Family and Education
b. 1600, 2nd s. of Thomas Danby of Kirby Knowle.J. Raine, ‘A brief memoir of Mr Justice Rokeby’, Miscellanea (Surt. Soc. xxxvii), 7. m. 27 Dec. 1632, Thomasine (d. 4 Oct. 1678), da. of James Richardson of Thorpe Bassett and North Grimston, 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 4da.Thorpe Bassett, Yorks. bishop’s transcript; St Michael le Belfrey Par. Regs. ed. F. Collins (Yorks. Par. Reg. Soc. i), 177, 214; M. Stephenson, ‘Monumental brasses in the N. Riding’, YAJ, xvii. 290; Anon. ‘Danby v. Sydenham: a Restoration chancery suit’, YAJ xvii. 87. d. 16 Dec. 1676.Stephenson, ‘Monumental brasses’, 290.
Offices Held
Local: commr. assessment, York 24 Nov. 1653.
: Kirby Knowle, Yorks.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
DANBY, James (1600-76), of New Building, Kirby Knowle, Yorks.
Will
7 May 1675, pr. 3 Feb. 1677.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 57, f. 271v.
Estates
in 1641, borrowed £100.C10/35/8. In 1643, purchased lease of several messuages, inc. New Building, in Kirby Knowle for £100.SP23/79, p. 349; Yorks. Royalist Comp. Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xx), 60. In 1648, he and John Wastell* purchased church lands in Northallerton for £102.Coll. Top. et Gen. i. 8. In 1652, he purchased, for £325, 1 fee farm rent in Yorks. worth £24 p.a.SP28/288, f. 59. In the early 1650s, he and another gentleman purchased a house and lands in Low Worsall, Yorks. from the treason trustees.CCC 3136. In 1654, he purchased manor of Kirby Knowle, inc. capital messuage of New Building, which was ‘altogether out of repair’ and reckoned to be worth about £74 p.a.VCH N. Riding, ii. 46; SP23/58, ff. 58-62. In 1662, estate inc. manor of, and ‘divers messuages in, Kirby Knowle, and the ‘common or moor’ of Kirby Knowle.C5/469/36.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
St Michael le Belfrey, York (by 1632-at least Dec. 1656).Thorpe Bassett, Yorks. bishop’s transcript; Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/DD4/14/182.
Religion
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