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Family and Education
bap. 20 Mar. 1603, 3rd s. of Christopher Whichcote of Stoke, Burford, Salop and Elizabeth, da. of Edward Fox of Greet, Salop.The Reg. of Burford, ed. F.C. Baldwyn Childe [1913], 19; Lincs. Peds. ed. A.R. Maddison (Harl. Soc. lii), iii. 1070-1; Vis. London 1633, 1634 and 1635 (Harl. Soc. xv, xvvii), ii. 334. m. 18 Feb. 1636, Katherine Large of Bitton, Glos. 2s. 2da.The Regs. of Bitton, Co. Glos. ed. P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton (1900), 67; The Regs. of St Helen’s, Bishopgate, London, ed. W.B. Bannerman (Harl. Soc. xxxi), 25-7; Lincs. Peds. iii. 1071. d. 26 Apr. 1664.The Diary and Corresp. of Dr John Worthington, ed. J. Crossley and R.C. Christie (Chetham Soc. xiii, xxxvi, cxiv), ii. 133.
Offices Held

Local: member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 1637.The Ancient Vellum Book of the Hon. Artillery Co. ed. G.A. Raikes (1890), 53; The Cardew-Rendle Roll, ed. K. Bennett (2013), ii. 1519.. Capt. white regt. London trained bands by Apr. 1642;BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; H.A. Dillon, ‘On a MS list of officers of the London trained bands in 1643’, Archaeologia, lii. 135. col. green auxiliaries by Sept. 1643.Dillon, ‘MS list of officers’, 142. Commr. martial law in London, 3 Apr. 1646.A. and O. J.p. Berks. 1 Oct. 1647 – ?Mar. 1660; Bucks. 1 Oct. 1647 – 12 July 1653, by c.Sept. 1656–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 98, 259; C193/13/6, f. 5v. Commr. assessment, Berks. 14 May 1649, 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). militia, 1 Oct. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 366. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. almshouses of Windsor, 2 Sept. 1654;A. and O.; SP18/182, f. 205. securing peace of commonwealth, Berks. c.Dec. 1655;TSP iv. 285. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35).

Military: lt.-col. (parlian.) by July 1643;SP28/8, f. 52. col. by July 1644.CJ iii. 562b. Maj.-gen. London brigade by Sept. 1644.SP28/18, ff. 67, 370; CSP Dom. 1644, pp. 513, 514–15. Gov. Windsor Castle Apr. 1645-aft. Feb. 1660.LJ vii. 334a-b; CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 364. Capt. Windsor coy. of ft. Dec. 1653; regt. of William Michell*, 30 July-aft. Sept. 1659.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 129; CJ vii. 742b; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), ii. 126.

Central: commr. ct. martial, 16 Aug. 1644.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
WHICHCOTE (WHITCHCOTT), Christopher (1603-64), of Windsor Castle, New Windsor, Berks.
: Berks., New Windsor.
WHITCHCOTT
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Commons 1640-1660
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WHICHCOTE (WHITCHCOTT), Christopher (1603-64), of Windsor Castle, New Windsor, Berks.

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not found.
Estates
bought lands at Frogmore, Windsor, from commrs. for sale of royal lands for £2,800, 1650.J. Roberts, Royal Landscape (New Haven and London, 1997), 211.
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