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Family and Education
b. c. 1584, 1st. s. of Francis Purefoy of Caldecote. and Eleanor, da. of John Baskerville of Curdworth.C142/680/9; Harl. 1047, ff. 48v, 49; Vis. Warws. 1619 (Harl. Soc. xii), 255. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 1598, ?BA Pembroke Coll. Camb. 1603-4; G. Inn, 1599; ?travelled abroad (Geneva), 1612.Al. Cant.; G. Inn ms Admittance Bk. 1581-1649, p. 463; W. Dugdale, A Short View of the Late Troubles in England (Oxford, 1681), 19. m. 1 Jan. 1609 (with £1,000) Joan, wid. of George Abbot of York (d. 6 Nov. 1607), da. of Aleyn Penkeston of York, s.p.St Michael-le-Belfry, York par. reg.; St Martin, Coney St. York, par. reg.; Vis. Warws. 1619 (Harl. Soc. xii), 255; C142/373/45; C142/680/9; Borthwick, will of George Abbotte, 8 Oct. 1607. suc. fa. 1613, grandfa. 1615.C142/680/9. d. 8 Sept. 1659.Al. Cant.
Offices Held

Local: ?muster-master, Warws., Coventry 1617-aft. 1622.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/20/2, pp. 157, 183. Commr mines dispute, Bedworth, Warws. 1624.APC 1623–5, pp. 210–11. Sheriff, Warws. 1630–1.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 147. J.p 1632–d.C231/5, p. 86. Commr. swans, Staffs. and Warws. 1635–8;C181/4, f. 199v; C181/5, f. 91. assessment, Warws. 1642,SR. 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Warws. and Coventry 21 Feb. 1645, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E1062.28).. Dep. lt. Warws. by 21 June 1642–?CJ ii. 635a. Commr. for Warws. and Coventry, assoc. of Staffs. and Warws. 31 Dec. 1642; sequestration, Warws. 27 Mar. 1643; leving of money, Warws. and Coventry 7 May, 3 Aug 1643; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645;A. and O. gaol delivery, Warwick, Coventry 15 Apr. 1645;C181/5, f. 251. militia, Warws. and Coventry 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659; Leics. 26 July 1659; oyer and terminer, Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 14, 371. ejecting scandalous ministers, Warws. 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 24 Feb. 1642, 16 Oct. 1644;CJ ii. 452b; iii. 666b. cttee. for advance of money, 26 Nov. 1642, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ ii. 866a; vi. 110a, 113b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 9 Aug. 1644.CJ iii. 585a. Commr. ct. martial, 16 Aug. 1644.A. and O. Member, cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645, 29 May 1649.A. and O.; CJ vi. 219b. Commr. to Scots army, 12 July 1645.LJ vii. 495a. Member, cttee. for foreign plantations, 21 Mar. 1646.LJ viii. 225a, 225b. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648; high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649;A. and O. for compounding, 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 113b. Member, cttee. for the army, 6 Jan., 17 Apr. 1649, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652;CJ vi. 113b; A. and O. Derby House cttee. 6 Jan. 1649; cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649; cttee. of navy and customs, 10 Feb., 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 137b, 219b. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650, 13 Feb., 24 Nov. 1651, 24 Nov. 1652.A. and O.; CJ vi. 141a, 362b, 532a; vii. 42a, 220a. Member, Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 20 July 1649;CJ vi. 266b. cttee. relief of Piedmont Protestants, 4 Jan. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 100. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656;A. and O. tendering oath to MPs, 18 Jan. 1658.CJ vii. 578a.

Military: ?col. militia horse, Warws. June 1642. Col. of horse and dragoons (parlian.), army of 3rd earl of Essex, 6 Mar. 1643–14 May 1645.CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 449; CJ iv. 204a. Col. militia horse and ft. Warws. 27 June 1650–?d.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 507.

Civic: recorder, Coventry 24 Mar. 1652–d.Coventry RO, BA/H/C/17/2, f. 103v.

Parlimentarian
PUREFOY, William (c.1584-1659), of Caldecote, Warws.
: of Caldecote, Warws.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

PUREFOY, William I (c.1584-1659), of Caldecote, Warws.

Will
9 Aug. 1659, pr. 20 May 1661.PROB11/304, f. 177.
Estates
Manor of Caldecote, Warws. Bought manors of Bishop’s Itchington, Tachbrooke, Chadshunt and Gaydon, Warws. confiscated from bishop of Lichfield, c.1650.CSP Dom. 1661-2, p. 527. Awarded £1,000 from delinquents’ estates, 13 Sept.1649, for royalist damage to Caldecote.CJ vi. 294b. Bought fee farm rents of manors of Curdworth, Ettington and Newbold, Warws. with Abraham Boune, for £479 18s 9d, 3 Dec. 1650, probably on behalf of city of Coventry.E308/7, pt. 1, f. 253.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
Presented Richard Vines to Caldecote vicarage, 10 June 1630;Dugdale, Warws. ii. 1100. recommended Daniel Eyres to Whitnash, Warws. 24 Apr. 1650; Francis Reynolds to Bishampton, Worcs. 1 Aug. 1650; Henry Perise to Claybrooke vicarage, Leics. 14 Dec. 1652; Joseph Fisher to Lilleshall, Salop, 18 Dec. 1652;Add. 36792, ff.. 9v, 14v, 58, 58v. Nathaniel Stephens to Drayton, Leics. 1659.DNB. sub Stephens.
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