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Family and Education
b. c. 1588, 1st s. of Sir Robert Meller† of Winterbourne Came, Dorset and Dorothy, da. of Henry Basley of I.o.W.Vis. Dorset 1623 (Harl. Soc. xx), 70. educ. Dorchester School and privately, c.1600;Som. and Dorset N. and Q. i. 107. Gonville and Caius, Cambridge, 13 Mar. 1603; M. Temple 15 May 1606.Al. Cant; M. Temple Admiss. m. 10 June 1611, Mary, da. of Sir John Swinnerton, lord mayor of London, 2s. 5da.Vis. Dorset 1677 (Harl. Soc. cxvii), 44; St Mary Aldermanbury (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxi), 87, 89, 91, 104-5, 111; C2/CHASI/M45/57. suc. fa. 1624. Kntd. 6 May 1625;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 188. d. bef. Nov. 1650.PROB11/214/341.
Offices Held

Local: capt. militia horse, Dorset ?-6 Oct. 1628.Whiteway Diary, 99. Treas. W. Dorset 1629–30.Dorset QS Recs. 1625–38 ed. T. Hearing and S. Bridges (Dorset Rec. Soc. xiv), 90. Sheriff, Dorset Oct. 1630–1; Oxon. Sept. 1633–4.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 39, 109; Whiteway Diary, 113, 134; SO3/10, unfol. Commr. to enquire into Sir Walter Raleigh’s† lands, Som. and Dorset 15 Apr. 1633;C181/4, f. 136. to enquire into Henry Cuttance’s lands, 4 Aug. 1635;C181/5, f. 22v. sewers, Dorset 29 June 1638;C181/5, f. 113v. oyer and terminer for piracy, 26 Sept. 1639;C181/5, ff. 152v. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. contributions (roy.), 1643.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 73. J.p. Feb. 1643–?Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 10.

Parlimentarian
MELLER (MILLER), Sir John (c.1588-1649/50), of Little Bredy, Dorset and Aldermanbury, London; later of King Street, Covent Garden, Westminster
: of Little Bredy, Dorset.
MILLER
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MELLER (MILLER), Sir John (1588-1650), of Little Bredy, Dorset.

Will
3 Apr. 1649, pr. 19 Nov. 1650.PROB11/214/341.
Estates
inherited lands in Little Bredy, Winterbourne Came, Winterbourne Faringdon and Upcerne, Dorset;Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 186; Add. 8845, f. 28. on m. (1611) acquired Phyllis Court and Henley Park, Oxon., worth c.£400 p.a. (sold 1637);Longleat, Whitelocke pprs. VII, ff. 249-52. purchased lands in Winterbourne Dillett, Cripton and Stafford, Dorset, for £2,000 in July 1641.C54/3278/16.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
house in Bedford St, Covent Garden, ‘over against the Fox’, July 1641.CSP Dom. 1641-3, p. 60.
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