SHAW, John (c.1617-90), of Colchester, Essex.

Family and Education

b. c.1617, 1st s. of John Shaw of Colchester and Merelands, Kirby, Essex, and Mary, da. of Thomas Lufkyn of Ardleigh, Essex.Vis. Essex 1664-8, ed. Howard, 82; Le Neve’s Pedigrees, 146; Morant, Essex, i. Colchester pt. 118, app. 20. educ. St Catherine’s, Camb. 1639;Al. Cant. L. Inn 21 Oct. 1640.LI Admiss. i. 244; LI Black Bks. ii. 375. m. settlement 20 May 1643, Thamar (d. 13 Jan. 1682), da. and h. of Samuel Lewis of Royden, Suff., 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 6da.Essex RO, D/DR/T28/2; Vis. Essex 1664-8, 82; Morant, Essex, i. 483. suc. fa. 1661;Essex RO, D/B5 Gb4, f. 244v. Kntd. 24 Sept. 1661.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 235. d. 1690.Morant, Essex, i. Colchester pt. 118, app. 20.

Offices Held

Local: commr. New Model ordinance, Essex 17 Feb. 1645; assessment, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Colchester 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689; Suff. 1677;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. gaol delivery, Colchester 16 Feb. – Oct. 1655, 10 Sept. 1662-aft. Nov. 1671;C181/6, pp. 82, 103; C181/7, pp. 169, 603. sewers, Essex 4 Aug. 1657, 22 Mar. 1666;C181/6, p. 251; C181/7, p. 353. River Stour, Essex and Suff. 4 July 1664;C181/7, p. 277. militia, Essex 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660. Mar. 1660 – d.A. and O. J.p.; Sudbury, Suff. 1684–?C231/8, f. 102. Commr. poll tax, Essex 1660;SR. corporations, 1662–3;HP Commons 1660–1690. subsidy, 1663; Colchester 1663. 1665 – 70SR. Conservator, Bedford Level, 1675–6.S. Wells, Hist. of the Drainage of the Gt. Level (1830), i. 457–61. Commr. recusants, Essex 1675.CTB iv. 696.

Legal: called, L. Inn 1647; associate bencher, 1663.LI Black Bks. ii. 375; iii. 29. Sjt.-at-law, Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane 1677;Baker, Serjeants at Law, 197, 447, 536. king’s sjt. 1685–9.List of Eng. Law Officers (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. vii), 22.

Civic: dep. recorder, Colchester c. Oct. 1653 – bef.Feb. 1655, by June 1678 – bef.Aug. 1685; recorder by Mar. – Oct. 1655, by Feb. 1660 – Nov. 1677, May-Sept. 1688.Essex RO, D/Y 2/7, pp. 35, 39; D/B5 Gb4, ff. 107, 208v, 211v; C181/6, p. 82; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 203; T.C. Glines, ‘Politics and government in the bor. of Colchester, 1660–1693’, (PhD diss. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1974), 146–9, 221, 236, 246; Bramston, Autobiog. 304.

Parlimentarian

SHAW, John (c.1617-90), of Colchester, Essex.

: of Colchester, Essex.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SHAW, John (c.1617-90), of Colchester, Essex.

Will

not found.

Estates

granted lands at Goldhanger, Gt. Totham, Lt. Totham, Langford, Ulting, All Saints and St Botolph’s, Colchester, and Witham by his fa. on marriage, 1643.Essex RO, D/DR/T28/2.

Oxford 1644

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