SILLY, John (c.1621-72), of St Wenn, Cornw.

Family and Education

b. c. 1621, 2nd s. of John Silly (d. 1646) of Trevelver, Cornw. and Elizabeth, da. and h. of John Marke of St Wenn.Maclean, Trigg Minor, ii. 520-1. educ. Pembroke, Oxf. 8 May 1635; M. Temple, 25 June 1638.Al. Ox.; MT Admiss. i. 135. m. 1642, Jane, da. of William Cotton, precentor of Exeter Cathedral, 3s. 3da. suc. fa. 1646, nephew 1667. d. 11 Apr. 1672.Maclean, Trigg Minor, ii. 515, 520-1.

Offices Held

Local: commr. assessment, Cornw. 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;A. and O.; An Ordinance… for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Mar. – July 1660, 28 Aug. 1660-c.1662.C231/7, p. 31; C193/12/3, f. 15v. Capt. militia ft. Apr. 1660.Mercurius Politicus no. 615 (5–12 Apr. 1660), 1243 (E.182.28).

Parlimentarian

SILLY, John (c.1621-72), of St. Wenn, Cornw.

: Cornw.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SILLY, John (c.1621-72), of St Wenn, Cornw.

Will

not found.

Estates

in 1644 the family lands comprised of Great Skowse and Treganetha (St Wenn par.), Tregusticke (Withiel), Trelowsa (Padstow), Penlee, Pawton Mills and Horse Park (St Breock), Trevelver, Carlyon, Porthilly, Treverrow (St Minver), Ennis (St Dennis), Trenhase (St Eval), Tresallen and Treskeane (St Merrin), and other minor properties in parishes of Launceston, Columb Major and Breward, also Heligan and mills, Progham, Stone and other lands already assigned to Richard Silly.Cornw. RO, B/35/52-3; Maclean, Trigg Minor, ii. 515.

Oxford 1644

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