CARENT, William (1607-66), of Toomer, Henstridge, Som.

Family and Education

b. c. 1607, 1st s. of Maurice Carent of Toomer and Lady Elizabeth, da. of James Ley, 1st earl of Marlborough.Som. RO, DD/MDL, unfol.: indenture, 20 June 1628. educ. L. Inn 9 Oct. 1627.LI Adm. Regs. m. Sept. 1634, Eleanor, da. of Gifford Long of Steeple Ashton, Wilts. s.p.Som. RO, DD/MDL, unfol.: marriage settlement, 20 Sept. 1634. d. 1666.Signature: Som. RO, DD/MDL, unfol.: 20 June 1628.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Som. 13 July 1646–4 Mar. 1657.C231/6, pp. 51, 130, 149, 205, 360. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, c. 1650; Dorset 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O.; R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. PhD thesis, 1981), 166–7. assessment, Som. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). sewers, 22 Sept. 1659.C181/6, p. 394.

Parlimentarian

CARENT, William (1607-66), of Toomer, Henstridge, Som.

: of Toomer, Henstridge, Som.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CARENT, William (1607-66), of Toomer, Henstridge, Som.

Will

27 Sept. 1666, pr. 18 July 1667.PROB11/321/280.

Estates

inherited lands at Toomer, and acquired Wilts. lands on marriage.Som. Protestation Returns, 224, 227; C5/411/61.

Oxford 1644

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