VALENTINE, Benjamin (?1584-1652), of London.

Family and Education

bap. 9 Mar. 1584, s. of Lay Valentine of St Giles, Cripplegate, London, and Sarah.GL, MS 6419/1, f. 81v. m. 11 Nov. 1610, Elizabeth (bur. 18 Sept. 1616), da. of Matthias Springham of London and Richmond, Surr. Merchant Taylor, 1s.Familiae Minorum Gentium (Harl. Soc. xl), 1307; GL, MS 4392, pp. 32, 36; C.M. Clode, Early Hist. of Merchant Taylors, ii. 345. bur. 9 June 1652.Mems. of St Margaret, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke, 630.

Offices Held

Household: servant of Robert Carr, 1st earl of Somerset, by 1613.C2/ChasI/U10/56.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs by 27 Nov. 1648.SP16/518, f. 173; Add. 5497, ff. 167–8. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 17 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 120b.

Parlimentarian

VALENTINE, Benjamin (?1584-1652), of London

: of London.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

VALENTINE, Benjamin (?1584-1652), of London.

Will

Estates

uncertain, although Parliament referred to ‘his estate in the county of Chester’, occupied by the royalists, in October 1644.CJ iii. 656b.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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