BETHELL, Hugh (1615-79), of Rise, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. 2 Oct. 1615, 1st s. of Hugh Bethell of Rise, and Helen (bur. 26 Sept. 1648), da. of Thomas Johnston of Bishop Burton. m. 14 Jan. 1641, Mary (bur. 3 June 1687), da. and coh. of Thomas Mitchelbourne of Carleton, 1s. (d.v.p.), 1da.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 471; Foster, Yorks. Peds. Kntd. 29 Dec. 1658;Mercurius Politicus no. 547 (23-30 Dec. 1658), 128. suc. fa. Mar. 1659.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 471. d. 3 Oct. 1679.Foster, Yorks. Peds.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) by Nov. 1642–?;SP28/138, pt. 4, f. 51v; Hotham Pprs. 271. capt.-lt. of horse; capt. June-c. Dec. 1643; major, c.Dec. 1643-Apr. 1644;E121/5/7/26; Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer no. 60 (18–25 June 1644), 486 (E.52.14); Hotham Pprs. 271; Jones, ‘War in north’, 370. col. Apr. 1644-c.Jan. 1649, 13 Jan.-Nov. 1660.Add. 21425, f. 194; Rushworth, Hist. Collns. vii. 1393; HMC Portland, i. 695; CJ vii. 839a; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 262–3; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2016), ii. 148, 172; Jones, ‘War in north’, 370. Gov. Scarborough Castle, Dec. 1648-June 1651.Col. Bethel’s Letter to...the Lord Fairfax (1648), 3–4 (E.477.29); CSP Dom. 1651, pp. 238, 287.

Local: commr. Northern Assoc. Yorks. (E. Riding) 20 June 1645.A. and O. J.p. N. Riding 13 Jan. 1647-c.1653, 6 Oct. 1653 – Mar. 1660, by Oct. 1660-bef. Mar. 1664;C231/6, pp. 73, 270; C220/9/4. E. Riding by Feb. 1650–?d.;C193/13/3. Beverley 16 Jan. 1657–?C181/6, p. 196. Commr. militia, Yorks. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. E. Riding 14 Mar. 1655;SP25/76A, f. 16. assessment, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. charitable uses, 19 Sept. 1650, 22 Apr. 1651.C93/20/27; C93/21/1. Sheriff, 12 Nov. 1652–10 Nov. 1653.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 164. Commr. sewers, E. Riding by June 1654–?d.;C181/6, pp. 46, 404; C181/7, pp. 44, 407. N. Riding 9 May 1664;C181/7, p. 248. Hull 14 Jan. 1668;C181/7, p. 420. ejecting scandalous ministers, E. Riding and Hull 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. gaol delivery, Hull 27 May 1657;C181/6, p. 228. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 376. poll tax, E. Riding 1660;SR. corporations, Yorks. 19 Feb. 1662;HMC 8th Rep. i. 275. subsidy, E. Riding 1663.SR. Dep. lt. by Mar. 1670–?d.SP44/35A, f. 5v. Commr. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 695.

Central: master in chancery, extraordinary, Jan. 1656–?C202/39/5.

Civic: freeman, Hedon 18 Mar. 1660–d.E. Riding RO, DDHE/26 (Hedon Ct. Bk. 1504–1668), unfol.

Parlimentarian

BETHELL, Hugh (1615-79), of Rise, Yorks.

: of Rise, Yorks.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BETHELL, Hugh (1615-79), of Rise, Yorks.

Will

30 May 1679, pr. 3 July 1682.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 59, f. 321.

Estates

in 1650, purchased from trustees for sale of crown lands, with debentures of £1,657, the manor of Hempholme, Yorks. worth £124 p.a.E121/5/7/26; LR2/266, f. 68; I. Gentles, ‘The Debentures Market and Military Purchases of Crown Lands, 1649-60’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1969), 253. In 1651, purchased fee farm rents in Yorks. worth £178 p.a.CRES6/1, p. 76; LR2/266, f. 68. By 1653, purchased property in parishes of Leven and Catwick, Yorks. from the treason trustees.CCC 1979. In 1662, estate in E. Riding reportedly worth £350 p.a.Poulson, Holderness, i. 415. At his d. estate consisted of manor and ‘mansion house’ of Rise, numerous lands and tenements in surrounding townships and parishes, messuages and lands in Beverley and nearby Bishop Burton, tithes in Aldborough and several other Holderness parishes, lease of lands in Hempholme and numerous fee farm rents in E. Riding.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 59, f. 321.

Oxford 1644

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