FOTHERGILL, John (d.1668), of Sudbury, Suff.

chief burgess, Sudbury by June 1639 – bef.July 1658; bailiff Sept. 1642-Sept. 1644.Suff. RO (Bury), EE501/2/7, unfol.

recvr. loans on Propositions, Sudbury 10 Sept. 1642.LJ v. 346b. Commr. assessment, Suff. 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657; Sudbury 9 June 1657;A. and O. militia, Suff. 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659;CSP Dom. 1655, p. 78; A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth by 20 Nov. 1655. 1655 – ?Mar. 1660TSP, iv. 225, 272, 427–8; PRO30/11/268, f. 7. J.p. 10 Mar.; Essex July 1658-bef. Aug. 1659.C231/6, pp. 305, 400, 405; Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxv. Commr. for public faith, Suff. 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35). ejecting scandalous ministers, 16 Dec. 1657;SP25/78, p. 334. sewers, Norf. and Suff. 26 June 1658-aft. June 1659.C181/6, pp. 294, 362.

capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of Francis Russell* by 1643-aft. Mar. 1645. by June 1645 – Aug. 1648SP28/11, f. 8; G. Davies, ‘The army of the Eastern Association, 1644–5’, EHR xlvi. 93. Col. militia ft. Suff., June 1650-c.1659.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, i. 354; Essex RO, D/DQs.18, f. 42; A Diary of the Siege of Colchester (1648, 669.f.13.6); CSP Dom. 1650, p. 507; SP25/119, p. 65. Capt. vol. regt. of horse, Suff. July 1651; capt. militia horse, Mar. 1655-aft. July 1659.CSP Dom. 1651, p. 516; 1658–9, p. 169; 1659–60, pp. 15–16; SP25/77, pp. 865, 888; J.G.A. Ive, ‘The Local Dimension of Defence’ ( Univ. Cambridge PhD thesis, 1986), 230, 232–3, 257, 258, 262. Lt. of ft. regt. of Jeremiah Camfield, 23 Jan. 1660.CJ vii. 810b, 818b.

commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.