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Family and Education
bap. 3 Jan. 1615, 6th s. of Henry Alured; bro. of John Alured*.Sculcoates Par. Reg. ed. M.E. Ingram (Yorks. Par. Reg. Soc. cxxiii), 22; W.D. Pink, ‘Alured of the Charterhouse, co. York’, Yorks. Genealogist, i. 1-4. m. 1642, Catherine (bur. 11 May 1671), da. and h. of Thomas Stephenson, wid. of Edward Nelthorpe of Walkington, 3s. d.v.p. 1 da.Infra, ‘James Nelthorpe’; St Mary, Beverley par. reg.; Hull Hist. Cent. U DDBA/8/11; Borthwick, Harthill deanery wills, Sept. 1694; Pink, ‘Alured of the Charterhouse’, 4. bur. 28 Aug. 1694 28 August 1694.St Mary, Beverley par. reg.
Offices Held

Local: customer/comptroller of customs, Hull by Dec. 1639-c.1660.E190/318/6, 9; E351/652–59; SP46/80, ff. 20, 24; Add. 21423, f. 155; CJ ii. 636b; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 134. Commr. assessment, Yorks. (E. Riding) 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689–d.;A. and O.; SR. Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652,A. and O. 24 Nov. 1653,An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). 1 June 1660.An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Recvr. crown revenues, July 1649–1 Aug. 1653.CJ vi. 251b; SP28/269, f. 379; E113/7, pt. 2, unfol. J.p. E. Riding by Feb. 1650–6 Oct. 1653, c.Mar.- 8 Aug. 1657, Mar.-bef.Oct. 1660;C193/13/3; C193/13/5; C231/6, pp. 270, 374; A Perfect List [of JPs] (1660). co. Dur. Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660.A Perfect List [of JPs] (1660). Commr. sequestration, Yorks. c.Feb. 1650;SP28/215, pt. 4, ff. 3–4; CCC 171. militia by Mar. 1650, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;Doncaster Archives, DD/CROM/11/30; A. and O. charitable uses, 19 Sept. 1650;C93/20/27. sewers, E. Riding by June 1654-Sept. 1660.C181/6, pp. 46, 404. Member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 16 Aug. 1659.Ancient Vellum Bk. 79. Commr. poll tax, E. Riding 1660.SR.

Military: lt. of horse (parlian.) 30 July 1642 – 1 May 1643; capt. 1 May – 8 Sept. 1643; maj. 8 Sept. 1643 – 5 Apr. 1644; col. 5 Apr. 1644–23 Jan. 1646,SP28/34, f. 399; SP28/252, pt. 1, f. 178. 5 Aug.-c.20 Oct. 1659, 12 Jan.-20 Apr. 1660.CJ vii. 805b, 809b, 812a; Ludlow, Mems. ii. 148; The Declaration of the Officers of the Army Opened (1659), 29 (E.1010.16). Col. militia ft. E. Riding 1 June 1648–?May 1649;Packets of Letters from Scotland, Newcastle, York, and Lancashire (1648), 5 (E.446.3); CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 135. Yorks. 10 Apr. 1650–?;CSP Dom. 1650, p. 506. col. militia horse, 10 Aug. 1650-Dec. 1651.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 508; M. Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 259. Col. of ft. 1 Aug. 1650–8 Jan. 1655.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 263; Clarke Pprs. v. 244. Gov. Ayr, Scotland by Mar. 1652-May 1654.CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 540; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 463–4. C.-in-c. Mull and Skye, Scotland Apr.-May 1654.Add. 25347, f. 11; TSP ii. 285. Capt. of Parliament’s lifeguard, 30 June-5 Aug. 1659.CSP Dom. 1658–9, pp. 382, 393, 394; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 55, 193, 197.

Civic: freeman, Liverpool 8 Nov. 1644–?d.;G. Chandler, Liverpool under Charles I, 333; Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 2, 52. Hedon 13 Jan. 1659–?d.E. Riding RO, DDHE/26 (Hedon Ct. Bk. 1504–1668), unfol.

Central: commr. for governing army, 26 Dec. 1659, 11 Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 797a, 841a.

Parlimentarian
ALURED, Matthew (1615-94), of Walkington and Beverley, Yorks.
: Yorks.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ALURED, Matthew (1615-94), of Walkington and Beverley, Yorks.

Will
24 Aug. 1694, pr. 4 Sept. 1694.Borthwick, Harthill deanery wills, Sept. 1694.
Estates
in 1650, purchased from trustees for the sale of crown lands manor of Patrington, Yorks. for £1,272, and manor of Burstall Garth, Yorks. for £2,136, which together were worth £427 p.a.E121/5/5/6, 16; LR2/266, f. 77; I. Gentles, ‘The Debentures Market and Military Purchases of Crown Lands, 1649-60’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1969), 126. In 1651, he purchased, for £1,675, 12 fee farm rents in Yorks. worth £129 16s p.a.;SP28/288, ff. 36, 38, 46. and manor of Preston Rectory, worth £230 p.a., manor of Wawne Rectory and rectory of Tunstall, Yorks. worth £63 p.a., from trustees for the sale of church lands.VCH E. Riding, v. 191; vii. 175, 192. By 1653, he and another gentleman had purchased manor of Kirk Merrington, co. Dur. from trustees for the sale of church lands.CCC 3078. By 1657, he had acquired the former crown property of the manor of Patrington, Yorks.CRES5/493; VCH E. Riding, v. 101. His salary as comptroller of customs at Hull was £80 p.a.E351/653.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
presented Thomas Callis to vicarage of Lund, Yorks. 1654; William Mason to rectory of Huggate, Yorks. 1654.Add. 36792, ff. 81v, 82.
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