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Family and Education
b. c. 1612, ?o.s. of Lawrence Rushworth of Acklington Park and Margaret, da. of Cuthbert Carnaby of Halton, Northumb.HMC Portland, ii. 151; Hist. Northumb. v. 381. educ. L. Inn 14 Aug. 1640;LI Admiss. i. 244. called, 18 Nov. 1647;LI Black Bks. ii. 375. MA (hon.) Queen’s Oxf. 21 May 1649.Al. Ox. m. 4 Jan. 1644, Hannah (d. aft. 1657), da. of John Eldred of St Stephen, Coleman Street, London, 4da.St Mary Abchurch, London par. reg.; St Andrew, Holborn par. reg; St Mary, Battersea par. reg.; HMC Portland, ii. 164; Abstracts of Yorks. Wills ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. ix), 105. suc. fa. by Aug. 1640.LI Admiss. i. 244. d. 12 May 1690.Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 209.
Offices Held

Civic: solicitor, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 28 Mar. 1638–25 Sept. 1684;Tyne and Wear Archives, MD.NC/1/3, Newcastle Common Council Order Bk. for Sealing Docs. f. 170; Brand, Newcastle, ii. 363, 364. Berwick-upon-Tweed 25 May 1638-c.Sept. 1649.Berwick RO, B1/9, Berwick Guild Bk. f. 172; B1/10, Guild Bk. ff. 136v, 146v, 147; B9/1, Berwick Guild Letter Bk. ff. 29v, 40v, 46; CSP Dom. 1637–8, p. 457. Freeman, Berwick-upon-Tweed 11 Mar. 1640–?d.;Berwick RO, B1/9, ff. 187v-188. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 14 Mar. 1652–?d.Extracts from the Newcastle upon Tyne Council Min. Bk. 1639–56 ed. M.H. Dodds (Newcastle upon Tyne Recs. Cttee. i), 132.

Central: clerk asst., House of Commons, 25 Apr. – 15 May 1640, 3 Nov. 1640-aft. Mar. 1645.CJ ii. 12b; iv. 86a. Sec. to New Model army, Mar. 1645–50.CJ iv. 86a; CSP Dom. 1650, pp. 247, 322. Commr. law reform, 17 Jan. 1652;CJ vii. 74a; M. Cotterell, ‘Interregnum law reform: the Hale Commission of 1652’, EHR lxxxiii. 691. relief on articles of war, 29 Sept. 1652. Judge, probate of wills, 8 Apr. 1653.A. and O. Registrar (jt.) of admlty. 23 Aug. 1654–?Sept. 1660.Add. 4184, f. 24; CSP Dom. 1654, p. 270; 1656–7, p. 268. Member, cttee. for improving the revenues of customs and excise, 26 June 1657.A. and O. Sec. to council of state, Mar.-May 1660;Add. 21425, f. 215; HMC Leyborne-Popham, 169; CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 399. to ld. kpr. 1667–72.Ludlow, Mems. ii. 495; HP Commons 1660–90, ‘John Rushworth’. Solicitor, treasury, Feb. 1661-c.1665.CTB i. 215–16, 645. Agent for Massachusetts, June 1673-aft. Mar. 1675.Hutchinson Pprs. ii. 174, 206.

Mercantile: member, Drapers’ Co. Dec. 1649–?d.Hist. of the Worshipful Company of Drapers ed. A.H. Johnson (Oxf. 1914), iii. 211.

Local: j.p. Surr. 15 Sept. 1653-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 266. Commr. assessment, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Berwick-upon-Tweed 1679;An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); A. and O.; SR. ejecting scandalous ministers, Surr. 28 Aug. 1654. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May. 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Commr. militia, Surr., Berwick-upon-Tweed 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Berwick-upon-Tweed 1660;SR. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 17 Oct. 1666-aft. Jan. 1673.C181/7, pp. 413, 633.

Parlimentarian
RUSHWORTH, John (c.1612-90), of Acklington Park, Warkworth, Northumb. and Dorset Court, Channel Row, Westminster.
: of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. and Surr., Battersea.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, aft. W. Dobson;Parliamentary Art Colln. line engraving, R. White, 1692.BM; NPG.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

RUSHWORTH, John (c.1612-90), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Battersea, Surr.

Will
died intestate.HMC Portland, ii. 164.
Estates
by 1650, had purchased meadow lands near Worcester from the trustees for the sale of dean and chapter lands.CCC 2498. In 1651, Newcastle corporation granted him and others an 11 year lease on the Trunk Staith on River Tyne.Tyne and Wear Archives, MD.NC/2/2, Newcastle Common Council Order Bk. pp. 39, 41. By 1653, he and two others had purchased manor of Fallowfield, Northumb.C7/467/80.By 1654, either owned or was leasing a house in Battersea.SP46/97, f. 148. In 1657, Richard Tempest bequeathed his manor of Bracewell, Yorks. and lands in the same to Rushworth, his cousin.Abstracts of Yorks. Wills ed. Clay, 105-6. In 1666, his house in Savoy parish, liberty of Westminster was assessed for 9 hearths.London and Mdx. 1666 Hearth Tax ed. M. Davies et al. (British Rec. Soc. cxxx), 1170.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Spring Garden, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster (1644-5);WCA, F372, St Martin-in-the-Fields overseers’ accts. 1644-5, unfol. York House, Westminster (1649, 1658).HMC Leyborne-Popham, 9; Burton’s Diary, ii. 351.
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