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bap. 26 Jan. 1617, o.s. (posth.) of Thomas Eyre (1591-1616) of Bromham and Judith Webb.Bromham par. reg.; Vis. Wilts. 1623 (Harl. Soc. cv-cvi), 59-61. m. (1) 5 Apr. 1636, Elizabeth (bur. 31 Aug. 1637), da. of John Yerbury of Bromham, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) bef. 1640, Elizabeth, 3s. 5da. suc. grandfa. Thomas Eyre, 3 May 1636. d. ?aft. 2 May 1666.Bromham par. reg.; Wilts. RO, 518/3; VCH Wilts. vii. 183.
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Military: ?capt. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of Nathaniel Fiennes I*, Bristol 1642–3;Wilts. RO, A1/110/A, ff. 9, 36. capt. of ft. and gov. of Devizes Sept. 1645 – Jan. 1646; capt. of horse by 17 Nov. 1646.Waylen, ‘Falstone Day Bk.’ 380. Col. and gov. of Hurst Castle, Hants by 25 Aug. 1647-bef. 9 Mar. 1660.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS II, 11, An Accompte of the Garrisons’; CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 226; CJ vii. 839b; CCSP iv. 590. Lt.-col. militia ft. Wilts. 10 Aug. 1650. CSP Dom. 1650, p. 508.

Local: j.p. Wilts. by 3 Apr. 1649–?Mar. 1660.Wilts. RO, A1/160/1, 2; J. Waylen, ‘Notes from the diary of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, first earl of Shaftesbury’, Wilts. Arch. and Nat. Hist. Mag. xxviii. 27; The Names of the Justices (1650, E.1238.4), 62; C193/13/3, f. 69v, C193/13/4, f. 110, C193/13/6, f. 97, C193/13/5, f. 116v; Stowe, 577, f. 58v. Commr. assessment, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1654, E.1062.28). securing peace of commonwealth by Dec. 1655;TSP iv. 295. ejecting scandalous ministers, 13 Sept. 1656;SP25/77, p. 323. militia, 26 July 1659.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
EYRE, Thomas (1617-?aft. 1665), of Hurst Castle, Hants, and Bromham, Wilts.
: Hants. and Wilts., Bromham.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

EYRE, Thomas (1617-?aft. 1665), of Hurst Castle, Hants, and Bromham, Wilts.

Will
not found.
Estates
inherited land at Bromham and probably substantial sheep flocks.Wilts. RO, 518/3; P3/E/24 i–iii.
Oxford 1644
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