WEAVER, John (d. 1685), of Little Casterton and North Luffenham, Rutland, and Stamford, Lincs.

Family and Education

b. aft. 1599, 1st. s. of Christopher Weaver of Stamford and London, Mercer, and Alice (d. 15 June 1636), da. of John Greene of Market Overton, Rutland.PROB11/120, f. 6v; PROB11/204, f. 168v; Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lii), 1046-7; R. Carruthers, Hist. of Huntingdon, 259-60. m. bef. 1632, Katherine (bur. 24 Dec. 1655), da. of Henry Rastall of Stamford, 5s. (?3 d.v.p.).PROB11/204, ff. 168v-169; Stamford Town Hall, Title deeds and leases, 8A/1/69; Lincs. Peds. 1047; J. Simpson, ‘Lincs. MPs in the Long Parl.’, Lincs. N and Q i. 63. suc. fa. Dec. 1647;St. Ann, Blackfriars, London par. reg. (bur. entry for 4 Dec. 1647). bur. 28 Mar. 1685 28 Mar. 1685.Simpson, ‘Lincs. MPs’, 63-4.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Stamford 25 Oct. 1631–d.;Stamford Town Hall, Hall Bk. 1, f. 364. London, 5 July 1639–?d.IHR, ROLLCO. Comburgess, Stamford 17 Feb. 1648-c.Aug. 1661.Stamford Town Hall, Hall Bk. 1, f. 428; Hall Bk. 2, f. 10v.

Military: treas. Eastern Assoc. army, Aug. 1643-Feb. 1645;SP28/139, pt. 1, f. 32; Holmes, Eastern Assoc. 128, 131–3. judge adv. by Aug. 1644-c.Apr. 1645.A Continuation of True Intelligence no. 6 (10–27 July 1644), 12 (E.4.6); CSP Dom. 1644–5, pp. 152–3.

Central: member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647;A. and O. cttee. for plundered ministers, 5 Oct. 1647, 20 June 1659.CJ v. 326b; vii. 689b. Commr. for Channel Islands, 3 Nov. 1647;CJ v. 325b, 349a. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 8 Feb. 1649;CJ vi. 134b. cttee. for the army, 20 July 1649,CJ vi. 265a. 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652;A. and O. Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 20 July 1649.CJ vi. 266b. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650.A. and O. Commr. care of Tower, 26 Dec. 1659;CJ vii. 797a. for governing army, 28 Dec. 1659.CJ vii. 798b. Cllr. of state, 31 Dec. 1659, 25 Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 800b; A. and O. Commr. admlty. and navy, 2 Feb. 1660.A. and O.

Local: commr. assessment, Lincs. (Kesteven) 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Lincs. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Rutland, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Lincs. militia, 3 July 1648;LJ x. 359a. militia, Lincs., Rutland 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660. by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1660A. and O. J.p. Kesteven; Rutland 30 Sept. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 269. Commr. Westminster militia, 7 June 1650.Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Rutland 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 15, 370. ejecting scandalous ministers, Leics. and Rutland 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. inquiry, Leighfield Forest, Rutland 4 Mar. 1657;C181/6, p. 220. for public faith, Rutland 16 Dec. 1657;SP25/77, p. 332. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 22 Sept. 1659.C181/6, p. 393.

Irish: commr. Ireland, 4 Oct. 1650, 19 Jan. 1660.CJ vi. 480a; vii. 815b.

Parlimentarian

WEAVER, John (d. 1685), of Little Casterton and North Luffenham, Rutland, and Stamford, Lincs.

: of Little Casterton and North Luffenham, Rutland and Lincs., Stamford.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WEAVER, John (d. 1685), of Little Casterton and North Luffenham, Rutland, and Stamford, Lincs.

Will

not found.

Estates

in 1641, leased lands in Chapeltown, Ecclesfield, Kimberworth and Rotherham, Yorks., from Sir William Savile*.Notts. RO, DD/SR/9/168. In 1646, purchased capital messuage of Southwood and 194 acres of land in parishes of Chelmsford and Writtle, Essex, for £400.C54/3349/24. In 1652-3, purchased lease of castle of and lands in Simmons Court, near Dublin (the lease was granted to his s. John the following year).Eg. 1762, f. 71v. In 1652, Weaver and another gentleman purchased rectory of Castle Donnington, Leics., with messuage, lands and tenements belonging, from John Manners*, 8th earl of Rutland for £2,000 (Weaver borrowed £1,000 by statute staple in 1652).C54/3673/34; LC4/203, f. 211v. In 1659, estate inc. a messuage in Seething Lane, London, and property in North Luffenham.Lincs. RO, 3-ANC/1/40/3. In 1665, his house in North Luffenham assessed at 10 hearths.Rutland Hearth Tax 1665 ed. J. Bourne, A. Goode, 18.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

lodgings in Whitehall Palace (July-Oct. 1659).Bodl. Rawl. C.179, pp. 154-5.

Religion

presented Richard Sharpe to rectory of Sedgebrook, Lincs., 1652.Add. 36792, f. 54v.

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