ALFORD, John (c.1590-1649), of Offington, Broadwater, Suss. and Whitefriars, London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1590, 1st s. of Edward Alford† of Hamsey and Whitefriars, and Judith (d. 1637), da. of Edmund Downing of Suff.; bro. of Sir Edward Alford*.Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 205-6. educ. St John’s, Oxf., 13 Feb. 1607.Al. Ox. m. (settlement 2 May 1620), Frances (d. 23 Oct. 1659), da. of Sir Thomas Bishopp† of Parham, Suss., 2da.Add. 39478, f. 9; J. G. Alford, Alford Family Notes (1908), 37. suc. fa. 7 Nov. 1631.Add. 39478, f. 9. d. 5 Jan. 1649.Add. 5698, f. 187; F. Lambarde, ‘Coats of arms in Sussex churches’, Suss. Arch. Collns. lxxii. 234.

Offices Held

Local: commr. swans, England except south-western cos. c.1629;C181/3, f. 270v. sewers, Wittersham Level, Kent and Suss. 16 Dec. 1629, 31 Mar. 1640, 13 May 1645;C181/4, f. 32v; C181/5, ff. 167v, 253. Suss. 26 May 1637, 20 July 1641;C181/5, ff. 69v, 206; E. Suss. RO, DAP1/1, 1/2. Ticehurst and River Rother, Kent and Suss. 10 July 1639. 26 Feb. 1632 – 8 July 1637C181/5, f. 145. Feoffee, Steyning g.s. 1630. 26 Feb. 1632 – 8 July 1637W.P. Breach, ‘William Holland, alderman of Chichester’, Suss. Arch. Collns. xliii. 80. J.p. Suss., 1638–?, 21 Feb. 1646–48.C231/5, pp. 77, 253; C231/6, p. 40; C193/13/2; SP16/405. Commr. oyer for terminer and piracy, 23 May 1637;C181/5, f. 69. subsidy, 1641; further subisdy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 14 Apr. 1643;SR; CJ iii. 45a. array, 6 Aug. 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. sequestration, 14 Apr. 1643;CJ iii. 45a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

ALFORD, John (1590-1649), of Hamsey, Suss.; later of Offington, Broadwater, Suss. and the Whitefriars, London

: Suss., Broadwater and London., Whitefriars.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

ALFORD, John (c.1590-1649), of Offington, Broadwater, Suss. and Whitefriars, London.

Will

7 July 1643, pr. 2 May 1649.PROB11/208/34.

Estates

Wittersham manor, Kent, 1620-d.Hasted, Kent, viii. 488. 14 messuages in All Hallows Steyning, London, 1620-d., inc. The Rose and Star tavern, Fenchurch Street.Notes IPMs Suss. 3; C54/3318/17. Hamsey manor, Suss. 1631–d.VCH Suss. vii. 85. Purchased lands in Pockthorpe and Nafferton, Yorks. from Sir John Caryll of Harting, Suss. 1632;C54/2925/28. Greatham manor, Suss. 1634;Suss. Manors, i. 187; CCC 1071. property in Goswell Street, Whitefriars, London.PROB11/208/34. Assessed at £1,000, 28 July 1644; respited 30 Sept. 1644.CCAM 420. Assessed at £400 for his twentieth part, 12 Aug. 1644.CJ iii. 588a.

Oxford 1644

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