HEWLEY, John (1619-97), of York and Bell Hall, Naburn, Yorks.

Family and Education

bap. 5 Aug. 1619, o.s. of John Hewley of Wistow, and Dorothy, da. of John Wood of Copmanthorpe, Yorks.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 208. educ. G. Inn 4 Feb. 1639.G. Inn Admiss. m. by 1651, Sarah (d. 23 Aug. 1710), da. and h. of Robert Wolrych of Ipswich, Suff. and Gray’s Inn, Mdx., 2s. d.v.p.St Martin, Coney Street, York Par. Reg. ed. R.B. Cook (Yorks. Par. Reg. Soc. xxxvi), 31, 32, 103, 104; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 208. suc. fa. 29 Oct. 1630;Hull Hist. Centre, U DDBH/19/43. Kntd. 30 June 1663;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 238. d. 24 Aug. 1697;Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 208. bur. 24 Aug. 1697 24 Aug. 1697.The Nonconformist Reg. ed. J.H. Turner, 90.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) by May 1644-aft. Sept. 1646.SP28/30, f. 761; SP28/302, f. 760; SC6/CHASI/1190, unfol. (entry 25–6 Sept. 1646).

Legal: called, G. Inn 11 Feb. 1645; ancient, 21 Nov 1662.PBG Inn i. 444.

Local: j.p. Yorks. (W. Riding) 22 Mar. 1646 – bef.Oct. 1660, c.1663–11 July 1670;C231/6, pp. 41, 79; C231/7, p. 373; C193/12/3. N. Riding c.1663–11 July 1670.C193/12/3; C231/7, p. 373. Steward, Cawood, Yorks. Oct. 1646–?Bodl. Fairfax 32, f. 138. Commr. assessment, W. Riding 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 9 June 1657, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689 – d.; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652 1 June 1660; N. Riding 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689 – d.; York 1672, 1679, 1689 – d.; E. Riding 1679, 1689–d.;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. charitable uses, W. Riding 21 May 1650, 25 Feb. 1657, 11 Oct. 1658;C93/20/30; C93/24/10; C93/25/2. Ripon 5 May 1653;C93/22/14. militia, W. Riding, York 14 Mar. 1655;SP25/76A, ff. 16, 17. Yorks. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655, 23 Jan. 1663–1 Feb. 1671;C181/6, p. 102; C181/7, pp. 193, 536. gaol delivery, 4 Apr. 1655;C181/6, p. 102. Hull 27 May 1657;C181/6, p. 228. sewers, Hatfield Chase Level 2 July 1655–20 May 1659;C181/6, pp. 109, 198. W. Riding 8 Dec. 1671;C181/7, p. 606. securing peace of commonwealth, Yorks. by Jan. 1656;TSP, iv. 402. swans, River Trent 30 May 1663.C181/7, p. 210. Recvr. assessment, poll money, Yorks. 1689.CTB ix. 200, 309, 336, 350.

Civic: city counsel, York 6 Oct. 1656–?d.;York City Archives, York House Bk. 37, p. 91. freeman, 30 Nov. 1659–d.York City Archives, York House Bk. 37, p. 129. Recorder, Pontefract by Jan. 1659-bef. Sept. 1662;Add. 21425, f. 5; The Bk. of Entries of the Pontefract Corporation ed. R. Holmes, 78. Doncaster 30 Aug. 1660–6 Sept. 1662.Doncaster Archives, AB.2/1/3 (Doncaster corporation min. bk. 1591–1754), pp. 233, 253; Cal. to the Recs. of the Bor. of Doncaster, iv. 145

Parlimentarian

HEWLEY, Sir John (1619-97), of Wistow and Bell Hall, Naburn, Yorks.

: of York and Bell Hall, Yorks., Naburn.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, circle of P. Lely, c.1675.Mansion House, York.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

HEWLEY, John (1619-97), of York and Bell Hall, Naburn, Yorks.

Will

20 June 1682, pr. Oct. 1697.Borthwick, Prerogative Wills, Oct. 1697 (Sir John Hewley).

Estates

inheritance inc. a messuage and several closes in Wistow.Hull Hist. Centre, U DDBH/19/43. Through his wife, acquired the part of manor of West Ayton and other property near Scarborough, and Hay Park and other property near Knaresborough, valued at c. £800 p.a. in 1662.C6/159/77-8; C6/165/79; C6/164/101; C10/117/74; Report of His Majesty’s Commrs. Concerning Dame Sarah Hewley’s Charity, 33-4. In 1653, purchased manor of Newby, Yorks. from the treason trustees, which he sold to Edward Keling* in 1655.C54/3801/18; CCC 2192. In 1662-3, purchased part of manor of Naburn, near York, with capital messuage of Bell Hall; manors of Killinghall and Braithwaite, near Knaresborough (worth £120 p.a.); a third part of manor of Eston, Cleveland (worth £95 p.a.); and lands in Skelton, also in Cleveland (worth £48 p.a.).E134/27CHAS2/EAST17; E134/28CHAS2/MICH23; E134/31&32CHAS2/HIL24; Hull Hist. Centre, U DDBH/12/124-5, 131, 137, 140, 153; Dame Sarah Hewley’s Charity, 33, 34-5; VCH E. Riding, ii. 279; iii. 77. His property at Skelton inc. Slapeworth alum works, which he and two other gentlemen leased to the crown in 1665 for a rent of £400 p.a.CTB vi. 173. Also owned a house of 17 hearths in St Saviourgate, York, and other property in the city.Borthwick, Prerogative Wills, Sept. 1710 (Sarah Hewley); Dame Sarah Hewley’s Charity, 34; D. Scott, ‘Politics, Dissent, and Quakerism in York’ (York Univ. DPhil. thesis, 1990), 166.

Oxford 1644

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