LILBURNE, Thomas (1622-65), of Offerton, Houghton-le-Spring, co. Dur.

Family and Education

bap. 13 Jan. 1622, 1st s. of George Lilburne* and 1st w. Isabel.Bishopwearmouth St. Michael and All Angels par. reg. educ. appr. mercer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1 May 1637.Tyne and Wear Archives, GU.MA/3/3, Order Bk. of Newcastle Merchant Adventurers’ Co., f. 123. m. 30 July 1646, Margaret (bur. 6 Sept. 1665), da. of Ralph Bailes of Aycliffe, co. Dur., wid. of George Scurfield of Bishop Middleham, co. Dur., 1s. d.v.p. 1da. d.v.p. Brancepeth, co. Dur. par. reg.; Aycliffe par. reg.; Houghton-le-Spring par. reg.; Durham UL, DPR/I/1/1665/L9/1-2. bur. 25 Mar. 1665 25 Mar. 1665.Houghton-le-Spring par. reg.

Offices Held

capt. of horse (parlian.), 25 May 1644 – May 1659, 8- 25 Feb. 1660, July- 15 Nov. 1660; maj. 25 Feb.-July 1660.SP28/138, pt. 6, ff. 1–6; Add. 21422, f. 127; CJ vii. 669a; HMC Leyborne-Popham, 56–7; CSP Dom. 1650, p. 262; CCC 540; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 264–74, 276; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army, ii. 113, 172–3; Jones, ‘War in north’, 391.

member, Merchant Adventurers’ Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 20 Nov. 1645–d.;Tyne and Wear Archives, GU.MA/3/3, Order Bk. of Newcastle Merchant Adventurers’ Co., f. 27v. Hostmen’s Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 20 Jan. 1659–d.Extracts from the Recs. of the Co. of Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ed. F.W. Dendy (Surt. Soc. cv), 116.

freeman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 27 May 1647–d.Reg. of Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne ed. M.H. Dodds (Newcastle upon Tyne Recs. Cttee. iii), 32, 59.

commr. militia, co. Dur. 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660; Cumb. 12 Mar. 1660;SP25/76A, f. 15v; A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, co. Dur. by Mar. 1656.TSP iv. 541. Recvr. subscriptions, Durham Univ. 12 Apr. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 262. J.p. co. Dur. 25 July 1656 – bef.Oct. 1660; Cumb. 1 Aug. 1656-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 346. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, co. Dur. 13 Sept. 1656.SP25/77, p. 321. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Commr. assessment, co. Dur., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Westmld. 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). poll tax, co. Dur. 1660.SR.

Parlimentarian

LILBURNE, Thomas (1622-65), of Offerton, Houghton-le-Spring, co. Dur.

of Offerton, co. Dur., Houghton-le-Spring.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LILBURNE, Thomas (1622-65), of Offerton, Houghton-le-Spring, co. Dur.

Will

26 Jan. 1659, pr. 31 Mar. 1665.Durham UL, DPR/I/1/1665/L9/1-2.

Estates

fa. settled a third part of manor of Offerton, including the capital messuage, upon him.Summers, Sunderland, i. 346. In 1650-2, Lilburne was among several groups of soldiers who purchased from the trustees for the sale of crown lands the leaseholds of manor of Epworth, Lincs., for £4,612 13s, and of honor of Bolingbroke and manor of Alkborough and Edlington, Lincs., for £2,325 7s; the East Park of Buckholt, Hants, for £946 10s; and the manor of Holme Cultram, Cumb., for £10,320 18s.E121/1/7/57; E121/3/3/23-4; E121/5/7/27; I. Gentles, ‘The Debentures Market and Military Purchases of Crown Land, 1649-60’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 308. Lilburne and his associates sold most of these properties, but he retained until his d. rents of manor of Holme Cultram, worth at least £230 p.a.CRES6/1, pp. 11, 232; LR2/266, f. 76; Add. 21422, f. 127; CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 530; 1661-2, p. 399; 1663-4, pp. 196, 360; 1668-9, p. 641; Gentles, ‘Debentures Market’, 308. In 1650 he purchased from Col. Robert Lilburne* a sixth part of lordship of Bear Park, near Durham.Durham Univ. Lib. DPR/I/1/1665/L9/1-2. In 1655 he purchased one fee farm rent in Cumb. for £78.SP28/288, f. 63. In 1656 he purchased from his father a fourth part of a colliery in West Rainton, co. Dur., for £237.C54/3899/10. At his d. estate inc. lands, tenements and rents in Bear Park, Bradbury, Helmington Row, Offerton and West Rainton, co. Dur., and in Holme Cultram, Cumb.Durham UL, DPR/I/1/1665/L9/1-2.

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