FRY, John (1609-57), of Burseye, Tarrant Gunville, Dorset

Family and Education

b. 1609, 1st s. of William Fry of Iwerne Minster, Dorset, and Milicent, da. of Robert Swaine of Tarrant Gunville.Vis. Dorset 1623 (Harl. Soc. xx), 42-3; C142/351/102; Hutchins, Dorset iii. 451, 537; Oxford DNB. educ. M. Temple 11 Nov. 1631.M. Temple Admiss. i. 125. m. (2) Anna, da. of ? Lindsay, of Poole, c.5s. 3da.;PROB11/265/291. d. bef. June 1657.PROB11/265/291.

Offices Held

Military: capt. (parlian.) by Aug. 1644-aft. Apr. 1646.Bayley, Dorset, 212, 480.

Local: member, Dorset co. cttee. by 25 Sept. 1646–50.Dorset Standing Cttee. ed. Mayo, pp. xxviii, 10. J.p. c.1646–28 Feb. 1651.C231/6, p. 210. Commr. assessment, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650.A. and O.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112b. cttee. for the army, 6 Jan. 1649; Derby House cttee. 6 Jan. 1649. Commr. for compounding, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 113b. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

FRY, John (1609-57), of Burseye, Tarrant Gunville, Dorset

: of Burseye, Tarrant Gunville, Dorset.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

FRY, John (1609-57), of Burseye, Tarrant Gunville, Dorset

Will

29 Dec. 1656, pr. 15 June 1657.PROB11/265/291.

Estates

in will (1656) left the manor of Burseye and lands in Iwerne Minster and Stubhampton, Dorset, and an interest in Ebsborne, Wilts.;PROB11/265/291. but the family property in 1660 was said to be three small farms.Som. and Dorset N. and Q. iv (1875), 208.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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