AUDLEY, Lewis (1620-70), of West Purley, Surr.

Family and Education

bap. 4 Feb. 1620, 4th s. of Robert Audley (b. c.1589) of Great Gransden, Hunts. and Oakington, Cambs. and Elizabeth (d. 1659), da. of John Marbury of Warden, Beds.A.L. Reade, Audley Pedigrees, (3 vols. 1929-36), i. 47; Vis. Hunts. 54. educ. King’s, Camb., BA 1638, MA 1641.Al. Cant. m. (1) 9 Dec. 1647, Mary (bur. 30 June 1655), da. of Matthew Bedell, Merchant Taylor, of Bishopsgate, London, and wid. of Ralph Hawtrey (bur. 2 Jan. 1645), Merchant Taylor, of Austin’s Gate, London, and Sanderstead, Surr. 1s. d.v.p. 1da.;Surr. Arch. Coll. vii. 9, 18-19; Beaven, Aldermen, ii. 56. (2) 18 Feb. 1656, Mary Tennante of London, at least 2s. (1 d.v.p.), 3da. (1 d.v.p.).IGI (St Clement Danes, London, par. reg.); Surr. Arch. Coll. vii. 18-19. d. 23 Dec. 1670.PROB6/45, f. 171; Reade, Audley Pedigrees, i. 36, 48.

Offices Held

Religious: ordained deacon, Peterborough 28 Dec. 1641.Al. Cant.

Military: capt.-lt. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of Sir Thomas Fairfax*, Dec. 1645 – ?June 1648; maj. regt. of Thomas Rainborowe*, June 1648–49; regt. of Richard Deane 1649; regt. of Robert Gibbons by May 1650–51.Wanklyn, New Model Army i. 65, 85, 88–9, 100–1; ii. 69; Clarke Pprs. i. 10; ii. 270; SP21/9, f. 211v. Capt. militia horse, Surr. 13 Aug. 1650-aft. July 1655.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 509; SP25/77, pp. 877, 899.

Local: commr. sequestration, Surr. 9 July 1648. 11 Aug. 1648 – aft.Oct. 1653CJ v. 650b. J.p.; Mdx. Apr. 1656–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 121, 332. Commr.assessment, Surr. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Cambs. 9 June 1657; ejecting scandalous ministers, Surr. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 23 June 1656-June 1659;C181/6, pp. 171, 306. sewers, London 13 Aug. 1657;C181/6, p. 260. Kent and Surr. 14 Nov. 1657;C181/6, p. 263. for public faith, Surr. 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35). militia, Cambs., Surr. 26 July 1659.A. and O.

Central: clerk of the ordnance, May 1656-bef. 23 Apr. 1660.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 330; SP18/221, f. 100.

Parlimentarian

AUDLEY, Lewis (1620-70), of West Purley, Surr.

: Surr.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

AUDLEY, Lewis (1620-70), of West Purley, Surr.

Will

admon. 23 Dec 1670.PROB6/45, f. 171.

Estates

Dec. 1647, messuage of West Purley, Surr. in right of wife, sold 1661;VCH Surr. iv. 240; Surr. Arch. Coll. vii. 10. 1652, estate at Oakington, Cambs. sequestered from Sir Robert Hatton, purchased and still in family possession 1662, but recovered bef. 1665 by Hatton’s heir;VCH Cambs. ix. 197. 14 June 1653, the [former] King’s Lodgings, Royston, Cambs. purchased for £517 10s.;Archaeologia, xl. 133. c.1653, manor of East Hagbourne, sequestered from William Craven, 1st Baron Craven, purchased with John Yates but recovered ?1660 by Craven;VCH Berks. iii. 478. messuage in Littleport, Isle of Ely, Cambs., mortgaged to John Hawtrey of Sanderstead, Surr. at time of d.Reade, Audley Pedigrees, i. 36.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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