PEDLEY, Nicholas (1615-85), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Abbotsleigh, Hunts.

Family and Education

b. 17 Sept. 1615, 1st s. of Nicholas Pedley, rector of Springfield Richards, Springfield. Essex 1604-20, and Susan, da. of one Brathwayte of Essex.Vis. Hunts. 1684 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xiii), 78; Le Neve’s Pedigrees, 274. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1633, BA 1637, MA (per Literas Regias) 1671;Al. Cant.; Graduati Cantabrigiensis (Cambridge, 1823), 363. L. Inn 1638.LI Admiss. i. 235. m. (1) 14 Jan. 1641, Lucy (d.12 May 1669), da. of Robert Bernard* of Huntingdon, 8s. (4 d.v.p.) 7da.;Vis. Hunts. 1684, 78, 100; Lansd. 921, f. 6v. (2) 10 June 1674, Anne, da. of Richard Dorrington of Stow, Hunts., wid. of Lawrence Torkington of Great Stukeley, Hunts., s.p.Vis. Hunts. 1684, 78. suc. fa. by 12 Dec. 1621, uncle James in Hunts. estate 1651; Kntd. 29 Feb. 1672.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 246. d. 6 July 1685.F. Peck, Desiderata Curiosa (1779), i. 553.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Hunts. 9 Mar. 1641-c.1681, 1684 – d.; I. of Ely 1656-Mar. 1660.C231/5, p. 434; A Perfect List (1660); HP Commons, 1660–90. Commr. array (roy.), Hunts. June, 11 Aug. 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. assessment, 23 June 1647, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1672, 1677, 1679; Huntingdon 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, Hunts. 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 17. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1652.A. and O. Commr. gaol delivery, I. of Ely 4 Mar. 1654–29 July 1659;C181/6, pp. 20, 284. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cambs., Hunts. and I. of Ely 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. June 1659-aft. Feb. 1673;C181/6, p. 379; C181/7, pp. 14, 635. poll tax, Hunts., Huntingdon 1660;SR. swans, Beds., Cambs., Hunts. and I. of Ely 26 Aug. 1661.C181/7, p. 117. Master, St John’s Hosp. Huntingdon 1661–78.Hunts. RO, Huntingdon borough recs. box 12, bdle. 1: extracts from St John’s Hospital court bk.; VCH Hunts. ii. 110n. Dep. lt. Hunts. 1662–?Hunts. RO, D/DM20B/9; Bodl. Carte 223, f. 337. Commr. subsidy, 1663;SR. sewers, Hunts. 19 Dec. 1664.C181/7, p. 302. Conservator, Gt. Level 1666–d.S. Wells, Hist. of the Drainage of the Gt. Level (1830), i. 458–63. Commr. recusants, Hunts. 1675.CTB iv. 790.

Legal: called, L. Inn 11 May 1646; bencher, 1662; Lent reader, 1670; treas. 1669 – 70; kpr. Black Bk. 1671–3.LI Black Bks. ii. 369; iii. 19, 66, 67, 71, 77, 86. Sjt.-at-law, Serjeants’ Inn Apr. 1675–d.Baker, Serjeants at Law, 196, 411, 446, 530.

Civic: recorder, Huntingdon aft. May 1672–d.A Coll. of Ancient Recs. relating to the borough of Huntingdon, ed. E. Griffith (1827), 117; Vis. Hunts. 1684, 38, 43, 78.

Parlimentarian

PEDLEY, Nicholas (1615-85), of Lincoln’s Inn and Abbotsleigh, Hunts.

: of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. and Hunts., Abbotsleigh.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PEDLEY, Nicholas (1615-85), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Abbotsleigh, Hunts.

Will

2 July 1685, pr. 10 Aug. 1685.PROB11/381/85.

Estates

bought manor of Wistowe, Hunts. for £3,500, 1648.Hunts. RO, Acc. 848/5; Acc. 783/7; Add. 33462, f. 140.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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