POLWHELE, John (1607-72), of Treworgan, St Erme, Cornw.

Family and Education

b. 1607, 1st s. of Thomas Polwhele of Polwhele and Dioness, da. of Sir John Glanville† of Tavistock, Devon.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 377. educ. L. Inn, 11 Oct. 1623; called 3 Feb. 1631.LI Admiss. i. 194; LI Black Bks ii. 299. m. c.1638, Anne, da. of Thomas Baskerville of Richardston, Wilts. at least 6s. 3da. d. 6 July 1672.R. Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections, Domestic, Clerical and Literary (2 vols. 1826), 13-15; Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 377; St Erme MI.

Offices Held

Local: commr. further subsidy, Cornw. 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; assessment, 1642, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664. 4 Oct. 1643 – Apr. 1646SR; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). J.p., c.May 1660–d.Docquets of Letters Patent ed Black, 78; Recs. Quakers Cornw. 29. Commr. subsidy, 1663.SR.

Parlimentarian

POLWHELE, John (1607-72), of Treworgan, St Erme, Cornw.

: St Erme, Cornw.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

POLWHELE, John (1607-72), of Treworgan, St Erme, Cornw.

Will

1667, pr. 30 Mar. 1678.PROB11/356/6.

Estates

centred on Treworgan House (10 hearths in 1664), St Erme par.;Cornw. Hearth Tax, 156. owned lands in St Clement’s par. adjacent to Truro borough; also leased Pengelley Prior (Trevennen manor), land in Tibesta manor (Creed par.) and received royalties of manor of Tywarnhayle (Perranzabuloe), from duchy of Cornw. bef. 1650.Parl. Surv. Duchy Cornw. i. 91; ii. 174, 203, 214.

Oxford 1644

Yes

1640 Volume

oxford

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