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Family and Education
b. c. 1617, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir John Fenwick, 1st bt.* and 2nd w. Grace; half-bro. of John Fenwick*.Hist. Northumb. xii. 352-3. educ. Morpeth g.s. (Mr Oxley); Christ’s, Camb. 26 June 1633, aged 16, MA 1636;Al. Cant. G. Inn 10 Feb. 1636.G. Inn Admiss. 210. m. 10 Apr. 1636, Jane, da. of Henry Stapleton of Wighill, Yorks. 1s. (Sir John Fenwick†) 2da.Wighill bishop’s transcript; Hist. Northumb. xii. 352-3. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. c.1658.Supra, ‘Sir John Fenwick’. d. c. 6 Mar. 1676.C5/480/60; Hist. Northumb. xii. 352-3.
Offices Held

Local: commr. disarming recusants, Northumb. 30 Aug. 1641.LJ iv. 385b. Dep. lt. 9 Oct. 1644–?, c.Aug. 1660–d.CJ iii. 657b; SP29/11, f. 217; CSP Dom. 1670, p. 383. Commr. oyer and terminer, 17 Dec. 1644;C181/5, f. 245v. Northern circ. by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 18, 375; C181/7, pp. 18, 640. northern marches 18 July 1654-aft. Mar. 1667;C231/6, p. 294; C181/7, pp. 194, 392. assessment, Northumb. 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. by Feb. 1650–d.C193/13/3. Commr. propagating gospel northern cos. 1 Mar. 1650;CJ vi. 374a; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 23 (28 Feb.-7 Mar. 1650), 312 (E.534.15). gaol delivery, Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655.C181/6, p. 102. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Sheriff, Northumb. 1658–9.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 99. Commr. sewers, River Tyne 21 May 1659;C181/6, p. 359. Northumb. 19 Mar. 1663.C181/7, p. 197. Capt. militia horse, 24 Apr. 1660–?Mercurius Publicus no. 17 (19–26 Apr. 1660), 269 (E.183.6). Commr. poll tax, 1660.SR. Capt. vol. horse, May 1661.Mercurius Publicus no. 19 (9–16 May 1661), 298 (E.195.96). Commr. subsidy, 1663.SR.

Central: master in chancery, extraordinary, July 1655–?C202/39/5. Commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Military: col. militia horse and ft. by Aug. 1659–?St. 185, f. 161; SP18/220/71, f. 116v. C.-in-c. Northumb. Jan. 1660–?CCSP iv. 526.

Parlimentarian
FENWICK, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (c.1617-76), of Wallington, Northumb.
: of Wallington, Hartburn, Northumb.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

FENWICKE, William (c.1617-76), of Wallington, Hartburn, Northumb.

Will
died intestate.C5/480/60.
Estates
in 1656, purchased with another gentleman rent charges worth £150 p.a. issuing out of lands in Swinburne, Northumb.C54/3921/35. In 1659, purchased manor or regality of Hexham.C54/4039/32. His lands in and around Fenwick and Wallington valued at £1,506 p.a. in 1663.Hodgson, Northumb. pt. 3, i. 328-9. In 1663, his estate inc. manors of Alnwick Grange, Ashington, Cartington Hall, Catcherside, Conway, East Matfen, Elford, Fenwick, Greenleighton, Gunnerton, Rothley, Ryal, Sweethope and Hawick, Walker and Wallington; the dissolved monastery of Newminster; the rectory of East and West Allendale.; and other properties in Northumb.C8/161/63. At d. his estate was burdened with a debt of £4,000 and £1,900 in annuities.HP Commons 1660-90, ‘Sir John Fenwick’. Personal estate, inc. debts owed to him, reportedly worth £2,000 ‘and upwards’.C5/480/60.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
presented Robert Anderson to vicarage of Chollerton, Northumb. 1663.IND1/17005, f. 88.
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