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Family and Education
b. 2nd s. of Richard Stephens of Barton, and ?Elizabeth, da. of Robert Doleman of Whippingham.MT Admiss. i. 132; T. Stephens, The Castle Builders (1759), 2. educ. New Inn; M. Temple, 18 May 1636;MT Admiss. i. 132. DCL, Oxf. 9 May 1651.Al. Ox. m. bef. 1641, Anne, da. of Thomas Redman, ?(d.1628), attorney of Newport, wid. of Edward Harbert or Herbert (?d. 1635), yeoman, of Birchmore, Arreton, I.o.W. 5s. 3da.Stephens, Castle Builders, 3-4; PROB11/156/7 (Thomas Redman); I.o.W. RO, OG/EE/2, 40; Oglander Memoirs, 21; VCH Hants, v. 139-51. d. 12 Oct. 1658.Portsmouth RO, CE 1/7, p. 105.
Offices Held

Civic: recorder, Newport, I.o.W. 13 May 1641–d.;I.o.W. RO, NBC 45/16a, p. 414. Portsmouth c.Oct. 1644–d.;Portsmouth RO, CE 1/5, p. 85; CE 1/7, p. 105; Portsmouth Sessions Pprs. 1653–1688 ed. Hoad, 1, 3, 6, 161. Salisbury by 11 May 1646–15 Sept. 1656.Wilts. RO, G23/1/4, ff. 19v, 92; Hoare, Hist. Wilts. iv. (Old and New Sarum), 711; A. and O.

Legal: called, M. Temple 4 June 1641; associate bencher, 26 June 1652; bencher, 8 Feb. 1655.MT Admiss. i. 132; MTR iii. 1038, 1090.

Local: steward and bailiff, I.o.W. 1642. Woodward and verderer, New Forest 1644. Dep. steward, Winchester bpric. 1646; steward to dean and canons of Windsor, 1647. 2 Mar. 1647 – d.Stephens, Castle Builders, 5. J.p. Hants; Wilts. by 11 Jan. 1648-bef. Oct 1653, by c. Sept. 1656 – d.; Mdx. Dec. 1650-bef. Oct. 1652.C231/6, pp. 76, 203; C193/13/3, f. 69; C193/13/4, ff. 61v, 108v; C193/13/5, f. 115v; C193/13/6, f. 96; Wilts. RO, A1/160/1, ff. 102, 128; The Names of the Justices (1650), 50, 61 (E.1238.4). Commr. assessment, Hants 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657; I.o.W. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Wilts. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. by Feb. 1654–d.C181/6, pp. 9, 308.

Household: ?servant of Philip Herbert*, 4th earl of Pembroke, bef. Nov. 1643;CJ v. 44a. estate steward by Mar. 1646–?50.Sheffield Archives, EM1355/1, 1356.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs, 7 Feb. 1646.CJ iv. 431a. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649; removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649.A. and O. Judge, ct. of admlty. 16 Aug. 1649–d.CJ vi. 279b; vii. 44b, 221b. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for excise by 15 Nov. 1649-aft. May 1652.Bodl. Rawl. C.386.

Mercantile: member, Mineral and Battery Works Co. 28 June 1651 – d.; dep. gov. 2 Dec. 1652–d.Loan 16/2, ff. 105v-6, 108–24.

Parlimentarian
STEPHENS, William (d. 1658), of Barton, Whippingham, I.o.W. and the Middle Temple, London.
: Whippingham, I.o.W. and London., the Middle Temple.
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Commons 1640-1660
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STEPHENS, William (d. 1658), of Barton, Whippingham, I.o.W. and the Middle Temple, London.

Will
admon. 20 Nov. 1658.PROB6/34, f. 275.
Estates
paid £33 6s p.a. as steward to earl of Pembroke, c. 1648.Sheffield Archives, EM1356. Reported to have purchased property worth £3,000 in Bristol; manor of Chipping Ongar, Essex; manse of deanery of Salisbury, Wilts.; land worth £3,000 in Maids Morton, Bucks.; rectory and parsonage of Hackney; manor of Woodperry, Oxon.; manor of Barton (for £2,000) and manor of Bowcombe (for £8,000), I.o.W.; a moiety of the thirtieth part of the privilege of the Co. of Mineral and Battery Works, and a moiety of the twenty-fourth of the Mines Royal.Stephens, Castle Builders, 7-8. He paid £2,000 for rectory, parsonage and advowson of Hackney and manor of Grumbolds in 1651-2, but seems to have been acting for others and to have sold it on.LMA, M79/G/008/01, 02; VCH Mdx. x. 79-80. He certainly bought sequestrated manor of Bowcombe from Thomas Knollys* for £8,000 in 1652, having previously paid at least £2,353 to redeem a mortgage on the property.I.o.W. RO, JER/SEL/50/1, 12-16.
Oxford 1644
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