Family and Education
bap. 26 Feb. 1610, o.s. of Oliver Hervy of Thurleigh, Beds. and Anne, da. of Humfrey Browne, merchant of London and wid. of Robert Clarke, merchant.Beds. Par. Regs. ed. F.G. Emmison (Bedford, 1931-53), pp. xxviii. A3; Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 287; Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 117. educ. Brentwood Sch. (Mr Plumtree); Christ’s, Camb. 1626, BA 1628-9;J. Peile, Biographical Register of Christ’s College (Cambridge, 1910-13), i. 375-6; Al. Cant. G. Inn 21 Feb. 1628.GI Admiss. 183. m. 22 May 1632, Elizabeth, da. of Stephen Harvey, Turkey merchant, of St Mary Athill, London, at least 6s. (2 d.v.p.), 5da. (4 d.v.p.).Vis. Beds. 117; Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 289; W.M. Harvey, The Hundred of Willey (1872-8), ped. betw. pp. 510-11. suc. fa. 1627.Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 288. d. 8 Aug. 1662.Beds. Par. Regs. ed. Emmison, xxviii. A33.
Offices Held

Local: member, Beds. co. cttee. by Dec. 1643-aft. May 1645.‘Civil War Pprs. of Sir William Boteler’, 37; Luke Letter Bks. 538, 548. Commr. assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661;A. and O.; SR; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645;A. an O. sequestration bef. Aug. 1646-aft. Mar. 1647;P. Bell, ‘Mins. of the Beds. cttee. for sequestrations, 1646–7’, Miscellanea (Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xlix), 94–115. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660. by Feb. 1650 – Sept. 1660A. and O. J.p.; Bedford May 1650-Sept. 1660.C193/13/3, f. 1v; C231/6, pp. 186, 392; C181/6, p. 289; C181/7, f. 83; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Beds. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. poll tax, 1660.SR.

Military: col. militia, Beds. bef. 1653.F.N.L. Poynter and W.J. Bishop, A Seventeenth Century Doctor and his patients (Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xxxi), 82.

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Commons 1640-1660
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HERVY, John (1610-62), of Thurleigh, Beds.

Will
2 Sept. 1661, codicil 5 Aug. 1662, pr. 8 Feb. 1664.Beds. RO, ABP W 1663-4/93.
Estates
owned land at Thurleigh Clapham, Bletsoe and Riseley, Beds.
Oxford 1644
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