Family and Education
b. c. 1594, 1st s. of Thomas Glapthorne of Whittlesey, Cambs. and his 1st w., Mary, da. of George Wallis.Vis. Cambs. 1575 and 1619 (Harl. Soc. xli), 75. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 1607.Al. Cant. m. 14 Nov. 1619 ‘aged 25’, Sara Compton (d. 1669) of Whittlesey, 1s. 6da. (1d.v.p.).CUL, EDR G/2/21, f. 281v; H3/85/1; H3/81/19-20; H3/81/22; H3/81/25-7; H3/81/34; H3/81/53. suc. fa. aft. 1619.Vis. Cambs. 1575 and 1619, 75. bur. 4 Sept. 1667 4 Sept. 1667.CUL, EDR H3/81/50.
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Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 1628-aft. 1641.N. Carlisle, An inquiry into the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Privy Chamber (1829), 131; The Portraiture of the Mighty Monarch Charles (1639); LC3/1, f. 25.

Local: commr. sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 1629 – aft.Jan. 1646, 6 May 1654 – aft.July 1659; Ancholme Level 1634 – aft.Feb. 1635; Upper Levels, Kent and Suss. 1638; I. of Ely 13 Sept. 1644; Norf., Suff. and I. of Ely 7 Sept. 1660-aft. Aug. 1664.Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/3; Norf. RO, Hare 5112; Hare 5136; Hare 5125; National Art Lib. V. and A., MSL/1921/320; Beds. RO, X171/9; J1053: order of Gt. Level sewers commrs. 13 June 1636; Cambs. RO, R.59.31.9.1A, unfol.; C181/4, ff. 95, 170, 201; C181/5, ff. 11, 98, 113, 242, 269v; C181/6, pp. 28, 381; C181/7, pp. 41, 287. J.p. I. of Ely 1632–1657.Coventry Docquets, 67; C231/5, p. 90. Commr. gaol delivery, 1636-aft. Aug. 1645, 4 Mar. 1654–29 July 1659;C181/5, ff. 45, 258v; C181/6, pp. 20, 284. swans, 1639;C181/5, f. 148. assessment, Cambs. 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1643; I. of Ely 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;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. sequestration, Cambs. 27 Mar. 1643;A. and O. levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643; New Model ordinance, Camb. 17 Feb. 1645; militia, Cambs. and I. of Ely 2 Dec. 1648; I. of Ely 14 Mar. 1655.A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 16v. Chief bailiff, I. of Ely by 1654-bef. 1661.CSP Dom. 1654, p. 327; N. Walker and T. Craddock, The Hist. of Wisbech and the Fens (Wisbech, 1849), 546. Commr. poll tax, Cambs. 1660.SR.

Mercantile: overseer gen. Bedford Level Co. June 1649–?Cambs. RO, R.59.31.9.1, second foliation, f. 8v.

Central: register, prerogative ct. for probate of wills and granting lttrs. of admon. ?1655–?1660.Bodl. Rawl. 28, p. 262.

: of Whittlesey, Cambs.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

GLAPTHORNE, George (c.1594-1667), of Whittlesey, Cambs.

Will
not found.
Estates
inherited lands at Whittlesey from his father; may have sold some of them to Francis Russell, 4th earl of Bedford, and Jerome Weston, 2nd earl of Portland; lands at Whittlesey inherited by his son, Robert.
Oxford 1644
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