KING, Thomas (d.1688), of Harwich, Essex, and London

Family and Education

m. (1) 18 Jan. 1647, Mary, da. of Charles Gooch, merchant, of Great Yarmouth, Norf. 1s.; (2) Alice, 2s.Moneys received and paid for Secret Services ed. J.Y. Akerman (Cam. Soc. lii), 207 d. betw. July and Oct. 1688.Secret Services ed. Akerman, 207.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Gt. Yarmouth 1647.Cal. of the Freemen of Gt. Yarmouth 1429–1800 (Norwich, 1910), 78.

Military: navy victualler, Gt. Yarmouth and Harwich by 1650-aft. 1651.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 79; 1651–2, p. 517

Local: commr. poll tax, Essex 1660; assessment, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677; Harwich, 1664, 1672, 1677;SR. corporations, Essex 1662–3;HP Commons, 1660–90. subsidy, Harwich 1663.SR. Dep. collector, hearth tax, Suff. 1666–7.CTB ii. 62, 66, 80, 346; iii. 291, 1201. Commr. recusants, Essex 1675.CTB iv. 696, 750.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 1671–85.N. Carlisle, An Inquiry into the place and quality of the Gent. of His Majesty’s Most Hon. Privy Chamber (1829), 188.

Parlimentarian

KING, Thomas (d.1688), of London.

: of Harwich, Essex and London.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

KING, Thomas (d.1688), of Harwich, Essex, and London

Will

not found.

Estates

owned property in Harwich.CTB i. 368-9; VCH Essex, ii. 286-7; E367/2827.

Oxford 1644

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