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Family and Education
b. bef. 1620, 3rd s. of Anthony Sawrey of Plumpton, Cumberland, and Alice, da. of Thomas Farrington of Wearden.Dugdale’s Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. lxxxv), 255. educ. appr. to Thomas Fleetwood, Grocer, 15 Dec. 1636.London Apprenticeship Abstracts, 1442-1850. m. ?, at least 1s.HMC Lords, n.s. ii. 251. d. 6 Aug. 1699.B. Nightingale, Lancs. Nonconformity: Preston, North Lancs. and Westmorland (Manchester, 1890), 255n.
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Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of Richard Standish*, Lancs. bef. Aug. 1650.BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. ?Maj. of ft. regt. of Oliver Cromwell* by Feb. 1651;SP28/74, f. 465; SP28/76, ff. 121, 127. lt.-col. regt. of Francis West (later Thomas Cooper II*), May 1651-July 1659.SP28/80, f. 444; Clarke Pprs. iv. 25; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (2015–16), ii. 78–9, 92, 109. Dep. gov. Orkney and Shetland by May-Dec. 1653;Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLV, unfol.: 12 May, 8 June 1653. Ayr Citadel, Dec. 1653-July 1659.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLV, unfol.: 16 Dec. 1653. Col. of ft. and gov. Ayr July-Dec. 1659.Clarke Pprs. iv. 25, 160–1.

Scottish: commr. assessment, Ayrshire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi, pt. 2, p. 838; A. and O. J.p. 1656–?Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 309. Commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Civic: burgess and guildbrother, Ayr 22 Apr. 1656.NRS, B6/18/2, f. 111.

Local: commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Westmld. 29 Jan. 1658;SP25/78, p. 407. militia, Cumberland 26 July 1659.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
SAWRY, Roger (d.1699), of Broughton Tower, Broughton in Furness, Westmorland.
: of Broughton Tower, Broughton in Furness, Westmorland.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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SAWRY, Roger (d.1699), of Broughton Tower, Broughton in Furness, Westmorland.

Will
not found.
Estates
acquired manor of Broughton in Furness (confiscated from earl of Derby) from Edward Lee (or Leigh) of Sunderland in 1658, in exchange for episcopal lands from diocese of Durham granted to Sawry earlier in the decade; in 1684 this was conveyed to his eldest s. who in turn granted a life interest in half of the estate to his fa.Armorial for Westmorland and Lonsdale ed. R.S. Boumphrey, C.R. Hudleston and J. Hughes (Cumberland and Westmorland Antiq. and Arch. Soc. 1975), 265; HMC Lords, n.s. ii. 251-3; Cumbria Archive, Barrow, BD TB 13/3/2, 13/7/2; BD Broughton/8/1/5.
Oxford 1644
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