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Family and Education
bap. 22 Dec. 1592, 1st s. of Thomas French of Cambridge, and his 1st w. Maud.St Peter’s, Cambridge par. reg. pp. 2, 6. educ. G. Inn 1616.G. Inn Admiss. 139. m. (1) 5 Nov. 1621, Rebecca (d. 1632), da. of William Benfield, clothworker, of St Saviour’s, Southwark, Surr. 4s. (1d.v.p.) 4da.;LMA, P92/SAV/3002, unfol.; PROB11/134/261; Playhouse wills, 1558-1642 ed. E.A.J. Honigmann and S. Brock (Manchester, 1993), 195; St Peter’s, Cambridge par. reg. pp. 12-13, 15, 54-6. (2) by 1635, Anne (d. 1657), da. of William Knight of Denny Abbey, Waterbeach, Cambs. 1s. d.v.p. St Peter’s, Cambridge par. reg. pp. 16, 56-7, 63; W.C. Metcalfe, ‘Peds. of Cambs. fams.’, The Gen. iii. 304. suc. fa. 1623.St Peter’s, Cambridge par. reg. p. 53. bur. 1 Aug. 1662 1 Aug. 1662.St Peter’s, Cambridge par. reg. p. 65.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Camb. 1624; common councilman by July 1626 – Aug. 1639; elector, 1626; cllr. 1628 – 29, 1641 – 42, 1647 – 48, 1655 – 59, 1660 – 61; coroner, 1632; supervisor, 1637; alderman, Aug. 1639 – July 1662; mayor, 1639 – 40, 1652 – 53, 1661–2.Cambs. RO, Cambs. corp. archives, common day bk. 1610–46, ff. 127, 151v, 161, 174, 212, pp. 265, 301–2, 342; common day bk. 1647–81, ff. 1v, 38v, 68v, 80, 90,104, 129v, 147v, 153; F. Blomefield, Collectanea Cantabrigiensia (Norwich, 1750), 226; J.M. Gray, Biog. Notes on the Mayors of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1922), 39–40.

Court: commr. purveyance, 1631-aft. 1638.Coventry Docquets, 83–8. Yeoman purveyor of freshwater fish to Charles I, 1637–49.LS13/169, pp. 293–4. Kpr. of the ponds, St James’s Park, Westminster 1645-aft. 1647.SC6/Chas. I/1665, m. 22d.

Local: commr. sewers, Gt. Level Sept. 1639-Sept. 1640;Cambs. RO, R.59.31.9.1A, unfol. gaol delivery, Camb. 4 July 1640 – aft.Sept. 1641, 26 May 1654–18 Sept. 1660;C181/5, ff. 178v, 212; C181/6, pp. 35, 388. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 17 Feb. 1645, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Cambs. 26 Jan. 1660;SR; A. and O; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). for peace and safety in Camb. 17 Aug. 1642;LJ v. 299a. sequestration, Camb. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cambs. 15 Mar. 1644;W.M. Palmer, A Hist. of the Par. of Borough Green (Camb. Antiq. Soc. octavo ser. liv), 164, 165, 169. regulating Camb. Univ. aft. Mar. 1644.Cooper, Annals Camb. iii. 372. J.p. Cambs. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1660;C193/13/3, f. 7. Camb. Univ. and town 26 May 1654 – July 1660, Nov. 1661-July 1662.C181/6, pp. 34, 387; C231/7, p. 143. Commr. militia, Cambs. 14 Mar. 1655, 26 Jan. 1660, 12 Mar. 1660;SP25/76A, f. 16; A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, 21 Sept. 1655.Bodl. Rawl. C.948, p. 24. Treas. propagating the gospel in New England, Camb. 26 Aug. 1657.GL, MS 8011, p. 42. Commr. for public faith, Cambs. 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35).

Parlimentarian
FRENCH, Thomas (1592-1662), of St Peter’s, Cambridge, Cambs.
: of St Peter’s, Cambs., Cambridge.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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FRENCH, Thomas (1592-1662), of St Peter’s, Cambridge, Cambs.

Will
not found.
Estates
owned several houses and fishponds in Southwark;A. Barclay, Electing Cromwell (2011), 39-40. various properties leased to him by the Cambridge corporation;Cambs. RO, Camb. corp. archives, common day bk. 1610-46, ff. 193v, 195, 209, 228; common day bk. 1647-81, f. 87; lease bk. A, 1558-1637, f. 218; lease bk. B, 1638-1712, ff. 101v-102; Downing Coll. Cambridge, Bowtell MSS 5-6; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, MS 618/364, pp. 62-3. owned properties in St Peter’s and St Giles’s parishes, Cambridge.CUL, Univ. Archives, CUR 37.7, no. 18; no. 52, ff. 180v-181; CUR 37.3, nos. 115-16.
Oxford 1644
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