AYSCOUGHE, William (1620-95), of Osgoodby Grange, Thirkleby, Yorks.

Family and Education

bap. 15 Aug. 1620,Not 1614, as in HP Commons 1660-90, ‘Sir William Ayscough’. 1st s. of William Ayscough of Osgoodby Grange, and 1st w. Isabell (d. bef. 1635), da. of William Cholmley† of Highgate, Mdx.Thirkleby par. reg.; C142/531/177; Borthwick, Bulmer Deanery Act Bk. 1624-53, f. 75v; Mdx. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxv), 140; Ct. Rolls of the Manor of Hornsey ed. W. M. Marcham, F. Marcham (1929), 63. . educ. St Catharine’s, Camb. Easter 1637.Al. Cant. m. (1) 9 Mar. 1641, Judith (d. 21 July 1688), da. of Sir John Burgoyne*, 1st bt. of Sutton, Beds., 3s. d.v.p. 2da. d.v.p.;Thirkleby par. reg.; W. Grainge, The Vale of Mowbray (1859), 195-6. (2) 25 Dec. 1688 (with £1,000), Frances Robinson (bur. 21 Jan. 1715), of Throxenby, Scalby, Yorks. s.p.Thirkleby par. reg.; St. Helen’s Stonegate, York, par. reg.; C33/293, f. 515. suc. fa. 31 May 1635;WARD9/208, f. 168. Kntd. 1 Dec. 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 232. d. 9 Oct. 1695.C33/299, f. 423v. bur. 12 Oct. 1695 Thirkleby 12 Oct. 1695.Thirkleby par. reg. Sig.SP18/130/82i, f. 111.

Offices Held

Local: commr. Northern Assoc. Yorks. (N. Riding) 20 June 1645. by Oct. 1645 – bef.Jan. 1650A. and O. J.p., by Oct. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660;N. Riding QS Recs. ed. J.C. Atkinson (N. Riding Rec. Soc. iv), 244; C193/13/4. liberties of Ripon by Oct. 1654–10 May 1662;C181/6, pp. 66, 283. E. Riding by Apr. 1657-Mar. 1660.C193/13/6. Commr. assessment, N. Riding 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1689 – d.; Yorks. 1 June 1660;A. and O.; SR; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). ejecting scandalous ministers, N. Riding 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. charitable uses, 13 Nov. 1658;C93/25/1. militia, Yorks. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Central: commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

AYSCOUGH (ASKWITH), Sir William (1614-95), of Osgoodby Grange, Thirkleby, Yorks.

: of Osgoodby Grange, Yorks., Thirkleby.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

AYSCOUGHE, William (1620-95), of Osgoodby Grange, Thirkleby, Yorks.

Will

c.Feb. 1691.C33/293, f. 515v.

Estates

1630-2, fa. fined £30 for distraint of knighthood.‘Compositions for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I’ ed. W.P. Baildon, in Misc. 1 (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lxi), 102. In 1635, inherited estate that inc. manors of Sowber and Cold Kirby; lands in Kirkby Wiske, Newby Wiske, Old Byland, Terrington, Thirsk and Welburn, Yorks. and lease of rectory and ‘mansion house’ of Thirsk, paying rent of £20 p.a.WARD5/50, pt. 1, bdle. A-B; C142/531/177; Eg. 925, f. 58; VCH N. Riding, i. 180; ii. 44; Yorks. Stuart Fines ed. W. Brigg (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lviii), 121, 208; Grainge, Mowbray, 137; T.S. Willan, ‘Parlty. surveys of the N. Riding’, YAJ xxxi. 275-6. In 1650, purchased Osgoodby Grainge, for £608, from trustees for sale of church lands.C54/3446/14; C54/3449/9; I. Gentles, W. Sheils, Confiscation and Restoration: the Archbishopric Estates and the Civil War (Borthwick Pprs. lix), 7. At his d. estate inc. lands in Sowerby, nr. Thirsk and reckoned to be worth betw. £780 and £900 p.a. Left personal estate worth c.£3,000.C33/293, f. 515v; C33/299, ff. 423v-4; C38/275, unfol. (29 Aug. 1702).

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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