ERLE, Sir Walter (1586-1665), of Charborough, Dorset, and Bindon House, Axminster, Devon.

Family and Education

b. 22 Nov. 1586, 1st s. of Thomas Erle of Charborough, and Dorothy, da. of William Pole† of Shute and Colcombe, Devon (afterwards wife of Sir Walter Vaughan);Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 502-3. brother of Christopher Earle†.Vis. Dorset 1623 (Harl. xx), 37. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 22 Jan. 1602;Al. Ox. M. Temple 16 Oct. 1604.M. Temple Admiss. i. 82. m. 7 May 1616, Anne (d. 26 Jan. 1654), da. of Francis Dymoke of Erdington, Warws., 1s.(d.v.p.), 2da.(1 d.v.p.).Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 502-3. suc. fa. 16 Mar. 1597;Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 498. Kntd. 4 May 1616.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 158. bur. 1 Sept. 1665 1 Sept. 1665.Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 502-3.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Poole 1613;Poole Borough Archives, MS 25, f. 58v. Lyme Regis 27 July 1631;Dorset RO, DC/LR/B6/11, p. 16. Weymouth 22 Oct. 1640.Weymouth Charters ed. Moule, 113.

Local: j.p. Dorset 20 May 1615 – 28 July 1626, 19 Dec. 1628–1631, 25 May 1633 – 22 Dec. 1636, 6 Aug. 1641 – 15 July 1642, 28 Feb. 1655–d.;Harl. 286, f. 297; Eg. 784, f. 72v; C231/4, ff. 2, 261v; C231/5, pp. 107, 223, 470, 530; C231/6, p. 305. Devon 6 Mar. 1647–9.S.K. Roberts, ‘Devon Justices’, Devon Documents, ed. T. Gray (Devon and Cornw. N. and Q. 1996), 160. Sheriff, Dorset 19 Nov. 1618–19.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix.), 39. Commr. piracy, 23 Oct. 1622;C181/3, f. 72v. commr. subsidy, Dorset and Poole 1624;C212/22/23. Dorset 1663.SR. Dep. lt. c. 1625 – July 1626, by 1642–3.Eg. 784, ff. 50, 59v; Bayley, Dorset, 49, 80. Collector, privy seal loan, 1625–6.E401/2586, pp. 267–74; APC 1626, p. 128. Commr. sewers, 29 June 1638;C181/5, f. 113v. charitable uses, 1638–9;C192/1, unfol. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 5 June 1640 – aft.Jan. 1642, June 1659–d.;C181/5, ff. 189v, 202v, 221; C181/6, p. 377; C181/7, pp. 9–341. further subsidy, Dorset 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;SR; A. and O; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). loans on Propositions, 20 July 1642;LJ v. 225b. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; commr. for Dorset, 1 July 1644;A. and O. Dorset militia, 24 July 1648;LJ x. 393a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; ejecting scandalous ministers, Dorset and Poole 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. gaol delivery, Poole 24 Feb. 1655.C181/6, p. 95. Col. militia ft. Dorset Apr. 1660.Parliamentary Intelligencer 16 (9–16 Apr. 1660), 242.

Mercantile: member, ct. of Virg. Co. 17 May 1620; council, 2 May 1621.S. M. Kingsbury, Recs. Virginia Co. i. 345, 415, 473. Gov. Dorchester Co. 31 Mar. 1624–7.Procs. Dorset Nat. Hist. and Antiq. Field Club, xiii. 65; F. Rose-Troup, John White, Patriarch of Dorchester (1930), 62, 98.

Military: vol. Dutch army c.July 1629–30.E157/14, f. 56; H. Hexham, A Historicall Relation of the Famous Siege of the Busse (Delft, 1630), Sig. C5v. Capt. of horse (parlian.), Sept. 1642-May 1643.Peacock, Army Lists, 50. Col. and cdr. of Dorset forces, 2 May-Aug. 1643.HMC 5th Rep. 83.

Central: commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642. 22 Feb. 1644 – Apr. 1645SR. Member, cttee. for examinations, 18 Feb. 1642. 22 Feb. 1644 – Apr. 1645Supra, ‘Committee for Examinations’; CJ ii. 396a, 439b. Commr. for Irish affairs, 4 Apr. 1642. 22 Feb. 1644 – Apr. 1645PJ ii. 407. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 2 Nov. 1643. 22 Feb. 1644 – Apr. 1645CJ iii. 243b, 299a. Lt. of ordnance,, 27 May 1647-bef. 19 Jan. 1649.LJ vi. 439a; LJ ix. 208b; CJ vi. 121b; Whitelocke, Mems. ii. 498. Recvr. to pay reformado officers, 29 Feb. 1644.A. and O. Member, cttee. for foreign affairs, 24 July 1644;CJ iii. 568a; LJ vi. 640b. cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 19 Apr. 1645;A. and O. cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 30 June 1645;LJ vii. 468a. Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 1 July 1645;A. and O. cttee. for plundered ministers, 7 July 1645, 15 May 1646;CJ iv. 199a, 545b. cttee. for Westminster Abbey and Coll. 18 Nov. 1645.LJ vii. 711a. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648;A. and O. to present Newcastle Propositions to king, 8 July 1646.CJ iv. 604a, 606b. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646.A. and O. Commr. to receive king, 6 Jan. 1647.CJ v. 44a; LJ viii. 648b. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 19 Jan. 1648;CJ v. 327b; LJ ix. 669a. tendering oath to MPs, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 593a.

Parlimentarian

EARLE (ERLE), Walter (1586-1665), of Charborough, Dorset and Bindon House, Axmouth, Devon

: of Charborough, Dorset and Bindon House, Axminster, Devon.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

ERLE, Sir Walter (1586-1665), of Charborough, Dorset, and Bindon House, Axminster, Devon.

Will

12 Aug. 1665, pr. 20 Nov. 1666.PROB11/322/328.

Estates

inherited Charborough and Bindon, and manor and advowson of E. Morden and lands in W. Morden;Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 497-8. also held manor and advowson of Langton Matravers, manor of Mapperton, W. Almer par., Dorset, and impropriate parsonage of Axmouth, Devon;Hutchins, Dorset, i. 631; iii. 495; PROB11/322/328. on m. acquired manors of Erdington and Pipe, Warws. (sold 1625).Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 498; Dugdale, Antiquities of Warws. ii. 891-2; Birmingham City Archives, MS 3889/Acc1926-008/348116.

Oxford 1644

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Religion

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