Family and Education
b. c. 1610,London Marr. Lics. (Harl. Soc. xxvi), 224. 1st s. of Edward Bysshe I* and Mary, da. of John Turner† of Ham, Bletchingley.Vis. Surr. (Harl. Soc. lx), 23; Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. lxxxix), 20-1. educ. L. Inn, 5 June 1627.LI Admiss. i. 203. m. 5 Nov. 1635, Margaret, da. of John Greene, sjt.-at-law of Lincoln’s Inn and Boyshall, Essex, 3s.London Marr. Lics. (Harl. Soc. xxvi), 224; ‘Diary of John Greene’, EHR xliii. 389. suc. fa. betw. 16 June 1655-2 Feb. 1656.Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. lxxxix), 20; PROB11/293/120; LI Black Bks. ii. 411. Kntd. 20 Apr. 1661.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 234. d. 15 Dec. 1679.‘Sir Edward Bysshe’, Oxford DNB; Manning, Bray, Surr. ii. 318.
Offices Held

Legal: called, L. Inn 10 June 1634; bencher, 20 May 1658.LI Black Bks. ii. 318, 421.

Local: commr. subsidy, Surr. 1641, 1663; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 21 Mar. 1643, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679. SR; LJ v. 658b; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Member, Surr. co. cttee. 27 Oct. 1642.CJ ii. 824b. Commr. levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; defence of Surr. 1 July 1645. 27 Mar. 1646 – bef.Jan. 1650A. and O.; ‘Sir Edward Bysshe’, HP Commons 1660–1690. J.p., ? July 1652 – July 1653, Apr. 1659 – aft.Mar. 1660, 31 Aug. 1660–d.C231/6, pp. 239, 261, 429; C231/7, p. 33; C193/13/4, f. 97; C220/9/4, f. 84; Sir Edward Bysshe’, HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. militia, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; ‘Sir Edward Bysshe’, HP Commons 1660–1690. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 791.

Central: commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646. 23 Nov. 1646 – May 1660A. and O. Garter principal king of arms,; Clarenceux, 1650-c.Sept 1658, 10 Mar. 1661–d.LJ viii. 576a; A. R. Wagner, Heralds of England, 258, 261, 263–4.

Religious: elder, Reigate classis, 6 Mar. 1648.W.A. Shaw, Hist. English Church, ii. 434.

: of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. and Smallfield Place, Surr., Burstow.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BYSSHE, Edward II (c.1610-79), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Smallfield Place, Burstow, Surr.

Will
pr. 13 May 1680, sentence 3 July.PROB11/363/56; PROB11/364/50.
Estates
Smallfield, in parish of Burstow; manors of Horne (sold to Thomas Turgis*, 1674) and Redinghurst (conveyed to John Hill).VCH Surr. iii, 88, 180; iv. 293.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
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