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Family and Education
b. c. 1580, 1st s. of Hugh Whistler of Great Milton, Oxon. and ?Agnes (bur. 24 Jan. 1605).St Mary, Great Milton, Oxon. par. reg.; Al. Ox. educ. Trinity, Oxf. 14 Oct. 1597, ‘aged 17’; BA 17 Feb. 1601;Al. Ox. G. Inn, 4 May 1601.GI Admiss. 102. unm. suc. fa. bef. 8 Oct. 1630.Great Haseley, Oxon. par. reg.; R.F. Whistler, ‘Annals of an English family’, Suss. Arch. Colls. xxxv. 64. bur. 2 Apr. 1647 2 Apr. 1647.Great Milton, par. reg.
Offices Held

Legal: called, G. Inn 25 Nov. 1611; reader, Staple Inn 1619; bencher, G. Inn 23 May 1622; reader, 1628; dean of chapel, 1635; treas. 1639–40.PBG Inn, i. 196, 234, 246, 284, 325, 336.

Civic: fee’d counsel, freeman and dep. recorder, Oxf. 14 Mar. 1623;Oxford Council Acts 1585–1626, 314, 320. recorder, 17 Sept. 1627-bef. Jan. 1647.Oxford Council Acts 1626–65, 7, 143; C181/3, f. 226; Longleat, Whitelocke pprs. ix. f. 123.

Local: j.p. Oxf. 1623-aft. Mar. 1642.C181/3, ff. 84, 226; C181/4, f. 57; C181/5, ff. 79, 227. Commr. gaol delivery, 1623-aft. Nov. 1639.C181/3, ff. 84v, 225v; C181/4, ff. 62, 159v; C181/5, ff. 29, 155. Commr. for Shotover and Stowood forests, Oxon. 1629, 18, 27 May 1643;CSP Dom. 1629–31, pp. 66, 74; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, i. 38, 42. barges, Oxf. 21 Apr. 1637;Oxford Council Acts 1626–65, 73. Thames navigation, Oxon. 24 May 1637-aft. Aug. 1641;Coventry Docquets, 46; C181/5, ff. 68v, 129, 208. further subsidy, Oxf. 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. perambulation, Wychwood, Shotover and Stowood forests 28 Aug. 1641;C181/5, f. 210. assessment, Oxon. 1642.SR.

Parlimentarian
WHISTLER, John (c.1580-1647), of Little Haseley, Oxon. and Gray’s Inn
: of Gray’s Inn, Mdx. and Oxon., Great Haseley.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WHISTLER, John (c.1580-1647), of Gray’s Inn, Mdx., and Great Haseley, Oxon.

Will
11 Sept. 1646, pr. 14 May 1647.PROB11/200/317.
Estates
from 1630, Great Milton, Great Haseley and Little Haseley, Oxon.; lands in Eton, Berks. and Facombe and Tangley, Hants;Whistler, ‘Annals’, 67; PROB11/200/317. valued at £143 p.a. in 1645.CCC 945.
Oxford 1644
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