SWYNFEN, John (1613-94), of Swinfen, Weeford, Staffs.

Family and Education

b. 19 Mar. 1613, 1st s. of Richard Swinfen of Swinfen, and Joan (bur. 21 May 1658), da. of George Curtal alias Harman of Weeford.Add. 29910, f. 126; Shaw, Staffs. ii. 29; Weeford Par. Reg. ed. N.W. Tildesley (Wednesbury, 1956), 42. educ. Pembroke, Camb. Mich. 1628, BA 1632.Al. Cant. m. 26 July 1632, Anne (bur. 29 Apr. 1690), da. of John Brandreth of Weeford, 6s. d.v.p. 4da.Weeford Par. Reg. ed. Tildesley, 38, 54; Shaw, Staffs. ii. 29. suc. fa. May 1659;Weeford Par. Reg. ed. Tildesley, 43. d. 12 Apr. 1694.Add. 29911, f. 64.

Offices Held

Local: commr. for Staffs. and Lichfield, assoc. of Staffs. and Warws. 31 Dec. 1642.Rushworth, Hist. Collns. v. 103. Member, Staffs. co. cttee. 30 May 1643–?;CJ iii. 110a; LJ vi. 70a. sequestration cttee. 7 June 1643–?CJ iii. 119b. Commr. assessment, Staffs. 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1679, 1689–d. 13 Nov. 1645 – bef.Jan. 1650A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. J.p., by c. Sept. 1656 – Mar. 1660, Feb. 1688–?d.C231/6, p. 30; C193/13/6; Duckett, Penal Laws and Test Act (1882), ii. 209. Commr. militia, Staffs. and Lichfield 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Steward and recvr. honor of Leicester 4 Jan.-4 Sept. 1649.PRO30/26/21, pp. 22, 52; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 179. Commr. customs, London 25 Feb. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Staffs. 1660; subsidy, 1663;SR. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 697.

Central: exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, Derby House cttee. of Irish affairs, 9 Apr. 1647.CJ v. 138a. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647.A. and O. Commr. Munster, 31 Mar. 1648.CJ v. 522a; LJ x. 167a. Member, Derby House cttee. 1 June 1648.CJ v. 578b; LJ x. 295b. Cllr. of state, 25 Feb. 1660.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

SWINFEN, John (1613-94), of Swinfen, Weeford, Staffs.

: of Swinfen, Staffs., Weeford.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SWYNFEN, John (1613-94), of Swinfen, Weeford, Staffs.

Will

20 Mar. 1694, cod. 5 Apr. 1694, pr. 16 May 1694.PROB11/420, f. 147v.

Estates

in the early 1630s, his fa. was assessed at £10 for distraint of knighthood.H.S. Grazebrook, ‘Obligatory knighthood temp. Charles I’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 1, ii. pt. 2), 19. Swynfen’s estate inc. lands in Curborough, Lichfield, Nuneaton, Orton, Shenstone, Swinfen, Tamworth and Weeford and was reckoned to be worth £2,000 p.a. in the early 1660s.‘The gentry of Staffs. 1662-3’ ed. R.M. Kidson (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 4, ii), 29. In 1666, his house at Swinfen was assessed at 9 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 3, 1923), 150. In his will, he referred to a farm in Curborough and a tenement in Nuneaton held by lease from 7th Baron Paget; property in Shenstone, Swinfen and Tamworth; and a leasehold tenement and 13 acres in Lichfield.PROB11/420, ff. 147v-148.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

The Black Bull in Friday Street, London (c.1644-5);PA, Main Pprs. 3 Jan. 1645, f. 11. St Anne’s Lane, near Westminster (1647-8).Add. 29910, ff. 3v, 5v, 17v; Senate House Lib. GB 0096 AL316.

Religion

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