PELHAM, Henry (1597-bef. 1664), of Gray’s Inn, Mdx., and Belvoir, Leics.

Family and Education

bap. 9 June 1597, 3rd s. of Sir William Pelham† (d. July 1629) of Brocklesby, Lincs. and Anne, da. of Charles, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham.Lincs. RO, YARB/3/3/2/1, f. 101v; Brocklesby par. reg. ed. C.W. Foster (Hertford, 1912), 49, 67; Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lii), 765-6. educ. Trinity, Camb. Easter 1615;Al. Cant. G. Inn 6 Nov. 1616;G. Inn Admiss. 145. embassy, Brussels, Dresden and Prague 1620-1.CJ i. 523a; CD 1621, v. 443; Nicholas Diary 1621, 26-7; Chamberlain Lttrs. ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1939), ii. 350. unm. d. bef. July 1664.C6/29/33.

Offices Held

Civic: dep. recorder, Grantham by Oct. 1633-bef. 8 Oct. 1647;Lincs. RO, GBQS/14/2; Grantham Hall Bk. 1, f. 6; Grantham during the Interregnum: the Hall Bk. of Grantham, 1641–9 ed. B. Couth (Lincoln Rec. Soc. lxxxiii), 97. town counsel, 31 Jan. 1640–8 Oct. 1647.Lincs. RO, Grantham Hall Bk. 1, f. 83; Grantham during the Interregnum ed. Couth, 97. Recorder, Lincoln c.Dec. 1642-aft. Feb. 1648.Lincs. RO, L1/1/1/6, p. 76; CJ ii. 890a; A. and O. i. 1086; J.G. Williams, ‘Lincoln civic insignia’, Lincs. N and Q, viii. 137.

Local: commr. exacted fees, Rutland 6 Feb. 1634;C181/4, f. 159. swans, Lincs. 26 June 1635;C181/5, f. 15. sequestration, 3 July 1644;CJ iii. 548b; LJ vi. 613b. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; assessment, 21 Feb. 1645; Lindsey, Kesteven, Lincoln 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Lincs. 26 Apr. 1645.C181/5, f. 252. Dep. lt. Lincs. 11 Sept. 1645–?CJ iv. 270b; LJ vii. 575b. Commr. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 25 June 1646–14 Aug. 1660;C181/7, pp. 39, 390; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/7–11. Lincs. and Lincoln militia, 3 July 1648;LJ x. 359a. militia, Lincs. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. for sequestrations by 11 Oct. 1643.SP20/1, f. 60. Speaker, House of Commons, 30 July-6 Aug. 1647.CJ v. 260a. Commr. gt. seal 3–6 Aug. 1647.A. and O.

Legal: ancient, G. Inn 24 Nov. 1645.PGB Inn, i. 354.

Parlimentarian

PELHAM, Henry (1597-at least 1660), of Gray’s Inn, London and Freiston, Lincs

: of Gray’s Inn, Mdx. and Leics., Belvoir.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PELHAM, Henry (1597-bef. 1664), of Gray’s Inn, Mdx., and Belvoir, Leics.

Will

17 Mar. 1659, cod. 29 Sept. 1659, pr.?,C6/29/33

Estates

fa.’s estate in Lincs. was valued at £1,095 p.a.Lincs. RO, YARB/5/1/2. Pelham was left an annuity of £60 in his fa.’s will.Lincs. RO, Misc. wills D.70 (Sir William Pelham); YARB/3/1/1/7. He leased capital messuage of Well, Lincs. worth at least £140 p.a.C7/275/89. In 1652, purchased a lease for two lives in capital messuage of Hollingbourne Hill, Kent, for £2,600.C6/4/159. At his d. estate inc. a ‘mansion house’, lands and tenements in Hollingbourne and a lease from the earl of Rutland of lands in Pillerton Hersey, Warws.C6/29/33

Oxford 1644

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