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JUXON, Thomas (1614-72), of East Sheen, Mortlake, Surr.

Family and Education
b. 24 June 1614, 2nd s. of John Juxon (bur. 31 Aug. 1626), sugar baker, of St Lawrence Pountney, London, and Elizabeth (bur. 22 Nov. 1619), da. of John Kirrell of St Michael Queenhithe, London, and East Sheen.St Lawrence Pountney, London par. reg.; Reg. of Scholars Admitted to Merchant Taylors’ School ed. C.J. Robinson (Lewes, 1882), i. 100; St Stephen’s Walbrook and St Benet Sherehog Par. Regs. (Harl. Soc. par. reg. section xlix), 14; Juxon Jnl. 1. educ. Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 9 Dec. 1619-bef. Sept. 1621;GL, Merchant Taylors’ Sch. probation bk. 1, ff. 88, 90, 92, 97. appr. Merchant Taylors’ Co. 29 Nov. 1630-25 Oct. 1637.GL, Merchant Taylors’ Co. appr. binding bk. 1629-35, f. 120; Merchant Taylors’ Co. presentment bk. 2, unfol. m. (1) 2 Mar. 1647, Elizabeth (d. Sept. 1669), da. of Maurice Carent of Toomer Park, Som., 1s. 1da.; (2) by June 1672, Elizabeth (d. 10 June 1698), da. of Sir Robert Meredith of Green Hills, co. Kildare, s.p.PROB11/340, ff. 309-10; Juxon Jnl. 187-91; ‘Daniel Williams’, Oxford DNB. d. 2 Oct. 1672.NLI, Genealogical Office ms 67, f. 178; ms 74, f. 8.
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Mercantile: freeman, Merchant Taylors’ Co. London 25 Oct. 1637–d.;GL, Merchant Taylors’ Co. presentment bk. 2, unfol. liveryman, 8 July 1646–d.;GL, Merchant Taylors’ Co. ct. min. bk. 9, f. 233. warden, 30 July 1669–70; asst. 6 Aug. 1669 – d.; master warden, 12 July 1670–1.GL, Merchant Taylors’ Co. ct. min. bk. 10, pp. 245, 248, 321.

Local: member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 29 May 1638–?d.Ancient Vellum Bk. of the Hon. Artillery Coy. ed. G.A. Raikes (1890), 54. Assessor, Vintry Ward, London 12 Dec. 1642.SP19/1, p. 42. Commr. for Surr. 27 July 1643;LJ vi. 151b. securing peace of commonwealth, London 25 Mar. 1656;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 239. assessment, Surr. 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). ejecting scandalous ministers, 22 Oct. 1657;An Order...for an Additional Supply of Commissioners for Ejecting Scandalous...Ministers (1657), 7. militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Military: ensign, green regt. London trained bands by Apr. 1642 – ?; capt. of horse (parlian) by July 1643 – aft.Oct. 1646; maj. by July-c. Aug. 1647; lt.-col. c.Aug. 1647-aft. May 1659.Harl. 986, f. 19; SP28/268, ff. 367, 369; PROB11/296, f. 206v; LJ vi. 151b; The Names, Dignities and Places of All the Collonels [etc.] of the City of London (1642, 669 f.6.10); The True Mannor and Forme of the Proceeding to the Funerall of...the Earle of Essex (1646), 12 (E.360.1); A Paire of Spectacles for the Citie (1647), 9 (E.419.9); L.C. Nagel, ‘The Militia of London, 1641–49’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1982), 133–4, 317–19.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 21 Nov. 1653;A. and O. tendering oath to MPs, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 593a.

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JUXON, Thomas (1614-72), of East Sheen, Mortlake, Surr.

Will
6 June 1672, pr. 21 Dec. 1672.PROB11/340, f. 309.
Estates
in 1626, inherited a house and about 100 acres in East Sheen, Surr.Juxon Jnl. 2. In 1650, he and another gentleman purchased, for £1,312, manor and prebend of East Marden, Suss. valued at £108 p.a.C54/3547/31. In 1651-3, purchased, for £6,316, ‘several hundred’ fee farm rents in Devon, Dorset, Herts. Hunts. Norf. Som. Suss. and Yorks. worth £476 p.a.SP28/288, ff. 31, 47, 48, 51, 52, 56, 57, 59. In 1654-9, purchased Irish Adventurers’ land in Leinster.C54/3829/39, 40, 45; C54/3918/4, 6; C54/3921/17; C54/4038/7. By mid-1650s, owned lands in the Gt. Level, which he had sold by 1660.F. Wilmoth, E. Stazicker, Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fenns 1658 (Cambridge, 2016), 89. At his d. estate inc. a ‘mansion house’ at East Sheen, Surr., a house and ‘nursery’ in Mortlake, Surr., a farm in Danbury, Essex, property in Pincock Lane, London, ‘castles, houses and lands’ in co. Limerick and lands in co. Meath and Queen’s Co.PROB11/340, ff. 309-10; Juxon Jnl. 187-91.
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CRAISTER, Thomas (c.1620-81), of Carlisle, Cumb.

Family and Education
b. c. 1620, 1st s. of Edmund Craister, merchant, of Carlisle, and Jane (d. c.1649).SP23/171, p. 157; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DGC 4/1, f. 99v; Heywood Diaries ed. J.H. Turner (Brighouse, 1881), ii. 144; Hedley, Northumb. Fams. ii. 264, 268. educ. appr. merchant, Carlisle c.1631-8.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DGC 4/1, f. 14v. m. 1641, Elizabeth (d. 1691), da. of William Lodge of Mill Hill, Leeds, Yorks. at least 1s.Paver’s Mar. Lics. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xl), 177; Leeds Par. Regs. ed. G.D. Lumb (Thoresby Soc. iii), 39; Topcliffe and Morley Regs. ed. W. Smith (1888), 51. d. 13 May 1681.Heywood Diaries ed. Turner, ii. 144.
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Mercantile: member, Carlisle merchants’ guild, 30 Mar. 1638–?d.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DGC 4/1, ff. 14v, 131; Hedley, Northumb. Fams. ii. 268.

Civic: freeman, Carlisle ?Mar. 1638–?d.; common councillor by May 1643 – bef.27 Mar. 1648; auditor, 27 Mar.-c.Oct. 1648; alderman by 27 Mar. 1648–?bef. Apr. 1662;Cumb. RO (Carlisle), CA/2/1; CA/2/21/6; CA/2/384; CA/4/139, f. 92. mayor, Oct. 1649 – Oct. 1651, by 12 July-Oct. 1654.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DMH/10/5/17, p. 311; CA/2/392.

Local: recvr. assessment money, Cumb. c.Oct. 1648-Aug. 1660.E113/5; SP28/226, unfol.; SP28/259, f. 409; SP28/351, unfol. Commr. militia, Cumb. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Commr. compounding with delinquents northern cos. 2 Mar. 1649;SP18/1/23, f. 32. assessment, Cumb. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). propagating gospel northern cos. 1 Mar. 1650.CJ vi. 374a; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 23 (28 Feb.-7 Mar. 1650), 312. (E.534.15). Check of customs, Carlisle by June 1652-bef. July 1660.E351/653–60. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Cumb. 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. J.p. 3 Nov. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 273. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cumb., co. Dur., Northumb. and Westmld. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. surveying church livings, Cumb. c.2 Aug. 1656;Nightingale, Ejected of Cumb. and Westmld. 1311–12 for public faith, 16 Dec. 1657.SP25/77, p. 331.

Military: capt. militia ft. (parlian.), Cumb. by Apr. 1649-c.1650.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLONS/L/13/1/9; J. Musgrave, A True and Exact Relation (1650), 10 (E.619.10).

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CRAISTER, Thomas (c.1620-81), of Carlisle, Cumb.

Will
admon. 17 Apr. 1683.Borthwick, Pontefract Deanery act bk. 5B, f. 28.
Estates
inc. a house in Carlisle.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLONS/L/13/1/9. In 1653, purchased ‘the manor of the soccage of the castle of Carlisle’ (worth £100 p.a.) from trustees for the sale of crown lands, which he sold to Charles Howard* in 1655 for £2,050.C54/3759/13; LR2/266, f. 72; Durham Univ. Lib. HNP C49/4, 4a, 6-8. In 1656, Craister, William Brisco* and another gentleman acquired former dean’s house in Carlisle for £145 from trustees for the sale of dean and chapter lands.C54/3844/16. In 1668, he leased land on Twenty Acre Hill, Carlisle, from Charles Howard.Durham Univ. Lib. HNP C49/9.
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WENTWORTH, Sir George II (1599-1660), of Woolley, Royston, Yorks.

Family and Education
b. 1599, 3rd s. of Michael Wentworth (d. 2 Jan. 1642) of Woolley, and Frances, da. of Sir George Downes of Pawnton, Herefs.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 322; Leeds Univ. Lib. MS/DEP/Wentworth Woolley Hall/32/2, bdle. D. educ. I. Temple 6 Feb. 1618.I. Temple Admiss. Database. m. (1) (settlement 1 Oct. 1621, with £1,500), Anne (d. 19 Aug. 1624), da. of Thomas 1st Baron Fairfax of Cameron† [S], 2s. (d.v.p.);SP23/199, p. 151; Bodl. Fairfax 30, f. 150; Leeds Univ. Lib. MS/DEP/Wentworth Woolley Hall/10/1, no. 27; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 322. (2) (settlement 3 Oct. 1626, with £5,000), Everild (d. 9 Sept. 1639), da. of Christopher Maltby of Maltby, Stainton, Yorks., 2s. (d.v p.) 3da.SP23/199, p. 126; Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/DD57/C/C.40; MS/DEP/Wentworth Woolley Hall/10/1, no. 29; MS/DEP/Wentworth Woolley Hall/48; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 322-3. Kntd. 25 Apr. 1630;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 197. d. 19 Oct. 1660.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 322.
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Local: j.p. Yorks. (W. Riding) 23 June 1630-c.1644;C231/5, p. 35. liberties of Cawood, Wistow and Otley, Yorks. 17 Dec. 1641-c.1644.C181/5, f. 216v. Commr. charitable uses, W. Riding 9 July 1631-aft. Mar. 1640;C192/1, unfol. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1633.LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/001, p. 44. Treas. lame soldiers, 1633–?Add. 26739, f. 425v. Capt. militia ft. by c.1635-bef. Jan. 1639;Add. 28082, f. 80. col. by Jan. 1639-c.Aug. 1642.Fairfax Corresp. ed. Johnson, i. 354; Add. 36913, f. 45. Commr. sewers, Hatfield Chase Level 28 June 1636-aft. Dec. 1637;C181/5, ff. 53v, 87. further subsidy, W. Riding 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; assessment, 1642;SR. Yorks. 1 June 1660;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). array (roy.), 18 June 1642.Northants. RO, FH133. Dep. lt. W. Riding c.July 1660–d.SP29/42/66, f. 131; SP29/42/67, ff. 133v-134.

Military: col. of ft. (roy.) c.Aug. 1642-c.Apr. 1646.SP23/199, p. 137; P.R. Newman, Royalist Officers, 402.

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WENTWORTH, Sir George II (1599-1660), of Woolley, Royston, Yorks.

Will
14 Sept. 1660, cod. 18 Oct. 1660, pr. 30 Oct. 1660.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 44, f. 309.
Estates
in the early 1630s, Wentworth’s fa. was fined £40 for distraint of knighthood.‘Compositions for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I’ ed. W.P. Baildon, in Misc. 1 (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lxi), 91. In 1631, Wentworth purchased a third part of manors of Filey, Maltby and Muston, Yorks. for £1,650.E. Riding Archives, DDHU/17/27. In 1634, purchased manor of Darnton, Yorks.G.E. Wentworth, ‘Hist. of the Wentworths of Woolley’, YAJ xii. 25. and a third of manor of Maltby, Yorks.C54/3012/13. In 1635, purchased manors of Farsley and Wadlands, Yorks, for £2,300.Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/DD12/I/18/8, 10, 11. In 1641, purchased capital messuage of Brearley, Yorks. for £650.Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/MD363/10C. In 1646, estate inc. manors of Woolley and Notton and tithes and lands in adjoining townships; manor and capital messuage of Farsley and Wadlands; manors of Brackenholme and Darton; a third of manor of Maltby; franktenements in manors of Kirskill, Maltby, Owston and Poole and in lands and tenements in Arthington, Leathley and Poole; and an annuity out of lands and tenements in Boroughbridge, Yorks. In all, estate was reckoned to be worth about £1,000 p.a. although it was charged with annuities and rents totalling £245 p.a.SP23/199, pp. 117-20, 151-3; CJ v. 486a; Yorks. Stuart Fines ed. W. Brigg (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lviii), 186. His debts amounted to £600.CJ v. 486a. At d. estate worth about £1,250 p.a. and personal estate valued at £1,130.Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/DD12/II/24/48; MS/DEP/Wentworth Woolley Hall/16, 40, 48.
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STOUGHTON, Nicholas (1592-1648), of Stoughton, Surr.

Family and Education
b. 20 Sept. 1592, 8th but 2nd surv. s. of Sir Lawrence Stoughton† (d. 13 Dec. 1615) and Rose (d. 13 Nov. 1632), da. of Richard Ive of London and Kentish Town, Mdx.Manning and Bray, Surr. i. ped. facing p. 171; Vis. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 87. educ. Winchester, 1604 aged 11;Kirby, Winchester Scholars, 161. New Coll. Oxf. 22 Mar. 1609-13;New Coll. Archive, Ms 9750; cf. Al. Ox. I. Temple, 14 June 1613.I. Temple database. m. (1) 21 Dec. 1625, Bridget (d. 25 Mar. 1631), da. of Sir John Compton of Priors Dean, Hants, 2s. (d.v.p.), 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 5 Aug. 1635, with £3,080, Anne (d. 7 Jan. 1672), da. of William Evans, Mercer, of London, 2s. 1da. d.v.p.Manning and Bray, Surr. i. ped. facing p. 171; Add. 6174, ff. 138v, 141; Add. 45193, f. 13. suc. bro. Sir George Stoughton†, 25 Jan. 1624.Manning and Bray, Surr. i. ped. facing p. 171. d. 4 Mar. 1648.Hist. Guildford (1801), 131.
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Local: j.p. Surr. 1624–d.C231/4, f. 168; ASSI35/88/8. Commr. subsidy, 1624, 1641.C212/22/23; SR. Capt. militia horse, 27 July 1626.HMC Laing i. 172. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 58. limiting badgers, 1 Dec. 1630;APC 1630–1, p. 132. sewers, 5 July 1632;C181/4, f. 121v Kent and Surr. 25 Nov. 1645;C181/5, f. 264. Wey navigation, Surr. 1635.14 T. Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 1, p. 19. Sheriff, 30 Sept 1637–8.Coventry Docquets, 368. Commr. perambulation, Windsor Forest, Surr. 14 Apr. 1640,SP16/384, f. 38. 4 Sept. 1641;C181/5, f. 211v. further subsidy, Surr. 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645.SR; A. and O. Dep. lt. by 12 Aug. 1642–?Surr. Hist. Centre, 6729/4/133. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; commr. for Surr. 27 July 1643;LJ vi. 151b. commr. for Surr., assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Surr. 4 July 1644;C181/5, f. 239. gaol delivery, 4 July 1644;C181/5, f. 239v. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; defence of Surr. 1 July 1645.A. and O.

Central: exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646.A. and O.

Military: col. of dragoons (parlian.), Surr. Feb. 1643.CJ ii. 964b.

Religious: elder, Guildford classis, 16 Feb. 1648.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 434.

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STOUGHTON, Nicholas (1592-1648), of Stoughton, Surr.

Will
28 Feb., pr. 20 Mar. 1648.PROB11/203/360.
Estates
manor of Stoke, Stoughton House, Aldham farm, lands in Lady Mead, North Mead, Mill Mead, Slyfield and Watford, in Stoke; freehold and copyhold lands in Worplesdon bought from cousin Anthony Stoughton; £6 13s 4d p.a. from manor of Cleygate; Copthawe and adjacent garden in parish of (Holy) Trinity, Guildford; house in London; £750 Irish Adventure;Manning and Bray, Surr. i. 168; PROB11/203/360. advowson of Pirbright.VCH Surr. iii. 363-5.
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MONSON, Sir William, Visct. Monson of Castlemain [I] (1600-72), of Reigate, Surr., and Chelsea, Mdx.

Family and Education
b. 2 Feb. 1600,Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, i, ed. M. Oppenheim (Navy Recs. Soc. xxii), p. xxxvii. 2nd s. of Sir William Monson† (d.1643) of South Carlton, Lincs. and Kinnersley, Surr., and Dorothy, da. of Richard Wallop of Bugbrooke, Northants., wid. of Richard Smith of Shelford, Warws.CP; ‘Monson, Sir William’, Oxford DNB. educ. sch. Calais; acad. Brussels bef. 13 Oct. 1613-aft. 27 Mar. 1616;HMC Downshire IV. 222-3; V. 454-5. travelled abroad, aft. 14 May 1623-?;PC2/31, f. 701. G. Inn 13 Aug. 1633.GI Admiss. i. 201. m. bef. 26 Oct. 1625, Margaret (d. 4 Aug. 1639), da. of James Stewart, 2nd earl of Moray, wid. of Charles Howard†, 1st earl of Nottingham, 1s. d.v.p. ;HMC 4th Rep. Appendix, 306; SP16/427, f. 33; Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. li), 683. (2) settlement 1 May 1646, Frances (d. Nov. 1650), da. of Thomas Alston of Polstead, Suff., 1s. 1da. () (3) 14 Feb. 1651, Elizabeth (d. 26 Dec. 1695), da. of Sir George Reresby of Thrybergh, Yorks., wid. of Sir Francis Foljambe, 1st bt.* of Aldwark, Yorks., and Edward Horner of Mells, Som. 1da.Lincs. Peds. 683; C5/388/97; C5/24/28. Kntd. 12 Feb. 1623;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 181 cr. Baron Monson of Bellinguard and Visct. Monson of Castlemaine [I], 23 Aug. 1628, degraded 12 July 1661.CP. bur. 29 Feb. 1672 29 Feb. 1672.W.H. Challen, ‘Suss. Entries in London Par. Registers’, Suss. N. and Q. x. 18.
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Household: page to Margaret Howard, countess of Nottingham, by 28 Feb. 1618–?Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, i. p. xxxix.

Local: recvr. duchy of Lancaster, Lincs. 5 Mar. 1628–32.R. Somerville, Duchy of Lancaster Officeholders, 189. Constable, Bolingbroke Castle c.1628–?Aug. 1634.G. Holles, Church Notes (Lincs. Rec. Soc. li), 126. Commr. further subsidy, Surr. 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660; Lincs. 17 Mar. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Kent, Northants. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660; Leics., Mdx., Westminster 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; defence of Hants and southern cos. Surr. 4 Nov. 1643; commr. for Surr., assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644.A. and O. Dep. lt. Surr. 24 Jan. 1644–?CJ iii. 376a. Commr. oyer and terminer, 4 July 1644;C181/5, f. 238v. Home circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 372. gaol delivery, Surr. 4 July 1644.C181/5, f. 239v. J.p. by 1645 – bef.Oct. 1653, Mar. – bef.Oct. 1660; Mdx. 12 July 1647 – bef.Oct. 1653; Westminster 16 July 1647 – bef.Oct. 1653; Kent, Lincs. (Lindsey) by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653; Northants. by Feb. 1650-bef. c.Sept. 1656.ASSI35/84/4; C231/6, pp. 94, 261; Names of Justices of the Peace (1650), 28, 33, 40, 54; C193/13/4, ff. 47, 57, 59, 127v; Perfect List (1660), 54. Commr. New Model ordinance, Surr. 17 Feb. 1645; defence of Surr. 1 July 1645;A. and O. sewers, Kent and Surr. 23 Nov. 1645;C181/5, f. 263v. Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 12 June 1654-aft. Sept. 1659;C181/6, pp. 37, 388. militia, Surr. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659; Northants. 26 July 1659; Westminster militia, 19 Mar. 1649, 7 June 1650.A. and O.; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). Custos rot. Surr. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.Add. 4782, f. 80.

Central: member, cttee. for sequestrations by 6 Oct. 1643;SP20/1, f. 58v. cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649;A. and O. for compounding, 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 113b. Member, cttee. for the army, 6 Jan., 17 Apr. 1649, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652;CJ vi. 113b; A. and O. cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649; Derby House cttee. 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 113b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649.A. and O.

: Visct. Monson of Castlemain [I] (1600-72), of Reigate, Surr. 1600 – 72 and Mdx., Chelsea.
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MONSON, Sir William, Visct. Monson of Castlemain [I] (1600-72), of Reigate, Surr., and Chelsea, Mdx.

Will
not found: property forfeited for treason.
Estates
?Oct. 1625-4 Aug. 1639, £1,000 p.a. crown pension in right of first wife, of which £500 p.a. to be obtained from office at Bolingbroke Castle;Church Notes, 126. Oct. 1625, interest through wife in moiety of manor of Reigate, extended Jan. 1633 to life interest in own right; 1628, acquired remaining moiety in possession; W. Hooper, Reigate: its Story through the Ages (1945), 29-31. 1625-?1660, lease on royal manor of Chelsea;VCH Mdx. xii. 110-11, 138; CCAM 948. bef. 20 Mar. 1640, small estate in Ireland;CSP Ireland, 1633-47, p. 337. bef. 1636-aft. 1654, residence in Covent Garden;Survey of London xxxvi ‘Covent Garden’, pp. 196-9, 230-9. May 1646 Monson alleged his ‘entire estate’ consisted of manors of Craft, Reigate and Howleigh, worth £1,300 p.a. and Tidwell farm, Kent, worth £100 p.a. but marriage settlement also mentioned manor of Grafton, Lincs., manor of Sheppey, Kent, and messuages in Covent Garden;SP18/71, f. 34; C5/388/97. c.5 Dec. 1648, investment in New Albion, north America;B. Plantagenet, A Description of the Province of New Albion (1648), 3. according to cousin and reversionary heir, c.1661 owned lands worth £500 p.a. in Lincs. and Sheppey which were charged with a jointure of £200 p.a. and £3000 debt;Lincs. RO, MON/19/7/1/12. estate declared forfeit, 25 July 1661.LJ xi. 320b.
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DILLINGTON, Sir Robert, 1st bt. (1584-1664), of Knighton, I.o.W.

Family and Education
b. ?30 May 1584,C142/284/67; WARD7/37/104. o.s. of Tristram Dillington of Newchurch, I.o.W., and Jane, da. of Nicholas Martin of Athelhampton, Dorset. m. (1) bef. 1611, Mabella, da. of Sir Humphrey Forster† of Aldermaston, Berks., 2s. (d.v.p.); (2) bef. 10 Oct. 1651, Catherine, da. of Sir Thomas Gorges of Langford, Wilts., 1s. 1da.;Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. n.s. x), 105-6; Misc. Her. et Gen. 2nd ser. i. 381-2. 1 other da.I.o.W. RO, OG/CC/115. suc. fa. Feb. 1594; uncle, Sir Robert Dillington, Dec. 1604.PROB11/83/162; PROB11/84/339; PROB11/104/609. cr. bt. 6 Sept. 1628.CB. d. 1664.Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. n.s. x), 105-6; Misc. Her. et Gen. 2nd ser. i. 381-2; I.o.W. RO, JER/HBY/32/4.
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Local: j.p. Hants 1624 – 10 Dec. 1644, by Feb. 1650–d.C231/4, f. 165; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 243; C193/13/3, f. 56v; C220/9/4, f. 76. Capt. militia, I.o.W. by Aug. 1626.I.o.W. RO, OG/BB/104. Commr. oyer and terminer, 14 Apr. 1628, 4 Aug. 1635;C181/3, f. 240v; CSP Dom. 1635, p. 319. Western circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660.C181/6, pp. 8, 377. Dep. lt. I.o.W. by 19 July 1631–?, 1642–?I.o.W. RO, OG/BB/230; Royalist’s Notebook ed. Bamford, 110. Commr. repair of Carisbrooke Castle, 28 Apr. 1632;Coventry Docquets, 84. piracy, Hants and I.o.W. 26 Sept. 1635, 21 Oct. 1636;C181/5, ff. 24, 58. subsidy, I.o.W. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Hants 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Hants and I.o.W. 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). Commr. for New Forest, 28 July 1642.SP16/384, f. 66. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Hants. and I.o.W. 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. militia, I.o.W. 26 July 1659;A. and O. poll tax, Hants, I.o.W. 1660; SR. sewers, 19 Dec. 1662;C181/7, p. 174. subsidy, I.o.W. 1663.SR.

Civic: burgess, Yarmouth, I.o.W. bef. 1632.Add. 5669, f. 88.

Military: col. militia ft. East Medine by 20 Sept. 1643-aft. 14 May 1663.I.o.W. RO, OG/BB/481, 498, 502.

: 1st bt. (1584-1664) of Knighton, I.o.W. 1584 – 1664.
Volume
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Web Title

DILLINGTON, Sir Robert, 1st bt. (1584-1664), of Knighton, I.o.W.

Will
?9 Dec. 1658, sentence 20 June 1666.DEL10/10; PROB11/322/15.
Estates
inherited from fa. in 1594 land in the parish of Brading, I.o.W.I.o.W. RO, OG/E/8; PROB11/71/409; PROB11/83/162. Inherited from uncle Sir Robert Dillington in Dec. 1607, manors of Ashey and Ryde, land at Knighton.VCH Hants v. 181; PROB11/104/609. Bef. 20 Jan. 1613 bought Moore farm, parish of Arreton;I.o.W. RO, JER/WA/AppV/20. in 1621 bought manor of Mottistone;VCH Hants v. 252. c.1624 bought manor of Budbridge.VCH Hants v. 142. Assessed at £30 for the loan in 1625.SP16/521, f. 308. On 21 May 1635 bought manor of Westover or Calborne.I.o.W. RO, JER/HBY/32/3; VCH Hants v. 219. According to his settlement of Apr. 1663, he still held all the foregoing properties, comprising also more specifically the manor of Upper and Lower Knighton, proxy tithes of Budbridge and advowson of Mottistone.I.o.W. RO, JER/HBY/32/5.
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CURZON, Sir John (1598-1686), of Kedleston, Derbys.

Family and Education
b. 3 Nov. 1598, 1st s. of John Curzon of Kedleston, and Millicent (bur. 27 Jan. 1619), da. of Sir Ralph Sacheverell of Stanton, Derbys. wid. of Thomas Gell of Hopton, Derbys.‘The regs. of the par. of Kedleston, Derbys.’ ed. L.L. Simpson, Jnl. of the Derbys. Arch. and Natural Hist. Soc. xl. 99, 105; Glover, Derbys. ii. 566; Vis. Derbys. (Harl. Soc. n.s. viii), 9. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 12 June 1618;Al. Ox. I. Temple 8 Feb. 1620.I. Temple database. m. 26 Aug. 1623, Patience (d. 30 Mar. 1642), da. of Sir Thomas Crew† of Steane, Northants. 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 3da. (2 d.v.p.).C142/485/100; Vis. Derbys. 9-10; J. C. Cox, Churches of Derbys. iii. 181. suc. fa. 5 May 1632;C142/485/100. cr. bt. [S] 18 June 1636, [Eng.] 11 Aug. 1641;CB. Kntd. 5 Aug. 1641;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 210. d. 13 Dec. 1686.Cox, Churches of Derbys. iii. 181.
Offices Held

Local: ?commr. Forced Loan, Derbys., Derby 1627;C193/12/2, ff. 9v, 82. charitable uses, Derbys. 3 July 1629, 17 Feb. 1632, 16 June 1635,C192/1, unfol. 12 July 1661;C93/26/1. inquiry, High Peak forest 10 July 1634. 2 July 1634 – bef.Jan. 1650DL17/81. J.p. Derbys., 15 Mar. 1655–6 July 1670.C231/5, p. 142; C231/6, p. 306; C231/7, p. 375. Dep. lt. by July 1635-aft. Nov. 1642.J.C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbys. Annals, 158; CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 297; HMC Cowper, ii. 310; CJ ii. 828a; LJ v. 428a. Sheriff, 30 Sept. 1637–4 Nov. 1638.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 31. Commr. gaol delivery, Derby 17 Nov. 1638, 8 Feb. 1645, 25 Feb. 1663.C181/5, ff. 119, 248; C181/7, p. 193. Recvr.-gen. duchy of Lancaster, 1641–d.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 18; CSP Dom. 1654, p. 147. Commr. disarming recusants, Derbys. 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a. assessment, 1642, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679.SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Member, Derbys. co. cttee. 3 Aug. 1642–?LJ v. 260b. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, Derbys., Leics. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 3 Feb. 1657–1 Feb. 1671;C181/6, pp. 215, 370; C181/7, pp. 15, 534. poll tax, Derbys. 1660; subsidy, 1663.SR. Steward, soke of Wirksworth, Derbys. 24 Mar. 1665–d.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. Somerville, 175.

Central: member, cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645; cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 4 Oct. 1645. Commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646. Member, cttee. for the sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646.A. and O.

: of Kedleston, Derbys.
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Likenesses: fun. monument, attrib. R. Hall, Kedleston church, Derbys.

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Web Title

CURZON, Sir John (1598-1686), of Kedleston, Derbys.

Will
18 Sept. 1682, pr. 3 Feb. 1687.PROB11/386, f. 145v.
Estates
in 1632, inherited manors of Kedleston, Weston and Windley Hall, Ivonbrooke Grange and lands in parishes of Duffield, Mugginton and Wirksworth, Derbys., and in Andover, Hants.C142/485/100. In 1636-7, purchased lands in Ullesthorpe and Claybrooke, Leics. for £3,250.C6/114/28; C6/130/57. In 1648, he and Sir John Coke* purchased rectory and parsonage of Lullington and Coton, Derbys. for £840.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, no. 2594. In 1653, he purchased lands in Markeaton and Mackworth, Derbys. for £1,000. In 1655, purchased manor and castle of Mackworth for £1,300.C. Kerry, ‘Mackworth: its castle and owners’, Jnl. of the Derbys. Arch. and Natural Hist. Soc. xi. 6. Betw. 1660 and 1670, purchased property in Allestree, Little Eaton and Markeaton.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, nos. 1720, 3075. By 1664, owned a house of 22 hearths at Kedleston.Derbys. Hearth Tax Assessments 1662-70 ed. D. G. Edwards (Derbys. Rec. Soc. vii), 13. In 1664, purchased lands in Repton, Derbys.S.C. Newton, ‘The gentry of Derbys. in the seventeenth century’, Derbys. Arch. Jnl. lxxxvi. 17. In 1667, purchased remainder of a 99 year lease of manors of Elvaston and Thulston, Derbys. for £1,000.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, no. 3809. In 1669, he claimed to have lent out over £18,000.Nottingham Univ. Lib. Pw 1/104. In 1673, purchased manors of Elvaston and Thulston and divers messuages and lands in Alvaston, Booton, Borrowash, Elvaston, Ockbrook, Spondon and Thulston, Derbys.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, nos. 1654, 3830-1, 4038, 5850. In 1679, purchased a messuage and several closes in Littleover, Derbys.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, nos. 6041, 6066. Will referred to lands in Breedon on the Hill, Leics.PROB11/386, f. 145v.
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Caesar’s Buildings, Middle Temple Lane, Mdx. (1645).HMC 9th Rep. ii. 393.
Religion
presented Walter Taylor to rectory of Kedleston, Derbys. 1634.IND1/17003, p. 27.
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ANDREWES, Theophilus (1623-70), of Evesham, Worcs.

Family and Education
bap. 23 Nov. 1623, s. of Russell Andrewes (d. 28 June 1635) of Evesham and Offenham.All Saints, Evesham par. reg.: Nash, Collections, i. 417. educ. ?Evesham g.s.; Barnard's Inn 11 May 1642; G. Inn 7 Nov. 1644.Admission Regs. of Barnard’s Inn ed. C.W. Brooks (Selden Soc. sup. ser. xii), 93; G. Inn Admiss. i. 239. unm. d. 18 Dec. 1670.Nash, Collections, i. 417; Evesham All Saints par. reg.
Offices Held

Legal: called, G. Inn 11 Feb. 1651; ancient, 1667.PBG Inn i. 381.

Local: commr. assessment, Worcs. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar 1660.A. and O. J.p. by Mar.-?Dec. 1660.A Perfect List (1660); Diary and Pprs. of Henry Townshend ed. Porter, Roberts, Roy, 318. Commr. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663; Evesham 1663.SR.

Civic: asst. burgess, capital burgess, Evesham 17 Dec. 1658–d.Evesham Borough Records, 59, 61. Recorder and j.p. 19 July 1659 -d.Evesham Borough Records of the Seventeenth Century ed. S.K. Roberts (Worcs. Hist. Soc. n.s. xiv), 60, 79. Alderman, 17 Dec. 1659–19 Oct. 1660.Evesham Borough Records, 59, 61.

: of Evesham, Worcs.
Likenesses

Likenesses: MI, All Saints, Evesham.Nash, Collections, i. 417.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ANDREWES, Theophilus (1623-70), of Evesham, Worcs.

Will
admon. 16 Jan. 1672.Worcs. Archives, letters of administration, consistory ct. of Worcester.
Estates
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WODEHOUSE (WODEHOWSE), Sir Thomas, 2nd bt. (c.1585-1658), of Kimberley, Norf.

Family and Education
b. c. 1585, 1st s. of Sir Philip Wodehouse†, 1st bt., of Kimberley and Grisell, da. of William Yelverton of Rougham, wid. of Thomas Le Strange of Hunstanton.Vis. Norf. 1563, 1589 and 1613 (Harl. Soc. xxxii.), 322; Vis. Norf. 1664 (Norf. Rec. Soc. iv-v), ii. 240; John, 1st earl of Kimberley, The Wodehouses of Kimberley (1887), 40, 45. educ. Caius, Camb. 1598;Al. Cant. L. Inn 1601;LI Adm. travelled abroad (France, Spain, Italy) 1611.CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 100; Blomefield, Norf. ii. 555; R.W. Ketton-Cremer, ‘The rhyming Wodehouses’, Norf. Arch. xxxiii., 36. m. 16 June 1605, Blanche, da. of John Carey†, 3rd Baron Hunsdon, wid. of Christopher Peyton of Isleham, Cambs., 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da. (2 d.v.p.).CB i. 52; Vis. Norf. 1664, ii. 241; Blomefield, Norf. ii. 555; Kimberley, Wodehouses, 44. Kntd. 1603;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 111. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 30 Oct. 1623.CB i. 52; HP Commons 1558-1603. d. 18 Mar. 1658.Blomefield, Norf. ii. 555.
Offices Held

Court: gent. of privy chamber to Henry, prince of Wales, 1610–12.Harl. 7009, f. 5.

Local: j.p. Norf. by Nov. 1621–d.;C193/13/1. Thetford 1629 – aft.Nov. 1641, 20 Nov. 1654–d.Coventry Docquets, 63; C231/5, p. 10; C181/4, ff. 4, 132v; C181/5, f. 212v; C181/6, p. 73. Sheriff, Norf. 1624–5.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 89. Capt. militia ft. by 1626-aft. 1627.Rye, State Pprs. 31, 130. Commr. Forced Loan, 1626–7; Thetford 1627;Rye, State Pprs. 48; CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 320; C193/12/2, ff. 41, 88. subsidy, Norf. 1628.Rye, State Pprs. 125, 137. Dep. lt. 1627 – aft.42; Norwich Dec. 1642–?Rye, State Pprs. 6; PJ i. 54; CJ ii. 884a. Commr. charitable uses, Norf. 1635;Coventry Docquets, 54. sea breaches, Norf. and Suff. 1638;C181/5, f. 103. further subsidy, Norf. 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641.LJ iv. 385b. Feoffee, Sir Edmund Moundeford’s* charity, Feltwell 1642. 1642Blomefield, Norf. ii. 199. Commr. assessment, Norf., 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 Feb. 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 Feb. 1657;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). loans on Propositions, 1 Aug. 1642;LJ v. 251b. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Norf. 3 July 1644;C181/5, f. 234. Norf. circ. by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 16, 275. gaol delivery, Norf. 3 July 1644;C181/5, f. 234v. Thetford 16 Nov. 1654;C181/6, p. 71. New Model ordinance, Norf. 17 Feb. 1645; sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 31 Jan. 1646, 6 May 1654–d.;C181/5, f. 269; C181/6, pp. 26, 247. militia, Norf. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O. Custos rot. Sept. 1650–d.C231/6, p. 201.

Central: member, cttee. for sequestrations, 7 Aug. 1644;LJ vi. 663a. cttee. for examinations, 16 Oct. 1644.CJ iii. 666b.

: 2nd bt. (c.1585-1658), of Kimberley, Norf. 1585 – 1658.
WODEHOWSE
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WODEHOUSE (WODEHOWSE), Sir Thomas, 2nd bt. (c.1585-1658), of Kimberley, Norf.

Will
2 Mar. 1658, pr. 17 May 1658.PROB11/278/252.
Estates
sold manors of Hingham and Baconsthorpe, Norf. to Thomas Talbott I* and John Sesden, 1634;Coventry Docquets, 659, 667. bought lands at Coston and Carleton Forehoe, Norf. in sale of dean and chapter lands.PROB11/278/252.
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TALBOT, Thomas II (1615-?82), of Appleton Wiske, Yorks.

Family and Education
bap. 10 Dec. 1615, 2nd. but only surv. s. of Thomas Talbot of Appleton Wiske, and Anna (d. 1635), da. of James Ward of Rookwith, Thornton Watlass.Foster, Yorks. Peds.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 10. m. by Mar. 1653, Anna, da. of Laurence Rushworth of Acklington Park, Warkworth, Northumb., wid. of Henry Lilburne, s.p.St Michael, Crooked Lane, London par. reg. (marr. entry 13 Sept. 1647); Letters from Roundhead Officers to Captain Adam Baynes ed. J.Y. Akerman ((Edinburgh, 1856), 53; Dugdale's Vis. Yorks. iii. 10. suc. fa. Dec. 1655;Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 10. bur. 12 Nov. 1682 ?St James, Clerkenwell 12 Nov. 1682.St James, Clerkenwell par. reg.
Offices Held

Military: lt. of horse (parlian.) by Dec. 1643 – bef.Jan. 1645; capt. by Jan. 1645-c.Jan. 1646;SC6/CHAS1/1190, unfol.; Fairfax Corresp. ed. Bell, i. 66–7; Chandler, Liverpool, 326, 330; Jones, ‘War in north’, 367, 404. capt. of ft. by Jan. 1648-aft. May 1649;York Minster Lib. BB53, p. 16; Worc. Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS LXVII, f. 125r. maj. by July 1651-bef. Mar. 1653;Letters from Roundhead Officers ed. Akerman, 32. lt. col. by Mar. 1653-June 1655;Letters from Roundhead Officers ed. Akerman, 53. col. June 1655–20 Dec. 1659.Clarke Pprs. iii. 42; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 465, 469–70.

Civic: freeman, Liverpool by Jan. 1645–?d.Chandler, Liverpool, 330; Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 2, 52.

Scottish: regulator, assessment, Ayrshire 11 July-Oct. 1653.Scotland and the Commonwealth ed. Firth, 159, 179. Commr. assessment, Dumbartonshire 31 Dec. 1655, 25 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Glasgow 31 Dec. 1655.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 839, 840, 841; A. and O. J.p. Dumbartonshire c.Jan. 1656–?Scotland and the Protectorate ed. Firth, 311. Commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Local: j.p. Yorks. (N. Riding) 7 Mar. 1657-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 361. Westminster 23 Mar. 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 363.

Central: commr. tendering oath to MPs, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 593a.

: of Appleton Wiske, Yorks.
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Web Title

TALBOT, Thomas II (1615-?82), of Appleton Wiske, Yorks.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1650, purchased, for £3,314, manor of Fosdyke Bewsolas, Lincs.; manor of Hempholme, Yorks.; and, for £6,909, manor of Furness, Lancs. and manor of Rosedale, Yorks. from the trustees for sale of crown lands.E121/5/7/26, 29. Also in 1650, purchased, for £521, two fee farm rents in Yorks. worth £63 p.a.SP28/288, ff. 18, 23. In 1652, he and two others purchased, for £5,910, manors of Cartmel, Lancs. and manor of Epworth, Lincs. from the trustees for sale of crown lands.E121/5/7/109. In 1653, he and others purchased, for £2,397 18s, manor of Whaplode Abbots and Holbeach, Lincs. and for £1,906, the honour and castle of Tickhill, Yorks. from the trustees for sale of crown lands.E121/3/3/117; E121/5/5/37. In 1655, he and two others purchased, for £223, part of manor of Egham, Surr. and lands and tenements in Kirkburn, Yorks. from the trustees for sale of crown lands.E121/5/7/109.
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Addresses
York House, Westminster (Mar. 1659).Bodl. Top. Yorks. c.36, f. 69.
Religion
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