SKEFFINGTON, Sir Richard (?bef. 1594-1647), of Fisherwick, Staffs.; later of Hawksyard, Armitage, Staffs., and Earl Street ward, Coventry, Warws.

Family and Education

b. ?bef. 1594,E44/321. 2nd s. of Sir William Skeffington, 1st bt. (bur. 16 Sept. 1635) of Fisherwick, Staffs., and Elizabeth (bur. 16 Feb. 1635), da. of Sir Richard Dering of Pluckley, Kent; bro. of Sir John†.CB, ‘Sir William Skeffington’; Shaw, Staffs. i. 341. educ. Magdalene, Camb. Mich. 1615.Al. Cant. m. 27 July 1626 (?with £1,600), Anne (d. 21 May 1637), da. of Sir John Newdigate of Arbury, Warws. 4s. (1 d.v.p.) inc. Sir John*, 3da. (1 d.v.p.).PROB11/214, ff. 27-8; Shaw, Staffs. i. 366; Lodge, Irish Peerage, iii. 61-2; V. Larminie, Wealth, Kinship and Culture: the Seventeenth Century Newdigates (Woodbridge, 1995), 74. Kntd. 20 Aug. 1624;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 186. d. 2 June 1647.Clutterbuck, Herts. ii. 67.

Offices Held

Local: capt. militia ft. Lichfield, Staffs. early 1620s.Larminie, Seventeenth Century Newdigates, 75. Commr. disarming recusants, Warws. 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b. association of Staffs. and Warws., Warws. and Coventry 2 Feb. 1643;CJ ii. 952b. assessment, Staffs. 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644; Warws. and Coventry 21 Feb. 1645; sequestration, Staffs. 27 Mar. 1643;A. and O. Warws. and Coventry 17 Oct. 1643;CJ iii. 279a. levying of money, Staffs. 3 Aug. 1643; New Model ordinance, Warws. and Coventry 17 Feb. 1645;A. and O. gaol delivery, Warws., Coventry 15 Apr. 1645.C181/5, f. 251.

Parlimentarian

SKEFFINGTON, Sir Richard (by 1593-1647), of Fisherwick, Staffs.; later of Hawksyard, Armitage, Staffs. and Earl Street ward, Coventry, Warws.

: of Fisherwick, Staffs.; later of Hawksyard, Staffs., Armitage and Warws., Earl Street ward, Coventry.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SKEFFINGTON, Sir Richard (?bef. 1594-1647), of Fisherwick, Staffs.; later of Hawksyard, Armitage, Staffs., and Earl Street ward, Coventry, Warws.

Will

27 Apr. 1647, pr. 7 Oct. 1650.PROB11/214, f. 27.

Estates

in 1632, Skeffington and his brother-in-law Richard Newdigate† borrowed £2,000 – probably to help finance their purchase that year of three-quarters of manor, rectory and advowson of Thedingworth, Leics.LC4/201, f. 132v; Coventry Docquets, 627. In 1634, Skeffington purchased manor of Hawksyard, Staffs. (valued at £210 p.a.), for £4,000.C2/ChasI/S36/68; C2/ChasI/S117/52; C78/480/7. In 1638, he and Cicely Mitton purchased a wardship for £2,000.WARD9/163, f. 89. Estate at his death inc. lands in Coventry, Staffs., Suff. and Warws. and notably manor of Syerscote, nr. Tamworth, Warws., a rent charge of £25 p.a. in Earls Hall, Suff. and a house in Coventry.PROB11/214, ff. 27, 28; Coventry RO, BA/H/C/17/1, f. 135. In 1662-3, his heir’s estate was valued at £700 a year in Staffs. and £300 a year ‘elsewhere’.‘The gentry of Staffs. 1662-3’ ed. R. M. Kidson (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 4, ii), 28. In 1666, his heir’s house at Fisherwick was assessed at 30 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 3, 1923), 194.

Oxford 1644

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