COCKAYNE, Charles (1602-1661), of Cockayne House, Broad Street, London and Rushton Hall, Northants.

Family and Education

b. 4 July 1602, 2nd but o. surv. s. of Sir William Cockayne, Skinner, of Broad Street, London, ld. mayor 1619-20, and Mary, da. of Richard Morris, Ironmonger, of Eastcheap, London. educ. I. Temple 1623. m. 24 June 1627, Mary (bur. 31 May 1686), da. and coh. of Henry O’Brien, 5th earl of Thomond [I], 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 1da. d.v.p. suc. fa. 1626; cr. Visct. Cullen [I] 11 Aug. 1642. d. 19 June 1661.G.E. Cokayne, Some Acct. of Ld. Mayors and Sheriffs of City of London, 83-89; I. Temple Admiss.; A.E. Cockayne, Cockayne Memoranda (1873), pp. 44, 48; CP, iii. 561-2.

Offices Held

Butler, Christmas feast, I. Temple 1626, 1628, 1637, 1640 – 41, 1650 – 51, 1655, steward 1652 – 54, 1660. CITR, ii. 157, 170, 236, 257, 263, 294, 300, 303, 307, 310, 316, 335.

Farmer of the customs (jt.) 1627–9; CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 415. ?servant to Charles I by 1642. CCC, 1383.

Sheriff, Northants. Jan.-Oct. 1636; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 94. verderer of Rockingham forest, Northants. by 1638–?; CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 104. dep. lt., Northants. by 1639-at least 1640; HMC Montagu, 122; SP16/468/19. gov. of Rothwell hosp., Northants. by 1640; CSP Dom. 1640–1, p. 383. commr. oyer and terminer, Northants. 1640, C181/5, f. 182v. array 1642, HMC Montagu, 156. j.p. 1643. Northants. RO, FH3017.

Parlimentarian

COCKAYNE, Charles (1602-1661), of Cockayne House, Broad Street, London and Rushton Hall, Northants.

Main residences: Cockayne House, Broad Street, London; Rushton Hall, Northants.

Author

A.D.

B.C.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

COCKAYNE, Charles (1602-1661)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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