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b. c. 1590, 2nd s. of Matthew Cradock, rector of Hasguard, Pembs. and Dorothy Greenway of Berks.Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xv), 198; F. Rose-Troup, The Massachusetts Bay Co. and its Predecessors (New York, 1930), 139. educ. appr. Skinner, London 25 Mar. 1606.Skinners’ Co., appr. and freedoms 1601-94, f. 8v. m. (1) 10 Dec. 1622, Damaris (bur. 1 Nov. 1623), da. of Richard Wyn of Shrewsbury, Salop, 1da.; (2) bef. 1632, Rebecca, da. of Thomas Jordan, merchant, of London, 2s. 1da. d.v.p. d. 27 May 1641.GL, MS 4449/1, unfol.; MS 4311; Soc. Gen. Boyd’s Lists 9278-9.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Skinners’ Co. 20 July 1616; asst. 19 June 1628; third warden, 16 June 1636–7; second warden, 21 June 1638–9; first warden, 18 June 1640–d.Skinners’ Co., appr. and freedoms 1601–94, f. 55v; assistants, wardens and masters, unfol. Member of ct. of requests, London 26 Sept. 1633.CLRO, Rep. 47, f. 384. Common councilman, c.1637–d.; auditor of accounts 24 June 1640.CLRO, Jor. 39, f. 99.

Mercantile: member, Muscovy Co. cttee. c.1620.RW.K. Hinton, The Eastland Trade and the Common Weal (Cambridge, 1959), 219. Shareholder, Virg. Co. 30 Apr. 1621.Recs. of Virginia Co. of London, ed. S.M. Kingsbury (1933) iii. 63. Freeman, Levant Co. 12 July 1627; asst. 1630, Feb. 1641.SP105/148, f. 171; SP105/150, f. 3. Member E.I. Co. cttee. c. Nov. 1628–30, 3 July 1635–d.Cal. Ct. Mins. E. I. Co. 1625–9, p. 601; 1635–9, pp. 73, 185, 306. Gov. Massachusetts Bay Co. 13 May 1629-Oct. 1629; asst. 20 Oct. 1629–d.Recs. Gov. and Co. of Mass. Bay ed. B. Shurtleff (2 vols. Boston Mass. 1912) i. 11, 40; Winthrop Pprs (Mass. Hist. Soc.) ii. 159–60.

Central: commr. for abuses in cloth industry, 21 Sept. 1638.CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 23.

Local: commr. subsidy, London 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641.SR.

Parlimentarian
CRADOCK, Matthew (c.1590-1641), of St Swithin’s Lane, London.
: London., of St Swithin’s Lane.
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Commons 1640-1660
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CRADOCK, Matthew (c.1590-1641), of St Swithin’s Lane, London.

Will
9 Nov. 1640, pr. 4 June 1641.PROB11/186/245.
Estates
c.1629 established plantation near Medford, Mystic River, New England;B. Bailyn, The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth century (Cambridge Mass., 1955), 28. held jointly with John Winthrop from Mar. 1634.J. Noble, Recs. of the Ct. of Assistants of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1630-92 (2 vols., Boston Mass., 1904), 41; Recs. Gov. and Co. of Mass. Bay, ed. Shurtleff, 111. Other lands in New England inc. houses at Marblehead, Ipswich, and at d. left a claim on the colony of £679.Mass. Hist. Soc. Collns. ser. 4, vi. 118n. In 1640 owned house in Romford, Essex, and held lease of house in London.PROB11/186/245.
Oxford 1644
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