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bap. 16 Mar. 1600, 1st s. of Sir Godfrey Rodes of Great Houghton, and 2nd. w. Anne, da. of Sir Edward Lewknor† of Denham Hall, Suff.Al. Cant.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 89-90; Familiae Minorum Gentium (Harl. Soc. xxxvii), 38. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 8 May 1616;Al. Cant. G. Inn 2 Feb. 1618.G. Inn Admiss. m. May 1629 (settlement 20 Apr. 1629, with £1,000), Mary (bur. 22 Apr. 1681), da. of Sir Hammond Whichcote of Harpswell and Norton, Lincs., 6s. (2 d.v.p.) 6da. (2 d.v.p.).Darfield par. reg.; Sheffield City Archives, CM/405; Add. 24484, f. 47v; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 89-90; Familiae Minorum Gentium, 38. suc. fa. 6 Oct. 1633;C142/504/98. Kntd. 28 June 1635;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 203. d. 19 Feb. 1666.Hunter, S. Yorks. ii. 130.
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Local: j.p. Yorks. (W. Riding) July 1634-c.June 1642, 11 Mar. 1647-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 79; C193/13/2; An Abstract from Yorke (1642), unpag. (York Minster Lib. civil war tracts, A115); Add. 29674, f. 148. Col. militia ft. by c.1635–42.Add. 28082, f. 80. Commr. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral by May 1635.LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/002, p. 70. Dep. lt. by Aug. 1638–?Add. 40132, f. 45. Commr. array, 31 Aug. 1640;Add. 28088, f. 94; C231/5, p. 404. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 14 May, 7 Dec. 1649, 9 June 1657; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 1 June 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, W. Riding 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May 1643; Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645.A. and O. Treas. and recvr.-gen public revenues, Yorks. by Feb. 1648-aft. Feb. 1650.SP28/250, ff. 122, 159, 254, 257, 310; SC6/CHASI/1190, unfol.; Add. 21417, f. 152: Add. 21418, ff. 111, 322; Sheffield City Archives, CM/462; CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 1; Rushworth, Hist. Collns. vii. 987. Commr. northern cos. militia, 23 May 1648; militia, Yorks. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. W. Riding 14 Mar. 1655;SP25/76A, f. 16. charitable uses, 21 May 1650, 25 Feb. 1657.C93/20/30; C93/24/10. Sheriff, Yorks. 7 Nov. 1650–4 Nov. 1651.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 164. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 18, 376. sewers, Hatfield Chase Level 27 Jan. 1657.C181/6, p. 197.

Military: col. of horse (parlian.) by Oct. 1642-c.June 1643,LJ v. 374a; Add. 18777, f. 13. 13 Mar. 1654–?;Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 652. capt. by July 1644–?E121/5/5/19; Jones, ‘War in north’, 398, 411. Col. militia horse, Yorks. 9 June 1648-Jan. 1649.Sheffield City Archives, CM/1568; Add. 21417, f. 24; G. Fox, The Three Sieges of Pontefract Castle, 133.

Scottish: cllr. of state, c.Aug. 1655–?59.Add. 21423, f. 109; Scotland and the Protectorate ed. C. H. Firth (Scottish Hist. Soc. xxxi), 306. Commr. assessment, Edinburgh Shire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 839; A. and O. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A and O.

Civic: freeman, Musselburgh, Scotland 5 July 1656–?Sheffield City Archives, CM/1571.

Parlimentarian
RODES, Sir Edward (1600-66), of Great Houghton, Darfield, Yorks.
: of Great Houghton, Darfield, Yorks.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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RODES, Sir Edward (1600-66), of Great Houghton, Darfield, Yorks.

Will
15 Sept. 1664, pr. 11 June 1667.Borthwick, Wills in York Registry, Doncaster Deanery, June 1667; Sheffield City Archives, CM/1577.
Estates
messuages, cottages, mills, closes and woods in parish of Darfield, capital messuage of Great Houghton and lease of half of the tithes in Great and Little Houghton and in Billingley, all in parish of Darfield.C54/2966/30; Add. 21426, f. 117; Sheffield City Archives, CM/401, 411, 414, 419, 421, 423, 436, 442-4, 446-55, 610, 1577; WWM/D673-4. In 1635, he agreed to pay £850 for repair of the chancel of Darfield.Sheffield City Archives, CM/419. At his d. his estate was worth £620 p.a.Sheffield City Archives, CM/1577.
Oxford 1644
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