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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

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.

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.

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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