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Family and Education
b. 15 Sept. 1595, 1st s. of John Nicholas of Roundway and Mary, da. of Thomas Cook of Bishop’s Cannings.Wilts. RO, 134/1. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 11 May 1610; BA 17 May 1613;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 11 Nov. 1613.MTR ii. 572. m. (1) 23 Apr. 1622, Margaret (d. 11 Dec. 1636), da. of George Worth of Bulkington, s.p.; (2) 30 May 1639 (with £500), Ann (bur. 18 Feb. 1684), da. of Sir Humfrey Lynde of Cobham, Surr. at least 3s. ?d.v.p. 4da. (?2 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 13 Sept. 1633; uncle, Mar. 1635.Wilts. RO, 134/1; Southbroom par. reg. d. 20 Dec. 1667.Southbroom par. reg.; MIs Wilts. 1822, pp. liii. 368; Wilts. N and Q iii. 544.
Offices Held

Legal: called, M. Temple 23 Nov. 1621;MTR ii. 669. associate bencher, 31 Oct. 1645. by 13 June 1649 – Oct. 1658MTR ii. 935. Counsel for prosecution, trial of Abp. Laud, 1641–4. by 13 June 1649 – Oct. 1658Wilts. N and Q iii. 541; CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 517–53; HMC Lords n.s. xi. 419; LJ vi. 580. Sjt.-at-law, 31 Oct. 1648. by 13 June 1649 – Oct. 1658C202/31/4; LJ x. 572a; CJ vi. 66a. Judge, Upper Bench, 17 Jan.-May 1660.Wilts. RO, 765/8; Wilts. N and Q iii. 541–3; Clarke Pprs. iii. 164–5. Bar. exch. Hilary 1654, Sept. 1658–1660.Wilts. N and Q iii. 543; Baker, Serjeants at Law, 528. Assize judge, var. circs. by Feb. 1654-July 1658.C181/6, pp. 7, 298.

Civic: freeman and councillor, Devizes, 23 Oct. 1629; town clerk, 4 Oct. 1630;Wilts RO, G20/1/17, ff. 67v, 74v. recorder, 5 June 1639–13 June 1649.Wilts RO, G20/1/17, ff. 133v-4; 765/8; Wilts. N and Q iii. 540; VCH Wilts. x. 271.

Religious: vestryman, St Mary, Devizes by 1634/5-aft. 1641; Seend, Wilts. by 20 Apr. 1663–d.Wilts. RO, 189/2, ff. 6, 10v, 14v, 35; Wilts. N and Q iii. 543–4.

Local: commr. further subsidy, Wilts. 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). raising forces and money, 3 Feb. 1643; commr. for Wilts. 1 July 1644; defence of Wilts. 15 July 1644; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O. J.p. Devizes ?-13 June 1649;Wilts. RO, 765/8. Wilts. by 27 Apr. 1647-bef. Oct. 1660;Wilts. RO, A1/160/1, f. 80; C193/13/4, f. 108; C193/13/6, f. 95v; C193/13/6, f. 115; A Perfect List (1660), 59. var. commissions of peace as judge and bar. exch. from c.June 1649-May 1659. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western and other circs. and commissions from c.June 1649-May 1659.C181/6, pp. 1, 356.

Central: member, cttee. for sequestrations, 4 Apr. 1644;CJ iii. 448a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 19 Nov. 1644;CJ iii. 699b. cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647.A. and O. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 24 Jan. 1648;CJ v. 421a; LJ ix. 675b. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649, 1 Apr. 1650.A. and O.; CJ vi. 391b, 392a.

Parlimentarian
NICHOLAS, Robert (1595-1667), of the Middle Temple, London; Devizes, and Roundway, Wilts.
: London; Devizes and Roundway, Wilts.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

NICHOLAS, Robert (1595-1667), of the Middle Temple, London; Devizes, and Roundway, Wilts.

Will
6 May 1667, pr. 2 Feb. 1668.PROB11/329/131.
Estates
in May 1639, messuage in Devizes, in his occupation; farm at Roundway; toft and yardland ‘Baldnams’; ‘Pricketts’ close and Holcroft grounds in Bishops Cannings;Wilts. N and Q v. 387-8. by 1655, nearly 250 a. at Roundway farm, Baldnams, the Prickets, Holcrofts, Bedborough and other land in Bishop’s Cannings;Wilts. RO, 134/1. by 1663, house at Seend; inventory (incomplete), 31 Dec. 1667, inc. £300 in money and apparel, £216 in books and manuscripts.Add. Roll 37593.
Oxford 1644
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