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b. c.1581, 1st s. of Simon Biddulph of Elmhurst, and Joyce (bur. 5 Feb. 1635), da. of Richard Floyer of Uttoxeter, Staffs.Vis. Staffs. ed. H. S. Grazebrook (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 42. educ. Trinity, Oxf. 5 May 1598, aged 17;Al. Ox. M. Temple 12 Aug. 1599.M. Temple Admiss. i. 75. m. by 1606, Elizabeth (d. 30 Aug. 1657), da. of Sir William Skeffington, 1st bt. of Fisherwick, Staffs., 10s. (6 d.v.p.) 4da.PROB11/275, ff. 83-4; Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 42; S. Shaw, Staffs. i. 345, 386. suc. fa. 26 Oct. 1632;Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 42. d. 28 Jan. 1658.St Chad, Lichfield par. reg.
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Civic: feoffee, Lichfield Conduit Lands trust by 1634-bef. Apr. 1657.P. Laithwaite, Hist. of the Lichfield Conduit Lands Trust (Lichfield, 1947), 79.

Local: commr. subsidy, Staffs. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 16 Feb. 1648;SR; A. and O. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. J.p. by 26 Apr. 1647-bef. Jan. 1650.S. Erdeswick, Survey of Staffs. ed. T. Harwood (1843), p. xviii. Commr. maintenance of ministry, Lichfield 4 Apr. 1648;LJ x. 178b. militia, Staffs. 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. charitable uses, 25 June 1656.C93/24/1.

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BIDDULPH, Michael (c.1581-1658), of Elmhurst, and Market Street, Lichfield, Staffs.
: of Elmhurst and Staffs., Market Street, Lichfield.
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BIDDULPH, Michael (c.1581-1658), of Elmhurst, and Market Street, Lichfield, Staffs.

Will
7 Jan. 1658, pr. 24 Feb. 1658.PROB11/275, f. 83.
Estates
in 1612, purchased a cottage and land in Elmhurst.Staffs. RO, LD231/8. About 1630, he was assessed at £10 for distraint of knighthood.E407/35, f. 157. By 1630, his estate inc. messuages and lands in Alrewas, Chesterfield (nr. Lichfield), Elmhurst, Hammerwich, Kings Bromley, Morghull, Streethay and Yoxall, Staffs.Wm. Salt Lib. SD Pearson/1167. He borrowed £2,000 by statute staple from his bro. Anthony, a London merchant, during the early 1630s.LC4/201, ff. 138, 304v. In 1634, he purchased a messuage in Dam Street and a messuage in Quonians Lane, Lichfield, for £100.Wm. Salt. Lib. M290. In 1642, he sold property in Morghull and Streethay for £800.Wm. Salt. Lib. SD Pearson/1128. By 1643, he owned a house on Market Street, Lichfield.Harwood, Lichfield, 22; H. Ebdon, ‘Michael Biddulph of Lichfield and Elmhurst’, South Staffs. Arch. and Historical Soc. iv. 24. In 1655, he purchased the manor of Hawksyard, Staffs., for £4,160 and sold property in Lichfield for £950.C54/3863/5; Wm. Salt. Lib. SD Pearson/1170. At his death, estate inc. his ‘house lately builded in Sadler Street’, Lichfield, a tenement in Dam Street and lands in Elmhurst, Curborough and Kings Bromley, Staffs.PROB11/275, f. 83v. His heir Michael’s estate was valued at £400 p.a. in the early 1660s, and his house at Elmhurst was assessed in 1666 at 12 hearths.‘The gentry of Staffs. 1662-3’ ed. R.M. Kidson (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 4, ii), 7; ‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. 1923), 123.
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