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CULLEN, William (1605-78), of Dover, Kent.

Family and Education
bap. 22 Sept. 1605, 2nd s. of Thomas Cullen (d. c.Sept. 1645) of Northbourne, Kent and Julian, da. of Thomas Harvie of Folkestone.Northbourne par. reg.; Cant. Cathedral Archives, PRC16/245/605. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. Easter 1621; BA 1626; MA, 1629.Al. Cant. m. 15 Aug. 1640, Hannah Lovelace (1596-1676), wid. of Bartholemew Verplanken of St James, Dover, s.p.Canterbury Mar. Lics. 1619-1660, col. 259; Sandwich St Clement par. reg. bur. 18 Apr. 1678 18 Apr. 1678.Dover St James par. reg.
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Civic: common councilman, Dover 11 Sept. 1648; jurat, 11 Sept. 1648;Eg. 2096, ff. 157v-8. freeman, 18 Sept. 1648;Add. 29625, f. 80v. overseer of the Bridewell, 16 Sept. 1650; mayor, Sept. 1651, Sept. 1652, Sept. 1658. Bailiff to Cinque Ports, 4 July 1656. Master of almshouse, Dover 14 Sept. 1657.Eg. 2096, ff. 166v, 168, 173v, 188–9, 195, 198v.

Military: capt. militia ft. Kent 22 Aug. 1650–1660.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 510; 1659–60, pp. 71, 77; A Perfect List (1660), 24. Dep. lt. Dover Castle, Jan.-Apr. 1660.CSP Dom. 1659–60, pp. 302, 310; Eg. 2119, f. 104.

Local: j.p. Kent 30 Sept. 1653–?, 15 July 1656–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 269, 343; C193/13/5, f. 54. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654; assessment, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; militia, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. for trade, 1 Nov. 1655.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 1. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

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CULLEN, William (1605-78), of Dover, Kent.

Will
not found.
Estates
freehold of a messuage in St James Street, Dover 1640-8.Add. 29625, f. 80v. Inherited a house in Sandwich, 1645.Canterbury Mar. Lics. 1568-1618, col. 116; Cant. Cathedral Archives, PRC16/245/605.
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TUFFNAYLE, Richard (?1598-1640), of Clapham, Surr.

Family and Education
bap. ?25 June 1598,St Andrew, Enfield, Mdx. par. reg. 2nd s. of Richard Tuffnayle (bur. 16 Apr. 1636), Salter, of St Sepulchre, London, and Monken Hadley, Mdx. and Mary, wid. of Robert Barber of St Sepulchre.St Mary the Virgin, Monken Hadley par. reg.; E.B. Tufnell, Family of Tuffnell (1924), 67; Marr. Lics. Bishop of London (Harl. Soc. xxv), 214. educ. appr. m. 1 July 1630,St John, Wapping par. reg. Elizabeth (bur. 19 Mar. 1661), da. of William Humphreys (d. 1633) of Southwark, wid. of Thomas Moore of Wickham and later wife of George Thomson* of Lee, Cambs. 2s, 3da.Tufnell, Fam. of Tuffnell, 9; F.W. Steer, Samuel Tufnell of Langleys (1960), 2; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiv), 721; PROB11/184/6. bur. 18 Aug. 1640 18 Aug. 1640.St Olave, Bermondsey, Southwark par. reg.; Tufnell, Fam. of Tuffnell, 9.
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Mercantile: member, New England Co. 1629; Massachusetts Bay Co. 1630. bef. Oct. 1631F. Rose Troup, Massachusetts Bay Co. 20, 62. Freeman, Salters’ Co.; Brewers’ Co. 11 Oct. 1631.Tufnell, Fam. of Tuffnell, 8.

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TUFFNAYLE, Richard (?1598-1640), of Clapham, Surr.

Will
9 Aug., pr. 1 Sept. 1640.PROB11/184/6.
Estates
in 1634, copyhold estate in Barnsbury manor, inc. a messuage and close of 3 acres;Tufnell, Fam. of Tuffnell, 8. 1634, two tenements in Monken Hadley; 23 Apr. 1636, with Richard Bates, Cutler, ‘The Bolt and Tun’, Cornhill, and messuage in par. of St Martin, Ludgate, London;Steer, Tufnell of Langleys, 3. at d. houses and land at Clapham, Surr., Highgate and Islington, Mdx. and Deptford, Kent.PROB11/184/6.
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FOXWIST, William (?1610-73), of Caernarfon, Caern. and St Albans, Herts.

Family and Education
b. c. 1610, 3rd but 1st surv. s. of Richard Foxwist of Caernarfon and Ellen, da. of Capt. William Thomas of Aber, Caern.W.H. Jones, Brief Account of William Foxwist (1896), 12; Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams., 354. educ. Jesus, Oxf. 25 Jan. 1628, ‘aged 17’; L. Inn 14 Feb. 1629.Al. Ox.; LI Admiss. m. Mary, da. of John Pemberton of St Albans, Herts. s.p. suc. fa. 27 Dec. 1615.Jones, Brief Account, 12; Vis. Herts. 1572, 1634 (Harl. Soc. xxii), 81. d. betw. 25 Mar.-14 Dec. 1673.PROB11/343, f. 320v.
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Legal: called, L. Inn 17 May 1636;LI Black Bks. ii. 339. bencher, 16 Nov. 1648–73.LI Black Bks. ii. 379. Second justice, Brec. circ. 13 July 1655–9; Chester circ. 14 Mar.-Aug 1660.CJ vii. 876a; Williams, Hist. Gt. Sessions in Wales, 61, 137.

Local: j.p. St Albans borough and liberty 3 Aug. 1644, 15 July 1656–18 Sept. 1660;C181/5, ff. 241, 241v; C181/6, pp. 180, 181, 317, 397; C231/6, p. 8. Caern. 25 July 1650-bef. Oct. 1660;Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 31–3. Herts. 8 Apr. 1651-bef. Oct. 1660;C231/6, p. 212. Brec., Glam., Rad. 30 Aug. 1655–?Mar. 1660.Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 273, 302, 335. Commr. oyer and terminer, St Albans borough 3 Aug. 1644, 15 July 1656-aft. May 1658;C181/5, f. 241v; C181/6, pp. 179, 290. St Albans liberty 3 Aug. 1644, 15 July 1656-aft. Oct. 1659.C181/5, f. 241; C181/6, pp. 181, 397. Judge, v.-admlty. N. Wales 23 June 1646.LJ viii. 398b. Commr. assessment, St Albans 23 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Herts. 23 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Caern. 23 June 1647, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Commr. associated cos. of N. Wales, Caern. 21 Aug. 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648; Herts. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; N. Wales 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Civic: steward, St Albans 17 Dec. 1644 – ?61; recorder, 1 June 1645–25 Jan. 1661.A.E. Gibbs, Corporation Recs. of St Albans (St Albans, 1890), 72, 76.

Central: commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

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FOXWIST, William (?1610-73), of Caernarfon, Caern. and St Albans, Herts.

Will
25 Mar. 1673, pr. 14 Dec. 1673.PROB11/343, f. 320v.
Estates
at d. property in Caernarfon called Trefan; messuage in High St, Caernarfon; dwelling house and other properties in St Albans.PROB11/343, f. 320v.
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Foxwist, John Glynne* and Griffith Bodurda* presented Laurence Fogg to rectory of Hawarden, Flint, 30 Oct. 1657.LPL, COMM/2/335.
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SANDYS, William (1606-69), of Fladbury, Worcs. and Axe Yard, King St., Westminster

Family and Education
bap. 20 July 1606, 2nd s. of Sir William Sandys (d. 1641) of Fladbury and Miserden, Glos. and 2nd w. Margaret, da. and h. of Walter Culpeper of Handborough, Oxon.; bro. of Sir Miles Sandys†.Fladbury par. reg.; Nash, Collections, i. 447; Add. 34307, f. 4v. educ. Gloucester Hall, Oxf. 13 June 1623; M. Temple 1626.Al. Ox.; MTR ii. 706. m. lic. 24 Apr. 1633, Cecily, da. of Sir John Stede of Stede Hill, Harrietsham, Kent, 2s. 1da. d. c. Dec. 1669.London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 1184; CJ ix. 112a; HP Commons 1660-1690, ‘William Sandys’.
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Civic: freeman, asst., capital burgess, j.p. Evesham 26 Sept. 1638 – 1 Oct. 1658; alderman, 26 Sept. 1638 – 1 Oct. 1658, 19 Oct. 1660–d.Evesham Borough Records of the Seventeenth Century ed. S.K. Roberts (Worcs. Hist. Soc. n.s. xiv), 38, 57, 78.

Local: j.p. Worcs. 10 July 1639 – ?42, by Oct. 1660–d.C231/5 p. 348; C220/9/4. Dep. lt. by 1642–?HEHL, Ellesmere 7443. Commr. assessment, 1661, 1664; Mdx., Westminster 1661; loyal and indigent officers, Worcs. 1662; subsidy, Worcs., Evesham 1663.SR.

Court: servt. to queen by 1648. 1653 – June 1660HMC Pepys, 214. Gent. usher of privy chamber; gent. pens. extraordinary 1661–d.Badminton House, Badminton Fm H2/4/1.

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SANDYS, William (1606-69), of Fladbury, Worcs. and Axe Yard, King St., Westminster

Will
not found.
Estates
Lessee, Fladbury manor, Worcs. from bp. of Worcester, 1633-48, 1660-d.? Askham manor, Notts. from archbp. of York, by 1641.Worcs. Archives, 009:1/BA 2636/4/23399 f. 142; PA, Main Pprs. 15 June 1641. Bailiff, Oswaldslow, Pershore hundreds, Worcs. 1636;CSP Dom. 1636-7, p. 203. joint grantee, 12d per chaldron on coal, for 7 years at £10,000, 16 Mar., 4 Aug. 1638-Feb. 1639.Coventry Docquets, 232, 233.
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LILBURNE, Thomas (1622-65), of Offerton, Houghton-le-Spring, co. Dur.

Family and Education
bap. 13 Jan. 1622, 1st s. of George Lilburne* and 1st w. Isabel.Bishopwearmouth St. Michael and All Angels par. reg. educ. appr. mercer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1 May 1637.Tyne and Wear Archives, GU.MA/3/3, Order Bk. of Newcastle Merchant Adventurers’ Co., f. 123. m. 30 July 1646, Margaret (bur. 6 Sept. 1665), da. of Ralph Bailes of Aycliffe, co. Dur., wid. of George Scurfield of Bishop Middleham, co. Dur., 1s. d.v.p. 1da. d.v.p. Brancepeth, co. Dur. par. reg.; Aycliffe par. reg.; Houghton-le-Spring par. reg.; Durham UL, DPR/I/1/1665/L9/1-2. bur. 25 Mar. 1665 25 Mar. 1665.Houghton-le-Spring par. reg.
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Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), 25 May 1644 – May 1659, 8- 25 Feb. 1660, July- 15 Nov. 1660; maj. 25 Feb.-July 1660.SP28/138, pt. 6, ff. 1–6; Add. 21422, f. 127; CJ vii. 669a; HMC Leyborne-Popham, 56–7; CSP Dom. 1650, p. 262; CCC 540; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 264–74, 276; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army, ii. 113, 172–3; Jones, ‘War in north’, 391.

Mercantile: member, Merchant Adventurers’ Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 20 Nov. 1645–d.;Tyne and Wear Archives, GU.MA/3/3, Order Bk. of Newcastle Merchant Adventurers’ Co., f. 27v. Hostmen’s Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 20 Jan. 1659–d.Extracts from the Recs. of the Co. of Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ed. F.W. Dendy (Surt. Soc. cv), 116.

Civic: freeman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 27 May 1647–d.Reg. of Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne ed. M.H. Dodds (Newcastle upon Tyne Recs. Cttee. iii), 32, 59.

Local: commr. militia, co. Dur. 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660; Cumb. 12 Mar. 1660;SP25/76A, f. 15v; A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, co. Dur. by Mar. 1656.TSP iv. 541. Recvr. subscriptions, Durham Univ. 12 Apr. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 262. J.p. co. Dur. 25 July 1656 – bef.Oct. 1660; Cumb. 1 Aug. 1656-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 346. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, co. Dur. 13 Sept. 1656.SP25/77, p. 321. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Commr. assessment, co. Dur., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Westmld. 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). poll tax, co. Dur. 1660.SR.

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LILBURNE, Thomas (1622-65), of Offerton, Houghton-le-Spring, co. Dur.

Will
26 Jan. 1659, pr. 31 Mar. 1665.Durham UL, DPR/I/1/1665/L9/1-2.
Estates
fa. settled a third part of manor of Offerton, including the capital messuage, upon him.Summers, Sunderland, i. 346. In 1650-2, Lilburne was among several groups of soldiers who purchased from the trustees for the sale of crown lands the leaseholds of manor of Epworth, Lincs., for £4,612 13s, and of honor of Bolingbroke and manor of Alkborough and Edlington, Lincs., for £2,325 7s; the East Park of Buckholt, Hants, for £946 10s; and the manor of Holme Cultram, Cumb., for £10,320 18s.E121/1/7/57; E121/3/3/23-4; E121/5/7/27; I. Gentles, ‘The Debentures Market and Military Purchases of Crown Land, 1649-60’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 308. Lilburne and his associates sold most of these properties, but he retained until his d. rents of manor of Holme Cultram, worth at least £230 p.a.CRES6/1, pp. 11, 232; LR2/266, f. 76; Add. 21422, f. 127; CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 530; 1661-2, p. 399; 1663-4, pp. 196, 360; 1668-9, p. 641; Gentles, ‘Debentures Market’, 308. In 1650 he purchased from Col. Robert Lilburne* a sixth part of lordship of Bear Park, near Durham.Durham Univ. Lib. DPR/I/1/1665/L9/1-2. In 1655 he purchased one fee farm rent in Cumb. for £78.SP28/288, f. 63. In 1656 he purchased from his father a fourth part of a colliery in West Rainton, co. Dur., for £237.C54/3899/10. At his d. estate inc. lands, tenements and rents in Bear Park, Bradbury, Helmington Row, Offerton and West Rainton, co. Dur., and in Holme Cultram, Cumb.Durham UL, DPR/I/1/1665/L9/1-2.
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HELY, James (1617-94), of Castle Street, Salisbury.

Family and Education
bap. 26 Feb. 1617, s. of James Heely of St Edmund and St Thomas, Salisbury, and ?Joan. m. 17 May 1641, Jane (bap. 21 Sept. 1617), da. of Richard Helliar or Hellyard of Alderbury, Wilts. at least 2s. 2da. bur. 18 Apr. 1694 18 Apr. 1694.St Edmund, Salisbury, St Thomas, Salisbury, and St Lawrence, Alderbury, par. regs.
Offices Held

Military: ?soldier (parlian), ?1642–?Bodl. Rawl. A.36, f. 437. Cornet, coy. of William Ludlowe*, Langford Castle garrison bef. 4 May 1646.CJ iv. 534a; Hoare, Hist. Wilts. iii (South Damerham etc.), 34; Ludlow, Mems. i. 117, 124. Officer, militia Wilts. 1655;HMC Var. i. 131. maj. 1659.A. and O.

Civic: one of the forty-eight, Salisbury 1645.Wilts. RO, G23/1/3, f. 16v. Steward of the workhouse, 1652.Wilts. RO, G23/1/3, f. 70. Alderman-elect, 1659–62.Wilts. RO, G23/1/3, ff. 116v, 134v.

Local: assessment, Wilts. 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Salisbury 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, Wilts. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth by Dec. 1655.TSP iv. 295. J.p. 26 Feb. 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 359; C193/13/5, f. 117v; Wilts. RO, A1/160/2, pp. 153, 165. Commr. militia, 26 July 1659.A. and O. Warden, Heytesbury Hosp. Wilts. 1660–?aft. 1668.VCH Wilts. iii. 340; Wilts. RO, 251/24.

Central: commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

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HELY, James (1617-94), of Castle Street, Salisbury.

Will
28 Mar. 1694.Wilts. RO, P4/1694/15.
Estates
assessed for land worth £1 in Market Ward, Salisbury, 1649;Wilts. RO, G23/1/175, f. 5. offered £260 for land of Lord Arundel, 1646;CCC 3270. living in Castle Street, Salisbury, 1665.CSP Dom. 1664-5, p. 581.
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RIVETT, Francis (c.1596-1669), of Kings Somborne, Hants.

Family and Education
b. c. 1596, 4th s. of William Rivett of Kings Newton, Derbys.M. Temple Admiss. i. 109; Hants RO, 1669A85/1. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 29 May 1612, BA 1616;Al. Cant. M. Temple, 16 July 1619, called 24 Nov. 1626.M. Temple Admiss. i. 109; MTR ii. 639, 714. m. 1 July 1634, Elizabeth (d. 1669), da. of Thomas Bewley, Draper of St Olave, Hart Street, London, 3da. (1 d.v.p.).Reg. of St Olave Hart Street (Cam. Soc. xlvi), 45, 168, 177, 266; Hants RO, 1669A84/1. d. 16 Apr. 1669.Som. and Dorset N. and Q. iv. 218.
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Local: commr. sewers, River Kennet, Berks. and Hants 16 July 1633;C181/4, f. 148. assessment, Hants 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Apr. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664.SR; A. and O.; Act for an Assessment (1653), 296 (E.1062.28); Ordinance for Assessment (1660), 50 (E.1075.6). Member, cttee. for Hants, 23 July 1642.LJ v. 233b-234a. Commr. defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; commr. for Hants, assoc. of Hants., Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644; levying of money, Hants 10 June 1645.A. and O. Master, St Nicholas Hosp. Salisbury May 1647–56.VCH Wilts. iii. 352; HMC 6th Rep. 178; C. Wordsworth, St Nicholas’ Hospital Salisbury (1902), pp. lxxvii, lxxxiv. J.p. Wilts. 29 July 1647-bef. Oct. 1653;C231/6, p. 95; C193/13/3, f. 69v; C193/13/4, f. 110; The Names of the Justices (1650), 62 (E.1238.4); Stowe 577, f. 58v. Hants by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653, 23 Mar. 1654–?d.C231/6, pp. 286, 443; C193/13/3, f. 57; A Perfect List (1660), 49; C220/9/4, f. 77. Member, cttee. for Southampton, 19 Aug. 1648.LJ x. 447b. Commr. militia, Hants 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. poll tax, 1660.SR.

Religious: elder, fourth Hants classis, 19 Jan. 1645.King, Par. and Bor. Lymington, 262.

Household: steward to estate of Robert Wallop*, East Tytherley, Hants by 1649-at least 1652.Hants RO, 5M58/25–30.

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RIVETT, Francis (c.1596-1669), of Kings Somborne, Hants.

Will
5 Dec. 1668, pr. 27 Apr. 1669.Hants RO, 1669A85/1.
Estates
acquired manor of Hannington Lancelevy in Kingsclere, Hants, 1629-1630.Coventry Docquets, 590; C413/71; VCH Hants, iv. 259. Purchased manor of Kings Somborne, Hants, from Robert Wallop* in Jan. 1650, for £4,686.C54/3460/32; C54/3642/9; Hants Hearth Tax, 274. Purchased Manydown Manor from trustees for the sale of dean and chapter lands in 1650, on behalf of Sir Richard Kingsmill of I.o.W.Hants RO, 3M49/32.
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CHILD, John (1625-86), of London and Portsmouth, Hants

Family and Education
bap. 13 Feb. 1625, 1st s. of Richard Child, citizen and Weaver, of Fleet Street, London, and Elizabeth Roycroft of ?Wistanswick, Salop,GL, MS 7666, f. 63v. ?sis. of James Rycroft of St Dunstan, Stepney; bro. of Josiah Child*. ?appr. to Jeremiah Tawlke, Clothworker, Feb. 1641.Recs. of London’s Livery Cos. Online. m. (1) 30 Jan. 1654, Elizabeth Rumbriger;St Thomas, Portsmouth, par. reg. (2) Anne, da. of ?; at least 2s., 3da. in all.PROB11/385/124. suc. fa. May 1639.PROB11/180/269. d. betw. 30 Sept.-3 Nov. 1686.PROB11/385/124.
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Civic: burgess, Portsmouth 18 Oct. 1658.Portsmouth RO, CE 1/7, p. 105.

Local: commr. City of London militia, 7 July 1659.A. and O.

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CHILD, John (1625-86), of London and Portsmouth, Hants

Will
30 Sept., pr. 3 Nov. 1686.PROB11/385/124.
Estates
property in Portsmouth and Hurstborne Tarrant, Hants, 1665.Hants Hearth Tax Assessment, 1665, 5, 187. At d. land in Billericay in Essex, Enfield in Middlesex, and Deal in Kent, as well as in New England.PROB11/385/124.
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HOBART, John (1605-83), of Weybread, Suff. and St Giles, Norwich, Norf.

Family and Education
b. 3 July 1605, 1st s. of Sir John Hobart†, of St. Mary Spital, London and Clerkenwell, Mdx. and Barbara (d. 1650), da. of Walter Blount of Tyttenhanger, Herts., wid. of Alan Horde of Ewell, Surr.True Reg. of all the Christeninges, Mariages and Burialles in the Parishe of St. James, Clerkenwell, ed. R. Hovenden (Harl. Soc. ix. 1884), 46; Vis. Norf. 1563, ed. G.H. Dashwood and E.E.G. Bulwer (Norwich, 1878-95), ii. 63, 71, 118. educ. L. Inn 1620.LI Adm. Reg. i. 187. m. by 1629, Mary (d. 1 Oct. 1685), da. of Sir Anthony Felton, KB, of Playford, Suff. 2s d.v.p. 1 da.Vis. Norf. 1563, ii. 71. suc. fa. 1613.HP Commons 1604-1629, iv. 719. d. 3 July 1683.Vis. Norf. 1563, ii. 118.
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Local: commr. swans, Norf. 1632;C181/4, f. 123v. Essex and Suff. 1635;C181/5, f. 29. I. of Ely 1639;C181/5, f. 147v. sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 1635, 1 June 1641-aft. Jan. 1646;C181/5, ff. 10v, 215v, 269v. Norwich 13 Oct. 1655, 15 July 1672;C181/6, p. 127; C181/7, p. 624. Norf. and Suff. 20 Dec. 1658;C181/6, p. 339. Norf., Suff. and I. of Ely 20 Dec. 1669;C181/7, p. 523. gaol delivery, I. of Ely 1635-aft. Sept. 1644.C181/5, ff. 20, 242. Head constable, Happing hundred, Norf. by 1645.Bodl. Tanner 96, f. 12. J.p. Suff. by 1656-bef. Mar. 1657.Norf. QSOB, 87. Commr. assessment, Norf. 26 Jan. 1660; Norwich 1661;A. and O; SR. militia, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, 1660;SR. voluntary gift, 1661–2.Norwich Subscriptions to the Voluntary Gift of 1662 (Norf. Rec. Soc. i. 1931), 73.

Civic: freeman, Norwich 21 Aug. 1654.Norf. RO, Norwich assembly bk. 1642–68, f. 153.

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HOBART, John (1605-83), of Weybread, Suff. and St Giles, Norwich, Norf.

Will
20 Jan. 1682, pr. 13 Oct. 1683.PROB11/374/212.
Estates
bought manor of Finges in Istead, Weybread, Suff. 1633;Bodl. Tanner 98, f. 135; Copinger, Manors of Suff. iv. 102. owned manor of Weybread Hall;Copinger, Manors of Suff. iv. 99. owned house in Broad Street, St Giles, Norwich.H. Goodacre, ‘Notes from a Kirkpatrick manuscript’, Norf. Arch. xxvii (1941), 301.
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HOLCROFTE, John (d. 1656), of Holcroft, Newchurch in Culcheth, Lancs.

Family and Education
1st. s. of John Holcroft of Holcroft, and Anne, da. of Peter Heywood of Heywood, Lancs.Bodl. Dodsworth 108, f. 121v; Lancs. RO, DP/397/25/2; J.P. Rylands, Notes on the Fam. of Holcroft (Leigh, 1877), 15. m. lic. 10 Aug. 1621, Margaret (bur. 26 Mar. 1676), da. and coh. of John Hunt of Manchester, Lancs., 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 9da. (at least 1 d.v.p.).Bodl. Dodsworth 108, f. 121v; Rylands, Fam. of Holcroft, 16-17; Archdeaconry of Chester Mar. Lics. ed. W.F. Irvine (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lvi), 141; Cathedral Church of Manchester ed. H. Brierley (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. lv), 83, 92; Ormskirk ed. T. Williams (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xcviii), 16, 19, 22, 26, 139; Newchurch ed. W.J. Kaye, E.W.W. Kaye (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xxii), 8, 151, 216, 217. suc. fa.?; bur. 22 Apr. 1656 22 Apr. 1656.Newchurch ed. Kaye, Kaye, 150.
Offices Held

Local: capt. militia ft. Lancs. by 1634–?SP16/337/81i, f. 168; Lancs. RO, DDN/1/64, f. 112. J.p. 15 Aug. 1638–11 July 1642, 4 Oct. 1647–2 Aug. 1652.Lancs. RO, QSC/30–6, 48–52. Dep. lt. by July 1642-aft. Nov. 1644.Wigan Archives Service, D/D An/Bundle 16/12; Lancs. Civil War Tracts, 21; Gratton, Lancs. 79; Chandler, Liverpool, 327. Member, Lancs. co. cttee. c.1642–29 Aug. 1645, by Apr. 1647-c.1650.Gratton, Lancs. 83, 98–9; Lancs. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.H. Stanning (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxvi), 27. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Wigan by Mar. 1640–?d.Sinclair, Wigan, i. 216; ii. 7. Mayor, Liverpool 6 Nov. 1644–18 Oct. 1645;G. Chandler, Liverpool, 327, 341. alderman by 3 Jan. 1645–d.Chandler, Liverpool, 329; Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 2, 51.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) July 1642 – bef.Mar. 1643; lt.-col. by Mar. 1643-bef. Jan. 1644;Lancs. Civil War Tracts, 30, 85. col. by Jan. 1644–29 Aug. 1645.SP28/12, f. 40; A. and O. i. 761; Gratton, Lancs. 99. Gov. Lancaster Castle by Mar. 1643-bef. Sept. 1645.Infra, ‘William West’; CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 258.

Central: member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 27 Dec. 1647.CJ v. 407a.

: Newchurch in Culcheth, Lancs.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HOLCROFTE, John (d. 1656), of Holcroft, Newchurch in Culcheth, Lancs.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1623, ‘John Holcroft of Limehurst’ purchased an estate at nearby Nuthurst, Lancs. for £1,970, which he sold for the same sum in 1627.Local Gleanings rel. to Lancs. and Cheshire, ii. 149. In 1648, Holcrofte’s estate inc. capital messuages and demesnes of Great Woolden, Holcroft and Peasfurlong and property in Atherton, Cadishead, Culcheth, Great and Little Woolden, Holcroft, Peasfurlong and Risley, Lancs.Lancs. RO, DDX/75/117. 
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Mr Heywood’s house near Westminster (1642).HMC 5th Rep. 27.
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