CRAISTER, Thomas (c.1620-81), of Carlisle, Cumb.

Family and Education

b. c. 1620, 1st s. of Edmund Craister, merchant, of Carlisle, and Jane (d. c.1649).SP23/171, p. 157; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DGC 4/1, f. 99v; Heywood Diaries ed. J.H. Turner (Brighouse, 1881), ii. 144; Hedley, Northumb. Fams. ii. 264, 268. educ. appr. merchant, Carlisle c.1631-8.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DGC 4/1, f. 14v. m. 1641, Elizabeth (d. 1691), da. of William Lodge of Mill Hill, Leeds, Yorks. at least 1s.Paver’s Mar. Lics. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xl), 177; Leeds Par. Regs. ed. G.D. Lumb (Thoresby Soc. iii), 39; Topcliffe and Morley Regs. ed. W. Smith (1888), 51. d. 13 May 1681.Heywood Diaries ed. Turner, ii. 144.

Offices Held

Mercantile: member, Carlisle merchants’ guild, 30 Mar. 1638–?d.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DGC 4/1, ff. 14v, 131; Hedley, Northumb. Fams. ii. 268.

Civic: freeman, Carlisle ?Mar. 1638–?d.; common councillor by May 1643 – bef.27 Mar. 1648; auditor, 27 Mar.-c.Oct. 1648; alderman by 27 Mar. 1648–?bef. Apr. 1662;Cumb. RO (Carlisle), CA/2/1; CA/2/21/6; CA/2/384; CA/4/139, f. 92. mayor, Oct. 1649 – Oct. 1651, by 12 July-Oct. 1654.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DMH/10/5/17, p. 311; CA/2/392.

Local: recvr. assessment money, Cumb. c.Oct. 1648-Aug. 1660.E113/5; SP28/226, unfol.; SP28/259, f. 409; SP28/351, unfol. Commr. militia, Cumb. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Commr. compounding with delinquents northern cos. 2 Mar. 1649;SP18/1/23, f. 32. assessment, Cumb. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). propagating gospel northern cos. 1 Mar. 1650.CJ vi. 374a; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 23 (28 Feb.-7 Mar. 1650), 312. (E.534.15). Check of customs, Carlisle by June 1652-bef. July 1660.E351/653–60. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Cumb. 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. J.p. 3 Nov. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 273. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cumb., co. Dur., Northumb. and Westmld. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. surveying church livings, Cumb. c.2 Aug. 1656;Nightingale, Ejected of Cumb. and Westmld. 1311–12 for public faith, 16 Dec. 1657.SP25/77, p. 331.

Military: capt. militia ft. (parlian.), Cumb. by Apr. 1649-c.1650.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLONS/L/13/1/9; J. Musgrave, A True and Exact Relation (1650), 10 (E.619.10).

Parlimentarian

CRAISTER, Thomas (c.1620-81), of Carlisle, Cumb.

: Cumb.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CRAISTER, Thomas (c.1620-81), of Carlisle, Cumb.

Will

admon. 17 Apr. 1683.Borthwick, Pontefract Deanery act bk. 5B, f. 28.

Estates

inc. a house in Carlisle.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLONS/L/13/1/9. In 1653, purchased ‘the manor of the soccage of the castle of Carlisle’ (worth £100 p.a.) from trustees for the sale of crown lands, which he sold to Charles Howard* in 1655 for £2,050.C54/3759/13; LR2/266, f. 72; Durham Univ. Lib. HNP C49/4, 4a, 6-8. In 1656, Craister, William Brisco* and another gentleman acquired former dean’s house in Carlisle for £145 from trustees for the sale of dean and chapter lands.C54/3844/16. In 1668, he leased land on Twenty Acre Hill, Carlisle, from Charles Howard.Durham Univ. Lib. HNP C49/9.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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