Family and Education
b. c.1620, 1st s. of John Clayton of Oakenshaw, recorder of Leeds 1626-61, and 1st w. Elizabeth, da. of Gerard Fitzwilliam of Bentley, Yorks.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 395; Hodgson, Northumb. pt. 2, iii. 419-20. educ. Clare, Camb. 18 June 1638;Al. Cant. I. Temple, 5 Aug. 1640;I. Temple database. called, 13 Nov. 1648.CITR ii. 284. m. 8 Apr. 1674, Thomasine, da. of Sir Samuel Owfeild* of the Middle Temple, London and Upper Gatton, Surr., wid. of Deane Goodwin of Bletchingley, Surr. s.p.St James, Clerkenwell par. reg.; London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 289; Vis. Surrey (Harl. Soc. lx), 51; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 395. suc. fa. Apr. 1671.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 395. d. aft. 1679.
Offices Held
Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) by Oct. 1643-aft. Oct. 1647.
Court: gent. usher to Elizabeth, w. of Protector Oliver Cromwell*, by July 1654-aft. Mar. 1658.
Local: commr. militia, Yorks. 12 Mar. 1660.
: of Oakenshaw, Yorks., Crofton and London., the Inner Temple.
CLAYTON
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Commons 1640-1660
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CLAITON (CLAYTON), John (c.1620-aft. 1679), of Oakenshaw, Crofton, Yorks. and the Inner Temple, London.
Will
not found.
Estates
in 1651, he and another gentleman purchased, for £3,040, manor of Edmonton, Mdx. from trustees for the sale of crown lands, which they sold in 1654 for £1,520.E121/3/4/15; C54/3806/9. In 1651, he and other gentlemen purchased, for £2,032, a moiety of manor of Hemel Hempstead, Herts. (Claiton paying £554).SP27/1/4; CSP Dom. 1653-4, p. 286; 1655, p. 263. In 1652, he purchased manors of Norton and Woodthorpe, Derbys. for £1,300.SP29/390/14x, f. 42. In 1671, inherited capital messuage of Oakenshaw and lands adjoining.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 52, f. 37v.
Oxford 1644
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