Family and Education
b. 26 Mar. 1600, o.s. of Thomas Pyne (d.1609), counsellor-at-law, of Lincoln’s Inn and Merriott, Som. and Amy, da. of Thomas Hannam†, sjt.-at-law, of M. Temple and Winterbourne Zelston, Dorset.Sale of Wards in Som. 1603-1641, ed. M.J. Hawkins (Som. Rec. Soc. lxvii), 51; Vis. Som. 1672 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xi), 65. educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. 16 Feb. 1610;Al. Ox. M. Temple 4 Feb. 1619, called 19 June 1629.M. Temple Admiss. i. 109; MTR ii. 634, 752. m. (1) 23 Apr. 1629, Eleanor (d.1662), da. and h. of Sir John Hanham† of Deans Court, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da.;St Margaret Moses, Little Friday Street, London par. reg. (2) lic. 30 Dec. 1667, Amy, da. of Thomas White of Fiddleford, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, s.p.Allegations for Marr. Licences ed. J.L. Chester and G.J. Armytage (Harl. Soc. xxiii), 143; Vis. Som. 1672, 65-6. suc. grandfa. 1609. d. bef. 14 June 1678.PROB11/357/85.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Poole 1625.Dorset RO, DC/PL/B/7/1/1, f. 70v.

Local: commr. sewers, Som. 1634, 15 Nov. 1645 – aft.Jan. 1646, 21 Nov. 1654–11 Aug. 1660.C181/4, f. 172; C181/5, ff. 263, 268; C181/6, pp. 74, 394. Treas. hosps. western division 1636.QS Recs. Som. Charles I, 254. Commr. loans on Propositions, Som. 20 July 1642;LJ v. 226a. assessment, 27 Jan., 21 Mar. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; LJ v. 658a; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Som. 1 July 1644. by 1646 – bef.Oct. 1660A. and O. J.p. Som.; Dorset by Feb. 1650-aft. Oct. 1653.QS Recs. Som. Commonwealth, 1; C231/6, pp. 130, 205; C193/13/3, f. 15v; C193/13/4, f. 22v; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. militia, Som. 2 Dec. 1648, c.1650;A. and O.; R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 166–7. oyer and terminer, Western circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660.C181/6, pp. 9, 377.

Military: col. of ft. (parlian.) 1642–4;BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. regt. of volunteers, Som. 1649. 15 Feb. 1650 – bef.June 1655CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 256. Col. militia ft., Aug. 1659–?CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 521; SP25/77, p. 368; Bodl. Clarendon 63, f. 186.

Religious: elder, Taunton, Bridgwater and Dunster classis, Som. 1647.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 421.

Central: member, cttee. for the army, 17 Dec. 1652, 27 July 1653.CJ vii. 230b, A. and O.

: of Curry Malet, Som. and London., the Middle Temple.
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Commons 1640-1660
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PYNE, John (1600-78), of Curry Malet, Som. and the Middle Temple, London.

Will
12 Aug. 1676, pr. 14 June 1678.PROB11/357/85.
Estates
owned land at Curry Malet, Som.; bought manor of Curry Malet for £2,387 4s 0½d, 1651.I.J. Gentles, ‘The debenture market and military purchasers of crown lands, 1649-60’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 324.
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