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PULLER, Isaac (d.1693), of Hertford, Herts.

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Family and Education
o.s. of Abraham Puller, clerk in holy orders, of Shrewsbury, Salop and Hertford and his w. Margery.PROB11/204/601. educ. Shrewsbury sch. 1628.Shrewsbury School Regestum, 302. m. 29 Oct. 1635, Elizabeth, da. of Gabriel Barbor of Hertford, 2s. 3da.Hertford All Saints par. reg.; ‘Ped. of the fam. of Barbor’, Misc. Gen. et Her. 1st ser. i. 58; PROB11/208/456; PROB11/204/601. suc. fa. 1648.PROB11/204/601. bur. 26 Apr. 1693 26 Apr. 1693.Hertford St. Andrew par. reg.
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Military: officer, tp. of militia ft. Hertford July 1642. Serg.-maj. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of Sir John Wittewronge* by late 1643; lt.-col. by May 1645.CJ ii. 679b; SP28/11, ff. 143. 145; L. Spring, The Regts. of the Eastern Assoc. (Bristol, 1998), ii. 112; The Impact of the First Civil War on Herts. ed. A. Thomson (Herts. Rec. Soc. xxiii.), 39.

Local: commr. defence of Herts. 31 Mar., 18 Dec. 1643.A. and O. Jt. treas. assessment, 1643.SP28/8, f. 61. Commr. additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643;A. and O. commr. I. of Ely, Herts. 12 Aug. 1645; assessment, 23 June 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; Hertford 9 June 1657. 6 Dec. 1648 – bef.Oct. 1660A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). J.p. Herts.; Hertford 1648–62. Aug. 1650C231/6, p. 128; Herts. County Recs. vi. 524; Chauncy, Herts. i. 492. Commr. militia, Herts. by, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.Add. 40630, ff. 256, 258, 263, 269, 276; A. and O. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. sewers, River Lea, Herts., Essex and Mdx. 4 Mar. 1657;C181/6, p. 221. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35).

Civic: freeman, Hertford by 1644; asst. 1644; chief burgess, 1644; mayor, Sept. 1647-Sept. 1648.Herts. RO, HBR 30/12, 17.

Parlimentarian
PULLER, Isaac (d.1693), of Hertford, Herts.
: of Hertford, Herts.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

PULLER, Isaac (d.1693), of Hertford, Herts.

Will
not found.
Estates
inherited lands at Laleham and Staines, Mdx. and Chertsey, Surr. from his uncle, Rowland Heylyn, 1632;PROB11/161/220. bequeathed property in Hertford by his fa.-in-law, Gabriel Barbor, 1648;PROB11/208/456. allocated lands in Co. Meath, Ireland, 1653-4.CSP Ire. Adv. 1642-59, p. 343; CSP Ire. 1647-60, pp. 437, 447, 557.
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BRISCO, William (1606-88), of Crofton, Thursby, Cumb.

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Family and Education
bap. 16 May 1606, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John Brisco of Crofton, and Mary, da. of Sir Thomas Braithwaite of Burneside, Westmld.Warcop, Westmld. par. reg. (mar. 26 Apr. 1604; bap. 17 Mar. 1605, 16 May 1606); Nicolson, Burn, Westmld. and Cumb. ii. 203. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 12 Dec. 1623;Al. Ox. L. Inn 8 Nov. 1626;LI Admiss i. 201. called, 10 June 1634.LI Black Bks. ii. 318. m. (1) 26 Nov. 1635, Susanna (d. bef. Aug. 1638), da. of Sir Randal Cranfield of London and Sutton-at-Hone, Kent, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) (settlement 1 Aug. 1638) Susan, da. of Francis Brown, haberdasher, of St Mary Woolchurch, London, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DHA/3/1; PROB/1687/WINVX14; Nicolson, Burn, Westmld. and Cumb. ii. 204; Vis. Cumb. and Westmld. ed. Foster, 21. suc. fa. 26 Aug. 1632.C142/496/112. d. 25 Feb. 1688.Fams. in Cumb. ed. Ferguson, 86.
Offices Held

Local: commr. subsidy, Cumb. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 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, 1661. c. Mar. 1642 – 5 May 1643SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). J.p., c.Oct. 1644-bef. Dec. 1662.C220/9/4, f. 14; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLONS/L/13/1/9; J Musgrave, Musgraves Musle Broken, or Truth Pleading Against Falsehood (1651), 7 (E.626.26); Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 34; HMC Portland, i. 186; CJ iii. 678a; Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; taking accts. in northern cos. 29 July 1645.A. and O. Dep. lt. 6 Dec. 1645–?CJ iv. 368a. Commr. charitable uses, 2 June 1647.C93/19/24. Member, sub-cttee. accts. July 1647.SP28/252, pt. 1, f. 373. Commr. northern cos. militia, 23 May 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. 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). Sheriff, Cumb. 21 Nov. 1650–4 Nov. 1651.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 28. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 18, 281. northern borders 2 Mar. 1663- aft. Mar. 1667;C181/7, pp. 194, 392. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cumb. co. Dur. Northumb. and Westmld. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. gaol delivery, Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655;C181/6, p. 103. surveying church livings, Cumb. c.2 Aug. 1656.Nightingale, Ejected of Cumb. and Westmld. 1311–12. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Commr. for public faith, Cumb. 16 Dec. 1657.SP25/77, p. 331.

Civic: recorder, Carlisle c.25 Oct. 1649–9 Oct. 1662.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), CA/2/1, 385; CA/4/2.

Scottish: commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Military: col. militia ft. ?Cumb. by Dec. 1656-aft. Apr. 1659.Burton’s Diary, i. 45; iv. 341.

Parlimentarian
BRISCOE, William (c.1606-88), of Lincoln’s Inn and Crofton, Cumb.
: of Crofton, Thursby, Cumb.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BRISCO, William (1606-88), of Crofton, Thursby, Cumb.

Will
14 May 1686, pr. 17 Mar. 1688.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), PROB/1687/WINVX14.
Estates
in 1632, inherited manors of Crofton and Great Orton and lands in Brisco, Crofton, Kirkbampton, Kirkland, Orton and Swaby, Cumb.C142/496/112; C.M. Lowther Bouch, ‘The manor and advowson of Great Orton’, Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. ser. 2, xl. 50. In 1638, he set aside lands worth £100 p.a. for the jointure of his second wife.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DHA/3/1. By 1640, estate inc. advowsons of Great Orton and Kirkbampton and a lease of lands in Westward Forest, Cumb;IND1/17000, f. 172; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DHA/3/1; Lowther Bouch, ‘Great Orton’, 51, 52. by 1644, inc. tithes in Brunstock, Cummersdale and Stanix, nr. Carlisle;LPL, COMM VIII/1, pp. 334, 335. by 1654, inc. tithes in Westward.Nightingale, Ejected of Cumb. and Westmld. 145, In 1656, Brisco, Thomas Craister* and another gentleman acquired the former dean’s house in Carlisle for £145 from trustees for the sale of dean and chapter lands.C54/3844/16. In 1684, Brisco’s estate inc. lands in Whinnow and Moorside, tithes in Crofton and Wigton, and lordship of Kirkland.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DHA/3/3. The Briscos’ estate was reputedly worth £300 p.a. by late seventeenth century.A Cursory Relation of all the Antiquities and Familyes in Cumberland ed. R. S. Ferguson (Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. Tract Ser. iv), 30.
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lodging betw. Westminster Abbey and St Margaret’s church ‘at one Mrs Scott’s house’, Westminster (1657).Bodl. Rawl. H.104, f. 12.
Religion
presented Otto Polewheele to rectory of Kirkbampton, Cumb. 1639; John Bell, 1658; ?John Bird to rectory of Great Orton, Cumb. 1663; John Pearson, 1665.IND1/17000, f. 172; IND 1/17005, f. 12; Nightingale, Ejected of Cumb. and Westmld. 231, 606, 607.
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CECIL, William, 2nd earl of Salisbury (1591-1668), of Hatfield, Herts.; Cranborne, Dorset and Salisbury House, The Strand, Westminster.

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b. 28 Mar. 1591, o.s. of Sir Robert Cecil†, 1st earl of Salisbury and Elizabeth, da. of William Brooke†, 10th Lord Cobham.VCH Herts. Fams. 113-14. educ. Sherborne sch.;Hatfield House, CP 250/44. St John's, Camb. 1602-7, MA 1605;Al. Cant.; Hatfield House, CP 228/15; CP 190/146. MA Oxf. 1605;Al. Ox. G. Inn 1605;GI Adm. travelled abroad (France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Low Countries) 1608-11.HMC Bath, ii. 56; Hatfield House, CP 317/1. m. 1 Dec. 1608, Katharine (bur. 27 Jan. 1673), da. of Thomas, 1st earl of Suffolk, 8s. (2 d.v.p.) 5da. (3 d.v.p.).VCH Herts. Fams. 115-17. KB 1605;Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 157. styled. Visct. Cranborne 4 May 1605; suc. fa. 24 May 1612;VCH Herts. Fams. 113. KG 1624.Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 31. d. 3 Dec. 1668.VCH Herts. Fams. 115.
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Colonial: member, Virg. Co. 1611–12;Hatfield House, C 196/57; A. Brown, Genesis of the United States (New York, 1964), 542. N.W. Passage Co. 1612;CSP Col. E.I. 1513–1616, p. 238. council for New England, 1620–?CSP Dom. 1619–23, p. 188.

Local: j.p. St Albans liberty and borough 1612–d.;C181/2, ff. 172, 305v; C181/3, ff. 1, 264v; C181/4, ff. 77v, 131v; C181/5, ff. 12, 212v, 241v; C181/6, pp. 179, 396; C181/7, pp. 52, 283. Herts. by 1614 – 15 July 1642, by Feb. 1650–d.;C66/1988; C231/5, p. 530; Names of the Justices (1650), 26; C193/12/3, f. 45. Dorset by 1614 – 15 July 1642, by Feb. 1650 – bef.Mar. 1657, Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660;C66/1988; C231/5, p. 530; C193/13/3, f. 15; C193/13/4, f. 21v; Perfect List (1660), 13. Essex by 1614 – 15 July 1642; Hants by 1614 – 10 June 1642, by Feb. 1650-bef. Mar. 1657;C66/1988; C231/5, pp. 528, 530; C193/13/3, f. 56; C193/13/4, f. 85v. Kent by 1614 – at least40; Mdx. by 1614- 4 July 1642, by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653, Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660;C66/1988; C66/2858; C231/5, p. 533; C193/13/3, f. 40v; C193/13/4, f. 59; Perfect List, 31. Northants. by 1614 – at least40, by Feb. 1650–?Mar. 1660;C66/1988; C66/2858; C193/13/3, f. 47v; C193/13/5, f. 76v; C193/13/6, f. 64v. Surr. by 1614 – 19 July 1642; Wilts. by 1614 – 10 June 1642, by Feb. 1650-bef. Mar. 1657;C66/1988; C231/5, pp. 529, 532; C193/13/3, f. 68v; C193/13/4, f. 108. Westminster 1618 – at least40, by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653, Mar. 1660–d.C181/2, f. 331; C181/3, f. 15; C66/2859; C193/13/3, f. 81v; C193/13/4, f. 127v; C220/9/4, f. 114v; C193/12/3, f. 129v. Custos rot. St Albans 1612–?d.;C181/2, f. 172. Herts. 1619 – 42, by Oct. 1650–?d.Hatfield House, CP 129/178; C231/4, f. 89; Names of the Justices, 73. Commr. swans, Herts. 1612, 1634; Essex, Herts. and Mdx. 1619; Hants and western cos. 1629; Essex and Suff. 1635. 1612 – July 1642C181/2, ff. 173, 340v; C181/4, ff. 2, 178v; C181/5, f. 28. Ld. lt. Herts.; Dorset 17 May 1641-July 1642.C231/5, p. 447; Sainty, Lords Lieutenants, 19, 23; CJ ii. 660b; LJ v. 193a-b; A. and O. Ranger, Enfield Chase, Mdx. 1612–49, 1660.Hatfield House, CFEP Deeds 236/28; HMC Hatfield, xxii. 421; CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 189. Commr. oyer and terminer, St Albans liberty and borough 1612 -aft. Oct. 1659;C181/2, ff. 176, 339; C181/3, ff. 3, 264v; C181/4, f. 78; C181/5, ff. 134v, 135, 241v; C181/6, pp. 178, 180, 397. the Verge 1614;C181/2, f. 197v. Home circ. 1614 – aft.Jan. 1642, by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/2, f. 212v; C181/3, ff. 7, 261; C181/4, ff. 13, 198; C181/5, ff. 8, 221v; C181/6, pp. 12, 372. Western circ. 1614, 1635 – aft.Jan. 1642, by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/2, f. 213v; C181/4, f. 193v; C181/5, ff. 5, 220v; C181/6, pp. 8, 377. Hertford 1620; Dorset 1626;C181/3, ff. 14v, 212, 264v. London 1629, 30 Nov. 1641 – aft.Nov. 1645, by Jan. 1654–d.;C181/4, f. 15; C181/5, ff. 214, 230, 264v; C181/6, pp. 1, 352; C181/7, pp. 1, 454. Surr. 12 May 1640, 4 July 1644;C181/5, ff. 169, 238v. Herts. 18 June 1640, 4 July 1644, 24 Dec. 1664;C181/5, ff. 175v, 238v, 246; C181/7, p. 303. Mdx. 13 Jan. 1644 – aft.Jan. 1645, 13 Nov. 1660;C181/5, ff. 231, 246; C181/7, p. 67. Oxf. circ. by Feb. 1654-June 1659;C181/6, pp. 10, 302. Midland circ. 22 June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 370. sewers, St Albans 1617;C181/2, f. 297. Deeping and Gt. Level 1617–29;C181/2, ff. 281v, 326; C181/3, ff. 35, 214; C181/4, f. 19v. River Welland, Lincs. 1618;C181/2, f. 330. River Lea, Herts., Essex and Mdx. 1623, 1635, 19 May 1645, 4 Mar. 1657, 14 Dec. 1663;C181/3, f. 91v; C181/5, ff. 20v, 252; C181/6, p. 221; C181/7, p. 223. River Welland, Lincs., Rutland and Northants. 1623, 1634;C181/3, f. 99; C181/4, f. 160v. Notts. 1626;C181/3, f. 199v. Camb. Univ. and town 1627, 1631, 1638;C181/3, f. 219; C181/4, f. 87; C181/5, f. 120v. Cambs. and I. of Ely 1627;C181/3, f. 220v. River Stort, Essex and Herts. 1628, 1638;C181/3, ff. 251, 272; C181/5, f. 112v. Gravesend Bridge to Penshurst, Kent 1628;C181/3, f. 252. Northants. 1633–4;C181/4, ff. 140, 180. Mdx. and Westminster 1634 – aft.June 1645, 10 Jan. 1655-aft. Aug. 1660;C181/4, f. 190v; C181/5, ff. 81, 114v, 254v; C181/6, pp. 67, 398; C181/7, p. 37. Kent and Surr. 26 Nov. 1645;C181/5, f. 263v. London 15 Dec. 1645.C181/5, f. 266. Kpr. Theobalds Park 1619–51.CJ vi. 398a-b. Commr. subsidy, Herts. 1621 – 22, 1624;C212/22/20–1, 23. highway repairs, 1622; preservation of royal game, 1622;C181/3, f. 76v. inquiry, Cheshunt commons, Herts. 1624;C181/3, f. 128v. Forced Loan, Essex, Mdx., Surr., Westminster 1626 – 27; Cambs., Dorset, Hants, Herts., I. of Ely, Kent, London, Northants., Suff., St Albans, Poole 1627;T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, pp. 141, 144; C193/12/2, ff. 4v, 11v, 17v, 22v, 25v, 34, 37, 51, 54v, 56v, 74v, 83, 84, 90; Bodl. Firth c.4. charitable uses, Herts. 1630 – 37; Surr. 1630;C192/1, unfol. knighthood fines, Herts. 1630–2;E178/5345, ff. 3, 7; E178/7154, f. 678. gaol delivery, Surr. 12 May 1640, 4 July 1644;C181/5, ff. 169, 239v. Newgate gaol, 30 Nov. 1641 – aft.Nov. 1645, by Jan. 1654–d.;C181/5, ff. 214, 230v, 264v; C181/6, pp. 1, 352; C181/7, pp. 1, 454. Herts. 4 July 1644.C181/5, f. 240v. Gov. Charterhouse 1644.Hatfield House, CFEP Deeds 74/3. Commr. for Dorset, 1 July 1644; defence of Wilts. 15 July 1644; Western Assoc. 19 Aug. 1644; levying of money, Hants 10 June 1645;A. and O. Dorset militia, 24 July 1648;LJ x. 393a. militia, Dorset, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659; Herts. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; assessment, Herts. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Dorset 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Westminster 9 June 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28).

Civic: high steward, Hertford 1612 – at least40; St Albans 1663–d.C.F. Patterson, Urban Patronage in Early Modern Eng. (Stanford, Ca. 1999), 248; CP, xi. 406. Freeman, King’s Lynn Sept. 1649.HMC 11th Rep. iii. 182; Cal. Lynn Freemen, 162.

Central: PC, 1626–42.APC 1626, p. 117; PC2/53, p. 207. Commr. to consider how to provide financial aid for foreign allies 1628.CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 574. Member, high commn. Canterbury prov. 1629-at least 1633.CSP Dom. 1633–4, p. 326; R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of the High Commission (Oxford, 1913), 357. Commr. knighthood fines, 1630;CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 174. fisheries, 1630; poor relief, 1630;Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 3, pp. 136, 147. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1631;CSP Dom. 1631–3, p. 6. transportation of felons, 1633;CSP Dom. 1631–3, p. 547. exacted fees, k.b. 1638.PC2/49, f. 145v. Member, Fishery Soc. by 1639;PC2/50, f. 69v. council of war, 1639.M.C. Fissel, Bishops’ Wars (Cambridge, 1994), 71. Commr. treaty of Ripon, 1640;Alnwick Castle ms. vol. 14 (BL microfilm M.286), f. 100. taxing the peerage, subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641.SR. Member, cttee. of safety, 8 Sept. 1642;LJ v. 343a. cttee. for sequestrations, 5 May 1643;LJ vi. 32b. Westminster Assembly, 12 June 1643.A. and O.; Mins. and Pprs. of the Westminster Assembly 1643–1652, ed. C. Van Dixhoorn (Oxford, 2012), i. 113. Commr. ct. martial, 16 Aug. 1644; Uxbridge Propositions, 28 Jan. 1645. Member, cttee. for the army, 31 Mar. 1645, 23 Sept. 1647; cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645; Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 1 July 1645; cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 4 Oct. 1645. Commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646. Member, cttee. for foreign plantations, 21 Mar. 1646;A. and O. cttee. for the revenue, 26 Mar. 1646.CJ iv. 491b; LJ vi. 399a. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648;A. and O. gt. seal, July-Oct. 1646.CJ iv. 599b; LJ viii. 409a. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647; cttee. of navy and customs, 17 Dec. 1647;A. and O. Derby House cttee. 1 June 1648.LJ x. 295b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648;A. and O. treaty with king at Newport, 6 Sept. 1648.LJ x. 492b. Cllr. of state, 14 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650, 25 Nov. 1652.CJ vi. 141a, vii. 221a; A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 180. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649; indemnity, 18 June 1649. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650;CJ vi. 388b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 4 July 1650.CJ vi. 437a. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Scottish: PC, 1633.Reg. PC Scot. 1633–5, p. 116.

Court: capt. band of gent. pensioners, 1635-bef. June 1642.Badminton, Beaufort archives, Fm H2/4/1, ff. 17v-18v.

Parlimentarian
CECIL, William, Visct. Cranborne (1591-1668), of Hatfield, Herts., Cranborne, Dorset and Salisbury House, The Strand, Westminster.
: 2nd earl of Salisbury (1591-1668), of Hatfield, Herts.; Cranborne, Dorset 1591 – 1668 and Salisbury House, Westminster., The Strand.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, P. Lely, aft. 1644;Hatfield House, Herts. ?miniature, S. Cooper, 1646.Hatfield House, Herts.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

CECIL, William, 2nd earl of Salisbury (1591-1668), of Hatfield, Herts.; Cranborne, Dorset and Salisbury House, The Strand, Westminster.

Will
2 Jan. 1665, pr. 23 Dec. 1668.PROB11/328, f. 369.
Estates
held extensive estates, particularly around Hatfield, Herts. and Cranborne, Dorset; rental income, Oct. 1655-May 1656, £8,082 18s 9½d.Hatfield House, CFEP Accounts 146/2.
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BRIDGE, Tobias (d. 1673), of Lambeth Marsh, Surr.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. ?3rd but 2nd surv. s. of John Bridge (d. c.Mar. 1652) of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, and Anne (d. c.1662).PROB11/204, f. 91v; PROB11/221, ff. 13v-14; PROB11/308, f. 60; Al. Cant. ‘Francis Bridge’. educ. appr. Merchant Taylors’ Co. 6 Dec. 1637.GL, MS 34038/11, p. 128. m. (1) by Jan. 1652, ? da. of ?, at least 1da. d.v.p.;St Mary, Lambeth par. reg. (bap. entry 8 June 1658); PROB11/221, f. 14. (2) 25 July 1669, Rebecca (d. c.1672), da. of one Burch, wid. of Thomas Hothersall of Barbados, s.p.‘Hothersall of Barbados’ ed. V.L. Oliver, Caribbeana vi. 73, 74, 77. Kntd. by May 1664.HMC Heathcote, 152, 154. d. betw. 15 Oct.-12 Dec. 1673.Barbados Recs.: Wills and Admons. ed. J.M. Sanders (Houston, 1979), i. 46.
Offices Held

Military: lt. of dragoons (parlian.) by c.Apr. 1644-Mar. 1645;E121/1/1/37; G. Davies, ‘The army of the Eastern Assoc.’, EHR xlvi. 91; Holmes, Eastern Assoc. 201, 290. capt. Mar. 1645-c.Aug. 1649;LJ vii. 278b. maj. c.Aug. 1649-Jan. 1655.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 296; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015), i. 104. Col. of horse, Jan. 1655-Apr. 1659;Clarke Pprs. i. 439; Baker, Chronicle, 642. maj. 16 Aug. 1659-Mar. 1662.CSP Dom. 1659–60, pp. 105, 114, 115, 143, 151; CJ vii. 760b. Dep. maj.-gen. Bucks. Herts. and Oxon. 14 Nov. 1655–6 Feb. 1656;CSP Dom. 1655–6, pp. 20, 164. maj.-gen. Cheshire, Lancs. and Staffs. 18 July 1656–?CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 28. Capt. of horse, 4 Mar.-Oct. 1662,CSP Dom. 1661–2, pp. 297, 525. 5 July 1666–?CSP Dom. 1665–6, pp. 489, 561. Col. of ft. 11 Feb. 1667-Aug. 1668.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 306; CSP Dom. 1667–8, p. 556. C.-in-c. Tobago c.Jan. 1667–?;CSP Col. W. I. 1661–8, p. 444. Barbados 22 Mar. 1672–?CSP Col. W. I. 1669–74, p. 343.

Mercantile: freeman, Merchant Taylors’ Co. London 21 Oct. 1646–?d.GL, MS 34017/5, unfol.

Central: commr. affairs of America, c.1652.CSP Col. W. I. 1574–1660, pp. 9, 468. Member, cttee. relief of Piedmont Protestants, 4 Jan. 1656;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 100. cttee. managing affairs of Jamaica and W. I. 15 July 1656.CSP Col. W. I. 1574–1660, pp. 445. Commr. tendering oath to MPs, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 593a.

Local: commr. securing peace of commonwealth, Cheshire, Lancs. and Staffs. 23 July 1656;CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 35. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cheshire, Staffs., Surr. 13 Sept. 1656, 22 Oct. 1657.SP25/77, pp. 321, 322; CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 65; An Order...for an Additional Supply of Commissioners for Ejecting Scandalous...Ministers (1657), 2, 6. Commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 3 Feb. 1657-c.June 1659;C181/6, p. 217. Surr. 21 Mar. 1659–?C181/6, p. 349. J.p. Staffs. 4 Mar. 1657-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 361. Surr. 20 Mar. 1657-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 363. Cheshire 6 Apr. 1657-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 364. Lancs. 30 Mar. 1658-c.May 1660.Lancs. RO, QSC/59–62. Commr. assessment, Bucks., Cheshire, Staffs., Surr. 9 June 1657; Beds. 26 June 1657;A. and O. sewers, Kent and Surr. 14 Nov. 1657, 1 Sept. 1659.C181/6, pp. 263, 386.

Colonial: member, council of Barbados, 27 June 1673–d.CSP Col. W. I. 1669–74, pp. 503–4.

Parlimentarian
BRIDGE, Tobias (d. 1673), of Lambeth Marsh, Surr.
: of Lambeth Marsh, Surr.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BRIDGE, Tobias (d. 1673), of Lambeth Marsh, Surr.

Will
15 Oct. 1673, pr. 12 Dec. 1673.Barbados Recs.: Wills and Admons. ed. Sanders, i. 46.
Estates
in 1650, Bridge was one of seven purchasers of Brogborough Park, Beds. for £11,208 (purchased with army debentures).E121/1/1/29. In 1651, he was one of six purchasers of Ampthill and Millbrook manors, Beds. for £2,041;E121/1/1/37. and one of seven purchasers of Newmarket House, Cambs. for £1,722 (purchased with army debentures).E121/1/4/56. In 1652, some of the above properties were sold and divided up, leaving Bridge with 146 acres in Brogborough Park and 300 acres in Ampthill.C54/3601/4; C54/3691/31-2. By 1658, he owned or rented a house in Lambeth Marsh, Surr.TSP vi. 692. At his d. estate inc. a plantation on Barbados, which he acquired through his second wife.Barbados Recs.: Wills and Admons. ed. Sanders, i. 46.
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CEELY, Peter (b. 1618), of St Ives, Cornw.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 1618, 3rd s. of William Ceely of St Ives and Anne, da. of Thomas Penrose of Penrose, Sithney, Cornw.; bro. of Thomas Ceely*. m. (1) 25 Nov. 1638, Joan, da. of Thomas Purefoy of St Ives, 3s.;Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 82. (2) 31 Mar. 1657, Honor, da. of James Grade, and wid. of John Prideaux.C10/59/101; St Ives par. regs. d. aft. 1668.Cornw. RO, G/1471/1.
Offices Held

Military: maj. (parlian.) forces in Lyme Regis, Dorset bef. July 1645.Sprigge, Anglia Rediviva, 64. Gov. Poltimore, Devon c.1645–6.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 308. Capt. militia ft. Cornw. 14 Feb. 1650, by July 1655 – aft.June 1656, Apr. 1660.CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 521; SP25/77, pp. 867, 890; Mercurius Politicus no. 615 (5–12 Apr. 1660), 1243 (E.182.28).

Local: overseer, St Ives par. Cornw. 1641–2.Cornw. Protestation Returns, 65. Surveyor of customs, Lyme Regis, Dorset 21 Aug. 1643–?CJ iii. 213a. Sub-commr. excise, western division, Cornw. Dec. 1646–25 Dec. 1651.E113/5, unfol.; E351/1298. Sequestrator, Cornw. 28 Feb. 1650.CCC 177. Commr. assessment, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance… for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). for sequestrations, 27 Oct. 1652.CCC 614. J.p. 13 Sept. 1653–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 266. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth by Jan. 1656;TSP iv. 451. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35). militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

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

Parlimentarian
CEELY, Peter (b. 1618), of St Ives, Cornw.
: of St Ives, Cornw.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

CEELY, Peter (b. 1618), of St Ives, Cornw.

Will
not found.
Estates
five-hearth house in St Ives.Cornw. Hearth Tax, 85. Commercial interests, inc. shares in at least six ships;CSP Dom. 1656-7, p. 85. farmer of rectory of Redruth (Mar. 1651-Mar. 1652), tithes of Mevagissey, Cury, Gevoe, Gunwalloe and Gaull and rectory of Sennan (Apr.-Sept. 1653).E113/5, unfol. On second marriage, acquired property in parishes of Gurlyn (St Erth), Godrevy and Tregender, Cornw (sold by 1668).Cornw. RO, G/1471/1; G/107.
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WHITELOCKE, Bulstrode (1605-75), of Middle Temple, London, Fawley Court and Phyllis Court, Bucks. and Buckingham House, Chelsea, Mdx.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 6 Aug. 1605, 1st s. of (Sir) James Whitelocke† of Fawley Court and Elizabeth (d. 28 May 1631), da. of Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley Bulstrode, Bucks.Add. 53726, passim. educ. Eton, c. 1615; Merchant Taylors’ Sch. London, 1616;Merchant Taylors’ Sch. Reg. ed. E.P. Hart (1934). M. Temple, 9 Aug. 1619;M. Temple Admiss. i. 109. St John’s, Oxf. 8 Dec. 1620;Al. Ox. travelled abroad (France), 1634.Add. 53726, ff. 99-107. m. (1) June 1630 (with £3,000), Rebecca (d. 9 May 1634), da. of Thomas Bennet of London, alderman, 1s.; (2) 9 Nov. 1634, Frances (d. 14 May 1649), da. of William Willoughby, 3rd Baron Willoughby of Parham, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 6da. (4 d.v.p.); (3) 5 Aug. 1650, Mary (bur. July 1684), da. of Bigley Carleton of London, grocer, wid. of Rowland Wilson* (d. 1650) of Bishopsgate, London, vintner, 5s. 2da.Whitelocke, Diary, betw. pp. viii-ix. suc. fa. 22 June 1632.Add. 53726, ff. 66v-67v. Kntd. (Sweden), c.Feb. 1654.Whitelocke, Diary, 335. d. 28 July 1675.Whitelocke, Diary, betw. pp. viii-ix.
Offices Held

Legal: called, M. Temple 24 Nov. 1626;M. Temple Admiss. i. 109. master of the revels, 1628; treas. of the revels, 1628–9;M. Temple Admiss. i. 109; Whitelocke, Diary, 57–9. associate bencher, 21 Apr. 1648; bencher, 27 Oct. 1648.M. Temple Admiss. i. 109; MTR 77. Att. duchy of Lancaster, 12 Oct. 1648–6 July 1649.Officeholders in the Duchy and Co. Palatine of Lancaster ed. R. Somerville (1972), 22; CJ vi. 50a, 51b, 252. Sjt.-at-law, Oct. 1648 (respited), Feb. 1649 (privately).Order of Serjeants at Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. supp. ser. v), 189; CJ vi. 50b, 59b, 75a, 135a; LJ x. 551a, 551b, 587b.

Civic: recorder, Abingdon, Berks. 1632–49;Add. 53726, f. 71. Oxf. 1 Feb. 1647-bef. 10 Sept. 1649;Oxford Council Acts 1626–1665, 143, 165. Bristol, Som. 11 Nov. 1651–21 Apr. 1655.Beaven, Bristol Lists, 232; Longleat, Whitelocke Pprs. xvii. f. 51. Retained counsel, Henley, Oxon. c.1632.Add. 53726, f. 71. Freeman, Yarmouth and Newport, I.o.W. 1634;Add. 5669, f. 97v; I.o.W. RO, NBC 45, f. 197v. Oxf. 11 Mar. 1647.Oxford Council Acts 1626–1665, 144. Steward, Henley 17 Jan. 1646;Longleat, Whitelocke Pprs. ix. f. 77. Oxf. 19 June 1649;Oxford Council Acts 1626–1665, 164. Reading, Berks. 1654-aft. 1672.HMC 11th Rep.VII. 191, 197.

Local: j.p. Oxon. 1 Mar. 1633 – 10 June 1642, by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1660;Coventry Docquets, 68; C231/5, p. 528; C193/13/3, f. 51. Bucks. c.1634–?, 16 Mar. 1641 – ?42, by Feb. 1650-Mar. 1660;C231/5, p. 437; Add. 37343, f. 1. Berks. by Feb. 1650 – Mar. 1660; all cos. by Feb. 1650–?May 1659.Libri pacis and C181/6, passim. Commr. sewers, River Loddon, Berks. and Wilts. 18 May 1639;C181/5, f. 135v. Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 11 Feb. 1651;Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/9. Deeping and Gt. Level 6 May 1654–7 Sept. 1660;C181/6, pp. 26, 332. River Kennett, Berks. and Hants 14 June 1654;C181/6, p. 44. Mdx. and Westminster 10 Jan. 1655–31 Aug. 1660;C181/6, pp. 67, 398. Hatfield Chase Level 2 July 1655–20 May 1659;C181/6, pp. 108, 197. Kent 17 June 1657;C181/6, p. 228. oyer and terminer, Norf., Oxf. circs. 5 June 1641 – aft.Jan. 1642, June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/5, ff. 190v, 191v, 218v, 219v; C181/6, pp. 374, 379. all circs. by Jan. 1654-May/June 1659;C181/6, pp.1, 352. Home circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 372. perambulation, Wychwood, Shotover and Stowood forests, Oxon. 28 May 1641.C181/5, f. 210. Dep. lt. Bucks. 11 May, 5 June 1642; Oxon. 28 May 1642.Whitelocke, Mems. 58–9. Commr. for associating midland cos. Bucks. 15 Dec.1642; assessment, 24 Feb 1643, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Oxon. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Oxf. Univ. and city 16 Feb. 1648;A. and O. Beds. 18 Apr., 19 Dec. 1651, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;CJ vi. 564a; vii. 54b; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Bristol 19 Dec. 1651;CJ vii. 54a. Oxf. 9 June 1657; sequestration, Bucks. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug 1643; commr. for Bucks., Oxon. 25 June 1644, 16 Feb. 1648.A. and O. Steward, Westminster sch. 11 Dec. 1645;Whitelocke, Diary, 183. Greenwich Palace by 17 July 1648–?Whitelocke, Mems. 323. Commr. militia, Bucks., Oxon. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659; Mdx. 26 July 1659.A. and O. Lt. Windsor Forest by Mar. 1649–?CSP Dom. 1650, p. 31. Gov. Charterhouse Hosp. London May 1649.Whitelocke, Diary, 266. Kpr. St James’s Palace lib. 30 July 1649–aft. 25 Feb. 1652.Whitelocke, Mems. 415; CSP Dom. 1651–2, p. 151, 553. Custos rot. Bucks. 2 Mar. 1650–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 177. Constable, Windsor Nov. 1653–?TSP i. 575, 577. Commr. almshouses of Windsor, 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O.

Military: cdr. (parlian.) coy. of horse, Aug.-Sept. 1642.Whitelocke, Mems. 63. Pikeman, regt. of John Hampden*, Turnham Green 13 Nov. 1642.Whitelocke, Diary, 140. Gov. Henley and Phyllis Court garrison, 18 Mar. 1645.Whitelocke, Mems. 137. Lt. Windsor Castle and Forest aft. 27 July 1648;Whitelocke, Mems. 323. constable, 10 Aug. 1659.CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 95.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs, 24 Dec. 1642.CJ ii. 901b. Commr. treaty with king at Oxf. 28 Feb. 1643.CJ ii. 985a. Member, Westminster Assembly, 12 June 1643;A. and O. cttee. for foreign affairs, 6 Sept. 1644;CJ iii. 618b; LJ vi. 697a. cttee. for examinations, 16 Oct. 1644.CJ iii. 666b. Commr. Uxbridge Propositions, 28 Jan. 1645. Member, cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 19 Apr. 1645; cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645, 26 June 1657; cttee. for revenues of elector palatine, 8 Oct. 1645; cttee. for Westminster Abbey and Coll. 18 Nov. 1645. Commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646; exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647;A. and O. cttee. for plundered ministers, 5 Oct. 1647.CJ v. 326b. Commr. gt. seal, 17 Mar. 1648 – 8 June 1655, 13 Jan.-14 May 1659;CJ v. 477a; vi. 135a, 135b; vii. 378a; LJ x. 107b; Whitelocke, Mems. 626, 676, 678; CSP Dom. 1654, pp. 73, 252; 1658–9, pp. 253, 263; ‘Bulstrode Whitelocke’, Oxford DNB. commr. and kpr. of gt. seal, 1 Nov. 1659–13 Jan. 1660.A. and O.; Whitelocke, Mems. 686, 692, 693. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650, 13 Feb., 24 Nov. 1651, 24 Nov. 1652, 19 May, 13 Oct. 1659.A. and O.; CJ vii. 42a, 220a, 654a; CSP Dom. 1652–3, pp. xxviii-xxxiii; 1659–60, pp. 251, 254. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Commr. treasury, 2 Aug. 1654–?June 1659;Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 393; CJ vii. 378a; Whitelocke, Mems. 597, 626; CSP Dom. 1654, p. 284; 1658–9, p. 382. visitation Oxf. Univ. 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O. Member, cttee. for trade, 12 July 1655;CSP Dom. 1655, p. 240. cttee. relief of Piedmont Protestants, 4 Jan. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 100. Acting Speaker, 27 Jan.-18 Feb. 1657.CJ vii. 482b, 493a. Commr. tendering oath to members of Other House, 20 Jan. 1658, 27 Jan. 1659.HMC Lords, n.s. iv. 505, 524. Member, cttee. of safety, 26 Oct. 1659.Longleat, Whitelocke Pprs. xix, f. 90; Ludlow, Mems. ii. 149.

Mercantile: member, Mineral and Battery Works Co. 25 May 1649; gov. 5 Dec. 1650–1659. Member, Mines Royal, 14 Aug. 1654–1659.Whitelocke, Diary, 394; BL Loan 16, ii. ff. 99, 102v, 103v, 125v; iii. 4, 12. Freeman, Merchant Adventurers’ Co. 1654.Add. 28079, f. 59.

Diplomatic: amb. to Sweden, 29 Oct. 1653-June 1654.CJ vii. 342a; Whitelocke, Diary, 387.

Parlimentarian
WHITELOCKE, Bulstrode (1605-1675), of the Middle Temple, London; later of Fawley Court, Bucks.
: of Middle Temple, Fawley Court, London and Phyllis Court, Bucks. and Buckingham House, Mdx., Chelsea.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, 1634;NPG. oil on canvas, unknown, 1650;NPG. oil on canvas, unknown;St John’s Coll. Oxf. etching, R. Gaywood;BM. line engraving, W. Faithorne, 1656;NPG. medal, A. and T. Simon, 1653.BM.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WHITELOCKE, Bulstrode (1605-75), of Middle Temple, London, Fawley Court and Phyllis Court, Bucks. and Buckingham House, Chelsea, Mdx.

Will
17 May 1675, pr. 10 Nov. 1676.PROB11/352/304.
Estates
Fawley Court, manor and woods, with personal estate valued at c.£4,500, from June 1632;Whitelocke, Diary, 67. Phyllis Court and Henley park, purchased 1638 for c.£8,050;Whitelocke, Diary, 117-18; Longleat, Whitelocke Pprs. vii. 252, 258, 308-11. lease with John Lisle* of Buckingham House, Chelsea, Mdx. from June 1649;CAM 529-30. manor of Henley, from earl of Northampton, 1659;Oxon. RO, BOR/3/B/II/15. Chilton Foliat, Wilts. purchased with money from 3rd wife, 1663.Whitelocke, Diary, 668.
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PENNYMAN, Sir William, 1st bt. (1608-43), of Marske Hall, Marske-by-the-Sea, Yorks.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 31 July 1608, 1st s. of William Pennyman of Marske-by-the-Sea and St Albans, Herts., and Anne, da. of Robert Aske of Aughton, Yorks.St Peter, St Albans par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 70-1. educ. Westminster sch.;G.F.R. Barker, A.H. Stenning, Recs. of Old Westminsters, 732. Christ Church, Oxf. 31 Oct. 1623;Al. Ox. I. Temple 29 June 1623;CITR. called, G. Inn 6 Feb. 1639.PBG Inn. m. by Jan. 1631, Anne (d. 13 July 1644), da. and h. of John Atherton of Skelton, Yorks., s.p.Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P12/190; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 70-1; VCH N. Riding, i. 315. suc. fa. 28 Apr. 1628;C142/444/84; J.W. Pennyman, Recs. of Fam. of Pennyman, 62. cr. bt. 6 May 1628;CB. d. 22 Aug. 1643.Wood, Hist. Univ. Oxford (1786), i. 467.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Yorks. (N. Riding) 23 June 1630 – 6 Mar. 1634, 8 July 1634–d.C231/5, pp. 35, 127, 143. Member, council of the north by Nov. 1631–41.Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P12/268. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 24 Jan. 1631–23 Jan. 1634, 6 June 1634–d.;C181/4, ff. 73, 142v, 184, 197v; C181/5, ff. 7v, 203; Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P14/37. charitable uses, N. Riding 21 May 1631;C192/1, unfol. sewers, 28 Apr. 1632;C181/4, f. 114. commr. recusants, northern cos. 8 Aug. 1633-aft. July 1638.C231/5, p. 113; Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 1, p. 57; pt. 2, p. 162. Dep. lt. N. Riding by Oct. 1633–d.Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str 13/76. Sheriff, Yorks. 1635–3 Oct. 1636.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 163. Col. militia ft. N. Riding by c.1635–42.Add. 28082, f. 81. Commr. array (roy.), Yorks. 18 June 1642.Northants. RO, FH133.

Central: commr. inquiry, estate of Francis Lockwood (priest), 21 July 1637.C181/5, f. 82v. Clerk, star chamber, 24 Jan. 1639-July 1641.SO3/12, f. 15v; Coventry Docquets, 208.

Court: Gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, by 1641–?d.LC3/1, f. 25v.

Military: capt. of horse (roy.) by 30 July 1642–d.;A Speedy Post With More News from Hull, York, and Beverley (25 July-1 Aug. 1642), 6 (E.108.40). col. of ft. by Aug. 1642–d.;N. Yorks. RO, ZFM, Chaloner of Guisborough mss (mic. 1441): commission in Pennyman’s regt. of ft. 8 Aug. 1642; Clarendon, Hist. ii. 335. col. of horse, 7 Jan. 1643–d.Harl. 6852, f. 2. Gov. Oxf. Apr. 1643–d.Wood, Life and Times, i. 96; Clarendon, Hist. iii. 406.

Parlimentarian
PENNYMAN, Sir William, 1st bt. (1608-43), of Marske Hall, Marske-by-the-Sea, Yorks.
: 1st bt. (1608-43), of Marske Hall, Marske-by-the-Sea, Yorks. 1608 – 43.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

PENNYMAN, Sir William, 1st bt. (1608-43), of Marske Hall, Marske-by-the-Sea, Yorks.

Will
admon. 20 July 1644.CB.
Estates
at his d. in 1628, William Pennyman senior’s estate consisted of a capital messuage and lands in and near St Albans, Herts.; third part of manor of Marske, Redcar and Upleatham, capital messuage or Grange at Marske and rectory, advowson and tithes of Marske; half of three manors in Ormesby; and lands and tenements in Barwick, Brotton, Cold Cotes, Easby, Ingleby, Marske, Ormsby and Upsall, Yorks. – in all, valued at £954 p.a. In his will, Pennyman senior gave direction for sale of lands in St Albans, Barwick, Brotton, Ingleby and Upsall worth £202 p.a. to pay his debts.WARD5/49, unfol.; Pennyman, Fam. of Pennyman, 25-6, 61-2; VCH N. Riding, ii. 404. On his marriage in about 1630, Pennyman acquired an estate through his w. of lands in manor of Hornby; a third of manor of Yarm; two thirds of manor of Marske; a third of manor of Skelton, worth £90 p.a.; a third of manor of Eston, worth £108 p.a.; lands in Hudswell and ‘Stanghen’; lands in Skipton Bridge and Thornton Steward; and a burgage-tenement in Northallerton, Yorks.C142/766/69; Pennyman, Fam. of Pennyman, 62; VCH N. Riding, i. 315; ii. 218, 322, 402, 408. In about 1633, Pennyman granted to his uncle lands and tithes in Marske, Redcar and Upleatham, Yorks., which were valued after the civil war at £600 p.a.SP23/179, p. 2; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J. W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xv), 190. In 1637, he mortgaged for £3,500 a third part of castle, manor and lordship of Skelton, with lands, mines and alum works belonging, and a third part of manor of Eston, Yorks., paying £500 p.a. for 15 years.C54/3122/18; SP46/107, ff. 198-9. In 1639, sold a third part of manor of Yarm.C54/3160/8; VCH N. Riding, ii. 218, 322. In 1641, borrowed £2,500 by statute staple.LC4/202, f. 227v; C54/3282/5, 9.
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presented Allan Smallwood to vicarage of Marske, Yorks. 1642.IND1/17000, f. 20v.
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GELDART, John (1596-1659), of All Saints, Pavement, York, and Askham Bryan, Yorks.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 20 Oct. 1596, 3rd s. of Richard Geldart (bur. 4 Feb. 1628) of York, butcher, and 1st w. da. of ?Par. Reg. of St Crux, York ed. R.B. Cook, F. Harrison (Yorks. Par. Reg. Soc. Lxx), 17; Holy Trinity King’s Court, York par. reg.; St Helen, York, par. reg.; Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 41, f. 58v; York City Lib. Skaife mss, SKA/1, f. 293; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 280-1. educ. appr. merchant, York c.1610. m. (1) 14 Dec. 1628, Tabitha (bur. 21 Aug. 1638), da. of Elias Micklethwaite (d. Feb. 1633), merchant, alderman of York, at least 2s.;Long Marston, Yorks. bishop’s transcript; Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 42, f. 110; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 281. (2) Alice (d. c.1667), da. of John Twisleton of Barlow, Yorks., and Dartford, Kent, s.p.York City Lib. Skaife mss, SKA/1, f. 293; CB; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 281. bur. 11 Jan. 1659 11 Jan. 1659.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. iii. 281.
Offices Held

Mercantile: member, Merchant Adventurers, York 1619; gov. 1641, 1642, 1645.Borthwick, YMA.Ph.4 (York Merchant Adventurers Act. Bk. 4), ff. 148v, 150v. Dep. Eastland Merchants, York ?-1645.Borthwick, York Eastland Merchants’ Court Bk. 1645–97, f. 1.

Civic: freeman, York 13 Jan. 1620–d.;York City Archives, Y/FIN/1/2, Chamberlains’ acct. bk. 1619, f. 72v. chamberlain, 1629 – 30; common cllr. ?- 1632; sheriff, 1632 – 33; one of the twenty-four, 1633 – 45; alderman, 13 Jan. 1645 – d.; ld. mayor, 15 Jan. 1645 – 15 Jan. 1646, 15 Jan. 1654–15 Jan. 1655.York City Archives, York House Bk. 35, ff. 67v, 181, 188v; 36, ff. 119, 120; 37, f. 52v.

Local: recvr. billet money, York 1641;SR. assessment money, Yorks. 21 Feb. 1645.Hull Hist. Cent. C BRL/359. Commr. assessment, York 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). J.p. 13 Jan. 1645–d.York City Archives, York House Bk. 36, f. 119. Commr. Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; northern cos. militia, 23 May 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648,A. and O. 14 Mar. 1655;CSP Dom. 1655, p.79. sequestration, Yorks. c.Feb. 1650;SP28/215, pt. 4, f. 3. commr. inquiry concerning church livings, Yorks. (W. Riding) c.May 1650;W. Yorks. Archives (Wakefield), C413. ejecting scandalous ministers, W. Riding and York 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655;C181/6, p. 103. sewers, York and the Ainsty 13 Dec. 1658.C181/6, p. 331.

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

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GELDART, John (1596-1659), of All Saints, Pavement, York, and Askham Bryan, Yorks.
: of All Saints, Pavement, York and Askham Bryan, Yorks.
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GELDART, John (1596-1659), of All Saints, Pavement, York, and Askham Bryan, Yorks.

Will
died intestate.
Estates
fa. bequeathed him the reversion of a lease of a tenement in Little Shambles, York.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 41, f. 58v. In 1650, he purchased, for £72, a tenement in York ‘commonly called … the parsonage house of St Sampson’.C54/3518/15.
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ST JOHN, Sir Beauchamp (1594-1667), of Tilbrook, Beds.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 17 Mar. 1594,The Par. Reg. of Southill 1538-1812 (Beds. Par. Reg. xii), 9. 7th but 6th surv. s. of Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso (d. 1618), and Dorothy, da. of John Rede† of Boddington, Glos.;Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 194; Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 291; CP. bro. of Sir Alexander†, Sir Anthony†, Sir Henry†, Oliver St John†, 1st earl of Bolingbroke, and Sir Rowland†. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1610, MA 1613;Al. Cant. L. Inn 1613.LI Admiss. i. 162. m. 13 Oct. 1613, Rebecca (bur. 26 Mar. 1631), da. of William Hawkins of Tilbrook, Beds. s.p.C142/429/132/2; Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 291. Kntd. 24 June 1619.F.A. Blaydes, ‘A list of Beds. knights’, Beds. N and Q i. 211. d. betw. 8 July-23 Aug. 1667.Leics. RO, Wills 1667/73.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Beds. 1619 – June 1627, 1628 – 36, by Feb. 1650 – 29 July 1652, Mar. 1660 – d.; Hunts. 1624 – 26, 1628 – 36, by Feb. 1650-bef. Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 195, 244; C193/13/3, ff. 1, 31v; C193/12/3, f. 1v; Coventry Docquets, 60; J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts, ‘Additional docquets of commissions of the peace’, Parl. Hist. xxxii. 235; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 94; A Perfect List (1660). Dep. lt. by 1624-aft. 1625; Beds. by 1642–?C231/4, f. 173; Add. Ch. 33168B; PJ iii. 92. Commr. Forced Loan, 1626–7; Hunts., Bedford 1627;C193/12/2, ff. 2, 24v, 81; CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 44. sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 1631 – 38; Beds. 1636;C181/4, f. 93v; C181/5, ff. 9v, 37v; Cambs. RO, R.59.31.9.1A, f. 179; National Art Library, V. and A., MSL/1921/320; Beds. RO, J1053. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. 14 Jan. 1642;C181/5, f. 218. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Beds. 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664.SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Commry. for musters, Sir Samuel Luke’s* tp. of horse, Beds. Nov. 1642.CJ ii. 833a. Commr. for associating midland cos. Beds. 15 Dec. 1642; sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 28 Oct. 1642.CJ ii. 825b.

Civic: freeman, Bedford by 1647–d.Min. Bk. of Bedford Corp. 1.

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ST. JOHN, Sir Beauchamp (1594-1667), of Tilbrook, Beds.
: of Tilbrook, Beds.
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ST JOHN, Sir Beauchamp (1594-1667), of Tilbrook, Beds.

Will
8 July 1667, pr. 23 Aug. 1667.Leics. RO, Wills 1667/73.
Estates
owned property at Tilbrook (inherited from his father-in-law)Beds. N and Q i. 211, 216. and in Hunts.;VCH Beds. iii. 163; Add. 34401, f. 73. he and others bought land at Titchmarsh, Northants. 1637.Coventry Docquets, 705.
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SEYLIARD, John (c.1615-67), of Delaware, Brasted, Kent.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1615, 1st s. of Thomas Seyliard of Delaware, Kent, and Elizabeth, da. of Francis Beaumont of Grace Dieu, Leics.CB. educ. Sidney Sussex, Camb. 2 July 1631; I. Temple, 25 Apr. 1634;Al. Cant.; I. Temple database. m. ?23 May 1647, Mary (bur. 25 Oct. 1685) née Glover, 5da. (1 d.v.p.).St Bartholomew the Less, London par. reg. transcript; ‘Extracts par. reg. Edenbridge’, ed. G. Leveson-Gower, Arch. Cant. xxi. 292, 299; PROB11/326/322. suc. fa. Feb. 1650; cr. bt. 18 June 1661. bur. 19 Dec. 1667 19 Dec. 1667.CB; ‘Extracts par. reg. Edenbridge’, 292.
Offices Held

Local: commr. sequestration, Kent 6 Nov. 1644;CJ iii. 689a. militia, 2 Dec.1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. assessment, 14 May, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (E.1062.28); An Ordinance… for an Assessment (E.1075.6); SR. J.p. 20 Dec. 1649-bef. Dec. 1662.C231/6, p. 172; C220/9/4, f. 42.

Military: capt. militia, Kent bef. June 1650; lt.-col. militia ft. 27 June 1650-at least Mar. 1660.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 507; Add. 42596, f. 9v.

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SEYLIARD, John (c.1615-67), of Delaware, Brasted, Kent.
: Kent., Brasted.
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SEYLIARD, John (c.1615-67), of Delaware, Brasted, Kent.

Will
10 Dec. 1667, pr. 2 Mar. 1668.PROB11/326/322.
Estates
inheritance inc. manors of Chiddingstone, Buryhurst and Penshurst, Kent, Feb. 1650.PROB11/211/260.
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