JENINGS, Edmund (1626-91), of Ripon, Yorks.

Family and Education

bap. 30 Nov. 1626, 1st s. of Jonathan Jennings (d. 24 Aug. 1649) of Ripon and Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Giles Parker of Newby, Ripon; bro. of Jonathan Jenings*.Ripon par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 201. educ. privately, Silsden; Ripon g. s.; Sidney Sussex, Camb. 7 May 1641;Al. Cant. L. Inn 6 Oct. 1646.LI Admiss. m. 15 Dec. 1652, Margaret, da. of Sir Edward Barkham, 1st bt.† of Tottenham High Cross, Mdx. and Southacre, Norf., 5s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da. (2 d.v.p.).All Hallows, Tottenham par. reg.; Ripon par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 201. suc. gdfa. c.Oct. 1651;PROB11/218, f. 259. Kntd. 13 July 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 230. bur. 11 Sept. 1691 11 Sept. 1691.St Clement Danes, Westminster par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: gov. Ripon g.s. by 1650–d.A.F. Leach, Early Yorks. Schools (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xxvii), 229–32. J.p. liberties of Ripon 24 Mar. 1658–10 May 1662;C181/6, pp. 283, 341. Yorks. (W. Riding) by c.Jan. 1660 – ?Sept. 1688, ?Nov. 1688–d.;Add. 29674, f. 152; C231/8, p. 203; HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Edmund Jennings’. N. Riding by July 1682–?Feb. 1688.N. Riding QS Recs. ed. J.C. Atkinson (N. Riding Rec. Soc. vii), 58; HP Commons 1660–1690, ‘Edmund Jennings’. Commr. gaol delivery, liberties of Ripon 24 Mar. 1658–9 June 1661;C181/6, pp. 283, 341. militia, Yorks. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; assessment, W. Riding 26 Jan. 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689, 1690; Yorks. 1 June 1660;A. and O.; SR; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660), 21 (E.1075.6). poll tax, W. Riding 1661; subsidy, 1663;SR. duties on wines, northern cos. 20 June 1668.C181/7, p. 474. Dep. lt. W. Riding 6 May 1669–?87.SP44/20, p. 197; Beinecke, Osborn Shelves, Danby boxes [OSB. MSS 6], box 2, folder 37 (W. Riding militia pprs.); HP Commons 1660–1690, ‘Edmund Jennings’. Commr. concealed lands, Yorks. 27 July 1670;CTB iii. 634. recusants, W. Riding 1675.CTB iv. 750. Sheriff, Yorks. 15 Nov. 1675–10 Nov. 1676.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 164.

Civic: freeman, Ripon 5 Jan. 1659–?d.; alderman 17 Nov. 1662 – 21 Apr. 1685; mayor, Jan. 1663-Jan. 1664.N. Yorks. RO, DC/RIC II 1/1/2, pp. 506, 549, 553; DC/RIC II 1/1/3, p. 149.

Central: surveyor-gen. of customs, 15 Mar. 1679–?CTB v. 1271. Commr. for prizes, 16 Mar. 1691–d.CTB ix. 1060.

Parlimentarian

JENNINGS, Edmund (1626-91), of Ripon, Yorks.

: of Ripon, Yorks.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

JENINGS, Edmund (1626-91), of Ripon, Yorks.

Will

9 Dec. 1687, pr. 22 Sept. 1691.PROB11/406, f. 18v.

Estates

in the early 1630s, Jenings’s grandfa. was fined £16 for distraint of knighthood.‘Compositions for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I’ ed. W.P. Baildon, in Misc. 1 (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lxi), 98. Jenings’s grandfa.’s estate in Silsden and Ripon, Yorks. was valued at £429 p.a. in 1646; Jenings’s fa.’s estate in North Lees (in parish of Ripon) and Waddington, Yorks. was valued at £46 p.a.SP23/181, pp. 249, 255; SP23/187, p. 395; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 13-15, 58-9. In 1651, Jenings inherited an estate that inc. messuages and lands in Ripon, Silsden and Waddington and lease of tithes in Silsden.PROB11/218, f. 259. In 1652, he purchased houses and lands in Earby and Kelbrook, Yorks. for £1,100 from Sir William Lister*.Leeds Univ. Lib. MD234/74, 106. In 1662, Jenings’s house in Ripon, which he had built at the north-east angle of the Minster Yard, was assessed at 14 hearths and was the largest in the town.E179/210/386; Ripon Millenary ed. W. Harrison, ii. 66. In 1681, he sold several ‘farmholds, lands and tenements’ in Thorton, Yorks. which he had purchased from Sir William Lister, to Sir John Bright* for £515.Leeds Univ. Lib. MD234/53-55, 333.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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