Family and Education
b. c. 1597, o.s. of William Barrowe of Westhorpe, Suff. and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Dandy of Comes.Vis. Suff. 1561, 1577, 1612, 113; Vis. Suff. 1664-1668 (Harl. Soc. lxi.), 208; W.E. Layton, ‘Bacon and Bures’, Misc. Gen. et Her. 3rd ser. iv. 167; Copinger, Manors of Suff. i. 174. educ. St John’s, Camb. 1612;Al. Cant. G. Inn 1616.G. Inn Admiss. m. 5 Sept. 1626, Mary (d. 19 Nov. 1666), da. and coh. of Sir Richard Smythe of Leeds Castle, Leeds, Kent, wid. of Sir James Morice alias Poyntz of North Ockendon, Essex, s.p.St Stephen Coleman Street, London par. reg.; Le Neve, Monumenta, iv. 68; Layton, ‘Bacon and Bures’, 166-7. suc. fa. 1613.Le Neve, Monumenta, i. 41-2; PROB11/123/35. d. 11 May 1666.Le Neve, Monumenta, iv. 64.
Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Suff. 1626, 1637;C181/3, f. 201v; C181/5, f. 82; Deeping and Gt. Level 21 July 1659;C181/6, p. 383. Norf., Suff. and I. of Ely 7 Sept. 1660.C181/7, p. 42. Sheriff, Suff. 1627–8, Dec. 1643–?after Jan. 1645.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 132; Coventry Docquets, 361; CJ iii. 354b; LJ vi. 384a. Commr. swans, Essex and Suff. 1635;C181/5, f. 28v. preserving royal game, Thetford 1638;Norf. RO, KIM 6/6. subsidy, Suff. 1641, 1663; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 1 June 1660, 1661;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). loans on Propositions, 28 July 1642.LJ v. 245b. Dep. lt. by Sept. 1642–?LJ v. 342b. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643; ejecting scandalous ministers, Suff. 1644–6;Suff. Cttees. for Scandalous Ministers ed. Holmes, 25. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O. J.p. by Aug. 1645 – bef.Jan. 1650, Mar.-Oct. 1660.Suff. RO (Ipswich), B105/2/1, f. 78v; Bodl. Tanner 226, p. 187; A Perfect List (1660), 51. Commr. oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, 24 July 1645;C181/5, f. 257. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Religious: elder, tenth Suff. classis, 5 Nov. 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 428.

: of Westhorpe and Barningham, Suff.
Likenesses

Likenesses: fun. monument, attrib. D. Cawcy and E. Pearce, Westhorpe church, Suff.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BARROWE, Maurice (c.1597-1666), of Westhorpe and Barningham, Suff.

Will
16 Nov. 1665, pr. 1 July 1667.PROB11/321/240.
Estates
?worth £3,000-£4,000 p.a. 1637;CSP Dom. 1637, p. 479. combined estates of Barrowe and his wife said to be worth £6,000 p.a. in the late 1650s;Soc. Antiq. MS 667, p. 237. bought lands at Great Fakenham, Sapiston and Bardwell, Suff. 1631;Coventry Docquets, 610. sold manor of Tunbridge Hall, Bottisham, Cambs. 1636.C66/2724, mm. 28-9.
Oxford 1644
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