PECKHAM, Henry (1615-73), of Chichester, Suss. and the Middle Temple, London.

Family and Education

bap. 20 Aug. 1615, 1st s. of William Peckham of Aldingbourne and Mary.Add. 5698, f. 258. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 11 May 1632;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 25 Oct. 1634.M. Temple Admiss. i. 130. m. 8 May 1644, Judith, da. Henry Goringe* of Highden, 6s. (1 d.v.p.), 4da. (1 d.v.p.).Add. 5698, f. 258. Kntd. 24 May 1662;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 236; Add. 39482, f. 189. suc. fa. 1671.Add. 5699, f. 144. bur. 27 Apr. 1673 27 Apr. 1673.Add. 5699, f. 181v.

Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Suss. 26 May 1637, 26 July 1645, 2 June 1655, 30 June 1656, 28 Dec. 1658, 1 Oct. 1660, 26 Aug. 1669. June 1647 – bef.12 Mar. 1649C181/5, ff. 70v, 257v; C181/6, pp. 106, 160, 346; C181/7, pp. 58, 506. J.p. 2, 10 Mar. 1655–d.C231/6, pp. 92, 305; C193/13/6; C193/13/5; C220/9/4; ASSI35/88/3; ASSI35/90/2 ; ASSI35/96/9; ASSI35/103/8. Commr. assessment, 9 Jun. 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. oyer and terminer, Home circ. June 1659–d.;C181/6, p. 373; C181/7, pp. 8, 639. militia, Suss. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663.SR.

Legal: called, M. Temple 4 June 1641; bencher, 30 Oct. 1663; reader, Aug. 1669.M. Temple Bench Bk., 209; MTR iii. 1189, 1231, 1242, 1244. Master in chancery, extraordinary, 26 May 1655.C216/2/84. Sjt.-at-law, 30 Oct. 1669.J. H. Baker, Order of Sjts. at Law (1984), 445.

Household: steward to John Beauchamp at Cackham, 1648–56;W. Suss. RO, Add. MSS 12859–12862. to George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley, and to George Berkeley*, 1st earl of Berkeley, at Bosham, 1656–63.Preston Manor, Brighton, Thomas-Stanford Coll., WS/AU/2; W. Suss. RO, Add. MSS 12476, 12672.

Civic: recorder, Chichester 1654–d.;Dallaway, Hist. Western Div. Suss. (1815), i. 154. Portsmouth 19 Oct. 1658–d.;Portsmouth Records ed. East, 420. Newport, I.o.W. ?1661–d.CSP Dom. 1673, p. 388.

Parlimentarian

PECKHAM, Henry (1615-73), of Chichester, Suss.

: of Chichester, Suss. and London., the Middle Temple.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PECKHAM, Henry (1615-73), of Chichester, Suss. and the Middle Temple, London.

Will

28 Feb., codicil 16 Apr., pr. 16 June 1673.PROB11/342/265; W. Suss. RO, Add. MS 20508.

Estates

in 1655, leased Roughton manor for £2,868 with Henry Goring†;W. Suss. RO, Add. MS 20507. June 1661, granted parsonage house, Selsey; in 1663, acquired manor of Raymonds; 1668, manor of Ley or Lee.Suss. Arch. Coll. liv. 261; W. Suss. RO, PAR 166/6/2; Suss. Manors, i. 266; ii. 367. At d. manor of Runcton and lands in Aldingbourne, Lee, Pagham, Selsey and Wisborough Green.PROB11/342/265.

Oxford 1644

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