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bap. 18 Jan. 1590, 2nd s. of Richard Burrell (d. bef. 1630), Grocer, of St Benet Gracechurch, London and Ryhall, Rutland, and his 2nd w. Jane (d.1623), da. of Henry Jay, Draper, of Budge Row, London, and Holverston, Norf.GL, MS 5671, f. 9v; Vis. Surrey 1530, 1572 and 1623 (Harl. Soc. xliii.), 179; Lincs. Peds., ed. A.R. Maddison (Harl. Soc. lv), iv. 1164; E. Cust, Recs. of the Cust Fam. 1479-1700 (1898), 178. educ. ?appr. m. lic. 31 May 1617, Elizabeth, da. and heiress of Richard Butts of Ham Court, Chertsey, Surrey, 5da. (1 d.v.p.).London Marriage Lics. ed. Foster, 221; Vis. Surr. 1530, 1572 and 1623, 179; Maddison, Lincs. Peds. iv. 1164; Vis. Hunts. 1684 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xiii), 70. d. aft. 5 Aug. 1657.PROB11/281/577.
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Local: j.p. Som. 1629 – aft.Oct. 1643; Hunts. 14 Aug. 1641–d.Coventry Docquets, 62; QS Recs. Som. Charles I, 104–309; QS Recs. Som. Commonwealth, p. xx; C231/5, p. 477. Treas. hosps. western division, Som. 1630–1.QS Recs. Som. Charles I, 127, 156. Commr. navigable rivers, Som. Mar. 1638;C181/5, f. 99. array (roy.), Hunts. June 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. levying of money, 10 June 1643; sequestration, 10 June 1643.CJ iii. 123a. Dep. lt. 16 June 1643–?CJ iii. 131b. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 24 Feb. 1644;‘The royalist clergy of Lincs.’ ed. J.W.F. Hill, Lincs. Archit. and Arch. Soc. ii. 120. commr. I. of Ely, Hunts. 12 Aug. 1645;A. and O. sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 31 Jan. 1646–?, by May 1654–d.;C181/5, f. 269v; C181/6, pp. 27, 248, 333. assessment, Hunts. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655.A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 17. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 17, 276. securing peace of commonwealth, Hunts. by 21 Nov. 1655.TSP iv. 229.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649;A. and O. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 4 May, 20 June 1649.CJ vi. 201a; A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 4 May 1649;CJ vi. 201a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 24 May 1649;CJ vi. 216a. cttee. of navy and customs, 29 May 1649; cttee. for excise, 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 219b. Cllr. of state, 25 Nov. 1651.CJ vii. 42b.

Parlimentarian
BURRELL, Abraham (1590-c.1657), of Midloe, Hunts.
: of Midloe, Hunts.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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BURRELL, Abraham (1590-c.1657), of Midloe, Hunts.

Will
5 Aug. 1657, pr. 10 July 1658.PROB11/281/577.
Estates
he and his father bought two houses in Cheapside for £200, 1610;Cust, Recs. of the Cust Fam. 198. leased house at Shapwick, Som. 1620; bought Shapwick House and other properties at Shapwick for £4,500, 1622;The Vernacular Buildings of Shapwick (1996), 7; G. Gerrard and M. Aston, The Shapwick Project, Som. (2007), 41, 43, 285. bought 240 acres at Hawkesbury, Didmarton and Leighterton, Glous. 1627;Coventry Docquets, 562. sold lands in Glous. to 1st Viscount Somerset (Thomas Somerset†), 1634;Coventry Docquets, 649. bought manor of Midloe from Sir Martin Lumley*, 1641;VCH Hunts. ii. 319. offered to sell the manor of Houghton, Hunts. to Edward Montagu II*, 1655.Bodl. Carte 74, f. 31.
Oxford 1644
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