LISTER, Sir John (1587-1640), of High Street, Kingston-upon-Hull, and Linton Wold, Wintringham, Yorks.

Family and Education

bap. 7 June 1587, o.s. of John Lyster†, alderman of Hull, and Anne, da. of Robert Gayton, alderman of Hull.Holy Trinity, Hull par. reg.; Hull Hist. Cent. C BRB/2 (Hull Bench Bk. 1555-1609), ff. 25, 260v, 290; Vis. Yorks. ed. Foster, 546; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 340-3. educ. Univ. Coll. Oxf. 13 July 1604;Al. Ox. M. Temple 30 June 1606.M. Temple Admiss. m. by 1607, Elizabeth (d. 2 Dec. 1656), da. and h. of Hugh Armyn, alderman of Hull, 9s. (1 d.v.p.) 7da. (3 d.v.p.).Holy Trinity, Hull par. reg.; Hull Hist. Cent. C BRB/2, ff. 325v, 369; T. Gent, Annales Regioduni Hullini (1735), 36. suc. fa. 19 Jan. 1617;Gent, Annales Regioduni Hullini, 35. Kntd. 23 May 1628.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 194. d. 23 Dec. 1640.Gent, Annales Regioduni Hullini, 35.

Offices Held

Mercantile: member, Hull Merchants’ Co. 1616–d.Hull Hist. Cent. C DSN/1 (Hull Merchants’ Soc. min. bk. 1647–1706), unfol.

Civic: freeman, Hull 1617;Hull Hist. Cent. C BRG/1 (Hull freeman reg. 1396–1645), f. 164v. alderman, 1617 – d.; mayor, 1618 – 19, 1629–30.Hull Hist. Cent. C BRB/3 (Hull Bench Bk. 1609–50), ff. 25v, 30, 98v, 268v.

Local: j.p. Hull 1617–d.Supra, ‘Kingston-upon-Hull’. Commr. subsidy, 1621–2, 1624 – 25, 1628;C212/22/20–3; E179/204/415, 425, 440; E179/205/454; E115/254/123. musters, 1625, 1627.APC 1625–6, p. 58; APC 1627, pp. 101, 104–5. Collector, privy seal loan, 1625–6.E401/2586, p. 312. Commr. Yorks. coastal sqdn. 1627;APC 1627, pp. 312–13. swans, England except south-western cos. c.1629;C181/3, f. 269. sewers, Hatfield Chase Level 17 May 1634-aft. Dec. 1637.C181/4, f. 174v; C181/5, ff. 17, 87. Hon. elder bro. Trinity House, Hull 31 Aug. 1635–d.Order Bk. of Trinity House, Hull ed. F. W. Brooks (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. cv), 16, 50. Capt. militia ft. Yorks. (E. Riding) by c.1635–?d.Add. 28082, f. 80v. Commr. piracy, Hull 12 July 1637.C181/5, f. 80.

Parlimentarian

LISTER, John (1587-1640), of High Street, Kingston-upon-Hull, Bawtry and Linton, Yorks.

: of High Street, Kingston-upon-Hull and Linton Wold, Wintringham, Yorks.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown.Wilberforce House Museum, Kingston-upon-Hull.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LISTER, Sir John (1587-1640), of High Street, Kingston-upon-Hull, and Linton Wold, Wintringham, Yorks.

Will

4 Dec. 1640, pr. 2 Feb. 1641.Borthwick, Wills in York Registry, Holderness Deanery, Feb. 1641.

Estates

inc. at least four manors in Yorks. (Bawtry, Linton Wold, South Frodingham and Thirkleby); numerous closes and houses in and around Hull; a lease of the rectory of Weaverthorpe, Yorks.; property in Richmond and in Dalton-on-Tees, in the North Riding; property in Eastoft, Lincs.; lands and lead smelting mills in Derbys.; lands in co. Dur.; and a half share of chambers in the Inner Temple, Mdx.C54/2970/23; C54/3161/18; E134/9JAS1/TRIN1; E134/11JAS1/TRIN7; Borthwick, Wills in York Registry, Holderness Deanery, Feb. 1641; Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/DD99/B10/1; Abstracts of Yorks. Wills ed. J. W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. ix), 165-6; Yorks. Stuart Fines ed. W. Briggs (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lviii), 159, 162. His landed estate was reckoned to be worth about £1,000 p.a. by the 1630s, although this may have been an under-estimate – the manor of Bawtry alone was worth £240 p.a.C6/153/85; C10/119/74; Borthwick, Wills in York Registry, Holderness Deanery, Feb. 1641. In the early 1630s, he was fined £50 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), 106.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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