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

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

Local: 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.

Military: 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.

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