MERES, Thomas (1634-1715), of The Close, Lincoln and Southampton Square, Bloomsbury, Mdx.

Commr. for assessment, Lincs. Jan. 1660, 1661 – 63, 1664 – 80, 1689, (Lindsey and Lincoln) Aug. 1660–1, 1663 – 64, Westminster 1633 – 80, Essex, Leics. and London 1679 – 80, militia, Lincs. Mar. 1660; j.p. Lindsey Mar. 1660 – Feb. 1688, Holland Mar. – July 1660, 1681 – Feb. 1688, Kesteven July 1660 – Feb. 1688, Lindsey and Kesteven ? Oct. 1688 – d.; commr. for sewers, Hatfield chase Aug. 1660, oyer and terminer, Lincoln 1661, loyal and indigent officers, Lincs. 1663, corporations 1662 – 63, complaints, Bedford level 1663, enclosures, Deeping fen 1665; dep. lt. Lincs. 1670 – ?87, 1691–?d., commr. for concealments 1671, recusants 1675, capt. of militia ft. by 1680; freeman, Portsmouth 1681.Kesteven Q. Sess. Mins. (Lincs. Rec. Soc. xxv), cxlii; HMC Portland, iii. 406; C181/7/20; CSP Dom. 1690–1; p. 441; J. W. F. Hill, Tudor and Stuart Lincoln, 173, 184–5; Cal. Treas. Bks. iii. 912; R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 365.

Commr. for maimed soldiers Sept. 1660–1; chairman, committee of elections and privileges 8 Feb. 1673 – 30 Dec. 1678, 19 Mar. – 27 May 1679; ld. of Admiralty 1679 – 84; commr. for rebuilding St. Paul’s 1692 – d., land bank subscriptions 1699.CJ, viii. 213; ix. 260, 572; xii. 508; HMC Ormonde, n.s. v. 9; CSP Dom. 1691–2, p. 267; HMC Downshire, i. 893–4.