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Family and Education
bap. 22 Dec. 1622, 1st s. of Robert Baynes of Knostrop (bur. 26 Nov. 1626), and Joan, da. of ? Brown of Leeds.Leeds Par. Regs. ed. G.D. Lumb (Thoresby Soc. iii), 111, 232, 305; Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis, 101. educ. ?; ?m. settlement 15 July 1650, with £1,000, Martha (d. 14 July 1713), da. of Richard Dawson of Heworth, 16ch. (6 d.v.p.) inc. 7s. 3da.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), Baynes mss, B/13; Thoresby, Ducatis Leodiensis, 101; PROB11/336, f. 158. suc grandfa. July 1632.Leeds Par. Regs. ed. Lumb, 338 d. 5 Jan. 1671.C6/206/50.
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Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) by June 1643-c.Oct. 1643;Add. 21426, f. 19. capt. of horse, c. Oct. 1643 – Aug. 1657, 11 June 1659–13 Jan. 1660.Add. 21417, f. 3; Add. 21425, ff. 193, 194; E113/7, pt. 2, unfol.; CJ vii. 668b, 680b; HMC Portland, i. 695.

Local: commr. assessment, Yorks. (W. Riding) 7 Dec. 1649, 9 June 1657; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650; N. Riding, Northants. 9 June 1657; Westminster 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O. militia, Yorks. Aug. 1651,CSP Dom. 1651, p. 335. 26 July 1659;A. and O. W. Riding 14 Mar. 1655;SP25/76A, f. 16. Mdx. 26 July 1659; Northants. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Westminster militia, 7 July 1659; A. and O. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655.C181/6, p. 101. J.p. W. Riding by c.Sept. 1656.-8 Aug. 1657;C193/13/6; C231/6, p. 374. Northants. by c.Sept. 1656-bef. Oct. 1660;C193/13/6. Westminster Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660.A Perfect List (1660). Commr. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 8 Oct. 1659–31 Aug. 1660.C181/6, p. 399.

Central: commr. improvement of customs, Dec. 1653.CSP Dom. 1653–4, pp. 316, 425; 1654, p. 342; 1655, p. 51. Member, cttee. for the army, 28 Jan. 1654, 20 Aug. 1657.A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1657–8, p. 76. Commr. appeals and regulating excise, 17 Mar. 1654; prohibiting planting of tobacco, 11 Apr. 1654; arrears of revenue, 26 May 1659; custom/excise, 28 Sept., 27 Dec. 1659.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
BAYNES, Adam (1622-71), of Knostrop Hall, Leeds, and Holdenby, Northants.
: of Knostrop Hall, Leeds and Northants., Holdenby.
Likenesses

Likenesses: ?oil on canvas, attrib. P. Lely.Portraits of Yorks. Worthies ed. E. Hailstone (1869), i. no. xciv.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BAYNES, Adam (1622-71), of Knostrop Hall, Leeds, and Holdenby, Northants.

Will
5 Sept. 1670, pr. 5 June 1671.PROB11/336, f. 158.
Estates
in 1632, inherited Knostrop Hall and at least 150 acres from his grandfa.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), Baynes mss, B/13. Later inherited 2 messuages in York and £1,500 from his cousin.C6/125/10. In 1650, purchased from trustees for the sale of crown lands manor and park of Holdenby, Northants. for £22,299.E121/4/1/30; Add. 21427, f. 101; I. Gentles, ‘The Debentures Market and Military Purchases of Crown Lands, 1649-60’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1969), 251. In 1650-1, purchased, for for £1,887, 16 fee farm rents in Yorks. worth £181 p.a.SP28/288, ff. 6, 11, 28, 46; C5/444/70. In 1658, sold lands in Leeds parish worth £1,330.Add. 21424, f. 307. By September 1659, purchased the liberty of St Mary’s, York, ‘which extends to very many manors and towns in the county’.Add. 21425, f. 126. In 1664, purchased manor of Little Barugh, Yorks., for £2,350.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), Baynes mss, B/22.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Chapel Street, Westminster (1650);C6/206/50. Somerset House, The Strand, London (1653, 1656);Add. 21422, f. 34v; Add. 21424, f. 28. Axe Yard near King Street, Westminster (1655);Add. 21423, f. 83v. Tothill Street, Westminster (1659).Add. 21424, f. 285.
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