BRISCO, William (1606-88), of Crofton, Thursby, Cumb.

Family and Education

bap. 16 May 1606, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John Brisco of Crofton, and Mary, da. of Sir Thomas Braithwaite of Burneside, Westmld.Warcop, Westmld. par. reg. (mar. 26 Apr. 1604; bap. 17 Mar. 1605, 16 May 1606); Nicolson, Burn, Westmld. and Cumb. ii. 203. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 12 Dec. 1623;Al. Ox. L. Inn 8 Nov. 1626;LI Admiss i. 201. called, 10 June 1634.LI Black Bks. ii. 318. m. (1) 26 Nov. 1635, Susanna (d. bef. Aug. 1638), da. of Sir Randal Cranfield of London and Sutton-at-Hone, Kent, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) (settlement 1 Aug. 1638) Susan, da. of Francis Brown, haberdasher, of St Mary Woolchurch, London, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DHA/3/1; PROB/1687/WINVX14; Nicolson, Burn, Westmld. and Cumb. ii. 204; Vis. Cumb. and Westmld. ed. Foster, 21. suc. fa. 26 Aug. 1632.C142/496/112. d. 25 Feb. 1688.Fams. in Cumb. ed. Ferguson, 86.

Offices Held

Local: commr. subsidy, Cumb. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 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, 1661. c. Mar. 1642 – 5 May 1643SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). J.p., c.Oct. 1644-bef. Dec. 1662.C220/9/4, f. 14; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLONS/L/13/1/9; J Musgrave, Musgraves Musle Broken, or Truth Pleading Against Falsehood (1651), 7 (E.626.26); Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 34; HMC Portland, i. 186; CJ iii. 678a; Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; taking accts. in northern cos. 29 July 1645.A. and O. Dep. lt. 6 Dec. 1645–?CJ iv. 368a. Commr. charitable uses, 2 June 1647.C93/19/24. Member, sub-cttee. accts. July 1647.SP28/252, pt. 1, f. 373. Commr. northern cos. militia, 23 May 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. propagating gospel northern cos. 1 Mar. 1650.CJ vi. 374a; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 23 (28 Feb.-7 Mar. 1650), 312 (E.534.15). Sheriff, Cumb. 21 Nov. 1650–4 Nov. 1651.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 28. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 18, 281. northern borders 2 Mar. 1663- aft. Mar. 1667;C181/7, pp. 194, 392. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cumb. co. Dur. Northumb. and Westmld. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. gaol delivery, Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655;C181/6, p. 103. surveying church livings, Cumb. c.2 Aug. 1656.Nightingale, Ejected of Cumb. and Westmld. 1311–12. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Commr. for public faith, Cumb. 16 Dec. 1657.SP25/77, p. 331.

Civic: recorder, Carlisle c.25 Oct. 1649–9 Oct. 1662.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), CA/2/1, 385; CA/4/2.

Scottish: commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Military: col. militia ft. ?Cumb. by Dec. 1656-aft. Apr. 1659.Burton’s Diary, i. 45; iv. 341.

Parlimentarian

BRISCOE, William (c.1606-88), of Lincoln’s Inn and Crofton, Cumb.

: of Crofton, Thursby, Cumb.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BRISCO, William (1606-88), of Crofton, Thursby, Cumb.

Will

14 May 1686, pr. 17 Mar. 1688.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), PROB/1687/WINVX14.

Estates

in 1632, inherited manors of Crofton and Great Orton and lands in Brisco, Crofton, Kirkbampton, Kirkland, Orton and Swaby, Cumb.C142/496/112; C.M. Lowther Bouch, ‘The manor and advowson of Great Orton’, Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. ser. 2, xl. 50. In 1638, he set aside lands worth £100 p.a. for the jointure of his second wife.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DHA/3/1. By 1640, estate inc. advowsons of Great Orton and Kirkbampton and a lease of lands in Westward Forest, Cumb;IND1/17000, f. 172; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DHA/3/1; Lowther Bouch, ‘Great Orton’, 51, 52. by 1644, inc. tithes in Brunstock, Cummersdale and Stanix, nr. Carlisle;LPL, COMM VIII/1, pp. 334, 335. by 1654, inc. tithes in Westward.Nightingale, Ejected of Cumb. and Westmld. 145, In 1656, Brisco, Thomas Craister* and another gentleman acquired the former dean’s house in Carlisle for £145 from trustees for the sale of dean and chapter lands.C54/3844/16. In 1684, Brisco’s estate inc. lands in Whinnow and Moorside, tithes in Crofton and Wigton, and lordship of Kirkland.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DHA/3/3. The Briscos’ estate was reputedly worth £300 p.a. by late seventeenth century.A Cursory Relation of all the Antiquities and Familyes in Cumberland ed. R. S. Ferguson (Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. Tract Ser. iv), 30.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

lodging betw. Westminster Abbey and St Margaret’s church ‘at one Mrs Scott’s house’, Westminster (1657).Bodl. Rawl. H.104, f. 12.

Religion

presented Otto Polewheele to rectory of Kirkbampton, Cumb. 1639; John Bell, 1658; ?John Bird to rectory of Great Orton, Cumb. 1663; John Pearson, 1665.IND1/17000, f. 172; IND 1/17005, f. 12; Nightingale, Ejected of Cumb. and Westmld. 231, 606, 607.

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