Family and Education
b. c. Apr. 1610, 1st s. of Christopher Danby of Farnley and Leighton, Yorks. and Frances, da. of Edward Parker, Lord Morley.Vis. Yorks. ed. Foster, 263; CB ix. 227; C. Whone, ‘Christopher Danby of Masham and Farnley’, in Thoresby Miscellany ed. G.D. Lumb, W.B. Crump (Thoresby Soc. xxxvii), 2. educ. privately (William Greene, vicar of South Kirkby, Yorks.);WARD9/565, unfol. St John’s, Camb. Lent 1627.Al. Cant. m. 30 July 1630 (with £2,000), Katherine (d. 22 Sept. 1645), da. of Christopher Wandesford of Kirklington, 8s. (3 d.v.p.) 2da. (6 ch. stillborn).Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P16c: Chr. Wandesford† to Viscount Wentworth (Sir Thomas Wentworth†), 10 Aug. 1630; N. Yorks. RO, ZS, Swinton estate mss, Danby fam. letters and pprs. (mic. 2087), undated mss: Wandesford to Danbie; list of Danbie’s children; Autobiog. of Alice Thornton ed. C. Jackson (Surt. Soc. lxii), 49; J. Fisher, Hist. and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire, 123, 276-7; ‘Paver’s marr. lics.’ ed. J.W. Clay, YAJ xx. 95. suc. fa. 18 July 1624;C142/404/118; Fisher, Mashamshire, 121. Kntd. 25 July 1633.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 202. d. 5 Aug. 1660.R.H. Skaife, ‘Reg. of burials in York Minster’, YAJ i. 240.
Offices Held
Local: commr. sewers, Yorks. (N. Riding) 28 Apr. 1632;
Military: lt. col. of ft. (roy.) by Oct. 1642–?
Parlimentarian
: of Leighton, Masham and Well, Yorks., Thorpe Perrow.
DANBY, DANBYE
Likenesses
Likenesses: oils, J. Carleton, 1635.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
DANBIE (DANBY, DANBYE), Thomas (1610-60), of Leighton, Masham, and Thorpe Perrow, Well, Yorks.
Will
11 Nov. 1659, pr. 29 Jan. 1674.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 54, f. 97; N. Yorks. RO, ZS (mic. 2106).
Estates
in 1624, inheritance inc. lands in Ellington, Fearby, Farnley, Healey, Ilton, Masham, Scruton, Swinton, Thornton Watlass, Warthermarske and Whitwell, Yorks. and in Cleckheaton and Oakenshaw, Lancs. valued at £1,500 p.a. but encumbered with debts of £1,500.C142/404/118; C8/52/15; WARD9/565. In 1624, rental value – excluding rent charges, annuities and other encumbrances – £2,088 p.a. and by 1640 it had increased to £2,220.C8/52/15; N. Yorks. RO, CRONT 2; Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/MD279 B7/8. In 1631, he borrowed £2,000 from Sir Edward Osborne*.LC4/201, f. 85v. In 1633, sold manors of Cleckheaton and Oakenshaw for £2,900.C54/2970/17. In 1635 and 1638, purchased lands in Beeston, nr. Leeds, for £1,050.C54/3047/21; C54/3159/4. In 1636, involved with Osborne and other gentlemen in purchasing several properties from Francis Nevile*.C54/3160/31; C54/3265/37. In 1638, mortgaged, for £5,000, much of his property in Mashamshire to Robert, earl of Kingston, paying £400 a year in interest.C7/277/44; LC4/202, f. 85; SP23/227, pp. 639, 649; N. Yorks. RO, CRONT 2, Cunliffe-Lister mss, Danby fam. pprs., bdle 11 (Danbie’s accts.); Oxford DNB, ‘Danby fam.’. In 1639, purchased manor of Ilton, nr. Masham, for £1,360.C5/377/10; C5/393/21. By 1640, estate inc. ‘manor and lordship of Great and Little Driffield’, Yorks.C7/100/34. In 1641, lands at Farnley were assessed at £20 by subsidy commrs., suggesting estate there of about £1,000 p.a.E179/209/363, m. 1d. In 1646, estate consisted of lands (including several coal pits and mills) in Bedale, Ellington, Fearby, Healey, Ilton, Leighton, Masham, Moorhead, Scruton, Swinton, Thornton Watlass, Thorpe Perrow, Warthermarske and Well, in N. Riding; lands in Armley, Farnley, Skelton and Wortley and lands and tithes leased from collegiate church of Ripon, in W. Riding; lands and tenements in Driffield, in E. Riding – in all, worth about £1,500 p.a. Estate charged with about £920 p.a. in fees and annuities. His debts were in excess of £4,500, and he possessed no personal estate.SP23/227, pp. 621, 628, 641; N. Yorks. RO, ZS (mic. 2087), mss for 1641-6: petition of Danbie to Cttee. for Componding* (CC), 29 Nov. 1645; particular of Danbie’s estate submitted to CC, c.1646; certificate of sequestration cttee. at York to CC, c.1646. In 1655-7, sold lands in Scruton worth £2,000 to pay off his debts.N. Yorks. RO, ZS (mic. 2087), mss for 1655, 1657. At d. left an estate reckoned to be worth about £2,500 p.a.C33/257, f. 846; C33/265, f. 339; C33/296, ff. 362, 363. In 1680, the Danbys’ estate was reckoned to be worth £2,223 p.a. with debts of £20,442.C33/255, f. 80.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
the ‘widow’s house’ on The Strand, London, 1632;N. Yorks. RO, ZS (mic. 2087): Alice Wandesford to Danbie, 30 July 1632. King’s Manor, York, 1633, 1638;N. Yorks. RO, ZS (mic. 2087): Chr. Wandesford to Danbie, 6 Mar. 1633; Osborne to same, 13 Aug. 1638. Mr William Wandesford the draper’s house in St Paul’s churchyard at the sign of The King’s Head, London, 1634;N. Yorks. RO, ZS (mic. 2087): Ralph Asheton to Danbie, 16 Nov. 1634. the ?Blue Mule, Fleet Street, London, 1641;N. Yorks. RO, ZS (mic. 2087): Matthew Hutton to Danbie, 17 Aug. 1641. Inner Temple, London, 1642;Borthwick, Wills in the York Registry, Prerogative wills, Jan. 1644, will of Sir William Savile, bt. Clerkenwell, Mdx. 1654;N. Yorks. RO, ZS (mic. 2087): Danbie to Thomas Danby jun. 28 Jan. 1654. The Windmill at the lower end of Leather Lane, over against Hatton Wall, London, 1657.N. Yorks. RO, ZS (mic. 2087): Francis Jackson to Danbie, 1 Nov. 1657.
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