BUTTON, John I (c.1596-1665), of Buckland, nr. Lymington, Hants.

Family and Education

b. c. 1596, 1st s. of John Button of Upavon, Wilts. and Helen (d. 1624), da. of Sir Bernard Drake of Mount Drake, Devon.Berry, Pedigrees of Hants, 33; Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 212. educ. Exeter Coll., Oxf. 7 June 1611, ‘aged 15’;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 8 June 1613.MTR ii. 565. m. (1) lic. 18 Sept. 1622, Eleanor, da. of Thomas South of Northleigh, Hants, 1s. (d.v.p.), 1da.;Hants Marriage Licences, 1607-1640, 29; PROB11/144/96; PROB11/324/184. (2) settlement 21 May 1632, Amy (d. 1666), da. of Sir William Oglander of Nunwell, I.o.W., wid. of Dr William Thorne, dean of Chichester, s.p.I. o. W. RO, OG/Z/12. suc. fa. 1601; uncle, Henry Button, bef. 24 Apr. 1624.PROB6/6, f. 78v; PROB11/143/392. bur. 7 Mar. 1665 7 Mar. 1665.Berry, Pedigrees of Hants, 33.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Hants 1625 – 26, 1628 – 10 June 1642, by Feb.- 16 July 1650, Mar-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/4, ff. 176, 249v; C231/5, p. 528; C231/6, p. 190; C193/13/3, f. 56v; A Perfect List (1660), 49. Commr. disarming recusants, 1625.Add. 21922, f. 38. Capt. militia, New Forest 1625; lt. col. 1639.Add. 21922, ff. 5, 62, 110, 151v, 166v; 26781, ff. 17v, 66; Hants RO, 44M69/G5/32/17; 44M69/G5/33/22; 44M69/G5/42/5. Commr. subsidy, Hants 1628;Hants RO, 44M69/G4/1/99. sewers, River Avon, Hants and Wilts. 25 June 1629-aft. May 1630;C181/4, ff. 17v, 49v. Hants and Suss. 10 July 1638.C181/5, f. 115v. Sheriff, Hants 1636–7.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 56. Dep. lt. 1640–5.Add. 21922, f. 220; LJ v. 156b. Commr. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660), 50 (E.1075.6). sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643, 10 June 1645; defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; commr. for Hants, assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644.A. and O. Member, cttee. for Southampton, 19 Aug. 1648.LJ x. 447b; CJ v. 667a. Commr. militia, Hants 2 Dec. 1648, ?12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. ?preservation of timber, New Forest 1 Mar. 1660;CJ vii. 856b. ?poll tax, Hants 1660.SR.

Civic: freeman, Lymington 1627;Hants RO, 27M74/DBC2, ff. 11, 20. Yarmouth I.o.W. 1631.Add. 5669, f. 88. Burgess and surveyor of the dock, Portsmouth 1637.Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 352. Burgess, Christchurch by May 1647.Christchurch Bor. Council, Min. Bk, p. 563.

Military: capt. and dep. gov. (parlian.) Hurst Castle, Hants Aug. 1642-aft. 4 May 1643;CJ ii. 720a-b; A. and O. col. by 27 Sept. 1643.HMC Portland, i. 131–2.

Central: member, Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 24 July 1645.CJ iv. 217b; A. and O.

Religious: elder, third Hants classis, 29 Dec. 1645.King, Bor. and Par. Lymington, 263.

Parlimentarian

BUTTON, John (c.1596-1665), of Buckland, nr. Lymington, Hants.

: Hants., nr. Lymington.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BUTTON, John I (c.1596-1665), of Buckland, nr. Lymington, Hants.

Will

3 May 1663, pr. 30 June 1666.Hants RO, A1666/016.

Estates

?inherited from fa. in 1601 reversionary interest aft. d. of his mo. Helen in land at Upavon;PROB6/6, f. 78v; VCH Wilts. x. 165. £10 p.a. during his minority and £100 thereafter from Sir Ambrose Button, 1613;PROB11/122/619. inherited Hants lands of uncle Henry Button by prior settlement and by will proved Apr. 1624;PROB11/143/392. assessed for the 1625 loan at £15;SP16/521, f. 308. with John Button, gent. acquired from Sir George Wroughton, aft. 1 Apr. 1627, manors of Sway Romsey and Sway Quarr;Coventry Docquets, 556. in 1630 compounded for knighthood at £25;Add 21922, f. 176v; Cornwall RO, ME 2886. in 1632 gained property in Suss. through his second marriage.I.o.W. RO, OG/Z/11-13.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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