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Family and Education
bap. 7 Apr. 1620, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Thomas Margetts of St Mary, Bedford, and Dinah, da. of one Sparke of ?Meppershall, Beds.St Mary, Bedford par. reg.; Blunham, Beds. par. reg. (bap. 13 Apr. 1618); Meppershall bishops’ transcript (mar. 8 Oct. 1612); PROB11/404, f. 283v; Min. Bk. of Bedford Corp. 99; CSP Dom. 1640-1, p. 341; Genealogica Bedfordiensis, 355. m. by 1660, Elizabeth (d. aft. 1691), at least 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 7da. (3 d.v.p.).St Mary, Bedford par. reg.; PROB11/404, ff. 283v-284; Genealogica Bedfordiensis, 41-2. suc. fa. Aug. 1642.St Mary, Bedford par. reg. bur. 8 Feb. 1691 8 Feb. 1691.Genealogica Bedfordiensis, 42.
Offices Held

Central: clerk to cttee. for Irish affairs, c.Sept. 1642–5.SP25/127, p. 13; CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 378.

Military: clerk to judge adv. New Model army, 1645-aft. May 1647.SP25/127, p. 14; SP28/45, f. 439; Clarke Pprs. i. 22; CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 378. Dep. judge adv. c.1647-c.Mar. 1659;CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 378; Henry Cromwell Corresp. 482. judge adv. Northern Brigade by 29 Dec. 1647–?1650;SP28/58, f. 308; Clarke Pprs. ii. 253. army in Scotland, 28 June 1659-bef. May 1660.CJ vii. 696b.

Civic: freeman, Bedford 11 Aug. 1656–?d.Min. Bk. of Bedford Corp. 99.

Local: commr. assessment, Beds. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; militia, 26 July 1659.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
MARGETTS, Thomas (1620-91), of St Peter Martin, Bedford.
: of St Peter Martin, Bedford.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MARGETTS, Thomas (1620-91), of St Peter Martin, Bedford.

Will
30 May 1688, pr. 23 May 1691.PROB11/404, f. 283.
Estates
in 1642, inherited in reversion a house and adjoining property on Cauldwell Street, Bedford.Beds. RO, ABP W 1643/75. In 1650-1, purchased, for £427 13s, the manor of Biggleswade, Beds. from trustees for the sale of crown lands, 2 fee farm rents in Biggleswade for £259 17s and tithes belonging to several rectories in Beds. and Herts., in all worth £90 p.a.C54/3570/17; LR2/266, f. 68; SP28/288, f. 11. In 1652-4, purchased, for £302, fee farm rents in Beds. and Bedford worth £25 p.a.SP26/8, p. 41; SP28/288, f. 56. Assessed in 1671 for a house in Bedford of 9 hearths.E179/72/301, m. 37. By 1688, estate inc. a messuage in Bedford and property in Beds. worth at least £30 p.a.PROB11/404, ff. 283v-284; VCH Beds. ii. 55.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Dean’s Yard, Westminster (1640);HMC De L’Isle and Dudley, vi. 328. house of Alderman Skut, Pontefract, Yorks. (1648);Add. 21417, f. 9. house of Francis Humphries, Petergate, York (1649);Add. 21418, f. 150. Somerset House, Westminster (1657-8).CSP Dom. 1657-8, p. 468; TSP vi. 852.
Religion
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