford 1644

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