HAYES, James (?1629-93), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Beckington, Som.

Family and Education

?bap. 28 Dec. 1629,Frome St John par. reg. 1st s. of James Hayes of Beckington, Som. and ?Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Cornish.PROB11/308/619. educ. Corpus Christi, Oxf. 19 Feb. 1649;Al. Ox. L. Inn, 17 Oct. 1649;LI Admiss. i. 260. called, 5 Nov. 1656.LI Black Bks. ii. 414. m. bef. 1676, Rachel (d. 24 Feb. 1718), wid. of Henry Cary*, 4th viscount Falkland (d. 1663) and da. of Anthony Hungerford* of Black Bourton, Oxon. 2s. 1da.CP; St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, par. reg. suc. fa. aft. 23 Oct. 1661.PROB11/308/619. Kntd. 28 June 1670.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 244. d. 2 Feb. 1693.Mins. of the Hudson’s Bay Co. 1682-1684 (Champlain Soc. ix), 326; ‘James Hayes’, HP Commons 1690-1714.

Offices Held

recorder, Marlborough 24 Mar. 1658.Wilts. RO, G22/1/22, p. 112.

commr. assessment, Som. 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Oxon, Westminster 1677, 1679, 1689 – d.; Kent 1689–d. Mar. 1662 – 5 Feb. 1680SR. J.p. Som.; Oxon. May 1674 – 23 Apr. 1680; Westminster May 1679 – 9 Jan. 1680; Mdx. May 1679-Jan. 1680;C213/4, ff. 162, 477; C213/5, ff. 8, 19; HMC Lords i. 184, 188. sewers, Kent 15 Apt. 1667;C181/7, p. 395. Mdx. and Westminster 17 Oct. 1667-aft. Oct. 1672.C181/7, pp. 413, 628.

member, corporation of New England, 17 May 1661; co. for the propagation of the gospel in New England, 7 Feb. 1662;CSP Col. America and W. Indies 1661–8, pp. 31, 71 cttee. Hudson’s Bay Co. 2 May – Nov. 1670, 28 Nov. 1672 – Nov. 1685; dep. gov. ? bef. Nov. 1676, 28 Nov. 1679-bef. Nov. 1685.Mins. of the Hudson’s Bay Co. 1671–1674 (Champlain Soc. v), pp. xvii, 43, 131, 132; Mins. 1679–1682 (Champlain Soc. viii), 1, 97, 153; Mins. 1682–1684 (Champlain Soc. ix), 320–7.

FRS, 17 Sep. 1662–1685; cllr. 1667, 1670.M. Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660–1700 (1982), 180–1.

sec. to Prince Rupert by 12 Feb. 1666-aft. June 1671.LI Black Bks. iii. 49; Bodl. Rawl. A 176, ff. 207–8; Pepys’s Diary, vii. 84; Whitelocke, Diary, 772–3.

farmer of revenues, 23 June 1669–d.CTB iii. 235.

Parlimentarian

HAYES, James (?1629-93), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Beckington, Som.

of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. and Beckington, Som.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

HAYES, James (?1629-93), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Beckington, Som.

Will

11 Jan. 1693, pr. 20 June 1694.PROB11/418/506.

Estates

from 1665, East Combe, Kent;Hasted, Kent, ii. 553-67. manors of Great Bedgebury, Goudhurst and Ford, Kent; parsonage of Great Tew, Oxon.; other land in Kent, Oxon. and Mdx.PROB11/418/506. Died owing unspecified sum to Hudson’s Bay Co.Mins. Hudson’s Bay Co. 1682-1684, 326.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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