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Family and Education
b. 15 Jan. 1587, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Robert Honywood of Charing, Kent, and his 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Browne† of Betchworth Castle, Surr.Add. 16604, ff. 6, 16v; [J.G. Nichols], ‘The posterity of Mary Honywood, at her death in 1620’, Topographer and Genealogist, i. 399; B.W. Greenfield, ‘Honywood evidences’, Topographer and Genealogist, ii. 170-1; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii-xiv), i. 424; Morant, Essex, ii. 168. educ. I. Temple, 17 Nov. 1605;I. Temple database. DCL, Oxf. 9 Sept. 1651.Ath. Ox. iv. pt. ii. 168; Al. Ox. m. 13 May 1634,All Hallows, London Wall, par. reg. Hester (d. 1681), wid. of John Manning of Hackney, Mdx. merchant, and da. and coh. of John La Mott of London, alderman, 5s (3 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.).Coventry Docquets, 648; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xv, xvii), ii. 42; Morant, Essex, ii. 168-9; C.F. Smith, ‘Markshall and the Honywoods’, Essex Review, vii. 164; F.H.S., ‘Markshall and the Honywood fam.’, N. and Q. iv. 235; Josselin, Diary, 634. suc. fa. 1627. Kntd. 22 Nov. 1632.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 200. d. 26 May 1666.Smith, ‘Markshall’, 164.
Offices Held

Local: commr. assessment, Essex 24 Feb. 1643, 21 Feb. 1645, 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;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643;A. and O. care of Landguard Fort, Suff. 12 Apr. 1643;CJ iii. 41b. accts. of assessment, Essex 3 May 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Dep. lt. by Sept. 1643–?1660.SP28/227: Essex dep. lts. to Edward Birkhead, 12 Aug. 1643. Commr. Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, Essex 24 Feb. 1644, 28 Aug. 1654;‘The royalist clergy of Lincs.’ ed. J.W.F. Hill, Lincs. Archit. and Arch. Soc. ii. 120; A. and O. for timber for navy, Kent and Essex 16 Apr. 1644;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Essex 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/5, ff. 237v, 254. Home circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 59–372. gaol delivery, Essex 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/5, ff. 238, 254. Colchester 16 Feb. 1655-aft. Feb. 1659;C181/6, pp. 82, 347. New Model ordinance, Essex 17 Feb. 1645;A. and O. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 78. J.p. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/3, f. 24v; A Perfect List (1660), 15; Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxvi. Commr. high ct. of justice, E. Anglia 10 Dec. 1650;A. and O. sewers, Essex 31 Aug. 1654;C181/6, p. 64. securing peace of commonwealth by 15 Dec. 1655.TSP iv. 320. Custos rot. 10 July 1656–59.C231/6, p. 340; Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxvi. Commr. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35).

Military: col. militia ft. (parlian.) Essex by May 1643 – aft.July 1644; eastern division, Essex 31 Jan. 1650-aft. Sept. 1659.BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; SP28/7, f. 337; CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 499; CJ vii. 749a, 772a. Capt. militia, Essex by July 1655-aft. June 1656.SP25/77, pp. 864, 887.

Religious: elder, Lexden classis, Essex Nov. 1647.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 388.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649;A. and O. ct. martial, Oct. 1651;CSP Dom. 1651, p. 479. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
HONYWOOD, Sir Thomas (1587-1666), of Marks Hall, Markshall, Essex.
: Essex., Markshall.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown.Hollytrees Museum, Colchester, Essex.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HONYWOOD, Sir Thomas (1587-1666), of Marks Hall, Markshall, Essex.

Will
24 May 1666, pr. 7 Aug. 1666.PROB11/321/384.
Estates
bought land at Markshall, Essex 1631;Coventry Docquets, 621. feoffee to 2nd earl of Warwick (Sir Robert Rich†) and later to 3rd earl of Warwick (Robert Rich*), honour of Rayleigh, Essex, by 1645-aft. 1659;Bodl. Rawl. B.310. he and others bought moiety of manor of Havering-atte-Bower, Essex for £770, 1651.I.J. Gentles, ‘The debenture market and military purchasers of crown lands, 1649-60’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 297.
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