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Family and Education
bap. 17 Jan. 1591,Reg. St Martin in the Fields (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxv), 22. 2nd s. of Arnold Oldisworth† (d. 1621) of the Strand, Westminster, and Bradley, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos. and Lucy, da. of Francis Bertie, merchant, of Foster Lane, London.G. Oldisworth, Father of the Faithful Tempted (1676), 3. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 21 Nov. 1606; BA, Magdalen, 10 June 1611; fell. 1612; MA 5 July 1614.Al. Ox. m. (1) 26 Apr. 1617, Susan, da. of Thomas Poyntz (d. 1597) of Gray’s Inn and grandda. of Sir Gabriel Poyntz (d. 1608) of Ockenden, Essex, ?1 da. (d.v.p.);Par. reg. St Gregory by St Paul’s, London; London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 994; Reg. St Martin in the Fields, 54; SP16/519, ff. 236-8; J. Maclean, Hist. and Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Poyntz (1886), 41, 48-9. (2) bef. 30 July 1641, Jane (bur. 14 Apr. 1668), da. of Sir John Stradling†, 1st bt. of St Donats, Glam. and wid. of William Thomas (d. 9 June 1636) of Wenvoe, Glam. s.p.Bodl. Add. B.109, f. 18; Ludlow, Mems. i. app. i; P. Jenkins, The Making of a Ruling Class (Cambridge, 1983), 296. bur. 1 Feb. 1664 1 Feb. 1664.St Martin-in-the-Fields par. reg.
Offices Held

Household: sec. to William Herbert, 3rd earl of Pembroke, ?1621-Apr. 1630;SO3/7, unfol. (Dec. 1621); HP Commons 1604–1629. to Philip Herbert*, 4th earl of Pembroke, ?1630-c.Nov. 1640.CSP Dom. 1629–1, p. 398; 1631–3, pp. 67, 88; Nicholson, Burn, Westmld. and Cumb. i. 296.

Mercantile: asst. Mineral and Battery Co. bef. 8 Feb. 1621; dep. gov. 20 May 1641–23 Aug. 1663.BL, Loan 16 pt. 2, ff. 1, 90, 138v, 140v.

Military: sec. horse regt. royal lifeguard, 11 May 1639.CSP Dom. Add. 1625–49, p. 607.

Civic: freeman, Salisbury 26 Feb. 1640.Wilts. RO, G23/1/3, f. 416.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 17 Aug. 1642;CJ ii. 725a. cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649; Derby House cttee. 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 112a, 113b. Jt. registrar of prerogative ct. of Canterbury, 18 July 1649-aft. 1 Dec. 1653.CJ vi. 263b; CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 238; 1653–4, pp. 217, 271, 280; CCAM 687–8. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 4 May 1649;CJ vi. 187a, 200b. cttee. for indemnity, 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 219b. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A and O. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 10 Apr. 1651.CJ vi. 558a. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 25 June 1659.CJ vii. 693b.

Local: member, cttee. of Glos. 13 Aug. 1645.CJ iv. 239b; LJ vii. 537b. Commr. Glos and S. E. Wales militia, 12 May 1648; militia, Wilts. 2 Dec 1648, 26 July 1659; Glam. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Westminster 12 Mar. 1660; sequestrations, S. Wales 23 Feb. 1649;A and O. Westminster militia, 19 Mar. 1649, 7 June 1650, 28 June 1659;A and O.; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). assessment, Westminster, Wilts., Glam. 7 Apr., 7 Dec 1649, 26 Nov 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660.A and O. J.p. Westminster by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C193/13/3, f. 82; C193/13/4, f. 128v. Commr. high ct. of justice, S. Wales 25 June 1651;CJ vi. 591b. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 23 June 1656 – 3 Feb. 1657, 28 June 1658-June 1659;C181/6, pp. 164, 303. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 10 July 1656–8 Oct. 1659.C181/6, pp. 176, 320.

Religious: member, vestry of St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1647.WCA, F2517, f. 28.

Parlimentarian
OLDISWORTH, Michael (1591-1664), of St. Martin’s Lane and Whitehall, Westminster.
: of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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OLDISWORTH, Michael (?1591-1664), of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Will
not found.
Estates
portion of £1,500 from 1st wife’s grandfa. Sir Gabriel Poyntz, probably never fully paid, from 1617;SP16/519, ff. 236–8; manor of Sundridge, Kent, by grant from James I at fee farm rent of £42 p.a. in return for £1,200;CSP Dom. 1629-31, p. 133. land at Sutton Marsh, Lincs. by grant from Charles I, 1631 and at rent increased upon improvement to £266 p.a. 1634;C3/411/12, 13; CSP Dom. 1634-5, p. 357; CCC 1531-4; LJ xi. 665a, b. grant of goods and chattels forfeited to king within stannaries of Devon and Cornwall, 25 July 1636, at £10 for 31 years;Coventry Docquets, 229; CSP Dom. 1637, p. 300. bef. Aug. 1641, wardship, with wife Jane, of Edmund Thomas* (b. 1633), of Wenvoe, Glam.;CJ iv. 525a; Bodl. Add. B.109, f. 18. alleged share with earl of Pembroke of profits of patronage of offices in c.p. (worth £3,000) and, from 1648, of keepership of Windsor park.A list of the names of the Members of the House of Commons (1648, 669.f.12.103); Wood, Fasti, i. 357.
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