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Family and Education
b. 1574, 1st s. of James Master of East Langdon, and Martha Norton.‘Vis. of the county of Kent’, ed. I. J. Howard, Arch. Cant. v. 239, 241. educ. Clare College, Camb. c.1593; G. Inn, 30 May 1595, called 26 May 1603.Al. Cant.; G. Inn Admiss.; PBG Inn, i. 163-4. m. 1602, Audrey da. of Robert Streynsham of Ospringe, 8s. (5 d.v.p.) 6da. (1 d.v.p.);Vis. Kent 1619 (Harl. Soc. xlii), 30; Vis. Kent 1663-8 (Harl. Soc. liv), 110; ‘Vis. of the county of Kent’, 239-41. suc. fa. 27 Apr. 1631.‘Vis. of the county of Kent’, 239. Kntd. 7 June 1630.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 197. d. 3 Aug. 1648.‘Vis. of the county of Kent’, 241.
Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Kent 1617, 1626, 1637;C181/2, f. 271; C181/3, f. 203; C181/5, f. 68. Luddenham Level, Kent 1621;C181/3, f. 45. Mersham to Sandwich, Kent 1631, 1639;C181/4, f. 101v; C181/5, f. 146v. repair of highways, Kent 1631.C181/4, f. 88v. Warden, St Thomas Hosp. Sandwich 1637.Boys, Sandwich, 167. Sheriff, Kent 1638–9.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 69. Commr. subsidy, Canterbury 1641; further subsidy, Kent, Canterbury 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, Canterbury 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Kent 1642, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR; A. and O. sequestration, Canterbury 27 Mar. 1643; Kent 16 Aug. 1643; accts. of assessment, Canterbury 3 May 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; commr. for Canterbury, assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; indemnity, Kent 20 Jan., 4 Apr. 1648.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
MASTERS, Sir Edward (1574-1648), of Ospringe, East Langdon and Canterbury, Kent.
: East Langdon and Kent., Canterbury.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MASTERS, Sir Edward (1574-1648), of Ospringe, East Langdon and Canterbury, Kent.

Will
18 May 1648, pr. 21 Aug. 1648.PROB11/205/277.
Estates
at death held property in cathedral precincts, Canterbury, as well as parsonage of Ospringe rectory, leased from St John’s, Camb.; his heir drew land in Ireland upon his £300 adventure.PROB11/205/277; Bottigheimer, English Money and Irish Land, 207.
Oxford 1644
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