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b. bef. 1610, 1st surv. s. of Anthony Sawrey of Plumpton, and Alice (d. aft. 1646), da. of Thomas Farrington of Worden, Lancs.: bro. of Roger Sawry*.Lancs. RO, DF/1279; Cartmel ed. H. Brierley (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xxviii), 227; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxviii), 255; Ulverston Par. Regs. ed. C.W. Bardsley, L.R. Ayre (Ulverston, 1886), 100, 101, 104, 105. m. 2 Dec. 1629, Esther, da. of Adam Sandys of Graythwaite, Hawkshead, Lancs. wid. of Thomas Rawlinson (bur. 18 Apr. 1626) of Graythwaite, at least 1s. 2da.Regs. of Colton in Furness Fells ed. A.A. Williams, J.P. Burns (Kendal, 1891), 13; Oldest Reg. Bk. of Hawkshead ed. H.S. Cowper (1897), 123, 163; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. Raines, 255; Ulverston Par. Regs. ed. Bardsley, Ayre, 145. suc. fa. c.1623;Lancs. and Cheshire Wills and Inventories ed. J. P. Earwaker (Chetham Soc. n.s. xxviii), 193. bur. 30 Jan. 1666 30 Jan. 1666.Ulverston Par. Regs. ed. Bardsley, Ayre, 156.
Offices Held

freeman, Preston by 1622 – 42, 1662–d.Preston Guild Rolls ed. W. A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 79, 152.

j.p. Lancs. by 1 Sept. 1649-bef. Oct. 1660.Lancs. RO, QSC/51–61. Commr. assessment, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). maintenance of ministers, 29 Mar. 1650;Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. H. Fishwick (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. i), i. 1–3. militia by Nov. 1650, 26 July 1659;SP28/211, f. 705; A. and O. sequestration, 13 Aug. 1652;CCC 603, 629; Lancs. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.H. Stanning (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxiv), 185. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth by Nov. 1655;TSP iv. 733; v. 242. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35).

elder, ninth Lancs. classis, 1646.LJ viii. 512.

Parlimentarian
SAWREY, John (d.1666), of Plumpton, Ulverston, Lancs.
of Plumpton, Ulverston, Lancs.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

SAWREY, John (d.1666), of Plumpton, Ulverston, Lancs.

Will
20 Oct. 1665, pr. 16 May 1666.Lancs. RO, WRW/F, will of John Sawrey of Plumpton 1666.
Estates
inherited Plumpton and a mill.Lancs. RO, RCHY/2/3/70. Plumpton was worth about £68 p.a. before the civil war.Lancs. RO, DF/1279.
Oxford 1644
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