ALLESTRYE, William (c.1598-1655), of Alvaston, and All Saints, Derby, Derbys.

Family and Education

b. c. 1598, 1st s. of Thomas Allestry of Alvaston, and 1st w. Anne, da. of Roger Barker of Alvaston.C142/474/67; Vis. Derbys. (Harl. Soc. n.s. viii), 11. educ. Derby sch.;Derby School Reg. 1570-1901 ed. B. Tacchella, 20. G. Inn 16 Nov. 1618,G. Inn Admiss. 152. called 9 Feb. 1625;PBG Inn, i. 268. St John’s, Camb. Lent 1619.Al. Cant. m. (1) 9 Apr. 1629, Sarah (d. 2 Sept. 1638), da. of Thomas Smith of Derby, 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 4da. (2 d.v.p.); (2) 8 Mar. 1641, Mary (d. 1 Apr. 1679), da. of George Agard of Foston, Derbys., wid. of Edward Smith of ?Ashbourne, Derbys. 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da.All Saints, Derby par. reg.; Sheffield City Archives, BHD/20; Vis. Derbys. 11. suc. fa. 14 Nov. 1630;C142/474/67. d. 4 Sept. 1655.Vis. Derbys. 11.

Offices Held

Local: commr. charitable uses, Derbys. 17 Feb. 1632, 16 June 1635.C192/1, unfol.; C93/15/24. Feodary, c.1634–27 Nov. 1640.WARD5/32, unfol.; CSP Dom. 1640–1, p. 223. Commr. gaol delivery, Derby 17 Nov. 1638;C181/5, f. 119. disarming recusants, Derbys. 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a. assessment, 1642.SR.

Parish: assessor and auditor, All Saints, Derby 1635–7. Vestryman by Dec. 1638–d.The Churchwardens’ Audit and Vestry Order Bk. of All Saints, Derby 1465–1689 ed. R. Clark (Derbys. Rec. Soc. xxxvi), 82, 86, 87, 94, 104, 112.

Civic: recorder, Derby by Nov. 1638–13 Dec. 1644.C181/5, f. 119; CJ iii. 374a; LJ vii. 96b, 97b.

Parlimentarian

ALLESTRYE, William (c.1598-1655), of Alvaston, and All Saints, Derby, Derbys.

: of Alvaston and All Saints, Derbys., Derby.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

ALLESTRYE, William (c.1598-1655), of Alvaston, and All Saints, Derby, Derbys.

Will

2 July 1655, pr. 8 Aug. 1658.PROB11/266, f. 311.

Estates

his fa. was fined £12 10s. for distraint of knighthood.E407/35, f. 34. In 1630, Allestrye inherited the capital messuage of Alvaston and lands and tenements in Alvaston and Boulton, Derbys.C142/474/67. In 1633, he and another gentleman purchased messuages, lands and tithes in Lea, Over Holloway and Nether Holloway, Plaistow, Tansley and Wheatcroft, Derbys. for £1,410.Add. 6705, ff. 11v, 24-5; Derbys. RO, D76/ME/10-11; D1088/MT/13-14. By 1637, he and another gentleman owned messuages in Yeldersley, Derbys.Add. 6672, f. 274. In 1645, estate consisted of messuage and lands in Derby worth £20 p.a.; tithes in Alvaston and Boulton and lands and tenements in Mackworth, Derbys. worth £46 p.a. (but mortgaged to his brother); lands and tenements in Alvaston worth £64 p.a.; a tenement during the life of his wife worth £88 p.a.; an estate for life in lands in Osmaston and Derby worth £46 p.a.; and a chamber in Gray’s Inn, Mdx.SP23/175, pp. 185-6.

Oxford 1644

Yes

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