GORGES, Thomas (c.1618-70), of Batcombe and Nynehead, Som. and Heavitree, Devon

Family and Education

b. c. 1618, 1st s. of Henry Gorges of Batcombe and Wells, Som. and Barbara, da. of Thomas Baynard of Colerne, Wilts.;Vis. Som. 1623 (Harl. Soc. xi), 41. bro. of John Gorges*. educ. L. Inn 1638, called 1647.LI Admiss. i. 235; LI Black Bks. ii. 372. m. (1) Mary, da. of Martin Sanford of Nynehead Court, Nynehead, Som. 3s. 1da.; (2) 23 Mar. 1658, Rose (d. 14 Apr. 1671), da. and coh. of Sir Jerome Alexander, j.c.p. [I], of Dublin, wid. of Roger Mallock of Cockington, Devon, 1s. 1da.R. Gorges, The Story of a Family through Eleven Centuries (Boston, 1944), 197; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 547; B.F. Cresswell, Exeter Churches (Exeter, 1908), 38. suc. fa. by 1649.PROB11/207/434. d. 21 Oct. 1670.Cresswell, Exeter Churches, 38.

Offices Held

Colonial: dep. gov. Maine 1640 – 43; sec. council, 1640–3.Province and Court Recs. of Maine (Maine Hist. Soc. 1928–75), i. 36–41. Mayor, Agamenticus/Gorgeana (now York), Maine 1641–3.Gorges, Story of a Family, 187.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of James Holbourne, Apr. 1645; ?capt. of dragoons, regt. of John Okey*, May 1645; capt. of horse, regt. of Edward Cooke*, 1645–7.M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), i. 44, 60; SP28/144, pt. 10, f. 7; R.K.G. Temple, ‘The Massey Brigade in the west’, Som. and Dors. N and Q xxxi. 437–45. Lt.-col. militia horse, Som. 1650.CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 521.

Local: j.p. Som. 27 June 1649 – Mar. 1653, July 1654 – bef.Oct. 1660; Devon by June 1657-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, pp. 160, 366; C193/13/4, f. 85; CCC 645; QS Recs. Som. Commonwealth, p. xxi; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. assessment, Som. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Devon 9 June 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Steward, sequestered estates, Som. July 1651–?53.CCC 466. Treas. hosps. western division, Som. 1651–2.QS Recs. Som. Commonwealth, 150. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Som. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. sewers, 21 Nov. 1654-aft. Dec. 1658;C181/6, pp. 74, 337. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 27 Mar. 1655;C181/6, p. 100. for public faith, Som. 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35). militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Civic: recorder, Taunton by 1655 – 62; feoffee, town lands by 1659.J. Toulmin and J. Savage, Hist. of Taunton (Taunton, 1822), 279n.

Central: commr. for fraudulent debentures, 1656–8;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 246; 1658–9, p. 3. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Sub-commr. new buildings, London 9 July 1657.C231/6 p. 371. Commr. tendering oath to MPs, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 593a.

Irish: steward, lands of duke of York, Ireland 29 Aug. 1667–d.HMC 8th Rep. 279.

Parlimentarian

GORGES, Thomas (c.1618-70), of Batcombe, Som. and Heavitree, Devon.

: of Batcombe and Nynehead, Som. and Heavitree, Devon.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GORGES, Thomas (c.1618-70), of Batcombe and Nynehead, Som. and Heavitree, Devon

Will

25 Sept. 1669, codicil 12 Mar. 1670, pr. 1 Apr. 1671, sentence 2 Dec. 1671.PROB11/335/459; PROB11/337/535.

Estates

owned land in Maine;York Deeds (1887-1910), i. pt. II, ff. 5-6; PROB11/335/459. living at Nynehead, Som. by 1657;Som. RO, DD/SF/2/105/1; DD/SF/2/67/56: indenture, 20 Aug. 1657; declaration, 1657. probably later owned land at Heavitree and Cockington, Devon.PROB11/335/459.

Oxford 1644

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