AMYCE, Roger (c.1515-74), of Wakes Colne, Essex.

Family and Education

b. c. 1515, s. of John Amyce of Som. m. (1) by 1548, Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Lawson of York, wid. of William Rigby (d. by Feb. 1533), 2s. inc. Israel, 2da.; (2) Margaret, wid. of Richard Forsett (d.1561) of London and St. Marylebone, Mdx.Aged ‘about 50’ in 1565, Req. 2/176/30. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 19; LP Hen. VIII, vi; VCH Essex, v. 197; PCC 32 Martyn.

Offices Held

Servant of Cromwell by 1538; gen.-receiver, Glastonbury and Reading abbey lands 1540 – 47; surveyor, ct. augmentations Berks. 1547–54. Exchequer 1554–67, Windsor castle temp. Mary; alderman, New Windsor by 1553; gov., Christ’s Hospital, Abingdon 1553, master 1566; commr. enclosures, Berks., Oxon. and other counties, chantries Berks. and Hants 1548; j.p. Essex 1561–d.M. L. Robertson, ‘Cromwell’s servants’ (Univ. California Los Angeles Ph.D. thesis, 1975), 439; LP Hen. VIII, xiii, xv; E315/218, f. 59; Stowe 571, f. 11; Bodl. Ashmole 1125, ff. 66 seq.; 1126, f. 36v; A. E. Preston, Christ’s Hospital, Abingdon, 27–28, 44; CPR, 1547–8, p. 419; 1548–9, p. 136; 1553. p. 142; 1560–3, p. 437; 1566–9, p. 77; CSP Dom. 1547–80, p. 295.

Parlimentarian

AMYCE, Roger (c.1515-74), of Wakes Colne, Essex.

Main residence: Wakes Colne, Essex.

Author

T.F.T.B.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

AMYCE, Roger (c.1515-74)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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