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b. c.1605, 2nd s. of Sir John Ashburnham (d. 1620) of Ashburnham, Suss. and Elizabeth (bur. 3 Apr. 1651), da. of Sir Thomas Beaumont II† of Stoughton Grange, Leics. (later w. of Sir Thomas Richardson†; cr. baroness of Cramond, 29 Feb. 1628); bro. of John Ashburnham*. m. betw. 1629-1631, Jane (d. 23 Mar. 1672), da. of Sir John Boteler†, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, and wid. of James Ley†, 1st earl of Marlborough (d. 14 Mar. 1629), s.p. d. 9 Dec. 1679.Vis. Suss. 1530 and 1633-4 (Harl. Soc. liii), 17-18; CP; The Ashburnham Archives: A Catalogue ed. F.W. Steer (1958), pp. x, xii; Suss. Arch. Coll. xxxii. pp. xviii-xx; Westminster Abbey Regs. 176.
Offices Held

Military: capt. and treas. Lord Willoughby’s coy. United Provinces, 1624;SP84/121, ff. 272, 277v. capt. under Sir Charles Morgan, June 1629.CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 596. Lt.-col. regt. of Algernon Percy†, 4th earl of Northumberland, royal army by 18 June 1640.E. Suss. RO, ASH/4501/662. Col. of 8th regt. (roy.) by 12 Nov. 1642;A Copy of a List of All the Cavaliers (‘Novemb 12’ 1642) (669.f.6[91]). maj.-gen. of ft. western cos. ?Dec. 1642.Clarendon, Hist. ii. 453–4. Gov. Weymouth 1643–19 June 1644.Bodl. Rawl. D 395, ff. 60, 96, 130, 186; Clarendon, Hist. iii. 362–3; Rushworth, Hist. Collns. v. 683. Col.-gen. of Dorset, 1644.

Local: j.p. Wilts. 7 July 1631 – ?46; Hants by 1635–?46;C231/5, p. 61; C192/13/2, f. 72. Mdx., Westminster Mar. 1661–d.C231/6, p. 91. Commr. charitable uses, Hants 1632;Coventry Docquets, 53. oyer and terminer for piracy, Hants and I.o.W. 1636;C181/5, f. 58. array (roy.), Hants May 1642;Northants RO, FH133, unfol. impressment (roy.), Dorset 14 Dec. 1643; rebels’ estates (roy.), 18 May 1644;Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 111, 209. assessment, Mdx. 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677; Westminster, 1661, 1672, 1677; Suss. 1679;SR. oyer and terminer, the Verge 10 Apr. 1662, 26 Nov. 1668;C181/7, pp. 141, 457. loyal and indigent officers, London and Westminster 1662; subsidy, Mdx. 1663;SR. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 10 Aug. 1671-aft. Jan. 1673.C181/7, pp. 587, 633.

Court: cofferer of the household, 20 or 24 June 1660–d.J.C. Sainty and R.O. Bucholz, Officers of the Royal Household (1998) pt. ii. 72; Bodl. Carte 59, f. 4. Commr. for affairs of duke of Monmouth, 18 Jan. 1665–70.CSP Dom. 1664–5, p. 173.

Mercantile: member, Soc. of Mines Royal, 1662; asst. 1664 – 74; dep. gov. 1675–d. Member, Soc. of Mineral and Battery Works, 1662; dep. gov. 1664–d. Asst. Adventurers into Africa, 1664, 1669–71.HP Commons 1660–1690. Patentee, preservation of ice and snow, 22 Dec. 1665.CSP Col. (America and W. Indies) 1661–8, p. 348. Conservator, Bedford Level, 1667–8.S. Wells, The Hist. of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens (1830), i. 458. Member, New Royal Africa Co. 27 Sept. 1672;CSP Col. (America and W. Indies) 1669–74, p. 410. Royal Fishery Co. 25 Sept. 1677.CTB vi. 2.

Parlimentarian
ASHBURNHAM, William (c.1604-79), of Ashburnham House, Little Dean’s Yard, Westminster.
: of Tidworth, Hants.
Likenesses

Likenesses: fun. monument, J. Bushnell, Ashburnham church, Suss.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ASHBOURNHAM, William (c.1605-79), of Tidworth, Hants.

Will
11 July 1677, cods. 23 May and 16 Aug. 1678, 20 Aug. 1679, pr. 13 Mar. 1680.PROB11/362/382.
Estates
in right of wife, manors of North Tidworth, Wilts. and South Tidworth, Hants, sold 1650;Abstracts Wilts. IPMs Chas. I, 235-6; VCH Wilts. xv. 157; VCH Hants, iv. 393. and lease of at least 262 acres of coppice in Chute, Wilts. reassigned 28 May 1641, but some still in possession 16 Nov. 1659;Wilts. RO, 261/1/1, 3. wife fined £521 8s 8d for jointure and claimed to have lost £20,000 in stock and goods during war, and to be £2,000 in debt, Dec. 1647; still had property in Sandy Haven, Pembs. £200-300 p.a.;CCC 1282; LJ ix. 590a. house in parish St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. Nov. 1659;Wilts RO, 261/1/3. lease of Dean’s House, Westminster, bef. 3 Dec. 1662-14 May 1667;Jnl. of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 3rd ser. xvii. 204. lord of manor of Chiswick, bef. 1664-aft. 1674, and lease of Sutton Court, Chiswick, 1672-5;VCH Mdx. vii. 71; LMA, ACC/0119/003. Ampthill Great Park, Beds. ?1671-8; shares in Duke’s Theatre, London.PROB11/362/382.
Oxford 1644
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