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bap. 27 Feb. 1618, 3rd s. of Sir Walter Bethell (bur. 2 Mar. 1623) of Alne, Yorks. and Mary (bur. 20 Sept. 1662), da. of Sir Henry Slingsby† of Scriven, Knaresborough.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 133. educ. appr. leatherseller, London 19 Nov. 1630.Leathersellers’ Co. Recs. Reg. of Apprentices, 19 Nov. 1630. m. by Aug. 1657, Mary (bur. 13 June 1667), da. and coh. of Abraham Burrell* of Midloe, Hunts., s.p.PROB11/281, f. 335; St Paul’s Covent Garden Par. Regs. ed. W.H. Hunt (Harl. Soc. xxxvi), 43; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 133. d. 4 Feb. 1697.HMC 5th Rep. 386.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, London Leathersellers Co. 29 Oct. 1650; liveryman, c. 1651; master, 1692–3.Leathersellers’ Co. Recs., Ct. Min. Bk. 29 Oct. 1650. Common cllr. London 1651-c.1653;J. Farnell, ‘The Politics of the City of London (1649–57)’ (Chicago Univ. PhD thesis, 1963), 373. dep. alderman, 1651-c.1653;A. and O. ii. 668; Farnell, ‘City of London’, 373. sheriff, 1680–1.Beaven, Aldermen of London, 164.

Local: commr. assessment, London 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660; London militia, 7 July 1659; militia, Hunts. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660.A Perfect List of All Such Persons as by Commission...are Now Confirmed to be...Justices of the Peace and Quorum (1660), 22.

Military: col. militia, London by Nov. 1659–?A True Narrative of the Procs. in Parliament (1659), 64–5 (E.1010.24).

Central: cllr. of state, 2 Jan. 1660.CJ vii. 801a. Commr. admlty. and navy, 2 Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 825b; A. and O.

Parlimentarian
BETHELL, Slingisby (1618-97), of ?St Paul, Covent Garden, London.
: of ?St Paul, London., Covent Garden.
Likenesses

Likenesses: line engraving, W. Sherwin, 1680;BM. pen and ink drawing, unknown.NPG.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BETHELL, Slingisby (1618-97), of ?St Paul, Covent Garden, London.

Will
6 Oct. 1694, pr. 5 Mar. 1697.PROB11/437, f. 329v.
Estates
in 1651, purchased about 105 acres in Forest of Galtres, Yorks. from the treason trustees.E112/347/232; E112/348/304; E134/1659/EAST13. In 1652, Bethell and another gentleman purchased, for £867 13s, 4 fee farm rents in Yorks. worth £66 14s p.a.SP28/288, f. 58. In 1652, Bethell and another gentleman purchased manor of Compton Bassett, Wilts. from the treason trustees, which they sold in 1653.CCC 2859; VCH Wilts. xvii. 150. In c.1652, purchased manor of Kirk Deighton, Yorks. from the treason trustees.CCC 2191. In 1685-6, estate reportedly worth above £1,500 p.a.Add. 41812, f. 224v. At d. estate inc. messuages, lands, tithes and leases in Cawood and Wistow, Yorks.PROB11/437, f. 330.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Ironmonger Lane, London (1635);Leeds Univ. Lib. DD56/M/2. lodgings, Palace of Whitehall (Jan. 1660).CSP Dom. 1659-60, pp. 307, 325.
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