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Family and Education
b. c. 1588, o.s. of Evan Melton of Westminster, and Dorothy Baker of St Magnus the Martyr, London.St Magnus the Martyr, London par. reg.; PROB11/82, f. 220; PROB11/129, f. 158v; PROB11/185, f. 230; J. Melton, Astrologaster, or the Figure-Caster (1620), sig. A2. educ. Sidney Sussex, Camb. 25 June 1608;Al. Cant. G. Inn 25 Apr. 1634.G. Inn Admiss. 204. m. (1) 20 Jan. 1624, Elizabeth (bur. 27 Sept. 1627), da. of Francis Moore of Moore House, Wivelsfield, Suss., wid. of Sir Ferdinando Heyborne of Tottenham High Cross, Mdx., 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.);All Hallows, Tottenham par. reg.; W. Robinson, Hist. and Antiquities of Tottenham (2nd edn.), ii. 44, 172-3. (2) by 1631, Catherine (bur. 15 Aug. 1635), da. of Alan Currance of St Bride, Fleet Street, London, 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da. (3 d.v.p.);St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster par. Reg; St Mary Bishophill Senior, York par. reg.; St Saviour, York par. reg.; PROB11/185, ff. 227v-229; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xv), 211; CSP Dom. 1635, p. 385. (3) 20 Apr. 1637, Margaret (d. c.1660), da. of ?, wid. of one Elliot, and of Samuel Aldersey, haberdasher, of London, s.p.St Andrew, Enfield par. reg.; St Antholin, Budge Row, London par. reg.; PROB11/164, f. 31; PROB11/185, f. 228v; PROB11/307, f. 63v; Robinson, Tottenham, ii. 44. suc. fa. June 1630;Mems. St Margaret’s Westminster, 555. Kntd. 11 Sept. 1632;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 200. d. 16 Dec. 1640.Robinson, Tottenham, ii. 44.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Mdx. 24 Apr. 1624 – aft.May 1625, 10 Mar. 1627–26 Nov. 1633;C231/4, ff. 164, 220v; C231/5, p. 116. Yorks. (E., N., W. Riding) 12 July 1632–d.;C231/5, pp. 88, 89. liberties of Cawood, Wistow and Otley, Yorks. 15 Mar. 1633 – d.; liberties of Ripon 15 Mar. 1633–d.C181/4, ff. 133, 134v, 176v, 177; C181/5, ff. 18v, 19, 164v, 165. Commr. sewers, River Lea, Herts., Essex and Mdx. 9 July 1625;C181/3, f. 185. levying debts due to crown, southern cos. and Wales 27 May 1628;HMC Rutland, i. 485. inquiry, Mdx. 20 Mar. 1630.C181/4, f. 44v. Sec. council of the north, 23 May 1632–d. Kpr. of signet seal, northern cos. 23 May 1632–d.Coventry Docquets, 183. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 1 June 1632–5 June 1640.C181/4, ff. 119v, 197v; C181/5, ff. 7v, 162. Member, council of the north, 2 June 1632–d.Coventry Docquets, 37. Commr. gaol delivery, liberties of Ripon 15 Mar. 1633–d.;C181/4, ff. 135, 178; C181/5, ff. 19v, 165. recusants, northern cos. 8 Aug. 1633-aft. July 1638.C231/5, p. 113; Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 1, p. 58; pt. 2, p. 162.

Mercantile: member, Hostmen’s Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne by Dec. 1636–d.Tyne and Wear Archives, GU.HO/1/1, p. 366; Extracts from the Recs. of the Co. of Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ed. F. W. Dendy (Surt. Soc. cv), 268.

Central: master in chancery by 1638–d.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), WYL100/TS/10.

Civic: freeman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne c.14 Oct. 1640–d.Princeton Univ. Lib. C0938, no. 224, John Nevay to Lady Loudoun, 14 Oct. 1640.

Parlimentarian
MELTON, Sir John (c.1588-1640), of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, and St Saviour, York, Yorks.
: of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and St Saviour, Yorks., York.
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Commons 1640-1660
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MELTON, Sir John (c.1588-1640), of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, and St Saviour, York, Yorks.

Will
pr. 11 Mar. 1641.PROB11/185, f. 227.
Estates
in 1629, purchased manor of East Shelve, Cobham, Kent.Hasted, Kent, v. 436. In 1630, purchased a moiety of manor of Willoughby, Edmonton, Mdx. which he sold in 1638.Lysons, Environs, ii. 256. Estate at his d. consisted of manor house and demesnes of Newburn, Northumb. (worth £300 p.a.), coalmines at Newburn and Walbottle and a moiety of a colliery at Flatworth, Northumb. all of which he leased from Algernon Percy†, 4th earl of Northumberland; a moiety of coalmines at Billimill Moor and Killingworth Moor, Northumb., worth £300 p.a. ; lease of a house in St Saviour’s, York; messuage in St Martin-in-the-Fields, which he leased from William Cecil*, 2nd earl of Salisbury; and manor of East Shelve.PROB11/185, ff. 227v-228v; Estate Accts. of the Earls of Northumb. ed. M. E. James (Surt. Soc. clxiii), 203; Hist. Northumb. xiii. 148.
Oxford 1644
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