Family and Education
b. c. 1616, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Henry St Barbe of Ashington, Som. and Anne or Amy, da. of Edward Rogers of Cannington, Som. m. bef. 1655, Grizel (bap. 4 Sept. 1635), da. of John Pynsent, prothonotary of common pleas, of Combe, Surr. 4s. suc. fa. 1652.Som. RO, DD/X/LSH; DD/SAS/HV61/36; PROB11/292/675; St Margaret, Westminster, par. reg. bur. 2 Sept. 1658 2 Sept. 1658.Romsey, Hants, par. reg.
Offices Held

Local: member, cttee. for Hants, 23 July 1642.LJ v. 233b-234a. Commr. defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652,A. and O. 24 Nov. 1653,Act for an Assessment (1653), 296 (E.1062.28). 9 June 1657; Som. 16 Feb 1648, 9 June 1657; levying of money, Hants 11 June 1645.A. and O. J.p. Som. 13 July 1646-bef. Jan. 1650;C231/6, p. 51 Hants by Feb. 1650–d.C193/13/3, f. 57; C193/13/5, f. 93. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, 1 June 1658.CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 42.

Military: ?lt. (parlian.) regt. of Richard Norton*, ?1642 – 43; capt. Sept. 1643–45.BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. Gov. Southampton 5 July 1645-aft. 1648.CJ iv. 196b.

Religious: elder, second Hants classis, 8 Dec. 1645.King, Bor. and Par. Lymington, 263.

Civic: burgess, Southampton 8 Oct. 1649.Southampton RO, SC3/1/1, fo. 218.

Central: member, cttee. for trade, 11 Jan. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 114.

: Hants., Romsey.
Likenesses

Likenesses: fun. monument, attrib. E. Marshall, Romsey Abbey, Hants.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ST BARBE, John (c.1616-58), of Broadlands, Romsey, Hants.

Will
18 Aug. 1658, pr. 29 June 1659.PROB11/292/675.
Estates
property in Romsey bef. 1649 (perhaps following d. of his bro. Francis in Sept. 1643). At his father’s d. in 1652 inherited (presumably) estate at Ashington and (more certainly) manor of Romsey, and Broadlands, said by John Ashburnham* in 1638 to consist of about 600 acres and ‘a sheepwalk’, and to be the best land in the county; previously let for £280-£300 p.a. it was then said to be worth nearer £400.Hants RO, 10M64/54; SP16/378, f. 90; VCH Hants, iv. 454. Most of his property appears to have been settled bef. he made his will in Aug. 1658, but he also left to his younger sons leases in Romsey and in Draycott, Som.PROB11/292/675.
Oxford 1644
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