WAUTON (WALTON), Valentine (1600-70), of Great Staughton, Hunts.

Family and Education

bap. 18 May 1600, s. of Nicholas Wauton of St Katherine by the Tower, London.Regs. of St Katherine by the Tower London 1584-1625, ed. A.W.H. Clarke (Harl. Soc. lxxv), 19, 20; C142/337/112. m. (1) 20 June 1617, Margaret, da. of Robert Cromwell† of Huntingdon, Hunts., 4s. (2 d.v.p.), 1da.;Abbott, Writings and Speeches, i. 30; Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell (3rd edn. 1797), ii. 227-8. (2) bef. 1646, Frideswide (d. 14 Nov. 1662), da. of John Pym of Brill, Bucks. and wid. of George Austin (d. 1643) of Coleman Street, London, at least 1s. (d.v.p).St Andrew Holborn, London, par. reg.; Wood, Life and Times, i. 462; Vis. Bucks. (Harl. Soc. lviii.), 102; VCH Oxon, vi. 106. suc. fa. bef. 1606.C142/337/112. d. 1670.Bodl. Eng. hist. c. 487, p. 1250.

Offices Held

Local: capt. militia ft. Hunts. bef. 1631.CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 159. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Norf. 18 Oct. 1644, 17 Mar. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Bucks. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 24 Nov. 1653; Lincs., Westminster 26 Jan. 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). loans on Propositions, Hunts. 30 July 1642.LJ v. 250a. Dep. lt. Norf. Oct. 1643–?CJ iii. 287a. Commr. New Model ordinance, Hunts. 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Lincs. 26 July 1659. 27 July 1649 – bef.Oct. 1660A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 17. J.p. I. of Ely; Hunts. by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1660; Norf. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C231/6, p. 163; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. high ct. of justice, E. Anglia 10 Dec. 1650; Westminster militia, 28 June 1659.A. and O. Custos rot. Hunts. by Mar.-Aug. 1660.A Perfect List (1660); C231/7, p. 24.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), Aug. 1642–?Sept. 1643.SP28/1a, f. 211; Peacock, Army Lists, 56; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. Gov. King’s Lynn Sept. 1643-Apr. 1645, Aug. 1647-aft. May 1648.A briefe and true Relation of the Seige and Surrendering of Kings Lyn [1643], 7 (E.67.28); Perfect Occurrences no. 33 (13–20 Aug. 1647), 221 (E.518.20); CJ iv. 136b; v. 309a; LJ ix. 451b; CSP Dom. 1648–9, p. 60. Col. of ft. by Dec. 1643-Apr. 1645, by Jan.-?Oct. 1651.CJ iii. 314b; vii. 24b; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; CSP Dom. 1650, p. 95. Col. militia horse, Hunts. July-Aug. 1659.CSP Dom. 1659–60, pp. 24, 51, 565. Col. of horse, 12 Jan.-25 Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 812a; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. 208–9; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), ii. 146.

Civic: freeman, King’s Lynn Nov. 1644.HMC 11th Rep. III, 182; Cal. Lynn Freemen, 157. Burgess, Hanau, Hanau-Münzenberg, Germany ?1662.Ludlow, Voyce, 297.

Central: member, cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645, 10 Feb. 1649.A. and O.; CJ vi. 137b. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O.; CJ vi. 109a, 113b. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112a. Derby House cttee. 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 113b. cttee. of navy and customs by 15 Jan. 1649;Bodl. Rawl. A.224, f. 1; CJ vi. 119b, 137b. cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 19 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 121b. cttee. for the army by 26 Feb. 1649, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652.CJ vi. 152a; A. and O. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650, 13 Feb. 1651, 19 May 1659. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650;CJ vi. 388b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 4 July 1650.CJ vi. 437a. Commr. admlty. and navy, 31 May 1659, 2 Feb. 1660;A. and O. for governing army, 12 Oct., 31 Dec. 1659, 11 Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 796a, 801a, 841a.

Parlimentarian

WAUTON (WALTON), Valentine (1600-70), of Great Staughton, Hunts.

: of Great Staughton, Hunts.

WALTON

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WAUTON (WALTON), Valentine (1600-70), of Great Staughton, Hunts.

Will

none.

Estates

owned drained fenland in the Great Level, 1650-60; bought 800 acres in the Great Level from Alexander Blake*, 1653.Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fenns, ed. F. Willmoth and E. Stazicker (Cambs. Recs. Soc. xxiii), 44, 113.

Oxford 1644

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