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BARROWE, Maurice (c.1597-1666), of Westhorpe and Barningham, Suff.

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b. c. 1597, o.s. of William Barrowe of Westhorpe, Suff. and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Dandy of Comes.Vis. Suff. 1561, 1577, 1612, 113; Vis. Suff. 1664-1668 (Harl. Soc. lxi.), 208; W.E. Layton, ‘Bacon and Bures’, Misc. Gen. et Her. 3rd ser. iv. 167; Copinger, Manors of Suff. i. 174. educ. St John’s, Camb. 1612;Al. Cant. G. Inn 1616.G. Inn Admiss. m. 5 Sept. 1626, Mary (d. 19 Nov. 1666), da. and coh. of Sir Richard Smythe of Leeds Castle, Leeds, Kent, wid. of Sir James Morice alias Poyntz of North Ockendon, Essex, s.p.St Stephen Coleman Street, London par. reg.; Le Neve, Monumenta, iv. 68; Layton, ‘Bacon and Bures’, 166-7. suc. fa. 1613.Le Neve, Monumenta, i. 41-2; PROB11/123/35. d. 11 May 1666.Le Neve, Monumenta, iv. 64.
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Local: commr. sewers, Suff. 1626, 1637;C181/3, f. 201v; C181/5, f. 82; Deeping and Gt. Level 21 July 1659;C181/6, p. 383. Norf., Suff. and I. of Ely 7 Sept. 1660.C181/7, p. 42. Sheriff, Suff. 1627–8, Dec. 1643–?after Jan. 1645.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 132; Coventry Docquets, 361; CJ iii. 354b; LJ vi. 384a. Commr. swans, Essex and Suff. 1635;C181/5, f. 28v. preserving royal game, Thetford 1638;Norf. RO, KIM 6/6. subsidy, Suff. 1641, 1663; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;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, 1 June 1660, 1661;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). loans on Propositions, 28 July 1642.LJ v. 245b. Dep. lt. by Sept. 1642–?LJ v. 342b. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643; ejecting scandalous ministers, Suff. 1644–6;Suff. Cttees. for Scandalous Ministers ed. Holmes, 25. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O. J.p. by Aug. 1645 – bef.Jan. 1650, Mar.-Oct. 1660.Suff. RO (Ipswich), B105/2/1, f. 78v; Bodl. Tanner 226, p. 187; A Perfect List (1660), 51. Commr. oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, 24 July 1645;C181/5, f. 257. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Religious: elder, tenth Suff. classis, 5 Nov. 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 428.

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BARROWE, Maurice (c.1597-1666), of Westhorpe and Barningham, Suff.
: of Westhorpe and Barningham, Suff.
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Likenesses: fun. monument, attrib. D. Cawcy and E. Pearce, Westhorpe church, Suff.

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BARROWE, Maurice (c.1597-1666), of Westhorpe and Barningham, Suff.

Will
16 Nov. 1665, pr. 1 July 1667.PROB11/321/240.
Estates
?worth £3,000-£4,000 p.a. 1637;CSP Dom. 1637, p. 479. combined estates of Barrowe and his wife said to be worth £6,000 p.a. in the late 1650s;Soc. Antiq. MS 667, p. 237. bought lands at Great Fakenham, Sapiston and Bardwell, Suff. 1631;Coventry Docquets, 610. sold manor of Tunbridge Hall, Bottisham, Cambs. 1636.C66/2724, mm. 28-9.
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BOUGHTON, Richard (d. aft. 1662), of Chichester and Lewes, Suss.

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educ. ?Clifford’s Inn.E. Suss. RO, SAS/PN/141. m. ?31 Aug. 1637, Mary (bap. 12 Apr. 1616), da. of Peter Bettsworth (d. 1639) of Chithurst, Suss. at least 1s.IGI; Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 184; Attree, Notes IPMs Suss. 28; LI Admiss. i. 289. d. aft. 9 Feb. 1663.LI Admiss. i. 289.
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Local: treas. for subsidies, customs and assessments, Suss. June 1640-Jan. 1643,E113/13. ?by 3 Dec. 1647-aft. 29 Dec. 1657.SP28/50, f. 83; 53, f. 246; 55, ff. 57, 101, 103, 412; 61, f. 505; 62, f. 713; 64, f. 570; 65, f. 724; 68, f. 265; 71, f. 255; 74, f. 211; 76, f. 420; 79, f. 759; 81, f. 1116; 82, f. 405; 92, ff. 398, 573; 96, f. 562; 98, f. 347; 101, f. 82; 103, f. 479; 105, f. 413; 108, ff. 283, 787; 110, f. 189; 111, ff. 165, 556; 113, f. 22; 114, ff. 298, 615. Solicitor for sequestrations, 13 Apr. 1643-aft. 9 June 1651.SP20/1, p. 6; E113/13; CCC 2292. Recvr. of rents, Chichester Cathedral Nov. 1648-Nov. 1649.E113/13. J.p. Suss. by 1 Oct. 1649-bef. Oct. 1660.Suss. QSOB 1642–49, 183; C193/13/3, ff. 64–5; C193/13/4, ff. 99v-101v; C193/13/5, ff. 105–107v; C193/13/6, ff. 88–89v; Stowe 577, ff. 53–4; CUL, Dd.VIII.1, f. 107v; Bodl. Rawl. A.32, p. 173. Commr. sewers, 2 June 1655, 30 June 1656, 28 Dec. 1658, 6 July 1659, 4 Oct. 1660.C181/6, pp. 106, 160, 346, 367; C181/7, p. 61; E. Suss. RO, DAP1/2/6; DAP1/3. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth, Nov. 1655.TSP iv. 161–2. Steward, Cuckfield, Ditchling, Nutborne, Chiltington, Rottingdean and Lewes 1656.E. Suss. RO, Dyke MS 1124. Commr. assessment, Suss. 6 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; surveying Ashdown Forest 19 June 1657;A. and O. for public faith, Suss. 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62–3 (E.505.35). ejecting scandalous ministers, 24 Oct. 1657;SP25/78, p. 238. militia, 26 July 1659.A. and O.

Military: capt. militia horse, Suss. 20 Sept. 1650; col. bef. Dec. 1655.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 511; TSP iv. 161.

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

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BOUGHTON, Richard (d. aft. 1662), of Chichester and Lewes, Suss.
: Suss.
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BOUGHTON, Richard (d. aft. 1662), of Chichester and Lewes, Suss.

Will
not found.
Estates
in July 1642, acquired a share in Irish Adventurers’ lands, and in 1653 was assigned 3,000 acres of land in Tipperary, co. Munster, Ire. which he sold in 1658.CSP Ire. (Adventurers) 1642-59, p. 204; C54/3795/35, 39; C54/3829/57; C54/3995/11. Property in Chichester, Woodhorne, Heighhurst, Eastergate, Rumboldswyke, and Birdham, Suss. purchased from commrs for sale of dean and chapter lands in 1650 and 1651; large portions of which were swiftly sold.C54/3479/6; C54/3479/10; C54/3542/13; C54/3543/26; C54/3544/26; C54/3548/5; C54/3553/19; C54/3577/22; C54/3578/14; C54/3582/12; C54/3586/30; C54/3904/9; C54/3944/22; Suss. Manors, i. 43, 48, 108, 219. ?Purchased ‘Chisenhall’s buildings’ near Gray’s Inn, Holborn, London in 1650.C54/3575/12.
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Boughton and William Cawley I* presented Michael Barrett to Eastergate, Suss. 14 Oct. 1657.F.E. Sawyer, ‘Parliamentary presentations to Suss. livings’, Suss. Arch. Coll. xxxiii. 270.
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STONE, John (?1599-aft. 1660), of Friday Street, London, and Westminster

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b. ?; b. 23 Sept. 1599, 1st s. of Richard Stone, pewterer, of Caldmore near Walsall, Staffs. and Elizabeth, da. of one Nichols.F. Willmore, Reg. St Matthew’s, Walsall (Walsall, 1890), 47, 275. educ. appr. 9 June 1615.GL, MS 15857/1, f. 58. m. bef. 1646, Mary, at least 1da.Mar. Lics. issued by Bp. London (Harl. Soc. xxvi), 294; H.F. Waters, Gen. Gleanings, 1119.
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Civic: freeman, Haberdashers’ Co. 13 June 1623.GL, MS 15857/1, f. 194. Common councilman, London Dec. 1648–57.J.E. Farnell, ‘Politics of the City of London, 1649–57’ (Chicago Univ. PhD thesis, 1963), 234.

Mercantile: ?freeman, E.I. Co. 6 Oct. 1647.Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co. 1644–9, p. 230.

Local: commr. assessment, London 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Mdx. 9 June 1657; Westminster 26 June 1657, 1 June 1660.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Asst. London corporation for the poor, 7 May 1649.A. and O. J.p. Mdx. by Oct. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/4, f. 62v. Recvr.-gen. assessments, London by July 1654–?CSP Dom. 1654, p. 252. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, London, Mdx. and Westminster 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, London 25 Mar. 1656;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 238. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 10 July 1656–3 Oct. 1659;C181/6, pp. 177, 320. Mdx. 17 Aug. 1660;C181/7, p. 28. militia, Mdx., Westminster 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Military: capt. (parlian.) trained bands, London 1647.A Pair of Spectacles for the City (1647), 11–12 (E.419.9).

Central: trustee, dean and chapter lands, 30 Apr. 1649; sale of dean and chapter lands, 31 July 1649. Asst. corporation propagating gospel in New England, 27 July 1649. Commr. high ct. of justice, 26 Mar. 1650, 13 June 1654.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 1 Nov. 1653.CJ vii. 344a-b. Commr. admlty. and navy, 3 Dec. 1653; arrears of excise, 29 Dec. 1653;A. and O. improvement of customs, Dec. 1653;CSP Dom. 1653–4, pp. 316, 425; 1654, p. 342; 1655, p. 51. sale of prize goods, 25 Jan. 1654;CSP Dom. 1653–4, p. 368. appeals and regulating excise, 17 Mar. 1654; prohibiting planting of tobacco, 11 Apr. 1654.A. and O. Teller exch. Sept. 1654-June 1660.CSP Dom. 1654, p. 367. Agent, wine office, 31 Oct. 1655.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 36. Member, cttee. for trade, 1 Nov. 1655.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 1. Commr. for accts. 24 Nov. 1655;C231/6, p. 320; CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 14. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656. Member, cttee. for improving revenues of customs and excise, 26 June 1657.A. and O. Commr. tendering oath to MPs, 18 Jan. 1658, 26 Jan. 1659;CJ vii. 578a, 593a. appeals, customs and excise, 2 Feb. 1660.A. and O.

Irish: ?commr. revenue, 15 Nov. 1669-c.Feb. 1677;CTB iii. 297; v. 534–5. ?wine licences, Apr. 1671.CSP Dom. 1671, p. 211.

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STONE, John (?1599-aft. 1660), of Friday Street, London, and Westminster
: of Friday Street, London and Westminster.
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Commons 1640-1660
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STONE, John (?1599-aft. 1660), of Friday Street, London, and Westminster

Will
not found.
Estates
purchased manor of Salcombe, Devon, 17 Jan. 1650 for £5,831.Eg. 1048, f. 120; Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church ii. 555.
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WYVILL (WYVELL), Christopher (1614-81), of Constable Burton, Fingall, Yorks.

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bap. 6 Dec. 1614, 1st s. of Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, 2nd bt. of Constable Burton, and Isabel (d. c.May 1645), da. and h. of Sir William Gascoigne of Sedbury, Yorks.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 434-5; C. Wyvill, Certaine Serious Thoughts which...have Stollen themselves into Verse (1647), 34. educ. Epping sch. Essex (Mr. Wroth);Wyvill, Certaine Serious Thoughts, 10. Trinity, Camb. Mich. 1631;Al. Cant. G. Inn 14 Oct. 1633.G. Inn Admiss. m. 5 Dec. 1636, Ursula, da. of Hon. Conyers Darcy of Hornby Castle (later 1st earl of Holderness), Hornby, Yorks., 7s. (4 d.v.p.) 5da. (2 d.v.p.).Swillington, Yorks. par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 435-6. suc. fa. as 3rd bt. c.1648;Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 434. bur. 8 Feb. 1681 8 Feb. 1681.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 435. Sig.SP19/131, f. 123A (1651).
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Local: commr. Northern Assoc. Yorks. (N. Riding) 20 June 1645; militia, Yorks. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. N. Riding Mar. 1660–d.A Perfect List [of JPs] (1660). Col. militia ft. Yorks. 27 Mar. 1660–?Notts. RO, DD/SR/216/1. Commr. assessment, 1 June 1660;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). N. Riding 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679.SR. Dep. lt. c.Aug. 1660–d.N. Yorks. RO, ZDV, Fauconberg (Belasysye) of Newburgh Priory mss, Lieutenancy appointments 1660–75, unfol. (mic. 1370); SP29/5/110, f. 130; SP29/42/67, f. 134. Commr. poll tax, 1660; loyal and indigent officers, Yorks. 1662; subsidy, N. Riding 1663;SR. sewers, 9 May 1664.C181/7, p. 248.

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WYVILL, Sir Christopher, 3rd Bt. (1614-81), of Constable Burton, Fingall, Yorks.
: of Constable Burton, Fingall, Yorks.
WYVELL
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WYVILL (WYVELL), Christopher (1614-81), of Constable Burton, Fingall, Yorks.

Will
not found.
Estates
at his marriage in 1636, fa. settled on him £30 p.a.SP23/201, pp. 430, 431; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 164. In 1646, fa.’s estate – which Wyvill inherited in 1648 – consisted of messuages and lands in Carlesmoor, Clifton, Constable Burton, Dallowgill, Eppleby, Garriston, Grewelthorpe, High Burton, Low Burton, Sedbury, Spennithorne, Swetton, Swinton and Thornton Steward, Yorks., and was valued at £971 p.a (inc. above annuity).SP23/201, pp. 429-31, 435; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. Clay, 164.
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presented Robert Smith to rectory of Finghall, Yorks. 1665; Samuel Lindsey to rectory of Spennithorne, Yorks. 1672.IND1/17007, ff. 382, 394.
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BANKS, John (1627-99), of Leadenhall Street, London, and Aylesford, Kent.

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bap. 19 Aug. 1627, 1st s. of Caleb Banks and Martha, da. of Stephen Dann of Faversham, Kent.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. liv), 7. m. 28 Nov. 1654, Elizabeth (bur. 2 Nov. 1696), da. of John Dethick of London, 2s. (d.v.p.), 3da.Vis. Kent, 7; CB. suc. fa. Oct. 1669.PROB11/331/316. cr. bt. 22 Aug. 1661.CB. d. 18 Oct. 1699.CB; Aylesford par. regs.; D.C. Coleman, Sir John Banks (Oxford, 1963), 189.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Maidstone 30 July 1644;Cent. Kent Stud. Md/ACm1/3, f. 4v. Rochester 1683.HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Sir John Banks’.

Mercantile: freeman, E.I. Co. 1657 – 92; gov. 1672 – 74, 1683–4.Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co. 1671–3, 122, 224. Member, Levant Co. Aug. 1660–d.Coleman, Sir John Banks, 25. Asst. Royal Africa Co. 1672–4, 1676 – 78; sub-gov. 1674–5. Member, Royal Fishery Co. 1677.Select Charters, ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 187, 198; K.G. Davies, Royal African Company (1957), 378.

Local: commr. assessment, Kent 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689–?d.; Mdx. 1677, 1679, 1690–?d.; Westminster 1677, 1679. 2 July 1657 – Mar. 1662A. and O.; SR. J.p. Kent, July 1662 – Feb. 1688, Oct. 1688 – d.; Mdx. 1680-c.1686. Oct. 1658C231/6, p. 370; HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Sir John Banks’. Commr. sewers, Denge Marsh, Kent, 10 Oct. 1660, 22 May 1669;C181/6, p. 321; C181/7, pp. 64, 489. Mersham and Sandwich, Kent 1 July 1659, 21 Sept. 1660, 13 Nov. 1669;C181/6, p. 367; C181/7, pp. 57, 509. Walland Marsh, Kent and Suss. 22 Nov. 1670.C181/7, p. 562. Asst. Rochester bridge 1659 – 61, 1679 – d.; warden, 1680, 1687, 1694. 26 July 1659HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Sir John Banks’. Commr. militia, Kent, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. royal aid, 1664.Cent. Kent Stud. U234/O1, ff. 16–16v. Dep. lt. 1679 – Feb. 1688, 1689–d.HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Sir John Banks’.

Academic: FRS, 10 Dec. 1668–d.M. Hunter, Royal Society (1982), 208.

Parlimentarian
BANKS, Sir John, 1st Bt. (1627-99), of The Friars, Aylesford, Kent and Arch Row, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx.
: London and Kent., Aylesford.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, studio of P. Lely, c.1670-80;NT, Petworth. fun. monument, attrib. J. Nost, Aylesford church, Kent.

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BANKS, John (1627-99), of Leadenhall Street, London, and Aylesford, Kent.

Will
22 Nov. 1697, pr. 11 Dec. 1699.PROB11/452/437.
Estates
house in Leadenhall Street, ‘over against East India House’, London, 1657-60;Cent. Kent Stud., U234/A1, p. 3; U234/B2, unfol. purchased ‘Fryars’ in Aylesford, Kent, for £8,412 in Nov. 1658, and further land in Marden, Isle of Thanet, Lydd, and East Peckham, for £1,939 at the same time;Cent. Kent Stud. U234/A1, p. 26. inherited property in the Isle of Sheppey and in Rushenden, Boxley, Lydd, and Maidstone.PROB11/331/316. At d. estate inc. a house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and property in the Isle of Thanet, New and Old Romney, and in Essex, Staffs. and Derbys.PROB11/452/437.
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HAMMOND, Robert (1621-54), of Chertsey, Surr. and Reading, Berks.

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b. 1621, 2nd s. of Robert Hammond (d. 1623), of Chertsey and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Francis Knollys I*.G.C.M. Smith, ‘Temple and Hammond families and the related families of Nowell and Knollys’, N and Q, cli. 237-9. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 20 May 1636, ‘aged 15’.Al. Ox.; Ath. Ox. iii. 500. m. 1 Feb. 1650, Mary, da. of John Hampden*, 2da.St Mary Bothaw, London par. reg.; Smith, ‘Temple and Hammond families’, 238-9; Reg. of the Par. of St Mary, Reading, ed. G.P. Crawfurd (Reading, 1891-2), i. 64; PROB11/241/614. d. 24 Oct. 1654.Ath. Ox. iii. 502.
Offices Held

Military: soldier, Ireland 1641–2. July 1642 – Mar. 1643An Answer to a Scandalous Letter written by Hammond (1648), 4 (E.452.8). Capt. of ft. (parlian) regt. of Sir John Hotham*, Hull; lifeguard of 3rd earl of Essex, Mar.-Nov. 1643.BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; SP28/7, f. 121; SP28/10, f. 286 Maj. regt. of Edward Massie* by Aug. 1644.CSP Dom. 1644, p. 396. Col. of ft. by May 1645-Sept. 1647.M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), i. 56, 66, 77, 86. Gov. Exeter Apr. 1646;CJ iv. 506a. I.o.W. 17 Sept. 1647-Nov. 1648.LJ ix. 423b, 437a, 437b; CJ v. 306a-b. Member, gen. cttee. of officers, 29 Aug. 1647.Clarke Pprs. i. 223–4.

Local: member, I.o.W. standing cttee. Nov. 1647; Berks. Mar. 1648.CJ v. 347a, 506b; LJ ix. 506a, 507a; x. 127a-b. V.-adm. Hants and I.o.W. Oct. 1647-June 1649.ADM7/673, pp. 401–2; CJ v. 324b. J.p. Hants 21 Feb. 1648–d.C231/6, pp. 108, 160; C193/13/4, f. 87.

Civic: high steward, Reading 26 June 1654–d.Reading Recs. iv. 532, 555–6.

Irish: cllr. of state, 17 Aug. 1654.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 407.

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HAMMOND, Robert (1621-54), of Chertsey, Surr. and Reading, Berks.
: of Chertsey, Surr. and Berks., Reading.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HAMMOND, Robert (1621-54), of Chertsey, Surr. and Reading, Berks.

Will
5 Oct. 1654, pr. 7 Dec. 1654.PROB11/241/614.
Estates
bought Reading Abbey, Reading, Berks. and manor of Chertsey Beamond, Surr. but sold them to Sir Robert Pye II*, Charles Fleetwood*, Sir John Temple*, John Trevor*, Richard Knightley* and Richard Hampden*, 1651;I.J. Gentles, ‘The debenture market and military purchasers of crown lands, 1649-60’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 291. owned land at Chertsey, Surr. and at Willen, Bucks.PROB11/241/614.
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RIDDELL, Sir Peter (1576-1641), of Pilgrim Street, St Andrew, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.

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bap. 8 Jan. 1576, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of William Riddell, merchant and ald. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 2nd w. Barbara (bur. 11 Nov. 1627), da. of Bertram Anderson, merchant and ald. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.St Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne par. reg.; Hist. Northumb. iv. 284; Surtees, Co. Dur. ii. 128. educ. appr. mercer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne c.1590;Reg. of Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne ed. M.H. Dodds (Newcastle upon Tyne Recs. Cttee. iii), 7. Clifford’s Inn; M. Temple 21 Oct. 1595.M. Temple Admiss. i. 69. m. (1) 19 Dec. 1603, Isabel (bur. 12 Oct. 1614), da. of Robert Atkinson, merchant and alderman of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 4s. d.v.p. 4da. (2 d.v.p.); (2) 6 Feb. 1616, Mary (bur. 15 May 1660), da. of Thomas Surtees of Middleton, co. Dur., 2da.St Nicholas par. reg.; Durham UL, DPR/I/1/1641/R2/1-2; Hist. Northumb. iv. 284; Surtees, Co. Dur. ii. 128. suc. fa. Aug. 1600;Hist. Northumb. iv. 284. Kntd. 4 May 1617.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 163. d. 14 Apr. 1641.Hist. Northumb. iv. 284.
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Mercantile: member, Hostmen’s Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 29 Mar. 1602–d.;Extracts from the Recs. of the Co. of Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ed. F.W. Dendy (Surt. Soc. cv), 267. auditor, 1607 – 08; steward, 1608 – 09, 1616 – 17; gov. 1627–8.Tyne and Wear Archives, GU.HO/1/1, pp. 74, 78, 140; Recs. of the Co. of Hostmen of Newcastle ed. Dendy, 245, 263. Member, Merchant Adventurers’ Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne by Feb. 1615–d.Tyne and Wear Archives, GU.MA/3/2, f. 63.

Civic: freeman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1604–d.;Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne ed. Dodds, 7. sheriff, 1604 – 05; alderman by 1620 – d.; mayor, 1619 – 20, 1635–6.Brand, Newcastle, ii. 451, 452, 455.

Local: commr. subsidy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1621 – 22, 1624;C212/22/20–3. feudal tenures, co. Dur. 1626;Univ. of London, Goldsmiths’ ms 195, i. f. 2v. charitable uses, Northumb. and Morpeth 16 Dec. 1629.C192/1, unfol.

Parlimentarian
RIDDELL, Sir Peter (1576-1641), of Gateshead, co. Dur.
: St Andrew, Northumb., of Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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Web Title

RIDDELL, Sir Peter (1576-1641), of Pilgrim Street, St Andrew, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.

Will
22 Mar. 1641, pr. 1641.Durham UL, DPR/I/1/1641/R2/1-2.
Estates
in 1628-9, purchased a quarter of the manor or township of Benwell, co. Dur. and a third of the coalmines there.Hist. Northumb. xiii. 229-30. In 1630, Newcastle corporation granted him lease of a town messuage called St Lawrence, in All Saints par. for 21 years at a rent of £20 p.a.Brand, Newcastle, i. 459. His will referred to his house in Pilgrim Street, St Andrew, Newcastle; his lease of the St Lawrence messuage; a lease of Whickham meadows, co. Dur; a lease of a colliery from Lord Lumley; a lease of Byker shore, near Newcastle; a parcel of ground called the King’s Meadows; lands in ‘Morton’ (?co. Dur.); a farm in Elswick, near Newcastle; a tenement in Benwell; and a share of the manor and colliery of Benwell.Durham UL, DPR/I/1/1641/R2/1-2.
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BERKELEY, George (1627-98), of Berkeley Castle, Glos.

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b. 1627, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley and Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbury, Suff.Lives of the Berkeleys, ii. 426; Rudder, New Hist. Glos. 277. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. c.1640.Ath. Ox. iv. 625. m. 11 Aug. 1646, Elizabeth (bur. 10 Dec. 1708), da. and coh. of John Masingberd of London, merchant (treas. E. I. Co. 1644-53), 2s. 6da. suc. fa. 10 Aug. 1658 as 9th Baron Berkeley. cr. 1st. Visct. Dursley and 1st earl of Berkeley 11 Sept. 1679. d. 14 Oct. 1698.Rudder, New Hist. Glos. 277; Cal. Ct. Mins. E. I. Co. 1644-9, p. 31; 1650-4, p. 285; CP.
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Local: j.p. Glos. 13 June, 9 July 1646 – bef.Oct. 1653, 27 Mar. 1655–?d.;C231/6, pp. 50, 51, 307; C193/13/4, f. 38. liberties of Cawood, Wistow and Otley, Yorks. 13 Dec. 1664;C181/7, p. 297; Surr. by 15 June 1675–d.C231/7, p. 495; C231/8, p. 117. Commr. assessment, Glos. 9 June 1657;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. June 1659-aft. Feb. 1673;C181/6, p. 374; C181/7, pp. 10, 637. Mdx. 5 July 1660-aft. Sept. 1671;C181/7, pp. 3, 589. Wales 8 Nov. 1661;C181/7, p. 119. sewers, Haverfordwest 19 Oct. 1659;C181/6, p. 402. Kent and Surr. 28 Nov. 1664;C181/7, p. 291. Suss. 26 Aug. 1669;C181/7, p. 506. Glos. 7 Nov. 1671;C181/7, p. 598. militia, Glos., Surr. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Custos rot. Glos. 1660–89; Surr. 15 June 1675 – 9 July 1689, 27 July 1689–d.C231/7, p. 495; C231/8, pp. 117, 118; CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 187; CP; J.C. Sainty Custodes Rotulorum1660–1828 (2002). Kpr. Nonsuch Park 21 Nov. 1660–1682.CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 359. Gov. Charterhouse 17 Jan. 1687–?d.CSP Dom. 1686–7, p. 345.

Central: member, cttee. for trade, 30 Jan.1656;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 141. council of trade, 5 Mar. 1669.CSP Dom. 1668–9, pp. 224–5. PC, 17 July 1678 – 21 Apr. 1679, 31 July 1685-Feb. 1689.CP.

Mercantile: member, cttee. E.I. Co. 7 July 1660–97, 1698–99;CP; Cal. Ct. Mins. E. I. Co. 1660–3, p. 23. Royal African Co. 10 Jan.1663–88; asst. 1674 – 76, 1679 – 81, 1684–6. 22 Jan. 1680 – d.K.G. Davies, The Royal African Co. (1957), 378; Mins. of the Hudson’s Bay Co. 1679–1684, First Part 1679–82 ed. E.E. Rich (Toronto, 1945), 337. Gov. Levant Co. 7 Feb. 1673–11 Feb. 1696. 22 Jan. 1680 – d.A.C. Wood, Hist. of the Levant Co. (1935), App. iv. Member, Soc. of Merchant Adventurers, Bristol 11 July 1674. 22 Jan. 1680 – d.I.H. Jeayes, Descriptive Catalogue of Charters and Muniments at Berkeley Castle (Bristol, 1892), 250. Elder bro. Trinity House,; master, 7 June 1680–30 May 1681.W.R. Chaplin, The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strand (n.d.), 14, 56. Stockholder, Hudson’s Bay Co. 27 Dec. 1680–7 May 1685.Mins. Hudson’s Bay Co. 1679–84, 332. Asst. Skinners’ Co. 9 Mar. 1685–?d.CSP Dom. 1685, p. 81.

Academic: FRS by 20 May 1663; member of council, 1668, 1671 – 73, 1676, 1679, 1683 – 84, 1687–8.M. Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows, 1660–1700 (1982), 166; The Record of the Royal Society of London (1940), 375.

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BERKELEY, George (1627-98), of Berkeley Castle, Glos.
: Glos.
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Likenesses: oil on canvas, M. Beale, 1679;Berkeley Castle, Glos. line engraving, D. Loggan, 1679;NPG. miniature, N. Dixon;Berkeley Castle, Glos. wash drawing, T. Athow;Ashmolean Museum, Oxf. medal, J.B. Du Four.BM.

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Will
20 Sept. 1698, pr. 19 Dec. 1698.PROB11/448/420.
Estates
patrimony around Berkeley in 1618 worth ‘1,000 marks of old rents’;Lives of the Berkeleys, ii. 437. tenant of New Ground, Slimbridge, Glos. 1648;Jeayes, Catalogue, 248. estate in Suff. and Mdx. producing revenue of £1,642; in Norf., Som., co. Dur., Kent and London £859; in Leics. £171. Properties outside Glos. inc. Cranford, Mdx.; Durdens, Epsom, Surr.; Bosham, Suss.; Melton Mowbray, Leics.Glos. RO, Smyth of Nibley vol. III, ff. 20-1
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presented John Strickland, succeeding Thomas Savage, to rectory of Sutton Bonnington, Notts, 1 Nov. 1662;Jeayes, Catalogue, 249. employed John Rogers as chaplain after 1672.Wood, Fasti, ii. 332. Presented Dr John Covell to living of Kegworth, 31 Oct. 1681.Jeayes, Catalogue, 250-1.
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SUCKLING, Sir John (1609-42), of Whitton, Twickenham, Mdx.

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bap. 10 Feb. 1609,Add. 19150, f. 296; Lysons, Environs (1795), iii. 588; R. S. Cobbett, Mems. of Twickenham (1872), 47. 1st s. of Sir John Suckling† of Whitton and Martha (d. 1613), da. of Thomas Cranfield of London.Oxford DNB; Vis. Norf. (Norf. Rec. Soc. v), ii. 209; Suckling, Suff. i. 40. educ. Trinity, Camb. 3 July 1623; G. Inn, 23 Feb. 1627; Leiden, 26 Feb. 1630;Al. Cant.; G. Inn Admiss. 180; Index to English Speaking Students at Leyden University (1883), 96. travelled abroad (Spanish Netherlands, Germany).HMC 4th Rep. 290, 300; J. Suckling, Works ed. T. Clayton (1971), i. 114-18; Cent. Kent. Stud. U269/1/CP108, 159. suc. fa. 27 Mar. 1627. Kntd. 19 Sept. 1630.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 198. unm. d. ?7 May 1642.Vis. Norf. ii. 209; Add. 19150, f. 289.
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Diplomatic: envoy to Germany, 1631-Apr. 1632.Suckling, Works, i. 118–29; Cent. Kent. Stud. U269/1/CP108; HMC 4th Rep. 290; CSP Dom. 1631–3, pp. 322–3.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, Nov. 1638.LC5/134, p. 286.

Military: capt. of horse, royal army, 1639;CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 378. capt. of carabineers, 22 Feb. 1640–1.CSP Dom. 1639–40, p. 481.

Parlimentarian
SUCKLING, Sir John (1609-42), of Whitton, Twickenham, Mdx.
: of Whitton, Mdx., Twickenham.
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Likenesses: oil on canvas, A. Van Dyck, c.1638;Frick Colln., New York. oil on canvas, aft. A. Van Dyck;Knole, Kent. oil on panel, attrib. T. Russel aft. A. Van Dyck;NPG. miniature, J. Hoskins;Photographs of the Gems of the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857 (London and Manchester, 1858), ancient series, no. 38. line engraving, W. Marshall aft. T. Russel, 1646.BM; NPG.

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SUCKLING, Sir John (1609-42), of Whitton, Twickenham, Mdx.

Will
none found.
Estates
inherited substantial estates in Suff., Lincs. and Mdx.C2/Chas 1/S120/25; PROB11/151/688; Muskett, Suff. Manorial Fams. ii. 187-9. In 1635, sold Barsham Hall to uncle, Charles Suckling, for £4,300.C54/2988; C54/3031; Suckling, Suff. i. 39.
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DANVERS, Sir John (c.1585-1655), of Danvers House, Chelsea, Mdx. and West Lavington, Wilts.

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b. c. 1585, 3rd s. of Sir John Danvers† (d. 1594) of Dauntsey, Wilts. and Elizabeth (d. 1630), da. and coh. of John Nevill, 4th Baron Latimer; bro. of Charles†.Aubrey, Wilts. Top. Collections ed. Jackson, 217. educ. travelled abroad (France, Low Countries, Italy), 1596; Univ. Padua 1597;CSP Dom. 1595-7, p. 288; HMC Hatfield, ix. 70; SP12/260/37. Winchester Coll. 1598;Winchester Scholars ed. T.F. Kirby, 158. Brasenose, Oxf. 10 July 1601, aged 16;Al. Ox. L. Inn, 5 Mar. 1612.LI Admiss. i. 157. m. (1) Feb. or Mar. 1609, Magdalen (bur. 8 June 1627), da. of Sir Richard Newport† of High Ercall, Salop, wid. of Richard Herbert† of Montgomery Castle, Mont. s.p.;The Letters of John Chamberlain ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1939), i. 288; HP Commons 1604-1629. (2) lic. 10 July 1628, Elizabeth (d. 9 July 1636), da. and coh. of Ambrose Dauntsey of West Lavington, 3s. d.v.p. 3 da. (1 );London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 380; West Lavington par. reg.; T. Faulkner, The Hist. and Top. Description of Chelsea (1829), ii. 120, 131; Lysons, Environs (1792-5), ii. 116 seq. (3) 6 Jan. 1648 or 1649, Grace (d. 1678), da. of Thomas Hewes of Kemerton, Glos. 1s.Faulkner, Chelsea, ii. 125; Lysons, Environs (1792-5), iii. 79 seq.; PROB11/359/694. Kntd. 3 Mar. 1609.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 147. suc. bro. 27 Jan. 1644.The Life, Diary and Corresp. of Sir William Dugdale ed. W. Hamper (1827), 59; MIs Wilts. 1822, 107; PROB11/194/124. bur. 28 Apr. 1655 28 Apr. 1655.N and Q 2nd ser. x. 322.
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Court: gent. of privy chamber to Prince Henry, 1610–12.Ordinances and Regulations for Govt. of Royal Household (Soc. of Antiqs. 1790), 323. Jt. kpr. St James’s Palace, 1625–49.LCC Survey of London, xxix. 23.

Mercantile: member, cttee. Virg. Co. 1610 – 23; Somers Is. [Bermuda] Co. 1618, gov. 1651; Guiana Co. 1619.HMC 8th Rep. ii. 45b; HP Commons 1604–1629; [J. Foster], Copy of a Petition from the Gov. and Co. of the Somers Islands (1651). Commr. trade, 1625;HP Commons 1604–1629. plantation of Virg. 1631;CSP Col. 1574–1660, p. 130.

Local: j.p. Mdx., Westminster 1620 – bef.Oct. 1653; Oxon. 23 June 1630 – 18 Mar. 1644, by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653; Wilts. 23 June 1630 – 31 Oct. 1643, by Feb. 1650 – d.; Yorks. (N. Riding) by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C231/5, p. 35; SP16/405, f. 71; C193/13/2, ff. 44, 54, 72, 87v; C193/13/3, ff. 41v, 68v, 81v; C193/13/4, ff. 28, 60, 77v, 108, 128; The Names of the Justices (1650, E.1238.4); Stowe 577, f. 57v; Docquets Letters Patent ed. Black, 23, 94, 169. Dep. lt. Mdx. 1625, 8 May 1644.CSP Dom. 1623–5, p. 508; CJ iii. 485b. Commr. oyer and terminer, 1627-aft. Jan. 1644;C181/3, f. 219; C181/4, ff. 172, 189; C181/5, ff. 57v, 231. the Verge 1629-aft. May 1634;C181/4, ff. 5v, 175v. Oxf. circ. 1630 – aft.Jan. 1642, by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/4, ff. 50v, 194v; C181/5, ff. 7, 219; C181/6, pp. 10, 91. Western circ. 1630 – aft.Jan. 1642, by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/4, ff. 51v, 193v; C181/5, ff. 6, 221; C181/6, pp. 8, 85. London 7 Nov. 1639 – aft.Nov. 1645, by Jan. 1654–d.;C181/5, ff. 154, 265; C181/6, pp. 2, 77. Northern circ. by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 17, 93. Forced Loan, Mdx., Northampton 1627;Rymer, Feodera, viii. pt. 2, p. 144; C193/12/2, ff. 35, 87v. martial law, Mdx. 1627.C181/3, f. 219. Jt. steward, honour of Pickering, Yorks. 1628–d.CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 389; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 159. Commr. ?knighthood fines, Northants. 1631;E178/7155, f. 134. sewers, 1 June 1633, 18 July 1634;C181/4, gf. 140v, 180v. Oxon. and Berks. 18 July 1634;C181/4, f. 179. Mdx. and Westminster 13 Dec. 1634;C181/4, f. 191. gaol delivery, London 7 Nov. 1639-aft. Aug. 1641;C181/5, ff. 154, 207v. Newgate gaol 30 Nov. 1641 – aft.Nov. 1645, by Jan. 1654–d.;C181/5, ff. 214, 265; C181/6, pp. 2, 77. subsidy, Mdx. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Mdx. and Westminster 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Wilts. 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653; N. Riding 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Northants. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 10 Dec. 1652; Oxon. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653; Westminster 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). levying of money, Mdx. 3 Aug. 1643; defence of London, 17 Feb. 1644; commr. for Wilts. 1 July 1644; defence of Wilts. 15 July 1644; Mdx. militia, 25 Oct. 1644, 2 Aug. 1648; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; Northern Assoc. N. Riding 25 June 1645; militia, Mdx., Wilts., Yorks. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Central: treas. remembrancer in exch. (in reversion) 1629–16 Apr. 1639.Coventry Docquets, 60. Commr. for maintenance of army, 26 Mar. 1644.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 15 May 1646.CJ iv. 545b. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647.A. and O. Member, Derby House cttee. 1 June 1648;CJ v. 578b; LJ x. 295b. cttee. for indemnity, 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 109a, 113b. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649; removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649.A. and O. Member, Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 20 July 1649.CJ vi. 266b. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Commr. for compounding, 2 Nov. 1649.CJ vi. 318a. Member, cttee. for excise by 18 Dec. 1650.Bodl. Rawl. C.386.

Military: col. militia ft. Wilts. ?1644–17 Apr. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 111.

Parlimentarian
DANVERS, Sir John (c.1585-1655), of Danvers House, Chelsea, Mdx. and West Lavington, Wilts.
: of Danvers House, Mdx., Chelsea and Wilts., West Lavington.
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Likenesses: line engraving, unknown, c.1800.NPG.

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DANVERS, Sir John (c.1585-1655), of Danvers House, Chelsea, Mdx. and West Lavington, Wilts.

Will
28 July 1654, pr. 21 June 1655.PROB11/248/213.
Estates
pension from James I of £500 p.a. in 1606, and share in leases of lands in Glos. and Wilts. from 1607-8.C66/1659, 1708, 1719, 1770. From c. 1622 acquired land at Chelsea, Mdx. where he built a house.VCH Mdx. xii. 23, 142. From 1628, acquired manors of West Lavington, Market Lavington and Bremilham, Wilts. and manor of Dale, Cheshire; from 1634 Melksham, Stoke and (lease of) Bishops Lavington; in 1640 two portions of manor of Hilperton (Hilperton Zouche and Hilperton Stourton), with advowson of Hilperton; from 1644 Dauntsey, Wilts. and lands in Thornton, Yorks; Deerholme Grange, Yorks. (confiscated from abpric. of York) bought 24 March 1648 for £1,111 7s 4d; Cornbury Park, Oxon. bought in 1649; other lands in Wilts. Glos. Oxon. Som. Northants.Chetham’s Lib. Manchester, F3/Box 2/318; PROB11/159/133 (Sir John Dauntsey); VCH Wilts. vii. 85-6, 96, 200; viii. 137, 150; x. 88, 92; xiv. 10, 68, 139; xvi. 25; VCH N. Yorks. ii. 338, 469, 494, 496; Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 10; Wilts. RO, 9/26/3, 212B/4847, 1178/180, 947/1493/1; Wilts. Arch. Mag. i. 214-6. In Apr. 1633 sold the manor of Leinthall Starkes and Gatley Park, Herefs.Herefs. RO, F76/II/28-36; Coventry Docquets, 633.
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