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Family and Education
b. 5th s. of Sir Francis Meyrick (d. 29 July 1603) of Fleet, Monkton, and Anne, da. of Francis Laugharne of St Brides, Pemb.Dwnn, Vis. Wales, i. 137; M. McGarvie, The Meyricks of Bush (Glastonbury, 1988), 25. educ. Christ’s, Camb. Apr. 1615.Al. Cant. m. (1) 23 Apr. 1630, Alice, da. of Sir Edward Fitton of Gawsworth, Cheshire, 1s. 2da.;Gawsworth par. reg.; Archdeaconry of Chester Mar. Lics. ed. M. F. Irvine (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lvii), 181; Earwaker, E. Cheshire, ii. 566. (2) 1 May 1647, Jane (d.1660), da. of William Meredith† of Stansty, Wrexham, Denb., wid. of Sir Peter Wyche (d.1643), comptroller of the Household, s.p.St Mary, Putney, Surr. par reg.; PROB11/303, f. 58; ‘Sir Peter Wyche’, Oxford DNB. Kntd. c. 1639;E351/292-3. d. Aug. 1655.C7/515/95.
Offices Held

Military: lt. of ft. English forces, Palatinate 1620. by Nov. 1624 – Mar. 1627SP14/174/49, f. 68; A. Wilson, The History of Great Britain being the Life and Reign of King James the First (1653), 135–6. Capt. English forces, Dutch army; Danish army, Mar. 1627–9.SP84/121, f. 277; Add. 46188, f. 105. Lt.-col. of ft. royal army by Apr. 1639–?;E351/292. col. c.May 1640-c.July 1641.E351/293; Rushworth, Hist. Collns. iii. 1242; CSP Dom. 1640–1, pp. 513, 554, 570; Procs. LP v. 366. Col. of ft. (parlian.) 30 July 1642-c.Apr. 1645;SP28/1A, f. 256. sgt.-maj.-gen. 30 July-18 Nov. 1642.Infra, ‘Philip Skippon’; SP28/1A, f. 256; SP28/3B, ff. 423–4. Pres. council of war, 3rd earl of Essex, 30 July 1642–?SP28/1A, f. 256. Gen. of ordnance, c.18 Nov. 1642-Oct. 1644.SP28/3B, f. 424; Luke Lttr. Bks. 40, 365.

Civic: freeman, Newcastle-under-Lyme 25 Mar. 1640–?d.Pape, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, 303.

Central: commr. for Irish affairs, 4 Apr. 1642.CJ ii. 536b; LJ v. 15b. Member, cttee. of safety, 4 July 1642;CJ ii. 651b; LJ v. 178b. Derby House cttee. of Irish affairs, 9 Apr. 1647.CJ v. 138a.

Local: commr. for assoc. of Pemb., Carm. and Card. 10 June 1644; assessment, Pemb., Staffs. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
MEYRICK, Sir John (d. 1655), of Monkton, Pemb.
: of Monkton, Pemb.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown.Scolton Manor Museum, Haverfordwest, Pemb.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MEYRICK, Sir John (d. 1655), of Monkton, Pemb.

Will
2 Nov. 1653, pr. 14 June 1659.PROB11/292, f. 80v.
Estates
bequeathed £100 in his father’s will.McGarvie, Meyricks of Bush, 25. In 1646, earl of Essex renewed his lease (for 21 years) of ‘town, manor, lordship [and] priory’ of Monkton, rectory and parsonage impropriate of Monkton and lands belonging, at a rent of £60 p.a.C8/105/164; McGarvie, Meyricks of Bush, 30. At d. estate inc. lease of rectory of Llanwnda and property in parishes of Monkton, St Mary and St Michael (Pembroke) and in St David and Steynton, Pemb.PROB11/292, f. 80v; T. Richards, Hist. of the Puritan Movement in Wales (Neath, 1918), 237. His lands valued by his heir at £96 p.a. and his personal estate at £120.C7/515/95.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Essex House, the Strand, London (by 1644-6).Luke Lttr. Bks. 396; Add. 46189, f. 160.
Religion
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