BOWYER, John (1623-66), of Knypersley, Biddulph, Staffs.

Family and Education

bap. 21 Sept. 1623, 5th but 2nd surv. s. of Sir William Bowyer*.C8/70/124; Biddulph Par. Reg. ed. N. W. Tildesley (Staffs. Par. Regs. Soc. 1991), 32. m. (1) 4 Apr. 1648, Mary (bur. 6 June 1665), da. and h. of Robert Milward of Bradlow Ash, Derbys., 4s. 2da.; (2) 11 Sept. 1665, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Ralph Egerton of Betley, Staffs. s.p.Biddulph Par. Reg. ed. Tildesley, 59, 63; F. Parker, ‘Chetwynd’s hist. of Pirehill Hundred’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. n.s. xii), 217. suc. bro. Richard 17 Mar. 1644;C8/70/124. Kntd. 30 May 1660; cr. bt. 11 Sept. 1660;CB. bur. 18 July 1666.Biddulph Par. Reg. ed. Tildesley, 64.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) 24 Dec. 1642 – 24 May 1644; col. 24 May 1644–24 Aug. 1646. Capt. of horse, 30 May 1644–24 Aug. 1646; col. 4 Nov. 1645–24 Aug. 1646.SP28/134, pts. 5, 10; SP28/144, pt. 6, f. 27; SP28/242, f. 400; Staffs. Co. Cttee. 77, 121; HMC 4th Rep. 264. Gov. Shugborough, Staffs. by Jan.-c.Mar. 1644;Staffs. Co. Cttee. 26, 45, 62. Leek c.May 1644-aft. Jan. 1645.Staffs. Co. Cttee. 121, 242.

Local: j.p. Staffs. by 26 Apr. 1647 – bef.Jan. 1650, Mar. 1660–d.Staffs. RO, D948/1/5/1; S. Erdeswick, Survey of Staffs. ed. T. Harwood (1843), p. xviii; A Perfect List (1660); J. C. Wedgwood, ‘Keepers and justices of the peace for Staffs.’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. 1912), 333. Dep. lt. 27 May 1647–?, c.Aug. 1660–?d.SP29/11, f. 229; SP29/60, f. 148; Staffs. RO, D948/1/5/1. Commr. assessment, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, Staffs. and Lichfield 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Staffs. 1660.SR. Sheriff, 30 Jan. 1662–29 Jan. 1663.C202/46/4; List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 129. Commr. subsidy, 1663.SR.

Parlimentarian

BOWYER, John (1623-66), of Knypersley, Staffs.

: of Knypersley, Biddulph, Staffs.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BOWYER, John (1623-66), of Knypersley, Biddulph, Staffs.

Will

1 June 1666, pr.?,Pape, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 149.

Estates

in 1644, on d. of his elder bro. Richard, inherited the bulk of the family’s estate in Biddulph, Leek and elsewhere in Staffs. which he claimed was worth £1,000 p.a.C8/70/124. In 1649, estate inc. manors of Apedale, Bucknall, Knypersley and Norton-in-the-Moors and Podmore Hall, Staffs.BRL, 917/1532. In 1652, he borrowed £6,000 (£3,000 by statute staple), which he lent to his distant relation, the Derbyshire recusant Rowland Eyre, to help him purchase his forfeited estate.LC4/203, f. 193; Derbys. RO, Bag C/2764-70, 2772, 2774; R. Meredith, ‘A Derbys. fam. in the seventeenth century’, Recusant Hist. viii. 32, 33, 35-6. Bowyer’s estate was valued at £900 p.a. in the early 1660s.D. Fawkes, ‘The gentry of Staffs. 1662-3; additions to the list’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 4, xiii), 60. At his d. estate inc. manor of Stallbrook and Derrington, capital messuage of Sidway and lands in Aston, Maer, Mucklestone and Sidway, Staffs.Pape, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 149. In 1666, his house at Knypersley was assessed at 20 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. 1921), 171.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

presented William Armett to vicarage of Biddulph, Staffs. 1663;Clergy of the C. of E. database. Maurice Harrison, 1665.IND1/17005, f. 37.

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