BUXTON, John (1608-60), of Channonz, Tibenham, Norf.

Family and Education

b. 26 Oct. 1608, o.s. of Robert Buxton of Tibenham and Elizabeth, da. of Edmund Doyly of Shotesham, Norf.CUL, Buxton pprs. 30/18; HMC Var. ii. 249; Vis. Norf. (Norf. Rec. Soc. iv. 1934), i. 45. educ. G. Inn 1626.GI Admiss. m. Nov. 1627, Margaret (d. 11 May 1687), da. of William Pert of Arnolds, Brentwood, Essex and coh. of maternal grandfa. Thomas Conyers of East Barnet, Mdx., 4s. 3da. (1 d.v.p.).D. McKitterick, ‘“Ovid with a Littleton”: the cost of English bks. in the early seventeenth century’, Trans. Camb. Bibliographical Soc. xi. 192; Vis. Norf. i. 45; Blomefield, Norf. v. 276-7; John Buxton, ed. A. Mackley (Norf. Rec. Soc. lxix), 6. suc. fa. 1611.CUL, Buxton pprs. 30/18; HMC Var. ii. 249. d. 29 Apr. 1660.Blomefield, Norf. v. 276.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Norf. Apr. 1632 – Mar. 1652, by Mar. 1660–d.Coventry Docquets, 66; C231/6, p. 230. Lt.-col. militia horse by 1637; capt. of light horse by 1637.CUL, Buxton pprs. 96/17. Sheriff, 18 May-Nov. 1638.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 89. Commr. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. array (roy.), 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; assessment, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660; militia, 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. sewers, Norf. and Suff. 20 Dec. 1658.C181/6, p. 339.

Parlimentarian

BUXTON, John (1608-60), of Channonz, Tibenham, Norf.

: of Channonz, Tibenham, Norf.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, c.1635.Norf. Museums Service.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BUXTON, John (1608-60), of Channonz, Tibenham, Norf.

Will

12 Dec. 1659, pr. 16 Jan. 1662.Norf. RO, Norwich consistory court, will reg. Tennant 374; CUL, Buxton pprs. 27/1. Earlier draft from 30 Apr. 1659, CUL, Buxton pprs. 44/185.

Estates

income of £1,085 6s 4d, Mar. 1629-Mar. 1630.CUL, Buxton pprs. 127/2, f. 94.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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