GOULD, James (1593-1676), of Dorchester, Dorset.

Family and Education

bap. 21 July 1593, 2nd s. of John Gould of Dorchester and Joan, da. of John Benvenewe of Abbotsbury, wid. of John Roy of Weymouth.Dorset RO, D/BOC/22, f. 73; Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 842. m. Margery, da. of George Savage of Bloxworth, 6s., 2da.Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 482. bur. 15 Feb. 1676 15 Feb. 1676.Dorset RO, St Peter’s, Dorchester, par. regs.

Offices Held

Civic: capital burgess, Dorchester 1623 – Aug. 1654, 1661–d.;Dorset RO, D/DOB/16/1, f. 22; D/DOB/16/3, f. 44v; D/DOB/16/4, p. 220; D/DOB/16/5, p. 105. bailiff, 1635; asst. gov. 1636; mayor, 1637–8;Dorset RO, D/DOB/16/3, ff. 26v, 29v, 32; CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 421. snr. alderman, 1661–d.Dorset RO, D/DOB/16/5, p. 105.

Mercantile: member, Dorchester Co. Mar. 1624–8.F. Rose-Troup, John White, the Patriarch of Dorchester (1930), 63, 450.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) 1642–?1646.Bayley, Dorset, 49, 98, 323.

Local: ?j.p. Dorset c.1646. 1 June 1660Christie, Shaftesbury, i. appx i, p. xxxiv. Sheriff, 1655–6. 1 June 1660List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 39. Commr. assessment,, 1661, 1664;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663;SR. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 695.

Parlimentarian

GOULD, James I (1593-1676), of Dorchester, Dorset.

: of Dorchester, Dorset.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GOULD, James (1593-1676), of Dorchester, Dorset.

Will

27 Oct. 1675, pr. 10 May 1676.PROB 11/350/581.

Estates

by 1662 owned lands in Dorchester, West Stafford, Spetisbury and Wotton Glanville, Dorset;Dorset Hearth Tax, 4, 16, 40, 55. by 1675 also owned lands in Staunton Caundle and Fordington, Dorset and Henstridge, Som.PROB11/350/581.

Oxford 1644

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