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Family and Education
b. ?1619 – 21, 1st s. of Capt. William Rainborowe* and da. of Capt. Rowland Coytemore of Wapping (d. ?by 1623).St Mary, Whitechapel, St John, Wapping par. regs.; PROB11/150, f. 127v, will of Rowland Coytemore. m. Margaret, at least 1s.A and O ii. 541; R.W. Stent, ‘Thomas Rainsborough and the Army Levellers’ (London MPhil thesis, 1975), 198. d. 29 Oct. 1648.E. Peacock, ‘Notes on the Life of Thomas Rainborowe’, Archaeologia, xlvi. 52.
Offices Held

Military: v.-adm. privateer expedition to Ireland, Apr. 1642.A True Relation of the Passages (1642), 4 (E.242.15). Capt. (parlian.) Swallow, summer guard, 1643.G. Penn, Memorials of Sir William Penn (1833), i. 66. V.-adm. capt. Lion, June 1643.CJ iii. 137a. Col. of ft. Eastern Assoc. army by Dec. 1644;J. Vicars, The Burning Bush Not Consumed (1646), 76 (E.348.1). New Model army, 10 Mar. 1645.Temple, ‘Original officer list’, 58. Gov. Worcester 23 July 1646-c.26 Apr. 1647.Diary and Pprs. of Henry Townshend ed. Porter, Roberts, Roy, 248; Kingdom’s Weekly Intelligencer no. 206 (20–27 Apr. 1647), 507 (E.385.6). Member, gen. cttee. of officers, 29 Aug. 1647.Clarke Pprs. i. 223–4. V.-adm. winter guard, capt. Happy Entrance, 2 Oct. 1647.CJ v. 318a, 324b. C.-in-c. fleet, 8 Oct. 1647, 1 January 1648.CJ v. 328b; Whitelocke, Memorials, 286. Capt. Reformation, 17 Mar. 1648.CJ v. 503b.

Central: commr. sea adventure to Ireland, 17 June 1642. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647;A. and O. cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 9 Sept. 1647;CJ v. 297b; LJ ix. 430b. cttee. of navy and customs, 9 Sept. 1647.CJ v. 297b.

Parlimentarian
RAINBOROWE, Thomas (d.1648), of Wapping, Mdx.
: of Wapping, Mdx.
Likenesses

Likenesses: woodcut, unknown, 1648;Colonell Rainsborowes Ghost (1648, 669.f.13.46). line engraving, unknown.Stapleton Colln., Bridgeman Images.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

RAINBOROWE, Thomas (d.1648), of Wapping, Mdx.

Will
admon. to wid. 24 Nov. 1648.PROB6/23, p. 135.
Estates
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
employed John Pendarves, vicar of St Helen’s, Abingdon, Oxon. as chap. Abingdon garrison, 1646.Laurence, Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 162.
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