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Family and Education
b. c. 1616, 1st s. of Sir William Masham* and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Francis Barrington† of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex.Vis. Essex ed. Howard, 445. educ. St Catharine’s, Camb. Mich. 1633;Al. Cant. L. Inn 15 June 1635.LI Admiss. i. 227. m. c.1640, Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Trevor*.The Glynde Place Archives, ed. R.F. Dell (Lewes, 1964), 53, 58; Burke Dorm. and Extinct Baronetcies, 343. d. bef. 15 Jan. 1655.CJ vii. 415b.
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commr. assessment, Essex 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653; Mdx., Westminster 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). loans on Propositions, Ongar hundred, Essex July 1642;LJ v. 203b. sequestration, Essex 27 Mar. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, Essex 24 Feb. 1644, 28 Aug. 1654;‘The royalist clergy of Lincs.’ ed. J.W.F. Hill, Lincs. Archit. and Arch. Soc. ii. 120; A. and O. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O. J.p. by Feb. 1650–d.C193/13/3, f. 24v. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Essex and Colchester 5 Oct. 1653;A. and O. sewers, Mdx. 31 Jan. 1654;C181/6, p. 5. oyer and terminer, Home circ. by Feb. 1654–d.C181/6, pp. 13, 59.

member, cttee. for Westminster Abbey and Coll. 2 Apr. 1649.CJ vi. 178a. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 219b. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650;CJ vi. 388b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 4 July 1650.CJ vi. 437a. Cllr. of state, 25 Nov. 1651.CJ vii. 42b. Commr. treasury, 2 Aug. 1654–d.CSP Dom. 1654, p. 284.

Parlimentarian
MASHAM, William (c.1616-by 1655), of Otes, High Laver, Essex.
Essex., High Laver.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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MASHAM, William (c.1616-by 1655), of Otes, High Laver, Essex.

Will
not found.
Estates
granted lands at Allington, Denb. to his use by Sir John Trevor*, in advance of marriage of John Trevor* and Ruth, da. of John Hampden*, 1648.Glynde Place Archives, ed. Dell, 66-7.
Oxford 1644
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