Family and Education
?s. of Thomas Bell of Runnoll, Yorks. and Frances Wright.Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xv), 63. ?m. ?; Mary, da. of William Paule of London, at least 2s.Vis. London, 63; PROB 11/314/416. d. c. 1664.PROB11/314/ 416.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Apothecaries’ Co. 18 Nov. 1619; asst. 28 June 1627 – 16 Feb. 1632; upper warden, 20 Aug. 1635; master, 24 Aug. 1641–13 Aug. 1642.GL, MS 8200/1, ff. 24v, 39v, 40v, 173, 289, 351v, 359. Alderman, London 19 Oct. 1652–28 Apr. 1653.CLRO, Rep. 62, ff. 202, 281v.

Religious: churchwarden, St Margaret’s, Westminster 1628–30.M. Walcote, Mems. of Westminster (1851), 126.

Local: commr. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 13 Dec. 1634 – aft.June 1645, 10 Jan. 1655 – 7 July 1657, 31 Aug. 1660;C181/4, f. 191; C181/5, ff. 81v, 255; C181/6, pp. 69, 176; C181/7, p. 38. subsidy, Westminster 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. Mdx. 18 Oct. 1644, 2 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; CJ vii. 858b. Mdx. and Westminster 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; sequestration, Westminster 27 Mar. 1643.A. and O. Member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 11 July 1643.Ancient Vellum Bk. 70. Commr. levying of money, Mdx. 3 Aug. 1643; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, Westminster 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

: Westminster., of King Street.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BELL, William (bef. 1600-c.1664), of King Street, Westminster.

Will
19 Sept. 1653, pr. 23 July 1664.PROB11/314/ 416.
Estates
by Sept. 1649 leased the ‘Black Bell’, Westminster, at £1 p.a.;A. and O. in Sept. 1653 owned houses in King St., Westminster, and Wood St., London, as well as land in Kingsbury, Mdx.;PROB11/314/416. granted lease of a property, formerly crown land, next to his house in King St. Jan. 1661.CTB i. 18, 193.
Oxford 1644
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