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1st s. of Thomas Elvines of Worcester. m. Susanna (bur. 18 May 1663), 3s. (1.d.v.p.), 7 da.(4 d.v.p.). suc. fa. by Mar. 1610. bur. 8 Apr. 1665 8 Apr. 1665.St Nicholas, Worcester, par. reg.; Worcs. Archives, consistory ct. admin. 1609/166, Thomas Elvins, 8 Mar. 1610.
Offices Held

constable, St Nicholas ward, Worcester 1613 – 14, 1619 – 20, 1622–3. 1627 – 12 June 1645Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 123, 160, 180. Member, forty-eight, Worcester, 6 Aug. 1646–14 Sept. 1660;Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, shelf 18, box 4, town clerk’s bk. unfol.; shelf A14, chamber order bk. 1650–68, f. 38; Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 395, 414–5. auditor, 1633, Oct. 1653;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 277; shelf A14, chamber order bk. 1650–68, f. 12. collector of poor rate, St Nicholas ward 1632 – 33, 1638, May 1642-Jan. 1643;Worcs. Archives, 850/BA 3696/1, St Nicholas poor bk. 1632–50, unfol. rates assessor, 1633; city chamberlain, 1635–6;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 280, 295. collector for defence of city, 25 Aug. 1642;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 355. sheriff, 6 Aug. 1646; mayor and judge of orphans, 31 Aug. 1646, Sept. 1651. J.p. 31 Aug. 1646 – ?60; high alderman, 30 Aug. 1647, 22 Mar. 1650. 1647 – ?60Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 414–15, 416, 417, 435, 454; Nash, Collections, ii. app. cxiii. Member, twenty-four, 28 Aug. 1646–14 Sept. 1660. 1647 – ?60Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 416; Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A14, chamber order bk. 1650–68, f. 38. Gov. free sch. and almshouses, by 13 June; treas. 17 June 1649–50.Worcs. Archives, b261.1/BA 3617 ff. 116–18. Member, cttee. to approve master of storehouse, 7 Dec. 1649.Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 456. Surveyor, city lands, 8 Oct. 1655, 13 Oct. 1656.Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A14, chamber order bk. 1650–68 ff. 21, 26.

commr. sales of lead from Worcester Cathedral steeple, 18 Feb. 1648;Worcester Cathedral Lib. MS D247. militia, Worcester 2 Dec. 1648; Worcs. and Worcester 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. assessment, Worcs. 7 Apr., 7 Dec.1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Sub-commr. excise, Worcester 25 Feb. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 12; Bodl. Rawl. C386, 10 May 1650. Commr. charitable uses, Worcs. 5 Mar. 1652;C93/22/10. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

gov. Worcester Sept. 1651.P. Styles, ‘City of Worcester during the Civil Wars, 1640–60’, Studies in Seventeenth Century West Midlands History (Kineton, 1978), 251.

Parlimentarian
ELVINES, Edward (d. 1665), of St Nicholas parish, Worcester.
of St Nicholas parish, Worcester.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ELVINES, Edward (d. 1665), of St Nicholas parish, Worcester.

Will
29 Oct. 1664, pr. 3 May, 1665.Worcs. Archives, consistory ct. wills, Edward Elvines.
Estates
lessee of Lower Pitchcroft meadow, Worcester, from chamber of Worcester, 1636;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 305. (with Robert Sterrop) bought confiscated fee farm rent of rectory of Powick, Worcs. for £110, 10 Dec. 1650;E308/7 pt. 2, vol. fol. 252-434 ff. 298v, 307. lessee of tavern in Broad St., Worcester, property of bp. of Worcester, 1661;Worcs. Archives, b009:1/BA 2636/40/3/43801. held messuages in High St. and Broad St. at death.Worcs. Archives, consistory ct. wills, Edward Elvines, 1665.
Oxford 1644
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