Family and Education
b. 14 Nov. 1611, 1st s. of Humphrey Nicoll† of Penvose and Philip, da. of Sir Anthony Rous† of Halton, St Dominic. m. Amy, da. of Peter Speccott of Thornbury, Devon, 5s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da. suc. fa. Mar. 1643. d. 20 Feb. 1659.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 344; Maclean, Trigg Minor, iii. 372.
Offices Held

Local: commr. sequestration, Devon 29 Apr. 1643; for Cornw. 1 July 1644;A. and O. assessment, Cornw. 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 8 June 1654, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1654, E.1064.10). militia, 2 Dec. 1648; ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O. J.p. by Mar. 1655–?d.Cornw. RO, B/WLO/187/1; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 94; C193/13/5, f. 13. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 27 Mar. 1655;C181/6, pp. 99. securing peace of commonwealth, Cornw. by Jan. 1656.TSP iv. 451. Sheriff, 1656–7.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 23. Commr. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35).

Central: dep. recvr.-gen. duchy of Cornw. c.1642-Sept. 1644. c. Nov. 1642 – Nov. 1644E101/528/1; Coate, Cornw. 267. Member, cttee. of safety, 16 July 1642. c. Nov. 1642 – Nov. 1644CJ ii. 675a. Master of armoury, Tower of London, 4 Nov.-Dec. 1648.Bodl. Tanner 59, f. 491; HMC 7th Rep. 61. Member, cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645; cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647; security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

: St Tudy, Cornw.
Likenesses

Likenesses: fun. monument, St Tudy church, Cornw.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

NICOLL, Anthony (1611-59), of Penvose, St Tudy, Cornw.

Will
13 Feb. 1659, pr. 7 Oct. 1662.PROB11/309/191.
Estates
owned lands in parishes of St Tudy and Lanivet, near Bodmin, including manors of Penvose and Carkele, which he claimed were worth £3,000.Maclean, Trigg Minor, iii. 349-50; CSP Dom. 1654, p. 344.
Oxford 1644
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