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b. c. 1596, 1st s. of Sir John Wolstenholme† of St Olave Hart Street, London, and Catherine, da. of John Fanshawe of Dronfield, Derbys.Misc. Gen. et Her. 2nd ser. ii. 119; CB; Cussans, Herts. i. 139. educ. G. Inn, 13 Aug. 1611;G. Inn Admiss. 126. Sidney Sussex, Camb. 26 Feb. 1613;Al. Cant. ?travelled abroad aft. 20 May 1616;APC 1615-16, p. 538. I. Temple, 20 Aug. 1646.I. Temple database. m. bef. 1619, Anne (d. 25 Nov. 1661), da. of Sir Roger Dallison† of Laughton, Lincs. 9s. (8 d.v.p.), 3da. (1 d.v.p.).Reg. St Olave’s Hart Street, London (Harl. Soc. xlvi), 33; Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. l), 286; PROB11/333/348. suc. fa. 25 Nov. 1639.C142/604/113; CSP Dom. 1639-40, p. 128. Kntd. 8 May 1633;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 200. cr. bt. 10 Jan. 1665.C66/3057/10. d. 4 July 1670.Misc. Gen. et Her. (2nd ser.), ii. 119; Lysons, Environs, iii. 400.
Offices Held

Mercantile: member, Virg. Co. 1612;T. K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire (1967), 407. N. W. Passage Co. 1612;CSP Col. E. Indies 1513–1616, p. 239. E. I. Co. 1618 – aft.39; cttee. by 1640.CSP Col. E. Indies 1617–21, p. 229; R. Brenner, Merchants and Revolution (1993), 376; CCAM 131. Commr. plantation of Virg. 1631.Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 3, 192. Member, Royal African Co. 1663.CSP Col. 1661–8, p. 121.

Central: collector (jt.), impositions and tonnage and poundage outwards, London 1619 – 39; (sole) 1639 – Oct. 1643, 1660–d.;C66/2205/4; SO3/6, unfol.; CSP Dom. 1625–49, p. 654; 1639, p. 528; LJ vi. 266; CTB i. 226. pretermitted customs, 1623 – 43, 1660–d.C66/2296/16; SO3/7, unfol.; Procs. LP iv. 672. Farmer (jt.), wine and currant duties, 2 July 1632-aft. 1640.C66/2595/3; E214/877. Commr. tobacco inquiry, 19 June 1634;Coventry Docquets, 40–1. fraudulent thread imports, 1636.Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 2, p. 25; CSP Dom. 1635–6, p. 4. Recvr. assessment, 1642.SR. Farmer, gt. farm of customs, 1663–d.CSP Dom. 1663–4, p. 61; 1668–9, p. 34.

Local: commr. sewers, Hatfield Chase Level 28 June 1636, 14 Dec. 1637;C181/5, ff. 53v, 87. ?oyer and terminer, London 2 Mar. 1639;C181/5, f. 130v. further subsidy, Yorks. (W. Riding) 1641; poll tax, 1641; assessment, 1642; London, 1642.SR.

Civic: freeman, Queenborough 16 Apr. 1640.Cent. Kent. Studs. QB/JMS4, f. 139.

Parlimentarian
WOLSTENHOLME (WORSNAM), John (c.1596-1670), of Walsingham House, Seething Lane, London; later of Nostell Priory, Yorks. and Fenchurch Street, London.
: of Walsingham House, Seething Lane, London and Nostell Priory, Yorks.
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Commons 1640-1660
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WOLSTENHOLME, Sir John (1596-1670), of Walsingham House, Seething Lane, London, and Nostell Priory, Yorks.

Will
10 Dec. 1669, pr. 20 July 1670.PROB11/333/348.
Estates
lease with Nicholas Salter of manor of Winforton, Herefs. from the crown at 10s p.a. 27 July 1627.Coventry Docquets, 353. Share in property in par. of St Andrew Undershaft, London, 1 June 1637.Coventry Docquets, 706. Inherited in 1639 Nostell Priory and other lands in Yorks. Owned £2,000 worth of E. India Co. stock in Sept. 1643, when it was detained for failure to pay assessment of £1,000.CCAM 25, 131; CJ iii. 238a, 258a. Under the commonwealth, claimed indebtedness to the value of £100,000.CCAM 922. Mortgaged lands in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, Surr. in Dec. 1650.E214/420. Sold estate settled on his son John at marriage, inc. house in Seething Lane (for £2,400) and a house in Rotherhithe, (to Thomas Pride* for £8,200).CSP Dom. 1653-4, pp. 408, 499; 1654, pp. 88, 459; 1660-1, p. 317. Bequeathed lands in Yorks. Lincs. Northants. and London to only surv. s. Thomas.PROB11/333/348.
Oxford 1644
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