Family and Education
b. 27 Sept. 1601, 1st s. of Peregrine Pelham of Cadney, Lincs., and Mary, da. of one Pearse of Bosham, Suss.Bosham, Suss. par. reg.; Cadney par. reg.; Lincs. RO, YARB/11/1/11. educ. appr. merchant, Hull ?-1626.Hull Hist. Centre, C BRG/1, f. 179. m. (1) 20 June 1626, Jane (bur. 16 July 1644), da of Richard Bowes of Hagthorpe, Hemingborough, Yorks. 1s. 8da. (4 d.v.p.) 1 other ch. d.v.p.;St Mary, Lowgate, Hull par. reg.; Holy Trinity, Hull par. reg.; T. Burton, Hist. and Antiq. of Hemingborough ed. J. Raine (York, 1888), 193. (2) 10 July 1645, Katherine (d. c.1663), da. of one de la Tour, wid. of Sir Peter Vanlore, 1st bt. of Tilehurst, Berks. s.p.St Mary, Islington par. reg. (marr. entry 9 June 1642); PROB11/310, f. 104; St Peter upon Cornhill Par. Reg. (Harl. Soc. par reg. section i), 257; CB. suc. fa. July 1616.Cadney par. reg. d. 1650.Bodl. Nalson VIII, f. 67v; CJ vi. 516a.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Hull 30 Aug. 1626;Hull Hist. Centre, C BRG/1, f. 179. chamberlain, 1630 – 31; sheriff, 1636 – 37; alderman, 30 Sept. 1641 – d.; mayor, 30 Sept. 1649–d.Hull Hist. Centre, C BRB/3, ff. 234, 422, 542, 821; C BRB/4, f. 18.

Local: commr. further subsidy, Hull 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650.SR; A. and O. Member, cttee. at Hull 24 May 1642.CJ ii. 577b; LJ v. 82b. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. Westminster militia, 7 June 1650.Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11).

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642.Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 378b. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647.LJ vi. 55b; LJ viii. 411a; ix. 500a. Member, cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645.A. and O. Commr. for compounding, 23 Sept. 1647;CJ v. 314a. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 20 July 1649;CJ vi. 266b. cttee. for the army, 17 Apr. 1649.A. and O.

: Holy Trinity, Yorks., of High Street, Kingston-upon-Hull.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

PELHAM, Peregrine (1601-50), of High Street, Holy Trinity, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks.

Will
admon. 23 Dec. 1651.PROB6/26, f. 184v.
Estates
in 1587, grandfa. bequeathed to his fa. estate in north east Lincs. worth £40 p.a.PROB11/72, f. 95v; A. Pelham, D. MacLean, Some Early Pelhams (Hove, 1931), 181-2. By mid-1640s, estate inc. a house on High Street, Hull, and a house (or more probably lease on a house) in Axe Yard, Westminster.B.N. Reckitt, Charles the First and Hull (1952), 16; Scott, ‘Hull lttrs.’, 321. In 1650, purchased, for £490 13s, a fee farm rent in Yorks. worth £54 10s p.a.SP28/288, f. 9.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Woolstable Market, Westminster (1643);Certaine Letters Sent from Sir Iohn Hotham (1643), 11. Fish Yard, Westminster (1645) Axe Yard, Westminster (1646).Scott, ‘Hull lttrs.’, 321.
Religion
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