DUNCH, Edmund (1603-78), of Little Wittenham, Berks.

Family and Education

b. 22 Feb. 1603, 1st s. of Sir William Dunch† of Little Wittenham and Mary, da. of Sir Henry Cromwell alias Williams† of Hinchingbrooke, Hunts.Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi-lvii), i. 87-8, 197; Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, ii. 195. educ. G. Inn 2 Nov. 1621.GI Admiss. 164. m. 8 Feb. 1630, Bridget, da. and h. of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney, Glos. 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.St Ann Blackfriars, London par. reg.; HP Commons 1604-1629; Vis. Berks. i. 197; Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, ii. 198. suc. fa. 1611;CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 268; Ashmole, Antiquities, i. 60. gdfa. 1623. cr. Baron Burnell of East Wittenham, 26 Apr. 1658.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iv. 789-91. bur. 24 Aug. 1678 24 Aug. 1678.Little Wittenham par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: commr. subsidy 1624, 1628;E115/144, f. 112. charitable uses, Berks. 1626-aft. 1638. 1633 – 34C93/10, f. 22; C192/1, unfol. Sheriff, Berks.; Oxon. 1667–8.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 6, 110. Commr. sewers, River Kennet, Berks. and Hants 1633, 13 Oct. 1657;C181/4, f. 147v; C181/6, p. 261. River Thames, Wilts. to Berks. 1635;C181/5, f. 21v. Glos. 20 Feb. 1654;C181/6, p. 19. River Thames, Wilts. to Surr. 18 June 1662;C181/7, p. 152. perambulation, Windsor Forest, Berks. 10 Sept. 1641;C181/5, f. 211. further subsidy, Berks. 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Berks. 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Glos. 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). additional ord. for levying of money, Berks. 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Berks. and Oxon. 25 June 1644. 9 May 1646 – bef.Oct. 1653A. and O. J.p. Wilts., by c. Sept. 1656 – Mar. 1660; Oxon. 22 Mar. 1647 – Mar. 1660; Berks. by Feb. 1650 – Mar. 1660; Glos. July 1651 – bef.Oct. 1653, 27 Mar. 1655-Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 45, 84, 221, 307; C193/13/4, ff. 38v, 109; C193/13/5, ff. 43, 116; C193/13/6, f. 96; Berks. RO, W/AC al, f. 115v; Sheffield Archives, EM1480; C181/4, f. 147v; C181/5, f. 42. Commr. militia, Berks., Oxon. 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. Westminster militia, 7 June 1650;Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. by Feb. 1654–28 June 1658.C181/6, pp. 11, 279. ?Constable, Wallingford Castle bef. 1660.The Mystery of the Good Old Cause (1660), 9 (E.1923.2).

Civic: freeman, Wallingford 1628.Berks. RO, W/AC1/1/1, f. 115v.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 1635-aft. 1641.LC5/134, f. 87; LC3/1, f. 25.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 16 Oct. 1644.CJ iii. 666b.

Parlimentarian

DUNCH, Edmund (1603-1678), of Little Wittenham, Berks.

: of Little Wittenham, Berks.

Likenesses

Likenesses: family group on father’s fun. monument, Little Wittenham church, Berks.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

DUNCH, Edmund (1603-78), of Little Wittenham, Berks.

Will

1 Mar. 1675, pr. 19 Oct. 1678.PROB11/358/144.

Estates

sold manors of Wittenham Abbas and Swynford, Berks. 1630; sold land at Aston Tirrold, Berks. 1631; sold land at Basildon, Berks. 1633; sold land at Purton, Chelworth, Brokenborough and Cricklade, Wilts. to 1st earl of Manchester (Sir Henry Montagu†) and others, 1635;Coventry Docquets, 597, 617, 636, 645, 676. bought manor of Ewelme, Oxon. for £500, 1650;I.J. Gentles, ‘The debenture market and military purchasers of crown lands, 1649-60’, (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 276.sold manor of Over Court, Silchester, Hants bef. 1667.VCH Hants, iv. 54.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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