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Family and Education
b. betw. 3 May 1587 and 2 July 1589, 2nd s. of John Pepys (d. 1604) of Cottenham, Cambs. and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Bendish of Bower Hall, Steeple Bumpstead, Essex.Vis. Cambs. 1575 and 1619 (Harl. Soc. xli), 62; G.J. Armytage, ‘Peds. of Cambs. fams.’, The Gen. n.s. xv. 123; W.C. Pepys, Gen. of the Pepys Fam. (1887), ped. VII; E. Chappell, Eight Generations of the Pepys Fam. (1936), 29, 37-8. educ. Peterhouse, Camb. 1604, BA 1608;Al. Cant.; T.A. Walker, A Biographical Reg. of Peterhouse Men (Cambridge, 1930), 219. M. Temple 1609, called 7 Feb. 1617.M. Temple Admiss.; MTR ii. 511, 614. m. (1) 14 Aug. 1620, Judith (d. 1634), da. of Sir William Cutte of Debden and Arkesden, Essex, 4s (1 d.v.p.), 2da; (2) Mary (d.1659), da. of William Gosnold, s.p.Vis. Essex 1664-8 ed. J.J. Howard (1888), 70; G.H. Rogers-Harrison, ‘Ped. of the fam. of Cutts’, Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. iv, opp. p. 42; Burke PB (102nd edn. 1959), 544; Pepys, Gen. ped. VII; Chappell, Pepys Fam. 38. suc. bro. John Pepys by 1642.PROB11/189/164. d. 2 Jan. 1659.E. Worth, The Servant Doing, and the Lord Blessing (Dublin, 1659), titlepage (E.974.3); C. Kenny, King’s Inns and the Kingdom of Ireland (Dublin, 1992), 133n.
Offices Held

Local: jt. steward, Clare honor 1625–?d.R. Somerville, Office-Holders in the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster (Chichester, 1972), 203; CUL, Ee.III.18, f. 2. J.p. Suff. 1634–d.; Essex 7 Jan. 1651-bef. c.Sept. 1656.C193/13/2, f. 64v; Coventry Docquets, 72; C231/6, p. 205; C193/13/6, f. 82v; C193/13/5, f. 98v; Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxviii. Commr. subsidy, Suff. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 21 Mar. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Essex 10 Dec. 1652, ?9 June 1657;SR; LJ v. 658a; A. and O. loans on Propositions, Suff. 28 July 1642.LJ v. 245b. Member, Suff. co. cttee. 1642–52;Suff. ed. Everitt, 137; Suff. RO (Ipswich), EE1/O2/1, f. 87v. Essex co. cttee. by Oct. 1651.SP28/227: warrant of Essex. co. cttee. 5 Oct. 1651. Commr. additional ord. for levying of money, Suff. 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Suff. 11 Apr. 1644-aft. July 1645;C181/5, ff. 232v, 257. Midland circ. 9 Feb. 1654;C181/6, p. 14. Home circ. 13 June 1654;C181/6, p. 58. London 15 Aug. 1654–13 July 1655;C181/6, pp. 61, 76. Mdx. 15 Aug. 1654;C181/6, p. 63. gaol delivery, Suff. 11 Apr. 1644-aft. July 1645;C181/5, ff. 233, 257. Bury St Edmunds liberty and borough 11 Apr. 1644;C181/5, ff. 233v, 234. Newgate gaol 15 Aug. 1654–13 July 1655;C181/6, pp. 61, 76. New Model ordinance, Suff. 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O.

Civic: free burgess, Sudbury 16 Mar. 1640–d.Suff. RO (Bury), EE501/2/7, unf.

Legal: autumn reader, M. Temple 1640;MTR, ii. 894; W. Dugdale, Origines Juridiciales (1666), 220; Baker, Readers and Readings, 181, 486. treas. June 1640 – July 1641, Nov. 1648-Nov. 1649.Dugdale, Origines Juridiciales, 222; MTR, ii. 895, 911, 915, 971, 981. Sjt. at law, 19 Jan. 1654–d.Baker, Serjeants at Law, 189–90, 401, 530. Bar. of exch. May-Sept. 1654.Sainty, Judges, 124. Assize judge, Midland circ. Feb. 1654;C181/6, p. 7. Home circ. June 1654.C181/6, p. 48.

Religious: elder, eleventh Suff. classis, 5 Nov. 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 428.

Irish: cllr. of state, 17 Aug. 1654–d.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 437–8, 468–9, 672. C.j. ct. of Upper Bench, Sept. 1654–d.R. Lascelles, Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae, [1824–30], i. pt. ii. 31; Sainty, Judges, 124. Commr. forfeited lands, Nov. 1654.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 455–6. J.p. Wexford Mar. 1655–d.Barnard, Cromwellian Ire. 290n. Commr. gt. seal, June 1655-Aug. 1656;Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 520–1; J.R. O’Flanagan, The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland (1870), i. 345, 351, 355. public money, 23 Oct. 1656.C.H. Firth, ‘Account of money spent in the Cromwellian reconquest’, EHR xiv. 105. Assize judge, Ulster circ. spring 1657; Munster circ. summer 1657.F.E. Ball, The Judges in Ireland (New York, 1927), i. 341; S. L[adyman], The Dangerous Rule (1658), sig. A. Treas. inns of ct. Dublin, Nov. 1658–d.Kenny, King’s Inns, 132.

Parlimentarian
PEPYS, Richard (c.1588-1659), of Stoke-next-Clare, Suff.
: Suff.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

PEPYS, Richard (c.1588-1659), of Stoke-next-Clare, Suff.

Will
24 Feb. 1656, pr. in Ireland 2 May 1659, pr. in England 30 July 1660, original will now lost.Chappell, Pepys Fam. 38; Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland ed. A. Vicars (Dublin, 1897), 372; PROB6/36, f. 52.
Estates
income of less than £60 p.a. early 1620s;GL, MS 22424/4. owned land around Clare, Suff. and Ashen, Essex; left £1,000 at Bury St. Edmunds on leaving for Ireland 1654; was buying land around Cottenham, Cambs. 1656-7; prob. owned property in Smithfield, London.GL, MS 22424/5; MS 22424/7-8; Pepys, Gen. 61.
Oxford 1644
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