BOUGHTON, Richard (d. aft. 1662), of Chichester and Lewes, Suss.

Family and Education

educ. ?Clifford’s Inn.E. Suss. RO, SAS/PN/141. m. ?31 Aug. 1637, Mary (bap. 12 Apr. 1616), da. of Peter Bettsworth (d. 1639) of Chithurst, Suss. at least 1s.IGI; Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 184; Attree, Notes IPMs Suss. 28; LI Admiss. i. 289. d. aft. 9 Feb. 1663.LI Admiss. i. 289.

Offices Held

Local: treas. for subsidies, customs and assessments, Suss. June 1640-Jan. 1643,E113/13. ?by 3 Dec. 1647-aft. 29 Dec. 1657.SP28/50, f. 83; 53, f. 246; 55, ff. 57, 101, 103, 412; 61, f. 505; 62, f. 713; 64, f. 570; 65, f. 724; 68, f. 265; 71, f. 255; 74, f. 211; 76, f. 420; 79, f. 759; 81, f. 1116; 82, f. 405; 92, ff. 398, 573; 96, f. 562; 98, f. 347; 101, f. 82; 103, f. 479; 105, f. 413; 108, ff. 283, 787; 110, f. 189; 111, ff. 165, 556; 113, f. 22; 114, ff. 298, 615. Solicitor for sequestrations, 13 Apr. 1643-aft. 9 June 1651.SP20/1, p. 6; E113/13; CCC 2292. Recvr. of rents, Chichester Cathedral Nov. 1648-Nov. 1649.E113/13. J.p. Suss. by 1 Oct. 1649-bef. Oct. 1660.Suss. QSOB 1642–49, 183; C193/13/3, ff. 64–5; C193/13/4, ff. 99v-101v; C193/13/5, ff. 105–107v; C193/13/6, ff. 88–89v; Stowe 577, ff. 53–4; CUL, Dd.VIII.1, f. 107v; Bodl. Rawl. A.32, p. 173. Commr. sewers, 2 June 1655, 30 June 1656, 28 Dec. 1658, 6 July 1659, 4 Oct. 1660.C181/6, pp. 106, 160, 346, 367; C181/7, p. 61; E. Suss. RO, DAP1/2/6; DAP1/3. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth, Nov. 1655.TSP iv. 161–2. Steward, Cuckfield, Ditchling, Nutborne, Chiltington, Rottingdean and Lewes 1656.E. Suss. RO, Dyke MS 1124. Commr. assessment, Suss. 6 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; surveying Ashdown Forest 19 June 1657;A. and O. for public faith, Suss. 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62–3 (E.505.35). ejecting scandalous ministers, 24 Oct. 1657;SP25/78, p. 238. militia, 26 July 1659.A. and O.

Military: capt. militia horse, Suss. 20 Sept. 1650; col. bef. Dec. 1655.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 511; TSP iv. 161.

Central: commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

BOUGHTON, Richard (d. aft. 1662), of Chichester and Lewes, Suss.

: Suss.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BOUGHTON, Richard (d. aft. 1662), of Chichester and Lewes, Suss.

Will

not found.

Estates

in July 1642, acquired a share in Irish Adventurers’ lands, and in 1653 was assigned 3,000 acres of land in Tipperary, co. Munster, Ire. which he sold in 1658.CSP Ire. (Adventurers) 1642-59, p. 204; C54/3795/35, 39; C54/3829/57; C54/3995/11. Property in Chichester, Woodhorne, Heighhurst, Eastergate, Rumboldswyke, and Birdham, Suss. purchased from commrs for sale of dean and chapter lands in 1650 and 1651; large portions of which were swiftly sold.C54/3479/6; C54/3479/10; C54/3542/13; C54/3543/26; C54/3544/26; C54/3548/5; C54/3553/19; C54/3577/22; C54/3578/14; C54/3582/12; C54/3586/30; C54/3904/9; C54/3944/22; Suss. Manors, i. 43, 48, 108, 219. ?Purchased ‘Chisenhall’s buildings’ near Gray’s Inn, Holborn, London in 1650.C54/3575/12.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

Boughton and William Cawley I* presented Michael Barrett to Eastergate, Suss. 14 Oct. 1657.F.E. Sawyer, ‘Parliamentary presentations to Suss. livings’, Suss. Arch. Coll. xxxiii. 270.

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