LEE, Richard (c.1591-c.1652), of Great Delce in St Margaret’s, Rochester, Kent.

Family and Education

b. c. 1591, s. of Richard Lee of Great Delce (d. 1618) and Anne, da. of William Clarke of Ford.C142/395/115; Vis. Kent 1619 (Harl. Soc. xlii), 56. educ. I. Temple, 16 Oct. 1608.I. Temple database. m. (1) 1614, Mary, dau. of John Shirley of Lewes, sjt.-at-law, 1s., 1da.; (2) (lic. 19 Nov. 1628), Sybil Wenland (d. c.June 1629), wid. of Sir George Newman of St Margaret’s, Canterbury, s.p.;Add. 16279, f. 163v; Vis. Kent, 56; Canterbury Mar. Licences 1619-1660, 612; L.L. Duncan, ‘Kentish administrations, 1604-49’, Arch. Cant. xx. 19. (3) (lic. 19 July 1641), Dame Joan Lewkenor (d. c.Feb. 1646) of Kingston, wid. of Sir Robert Lewkenor of Acrise, Kent.Duncan, ‘Kentish administrations’, 37; Canterbury Mar. Licences 1619-1660, 612. d. c. 1652.PROB11/227/78.

Offices Held

capt. militia, Kent 1621.HMC Finch, i. 42 Commr. sewers, 4 Feb. 1622-aft. Feb. 1639;C181/3, ff. 42v, 212v, 248v, 253, 255; C181/5, f. 129v. River Medway 14 Apr. 1627;Canterbury Cathedral Lib. U85/35/7. Kent and Suss. 23 May 1645.C181/5, f. 253. J.p. Kent 29 Jan. 1629–?C231/4, f. 263; C66/2527. Commr. subsidy, Kent, Rochester 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, Kent 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Kent, Rochester 1642; assessment, 1642,SR. 24 Feb. 1643; Kent 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; sequestration, 27 Mar., 16 Aug. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; for timber for navy, Kent and Essex 16 Apr. 1644; commr. for Kent, assoc. of Hants, Surr. Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Kent 4 July 1644;C181/5, f. 236. gaol delivery, 4 July 1644;C181/5, f. 237. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

gov. (parlian.) Upnor Castle, Kent Sept. 1642-May 1645.CJ ii. 760a; LJ vii. 365a. ?Capt. of ft. regt. of Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, 27 Jan.-17 Mar. 1643.SP28/253a (Liber B), f. 62v.

mayor, Rochester 1643.‘Letters of Thomas Stanley’, Arch. Cant. xvii. 363–4; HMC 7th Rep. 554a.

member, cttee. for examinations, 16 Oct. 1644.CJ iii. 666b.

Parlimentarian

LEE, Richard (c.1591-c.1652), of Great Delce in St Margaret’s, Rochester, Kent.

of Great Delce in St Margaret’s, Kent., Rochester.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LEE, Richard (c.1591-c.1652), of Great Delce in St Margaret’s, Rochester, Kent.

Will

13 July 1652, pr. 16 May 1653.PROB11/227/78.

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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