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Family and Education
bap. 12 June 1616, o.s. of Thomas Thurloe of Abbess Roding, Essex, and his 2nd w., Sarah, wid. of one Ewer.TSP i. p. xi; P. Aubrey, Mr Secretary Thurloe (1990), 8. educ. Furnival’s Inn, London; L. Inn 2 July 1646.LI Admiss. i. 253. m. (1) one Peyton, 2s. (d.v.p.); (2) c.1647, Anne (d. by 1690), da. of Sir John Lytcott of East Molesey, Surr. 4s. 2da.TSP i. pp. xix-xx; PROB11/402/380. suc. fa. Nov. 1633. d. 21 Feb. 1668.C.H. Firth, ‘Secretary Thurloe’, N. and Q. 8th ser. xi, 83; Smyth’s Obit. 77; TSP i. p. xix.
Offices Held

Legal: clerk to Oliver St John* by 1639. Nov. 1653Aubrey, Thurloe, 10. Called, L. Inn by; bencher, 10 Feb. 1654.LI Black Bks. ii. 399–401. Recvr. cursitors’ fines, Mar. 1648–?Whitelocke, Diary, 216, 218, 226.

Central: sec. to parlty. commrs. for treaty at Uxbridge, Jan.-Feb. 1645;TSP i. pp. xi, 59. to council of state, 30 Mar. 1652-Dec. 1653.CSP Dom. 1651–2, pp. 198, 199. Sec. of state, Dec. 1653 – 7 May 1659, 27 Feb. 1660-May 1660.CSP Dom. 1653–4, p. 309. Commr. visitation Camb. Univ. 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O. Postmaster-gen. Aug. 1655-Dec. 1659.Aubrey, Thurloe, 76; TSP vii. 807. Member, cttee. for improving revenues of customs and excise, 26 June 1657.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 13 July 1657.CSP Dom. 1657–8, p. 26. Commr. tendering oath to MPs, 18 Jan. 1658, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 578a, 593a.

Mercantile: jt. treas. Bedford Level corp. Feb. 1651 – Apr. 1654; dep. gov. Sept. 1656–1660.Cambs. RO, R.59.31.9.4, f. 93; TSP v. 475.

Diplomatic: sec. to embassy to Utd. Provinces, Mar.-June 1651;Aubrey, Thurloe, 19–23.

Local: j.p. I. of Ely, Dec. 1651 – May 1662; Wallingford 3 Mar. 1656, 13 Nov. 1658; Beds., Bucks., Derbys., Devon, Essex, Hants, Herts., Kent, Leics., Lincs. (Holland, Kesteven), Norf., Northants., Notts., Rutland, Salop, Som., Staffs., Surr., Suss., Warws., Worcs. Sept. 1656 – bef.Oct. 1660; Mdx. and Cambs. Sept. 1656 – May 1662; Lincs. (Lindsey) Sept. 1656 – Mar. 1657; Dorset, Herefs. Mar. 1657-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 227; C181/6, pp. 135, 329; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. assessment, I. of Ely 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653), 271 (E.1062.28). gaol delivery, Mar. 1654-aft. July 1659;C181/6, pp. 20, 385. sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 6 May 1654-aft. July 1659;C181/6, pp. 26, 381. Kent and Surr. 14 Nov. 1657;C181/6, p. 263. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cambs., Hunts. and I. of Ely, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. militia, I. of Ely 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660.CSP Dom. 1655, 78; A. and O. Custos rot. Sept. 1656-May 1660.A. and O.; A Perfect List. Gov. Charterhouse, London Nov. 1657-Nov. 1661.TSP i. p. xvii; Alumni Carthusiani, ed. B. Marsh and F.A. Crisp (1913), 27–8. Chan. Glasgow Univ. Feb. 1658-Oct. 1660.TSP i. p. xvii; vi. 777; Baillie Lttrs. and Jnls. iii. 386, 397–8, 399. Commr. oyer and terminer, Surr. 21 Mar. 1659.C181/6, p. 348.

Civic: capital burgess, Wisbech Nov. 1657-Nov. 1659.Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Wisbech corp. recs. 1616–91, ff. 135, 137.

Parlimentarian
THURLOE, John (1616-68), of Wisbech, Isle of Ely; and later of Great Milton, Oxon. and Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx.
: Isle of Ely and later of Great Milton, Oxon. and Mdx., Lincoln’s Inn.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, attrib. W. Dobson;Chequers Court, Bucks. oil on canvas, circle of W. Dobson;Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon. oil on canvas, unknown, ?eighteenth century;NPG. oil on canvas, T. Ross, eighteenth century;Government Art Colln. oil on canvas, attrib. G. Browning;Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Cambs. oil on panel, view of Wisbech Castle with figure said to be Thurloe;NT, Peckover House. miniature, S. Cooper;Buccleuch colln. medal, A. Simon and T. Simon, 1653.BM.

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Commons 1640-1660
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THURLOE, John (1616-68), of Wisbech, Isle of Ely; and later of Great Milton, Oxon. and Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx.

Will
28 Sept. 1667, pr. 26 Mar. 1668.PROB11/326/382.
Estates
salary as sec. to council of state, £600;CSP Dom. 1651-2, p. 203. later increased to £800;CSP Dom. 1652-3, p. 1. bought episcopal lands at Whitstable, Kent for £30, 1647;Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 1; ‘Account of the sale of bishops’ land’, Coll. Top. et Gen. i. 3. acquired drained fenland in the Great Level, Cambs. 1649-50;Cambs. RO, R.59.31.9.2, unf.; R.59.31.9.3, first foliation, ff. 1-3v, 6; R.59.31.9.4, f. 66. bought manor of Wisbech Barton, Wisbech aft. 1649.VCH Cambs. iv. 243. He and Thomas Mathews bought episcopal fishing rights in the Isle of Ely, 1650;Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 50. bought land at Turnford, Herts. for £753 13s, 1650;I.J. Gentles, ‘The debenture market and military purchasers of crown lands, 1649-60’ (Univ. London PhD thesis, 1969), 345. leased Gt. Milton Priory, Gt. Milton, Oxon. 1660s.VCH Oxon. vii. 119.
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