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Family and Education
b. bef. 1582, s. of Richard Tolye, scrivener and alderman, of Norwich and Anne, da. of Thomas Sotherton, mayor of Norwich 1605-6.First Par. Reg. of St George of Tombland ed. G. Jay (Norwich, 1891), 198; Cozens-Hardy and Kent, Mayors of Norwich, 74, 80; Norf. Peds. ed. P. Palgrave-Moore (Norf. and Norwich Gen. Soc. xiii.), 157-8. m. settlement 16 May 1606, Katherine, da. of Nicholas Elcock of London, s.p.First Par. Reg. of St George of Tombland, 54n; Cozens-Hardy and Kent, Mayors of Norwich, 80. suc. fa. 1625.First Par. Reg. of St George of Tombland, 54. bur. 1654 8 Feb. .St Michael at Plea par. reg.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Norwich 1608;Millican, Reg. Freemen Norwich, 104. sheriff, 1630 – 31; alderman, North Conisford ward 1631 – 49; member, chamberlain’s council, 1631 – 37; auditor, 1631 – 37, 1640 – 42; mayor, 1638 – 39, 1644–5. Surveyor, children’s hosp. Norwich 1631.Mins. Norwich Ct. of Mayoralty, 1630–1631, 165. Dep. mayor, Feb.-May 1641.Index to Norwich City Officers, pp. xxiv, xxv, xxx, 153; Norf. RO, Norwich mayor’s court bk. 1634–46, f. 305.

Religious: feoffee, impropriations, Norf. by 1631.SP16/531, f. 196. Churchwarden, St George’s Tombland, Norwich 1633–4.Norwich Rate Bk. ed. W. Rye (1903), 58.

Local: commr. subsidy, Norwich 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR; A. and O. loans on Propositions, 5 Aug. 1642;LJ v. 265b. sequestration, Norf. 27 Mar. 1643; Norwich 17 Apr. 1643;A. and O.; CJ iii. 49a. additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643; New Model ordinance, Norwich 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O. Treas. repairs to Norwich Castle bef. 1650.Norf. QSOB, 21.

Parlimentarian
TOLYE (TOOLY), John (bef. 1582-1654), of Norwich, Norf.
: of Norwich, Norf.
TOOLY
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

TOLYE (TOOLY), John (bef. 1582-1654), of Norwich, Norf.

Will
13 Apr. 1653, cods. 12 and 31 Jan. 1654, pr. 30 Jan. 1655.PROB11/246/38.
Estates
leased lands from the Norwich corporation bef. 1650;Norf. RO, Norwich assembly bk. 1642-68, f. 90. owned lands at Kirby Bedon, Bramerton and Wellingham, Norf.; purchased lands at Downham Market, Brundall, Ringland and Felthorpe, Norf.PROB11/246/38.
Oxford 1644
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