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Family and Education
bap. 21 Jan. 1621, 1st s. of Robert Spence of Neyling and Jane or Joan, da. of William Wignall of Tandridge, Surr.SS Peter and Paul, Lingfield, Surr. par. reg.; Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 99-101; (Harl. Soc. lxxxix), 103; Comber, Suss. Genealogies Lewes, 276-8; Balcombe par. reg. (IGI). educ. Bow sch. Mdx. (Mr Gibbs), Balcombe sch. Suss. (John Browne); Sidney Sussex, Camb. 29 Apr. 1635, BA 1637;Al. Cant. adm. L. Inn, 14 Feb. 1637, called 1 July 1644.LIL, Admiss. Bk. 6, f. 122; LI Black Bks. ii. 363. m. ?1648, Mary, da. of Samuel Short of Tenterden, Kent, s.p. suc. fa. Jan. 1657; d. 16 July 1671.Add. 39483, f. 376; Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. lxxxix), 103.
Offices Held

Military: ?capt. (parlian.) Suss. by 3 June 1643-aft. 8 Oct. 1644.SP28/144, ff. 28, 30, 35, 38, 55; SP28/135, ff. 78–9.

Local: commr. New Model ordinance, Suss. 17 Feb. 1645; assessment, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664. 2 Mar. 1647 – bef.Oct. 1660A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. J.p., 1664–d.C231/6, p. 76; C231/7, p. 321; Suss. QSOB, 1642–1649, 127; C231/6, p. 76; C193/13/3–6; Stowe 577; CUL, Dd. VIII. 1. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. sewers, Ticehurst and River Rother, Kent and Suss. 3 Nov. 1653;C181/6, p. 23. Suss. 6 July 1659, 21 Sept. 1660, 28 Feb. 1670;C181/6, p. 367; C181/7, pp. 55, 539. charitable uses, Rye 2 June 1657;E. Suss. RO, Rye MS 112/5. oyer and terminer, Home circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 373. subsidy, Suss. 1663;SR. act for enclosing Ashdown Forest and Broyle Park, Ringmer 1663.E. Suss. RO, Glynde MS 3162. Sheriff, Suss. 1664–5.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 141.

Central: ?commr. high ct. of justice, Feb. 1649.[L. Robinson], A list of the names of the judges (1649, 669.f.13.83).

Parlimentarian
SPENCE, William (1621-71), of Neyling, Balcombe, Suss.
: Balcombe, Suss.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

SPENCE, William (1621-71), of Neyling, Balcombe, Suss.

Will
26 Oct. 1676, pr. 7 Aug. 1677.PROB11/354/445; Add. 39483, f. 377.
Estates
£100 at age 21 from grandmother, Audry Spence.PROB11/132/243. Settlement by fa. of manor of Moor Hall, Herts., 1648.VCH Herts. iii. 197. Bought a fifth part of Preston manor, Wingham, Kent, for nearly £2,000, Dec. 1648; inherited another fifth from bro. Robert, betw. 10 May 1658-7 Oct. 1659.C54/3397/4; C54/3400/12; PROB11/295/675; J. Philipot, Villare Cantianum (1659), 273. Inherited from fa. bef. 27 Nov. 1656, manor of Neyland in Balcombe, part of manor of Houndean, near Lewes, and other property.PROB11/264/193; VCH Suss. iii. 35. Inherited from bro. Robert land at Ardingley, stocks of coal and iron, and other property, 1657-8.PROB11/295/675. Bought additional land in 1650s.C54/3805/3; Add. 39483, f. 320; E. Suss. RO, SAS/CO/c/67. Post-Restoration purchases inc. in 1671, an eighth part of the barony, castle, and borough of Lewes.Suss. Manors, i. 272; F. W. T. Attree, `Wivelsfield’, Suss. Arch. Coll. xxxv. 17; E. Suss. RO, Hil 6/15/1; C54/4054/1.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
lodgings in Whitehall, June 1653.CSP Dom. 1652-3, p. 452.
Religion
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