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

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.

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.

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.

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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Religion

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