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b. c. 1621, s. of John Launce of Penair and Isabell, da. of Thomas Darcy, 3rd Baron Darcy of Chiche.Isleworth, Mdx. par. reg. index; Oxford DNB. m. 20 Nov. 1644, Rebecca, da. of John Blakiston* of Newton, Co. Durham, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 3da.St Andrew Undershaft, London, par. reg.; Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 280. d. ?aft. 1682.C6/74/8.
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Central: north auditor, duchy of Lancaster c. 1646 – 62; ?south auditor, c.1658. Auditor, exch. 1650–1;R. Somerville, Duchy of Lancaster (1972), 68, 71n; CCC 507. sale of fee-farm rents by Apr.-aft. Sept. 1650.E315/139, ff. 2, 90, 171v; CSP Dom. 1650, p. 121. commr. policies of assurances, 6 Nov. 1654.C181/6, p. 71.

Local: j.p. Cornw. by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653, by 1655-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/3, f. 10; C193/13/4, f. 13v; Cornw. Par. Regs. ed. W. Phillimore, xxvi. 9. Treas. and commr. securing peace of commonwealth, c.Jan. 1656-June 1657.SP46/98, ff. 1–133. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 13 Sept. 1656;SP25/77, p. 322. assessment, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Maj. militia ft. Apr. 1660.Mercurius Politicus no. 615 (5–12 Apr. 1660), 1243 (E.182.28).

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LAUNCE, James (c.1621-aft. ?1682), of Penair, St Clement, Cornw.
: of Penair, St Clement, Cornw.
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Commons 1640-1660
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LAUNCE, James (c.1621-aft. ?1682), of Penair, St Clement, Cornw.

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Estates
centred on Penair House (which had five hearths in 1660s),Cornw. Hearth Tax, 70. St Clement par., inc. cornmills and other lands leased in duchy of Cornwall manor of Moresk (bef. 1650),Parl. Surv. Duchy Cornw. 92, 96. and ‘Launce’s Downs’ in Lower Penair, and enclosures on Keggen Downs (by 1655).Cornw. RO, EN/280; E134/14&15Chas2/Hil9; E134/14 Chas2/Mich28. On Blakiston’s death (1649), his wife received £200, and two children £100 each, ‘to be paid unto James Launce … their father’.PROB11/215/753.
Oxford 1644
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