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Family and Education
b. 21 Sept. 1581, 1st s. of Andrew Archer of Umberslade and Margaret, da. of Simon Raleigh of Farnborough, Warws.Tanworth-in-Arden par. reg.; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust RO, DR 37/vol. 48, f. 28v; P. Styles, ‘Sir Simon Archer: “A lover of Antiquity and of the lovers thereof”’, in Studies in West Midlands Hist. (Kineton, 1978), 1-53, on which this biography is based. educ. G. Inn 3 May 1602.G. Inn Admiss. 103. m. 13 Oct. 1614, Anne da. of Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth Castle, Staffs. 3s. 4da. (1 d.v.p.)Tanworth-in-Arden par. reg.; Vis. Warws. 1619 (Harl. Soc. xii), 309. Kntd. 21 Aug. 1624.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 186. suc. fa. Apr. 1629. bur. 4 June 1662.Tanworth-in-Arden par. reg.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Warws. 5 July 1620 – ?44, 9 Mar. 1650–d.C231/4, p. 216. Commr. subsidy, 1621, 1624, 1641. 11 Oct. 1626SP14/123/78; C212/22/20, 21, 23; SR. Treas. Kineton hundred bef. 1625. 11 Oct. 1626Warwick County Records, i. 2. Commr. Forced Loan, Warws., 1627.Shakespeare Birthplace Trust RO, DR 37/box 85/3; SP16/73/70; C193/12/2, f. 61. Sheriff, 1626–7.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 147. Commr. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. toward relief of Ireland, 1642; SR. assessment, 1642, 7 Dec. 1649, 1 June 1660, 1661; Warws. and Coventry 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 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). array (roy.), Warws. 17 June 1642.Northants RO, FH133 unfol. Member, sub-cttee. of accts. Warws. and Coventry Nov. 1644-Oct. 1649.SP28/247/485, Styles, ‘Sir Simon Archer’, 37–9. Commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 15, 370. militia, Warws. and Coventry 26 July 1659, 12 Mar 1660.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
ARCHER, Sir Simon (1581-1662), of Umberslade, Tanworth-in-Arden, Warws.
: Warws., Tanworth-in-Arden.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ARCHER, Sir Simon (1581-1662), of Umberslade, Tanworth-in-Arden, Warws.

Will
21 Dec. 1661, pr. 21 July 1662, replacing holograph version of 21 Sept. 1640.Shakespeare Birthplace Trust RO, DR 37/box 90/30.
Estates
manors of Tanworth-in-Arden, Umberslade, Claverdon, Botley and Monkspath, sub-manor of Clay Hall (patrimony); Flecknoe (on marriage); Solihull manor, Codbarrow sub-manor; house at Warwick, Warws. 1654.J. Burman, The Story of Tanworth-in-Arden (Birmingham, 1930), 47-9; Styles, ‘Sir Simon Archer’, 6-8.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
Presented Henry Smitheman to Lillington, Warws. 23 May 1637; Ralph Hodges to Tamworth rectory, Staffs. 27 July 1646.IND17003, ff. 81v, 89.
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