SCLATER, Thomas (1615-84), of Cambridge, Cambs.

Family and Education

bap. 9 July 1615, yr. s. of William Sclater (d. 1619-20) of Halifax, Yorks. and w. Janet.W.C. Metcalfe, ‘Ped. of Cambs. families’, The Gen. iii. 309; Borthwick, prerogative court of archbp. of York, wills reg. 35, f. 595v. educ. Leigh, Lancs. (James Gatcliffe) and Wakefield; Sidney Sussex, Camb. 1631; scholar, Trinity, Camb. 1634, BA 1636, MA 1639; MD, Oxf. 1649 (incorp. Camb. 1649).Al. Cant.; H.M. Innes, Fellows of Trinity Coll. Cambridge (Cambridge, 1941), 32; J. Walker, An Attempt towards Recovering an Acct. of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy (1714), pt. ii. 160; Admissions to Trinity Coll. Cambridge ed. W.W. Rouse Ball and J.A. Venn (1911-16), ii. 346, 376; Wood, Fasti (1815), pt. ii. 156. m. 25 Feb. 1654, Susanna Freston (d. by Feb. 1688), wid. of Mr Cotton of London and Dr Thomas Comber, dean of Carlisle and master of Trinity, Camb. s.p.Metcalfe, ‘Cambs. families’, 309; PROB11/393/3 (Susanna Sclater). cr. bt. 25 July 1660.CB. d. 10 Dec. 1684.Le Neve, Mon. Angl. iii. 60; A.E. Bernays, Inscriptions from the Chapel of Trinity Coll. Cambridge (Cambridge, 1900), 7.

Offices Held

Academic: minor fell. Trinity, Camb. 1637 – 39; major fell. 1639 – c.44; tutor, 1640–2.Al. Cant.; Innes, Fellows of Trinity Coll. 32.

Local: j.p. Cambs. July 1652–?d.; Camb. Univ. July 1652 – d.; Camb. 26 May 1654 – 15 Sept. 1656, July 1660–?d.C231/6, pp. 241, 348; A Perfect List (1660), 5; C231/7, pp. 143, 535; C231/8, pp. 57, 72; C181/6, p. 34; C181/7, pp. 50, 623. Commr. sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 6 May 1654-aft. July 1659;C181/6, pp. 28, 382. Norf., Suff. and I. of Ely 7 Sept. 1660, 20 Dec. 1669;C181/7, pp. 40, 523. Cambs. 26 May 1669;C181/7, p. 462. assessment, Camb. 9 June 1657, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Cambs. 1677, 1679;A. and O.; SR. gaol delivery, Camb. 18 Sept. 1660-aft. Feb. 1670;C181/7, pp. 52, 538. defaulting accountants, Cambs. May 1662;Bodl. Rawl. C.948, pp. 18–25. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. 30 May 1662-aft. Feb. 1673;C181/7, pp. 158, 635. subsidy, Camb. 1663.SR. Sheriff, Cambs., Hunts. 1680–1.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 15.

Civic: freeman, Camb. 1670.The Diary of Samuel Newton, ed. J. E. Foster (Camb. Antiq. Soc. xxiii), 57.

Parlimentarian

SCLATER, Thomas (1615-84), of Cambridge, Cambs.

: Cambs.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown.Trinity Coll. Camb.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SCLATER, Thomas (1615-84), of Cambridge, Cambs.

Will

21 Nov. 1681, cods. 18 Sept. 1683, 22 Dec. 1683, 6 Mar. 1684, 30 Aug. 1684, 1 Sept. 1684, pr. 27 Jan. 1685.PROB11/379/131; Cambs. RO, R.59.5.5/3.

Estates

by 1654, leases of Trinity College land at Monks Kirby, Warws.;Trinity Coll. Camb. senior bursar’s audit bk. 1637-59, ff. 251, 259. in 1674 he paid £7,793 to Sir Joseph Colston, for estates worth £405 p.a. at Linton, Cambs.;Cambs. RO, R.59.5.9/100-102; R.59.5.3/1, ff. 412-18, 424. in later 1670s further purchases in that area inc. Catley House;Cambs. RO, R.59.5.9/103-104, 107-108. in January 1678 he paid £1,950 for lands at Duxford; consolidated his holding there later that year.Cambs. RO, R.59.5.9/109-110, 112-114.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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