BOYNTON, Sir Matthew (1592-1647), of Barmston, Yorks.

Family and Education

bap. 26 Feb. 1592, o. surv. s. of Sir Francis Boynton of Barmston, and Dorothy (bur. 12 Feb. 1633), da. and coh. of Christopher Place of Halnaby, Yorks.Barmston par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 147. educ. St John’s, Camb. 13 Dec. 1606;CUL, Univ. Archives, matriculation regs.; Al. Cant. L. Inn 3 May 1609.LI Admiss. m. (1) lic. 1613 (settlement 27 Sept. 1613, with £2,000) Frances (d. 3 July 1634), da. of Sir Henry Griffith of Burton Agnes, Yorks., 9s. (2 d.v.p.) 5da. (1 d.v.p.);St Mary Lowgate, Hull par. reg.; Hull Hist. Cent. U DDWB/24/7; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 147-8; CB; Foster, Yorks. Peds. (2) lic. 11 May 1636, Katherine (d. 23 Feb. 1666), da. of Sir Thomas Fairfax†, 1st Visct. Emley, wid. of Robert Stapleton† of Wighill, Yorks., 2s. (at least 1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.).Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 147-8; HP Commons 1604-1629, ‘Sir Matthew Boynton’. suc. fa. 9 Apr. 1617;C142/367/59. Kntd. 9 May 1618;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 168. cr. bt. 15 May 1618.CB. d. 5 Mar. 1647.Scarborough Recs. 1641-60 ed. M.Y. Ashcroft (N. Yorks. RO publications xlix), 94.

Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Yorks. (E. Riding) 4 Dec. 1621–8 June 1641;C181/3, ff. 47v, 187; C181/4, f. 189v; C181/5, ff. 41, 166. N. Riding 26 July 1623, 28 Apr. 1632.C181/3, f. 96; C181/4, f. 114. J.p. E. Riding 1 June 1622-c.1638;C231/4, f. 139v. N. Riding 1 June 1622-c.Jan. 1626.C193/13/1, f. 35. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 23 Jan. 1624-aft. June 1641.C181/3, ff. 110, 262; C181/4, ff. 14, 197v; C181/5, ff. 7v, 203. Collector, privy seal loan, E. Riding 1625–6.E401/2586, p. 289; APC 1625–6, pp. 369–70. Col. militia ft. by 1626-c.Mar. 1639.Scarborough Recs. 1600–40 ed. M.Y. Ashcroft (N. Yorks. RO publications xlvii), 174–5; Add. 28082, f. 80v; Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P10a/273–8. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627.C193/12/2, f. 13v. Dep. lt. 1629-c.Mar. 1639.Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P10a/273–8, 12/50. Sheriff, Yorks. 1628–9, 30 Dec. 1643–5.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. Soc. ix), 163, 164. Commr. swans, England except south-western cos. c.1629.C181/3, f. 268. Commr. charitable uses, E. Riding 1633;C192/1, unfol. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, 31 Oct. 1633;Hull Hist. Cent. U DDHA/18/35. assessment, N. Riding 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645; E. Riding 21 Feb. 1645; sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643;A. and O. N. Riding 10 Apr. 1644;LJ vi. 510b. levying of money, E. Riding 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Member, cttee. to govern Hull, 4 July 1643;LJ vi. 119a. to command Northern Assoc. army, 12 May 1645.CJ iv. 138b; LJ vii. 367b. Commr. Northern Assoc. E., N., W. Ridings 20 June 1645.A. and O.

Military: col. of ft. (parlian.) c.Nov. 1642-aft. Jan. 1643.E113/7, pt. 2, unfol. (deposition of Francis Lascelles*); SP18/71/55, f. 140v; An Exact and True Relation of a Bloody Fight Performed Against the Earl of Newcastle (1642), 2; LJ v. 579b.

Central: commr. to reside with Scottish army, 14 Sept. 1644;LJ vi. 704b. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Scarborough 25 Oct. 1645–d.Scarborough Recs. 1641–60, ed. Ashcroft, 48.

Parlimentarian

BOYNTON, Sir Matthew, 1st Bt. (1592-1647), of Barmston, Yorks.

: of Barmston, Yorks.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, family group, unknown, 1639.C.V. Collier, Acct. of the Boynton Fam. (Middlesbrough, 1914), 20, 103.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BOYNTON, Sir Matthew (1592-1647), of Barmston, Yorks.

Will

1 Oct. 1645, pr. 7 Apr. 1647.PROB11/200, f. 97v.

Estates

in 1617, inherited estate inc. manors of Middleton Tyas, Rowsby, Rudston and Winton-cum-Barmston, lands in Acklam, Boynton, Greenhow, Linthorpe, Middlesborough, Rowsby, Scaling and Winton-cum-Barmston, the rectories of Bridlington and Rudston and the advowson of Barmston, Yorks.C142/367/59. By 1640, leasing manor of Romanby, Yorks. from queen at rent of £46 14s p.a.LR9/19, bdle. 5. Estate by 1640 consisted of manors of E. and W. Scaling, Halnaby, Middleton Tyas, Rowsby, Rudston, Skelton and Winton-cum-Barmston and impropriate rectories of Barmston (worth £106 p.a.) and Rudston (worth £140 p.a.), all of which lay in Cleveland and Holderness, Yorks.C94/3, ff. 60, 73; CP25/2/523/13CHASIMICH/3; Hull Hist. Cent. U DDWB/24/7; U DDWB/20/54; J.C. Cox, ‘Parlty. survey of the benefices of the E. Riding’, E. Riding Antiquarian Soc. Trans. ii. 56; iv. 59. Also owned or leased house in Highgate, Mdx.Scarborough Recs. 1641-60 ed. Ashcroft, 94.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

St Paul’s Alley, Red Cross Street, London (1636) Hedgerley House, Bucks. (1636-8).Winthrop Pprs. (Mass. Hist. Soc.), iii. 227, 247, 248, 485-6.

Religion

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