RUMSEY, Walter (1583/4-1660), of Llanover, Mon., and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. 1583 /4, 2nd s. of Walter Rumsey of Usk, Mon. and Elizabeth, da. of John ap John Thomas.Bradney, Hist. Mon. i. 384; PROB11/114, f. 410v. educ. Gloucester Hall, Oxf. 17 Oct. 1600, aged 16;Al. Ox. G. Inn 16 May 1603.G. Inn Admiss. m. c.1606, Barbara, da. and h. of Matthew Prichard of Llanover, at least 4s. 1da.‘Descent of Smart of Trewhitt, Northumb.’, The Gen. n.s. viii. 117; PROB11/264, f. 41; G. Inn Admiss. 181, 233, 236. suc. fa. 1609.NLW, Tredegar estate recs., Ms 54/15; PROB11/114, f. 410v. bur. 1660.Bradney, Hist. Mon. i. 383.

Offices Held

Legal: called, G. Inn 3 June 1608;PBG Inn, 183. ancient, 28 May 1622;Williams, Hist. Gt. Sessions in Wales, 132. bencher, 16 Nov. 1631; reader, 8 Nov. 1633–4; dean of chapel, 6 Nov. 1640–1.PBG Inn, 308, 317, 340. Att.-gen. Brec., Card., Carm., Pemb. and Rad. 18 Nov. 1613–28 May 1636.CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 209; E214/1615; Coventry Docquets, 197. Second justice, Brecon circ. 26 Sept. 1631–45.Coventry Docquets, 182; Williams, Hist. Gt. Sessions in Wales, 132. Kpr. of judicial seal, Brec., Glam. and Rad. Aug. 1660–d.CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 209.

Local: dep. steward, lordship of Usk by 1609-c.1617. 5 July 1611 – aft.Dec. 1639NLW, Badminton estate recs., Mss (manorial) 1732, 1733; Ms (I)1473. Commr. sewers, Mon., 22 Aug. 1660;C181/2, ff. 147, 275v; C181/3, f. 200v; C181/4, f. 20v; C181/5, ff. 30v, 256; C181/7, p. 35. River Wye, Glos., Herefs. and Mon. 14 June 1621.C181/3, f. 33. J.p. Mon. 8 Dec. 1629-aft. 1644; Brec., Glam., Rad. July 1632-aft. 1644.Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 268, 299, 331, 356. Commr. piracy, Cardiff and Glam. 16 Dec. 1629;C181/4, f. 34v. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 23 Jan. 1632-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/4, ff. 112v, 195; C181/5, ff. 7, 219v. Wales and marches 22 Jan. 1634, 31 July 1640;C181/4, f. 162; C181/5, f. 184v. assessment, Mon. 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). poll tax, 1660.SR.

Parlimentarian

RUMSEY, Walter (1583/4-1660), of Llanover, Mon., and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

: of Llanover, Mon. and Mdx., Gray’s Inn.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

RUMSEY, Walter (1583/4-1660), of Llanover, Mon., and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

Will

not found.

Estates

in 1609 inherited estate in Mon. inc. lands in par. of Christchurch.PROB11/114, f. 410v. By 1610 owned lands in Mitchel Troy, Mon.NLW, Badminton estate recs. Mss I(60), I(63). By 1611 owned lands in Llangibby, Mon.NLW, Langibby Castle estate recs. Ms B925. By 1621 owned lands in Llanfoist, Mon.Gwent RO, D591/81/520. By 1645 owned or leased chambers at Gray’s Inn.CCAM 661. In 1660, his estate or that of his grands. valued at about £600 p.a.P. Jenkins, ‘Wales and the Order of the Royal Oak’, NLWJ xxiv. 347-8.

Oxford 1644

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