MARTYN, Christopher (c.1617-78), of Plympton Erle and Chaddlewood, Plympton St Mary, Devon.

Family and Education

b. c. 1617, ?1st s. of John Martyn of Plympton Erle and Mary Mudge.Eg. 2764, f. 110v. m. 15 Dec. 1653, Jane (bur. 13 Mar. 1674), da. of John Snelling of Chaddlewood, Plympton Erle, and coh. to her nephew Francis, at least 1s. 3da. suc. fa. 1643. bur. 26 Jan. 1678 26 Jan. 1678.Eg. 2764, ff. 57v, 58v, 110v, 111v; PROB11/246/282.

Offices Held

Religious: churchwarden, Plympton St Maurice 1641–2.Devon Protestation Returns, 236.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) by 1643; maj. by Apr. 1645.SP28/128, pt. 20; R.N. Worth, ‘Siege of Plymouth’, Jnl. Plymouth Institution v. 274. Gov. Pendennis Jan.-Mar. 1660.CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 322.

Local: j.p. Devon by 6 Mar. 1647-July 1660.Devon RO, DQS 28/3. Commr. Devon militia, 7 June 1648;LJ x. 311b. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 1 Aug. 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Exeter 26 July 1659;LJ x. 311b; CJ vii. 744a, 750b; A. and O. assessment, Devon 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660; Exeter 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance… for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). ejecting scandalous ministers, Devon and Exeter 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs, 29 May 1649; cttee. for excise, 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 219b.

Civic: mayor, Plympton Erle 1663 – 64.

Parlimentarian

MARTYN, Christopher (c.1617-78), of Plympton Erle, Devon.

: of Plympton Erle and Chaddlewood, Plympton St Mary, Devon.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

MARTYN, Christopher (c.1617-78), of Plympton Erle and Chaddlewood, Plympton St Mary, Devon.

Will

none found.

Estates

acquired the estate of Chaddlewood, Plympton St Mary, through his marriage in 1653.PROB11/246/282.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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