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Family and Education
b. c.1580, 2nd s. of John Hooke of Chichester, merchant (bur. 2 Sept. 1597) and Julian.PROB11/91/64. educ. appr. c.1594 to John Ball, ironmonger; freeman, Ironmongers’ Co. London, 8 Aug. 1604.GL, 16977/1, p. 26; 16967/2, f. 7. m. 13 Oct. 1605, Cicely, da. of Thomas Young of Bristol and Horfield, Glos., merchant, 2s. d.v.p. 4da. (at least 2 d.v.p.).Horfield par. reg.; St. Stephen, Bristol par. reg.; PROB11/290/248. bur. 31 Mar. 1659 31 Mar. 1659.St Nicholas, Bristol par. reg.
Offices Held

Civic: burgess, Bristol 10 Feb. 1607–d.;Bristol RO, 04352/3, f. 185v. common cllr. 12 Apr. 1614–28 Oct. 1645;Bristol RO, 04264/2, f. 45v; A. and O. sheriff, 1614–15;List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 168. supervisor, pauper children and coals, 1623 – 26; charity money, 1623 – 27; hosps. 1624 – 25, 1632 – 33; asst. treas. hosps. 1626 – 27; treas. 1627 – 28; supervisor, orphans’ cases, 1624 – 29; auditor, 1625 – 27, 1631 – 32, 1636 – 43, 1644 – 28 Oct. 1645; supervisor, city lands, 1626 – 27, 1640 – 42, 1644 – 45; mayor, 1629 – 30, 1643 – 44; constable of staple, 1630 – 31, 1644 – 45; alderman, 3 Aug. 1632 – 28 Oct. 1645; supervisor, highways, 1633 – 35; free sch. 1636 – 38, 1642 – 43, 1644–28 Oct. 1645;City Chamberlain’s Accounts ed. D.M. Livock (Bristol Rec. Soc. xxiv), 164. Bristol RO, 04264/2, ff. 115, 124, 131, 143, 151; 04264/3, ff. 7v, 34, 36, 38, 45, 71, 87, 107, 115, 125; 04264/4, p. 74; Bristol Ref. Lib. 603183/121. member, cttee. for safety of city, c.Mar.-10 Sept. 1645.Bristol RO, 04264/4, p. 93.

Mercantile: member, London and Bristol Newfoundland Co. 29 Apr. 1610.C66/8/Jas. I/8/6. Member, Soc. of Merchant Venturers, Bristol by 1616; treas. 1616 – 17; asst. 1620 – 21, 1624 – 25, 1625 – 26, 1626 – 27, 1627 – 28, 1628 – 29, 1642 – 43, 1644 – 45; master, 1621 – 22, 1630 – 31, 1631 – 32, 1632 – 33, 1633 – 34, 1634 – 35, 1638–9.Soc. of Merchant Venturers, Bk. of Charters I, pp. 55, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 107, 109, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 129, 137.

Local: commr. nisi prius, Bristol 23 June 1630;C181/4, f. 56v. array (roy.), 16 July 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. oyer and terminer (roy.), 18 Oct. 1643; rebels’ estates (roy.), 17 Jan. 1644; excise (roy.), 25 Apr. 1644, 4 Feb., 6 Mar. 1645; Bristol, Glos., Glam. and Mon. 31 Mar., Apr. 1645.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 88, 131, 193, 255, 260, 266, 267.

Parlimentarian
HOOKE, Humphrey (c.1580-1659), of Bristol.
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Likenesses

Likenesses: ?oil on panel, double portrait with grandson, ?1630.Wadham Coll. Oxf.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HOOKE, Humphrey (c.1580-1659), of Bristol.

Will
17 Nov. 1658, pr. 20 Apr. 1659.PROB11/290/248.
Estates
house in St Stephen’s parish, Bristol paying £12 in subsidy, 1628;E179/116/518; Bristol Deposition Bks. 1643-7, 96. at d. held manors of Kingsweston, Elverton, Norwick, Redwick and Frampton-upon-Severn, Glos.; manor of Midsomer Norton, Som. and many properties in Bristol.PROB11/290/248. By 1625 renting from Bristol corporation messuage in the marsh, and ‘great corner tenement’ at end of quay near St Giles gate, Old Jury.Bristol RO, 04026/20, pp. 4, 10; 04026/22, p. 148.
Oxford 1644
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