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Family and Education
educ. travelled abroad (Vienna), 1636.W. Crowne, A True Relation of all the Remarkable Places and Passages (1637). m. c.1637 Agnes (d. aft. Aug. 1679), wid. of Richard Watts (d. 1635), da. of Richard Mackworth of Betton Strange, Salop, 2s. 1da. d. betw. 24 Dec. 1682 and 26 Feb. 1683.St Martin-in-the-Fields par. reg.; Clutterbuck, Herts. iii. 305; A.F. White, John Crowne. His Life and Dramatic Works (Cleveland, Ohio, 1922), 20-1; PROB11/360/120.
Offices Held

Household: sec. to Thomas Howard, 21st earl of Arundel by Apr. 1636.Crowne, A True Relation.

Central: Rouge Dragon pursuivant, 12 Sept. 1638-May 1661.Coventry Docquets, 206; College of Arms, Partition Bk. 4, f. 67v.

Military: auditor (parlian.), army of 2nd earl of Denbigh, 1 July 1643;Warws. RO, CR2017/C9/15. ?commry. of horse, 7 June 1644.Warws. RO, CR2017/C9/119. Capt. militia ft. Salop 2 Apr. 1650, 5 Mar. 1655;CSP Dom. 1650, p. 505; 1655, p. 260. lt.-col. 19 Aug. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 509; 1655–6, p. 300.

Local: commr. assessment, Salop 14 May, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652.A. and O. ?Undersheriff by Sept. 1647–?CSP Dom. 1625–49, p. 709. Commr. sequestrations by 1649-at least Oct. 1653;CCC 172; E113/12 (Salop, answer of Charles Langford); Salop Archives, 465/702. militia, 15 Aug. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 288. Recvr. sequestration revenues, ?Oct. 1650–57.CCC 331; CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 357. J.p. 19 Dec. 1650-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 204; C193/13/4, f. 83; C193/13/5, f. 88v. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth by Jan. 1656.The Publick Intelligencer no. 16 (14–21 Jan. 1656), 253 (E.491.16).

Civic: freeman, Boston, Mass. 30 May 1660–?d. Register, Mendon, Mass. 7 June 1667; selectman, 1667–74.White, John Crowne, 15, 18, 19.

Parlimentarian
CROWNE, William (c.1617-c.1683), of London, Shrewsbury, Penobscot, Nova Scotia and Mendon, Massachusetts.
: Penobscot, Nova Scotia, Shrewsbury and Mendon, Massachusetts.
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Commons 1640-1660
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CROWNE, William (c.1617-c.1683), of London, Shrewsbury, Penobscot, Nova Scotia and Mendon, Massachusetts.

Will
24 Dec. 1682, pr. 26 Feb. 1683.White, John Crowne, 20-1.
Estates
granted with Sir Charles St Stephen, Charles La Tour, Lord Delatour (Fr.) and Thomas Temple* lands of Acadia and Nova Scotia, N. America, 9 Aug. 1656-1667;CO1/13, ff. 33-6; CSP Col. 1574-1660, p. 47. granted 500 acres at Magnaguncok Hill, near Sudbury, Mass. 1662.Recs. of the Governor and Co. of Massachusetts Bay ed. N.B. Shurtleff (5 vols. Boston, Mass. 1853-4), iv. pt. 2, 60-1, 150-1.
Oxford 1644
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