Family and Education
b. c. 1622, 2nd s. of George Stedman or Stidman (d. 1626) of Ashwick, Som. and Grace, da. of Robert Norman.Vis. Som. and Bristol 1672 (Harl. n.s. xi), 56; PROB11/149/429. educ. L. Inn, 6 Apr. 1649.LI Admiss. i. 260. m. (1) by c. 1645, Mary (d. 22 May 1658), ?niece of Sir William Tate† (d. 1617) of Delapré Abbey, Northants. 3 da.; ?(2) ; (?3) 27 Dec. 1688, Jane Boys of St Andrew, Holborn, London; (?4) 6 July 1692, Elizabeth Darby, wid. of St Giles-in-the-Fields, London.Vis. Som. and Bristol 1672, 56; Baker, Northants. i. 362; London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 1282, 1315; St Gregory by St Paul par. reg.; St Mary le Bow par. reg. d. betw. 14 Apr.-3 May 1701.PROB11/460/132.
Offices Held
Legal: called, L. Inn 11 Feb. 1656; bencher, 30 Jan. 1673; autumn reader, 1677; treas. 1678 – 81; dean of chapel, 17 June 1686.
Local: commr. surveying Kingswood Forest, Glos. 19, 26 June 1657; assessment, Som. 26 Jan. 1660; militia, 12 Mar. 1660;
Parlimentarian
: of Lincoln’s Inn.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
STEDMAN, James (c.1622-1701), of Lincoln’s Inn.
Will
14 Apr. 1701, pr. 3 May 1701.PROB11/460/132.
Estates
1626, to have ‘presently’ ‘a chattel lease ... called Howesters’, life interest in another tenement ?at Ashwick, and £30;PROB11/149/429. ?by 1646, lands in Northants. inc. at ‘Ridge’;PROB11/460/132. Apr. 1669, joint interest in 2 closes at Shoscombe in Wellow, Som.;Birmingham City Archives, 3415/117. Apr. 1685, an acre and three closes in Foscott and Wellow;Bristol RO, AC/D/16/18. other property at Wellow the subject of exchanges, 1669-92.Som. N and Q xii. 228-9.
Oxford 1644
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