DRAKE, William (1606-69), of Shardeloes, nr. Amersham, Bucks.

Family and Education

bap. 28 Sept. 1606, 1st s. of Francis Drake†, of Esher and Walton-on-Thames, Surr. and Joan, da. and coh. of William Tothill, a six clerk in chancery, of Shardeloes;Vis. Bucks. 1634 (Harl. Soc. lviii. 1909), 136; Lipscombe, Buckingham, iii. 154; M.E. Blackman, ‘The Drake fam. of Esher and Walton-on-Thames’, Surr. Arch. Coll. lxxvi. (1985), 93. bro. of Francis*. educ. Amersham (Dr Charles Croke);A. Croke, Geneal. Hist. of the Croke Fam. (1823), i. 509. Christ Church, Oxf. 1624;A. Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1817), iii. 205. M. Temple 1626;MT Adm. i. 117; MT Recs. ii. 703. G. Inn 1629;GI Adm. 188. travelled abroad ?1630, 1634-5;APC 1630-1, p. 26; K. Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven, 2000), 122. Leiden 1634;E. Peacock, Index to English Speaking Students who have graduated at Leyden University (1883), 30. MA, Oxf. 1669.Al. Ox. unm. suc. fa. 1634;Lipscombe, Buckingham, iii. 154. Kntd. 14 July 1641;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 209. cr. bt. 17 July 1641.CB. d. 28 Aug. 1669.Lipscombe, Buckingham, iii. 154.

Offices Held

Central: member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641.CJ ii. 288b.

Local: commr. for associating midland cos. Bucks. 15 Dec. 1642.A. and O. Dep. lt. July 1642–3, c.Aug. 1660–1. by 1647 – July 1653LJ v. 178b. Commr. for Bucks. 15 Jan. 1645. by 1647 – July 1653CJ iv. 21a. J.p., by Oct. 1660–d.T. Langley, Hist. and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough (1797), 17; C231/6, p. 259; C220/9/4, f. 5v. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. assessment, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. corporations, 1662–3;HP Commons 1660–1690. subsidy, 1663.SR.

Legal: chirographer of c.p. 1652–60.HMC 10th Rep. IV, 217; CCSP, v. 43–4.

Parlimentarian

DRAKE, William (1606-69), of Shardeloes, nr. Amersham, Bucks.

: of Shardeloes, Bucks., nr. Amersham.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

DRAKE, William (1606-69), of Shardeloes, nr. Amersham, Bucks.

Will

17 Dec. 1667, pr. 8 Sept. 1669.PROB11/330/521.

Estates

inherited Shardeloes from his grandfather, William Tothill, 1626; calculated his wealth (cash plus money owed to him) as £8,300, 1634;UCL, MS Ogden 7/7, ff. 163v-164. given manor of Walton-on-Thames by his father, bef. 1634; subsequently sold it to his brother, Francis;Blackman, ‘Drake fam.’, 93. bought manor of Amersham, 1637;Coventry Docquets, 705. leased estate at Shardeloes for £25 p.a. 1649;G. E[land], ‘The Shardeloes muniments’, Recs. of Bucks. xiv. (1941-6), 168; G. Eland, Shardeloes Pprs. (Cambridge, 1947), 55. bought Tomlyns manor, Amersham, 1657.VCH Bucks. iii. 152.

Oxford 1644

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