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b. 1610, 1st s. of Richard Bingham of Binghams Melcombe and Jane, da. of Sir Arthur Hopton of Witham, Som.Hutchins, Dorset, iv. 374-5. educ. M. Temple, 18 Feb. 1633.MTR ii. 805. m. (1) Frances (d. 1658), da. and coh. of John Trenchard* of Warmwell, Dorset, 5da. (2 d.v.p.); (2) Jane Norwood (d. 1680) of Glos. suc. fa. Oct. 1656.Hutchins, Dorset, iv. 374-5. d. betw. 3 June-2 Dec. 1675.Hutchins, Dorset, iv. 375.
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Local: j.p. Dorset 24 Feb. 1642-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/5, p. 508. Commr. array (roy.), 29 June 1642.Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. Dep. lt. (parlian.) 19 Oct. 1642–?LJ v. 408a. Commr. assessment, Dorset 24 Feb. 1643, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Poole, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653), 275 (E.1062.28); An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660), 19 (E.1075.6). sequestration, Dorset 27 Mar. 1643;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol.; A. and O. levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; commr for Dorset, Poole 1 July 1644;A. and O. gaol delivery, Poole 17 Dec. 1644, 24 Feb. 1655, 20 May 1659;C181/5, f. 246; C181/6, pp. 95, 357. Dorset militia, 24 July 1648;LJ x. 393a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, c. 1650, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659; Poole 26 July 1659;A. and O.; R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. PhD thesis, 1981), 169; SP25/76A, f. 14; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 77. oyer and terminer, Western circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 8, 378. piracy, Dorset 22 May 1654;C181/6, p. 33. ejecting scandalous ministers, Dorset and Poole 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, Dorset c.Dec. 1655;TSP iv. 305. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35).

Military: gov. (parlian.) Poole Aug. 1643–?;Bodl. Tanner 62, f. 252. Guernsey Apr. 1651–60.CJ vi. 557b. Col. of ft. Dorset Aug. 1643–?46.Dorset Standing Cttee. ed. Mayo, 124, 277–8. Col. militia, Dorset 5 Aug. 1659–60.CJ vii. 749a.

Central: cllr. of state, 1 Nov. 1653.CSP Dom. 1653–4, pp. 229–30; CJ vii. 344b. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
BINGHAM, John (1610-75), of Binghams Melcombe, Dorset.
: Dorset.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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BINGHAM, John (1610-75), of Binghams Melcombe, Dorset.

Will
3 June 1675, pr. 2 Dec. 1675.PROB11/349/266.
Estates
allegedly took goods worth £1,000 from Corfe Castle, Feb. 1646;G. Bankes, Story of Corfe Castle (1853), 249-51. granted £1,000 from delinquent estates, Feb. 1648 (paid in full 1653);CJ iv. 672b; v. 464a, 474a; LJ x. 79b, 83a, 84b; Add. 29319, ff. 107-8. salary as gov. Guernsey, 1651-9, 18s per diem;CSP Dom. 1655, p. 232. at d. owned houses at Binghams Melcombe and Quarleston (Winterborne Strickland parish), lands in parishes of Wareham, [Sturminster?] Marshall, Toller Porcorum, Hurthington and Handley, Dorset, and Ebbesborne, Wilts.PROB11/349/266.
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