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Family and Education
b. c. 1624, 2nd s. of John West (d. by 1654), rector of Langton, Lincs. and Sarah Hatley.MIs Cambs. 132; Cambs. RO, C34, f. 3v. educ. Trinity, Camb. 1639, scholar 1641, BA 1645, MA 1648.Al. Cant. m. (1) by 1661, Mary (d. 1662), 1da. d.v.p.;Over par. reg. (2) 5 Dec. 1665, Sarah Butler of Histon, Cambs. 1s. 2da. d.v.p.Cambs. Par. Regs. ed. W.P.W. Phillimore, C.J.B. Gaskoin and E. Young (1907-27), v. 96; Over par. reg. d. 11 Mar. 1684.MIs Cambs. 132.
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Academic: minor fell. Trinity, Camb. 1647 – c.58; tutor, 1649 – ?53; snr. bursar, 1653–6.Al. Cant.; H.M. Innes, Fellows of Trinity Coll. Cambridge (Cambridge, 1941), 33; Admissions to Trinity Coll., Cambridge ed. W.W. Rouse Ball and J.A. Venn (1911–16), i. 41; ii. 368; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, senior bursar’s audit bk. 1637–59, ff. 248–298.

Local: commr. assessment, Camb. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657; Cambs., I. of Ely 9 June 1657;A. and O. securing peace of commwealth, Cambs. 21 Sept. 1655.Bodl. Rawl. C.948, p. 24. J.p. July 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 370. Commr. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35). ejecting scandalous ministers, Lincs. 26 Nov. 1657;CSP Dom. 1657–8, p. 186. Cambs., Hunts. and I. of Ely 16 Dec. 1657;SP25/78, p. 334. militia, Cambs. 5 Aug. 1659.CJ vii. 748b.

Parlimentarian
WEST, Robert (c.1624-84), of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Over, Cambs.
: of Trinity College, Cambridge and Over, Cambs.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WEST, Robert (c.1624-84), of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Over, Cambs.

Will
11 Oct. 1678, pr. 17 Apr. 1684.Cambs. RO, C34, ff. 2v-3v.
Estates
given house at Langton by his fa.; bought land at Over from his fa. by 1652; inherited dowry lands of his mo. 1667; left lands to his s. John; owned several properties in Cambridge.PROB11/235/655; Cambs. RO, C34, f. 3v.
Oxford 1644
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