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Family and Education
b. c. 1585, 2nd s. of Edward Cresheld of Mattishall and Bridget, da. and coh. of Robert Hurleston of Mattishall.C3/308/86; Vis. Worcs. 1634 (Harl. Soc. xc), 28. educ. L. Inn 18 June 1608.LI Admiss. i. 148. m. by 1611, Elizabeth, da. of Richard Egioke of Salford Priors, Warws. 1s. (d.v.p.) 4da.Vis. Worcs. 1634 (Harl. Soc. xc), 28; VCH Warws. iii. 160. bur. 22 Jan. 1652 22 Jan. 1652.St Andrew Holborn, Mdx. par. reg.
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Civic: prothonotary, Evesham borough ct. 1605 – 09; att. ?1606–9. 26 May 1608C3/308/86. Freeman, Evesham; capital burgess, recorder and j.p. 20 Dec. 1622–d.Evesham Borough Records of the Seventeenth Century ed. S.K. Roberts (Worcs. Hist. Soc. n.s. xiv), 3, 24, 48; C193/12/2.

Legal: called, L Inn 17 Oct. 1615; bencher, 14 May 1633; Lent Reader, Mar. 1635-Mar. 1637.LI Black Bks. ii. 175, 309, 330. Sjt.-at-law, 29 May 1636.C202/19/6; C231/5, p. 207. J.c.p. 18 Oct. 1648.C231/6, p. 122.

Local: commr. subsidy, Evesham c. 1624 – 25, 1625, 1628;E179/201/286; E179/201/293; E179/201/298. Forced Loan, 1627.C193/12/2, f. 77v. J.p. Worcs. 1627-bef. Jan. 1650;C231/4, f. 228v. Essex, Herts., Kent, Surr., Suss. 1647-bef. Jan. 1650.C231/6, pp. 79, 96. Commr. sewers, Glos. and Worcs. 1629-aft. Mar. 1631;C181/4, ff. 18, 64v, 79. gaol delivery, Worcester 1630, 1638;C181/4, f. 44v; C181/5, f. 100. disafforestation, Malvern Chase, Worcs. 1631;B.S. Smith, Hist. Malvern (Gloucester, 1978), 151. charitable uses, Worcs. 1632, 1637, 1638;C93/14/1; C192/1, unfol. Avon navigation, 1636;Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 2, p. 6. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 23 Jan. 1637-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/5, ff. 62v, 219. Kent circ. 6 Feb. 1647, 31 Jan. 1648, 13 June 1648; Essex circ. 8 July 1647; Canterbury 18 Apr. 1648.CJ v. 76a, 236b, 451a, 534a, 598a. Commr. assessment, Worcs. 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Worcester, 23 Sept. 1644; militia, Worcs. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
CRESHELD, Richard (c.1585-1652), of Evesham, Worcs. and Lincoln’s Inn, London; later of Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London
: of Mattishall, Worcs., Mdx., Evesham, Norf. and Serjeants’ Inn, London., Chancery Lane.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

CRESHELD, Richard (c.1585-1652), of Mattishall, Norf., Evesham, Worcs., Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London.

Will
1 Aug. 1650 pr. 3 Feb. 1652.PROB11/221 f. 136.
Estates
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, 31 Jan. 1637.PRO30/23/2/1 f. 34v.
Religion
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