EVELYN, Sir John (1601-85), of West Dean, Wilts.

Family and Education

b. 11 Aug. 1601, 1st s. of George Evelyn of West Dean and Elizabeth, da. and h. of John Rivers of Chafford, Kent.Vis. Wilts. 1623 (Harl. Soc. cv), 226-7; Reg. Merchant Taylors’ School ed. C.J. Robinson (Lewes, 1882-3), i. 74. educ. Merchant Taylors’, 1613;Reg. Merchant Taylors’ School, i. 74. Emmanuel, Camb. 4 July 1615, BA 1619;Al. Cant. M. Temple 14 Feb. 1618.M. Temple Admiss. i. 107. m. 2 Apr. 1622, Elizabeth (bur. 10 May 1658), da. and coh. of Robert Coxe, Grocer, of London, 1s. d.v.p. 4da. (2 d.v.p.).Vis. Wilts. 1623, 227; St Bride, Fleet Street, London, par. reg.; Misc. Gen. et Her. ser. 2, iv. 329-3. Kntd. 8 Aug. 1623;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 182. suc. fa. 19 Jan. 1636.Vis. Wilts. 1623, 227; H. Evelyn, The Hist. of the Evelyn Family (1915), 489. d. 26 June 1685.Misc. Gen. et Her. ser. 2, iv. 329-31.

Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, River Avon, Hants and Wilts. 25 June 1629, 8 May 1630;C181/4, ff. 17v, 49v. oyer and terminer, Wilts. 23 May, 5 July 1631;C181/4, ff. 88v, 101. Western circ. 23 Jan. 1638 – aft.Jan. 1642, 3 Apr. 1655.C181/5, ff. 94, 221; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 114. J.p. Wilts. bef. 1635, 13 July 1636 – 10 June 1642, by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653, by 1658 – d.; Hants 17 Mar. 1646-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/2, f. 68v, 73v; C193/13/3, ff. 56v, 68v; C193/13/4, ff. 86v, 108; C193/13/6, f. 78; C193/13/5, ff. 93v, 115; C231/5, pp. 213, 529; C231/6, p. 41; A Perfect List (1660), 49, 59. Commr. further subsidy, Wilts. 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660, 1 June 1660, 1661 – 68, 1673 – 80; Hants 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, Wilts. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643, 10 June 1645. ?Gov. Covent Garden precinct, 7 Jan. 1646. Commr. militia, Wilts. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; Hants, 12 Mar. 1660; ejecting scandalous ministers, Wilts. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. subsidy, 1663;SR. recusants, Hants 1675.CTB iv. 698.

Central: ?member, cttee. for examinations, 13 Jan. 1642.CJ ii. 375b. Commr. for Irish affairs, 4 Apr. 1642.CJ ii. 536b; LJ v. 15b. Member, cttee. of safety, 28 Oct. 1642;CJ ii. 825b. Westminster Assembly, 12 June 1643; cttee. for the army, 31 Mar. 1645, 23 Sept. 1647; cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 19 Apr. 1645. Commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646.A. and O. Member, Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 7 May 1646, 2 Nov. 1647.CJ iv. 532a; v. 347b; LJ viii. 305a; ix. 506a. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O. Member, Derby House cttee. of Irish affairs, 2 Sept. 1647;CJ v. 287b; LJ ix. 414b. Derby House cttee. 15 Jan. 1648.CJ v. 416a; LJ ix. 662b. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649. Cllr. of state, 25 Feb. 1660.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

EVELYN, Sir John (1601-1685), of West Dean, Wilts.

: of West Dean, Wilts.

Likenesses

Likenesses: fun. monument, attrib. J. Latham, West Dean church, Wilts.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

EVELYN, Sir John (1601-85), of West Dean, Wilts.

Will

13, 15 May 1676, cods. 2, 5 Mar. 1685, pr. 24 Nov. 1685.PROB11/381/445.

Estates

settlement of estates at Caterham and elsewhere in Surr. on marriage, 2 Apr. 1622 (manors of Caterham, Windlesham, and Stanyers and Fords with other lands sold for £5,300, 26 Oct 1636);VCH Surr. iv. 266; Manning, Bray, Surr. ii. 435. manors of West Dean and Everleigh (?leasehold; sold 1649), Wilts. and Marden and Tillingdon, Surr. with other lands in both counties from 19 Jan. 1636,VCH Wilts. xi. 137-8; VCH Surr. iv. 324. said to be worth about £2,000 p.a. but burdened with at least £7,000 in debts;Hist. Evelyn Fam. 492. manor of Bishop’s Sutton, Hants, bought for £2,737 13s 9d, 22 Mar. 1648 (worth £147 19s p.a.); Sutton park, mill and other premises, bought for £1,717 7s 6d, 1649;Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 9; VCH Hants, iii. 43. Broughton manor, bought aft. 1651;VCH Hants, iv. 494. lord of manor of Ashton Keynes, Wilts. 1650s;Recs. Wilts. 350. lease of St Nicholas hospital, Salisbury and other lands from bishop of Winchester, Aug. 1672 and June 1682.Eg. 3526, ff. 9, 10.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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