CHALONER, Thomas (c.1595-1660), of Steeple Claydon, Bucks., and Guisborough, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. c.1595, 3rd s. of Sir Thomas Chaloner† (d. 18 Nov. 1615) of Steeple Claydon, Bucks., and Guisborough, Yorks. and 1st w. Elizabeth (d. 22 Nov. 1603), da. of Sir William Fleetwood† of London, and Great Missenden, Bucks. sjt.-at-law and recorder of London; bro. of James Chaloner*.C142/375/73; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 231. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 7 June 1611, aged 16;Al. Ox. I. Temple 19 Jan. 1614;I. Temple database. travelled abroad (France, Italy and Germany).Ath. Ox. iii. 531. m. by May 1646, ? da. of Robert Sotheby of Birdsall Hall, Birdsall, Yorks. ?s.p.Mems. of the Great Civil War ed. Cary, i. 66; Foster, Yorks. Peds. iii. ‘Sotheby of Birdsall, Pocklington etc.’. bur. 20 Aug. 1660 20 Aug. 1660.E134/20CHAS2/MICH38.

Offices Held

Local: commr. Northern Assoc. Yorks. (N. Riding) 20 June 1645; assessment, N. Riding 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Jan. 1660; Bucks. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660; Mdx. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; W. Riding, Westminster 26 Jan. 1660; militia, Bucks. Yorks. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. Westminster militia, 7 June 1650, 28 June 1659;Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11); A. and O. charitable uses, Yorks. 22 Apr. 1651.C93/21/1. J.p. N. Riding 6 Mar. 1647-by c.Sept.1656;C231/6, p. 79. Bucks. by Feb. 1650 – 12 July 1653, Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/3; C231/6, p. 259; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Commr. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. by Feb. 1654-June 1659;C181/6, pp. 17, 305. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 10 July 1656–8 Oct. 1659.C181/6, pp. 175, 320.

Central: member, Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 7 May 1646;CJ iv. 532a; LJ viii. 305a. cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O.; CJ vi. 109a, 113b. Commr. Munster, Ireland 22 Sept. 1647;CJ v. 309b; LJ ix. 444b, 446a. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112b. cttee. for excise, 1 May 1649;CJ vi. 199a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 24 May 1649.CJ vi. 216a. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Commr. for compounding, 2 Nov. 1649.CJ vi. 318a. Member, cttee. for the army, 4 Feb. 1650, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652.CJ vi. 357b; A. and O. Cllr. of state, 20 Feb. 1650, 13 Feb., 24 Nov. 1651, 24 Nov. 1652, 19 May, 31 Dec. 1659.A. and O.; CJ vi. 369a, 532a; vii. 42a, 220b, 800b. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650.CJ vi. 388b. Commr. regulating trade, 1 Aug. 1650; removing obstructions, sale of forfeited estates, 16 July 1651.A. and O. Member, cttee. for trade, 12 July 1655.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 240. Commr. admlty. and navy, 2 Feb. 1660.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

CHALONER, Thomas (c.1595-1660), of Steeple Claydon, Bucks., and Guisborough, Yorks.

: of Steeple Claydon, Bucks. and Yorks., Guisborough.

Likenesses

Likenesses: ?oil on canvas, A. Van Dyck, c.1638.Hermitage, St Petersburg.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CHALONER, Thomas (c.1595-1660), of Steeple Claydon, Bucks., and Guisborough, Yorks.

Will

attainted.

Estates

fa. owned manors and lands in Berks., Bucks., Glos., Mdx., Yorks. and Wales worth at least £1,000 p.a.C8/55/123. By 1640, lease with James Chaloner of manor of Gisburn, Yorks. from the queen at a rent of £115 p.a.LR9/19, bdle. 5. In 1649, Chaloner purchased, for £416, manor of Ashwell, Herts. from the trustees for the sale of bishops’ lands.Coll. Top. et Gen. i. 127. In 1650, purchased, for £979 15s, a fee farm rent in Yorks. Inc. that of manor of Guisborough, worth £115 p.a.SP28/288, f. 4; SP46/109, f. 69. Estate consisted largely of a moiety of manor and rectory of Steeple Claydon (worth £273 p.a. in its entirety) and jt. ownership, with James Chaloner, of lease for the mining and working of alum at Guisborough.C10/477/57; C54/3289/19; LR2/266, f. 1; Add. 71448, f. 69; N. Yorks. RO, ZFM/Alum mines, 5; CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 497; LJ vii. 114a.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Drury Lane, London (1642);An Exact and True Relation of a Bloody Fight Performed Against the Earl of Newcastle (1642), 1. ‘Mr Percyes house in White Hart Court, over against Water Lane, in the Fleet Street’, London (1646);Bodl. Tanner 59, f. 278v. lodgings in Whitehall (July 1659).Bodl. Rawl. C.179, p. 169.

Religion

presented George Adams to vicarage of Kingsteignton, Devon, 1650.Add. 36792, f. 13.

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