Family and Education
bap. 22 Nov. 1607, 1st s. of Thomas Fanshawe† of Jenkins, and Anne (bur. 1 Oct. 1638), da. of Uriah Babington, draper, of London.Misc. Her. et Gen. n.s. ii. 8, 10; HP Commons 1604-29, ‘Thomas Fanshawe I’. educ. I. Temple, 4 Nov. 1620; called, 28 Nov. 1630;CITR, ii. 126, 186. Trinity Coll. Camb. Easter 1622, MA 1624.Al. Cant. m. 16 Feb. 1626, Susan, da. and coh. of Matthew Otten of Putney, Surr. and Walthamstow, Essex, 5s. (1 d.v.p.) 8da. (4 d.v.p.).H.C. Fanshawe, Hist. of the Fanshawe Fam. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1927), 232, 236; Misc. Her. et Gen. n.s. ii. 8-9, 10, 342. suc. fa. 17 Dec. 1631;C142/482/60. d. 1652 /3 Feb. 1652.PROB11/223, f. 97.
Offices Held

Civic: recorder, Lancaster 1630–?W.O. Roper, Materials for the Hist. of Lancaster (Chetham Soc. n.s. lxii), 371.

Central: clerk of the crown, k.b. 17 Dec. 1631-June 1644.CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 97; Coventry Docquets, 176, 206; CJ iii. 500a, 522b; LJ vi. 597b-598a.

Local: commr. sewers, Essex 29 Jan. 1631-aft. Mar. 1642;C181/4, ff. 76v, 137. gaol delivery, Havering-Atte-Bower, Essex 13 Apr. 1631-aft. May 1635;C181/4, ff. 81v, 139v; C181/5, ff. 2v, 227v. piracy, London 28 May 1633, 1 Dec. 1635;C181/4, f. 139; C181/5, f. 27. oyer and terminer for piracy, London and Mdx. 2 Mar. 1639.C181/5, f. 131. Collector, knighthood fines, Essex by Mar. 1640.E198/4/32, f. 1v. Auditor, northern parts, duchy of Lancaster 22 June 1640–30 July 1641.DL10/420/9, 10; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 67. Commr. perambulation, Waltham Forest, Essex 27 Aug. 1641.C181/5, f. 208v.

: of Jenkins, Essex., Barking.
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Commons 1640-1660
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FANSHAWE, Thomas (1607-52), of Jenkins, Barking, Essex.

Will
22 Jan. 1652, pr. 3 Feb. 1652.PROB11/223, f. 97.
Estates
in 1629, acquired lease of a capital messuage in West Ham, Essex, paying £40 p.a. rent.Coventry Docquets, 248. In 1631, inherited manorial rights of Barking (purchased by fa. from the crown, nominally for £3,000, but reputedly paying £1,500), reportedly worth £1,200 p.a.; manor of Jenkins; and property in Dagenhams [sic], Fulks and Malmaynes in Barking and in Longbridge and Upney, Essex.C142/482/60; SP46/80, f. 279a; VCH Essex, v. 192, 200; Fanshawe, Fanshawe Fam. 234; HP Commons 1604-29, ‘Thomas Fanshawe I’. In 1647, estate consisted of manors of Barking and Jenkins, with mills and other property in the same; a lease from the crown of a messuage and property called Newbarns in West Ham; a lease from the crown of part of tithes of rectory impropriate of West Ham, Essex – in all, worth £1,362 p.a. bef. civil war but encumbered with charges and rents of £506 a year and debts of £23,700.SP23/205, pp. 589-90, 595-6.
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