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Family and Education
bap. 1 Aug. 1604, 1st s. of Christopher Cunliffe of The Sparth, and Jennet, da. of Christopher Kenyon of Milnshaw, Lancs.Gt. Harwood ed. A. Sparke (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. lxxv), 21; Lancs. IPM ed. J. P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xvi), 24-5; Misc. Gen. et Her. ii. 22. m. (1) lic. 18 Nov. 1630, Anne, da. of one Feilden of Whalley, Lancs. 1s. 5da.;Lancs. RO, DDLX/7/2, p. 5; Archdeaconry of Chester Mar. Lics. ed. W.F. Irvine (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lvii), 200; Gt. Harwood ed. Sparke, 42; R. Trappes-Lomax, Hist. of Clayton-le-Moors (Chetham Soc. n.s. lxxxv), 104-5. (2) c.Jan. 1653, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Robert Callis, sjt.-at-law, of Dalderby, Lincs. wid. of John Doughtie (d. Nov. 1646) of Thornley, Lancs. s.p.SP20/13, unfol. (depositions rel. to Elizabeth Doughtie, 12 May 1647); Lancs. RO, DDK/861/17, 23, 24; Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. l), 227. suc. fa. 19 Oct. 1614.Lancs. IPM ed. Rylands, 25. d. 4 Dec. 1653.Jolly Note Bk. ed. H. Fishwick (Chetham Soc. n.s. xxxiii), 126.
Offices Held

Local: recvr. assessment money, Lancs. 26 Jan. 1643.LJ v. 573b. Commr. assessment, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 19 Dec. 1651, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;A. and O.; CJ vii. 54b; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643, 30 Jan. 1650 – 15 Feb. 1653, by Apr. 1653–?d.;A. and O.; CCC 168, 629; SP28/211, f. 717. levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; defence of Lancs. 29 Aug. 1645.A. and O. J.p. by July 1652–4 Mar. 1653.Lancs. RO, QSC/53; A. Craven, ‘‘For the better uniting of this nation’’, HR lxxxviii. 90.

Religious: elder, third Lancs. classis, 1646.LJ viii. 510.

Parlimentarian
CUNLIFFE, Robert (1604-53), of The Sparth, Whalley, Lancs.
: of The Sparth, Lancs., Whalley.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

CUNLIFFE, Robert (1604-53), of The Sparth, Whalley, Lancs.

Will
not found.
Estates
inherited The Sparth and 72 acres of land in Clayton le Moors, Whalley.Lancs. IPM ed. Rylands, 24. Estate worth £35 p.a.Lancs. RO, DDLX/7/2, p. 5; Blackwood, Lancs. 84. He and another gentleman purchased lands in Lancs. worth £1,973 from the treason trustees.Blackwood, Lancs. 92. In 1653, he purchased forfeited property in Ightenhill, Lancs. for £1,048.C54/3765/30. At his d. estate inc. timber worth betw. £200 and £500 and a personal estate inventoried at £268 17s.Lancs. RO, DDLX/7/2, pp. 5, 11, 124, 128, 146.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
The Bell Inn, Friday Street, London (1651).CCC 499.
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