WYVILL (WYVELL), Christopher (1614-81), of Constable Burton, Fingall, Yorks.

Family and Education

bap. 6 Dec. 1614, 1st s. of Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, 2nd bt. of Constable Burton, and Isabel (d. c.May 1645), da. and h. of Sir William Gascoigne of Sedbury, Yorks.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 434-5; C. Wyvill, Certaine Serious Thoughts which...have Stollen themselves into Verse (1647), 34. educ. Epping sch. Essex (Mr. Wroth);Wyvill, Certaine Serious Thoughts, 10. Trinity, Camb. Mich. 1631;Al. Cant. G. Inn 14 Oct. 1633.G. Inn Admiss. m. 5 Dec. 1636, Ursula, da. of Hon. Conyers Darcy of Hornby Castle (later 1st earl of Holderness), Hornby, Yorks., 7s. (4 d.v.p.) 5da. (2 d.v.p.).Swillington, Yorks. par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 435-6. suc. fa. as 3rd bt. c.1648;Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 434. bur. 8 Feb. 1681 8 Feb. 1681.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 435. Sig.SP19/131, f. 123A (1651).

Offices Held

Local: commr. Northern Assoc. Yorks. (N. Riding) 20 June 1645; militia, Yorks. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. N. Riding Mar. 1660–d.A Perfect List [of JPs] (1660). Col. militia ft. Yorks. 27 Mar. 1660–?Notts. RO, DD/SR/216/1. Commr. assessment, 1 June 1660;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). N. Riding 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679.SR. Dep. lt. c.Aug. 1660–d.N. Yorks. RO, ZDV, Fauconberg (Belasysye) of Newburgh Priory mss, Lieutenancy appointments 1660–75, unfol. (mic. 1370); SP29/5/110, f. 130; SP29/42/67, f. 134. Commr. poll tax, 1660; loyal and indigent officers, Yorks. 1662; subsidy, N. Riding 1663;SR. sewers, 9 May 1664.C181/7, p. 248.

Parlimentarian

WYVILL, Sir Christopher, 3rd Bt. (1614-81), of Constable Burton, Fingall, Yorks.

: of Constable Burton, Fingall, Yorks.

WYVELL

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WYVILL (WYVELL), Christopher (1614-81), of Constable Burton, Fingall, Yorks.

Will

not found.

Estates

at his marriage in 1636, fa. settled on him £30 p.a.SP23/201, pp. 430, 431; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 164. In 1646, fa.’s estate – which Wyvill inherited in 1648 – consisted of messuages and lands in Carlesmoor, Clifton, Constable Burton, Dallowgill, Eppleby, Garriston, Grewelthorpe, High Burton, Low Burton, Sedbury, Spennithorne, Swetton, Swinton and Thornton Steward, Yorks., and was valued at £971 p.a (inc. above annuity).SP23/201, pp. 429-31, 435; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. Clay, 164.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

presented Robert Smith to rectory of Finghall, Yorks. 1665; Samuel Lindsey to rectory of Spennithorne, Yorks. 1672.IND1/17007, ff. 382, 394.

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