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Family and Education
bap. 11 Jan. 1624, 1st s. of John Copleston of Nash, Marshwood, Dorset and Grace, da. of Anthony Copleston of Pynes.Marshwood par. reg.; PROB11/220/396; Vis. Devon 1620 (Harl. Soc. vi), 71-2; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 228. educ. ?Exeter Coll. Oxf. 15 May 1640, ‘aged 16’.Al. Ox. m. (lic. 28 Oct. 1644), Mercy (bur. 15 Nov. 1678), da. of one Hole, 3s. (2 d.v.p.), 3da. (1 d.v.p.).Vivian, Vis. Devon, 228; Reg. St James Clerkenwell, burials 1666-1719 (Harl. Soc. Regs. xix), 66. suc. fa. c.1648.CCC 2948. Kntd. 1 June 1655.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 223. bur. 16 May 1686.Reg. St James Clerkenwell, burials 1666-1719, 116.
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Local: j.p. Devon 18 Mar. 1653 – ?Mar. 1660; Som. 29 July 1658–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 254, 402; CUL, Dd.VIII.1; Devon RO, Devon QS order bk. 1/9. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Devon and Exeter 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. assessment, Devon 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Som. 26 June 1657, 1672, 1677; Westminster 1672, 1677;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); SR. ejecting scandalous ministers, Devon and Exeter 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. Som. 17 Jan. 1659.PRO31/17/33, p. 415. Sheriff, Devon 1654–7.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 37. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth, 1655;R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 174, 482. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35). oyer and terminer, Western circ. 28 July 1658–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 307, 377. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 28 Jan. 1673.C181/7, p. 633.

Military: lt.-col. militia ft. Devon ?-June 1655;CSP Dom. 1655, p. 209. capt. militia horse by July 1655–13 July 1659. 5 Aug. 1659 – 21 Jan. 1660SP25/77, pp. 867, 890; CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 24. Capt. of horse, regt. of Matthew Alured*,; regt. of Edward Montagu II*, Apr. 1660–12 Nov. 1660.CJ vii. 749b, 809b; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 195.

Civic: recorder, Barnstaple 27 Feb. 1656–60.Barnstaple Records ed. Chanter, Wainwright, i. 101; J.F. Chanter, The Life and Times of Martin Blake (1910), 140–1.

Central: commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656;A. and O. tendering oath to MPs, 18 Jan. 1658.CJ vii. 578a.

Parlimentarian
COPLESTON, Sir John (1624-86), of Pynes, Upton Pyne, Devon.
: Devon., Upton Pyne.
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Commons 1640-1660
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COPLESTON, Sir John (1624-86), of Pynes, Upton Pyne, Devon.

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Estates
inherited manor of Upton Pyne and mansion house of Pynes, Devon.PROB11/220, f. 24. Was said in 1658 to have gained £300-400 per year from the shrievalty of Devon.Narrative of the Late Parliament (1658), 14 (E.935.5). Sold or lost his Devon estates after 1660.
Oxford 1644
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