Family and Education
bap. 25 Mar. 1604, 2nd s. of Thomas St Nicholas (d. c. 1626) of The Mote, Hoaden, Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent and Dorothy (d. 18 Sept. 1605), da. of Edward Tilghman of Snodland, bro. of Thomas St Nicholas*.Vis. Warws. 1682-3 (Harl. Soc. lxii), 30; J. R. Planché, A Corner of Kent (1864), 144, 246, 372, 374; Nichols, Leics. iv. 266, 269, 271. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 1619.Al. Cant. m. (1) by Jan. 1627 Audrey (d. 9 Nov. 1654), da. and h. of Basil Good of Stretton-under-Fosse, Monks Kirby, Warws. 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 5 June 1657, Priscilla, da. of Anthony Grey, 9th earl of Kent.Vis. Warws. 1682-3 (Harl. Soc. lxii), 30; Planché, Corner of Kent, 374; Nichols, Leics. iv. 245, 271; CP vii. 175; Burbage, Leics. par. reg. d. 27 May 1698.Nichols, Leics. iv. 271.
Offices Held
Local: commr. assessment, Warws. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Warws. and Coventry 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657.
Religious: rector, Lutterworth, Leics. by Mar. 1659-bef. 1 Aug. 1660.
Parlimentarian
: of Stretton-under-Fosse, Monks Kirby and Warws., Knowle and Leics., Lutterworth.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
ST NICHOLAS, John (1604-98), of Stretton-under-Fosse, Monks Kirby and Knowle, Warws. and Lutterworth, Leics.
Will
30 June 1697, pr. 25 June 1698.Leics. RO, Wills 1698/47.
Estates
from 1 Nov. 1634 leased lands (320a. c.1642) in manor of Cesterover, Monks Kirby, from 2nd Baron Brooke (Robert Greville†) at £76 6s 8d p.a. (£21 p.a. c.1642);Warws. RO, CR 1886/box 606/ bdle. 3; box 414/14 p. 25; CR 2026/110/1,2. estate of Hodnell, Stratford-upon-Avon, bought from George Wyllys for £1,700 in 1641.The Wyllys Pprs. ed. A.C. Bates (Collns. of the Connecticut Hist. Soc. xxi), 14.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
house at Knowle, Warws. house at Lutterworth, Leics. by 1653 Burbage, Leics. after 1660.Nichols, Leics. iv. 266, 269, 271.
Religion
With Richard Lucy* recommended Joseph Ainge to vicarage of Bromsgrove, Worcs. 13 Oct. 1653.Add. 36792, f. 74.
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