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b. 25 Mar. 1614, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Chicheley† of Wimpole and Dorothy, da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Kempe of Olantigh, Kent.CUL, EDR. H3. Wimpole, no. 14; [B. Buckler], Stemmata Chicheleana (1765-75), pt. i. 5, 13; MIs Cambs. 201. educ. I. Temple, 26 Nov. 1632; MA, Camb. 1636.I. Temple database; Al. Cant. m. (1) 13 Aug. 1635, with £3,000, Sarah (bur. 19 Jan. 1655), da. of Sir William Russell†, 1st bt. of Chippenham, Cambs. 3s. d.v.p. 2da.;MIs Cambs. 201; Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, ii. 386; E. Legh, Baroness Newton, Lyme Lttrs. 1660-1760 (1925), 5; Cambs. RO, R.52.12.12.13; Wimpole par. reg. p. 85. (2) 15 Apr. 1656, Anne (bur. 31 July 1662), da. of Sir Thomas Coventry†, 1st Baron Coventry of Aylesborough, wid. of Sir William Savile*, 3rd bt. of Thornhill, Yorks. 2s. (1 d.v.p.)St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, and Wimpole par. reg. pp. 42, 86. suc. fa. 1616.MIs Cambs. 201. Kntd. 2 June 1670.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 244. d. 1 Feb. 1699.Wimpole par. reg. p. 91.
Offices Held

Local: commr. pontage, Camb. 2 May 1635, 1663, 1673.C181/5, f. 1v; Cooper, Annals Camb. iii. 513, 557. Sheriff, Cambs. 1637–8.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 14. Dep. lt. by Feb. 1639-aft. Aug. 1640.Harl. 4014, ff. 31v-55v. J.p. Cambs. Feb. 20 Feb. 1639-aft. July 1642, 16 July 1660–87; I. of Ely July 1660–87; Camb. 1679 – ?87, 1689–?d.; Westminster by 1687-Feb. 1688.Coventry Docquets, 76; C231/5, p. 541; C231/7, p. 14; HP Commons, 1660–1690. Commr. oyer and terminer, Cambs. 23 June-aft. July 1640;C181/5, ff. 177, 184. Norf. circ. 10 July 1660-aft. Feb. 1673;C181/7, pp. 13, 634. disarming recusants, Cambs. 30 Aug. 1641.LJ iv. 385a. Custos rot. 19 July 1642–?, July 1660–87; I. of Ely July 1660–87.C231/5, p. 541; HP Commons, 1660–1690. Commr. assessment, Cambs. 1642, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689–?d.; I. of Ely 1677, 1679; Camb. Univ. and town 1689–?d.SR; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Custos rot. Cambs. 16 July 1660–87.C231/7, p. 14; C231/8, p. 117; J.C. Sainty Custodes Rotulorum1660–1828 (2002). Commr. poll tax, 1660;SR. sewers, Norf., Suff. and Cambs. 7 Sept. 1660-aft. Dec. 1669;C181/7, pp. 41, 523. Bedford Gt. Level 26 May 1662;C181/7, p. 148. loyal and indigent officers, Cambs. 1662;SR. corporations, 1662–3.HP Commons, 1660–1690. Bailiff, Bedford Level 1663 – 65, 1666 – 67, 1670–93. Commr. subsidy, Cambs. 1663;SR. repair of highways, sewers and streets, all cos. 3 July 1666;C181/7, p. 375. gaol delivery, Camb. 30 Mar. 1671-aft. Apr. 1672.C181/7, pp. 577, 623.

Civic: freeman, Camb. 1661; Portsmouth 1668; Liverpool 1686. Jan. 1671 – May 1688Cambs. RO, Camb. corp. archives, common day bk. 1647–81, f. 139v; Downing College, Cambridge, Bowtell MS 6, unfol.: Camb. borough treasurers’ acc. 1660–1; Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 359. High steward, Camb., 1689–d.Cooper, Annals Camb. iii. 546, 639–40, iv. 41; Diary of Samuel Newton ed. J. E. Foster (Camb. Antiq. Soc. xxxiii), 59.

Central: commr. ordnance, Oct. 1664 – June 1670; master-gen. June 1670-June 1679.CSP Dom. 1664–5, p. 49; 1670, p. 224; H.C. Tomlinson, Guns and Government (1979), 223. Commr. dedimus potestatam, Parl. 31 Oct. 1666.C181/7, p. 378. Treas. seamen’s prize-money, 1665–7. PC, June 1670-Mar. 1687. Commr. inquiry into land settlement, Ireland 1671; Tangier 1673–80.CSP Dom. 1671, p. 358; HP Commons, 1660–1690. Master, ordnance, Ireland 1674–9.CSP Dom. 1673–5, p. 185; 1679–80, p. 288. Member, Royal Fishery Co. 1677.HP Commons, 1660–1690. Commr. admlty. Sept. 1677-May 1679.Admiralty Officials ed. J.C. Sainty (1975), 115. Chan. duchy of Lancaster, Nov. 1682-Mar. 1687.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 3.

Military: lt. duke of Richmond’s horse, 2 July 1666–7. Capt. of ft. Portsmouth 28 May 1669–71; Tower of London 1677–9. Capt. Life Gds. Ireland by 1677–80. Capt. of ft. Virg. 29 Mar. 1679.Dalton, Army Lists, i. 59, 102, 259; CSP Dom. 1677–8, p. 437; 1679–80, pp. 229, 372.

Mercantile: master, Grocers’ Co. London 1686 – 87; jt. warden, Aug. 1686-July 1687.J.B. Heath, Some Acct. of the Worshipful Co. of Grocers (1869), 212; W.W. Grantham, List of the Wardens of the Grocers’ Co. (1907), 33.

Parlimentarian
CHICHELEY, Thomas (1614-99), of Wimpole, Cambs. and Great Queen Street, St. Giles in the Fields, Mdx.
: of Wimpole, Cambs.
Likenesses

Likenesses: family group on father’s tomb, Wimpole church, Cambs.; oil on canvas, W. Dobson, 1642-6;Whereabouts unknown; M. Rogers, William Dobson 1611-46 (1983), 46-8; A. Haldane, Portraits of the English Civil Wars (2017), 42-3, 145. watercolour, unknown, 1831-70.Royal Armouries.

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Commons 1640-1660
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CHICHELEY, Thomas (1614-99), of Wimpole, Cambs.

Will
28 Dec. 1693, pr. 8 June 1708.PROB11/501/377.
Estates
valued at £19,855 for purpose of compounding, 1646;CCC 1437. mostly mortgaged from 1650s onwards; worth £2,000 p.a. 1660;Burke Commoners, i. 688. bought drained fenlands, particularly at Soham and Fordham, Cambs. 1654-5;Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fenns ed. F. Willmoth and E. Stazicker (Cambs. Recs. Soc. xxiii), 47-8. sold all his lands, said to be worth £5,000 p.a. to Sir John Cutler in 1686 for £51,220.Cambs. RO, R.15.12.12.26; R.52.12.11.29; HMC Ancaster, 433.
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