Family and Education
b. 2nd s. of James Thurbarne† (d. 1627) of New Romney, Kent and G. Inn, and Mary, da. of Sir Giles Estcourt† of Salisbury, Wilts., wid. of William Sudall, Haberdasher of London.Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 287; Reg. of St Mary Aldermanbury (Harl. Soc. lxi), 67; Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 56. educ. King’s School, Canterbury, 1622-3.Scholars of King’s School, Canterbury ed. W. Urry, 71. m. (1) 12 May 1635, Ellen (d. 4 Mar. 1657), wid. of John Jacob of Sandwich, 2s. 1da.; (2) 18 Nov. 1658, Bennet Forster, wid. s.p.Boys, Sandwich, i. 350; Canterbury Mar. Licences 1619-60, 983. bur. 23 May 1688.St Peter’s Sandwich par. reg.; Boys, Sandwich, i. 350.
Offices Held

Civic: dep. to Cinque Ports brotherhood, Sandwich July 1639-July 1683.Cal. White and Black Bks. Cinque Ports, 472–573. Common cllr. 1640–59;E. Kent RO, Sa/AC7, f. 379v. town clerk, May 1643 – 27 Nov. 1660, 27 Nov. 1660 – Dec. 1662, Oct. 1667-Mar. 1684;E. Kent RO, Sa/AC8, ff. 16, 148r-v, 150, 161v, 181, 185v, 240; Boys, Sandwich, i. 351; D. Gardiner, Historic Haven: the Story of Sandwich (1954), 289–90. jurat (or baron), 5 Dec. 1659 – 27 Nov. 1660, 27 Nov. 1660 – Dec. 1662, Dec. 1669-Mar. 1684;E. Kent RO, Sa/AC8, ff. 144v, 148r-v, 191v, 240; Gardiner, Sandwich, 289. mayor, Dec. 1665–6.E. Kent RO, Sa/AC8, f. 174; Gardiner, Sandwich, 290.

Military: capt. militia, Kent bef. Sept. 1659.CSP Dom. 1659–60, pp. 95, 183.

Local: commr. assessment, Kent 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;Ordinance for Assessment (1660), 30 (E.1075.6); SR. Sandwich 1661, 1677, 1679; poll tax, Kent, Sandwich 1660, 1666.SR.

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Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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THURBARNE, James (d.1688), of Sandwich, Kent.

Will
16 Jan. 1685, pr. 8 July 1690.PROB11/400/180.
Estates
resident in St Peter’s, Sandwich, by 1646.Gardiner, Sandwich, 274. Purchased manor of Wingham Barton in 1651.Hasted, Kent, ix. 207; J. Philipot, Villare Cantiarum (1659), 52.
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