BARTON, Nathaniel (c.1616-72), of Derby, Derbys.

Family and Education

b. c. 1616, 1st s. of Edmund Barton, rector of Broseley, Salop, and Mary.Al. Ox.; Broseley Par. Regs. ed. A. F. C. Langley, 18. educ. New Inn Hall, Oxf. 12 Dec. 1634, aged 18, BA 9 Apr. 1639, MA 7 July 1641, BD 19 May 1649.Al. Ox. m. 6 May 1639, Sarah (d. after 1673), da. of ? of Longstone, Derbys. at least 2s. 5da.Longstone par. reg.; Staffs. RO, B/C/11, will of Nathaniel Barton, 1673. suc. fa. c.1653;E339/1/5; Birmingham Univ. Cadbury Research Lib. MYT/1, p. 194A. bur. 26 Dec. 1672 26 Dec. 1672.Longstone par. reg.

Offices Held

Religious: ?curate, par. Foremark, Derbys. by Feb. 1642;PA, Main Pprs. 26 Feb. 1642, f. 101. Cauldwell, par. Stapenhill, Derbys. by 1661–2.Calamy Revised, 33.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.) by July 1643-June 1647;E121/4/6/8; S. Gunton, Hist. of the Church of Peterborough ed. S. Patrick (1686), 334. maj. June 1647 – June 1649, July-c. 20 Oct. 1659, Jan.-June 1660.Clarke Pprs. iv. 102; The Declaration of the Officers of the Army Opened (1659), 29 (E.1010.16); CJ vii. 709b, 723a, 815a, 839a; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 107, 114, 229–30, 288. ?Gov. Barton Park, Derbys. by May 1645–?Brereton Letter Bks. i. 498–9. C.-in-c. Derbys. militia, 2 Mar. 1650–?CSP Dom. 1650, p. 504.

Local: commr. assessment, Derbys. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 26 Jan. 1660; Staffs. 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). J.p. Derbys. 9 Mar. 1650–15 Mar. 1655;C231/6, pp. 180, 306. Staffs. 30 Sept. 1653-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 269. Commr. charitable uses, Derbys. 19 Dec. 1650;C93/21/2. ejecting scandalous ministers, Derbys. and Notts. 28 Aug. 1654; militia, Staffs. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Derbys. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Central: cllr. of state, 1 Nov. 1653.CJ vii. 344b. Judge, probate of wills, 24 Dec. 1653, 3 Apr. 1654. Commr. arrears of excise, 29 Dec. 1653.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

BARTON, Nathaniel (c.1616-72), of Derby, Derbys.

: of Derby, Derbys.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BARTON, Nathaniel (c.1616-72), of Derby, Derbys.

Will

30 Mar. 1672, pr. 10 Nov. 1673.Staffs. RO, B/C/11.

Estates

in 1649, Barton purchased from the trustees for the sale of dean and chapter lands a messuage in Lichfield, Staffs. for £2,060 17s.C54/3470/14. Betw. 1651 and 1658, he and a group of fellow army officers purchased (with indentures) from the treason trustees or the trustees for the sale of crown lands, the honour, manor and castle of Kenilworth and adjoining lands and mills, Warws. for £18,775 and £7,187; the manor and castle of Tutbury, Staffs. for £3,245; and lands in the manor of Witham Friary, Som.E121/4/6, 8, 101; E121/5/1/2, 18; C54/3602/8; C54/3677/30; C54/3806/5; C54/3819/9; C54/3986/13; I. Gentles, ‘The Debentures Market and Military purchases of Crown Land, 1649-60’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 250. He also purchased, with ‘public faith bills’, ‘some small rents and revenues’ from the lands belonging to the canons and vicars choral of the cathedral church of Lichfield, Staffs.E113/11, unfol.; A. and O. ii. 100.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Mrs Grimsel’s house, at the sign of the Sugar Loaf, King Street, near St Margaret’s church, Westminster (1659).Derbys. RO, D1232/O/83.

Religion

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