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bap. 16 July 1616, o.s. of Richard Harrison, alderman of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Mary.Pape, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 155, 173, 175. educ. MA (hon.), Oxf. 19 May 1649.Al. Ox. m. 1646, Catherine (d. bef. 7 May 1700), da. of Ralph Harrison of Watling St., London, 3s. d.v.p. suc. fa. Mar. 1653.Pape, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 155, 173, 175. exec. 13 Oct. 1660.A Compleat Collection of the Lives, Speeches ... of those Persons lately Executed (1660).
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trooper (parlian.), lifeguard of 3rd earl of Essex, c.Aug. 1642.Ludlow, Mems. i. 39. Capt. of horse, regt. Charles Fleetwood*, Eastern Assoc. army, c.1643–4; maj. c.May 1644–5;G. Davies, ‘Army of the Eastern Assoc.’, EHR xlvi. 90. Fleetwood’s regt. New Model army, Apr. 1645–7; col. July 1647-Jan. 1654.Temple, ‘Original Officer List’, 64; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 91. C.-in-c. Herefs., Glos., S. Wales 21 Aug. 1649–50;A Perfect Diurnall no. 312 (16–23 July 1649), 9 (E.531.27); Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 185. England and Wales 21 June 1650.CJ vi. 428a. Lt. of ordnance, Tower of London, 5 July 1650–23 Apr. 1652.CJ vi. 436b; vii. 126b. Cdr. garrison at St James’s Palace, London 1650. Ludlow, Voyce, 199; Kelsey, Inventing a Republic, 41–2, 44.

member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647, 29 May 1649. 29 May 1649A. and O.; CJ vi. 219b. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649. 29 May 1649A. and O. Member cttee. of navy and customs,; cttee. for excise, 29 May 1649;CJ vi. 219b. cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650;CJ vi. 388b. cttee. for the army, 10 Sept. 1650.CJ vi. 465a. Cllr. of state, 10 Feb. 1651, 25 Nov. 1652, 29 Apr., 9 July, 1 Nov. 1653.CJ vi. 532b; vii. 221a, 283a; Clarke Pprs. iii. 4.

j.p. Carm. 12 Nov. 1649 – bef.Aug. 1654; Brec. by 12 Nov. 1649 – ?54; Mon. 5 Mar. 1650 – ?54; Pemb., Glam., Rad. 9 Mar. 1650 – ?54; Card. 25 July 1650 – ?54; Staffs. 1 May 1651 – ?54; Mdx. c.Mar. 1652-bef. c.Sept. 1656; Som. 5 Mar. 1653-bef. c.Sept. 1656; Westminster 4 Oct. 1653-bef. c.Sept. 1656. Custos rot. Carm. 12 Nov. 1649; Brec. 9 Mar. 1650; Staffs. 30 Sept. 1653.C231/6, pp. 254, 269; Stowe 577, f. 35; Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 170–1, 197, 219, 272, 302, 334, 360; Staffs. Hist. Collections (1912), 335, 336. Commr. assessment, Herefs., Wales 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653; S. Wales 24 Nov. 1653;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Mdx. 15 June 1652;CJ vii. 142b. propagation of the gospel in Wales, 22 Feb. 1650.A. and O.; T. Richards, Puritan Movement in Wales, 270–1. V.-adm. S. Wales 18 Apr. 1650–?53.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 113. Commr. high ct. of justice, 25 June 1651.CJ vi. 591a.

high steward, Hereford c.Dec. 1649.Add. 70006, f. 124; R. Johnson, Ancient Customs of the City of Hereford (1882), 229. Freeman, Bristol 4 Feb. 1651.Bristol RO, 04264/5, p. 17.

member, Soc. of Merchant Venturers, Bristol 17 Feb. 1651.Bristol RO, society of merchant venturers mss, merchants’ hall bk. of proceedings, 1639–70, p. 189.

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HARRISON, Thomas I (1616-60), of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs. and Highgate, Mdx.
Staffs. and Mdx., Highgate.
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Commons 1640-1660
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HARRISON, Thomas I (1616-60), of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs. and Highgate, Mdx.

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none, attainted.
Estates
Bought fee farm rent of Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1 May 1650 for £49 17s 4d;SP26/1, p. 28. fee farm rent of New Carmarthen on behalf of Rowland Dawkins*, 15 June 1650;E308/7/2, f. 327. fee farm rent of Newcastle-under-Lyme mills, 29 Aug. 1650 for £122;SP26/1, p. 123. lands and tenements in former crown estate of Tottenham manor, 19 Sept. 1650, for £1,563 12s 9d; the manor of Tottenham, 24 Sept. 1650, for £4,633 4s 10d;I. J. Gentles, ‘The Debentures Market and Military Purchases of Crown Lands, 1649-1660’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 292. granted delinquents’ estates valued at £500, 23 Apr. 1652;CJ vii. 126b. bought manor of Newcastle-under-Lyme, former duchy of Lancaster estate, 6 Dec. 1653, for £1,538 4s 7d.Gentles, ‘Debentures Market’, 292; Keele University, Sneyd deeds 767. Named as an assignee, sale of manors of Dinefwr, Newton, Iscoed, Carms. Brec. Card.E121/5/6. Was owed over £3,065 in fees as lt. of ordnance, Apr. 1652.CJ vii. 126b. Property assessed at c. £17,000 before attainder.Oxford DNB. All property forfeit by act of attainder, 1660.SR.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
recommended Christopher Blackwood for Marden vicarage, Kent, 1 Mar. 1652; Robert Bragg for All Hallows the Great, London, 10 July 1652; Nathaniel Charlton for Woodborough rectory, Wilts. 24 Aug. 1652.Add. 36792, ff. 39, 47v, 51v.
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