GARDNER, Samuel (1594-1660), of All Saints, Evesham, Worcs.

Family and Education

bap. 28 Mar. 1594, 4th surv. s. of Philip Gardner (bur. 4 Feb. 1617) and 2nd w. Jane (bur. 24 Apr. 1619). m. ?15 Apr. 1618, Mary Bennett of Offenham, 3s. bur. 5 May 1660.All Saints, Evesham par. reg.; Worcs. Archives, will 1618/153 (Philip Gardner); Phillimore, Worcs. Mar. Regs. i. 97.

Offices Held

asst. burgess, Evesham 23 Sept. 1617; capital burgess and coroner, 26 Mar. 1625; mayor, 4 Oct. 1625, 1 Oct. 1633, 30 Aug. 1642 – 25 Aug. 1643; alderman, 26 Aug. 1645 (elected), 25 Aug. 1646 (sworn); sen. alderman, 28 Aug. 1657–d. J.p. 1 July 1653–d. Gov. g.s. 2 Jan.1657.Evesham Borough Records of the Seventeenth Century ed. S.K. Roberts (Worcs. Hist. Soc. n.s. xiv), 18, 25, 26, 34, 42, 43, 44, 49, 53, 54, 61.

capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of 2nd Lord Brooke, 21 Jan.-15 May 1643. Capt. of horse, regt. of Sir Arthur Hesilrige*, army of Sir William Waller*, 15 May 1643–2 Apr. 1645.SP28/147 pt. 3 f. 559; E315/5.

commr. for Worcester, 23 Sept. 1644; assessment, Worcs. 18 Oct. 1644, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 24 Nov. 1653;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

GARDNER, Samuel (1594-1660), of All Saints, Evesham, Worcs.

Worcs., Evesham.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GARDNER, Samuel (1594-1660), of All Saints, Evesham, Worcs.

Will

admon. 1660.PROB6/36, f. 50.

Estates

co-purchaser 16 Aug. 1648, parcel of manor of Kempsey, confiscated from bp. Worcester, for £75 12s. 6d.Bodl. Rawl. B.236, p. 15. Said to have an income of £275 p.a. in the 1650s.S.K. Roberts, ‘The Quakers in Evesham 1655-1660: A Study in Religion, Politics and Culture’, MH xiv. 81.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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