BROUGHTON, Andrew (c.1603-87), of Earl Street, Maidstone, Kent.

Family and Education

b. c.1603, ?3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Richard Broughton (d. 1635) of Seaton, Rutland, and St Dunstan-in-the-West, London, and Anne Agard (bur. 8 Feb. 1632).Ludlow Mems. ii. 513; PROB11/168/49; Seaton, Rutland, par. reg.; Vis. Rutland 1619-20 (Harl. Soc. iii), 29. educ. Clifford’s Inn.I. Temple database. m. 18 Aug. 1631, Mary Barran, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da. (d.v.p.).Par. Reg. St Antholin (Harl. Soc. viii), 65. suc. bro. William, Jan. 1639.Cent. Kent. Stud. PRC32/52, f. 286; Maidstone All Saints par. reg. d. 23 Feb. 1687, ‘aged 84’.MI, St Martin, Vevey.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Maidstone 18 Jan. 1630;Cent. Kent. Stud. ACm1/2, f. 122v. common cllr. 29 Apr. 1636;Cent. Kent. Stud. ACm1/2, f. 156v. chamberlain, 2 Nov. 1639, 2 Nov. 1650;Cent. Kent. Stud. ACm1/2, f. 175; ACm1/3, f. 37. jurat, 22 Oct. 1647;Cent. Kent. Stud. ACm1/3, f. 18v. mayor, 2 Nov. 1648, 2 Nov. 1659–18 June 1660.Cent. Kent. Stud. ACm1/3, ff. 22v, 104, 111. J.p. 2 Nov. 1649, 2 Nov. 1657, 2 Nov. 1658.Cent. Kent. Stud. ACm1/3, ff. 26v, 90v, 97.

Local: clerk of the peace, Kent 28 Dec. 1639.LC5/133, p. 71; E. Stephens, Clerks of the Counties (1961), 109. Commr. defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; commr. for Kent, assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644; assessment, Kent 18 Oct. 1644, 7 Apr., 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 (1653, E.1062.28). militia, 22 May 1650, 26 July 1659;CSP Dom. 1650, p. 173; A. and O. sewers, Ticehurst and River Rother, Kent and Suss. 3 Nov. 1653;C181/6, p. 23. ejecting scandalous ministers, Kent 23 Mar. 1658;SP25/78, p. 500. oyer and terminer, Home circ. June 1659–10 July 1660.C181/6, p. 373.

Legal: att. ct. of c.p. bef. July 1642.Cent. Kent. Stud. ACm1/2, f. 198v. Clerk of the Rolls bef. Apr. 1648.CCAM 549. Associate of the bar, I. Temple 15 May 1650;CITR ii. 292. associate bencher, 17 June 1651.CITR ii. 299.

Central: clerk, high ct. of justice, Jan. 1649.CSP Dom. 1648–9, p. 350. Chief clerk for criminal causes in Upper Bench, June 1649–60.KB29/300; KB29/307; CJ vi. 222b, 229b. Cllr. of state, 14 July 1653.CJ vii. 284b.

Parlimentarian

BROUGHTON, Andrew (c.1603-87), of Earl Street, Maidstone, Kent.

: Kent., Maidstone.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BROUGHTON, Andrew (c.1603-87), of Earl Street, Maidstone, Kent.

Will

estate forfeit to crown 1660.LR2/266, ff. 1, 5.

Estates

house in Earl Street, Maidstone, 1640s;J.M. Russell, Hist. Maidstone (Maidstone, 1881), 194. granted chambers in St Stephen’s Court, Westminster, and in prebend’s house, Westminster, July 1653;CSP Dom. 1653-4, pp. 14, 44, 52. purchased 66 acres of land in Godmersham, Kent, 1654;Cent. Kent. Stud. U1118/T2, T3/6-10. bro. Ambrose settled on him Uphall and lands in Seaton, 29 Aug. 1655;Lincs. RO, 3-ANC1/33/6. estate valued at £138 in 1660 (lands in Kent worth £112 pa; estate in Great Wood Street, former bishops’ lands, worth £126).LR2/266, ff. 1, 5.

Oxford 1644

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