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Family and Education
bap. 11 June 1587, 1st s. of Thomas Rainborowe, merchant, of Whitechapel, Mdx. and East Greenwich, Kent and Martha Moole.St Mary, Whitechapel par. reg. ff. 17v, 28v. m. (1) 11 Mar. 1612, Elizabeth, da. of Capt. Rowland Coytemore, of Wapping, Mdx.;St Olave, Bermondsey par. reg.; PROB11/150/404. (2) 23 Jan. 1615, Judith (bur. 3 Mar. 1638), da. of Reynold Hoxton, master shipwright, of Wapping, prob. 5s. (2 d.v.p.), 4da. (1 d.v.p.).A. Tinniswood, The Rainborowes (2013), 11; LMA, St John, Wapping par. reg. transcript, ff. 10, 11, 17, 26, 152, 156, 160, 162; St Mary, Whitechapel par. reg. ff. 83v, 133v. suc. fa. by 1624.PROB11/143/232. bur. 17 Feb. 1642 17 Feb. 1642.LMA, St John, Wapping par. reg. transcript, f. 167.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Levant Co. 1621–d.SP105/148, f. 58. Elder bro. Trinity House, Deptford by 1629–d.; master, 1633–4.SP16/135, f. 106; G.G. Harris, The Trinity House of Deptford 1514–1660 (1969), 274.

Military: pressmaster, Som. and Dorset c.1625-c.1631.E351/2263, unfol.; SP16/337, f. 1v. Flag-capt. fleet of 1st earl of Lindsey, 1635; fleet of 4th earl of Northumberland, 1636.CSP Dom. 1635, p. 421; SP16/302, f. 124; CSP Dom. 1635–6, p. 260. Adm. Sallee expedition, Feb.-Oct. 1637.Les sources inédites de l'histoire du Maroc (première série): Archives et bibliothèques d'Angleterre ed. H. de Castries (Paris, 1918–35), iii, 343–54.

Central: member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641.CJ ii. 288b.

Parlimentarian
RAINBOROWE, William (1587-1642), of Wapping, Mdx. and Billingsgate, London.
: of Wapping, Mdx. and Billingsgate, London.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

RAINBOROWE, William (1587-1642), of Wapping, Mdx. and Billingsgate, London.

Will
16 July 1638, cod. 1 Feb. 1642, pr. 8 Oct. 1642.PROB11/189/21.
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Billingsgate ward, London 1640.Principal Inhabitants, 1640, 2.
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