Family and Education
bap. 24 Aug. 1609, o. s. of John Palmer, apothecary of Taunton, and Joan Thear.Taunton St Mary par. reg.; PROB11/257/113. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 21 Nov. 1628, BA 3 Dec. 1628, BMed. 2 Dec. 1630, DMed. 12 Apr. 1648.Al. Ox. m. Mary, da. and h. of John Tristram of Bampton, Devon, 1s. 2da.Ath. Ox. i. p. lv; ‘Pedigree of Tristram’, Misc. Gen. et Her. 3rd ser. i. 229; Collinson, Som. ii. 495. suc. fa. 1644.Taunton St Mary par. reg.; Som. RO, DD/SP/1647/14. d. 4 Mar. 1660.Wood, Life and Times, i. 306; Ath. Ox. i. p. lv.
Offices Held

jt. bailiff, manor of Taunton and Taunton Deane 1632. 1 July 1644Som. RO, DD/X/VNL/1, pp. 72–3. Commr. for Som.; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Oxon. 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O. sewers, Som. 7 Jan. 1646, 22 Sept. 1659;C181/5, f. 268v; C181/6, p. 394. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659; Oxon. 26 July 1659. by Apr. 1649 – 4 Mar. 1657A. and O. J.p. Som., Mar. 1660 – d.; Oxon. 25 June 1649 – aft.May 1652, 5 Mar. 1653–d.C231/6, pp. 149, 159, 205, 252, 360; C193/13/4, f. 77v. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. by Feb. 1654-June 1659;C181/6, pp. 9, 308. ejecting scandalous ministers, Som. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. Oxon. by June 1658;CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 58. ?securing peace of commonwealth by Mar. 1656.TSP iv. 595.

member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 15 May 1646.CJ iv. 545b. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 4 May 1649.CJ vi. 187a, 200b. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649; security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

warden, All Souls, Oxf. 30 Mar. 1648–d.Reg. Visitors Univ. Oxford, 20–1.

Som. and later of All Souls, Oxford.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

PALMER, John (1609-60), of Taunton, Som. and later of All Souls, Oxford

Will
29 Feb. 1660, pr. 11 Feb. 1661.PROB11/303/295.
Estates
presumably owned property in Taunton.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
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