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b. 1585 /6, o. surv. s. of Robert Conyers, Grocer of London and Blanche, sis. and h. of Dunstan Duck of Putney, Surr. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiv), 649; Essex RO, D/DW/T1/3. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1602; M. Temple 1605, called 1611 (sworn 1614). Al. Cant.; M. Temple Admiss.; MTR, ii. 453, 563, 576. m. (1) c.1 June 1616, Mary, da. of Francis Hervey†, sjt.-at-law, of Hardingstone, Northants. and the M. Temple, j.c.p. 1624-32, at least 2s. 2da.; P. Morant, Essex, i. 49; Vis. Essex, 649; C142/387/123. (2) by 1640, Dorothy, da. of (Sir) William Beecher† of Fotheringhay, Northants. and Renhold, Beds. 5s. (4 d.v.p.) 5da. (2 d.v.p.). PROB 11/185, f. 317v; Vis. Essex, 649. suc. uncle Tristram Conyers 1620. C142/387/123. d. 1659, aged 73. Monumental Inscriptions (Walthamstow Antiq. Soc. xxvii), 15-16. sig. W[illia]m Conyers.
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Freeman, Scarborough, Yorks. 1614; Scarborough Recs. ed. M.Y. Ashcroft (N. Yorks. RO, xlvii), 58. j.p. Northants. by 1625 – 31, Essex 1630 – c.53, 1654–d.; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 3, p. 12; C231/5, pp. 42, 69; C193/13/4, f. 35v (crossed out); 193/13/5, f. 39; 193/13/6, f. 32v. commr. sewers, Thames estuary 1631 – at least44, Lea valley 1645, oyer and terminer, Home circ. by 1640-at least 1645.C181/4, ff. 76, 137; 181/5, ff. 178v, 183v, 227, 237v, 245, 252v, 254.

Bencher, M. Temple 1630 – 48, reader 1631, treas. 1638–9; MTR, ii. 773, 776, 873. For notes on Conyers’s reading, see CUL, Dd.v.51, ff. 6–8. sjt.-at-law 1648; Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 188. judge of assize, Norf. circ. 1654. J.S. Cockburn, Hist. Eng. Assizes, 274, 287.

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CONYERS, William (1585/6-1659), of Hoe Street, Walthamstow, Essex; Hardingstone, Northants. and the Middle Temple, London
Main residences: Hoe Street, Walthamstow, Essex and Hardingstone, Northants. and the Middle Temple, London.
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CONYERS, William (1585/6-1659)

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