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Family and Education
b. by 17 Jan. 1605, 1st s. of Sir Anthony Irby (d. 17 June 1610) of Whaplode, and Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Peyton† of Isleham, Cambs.C142/325/185; WARD7/36/160; P.A. Irby, The Irbys of Lincs. and the Irebys of Cumb. (1938), i. 31, 32. educ. L. Inn 15 May 1620;LI Admiss. i. 185. Emmanuel, Camb. 12 June 1620.Al. Cant. m. (1) 1623, Frances, da. of Sir William Wray, 1st bt.† of Glentworth, Lincs. 1da.; (2) 5 Mar. 1629, Margaret (bur. 19 July 1631), da. of Sir Richard Smythe† of Leeds Castle, Kent, 1da. d.v.p.; (3) by 1633, Margaret (bur. 28 Nov. 1640), da. of Sir Edward Barkham of Southacre, Norf. ld. mayor of London 1621-2, 3da. d.v.p.; (4) 19 Aug. 1641, Catherine (d. 1695), da. of William, 5th Baron Paget, 1s. 5da.All Hallows, Tottenham par. reg. (bur. 17 May 1637, 31 Jan., 16 July, 28 Nov. 1640); Boston Par. Regs. ed. C.W. Foster (Lincoln Rec. Soc. par. reg. section iii), 157; Irby, Irbys of Lincs. i. 36, 41-5; J.P. Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (1803), ii. 371. Kntd. 2 June 1624;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 184. suc. gdfa. 5 Oct. 1625.C142/417/53; Irby, Irbys of Lincs. i. 25. d. 2 Jan. 1682.Irby, Irbys of Lincs. i. 37.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Lincs. (Holland) 26 Apr. 1625 – bef.Jan. 1650, Mar. 1660–22 July 1670;C231/4, f. 185; C231/7, p. 374; A Perfect List (1660). Lindsey 16 May 1625 – 21 June 1627, 23 Feb. 1631 – bef.Jan. 1650, Mar. 1660–22 July 1670;C231/4, ff. 187, 227; C231/5, p. 49; C231/7, p. 374; A Perfect List. Westminster by Oct. 1660 – 7 May 1670; Kesteven by Oct. 1660–22 July 1670. 19 May 1625 – 7 Jan. 1634C220/9/4; C231/7, pp. 366, 374. Commr. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred, 10 Feb. 1642–?, by June 1654-aft. May 1670;C181/3, ff. 169, 229; C181/4, ff. 40; C181/5, f. 223; C181/6, pp. 38, 389; C181/7, pp. 76, 544; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/8–12. Holland 11 Apr. 1626;C181/3, f. 199. Deeping and Gt. Level 3 July 1629-c.1660;C181/4, ff. 20, 94; C181/5, ff. 10, 269; C181/6, pp. 27, 381; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/3–7. East, West and Wildmore Fens, Lincs. 11 Mar. 1636-aft. Mar. 1638;C181/5, ff. 42, 111v. Mdx. and Westminster 31 Aug. 1660 – 16 Oct. 1667, 10 Aug. 1671-aft. Jan. 1673;C181/7, pp. 37, 586, 632. swans, Northants. Lincs. Rutland and Notts. 28 May 1625;C181/3, f. 165. England except south-western cos. c.1629;C181/3, f. 268v. Lincs. 26 June 1635, 19 Dec. 1664;C181/5, f. 14; C181/7, p. 299. Forced Loan, Holland, Boston 1627;Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145; C193/12/2, f. 87. charitable uses, Lincs. 9 June 1627 – 8 May 1634, 15 May 1635–10 Jan. 1642;C93/11/9; C192/1, unfol. Stamford g.s. 10 July 1639;C93/17/14. Morton, Lincs. 17 Feb. 1647;C93/19/23. knighthood fines, Lincs. 12 Feb., 29 June 1631, 13 Feb. 1632;E178/5414, ff. 5, 9, 13. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, Holland c.1633;LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/002, pp. 48, 49. exacted fees, Lincs. and Lincoln 15 Dec. 1633.C181/4, f. 158v. Dep. lt. Lincs. by c. Sept. 1636 – aft.Aug. 1642, 6 Oct. 1660–61.CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 149; 1625–49, p. 642; Lincs. RO, HOLYWELL/93/1. Sheriff, 30 Sept. 1637–4 Nov. 1638.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 80. Commr. subsidy, Holland 1641, 1663; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; Westminster 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Holland 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Lincs. 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Lindsey 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Mdx. 17 Mar. 1648; Westminster 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679.SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Member, Lincs. co. cttee. 24 May 1642–?CJ ii. 585b; LJ v. 82b. Commr. sequestration, Holland 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Lincs. 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, Lincs. c.Mar. 1644;‘The royalist clergy of Lincs.’ ed. J.W.F. Hill, Lincs. Architectural and Arch. Soc. ii. 37–8, 105, 106. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645;A. and O. oyer and terminer, 26 Apr. 1645–?C181/5, f. 251v. Steward, honor of Bolingbroke and Sutton, Lincs. by Mar. 1646–?Bodl. Nalson XIV, f. 219v. Commr. Lincs. militia, 3 July 1648;LJ x. 359a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; Westminster 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Col. militia ft. Lincs. 17 Apr. 1660–?Mercurius Publicus no. 16 (22–9 Apr. 1660), 255 (E.183.8). Commr. complaints, Bedford Level 1663; enclosures, Deeping Fen 1665;SR. concealments, Lincs. 17 July 1671;CTB iii. 912. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 696.

Civic: freeman, Boston 21 Apr. 1626–d.Boston Corporation Mins. ed. J.F. Bailey (Boston, 1981), ii. 498.

Central: member, cttee. Fisheries Soc. 19 July 1632–5.SP16/221, f. 2; SP16/231, f. 21. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 17 July 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647.CJ iii. 169a; LJ viii. 411a; ix. 500a. Member, cttee. for compounding, 28 Sept. 1643,CJ iii. 258a; CCC 1. 8 Feb. 1647;A. and O. cttee. for plundered ministers, 21 Oct. 1643;CJ iii. 283b. cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645.A. and O. Commr. to reside with armies at Newark, 5 Dec. 1645;CJ iv. 366b. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646;A. and O. cttee. for Westminster Abbey and Coll. 17 Mar. 1648.LJ x. 118b. Commr. maimed soldiers, 17 Dec. 1660–1.CJ viii. 213a.

Military: capt. of dragoons (parlian.), 10 Aug. 1642 – 2 May 1643; col. 10 Oct. 1642–2 May 1643.SP28/31, f. 575; CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 369.

Parlimentarian
IRBY, Sir Anthony (1605-1682), of Whaplode, Lincs. and Westminster
: of Boston, Lincs. and Great Almonry, St Margaret, Westminster.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

IRBY, Sir Anthony (1605-82), of Boston, Lincs., and Great Almonry, St Margaret, Westminster.

Will
23 July 1680, pr. 3 May 1686.PROB11/383, f. 107v.
Estates
by 1629, owned property in Boston, Brothertoft, Moulton, Weston and Whaplode, Lincs.C6/105/69; PROB11/383, f. 108; Lincs. RO, HILL/38/4. Estate was reportedly worth £4,000-£5,000 p.a. in the 1630s; but only about £1,000 p.a. by the Restoration period.Irby, The Irbys of Lincs. i. 37; ‘Lincs. fams. temp. Charles II’ ed. C. H., Her. and Gen. ii. 122. In 1634, he borrowed £1,000 on statute staple.LC4/201, f. 243. In 1652, he acquired a lease of parsonage of Whaplode for 21 years.E134/13CHAS2/MICH6. By the mid-1660s, he owned a ‘mansion house’ of 17 hearths at the north end of Lincoln Row, Boston; a ‘mansion house’ at Whaplode; and a house of 12 hearths in Little Almonry, St Margaret, Westminster.E179/140/754, m. 2; SP28/167, pt. 4, unfol.; PROB11/383, f. 108; P. Thompson, Hist. and Antiquities of Boston (Boston, 1856), 256; London and Mdx. 1666 Hearth Tax ed. M. Davies et al. (BRS cxxx), 1685.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
presented Isaac Wright to rectory of Moulton, Lincs. 1665; Edward Whiston, 1670; Philip Tallents, 1678.Lincs. RO, DIOC/PD/1665/27; DIOC/PD/1670/6; DIOC/PD/1678/52.
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