Family and Education
b. 8 Feb. 1591, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Walter Bagot† of Blithfield, Staffs. and Elizabeth (bur. 3 Dec. 1638), da. of Roger Cave of Stanford, Northants.Staffs. RO, D3259/14/23/1; Vis. Staffs. ed. H.S. Grazebrook (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 26-7. educ. Trinity, Oxf. 18 Nov. 1608.Al. Ox. m. (1) c.1612, Katherine (bur. 13 Feb. 1623), da. of Humphrey Adderley of Weddington, Warws. 5s. (3 d.v.p.) 1da.; (2) 5 Feb. 1624, Anne (d. 9 May 1656), da. of Sir Clement Fisher of Packington, Warws., wid. of Sir Thomas Dilke of Maxstoke, Warws. s.p.Blithfield, Leigh and Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warws. par. regs.; C54/2141/25; Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 27. suc. fa. 17 Mar. 1623;C142/700/37. cr. bt. 31 May 1627;CB. d. 27 Dec. 1660.D.S. Murray, ‘Notes on the early hist. of the par. of Blithfield’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 3, 1919), 81.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Staffs. 30 Dec. 1623-at least Jan. 1643, by Oct. 1660–d.C231/4, f. 159v; C220/9/4; Staffs. RO, Q/SO 5, p. 151. Commr. subsidy, 1624–5, 1628, 1641.C212/22/23; E179/178/296; E179/283/27; SR. Capt. militia ft. by 1625–?Staffs. RO, D1798/HM Chetwynd/115. Sheriff, 1626–4 Nov. 1627.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 129. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627.Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145; C193/12/2, f. 54. Dep. lt. by Mar. 1633-at least 1640, c.Aug. 1660–d.SP16/233/49, f. 72; SP16/460/8, ff. 16–17; SP29/11, f. 229. Commr. charitable uses, 16 June 1630, 24 Nov. 1632-aft. June 1639;C192/1, unfol. sewers, 1 Dec. 1634;C181/4, f. 189. swans, Staffs. and Warws. 12 Feb. 1635, 6 Feb. 1638. 25 June 1641 – aft.Jan. 1642C181/4, f. 199v; C181/5, f. 90v. Collector, Ship Money, constablewick of Field, Staffs. 22 Nov. 1637. 25 June 1641 – aft.Jan. 1642Staffs. RO, D1721/3/228. Commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ., 10 July 1660–d.;C181/4, ff. 200v, 219; C181/7, pp. 10, 90. Staffs. 4 Dec. 1643, 20 Jan. 1645;Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 107, 251. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), 16 June 1642.Northants RO, FH133.

: 1st bt. (1591-1660), of Field, Staffs., Leigh 1591 – 1660.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on panel, double portrait with son, unknown, 1626.Blithfield Hall, Staffs.; W. Bagot, Mems. of the Bagot Fam. (Blithefield, 1824), 149.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BAGOT, Sir Hervey, 1st bt. (1591-1660), of Field, Leigh, Staffs.

Will
11 Aug. 1659, pr. 4 June 1661.Staffs. RO, B/C/11, will of Sir Hervey Bagot, 1661.
Estates
in 1623, inherited manors of Bagots Bromley, Blithfield, Field and Little Hay in Colton; a fifth part of manor of Newton; advowson of the church of Blithfield; and lands in Abbots Bromley, Admaston, Bagots Bromley, Blithbury, Blithfield, Colton, Dunstall, Field, Leigh and Newton, Staffs.C142/700/37. In 1639, his estate valued at £1,447 p.a. with woods worth £10,000.Staffs. RO, D4038/E/11/2. In 1646, his estate consisted of manors of Bagots Bromley, Blithfield, Field, and Little Hay in Colton; a fifth part of manor of Newton; a third part of manor of Leigh; and lands and tenements in Uttoxeter, Staffs. and was reckoned to be worth £134 p.a. after a rent charge of £200 to Bagot’s son Edward, but not inc. his wife’s jointure of £200 p.a. from manor of Maxstoke and lands in Ryton, Warws.SP23/201, pp. 469-71, 473, 479, 481-3; Staffs. RO, D793/25, 29, 43. In 1666, his house at Blithfield was assessed at 21 hearths and his house at Field at 12 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 3, 1921), 67; (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 3, 1925), 208.
Oxford 1644
Yes
1640 Volume
oxford
Addresses
Religion
presented Richard Chapman to rectory of Leigh, Staffs. 1639.IND1/17003, p. 8.
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