WHITE, William (1606-c.1661), of Bashall, Mitton, and Bishopthorpe, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. 16 Feb. 1606, 1st s. of William White of Duffield, Derbys., and 2nd w. Sarah, da. of Matthew Cradock of Staffs.Duffield par. reg.; The Genealogist, n.s. viii. 178. educ. I. Temple 27 Feb. 1647.I. Temple database. m. (1) c.1629, Margaret (bur. 15 Apr. 1648), da. and coh. of Thomas Talbot of Bashall, s.p.;Chetham’s Lib., A.3.90 (Letter bk. of Raphe Assheton), f. 4; ‘Paver’s marr. lics.’ ed. J.W. Clay, YAJ xx. 89. (2) 14 Aug. 1649 (with £2,500), Frances, da. of Sir Edward Barkham, 1st bt.†, of Tottenham, Mdx., s.p.All Hallows, Tottenham par. reg.; Add. Ch. 19546. suc. fa. 18 Oct. 1619.C142/379/20; WARD7/60/190. d. 6 Sept. 1660 /28 Nov. 1661.Borthwick, Wills in York Registry, Prerogative wills, Sept. 1662.

Offices Held

out-bailiff, Clitheroe 1638 – 39; out-burgess by 1639–?d.W.S. Weeks, Clitheroe in the Seventeenth Century, 231. Freeman, Preston by Sept. 1642–d.Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 118.

j.p. Yorks. (W. Riding) 9 Oct. 1638–?c.June 1642, 23 Aug. 1644-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/5, p. 311; C231/6, p. 6; Add. 29699, f. 6; Belvoir, PZ.1, f. 48; News from Yorke (1642, 669 f.6.44). Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 14 May 1649, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Jan. 1660; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 1 June 1660; York 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 1 June 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, W. Riding 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; militia, Yorks. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; York. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. charitable uses, W. Riding 21 May 1650;C93/20/30. Yorks. 22 Apr. 1651;C93/21/13. inquiry concerning church livings, c.May 1650;W. Yorks. Archives Service (Wakefield), C413. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 18, 376. sewers, E. Riding 22 June 1654–12 Jan. 1657;C181/6, p. 46. York and Ainsty 13 Dec. 1658.C181/6, p. 331.

clerk of assize, Oxf. circ. 11 July 1643-aft. Mar. 1646.CJ iii. 161b; LJ vi. 129b-130a; Eg. 2978, f. 85; Bodl. Nalson XIV, f. 224v.

col. of ft. (parlian.) by 21 Apr. 1644-July 1645.SP28/41, f. 429; CSP Dom. 1644, p. 130; Jones, ‘War in north’, 406–7.

commr. to the army, 12 June-c.26 July 1647.CJ v. 209a; LJ ix. 262a. Member, cttee. of navy and customs by 8 Sept. 1647, 29 May 1649;CJ v. 296b; vi. 219b. cttee. for excise, 5 Jan. 1648, 29 May 1649.CJ v. 419b; vi. 219b; LJ ix. 639b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648, 20 June 1649;A. and O. arrears of revenue, 26 May 1659;CJ vii. 667a. customs/excise, 28 Sept. 1659, 27 Dec. 1659, 7 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 31 Dec. 1659.CJ vii. 800b.

Parlimentarian

WHITE, William (1606-c.61), of Bashall, Mitton, Yorks.

of Bashall, Mitton and Bishopthorpe, Yorks.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WHITE, William (1606-c.1661), of Bashall, Mitton, and Bishopthorpe, Yorks.

Will

6 Sept. 1660, pr. 3 Sept. 1662.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 45, f. 125.

Estates

in 1619, inherited a capital messuage in Chaddesden and lands in Spondon and Duffield, Derbys.C142/379/20. In 1639, purchased a moiety of manor of Bashall for £3,800.WARD9/575, p. 121. In 1645, estate worth about £640 p.a.CCAM 827. By 1645, leasing a house in Covent Garden worth £20 p.a.Add. 21417, f. 2v; Stowe 1058, f. 85v. In 1648, purchased from trustees for the sale of church lands manor of Bishopthorpe, Yorks. for £525; in 1649, purchased manor and grange of Beckley, Yorksfor £626.Col. Top. et Gen. i. 6, 125. In 1649, purchased Nunn Ings, worth £60 p.a., and ‘Campleshon’s farm’, Yorks.Add. 21417, f. 162; Add. 21418, f. 42. In 1651-2, purchased, for £3,148, fee farm rents in Yorks. worth £245 p.a.C54/3655/28; SP28/288, ff. 48, 56. At his d. estate inc. manor and capital messuage of Bashall, lands, tenemenents, mills, tithes etc. in Bashall worth at least £500 p.a. and manor of Bishopthorpe, Nunn Field and Nunn Ings.Add. Ch. 19546; CRES6/1, p. 189; Borthwick, Wills in York Registry, Prerogative wills, Sept. 1662.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Whitehall (July, Aug. 1659, Feb. 1660).CSP Dom. 1659-60, pp. 27, 94, 348.

Religion

presented Conyers Rutter to rectory of Bishopthorpe, Yorks. 1653.Add. 36792, f. 71v.

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