Family and Education
bap. 3 January 1598, 4th s. of Edward Hutchinson (d. 1631) of Alford, Lincs. mercer, and Susannah (d. 1645).Alford par. regs. educ. appr. to John Wilson, Ironmonger c.1616-23.GL, MS 16967/3, f. 285v. m. c.?1623 Mary Hily, 8s. (1 d.v.p.), 6da. (2 d.v.p.).Regs. St Mary Magdalen Milk Street (Harl. Soc. lxxii), 28-32, 49-50; RG4/4414, ff. 4, 5v, 70. d. c. Apr. 1670.The Diary and Letters of…Thomas Hutchinson ed. P.O. Hutchinson (2 vols. Boston, 1884-6), ii. 456-8; Lincs. Pedigrees (Harl. Soc. li), 534.
Offices Held

Mercantile: freeman, Ironmongers’ Co. 18 Nov. 1623;GL, MS 16967/3, f. 285v. liveryman, 8 Aug. 1627;GL, MS 16967/3, f. 379. renter warden, 18 Nov. 1633;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 143. auditor, 8 July 1634;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 154. steward for mayor’s day, 8 Aug. 1639;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 292. warden, 1 July 1645, 2 July 1650;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 444; MS 16967/5, p. 81. cttee. for Irish lands 15 Jan. 1650;GL, MS 16967/5, p. 72. master, 10 July 1658.GL, MS 16967/5, p. 258.

Central: treas. relief of widows, 31 Oct. 1643;A. and O. relief of craftsmen, maimed soldiers and widows, 3 Aug. 1644;CJ iii. 578b. maimed soldiers, 23 July 1647. Commr. regulating navy and customs, 16 Jan. 1649. Asst. corporation propagating gospel in New England, 27 July 1649. by Mar. 1645 – Dec. 1650A. and O. Dep. treas. navy,; treas. 30 Dec. 1650–?May 1660.CSP Dom. 1644–5, p. 632; CJ vi. 482a.

Local: commr. arrears assessment, Bread Street Ward, London 24 Apr. 1648; assessment, London 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Surr. 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). J.p. Kent 29 June 1652-bef. Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 238; CUL, Dd.VIII.1, f. 54. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, London, Westminster, Mdx. and Surr. 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. sewers, London 13 Aug. 1657.C181/6, p. 258.

Civic: dep. alderman, ?Bread Street Ward, London by 26 Nov. 1650-aft. Aug. 1657.A. and O.; C181/6, p. 258.

: Milk Street, London and Mile End, Mdx.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HUTCHINSON, Richard (1598-1670), of St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London, and Mile End, Mdx.

Will
4 Nov. 1669, pr. 11 Apr. 1670.PROB11/332/487.
Estates
property in Cheapside, London, July 1641;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 249. invested £150 in Irish adventure in 1642-3, assigned a further £200 in 1654, and was allocated nearly 1500 acres in Iffa and Offa barony, co. Tipperary;CSP Ire. Adv. 97, 219; CSP Ire. 1647-60, p. 459: Bottigheimer, English Money and Irish Land, 184, 205. leased house and warehouse from Ironmongers’ Company, next to their hall, Jan. 1646;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 455. property in Boston, Mass. which was sold in 1658.Trans. Col. Soc. Mass. iii (1900), 89; Suffolk Deeds, iii. 124. At his death in 1670 owned manor of Aldeburgh, Norf., property in Boston and Skirbeck, Lincs. and estate in Ireland.PROB11/332/487.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
par. St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London, 1628-at least 1643;CSP Ire. Adv. 97. Mile End by 1648.RG4/4414, f. 4.
Religion
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