LEVESON, Sir Richard (1598-1661), of Whorne’s Place, Cuxton, Kent; Lilleshall Lodge, Salop, and Trentham, Staffs.; later of Boswell Court, nr. St Clement’s Well, London.

Family and Education

bap. 25 May 1598, 4th but 1st surv. s. of Sir John Leveson† of Cuxton, and 2nd w. Christian, da. of Sir Walter Mildmay† of Apethorpe, Northants., chan. of exch. 1559-89.Cuxton par. reg.; HP Commons 1604-29, ‘Richard Leveson’. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 30 May 1617;Al. Ox. Padua Univ. 1621;Staffs. RO, D593/P/9/1; Inglesi e Scozzesi all’Università di Padova dall’anno 1618 sino al 1765 ed. H. F. Brown (Venice, 1922), 144. travelled abroad (Italy) 1618-21.Staffs. RO, D593/P/6/7C-F. m. 23 July 1629, Katherine (d. 25 Mar. 1674), da. of Sir Robert Dudley, great chamberlain to the duchess of Tuscany, styled. duke of Northumberland, s.p.Staffs. RO, D593/Addnl./8/27, pp. 147-8; ,‘Sir Robert Dudley’, Oxford DNB. suc. cousin Sir Richard Leveson† 2 Aug. 1605, fa. 7 Nov. 1615;Staffs. RO, D593/P/6/7A; ‘Sir Richard Leveson’, Oxford DNB. cr. KB 1 Feb. 1626.Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 162. d. 2 June 1661.MI, Lilleshall.

Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Kent 4 Feb. 1622-aft. Nov. 1628.C181/3, ff. 42, 254v. Bridge warden, Rochester, Kent 1622–36.Traffic and Politics ed. N. Yates, J. M. Gibson (Woodbridge, 1994), 294. Commr. subsidy, Kent 1624.C212/22/23. Collector, privy seal loan, Salop 1625–6.E401/2586, p. 462. J.p. 22 June 1627-aft. 1640;C231/4, f. 228; C66/2527. Staffs. 4 July 1627-aft. 1640.C231/4, f. 230v. Steward, Newcastle-under-Lyme manor 21 Feb. 1631 – aft.Feb. 1639, 8 Aug. 1660–?d.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 168; HMC 5th Rep. 141. Commr. charitable uses, Salop 6 Dec. 1631–23 Nov. 1633; Staffs. 22 June 1637-aft. June 1639.C192/1, unfol.; C93/13/25. Member, council in the marches of Wales, 12 May 1633-c.1641.Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 4, p. 7. Commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 23 Jan. 1635-aft. Jan. 1642, 10 July 1660–d.;C181/4, f. 194v; C181/5, ff. 6v, 219; C181/7, pp. 11, 90. further subsidy, Salop, Staffs. 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR. disarming recusants, Staffs. 30 Aug. 1641;CJ ii. 267b; LJ iv. 385a. assessment, Salop 1642;SR. Staffs. 1642, 1 June 1660.SR; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Dep. lt. Staffs. and Lichfield 28 Apr. 1642–?, 17 Sept. 1660–?d.;Staffs. RO, D593/S/5/1, 4. Salop, Ludlow and Shrewsbury 3 Sept. 1660–?d.Staffs. RO, D593/S/5/3. Commr. array (roy.), 16 June 1642; Salop 18 July 1642.Northants. RO, FH133. Capt. vol. horse, Staffs. 29 Oct. 1660–?d.Staffs. RO, D593/S/5/5; J.C. Tildesley, Hist. of Penkridge (Wolverhampton, 1886), 59.

Civic: freeman, Newcastle-under-Lyme 13 Oct. 1640–?d.Pape, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 304.

Military: col. of horse (roy.), ?-Feb. 1645.List of Officers Claiming the Sixty Thousand Pounds (1663), 84; P. R. Newman, Royalist Officers in England and Wales (New York, 1981), 231; J. E. Auden, ‘The war services of some Shropshire officers in the king’s army’, Trans. Salop Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. ser. 4, ii. 253–4.

Parlimentarian

LEVESON, Richard (1598-1661), of Whorne’s Place, Cuxton, Kent; Lilleshall Lodge, Salop and Trentham, Staffs.; later of Boswell Court, nr. St. Clement’s Well, London.

: of Whorne’s Place, Kent; Lilleshall Lodge, Cuxton, Salop and Staffs.; later of Boswell Court, nr. St Clement’s Well, London., Trentham.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, follower of A. Van Dyck;Whereabouts unknown. fun. monument, attrib. T. Burman, Lilleshall church, Salop.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LEVESON, Sir Richard (1598-1661), of Whorne’s Place, Cuxton, Kent; Lilleshall Lodge, Salop, and Trentham, Staffs.; later of Boswell Court, nr. St Clement’s Well, London.

Will

3 Nov. 1660, pr. 6 Apr. 1664.PROB11/315, f. 12.

Estates

in 1605, inherited an estate from his distant cousin Admiral Sir Richard Leveson† reputedly worth £4,000 p.a.C78/250/11. His father’s estate was worth £1,600 p.a. in 1609.Staffs. RO, D593/H/14/1/2. In 1626-7, he was assessed at £520 for a privy seal loan.E401/2586, pp. 89, 462. Betw. late 1620s and late 1630s, he sold numerous properties in Kent and Essex.C54/2702/19; E134/13CHAS1/EAST30; Coventry Docquets, 581, 606, 625; Hasted, Kent, iii. 375, 383, 393; iv. 502. Through his wife he acquired an extensive estate in Warws. which he sold in 1633 for £8,250.C54/2995/21. In 1646, his estate consisted of manors of Great Wyrley, Over and Nether Penn, Perton, Rowley, Sheriff Hales and Trentham; a moiety of manor of Stone Heath; rectories of Barlaston, Seisdon, Sheriff Hales, Trentham and Trysull; tithes of Barlaston, Perton, Seisdon, Sheriff Hales, Trentham and Trysull; advowson of Sheriff Hales; property in Bloxwich, Bobbington, Burnhill Green, Bushbury, Oxley, Pelsall and Wobaston, all in Staffs.; manor, rectory and advowson of Lilleshall; manors of Beobridge, Cherrington, Hardwick, Ketley, Kynnersley, Lee, and Sleap and Crudgington; a moiety of manor of Newport; tithes of Longdon upon Tern, Shawbury and Shipley; and property in Brockton, Broughton, Cold Hatton, Longdon upon Tern, Ludstone, Shipley, Tibberton, Wappenshall and Whixall, all in Salop; and salt concessions in Middlewich, Cheshire.SP23/188, pp. 266-8, 292-3, 306, 308, 310; Staffs. RO, D593/P/8/1/28-9; HMC 5th Rep. 145. In all, his estate before the war was valued at £2,123 p.a., out of which he paid several pensions amounting to £800 p.a.SP23/100, p. 451; SP23/188, pp. 273, 275, 286, 298; C8/182/166; Staffs. RO, D593/P/8/1/35. By 1646, estate at Lilleshall inc. ‘coal works’, ‘lime works’ and mills.Staffs. RO, D593/P/8/1/10-11. At his death, estate inc. a part of manor of Wolverhampton, Staffs.PROB11/315, f. 15. In 1666, his house at Trentham was assessed at 33 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. 1921), 151.

Oxford 1644

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