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

Military: 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.

Mercantile: 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.

Civic: 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.

Local: 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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