ATKIN, Thomas (d. 1669), of Lime Street, London.

Family and Education

bap. ?17 Apr. 1586,St Margaret with St Nicholas, Kings Lynn par. reg. ?2nd s. of John Atkin (d. by 1618), mercer, and alderman of King's Lynn, Norf. and his wife, Joan.PROB 11/131, f. 13v; PROB 11/141, f. 472v. educ. appr. Samuel Man, grocer, Norwich; Thomas Wasser, Mercer, London.Millican, Reg. Freemen Norwich, 76; J.R. Woodhead, The Rulers of London 1660-1689 (1965), 20. m. Susanna Pett, 1s. d.v.p. 3da.Gen. Mag. vii. 143; PROB 11/329, f. 13. Kntd. Dec. 1657.Mercurius Politicus (3-10 Dec. 1657), 152. bur. 14 Jan. 1669 14 Jan. 1669.St Andrew Undershaft, London par. reg..

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Norwich 1610;Millican, Reg. Freemen Norwich, 76. councillor, Conisford ward 1612/13; Wymer ward 1618 – 27; surveyor, 1615 – 16, 1624 – 25, 1627; surveyor of grain stock, 1626; clavor, 1627 – 28, 1631 – 37; jt. sheriff, 1627 – 28; alderman, Berstreet ward 1629 – 38; auditor, 1631 – 37; member, chamberlain’s council, 1636. 1613 – 14Index to Norwich City Officers, 6; List of Sheriffs (L.and I. ix.), 214. Freeman, Mercers’ Co.; master, 1637 – 38, 1644–5.Woodhead, Rulers of London, 20; I. Doolittle, The Mercers’ Co. 1579–1959 (1994), 68. Alderman, Farringdon Without, London 1638–42; Lime Street 1642 – 58; Bridge Without 1658 – Feb. 1661; jt. sheriff, 1637 – 38; ld. mayor, 1644–5.A.B. Beaven, Aldermen of the City of London (1908–13), i. 65, 148, 176; List of Sheriffs, 206.

Local: commr. Forced Loan, Norwich 1627.C193/12/2, f. 85v. Treas. Norwich children’s hosp. by 1630–34.Mins. Norwich Ct. of Mayoralty, 1630–1631, 59; Mins. Norwich Ct. of Mayoralty, 1632–1635, 144. Feoffee, impropriations, Norf. 1630.J.T. Evans, Seventeenth-Century Norwich (Oxford, 1979), 87n. High collector, Ship Money, Norwich 1635.Mins. Norwich Ct. of Mayoralty, 1632–1635, 202, 208, 218. Member, cttee. of safety, London 4 Jan. 1642.Pearl, London, 140. Commr. London militia, 12 Feb., 29 Mar. 1642, 23 July, 2 Sept. 1647, 17 Jan. 1649, 15 Feb. 1655, 7 July 1659;CJ ii. 428a; LJ iv. 578a; A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 43. oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, London and Newgate gaol 16 Nov. 1644 – aft.Nov. 1645, by Jan. 1654–13 Nov. 1660;C181/5, ff. 243v, 265; C181/6, pp. 1, 356; C181/7, pp. 1, 32. sewers, London 14 Jan. – aft.Dec. 1645, 13 Aug. 1657;C181/5, ff. 247, 266; C181/6, p. 256. Mdx. 31 Jan. 1654–17 Aug. 1660;C181/6, pp. 5, 200. New Model ordinance, London 17 Feb. 1645; assessment, 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, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Norf., Norwich 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; militia, Norwich 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Mdx. aft. May 1652-bef. Oct. 1653.C193/13/4, f. 61v. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth, London 25 Mar. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 238. Pres. Christ’s Hosp. London 1660–1.E.H. Pearce, Annals of Christ’s Hosp. (1901), 302.

Central: recvr. assessment, 1642. 5 June 1646SR. Commr. exclusion from sacrament,, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646.A. and O. Commr. for compounding, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 113b. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for excise, 10 Feb. 1649.CJ vi. 137b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 5 Sept. 1649.CJ vi. 290a. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650.CJ vi. 388b. Commr. customs/excise, 28 Sept., 27 Dec. 1659.A. and O.

Military: col. (parlian.) red regt. London trained bands by Sept. 1643–5.H.A. Dillon, ‘On a MS list of officers of the London trained bands in 1643’, Archaeologia, lii. (1890), 134.

Parlimentarian

ATKIN, Thomas (d. 1669), of Lime Street, London.

: London., of Lime Street.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

ATKIN, Thomas (d. 1669), of Lime Street, London.

Will

11 Apr. 1666, pr. 19 Jan. 1669.PROB 11/329, f. 13.

Estates

inherited a warehouse and other properties at King’s Lynn from his brother, William 1623;PROB 11/141, ff. 472v. owned property in St John Maddermarket and St Clement parishes, Norwich 1633-4;Norwich Rate Bk. ed. W. Rye (1903), 48, 73. sold land at Forncett St Mary and St Peter, Norf. 1634; Coventry Docquets, 648. leased property at Catton, Norf. from chapter of Norwich Cathedral bef. 1649.Parliamentary Survey of Dean and Chapter Properties, ed. G.A. Metters (Norf. Rec. Soc. li. 1985), 92.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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