Family and Education
b. 16 July 1619, o.s. of Thomas Pury I* and Mary (bur. 18 Sept. 1668), da. of Edward Alye of Tewkesbury, Glos.Vis. Glos. 1682-3 ed. Fenwick and Metcalfe, 140. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 18 Nov. 1635; Gray’s Inn 29 Jan. 1641. m. by 1644, Barbara, da. of James Kyrle of Walford Court, Herefs., 4s. d.v.p. 7da. suc. fa. 13 Aug. 1666. d. 26 Aug. 1693.Al Ox.; GI Admiss. i. 228; Rudder, New Hist. Glos. 725.
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Military: capt. (parlian.) regt. of Henry Stephens, Gloucester by 17 June 1643;SP28/129/5, f. 22v; J. Dorney, A Brief and Exact Relation (1643), 2 (E.67.31). col. by 1652. Col. and capt. militia ft. Glos. 20 July 1659; ft. regt. 11 June-Oct. 1660.HMC 5th Rep. 361.

Local: recvr. former crown rents, Glos., Wilts. 20 Oct. 1643–12 July 1652.E113/8, answer of Thomas Pury II. Clerk of the peace, Glos. 1647–58.E. Stephens, Clerks of the Counties (1961), 91; C. Walker, Complete Hist. of Independency (1661), pt. 1, 81. Commr. assessment, Mon. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Glos., Gloucester 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, ?1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, Gloucester 2 Dec. 1648, 1658, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Glos., Mon. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar.1660;A. and O.; Glos. RO, GBR/H2/3, p. 246. securing peace of commonwealth, Glos. by 18 Dec. 1655;HMC 5th Rep. 361; TSP iv. 354. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35).

Central: commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 10 Apr. 1651;CJ vi. 558a. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Civic: member, cttee. to renovate Gloucester cathedral, 22 Aug. 1656.City of Gloucester. At a Common Council there (1656, 669.f.20.29).

: of Gloucester and The Grove, Taynton, Glos.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

PURY, Thomas II (1619-93), of Gloucester and The Grove, Taynton, Glos.

Will
none found.
Estates
rented 5 tenements, Watering St., Gloucester, 21 years, 11 May 1647; deanery messuage, house and buildings, 7 years at 40s, 13 July 1648; lands in St Katherine’s parish, Gloucester, 23 Dec. 1667, 21 years, at 25s p.a. (extended to 31 years, 4 Oct. 1668); Madeley’s ground, Sudbrooke, 21 Sept. 1668, 31 years; all properties of Gloucester corporation.Glos. RO, GBR/B3/2, pp. 410, 460; B3/4, pp. 348, 373; J3/5, pp. 84-7, 165-9. With fa. leased lands adjoining Little Tolsey to corporation, 41 years, 20s, 20 Sept. 1650.Glos. RO, GBR/B3/2, p. 572. Inherited lands in Taynton from fa. 1666. Bought fee farm rents, which he gave up 25 Mar. 1663.E113/8. Owned Etloeduchy manor, Awre, Glos. 1669.VCH Glos. v. 26.
Oxford 1644
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