BARNHAM, Sir Francis (1576-1646), of Hollingbourne, Boughton Monchelsea and Bilsington, Kent.

Family and Education

bap. 20 Oct. 1576,J. Cave-Brown, Hollingbourne, 72. 1st s. of (Sir) Martin Barnham of Hollingbourne, Kent, and 1st w. Ursula, da. of Robert Rudston of Boughton Monchelsea.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 168-9. educ. Trinity, Camb. c.1592;Al. Cant. G. Inn, 8 Nov. 1594.GI Admiss. i. 86. m. ?1598 Elizabeth (d. 18 Sept. 1631), da. of Sampson Lennard† of Chevening, Kent, 7s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da.Vis. Kent, 168-9; J. le Neve, Monumenta Anglicana 1600-49 (1719), 130; Hasted, Kent, iv. 297; Cave-Browne, Hollingbourne, 73-4; Harl. 6019, ff. 137-40; PROB11/197/576. Kntd. 23 July 1603.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 120. suc. fa. 1610; uncle, Belknap Rudston, 1613.PROB11/117/90; PROB11/121/609. bur. 16 Sept. 1646 16 Sept. 1646.Boughton Monchelsea par. reg.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. Flushing garrison by 1609-at least 1610.E351/262, unfol.; E351/263, unfol.; E 351/276, unfol.

Local: commr. sewers, Ticehurst and River Rother, Kent and Suss. 1609-aft. 1639;C181/2, ff. 88, 150v, 247v, 295, 328v; C181/3, ff. 59v, 173; C181/4, ff. 18v, 38; C181/5, f. 144v. Wittersham Level, Kent and Suss. 1614, 1625, 1629, 31 Mar. 1640-aft. May 1645;C181/2, f. 219v; C181/3, f. 166; C181/4, f. 32; C181/5, ff. 167v, 253. Mersham and Sandwich, Kent 1615, 1620, 1621, 1625, 1631;C181/2, f. 244; C181/3, ff. 3v, 40, 157v; C181/4, f. 75. Walland Marsh, Kent and Suss. 1617, 1623, 1625, 1632, 21 Aug. 1645;C181/2, f. 300; C181/3, ff. 94, 188v; C181/4, f. 106v; C181/5, f. 258v. Gravesend Bridge to Penshurst, Kent 1622, 1628, 1639;C181/3, ff. 42, 248, 252v, 254v; C181/5, f. 129v. River Medway, Kent 14 Apr. 1627;Canterbury Cathedral Lib. U85/35/7. Kent 1639.C181/4, f. 101; C181/5, f. 146v. Dep. lt. Canterbury by 1615–?;Canterbury Cathedral Lib. CC/N/30, no. i. Kent by 1617-at least 1639.HMC Cowper, i. 212; SP16/160, f. 17; SP16/409, ff. 15–17; SP16/413, f. 112; APC 1625–6, pp. 448–9; CSP Dom. 1635, p. 419; 1638–9, p. 432. Capt. militia ft. by 1621–?HMC Finch, i. 42. Commr. subsidy, 1621, 1622, 1624, 1629, 1641;E115/157/25; E115/354/33; C212/22/21–3; SR. martial law, 1624, 1626;Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt.4, p. 170; C193/8, no. 84. privy seal loan, 1626;E401/2586, p. 90 Forced Loan, 1626;Harl. 6846, f. 37. oyer and terminer, 1627; Canterbury and Cinque Ports 1627.C181/3. ff. 213, 215v. Warden, Rochester bridge 1629–30.Traffic and Politics ed. N. Yates and J.M. Gibson (Woodbridge, 1994), 294. Commr. knighthood fines, Kent and Cinque Ports 1631–2;E178/5368, ff. 17r-v. repair of highways, Kent 1631;C181/4, f. 88. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. array, 1642;Northants. RO, FH133. sequestration, 18 May 1643.CJ iii. 91a.

Mercantile: member, Virg. Co. 1612.A. Brown, Genesis of United States (2 vols. 1891), ii. 544.

Central: chief butler, 1613 – 41, 1643–d.E351/488–515; LJ vi. 130.

Civic: freeman, Maidstone 1617.Recs. Maidstone, 72.

Parlimentarian

BARNHAM, Sir Francis (1576-1646), of Hollingbourne Parsonage, Boughton Monchelsea and Bilsington, Kent

: of Hollingbourne, Boughton Monchelsea and Kent., Bilsington.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BARNHAM, Sir Francis (1576-1646), of Hollingbourne, Boughton Monchelsea and Bilsington, Kent.

Will

4 Apr. 1642, pr. 23 Oct. 1646.PROB11/197/437.

Estates

Barnham evidently preferred Boughton Monchelsea to his father’s house at Hollingbourne, which he sold to Gabriel Livesey in 1616 for £3,355 (though he retained the parsonage);Harl. 6019, ff. 147-54. leased Barnes in Brenchley, Kent, from John Courthope, 1632.E. Suss. RO, SAS/CO/1/296, 416.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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