NOBLE, Michael (c.1591-1649), of the Close, Lichfield, Staffs.

Family and Education

b. c.1591, 1st s. of Edward Noble of the Close, Lichfield, and Isabella (bur. 13 May 1635), da. of Humphrey Lowe of Lichfield, mercer.St Chad, Lichfield par. reg.; Vis. Staffs. ed. H. S. Grazebrook (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 221. educ. Queens’ Camb. 15 May 1607, aged 16.Al. Cant. m. 3 Oct. 1618, Mary (bur. 11 May 1655), da. of William Cotton of Crakemarsh, Uttoxeter, Staffs. 2s. 3da.St Mary, Uttoxeter par. reg.; St Mary, Lichfield par. reg.; PROB11/244, f. 427; Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 221. suc. fa. bef. 1648;PROB11/211, f. 323. d. Feb. 1649.Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 221.

Offices Held

Local: commr. inquiry into lands of Robert, earl of Somerset, Staffs. 7 Nov. 1616;C181/2, f. 260v. swans, Staffs. and Warws. 12 Feb. 1635, 6 Feb. 1638;C181/4, f. 200; C181/5, f. 91v. further subsidy, Lichfield 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR; A. and O. Staffs. 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; sequestration, Lichfield 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Staffs. 12 Aug. 1645–?C181/5, f. 258. Dep. lt. 26 Aug. 1645–d.CJ iv. 251b; LJ vii. 549b. J.p. by 26 Apr. 1647–d.S. Erdeswick, Survey of Staffs. ed. T. Harwood (1843), p. xviii. Commr. maintenance of ministry, Lichfield 4 Apr. 1648;LJ x. 178b. militia, Staffs. and Lichfield 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Civic: coroner, Lichfield 12 Sept. 1623–?d.;Harwood, Lichfield, 345; CSP Dom. 1625–49, p. 97. town clerk, 12 Sept. 1623-bef. Dec. 1644.Harwood, Lichfield, 345, 441. Feoffee, Lichfield Conduit Lands trust by 1634–?d.P. Laithwaite, Hist. of the Lichfield Conduit Lands Trust (Lichfield, 1947), 79.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee of navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 402b. cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

NOBLE, Michael (c.1591-1649), of the Close, Lichfield, Staffs.

: of the Close, Staffs., Lichfield.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

NOBLE, Michael (c.1591-1649), of the Close, Lichfield, Staffs.

Will

14 Mar. 1648, pr. 12 Mar. 1650.PROB11/211, f. 323.

Estates

in 1618, purchased lands in Longdon and Kings Bromley, Staffs. for £41.‘Final concords temp. James I’ ed W.K. Boyd (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. n.s. vi, pt. 1), 39. In the early 1630s, he was assessed at £10 for distraint of knighthood.H. S. Grazebrook, ‘Obligatory knighthood temp. Charles I’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 1, ii. pt. 2), 19. In 1646-7, he sold a lease of a messuage and lands in Elford, Staffs.BRL, Ms 3878/235, 245-7. By 1648, he owned lands in Alrewas, Burntwood, Chorley, Longdon and Pipe Ridware and seven closes in the lordship of Lichfield, Staffs.PROB11/211, f. 323; BRL, Ms 3049/Acc 1913-012/242681. In 1649, he and another gentleman sold a lease of a messuage in Bawtry, Yorks., for £250.Sheffield City Archives, CM/1789/1-2. His son and heir John’s estate was reckoned to be worth £300 p.a. in the early 1660s.‘The gentry of Staffs. 1662-3’ ed. R. M. Kidson (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 4, ii), 23.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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