PARKHURST, Sir Robert (1603-51), of St Mary le Bow, London, and Pyrford, Surr.

Family and Education

bap. 5 July 1603,St Mary le Bowe (Harl. Soc Reg. xliv.), 16. 1st s. of Sir Robert Parkhurst, alderman of London, of Cheapside and Broad Street, and Eleanor (bur. 16 Nov. 1638), da. of William Babington of Chorley, Surr.Baker, Northants., 228; Vis. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii.), 97. educ. Balliol, Oxf. 15 Oct. 1619, BA 28 June 1622;Al. Ox. I. Temple, 10 May 1621.I. Temple database. m. (settlement 2 May 1628) Elizabeth (bur. 13 Sept. 1638), da. of Sir Henry Baker, 1st bt., of Sissinghurst, Kent, 2s. (inc. Robert*), 2da.; (2) 6 June 1642, Silence, da. of Sir Thomas Crewe† of Steane, Northants., 1s. suc. fa. 19 Oct. 1636.C142/543/21; Baker, Northants., 228; Mems. of St Margaret’s, Westminster, ed. A.M. Burke, 353. Kntd. 29 Apr. 1638.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 205. bur. 21 Aug. 1651 21 Aug. 1651.Manning and Bray, Surr. i. 50, 157.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Guildford 1625.Surr. Hist. Centre, BR/OC/1/2, f. 95.

Local: j.p. Surr. 1634–d.C231/5, p. 138; Names of the Justices (1650), 55. Commr. Wey navigation, 1635;T. Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 1, p. 19. subsidy, Surr. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. perambulation, Windsor Forest, Surr. 14 Sept 1641;C181/5, f. 211v. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Surr. 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648.SR; A. and O. Dep. lt. 23 May 1642–?CJ ii. 584a. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. commr. for Surr. 27 July 1643;LJ vi. 151b. defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; commr. for Surr., assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644; New Model ordinance, Surr. 17 Feb. 1645; defence of Surr. 1 July 1645.A. and O.

Central: clerk of hanaper in reversion, 22 July 1636 (aft. d. of George Mynne†, 1648),Coventry Docquets, 198; CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 177; HP Commons 1604–1629, s.v. ‘George Mynne’. Commr. for Irish affairs, 4 Apr. 1642.PJ ii. 403. Member, cttee. of Irish affairs, 29 May 1643.CJ iii. 109b.

Parlimentarian

PARKHURST, Robert (1603-1651), of Cheapside, London; later of Broad Street, London and Pyrford, Surr.

: of St Mary le Bow, London and Surr., Pyrford.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PARKHURST, Sir Robert (1603-51), of St Mary le Bow, London, and Pyrford, Surr.

Will

7 Jan. 1650, pr. 5 Feb. 1652.PROB11/220/321.

Estates

from 1628, manor of Pyrford;VCH Surr. iii. 432. property in St Mary le Bow, London, inc. The Golden Lady or Unicorn and Golden Lady;Hist. Gazetteer of London: Cheapside, ed. D. Keene and V. Harding (1987), 336-42. from 19 Oct. 1636, manors of Abbotts Kerswell, Collaton and South Allington, Devon, and Taynton, Glos., perhaps with other property in Eng. and Ire. originally belonging to Thomas Ridgeway†, 1st earl of Londonderry;Hants RO, 39M89/E/T63-71; PROB11/220/321; HP Commons 1604-1629, ‘Thomas Ridgeway’. £1,000 adventure in Ireland;SP63/290, f. 265. claim to at least £3,000 worth of land in Ireland stemming from mortgage forfeited by Thomas Roper, 1st Viscount Baltinglass;SP63/319, f. 29; Rushworth, Hist. Collns. viii. 205-21. 1641, manor of Wisley, Surr.;VCH Surr. iii. 380. from 16 Nov. 1638, house in Broad Street, London;PROB11/173/372. 10 June 1651, £30 in arrears of rent for a glass house in Mdx.CCC 453.

Oxford 1644

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