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bap. 21 Oct. 1591, 4th (but 3rd surv.) s. of William Chaplin (d. 1629) of Semer, Suff. and 1st w. Agnes. m. bef. Mar. 1632, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Robert Ignes alias Hynes, goldsmith, of Bury St Edmunds, 2s. d.v.p. 2da.Muskett, Suff. Manorial Fams. iii. 104, 110, 113-14; Vis. Suff. 1664-8 (Harl. Soc. lxi.), 188; Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury 1630-5 ed. N. Evans (Suff. Rec. Soc. xxix.), 154-5. d. by 25 Nov. 1672.Muskett, Suff. Manorial Fams. iii. 109.
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Civic: burgess, Bury St Edmunds ?by 1631-bef. Oct. 1662;Suff. RO (Bury), D6/4/1(9); A. and O.; Suff. RO (Bury), D4/1/2, ff. 1–26, 44; D14/1. alderman, 1650.Suff. RO (Bury), D4/1/2, f. 24v. Trustee, Almoners’ Barns, Bury St Edmunds by 1631 – Sept. 1669; recvr. by 1631. by July 1639 – aft.Aug. 1660Suff. RO (Bury), D6/4/1(9); D10/4/2; D7/1/2; D10/3; D7/1/4. Feoffee, Guildhall feoffment trust; recvr. 1640 – 41, 1647–50. Sept. 1642Suff. RO (Bury), H2/6/2/1, pp. 54, 55, 66, 83. J.p. west ward by, Jan. 1658.CJ ii. 767b; Suff. RO (Bury), D4/1/2, f. 17.

Local: commr. loans on Propositions, Bury St Edmunds 28 July 1642;LJ v. 245b. recvr. 10 Sept. 1642.LJ v. 346b. Member, Suff. co. cttee. 1642–60.Suff. ed. Everitt, 132. Commr. assessment, Bury St Edmunds 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660; Suff. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, Bury St Edmunds 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643; ejecting scandalous ministers, Suff. aft. Mar. 1644-c.1646, 16 Dec. 1657;Suff. Cttees. for Scandalous Ministers ed. Holmes, 25; SP25/78, p. 334. New Model ordinance, Ipswich 17 Feb. 1645; militia, Suff. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659; Bury St Edmunds 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Suff. May 1650-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 185; CSP Dom. 1650, p. 143; Names of the Justices of the Peace (1650), 54 (E.1238.4); Suff. RO (Ipswich), B105/2/4, f. 114. Commr. high ct. of justice, E. Anglia 10 Dec. 1650. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Suff. 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth by 20 Nov. 1655.TSP, iv. 225; CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 242.

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

Military: capt. militia horse, Suff. July – aft.Oct. 1651; militia ft. by 1656.CSP Dom. 1651, pp. 456, 475, 516; J.G.A. Ive, ‘The Local Dimension of Defence’, (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Cambridge, 1986), 232.

Parlimentarian
CHAPLIN, Thomas (1591-1672), of Bury St. Edmunds, Suff.
: of Bury St Edmunds, Suff.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

CHAPLIN, Thomas (1591-1672), of Bury St Edmunds, Suff.

Will
24 Apr. 1672, pr. 25 Nov. 1672.Muskett, Suff. Manorial Fams. iii. 109.
Estates
owned land at Wyverstone, Suff.Muskett, Suff. Manorial Fams. iii. 109.
Oxford 1644
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