Family and Education
?1st s. of Fenton Parsons of Ballinamore, co. Leitrim and 1st w. ?, da. of one Savage.J. Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland (1754), ii. 60-1. educ. appr. clerk, Dublin 1632.HMC Egmont i. 69. m. by 1644, Frances, da. of Piers Legh of Lyme, Cheshire, wid. of Mauger Vavasour (d. 1634) of Weston, Yorks., ?s.p.C5/24/118; C5/400/144; Abstracts of Yorks. Wills ed. J. W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. ix), 81; Cheshire Vis. Peds. ed. A. Adams (Harl. Soc. xciii), 66; W.P. Baildon, Baildon and the Baildons, i. 545. suc. fa. c.1638;Anon., Notes on Fams. and Individuals of the name of “Parsons”, i. 160. bur. 8 Nov. 1673 8 Nov. 1673.Manchester Collegiate Church reg.
Offices Held
Military: cornet of horse (parlian.), by 12 July – Sept. 1642; lt. 29 Sept. 1642–26 Mar. 1643;
Local: commr. assessment, Yorks. (W. Riding) 17 Mar. 1648.
Parlimentarian
: of Newton Hall, Nidd and Ulleskelf, Yorks. and Ballinamore, co. Leitrim.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
PARSONS, Lawrence (d. 1673), of Newton Hall, Nidd, and Ulleskelf, Yorks.; and Ballinamore, co. Leitrim.
Will
admon. 1 Dec. 1673.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), R D/AP1/71/19; Anon., Fams. and Individuals of the name of “Parsons”, i. 64.
Estates
estate at Newton Hall was worth £100 p.a.Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 31. By late 1647, lease of a sequestered estate in Walton cum Bretton, Yorks. paying rent of at least £90 p.a.SC6/CHAS1/1190, p. 29. In 1653, purchased manor of Newton and South Cayton, in parishes of Nidd, Ripley and South Stainley, Yorks.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), WYL230/1117. In 1653, purchased the interest of his siblings in the manor of Ballinamore, co. Leitrim, for £300.Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland, ii. 61. By 1656, owned the manor and prebend of Ulleskelf.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), WYL639/218. At d. his personal estate was inventoried at £27.Anon., Fams. and Individuals of the name of “Parsons”, i. 64.
Oxford 1644
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