STOCKDALE, Thomas (1593-1653), of Bilton Park, Knaresborough, Yorks.

Family and Education

bap. 18 Sept. 1593, 1st s. of William Stockdale of Green Hammerton, Whixley, and 2nd w. Dorothy, da. of Thomas Millot of Whithill, Chester-le-Street, co. Dur.Whixley par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 277; Hutchinson, Co. Dur. ii. 416. m. Nov. 1625, Margaret, da. of Sir William Parsons, 1st bt. of Bellomont, Dublin, 1s. 2da.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 277-8; J. Lodge, Peerage of Ireland (1754), ii. 275; V. Treadwell, Buckingham and Ireland 1616-28: a Study in Anglo-Irish Politics (Dublin, 1998), 49. suc. fa. 1614.E134/14Jas1/Mich15; E. Hargrove, Hist. of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough (1789), 293. bur. 25 Dec. 1653 25 Dec. 1653.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 277.

Offices Held

att. ct. of wards, c.Sept. 1619–?CSP Ire. 1615–25, p. 261. Surveyor of Irish customs farm, Feb. 1623–?NAI, Clayton Mss: G. Villiers, duke of Buckingham to T. Stockdale of Dublin, 3 Feb. 1623; Treadwell, Buckingham and Ireland, 95. Dep. v.-adm. Munster, 1624–?Treadwell, Buckingham and Ireland, 99–100, 101. Clerk of treasury, clerk of pells and writer of tallies in receipt of exch. 25 May 1625–31 Aug. 1636.Rymer, Foedera, viii(2), 27; CSP Ire. 1669–70, pp. 346–7; Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, ii. 275, 343–4.

commr. subsidy, Yorks. (W. Riding) 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641.SR. J.p. 16 Aug. 1641-c.June 1642, by 1648–d.;C231/5, p. 475; News from Yorke (1642, 669 f. 6.44); Add. 29674, f. 148. liberties of Ripon 27 Nov. 1648–d.C231/6, p. 127. Commr. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, W. Riding 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;SR.; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653), 277 (E.1062.28). sequestration, W. Riding 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; E., N. Riding 3 Aug. 1643; Northern Assoc. W. Riding 20 June 1645.A. and O. Treas.-at-war, Northern Assoc. by July 1645–?SC6/CHASI/1190. Commr. taking accts. in northern cos. W. Riding 29 July 1645; militia, Yorks. 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. charitable uses, W. Riding 21 May 1650;C93/20/30. Yorks. 22 Apr. 1651;C93/21/1. Ripon 5 May 1653.C93/22/14.

capt./maj. of ft. (parlian.) by July 1643–?;Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer no. 26 (11–18 July 1643), 206 (E.61.1); Jones, ‘War in north’, 404. col. by Dec. 1645-aft. June 1648.CJ iv. 368b; HMC Portland, i. 455.

member, council of war, 2 Aug. 1643;CJ iii. 191b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 4 July 1650.CJ vi. 437a.

Parlimentarian

STOCKDALE, Thomas (1593-1653), of Bilton Park, Knaresborough, Yorks.

of Bilton Park, Yorks., Knaresborough.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

STOCKDALE, Thomas (1593-1653), of Bilton Park, Knaresborough, Yorks.

Will

20 Dec. 1651.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), WYL132/240.

Estates

his fa.’s main property, a farm in Green Hammerton on long lease from Henry 3rd earl of Northumberland, was worth c.£40 p.a. above the rent, and his personal estate was valued at £225 at his d. in 1614.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 33, f. 397; E134/14Jas1/Mich15. In 1631, Stockdale purchased Bilton Park, nr. Knaresborough, for £1,880 – a property worth at least £100 p.a.C54/2879/31; W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), WYL132/16-20. In 1634, Peter and Henry Benson* sold to Stockdale rectory and parsonage of Farnham, Yorks. with all tithes, glebelands and appurtenannce belonging in Arkendale, Farnham, Ferrensby, Loftus and Scotton; a further sale of lands in Knaresborough was later disputed.Coventry Docquets, 657; C33//221, f. 748; C10/72/45. Estate bef. the civil war was worth c.£400 p.a. or more.Cliffe, Yorks. 359. In 1648, appears to have purchased manor of Green Hammerton from Algernon 4th earl of Northumberland.Alnwick, X.II.6, box 11, bundle g: Stockdale to Hugh Potter*, 30 Sept. 1648. In 1651-2, he and three others purchased manor of Knaresborough for £2,680 and royalties in the forest of Knaresborough for £240.E121/5/5/19. At his d. estate inc. lands in Bilton, manor of Green Hammerton and rectory of Farnham.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), WYL132/240, 257.

Oxford 1644

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