PELHAM, Sir Thomas (1597-1654), of Laughton and Halland, East Hoathley, Suss.

Family and Education

bap. 22 Sept. 1597, o.s. of Sir Thomas Pelham†, 1st bt., of Halland and Mary, da. of Sir Thomas Walsingham† of Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent.Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 21; CB. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 29 Apr. 1615;Al. Cant. G. Inn, 6 May 1615.GI Admiss. i. 137. m. (1) (settlement 23 June 1615), Mary (bur. 7 Mar. 1634), da. and coh. of Sir Roger Wilbraham† of Clerkenwell, London, Monken Hadley, Mdx., and Nantwich, Cheshire, 3s. (2 d.v.p) 4da. (2 d.v.p); (2) 7 Dec. 1637, Judith, da. of Sir Robert Honywood of Pett, Charing , Kent, wid. of John Shurley of Lewes, Suss., 1da. (d.v.p.); (3) 3 June 1640, Margaret, da. of Sir Henry Vane I* of Fairlawn, Kent, 5s. (2 d.v.p) 2da.CB; Comber, Suss. Genealogies Lewes, 208; Add. 5697, f. 265. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 2 Dec. 1624, aged 27. bur. 28 Aug. 1654 28 Aug. 1654.Add. 5697, f. 265.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Suss. 1622–d.C231/4/145; C193/13/1, ff. 97v-100; C193/13/2, ff. 66v-68; SP16/405, ff. 66–67v; C193/13/3, ff. 64–5; C193/13/4, ff. 99v-101v; Stowe 577, ff. 53–4. Commr. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 23 Jan. 1624-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/3, ff. 111, 261; C181/4, ff. 13, 198v; C181/5, ff. 8v, 222. Suss. 1627, 4 July 1644;C181/3, ff. 216v, 236; C181/5, f. 235. subsidy, 1624, 1626, 1641;C212/22/23; E179/191/377a; SR. sewers, Wittersham Level, Kent and Suss. 1625, 1629, 31 Mar. 1640;C181/3, f. 165v; C181/4, f. 32; C181/5, f. 167. Suss. 1625, 1630, 1631, 1637, 20 July 1641, 23 May 1645;C181/3, f. 166v; C181/4, ff. 46v, 53v, 73v; C181/5, ff. 69, 206, 253. Ticehurst and River Rother, Kent and Suss. 1629, 1630, 1639, 3 Nov. 1653.C181/4, ff. 18v, 37v; C181/5, f. 144; C181/6, p. 23. Dep. lt. Suss. ?by 1627–d.PC2/39, f. 313; SP16/369/163; Add. Ch. 29276–7; HP Commons 1604–1629, ‘Thomas Pelham’. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627;Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 144; C193/12/2, f. 59. martial law, 8 Dec. 1627;SP16/86, f. 46. charitable uses, 1629–38.C192/1. Master of game, Broyle Park, Suss. 1630s-40s.Add. 33145, f. 112v; Add. 5705, ff. 57–58v; Bodl. Nalson XIV, 195. Commr. maltsters, Suss. 1636;PC2/46, f. 273. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;Suss. Arch. Coll. ix. 104–6; E179/191/388; SR. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;CJ ii. 267b; LJ iv. 385a. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652;SR; A. and O. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; commr. for Suss., assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644;A. and O. gaol delivery, Suss. 4 July 1644;C181/5, f. 235. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

PELHAM, Thomas (1597-1654), of Laughton and Halland, East Hoathley, Suss.

: of Laughton and Halland, Suss., East Hoathley.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PELHAM, Sir Thomas (1597-1654), of Laughton and Halland, East Hoathley, Suss.

Will

13 Jan. 1653, pr. 13 Nov. 1654.PROB11/241/346.

Estates

bef. Dec. 1624, third of fa.’s estate on marriage; purchased estate at Burwash, Suss.;Add. Ch. 29753-60; VCH Suss. ix. 3; E. G. Pelham and D. McLean, Some Early Pelhams (1931), 267; PROB11/145/173 (Sir Thomas Pelham, 1625). in 1626, property assessed at £40 but rents eventually c.£2,000 p.a.;E179/191/377a; Add. 33144; Add. Rolls 31350–31358. in early 1630s, bought manor of Waldron for over £1,400;C2/CHAS1/P3/8. in 1634, with Sir Anthony Stapley I* and James Rivers*, purchases incl. Suss. estates of Robert Bertie, 1st earl of Lindsey, for over £8,000.Add. Ch. 29656-7, 29666, 29695, 29969, 30144, 30543, 30545; HMC Buccleuch, iii. 362; Suss. Manors, ii. 362-3, 370; W. Suss. RO, Clough-Butler Archives 112-115; CSP Dom. 1628-9, p. 11; C2/CHAS1/P4/50. In 1644, bought a house in the Strand, Westminster; other property in London.Fletcher, Suss. 43; E401/2586, p.424; C2/CHAS1/P79/11; C2/CHAS1/P41/18; C2/CHAS1/P5/18. Profits from iron works at Brightling and Biblesham, in 1645 more than £1,000 and 1651 more than £3,500.Add. 33155, ff. 28-30, 55-60, Add. 33144, ff. 123v; Add. 33146, f. 133; Fletcher, Suss., 14, 20–1.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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