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MONTAGU (MOUNTAGU), William (c.1618-1706), of the Middle Temple, London and Little Oakley, Northants.

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b. c.1618, 2nd s. of Edward Montagu† (d.1644), 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton and his 2nd w. Frances, da. of Thomas Cotton† of Conington, Hunts.;Vis. Northants. ed. Metcalfe, 115 bro. of Edward Montagu I*. educ. Oundle g.s. 1627 aged 10;Oundle Sch. Admiss. Reg. 1626-34, f. 6v. Sidney Sussex, Camb. 1632, aged 13;Al. Cant. M. Temple 23 Oct. 1635.MT Admiss. i. 131. m. (1) 18 June 1646, Elizabeth (bur. 23 June 1647), da. of Ralph Freman of Aspenden, Herts., s.p.;Vis. Northants. 1681 (Harl. Soc. lxxxvii), 138; Clutterbuck, Herts. iii. 348. (2) 7 Dec. 1651, Mary (d.10 Mar. 1700), da. of Sir John Aubrey, later 1st bt. of Llantrithyd, Glam. 2s. d.v.p. 1da.Vis. Northants. 1681, 138; E. Kimber and R. Johnson, The Baronetage of Eng. (1771), ii. 73-4; Bridges, Northants. ii. 329. d. 26 or 27 Aug. 1706.Le Neve, Monumenta Anglicana, v. 122.
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Legal: called, M. Temple 9 July 1641; bencher, 1662; treas. 1663 – 64; summer reader, 1664.Mins. of Parl. of the MT, ed. C.T. Martin (1904–5), iii. 1174, 1189, 1191, 1197. Sjt.-at-law, Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street Apr. 1676–d.Baker, Serjeants at Law, 197, 446, 527.

Local: commr. assessment, Northants. 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689, 1691–?d.; Lincs. 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689–?d.; Mdx. 1664, 1672, 1677; I. of Ely 1677;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, Northants. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. July 1660–?d.; Mdx. 1662 – bef.80; Lincs. (Kesteven) aft. 1664–85.HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 10 July 1660-aft. Feb. 1673;C181/7, pp. 15, 642. London 27 Nov. 1666-aft. Dec. 1672;C181/7, pp. 370, 630. Mdx. 1 Oct. 1669, 7 Sept. 1671;C181/7, pp. 509, 589. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 14 Aug. 1660-aft May 1670;C181/7, pp, 75, 543. River Welland 18 July 1664;C181/7, p. 281. subsidy, Kesteven 1663; enclosures, Deeping Fen, Lincs. 1665;SR. gaol delivery, Newgate gaol 27 Nov. 1666-aft. Dec. 1672;C181/7, pp. 370, 630. recusants, Lincs. 1675.HP Commons 1660–1690

Civic: freeman, Stamford 1661.J. Simpson, ‘Extracts from the par. regs. of St Michael’s, Stamford’, The Reliquary, xvii. 202.

Central: att.-gen. to Queen Catherine of Braganza, 1662–76.CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 404. Commr. dedimus potestatam, Parl. 31 Oct. 1666.C181/7, p. 377. KC, 1670.List of Eng. Law Officers (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. vii), 86. C. bar. exch. 1676–86.Sainty, Judges, 96; HMC Finch, ii. 28.

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MONTAGU, Hon. William (c.1618-1706), of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx. and Little Oakley, Northants.
: of the Middle Temple, London and Northants., Little Oakley.
MOUNTAGU
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Likenesses: oil on canvas, school of D. Mytens, 1639;Sidney Sussex, Camb. oil on canvas, G. Kneller, 1680.Government Art Colln.

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MONTAGU (MOUNTAGU), William (c.1618-1706), of the Middle Temple, London and Little Oakley, Northants.

Will
30 July 1702, pr. 3 Sept. 1706, new admon. 28 Apr. 1727.PROB11/490/86.
Estates
manor of Little Oakley, Northants. leased to him by his father for £150 p.a. 1639;C108/62: indenture, 27 Sept. 1639. inherited lands at Little Oakley, Great Oakley, Stanion and Geddington, Northants. and at Seaton, Rutland,1644;Bridges, Northants. ii. 329; PROB11/196/404. sold manor of Downhall, Seaton, Rutland, for £9,000, 1646.C108/62: indenture, 20 Oct. 1646; C108/63: indentures, 29 Oct. 1646 and 18 Jan. 1649.
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LISTER, William (1618-74), of the Inner Temple, London, St Martin, Coney Street, York, and South Frodingham, Owthorne, Yorks.

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bap. 14 Feb. 1618, 4th but 3rd surv. s. of Sir John Lister*.Holy Trinity, Hull par. reg. educ. Hull g.s. (Anthony Stevenson);Al. Cant.; Calamy Revised, 462-3. Sidney Sussex, Camb. 28 June 1634;Al. Cant. I. Temple 15 May 1637.I. Temple Admiss. Database. m. 5 Oct. 1648, Elizabeth (d. 5 Apr. 1714), da. of Arthur Squibb, Clarenceux king of arms, of Henley Park, Ash, Surr., at least 2s. 3da. (2 d.v.p.).St Margaret Pattens, London par. reg.; PROB11/348, f. 389; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 342; St Martin, Coney Street, York Par. Reg. ed. R.B. Cook (Yorks. Par. Reg. Soc. xxxvi), 33, 37. bur. 26 Nov. 1674 26 Nov. 1674.St John, Hampstead, Mdx. par. reg.
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Legal: called, I. Temple 20 May 1647; bencher, 8 Feb. 1663; reader, 6 Nov. 1670.CITR ii. 276; iii. 13, 71.

Local: j.p. Hull 30 Sept. 1649–24 Nov. 1669;Hull Hist. Cent. C BRB/3 (Hull Bench Bk. 1609–50), f. 820; C BRB/5 (Hull Bench Bk. 1664–82), f. 203. Yorks. (E. Riding) by Oct. 1655–?d.;Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Br P64/4c. Beverley 16 Jan. 1657–?;C181/6, p. 196. N. Riding c.May 1662–?d.C193/12/3. Commr. assessment, Hull 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. E. Riding 9 June 1657;A. and O. charitable uses, Yorks. 19 Sept. 1650;C93/20/27. oyer and terminer, Hull 25 Sept. 1650–25 Sept. 1652;Hull Hist. Cent. C BRB/3, f. 840. Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655, June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 101, 376. gaol delivery, Hull 25 Sept. 1650, 27 May 1657;Hull Hist. Cent. C BRB/3, f. 840; C181/6, p. 227. Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655;C181/6, p. 101. sewers, E. Riding by June 1654 – Sept. 1660, 30 June 1664–16 Feb. 1666;C181/6, pp. 46, 404; C181/7, p. 257. Hull 14 Jan. 1668.C181/7, p. 420. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 537. Commr. sequestration of recusants, Hull 14 July, 18 Sept. 1658;Hull. Hist. Cent. Deeds, C BRI/36–7. militia, Yorks. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, E. Riding, Hull 1660.SR.

Civic: recorder, Hull 30 Sept. 1649–24 Nov. 1669.Hull. Hist. Cent. C BRB/3, f. 820; C BRB/5, f. 203.

Central: master in chancery, extraordinary, July 1655–?C202/39/5.

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LISTER, William (1618-74), of the Inner Temple, London, St Martin, Coney Street, York, and South Frodingham, Owthorne, Yorks.
: of the Inner Temple, St Martin, Coney Street, London and South Frodingham, Owthorne, Yorks.
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LISTER, William (1618-74), of the Inner Temple, London, St Martin, Coney Street, York, and South Frodingham, Owthorne, Yorks.

Will
9 Nov. 1674, pr. 1 Oct. 1675.PROB11/348, f. 388v.
Estates
in 1641, inherited manor of South Frodingham and a house, lands and tenements in Richmond, N. Riding.Borthwick, Wills in York Registry, Holderness Deanery, Feb. 1641. In 1641, also owned property in Hull.E115/241/142. At his d. estate inc. manor of South Frodingham (E. Riding), numerous farms and closes in Dalton-on-Tees (N. Riding) and an annuity of £40 p.a.PROB11/348, f. 389. May also have owned, or leased, property in Hampstead, Mdx., and on The Strand, London, near Somerset House.PROB11/348, f. 389; Hull. Hist. Cent. C BRL/694.
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PECKHAM, Henry (1615-73), of Chichester, Suss. and the Middle Temple, London.

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bap. 20 Aug. 1615, 1st s. of William Peckham of Aldingbourne and Mary.Add. 5698, f. 258. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 11 May 1632;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 25 Oct. 1634.M. Temple Admiss. i. 130. m. 8 May 1644, Judith, da. Henry Goringe* of Highden, 6s. (1 d.v.p.), 4da. (1 d.v.p.).Add. 5698, f. 258. Kntd. 24 May 1662;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 236; Add. 39482, f. 189. suc. fa. 1671.Add. 5699, f. 144. bur. 27 Apr. 1673 27 Apr. 1673.Add. 5699, f. 181v.
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Local: commr. sewers, Suss. 26 May 1637, 26 July 1645, 2 June 1655, 30 June 1656, 28 Dec. 1658, 1 Oct. 1660, 26 Aug. 1669. June 1647 – bef.12 Mar. 1649C181/5, ff. 70v, 257v; C181/6, pp. 106, 160, 346; C181/7, pp. 58, 506. J.p. 2, 10 Mar. 1655–d.C231/6, pp. 92, 305; C193/13/6; C193/13/5; C220/9/4; ASSI35/88/3; ASSI35/90/2 ; ASSI35/96/9; ASSI35/103/8. Commr. assessment, 9 Jun. 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. oyer and terminer, Home circ. June 1659–d.;C181/6, p. 373; C181/7, pp. 8, 639. militia, Suss. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663.SR.

Legal: called, M. Temple 4 June 1641; bencher, 30 Oct. 1663; reader, Aug. 1669.M. Temple Bench Bk., 209; MTR iii. 1189, 1231, 1242, 1244. Master in chancery, extraordinary, 26 May 1655.C216/2/84. Sjt.-at-law, 30 Oct. 1669.J. H. Baker, Order of Sjts. at Law (1984), 445.

Household: steward to John Beauchamp at Cackham, 1648–56;W. Suss. RO, Add. MSS 12859–12862. to George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley, and to George Berkeley*, 1st earl of Berkeley, at Bosham, 1656–63.Preston Manor, Brighton, Thomas-Stanford Coll., WS/AU/2; W. Suss. RO, Add. MSS 12476, 12672.

Civic: recorder, Chichester 1654–d.;Dallaway, Hist. Western Div. Suss. (1815), i. 154. Portsmouth 19 Oct. 1658–d.;Portsmouth Records ed. East, 420. Newport, I.o.W. ?1661–d.CSP Dom. 1673, p. 388.

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PECKHAM, Henry (1615-73), of Chichester, Suss.
: of Chichester, Suss. and London., the Middle Temple.
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PECKHAM, Henry (1615-73), of Chichester, Suss. and the Middle Temple, London.

Will
28 Feb., codicil 16 Apr., pr. 16 June 1673.PROB11/342/265; W. Suss. RO, Add. MS 20508.
Estates
in 1655, leased Roughton manor for £2,868 with Henry Goring†;W. Suss. RO, Add. MS 20507. June 1661, granted parsonage house, Selsey; in 1663, acquired manor of Raymonds; 1668, manor of Ley or Lee.Suss. Arch. Coll. liv. 261; W. Suss. RO, PAR 166/6/2; Suss. Manors, i. 266; ii. 367. At d. manor of Runcton and lands in Aldingbourne, Lee, Pagham, Selsey and Wisborough Green.PROB11/342/265.
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WATKINS, William (c.1601-62), of St Margaret’s, Westminster and Frognal, Chislehurst, Kent.

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b. c. 1601, bro. of Thomas Watkins (d. bef. 1660), clerk of privy seal. m. (1) ?Ellen, ?s.p. (2) 30 Dec. 1661, Katherine (d. 1712), da. of John Abington of Dowdeswell, Glos., wid. of Robert Dalzell, 1st earl of Carnwath [S], s.p.Coventry Docquets, 563, 637; Mar. Lics. Faculty Office (Harl. Soc. xxiv), 57; CP iii. 49-50. d. betw. 22 Apr.-3 May 1662.Pepys, Diary, iii. 77.
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Central: clerk of privy seal and registrar ct. of requests, Dec. 1628 – Feb. 1647, 1660–d.Dep. Kpr. Public Records, 43rd Rep. 124; LJ viii. 718a. Jt. recvr. crown revenues, S. Wales Mar. 1639–?46.Coventry Docquets, 208; Rymer, Foedera, xx. 308.

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WATKINS, William (c.1601-62), of St Margaret’s, Westminster and Frognal, Chislehurst, Kent.
: of St Margaret’s, Westminster and Kent., Frognal.
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WATKINS, William (c.1601-62), of St Margaret’s, Westminster and Frognal, Chislehurst, Kent.

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not found.
Estates
copyholder of messuage at Twickenham, 1633;LMA, ACC/0276/477. acquired estate of Frognal, Chislehurst, probably in or soon after 1634, but with mortgage to Philip Warwick*;E.A. Webb, G.W. Miller, J. Beckwith, Hist. Chislehurst (1899), 274, 279; ‘Philip Warwick’, supra. leased from crown a piece of land near St James’s Park, Westminster, 1661.CTB i. 281.
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PEPYS, Richard (c.1588-1659), of Stoke-next-Clare, Suff.

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b. betw. 3 May 1587 and 2 July 1589, 2nd s. of John Pepys (d. 1604) of Cottenham, Cambs. and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Bendish of Bower Hall, Steeple Bumpstead, Essex.Vis. Cambs. 1575 and 1619 (Harl. Soc. xli), 62; G.J. Armytage, ‘Peds. of Cambs. fams.’, The Gen. n.s. xv. 123; W.C. Pepys, Gen. of the Pepys Fam. (1887), ped. VII; E. Chappell, Eight Generations of the Pepys Fam. (1936), 29, 37-8. educ. Peterhouse, Camb. 1604, BA 1608;Al. Cant.; T.A. Walker, A Biographical Reg. of Peterhouse Men (Cambridge, 1930), 219. M. Temple 1609, called 7 Feb. 1617.M. Temple Admiss.; MTR ii. 511, 614. m. (1) 14 Aug. 1620, Judith (d. 1634), da. of Sir William Cutte of Debden and Arkesden, Essex, 4s (1 d.v.p.), 2da; (2) Mary (d.1659), da. of William Gosnold, s.p.Vis. Essex 1664-8 ed. J.J. Howard (1888), 70; G.H. Rogers-Harrison, ‘Ped. of the fam. of Cutts’, Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. iv, opp. p. 42; Burke PB (102nd edn. 1959), 544; Pepys, Gen. ped. VII; Chappell, Pepys Fam. 38. suc. bro. John Pepys by 1642.PROB11/189/164. d. 2 Jan. 1659.E. Worth, The Servant Doing, and the Lord Blessing (Dublin, 1659), titlepage (E.974.3); C. Kenny, King’s Inns and the Kingdom of Ireland (Dublin, 1992), 133n.
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Local: jt. steward, Clare honor 1625–?d.R. Somerville, Office-Holders in the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster (Chichester, 1972), 203; CUL, Ee.III.18, f. 2. J.p. Suff. 1634–d.; Essex 7 Jan. 1651-bef. c.Sept. 1656.C193/13/2, f. 64v; Coventry Docquets, 72; C231/6, p. 205; C193/13/6, f. 82v; C193/13/5, f. 98v; Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxviii. Commr. subsidy, Suff. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 21 Mar. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Essex 10 Dec. 1652, ?9 June 1657;SR; LJ v. 658a; A. and O. loans on Propositions, Suff. 28 July 1642.LJ v. 245b. Member, Suff. co. cttee. 1642–52;Suff. ed. Everitt, 137; Suff. RO (Ipswich), EE1/O2/1, f. 87v. Essex co. cttee. by Oct. 1651.SP28/227: warrant of Essex. co. cttee. 5 Oct. 1651. Commr. additional ord. for levying of money, Suff. 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Suff. 11 Apr. 1644-aft. July 1645;C181/5, ff. 232v, 257. Midland circ. 9 Feb. 1654;C181/6, p. 14. Home circ. 13 June 1654;C181/6, p. 58. London 15 Aug. 1654–13 July 1655;C181/6, pp. 61, 76. Mdx. 15 Aug. 1654;C181/6, p. 63. gaol delivery, Suff. 11 Apr. 1644-aft. July 1645;C181/5, ff. 233, 257. Bury St Edmunds liberty and borough 11 Apr. 1644;C181/5, ff. 233v, 234. Newgate gaol 15 Aug. 1654–13 July 1655;C181/6, pp. 61, 76. New Model ordinance, Suff. 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O.

Civic: free burgess, Sudbury 16 Mar. 1640–d.Suff. RO (Bury), EE501/2/7, unf.

Legal: autumn reader, M. Temple 1640;MTR, ii. 894; W. Dugdale, Origines Juridiciales (1666), 220; Baker, Readers and Readings, 181, 486. treas. June 1640 – July 1641, Nov. 1648-Nov. 1649.Dugdale, Origines Juridiciales, 222; MTR, ii. 895, 911, 915, 971, 981. Sjt. at law, 19 Jan. 1654–d.Baker, Serjeants at Law, 189–90, 401, 530. Bar. of exch. May-Sept. 1654.Sainty, Judges, 124. Assize judge, Midland circ. Feb. 1654;C181/6, p. 7. Home circ. June 1654.C181/6, p. 48.

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

Irish: cllr. of state, 17 Aug. 1654–d.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 437–8, 468–9, 672. C.j. ct. of Upper Bench, Sept. 1654–d.R. Lascelles, Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae, [1824–30], i. pt. ii. 31; Sainty, Judges, 124. Commr. forfeited lands, Nov. 1654.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 455–6. J.p. Wexford Mar. 1655–d.Barnard, Cromwellian Ire. 290n. Commr. gt. seal, June 1655-Aug. 1656;Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 520–1; J.R. O’Flanagan, The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland (1870), i. 345, 351, 355. public money, 23 Oct. 1656.C.H. Firth, ‘Account of money spent in the Cromwellian reconquest’, EHR xiv. 105. Assize judge, Ulster circ. spring 1657; Munster circ. summer 1657.F.E. Ball, The Judges in Ireland (New York, 1927), i. 341; S. L[adyman], The Dangerous Rule (1658), sig. A. Treas. inns of ct. Dublin, Nov. 1658–d.Kenny, King’s Inns, 132.

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PEPYS, Richard (c.1588-1659), of Stoke-next-Clare, Suff.
: Suff.
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PEPYS, Richard (c.1588-1659), of Stoke-next-Clare, Suff.

Will
24 Feb. 1656, pr. in Ireland 2 May 1659, pr. in England 30 July 1660, original will now lost.Chappell, Pepys Fam. 38; Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland ed. A. Vicars (Dublin, 1897), 372; PROB6/36, f. 52.
Estates
income of less than £60 p.a. early 1620s;GL, MS 22424/4. owned land around Clare, Suff. and Ashen, Essex; left £1,000 at Bury St. Edmunds on leaving for Ireland 1654; was buying land around Cottenham, Cambs. 1656-7; prob. owned property in Smithfield, London.GL, MS 22424/5; MS 22424/7-8; Pepys, Gen. 61.
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CONSTANTINE, William (1612-70), of Merley, Canford Magna, Dorset.

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b. c. 1612, s. of Henry Constantine of Merley and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Evelyn of Ditton, Surr.Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 304. m. (1) Jane (d. 1654), da. of Thomas Hanham of Dean’s Court, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, 4s. 3da.; (2) Anne, da. of William Collyer of Collyers Piddle, Dorset, 2s. 1da.Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 304. educ. M. Temple 8 Apr. 1630.M. Temple Admiss. suc. fa. 1614.WARD9/162, f. 171; C142/333/27. Kntd. 30 May 1668.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 243. d. by 10 Oct. 1670.Dorset RO, D/DOB/16/3, f. 55.
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Civic: freeman, Poole 16 Oct. 1630;Hutchins, Dorset, i. 32. capital burgess, 16 Sept. 1631. 10 Dec. 1639 – Sept. 1643Hutchins, Dorset, i. 35. Recorder,, 22 June 1660–26 July 1662;Hutchins, Dorset, i. 35–6. Dorchester 17 Apr. 1662–d.Dorset RO, D/DOB/16/5, p. 129.

Legal: called, M. Temple 19 May 1637; bencher, 4 Nov. 1659; Lent reader, 1663; treas. 23 Oct. 1668.MTR, 114.

Local: commr. sewers, Dorset 29 June 1638;C181/5, f. 113. gaol delivery, Poole 31 Mar. 1640;C181/5, f. 167. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; Dorset 1660; assessment, 1642, 1 June 1660, 1661; Poole 1642. 11 Mar. 1658 – Mar. 1660SR; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). J.p. Dorset, 1663 – d.; Poole Sept. 1661–?d.; Hants May 1666–?d.C231/6, p. 386; C231/7, pp. 119, 283; C193/13/5, f. 23v; Dorset Hearth Tax, 116–7.

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

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CONSTANTINE, William (1612-70), of Merley, Canford Magna, Dorset.
: of Merley, Dorset., Canford Magna.
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CONSTANTINE, William (1612-70), of Merley, Canford Magna, Dorset.

Will
2 Oct [1670?], pr. 7 Nov. 1670.PROB11/334/217.
Estates
at d. held mortgage of lands in Wareham, The Crown and other property in Wimborne Minster, burgage and dwelling house in Dorchester, manor of Stileham, Bere Regis par., interest in Corfe Mullen manor, house at Merley and other lands in Dorset; farm at Longstreet, Enford, Wilts.; mills and other lands at Ringwood, Hants.; two houses in Chancery Lane, Mdx.PROB11/334/217.
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BROWNLOW, Sir William, 1st bt. (1595-1666), of Great Humby, Lincs.

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bap. 11 June 1595, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Richard Brownlow (d. 21 July 1638) of St Andrew, Holborn, Mdx. and Belton, Lincs., chief prothonotary of the ct. of c.p. and Katherine, da. of John Page of Harrow-on-the-Hill and Wembley, Mdx.St Andrew, Holborn par. reg.; E. Cust, Recs. of the Cust Fam. ser. II: the Brownlows of Belton, 35, 41, 111, 120. educ. St Mary’s Hall Oxf. 26 June 1607, BA University Coll. Oxf. 28 Jan. 1611;Al. Ox. I. Temple 22 Oct. 1608.I. Temple Admiss. Database. m. 4 Nov. 1622 (with £2,000), Elizabeth (d. 25 Sept. 1666), da. and coh. of William Duncombe, Haberdasher, of Coleman Street, London, and Great Brickhill, Bucks., 12s. (10 d.v.p.) 7da. (3 d.v.p.).Cust, Recs. of the Cust Fam. 111, 120-4 cr. bt. 27 July 1641.CB. d. 14 Dec. 1666.Cust, Recs. of the Cust Fam. 124.
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Legal: called, I. Temple 26 Jan. 1617.CITR ii. 100.

Local: j.p. Lincs. (Kesteven) 23 Sept. 1630–d.;C231/5, p. 40. Mdx. 20 Dec. 1648-bef. Oct. 1653;C231/6, p. 130; C193/13/4, f. 60. Holland by Feb. 1650–d.;C193/13/3. Lindsey 26 Sept. 1653-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 267. Commr. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, Lincs. 1633;LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/001, p. 30. swans, 26 June 1635;C181/5, f. 15. subsidy, Kesteven 1641; contribs. towards the relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Lincs. 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664; Westminster 14 May, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653; Mdx. 14 May 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 10 Feb. 1642–d.;C181/5, f. 223; C181/6, pp. 37, 389; C181/7, pp. 76, 259; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/7–12. Deeping and Gt. Level 31 Jan. 1646–?, by May 1654–21 July 1659;C181/5, f. 269; C181/6, pp. 26, 333. sequestration, Lindsey 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Lincs. 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Dep. lt. 13 Sept. 1643–?LJ v. 351a. Commr. Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643; New Model army, 17 Feb. 1645;A. and O. oyer and terminer, 26 Apr. 1645;C181/5, f. 251v. Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 15, 370. charitable uses, Morton, Lincs. 17 Feb. 1647;C93/19/23. Lincs. 14 May 1650;C93/20/19. Lincoln 3 Mar. 1656;C93/23/22. Lincs. militia, 3 July 1648;LJ x. 359a. for public faith, Lincs. 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35). militia, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Kesteven 1660.SR.

Central: cllr. of state, 1 Nov. 1653.CJ vii. 344a, 344b.

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BROWNLOW, Sir William, 1st bt. (1595-1666), of Great Humby, Lincs.
: 1st bt. (1595-1666), of Great Humby, Lincs. 1595 – 1666.
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Commons 1640-1660
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BROWNLOW, Sir William, 1st bt. (1595-1666), of Great Humby, Lincs.

Will
15 Oct. 1666, pr. 16 June 1668.PROB11/327, f. 145.
Estates
in the early 1630s, Brownlow was fined £26 for distraint of knighthood.E407/35, f. 115v. His fa. built up an extensive estate in Lincs. worth over £5,000 p.a.Cust, Recs. of the Cust Fam. 40-1. At his m. fa. Settled on him estate Brownlow had an estate settled upon him by his father worth £1,100 p.a. which inc. manors of Gosberton and Humby, lands in Gosberton, Great and Little Humby, Pinchbeck, Quadring and Somerby, Lincs., property in London parishes of St Andrew, Holborn, and St Pancras and property at Enfield, Mdx.PROB11/276, f. 244; PROB11/327, f. 145; WCA, 0010/105 (Misc. deeds rel. to Westminster); Cust, Recs. of the Cust Fam. 112. In 1638, inherited his fa.’s lands in Enfield and Holborn, Mdx.PROB11/177, f. 117v. In 1651, he and John Dutton* purchased, for £1,010, 4 fee farm rents in Glos. and Wilts. worth £112 p.a.SP28/288, f. 27. Estate was reckoned to be worth £1,600 p.a. by the 1660s.‘Lincs. fams. temp. Charles II’, Her. and Gen. ii. 120.
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near Warr House, London (1643).CCAM 231.
Religion
presented John Hobman to rectory of West Barkwith, Lincs. 1641; Edmund Thompson, 1642; Richard Sully, 1645; William Underwood, 1651; John Collier, 1663; Thomas Briggs to rectory of Somerby, Lincs. 1643.Lincs. RO, P.D./1641/58; P.D./1642/61; P.D./1644/23; P.D./1645/15; P.D./1663/3; Clergy of the C of E database, ID: 130309.
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MOYER, Samuel (c.1609-83), of London and Clapham, Surr.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1609, 2nd s. of James Moyer, mariner, of Leigh, Essex and Rotherhithe, Surr. and Lydia, da. of William Goodlad of Leigh, Essex.Soc. Gen., Boyd’s Inhabitants 15663; Misc. Gen et Her. (ser. 5), vi. 107. educ. appr. Mercer c.1625. m. bef. Sept. 1643, Rebecca, da. of Thomas Thorold, merchant, of London, 3s. (1 d.v.p.). d. July 1683.Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 5), vi. 107; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 284.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Mercers’ Co. 1633; master, 1653. 1648 – 53Beaven, Aldermen of London ii. 81. Common councilman, London; dep. alderman, 1650–2;J.E. Farnell, ‘Politics of the City of London, 1649–57’ (Chicago Univ. PhD thesis, 1963), 262, 386. alderman, 25 Jan.-3 Feb. 1653.Beaven, Aldermen of London i. 103.

Local: member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 25 Sept. 1638. 4 June 1647 – bef.Oct. 1653Ancient Vellum Bk., 55. J.p. Mdx.; Surr. Mar. 1652-bef. Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 92, 230; C193/13/4, f. 62. Commr. London militia, 2 Sept. 1647, 17 Jan. 1649, 7 July 1659; Tower Hamlets militia, 8 Jan. 1648;Rushworth, Hist. Collns. vii. 798; A. and O. arrears of assessment, London 24 Apr. 1648; militia, Tower Hamlets 2 Dec. 1648; Surr. 26 July 1659; assessment, London 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653; Surr. 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Asst. London corporation for poor, 7 May 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for Trinity House, 23 Feb. 1649; master, Aug. 1655; elder bro. 1659.CJ vi. 150a; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 289. Commr. sewers, London 13 Aug. 1657;C181/6, p. 258. Kent and Surr. 14 Nov. 1657, 1 Sept. 1659.C181/6, pp. 263, 386.

Central: assessor, cttee. for advance of money, 3 Nov. 1643.CCAM 27. Member, cttee. for compounding, 13 Nov. 1643,CJ iii. 310b. 8 Feb. 1647, 15 Apr. 1650;A. and O. cttee. to register royalists in London, 13 Nov. 1645. Commr. regulating navy and customs, 16 Jan. 1649; indemnity, 18 June 1649, 23 June 1652;A. and O. customs, c.1650–25 Jan. 1654;CSP Dom. 1653–4, p. 368. high ct. of justice 26 Mar. 1650; advance of money, 15 Apr. 1650;A. and O. law reform, 17 Jan. 1652;CJ vii. 74a. relief on articles of war, 29 Sept. 1652. Judge, probate of wills, 8 Apr. 1653, 19 May 1659.A. and O. Cllr. of state by 19 May, 9 July 1653.CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 339; 1653–4, p. 16. Commr. sequestrations, 2, 27 Aug. 1659, 7 Feb. 1660.A. and O.

Mercantile: asst. Levant Co. 8 Feb. 1644–8, 1658 – 59, 1669 – 74, 1677 – 78, 1679–80. 18 Aug. 1647SP105/150, ff. 54, 77v, 102, 141v; Beaven, Aldermen of London ii. 81. Member, cttee. E.I. Co., 15 Aug. 1649–61, 25 Apr. 1672–d.Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co. 1644–9, pp. 218, 342; 1671–3, p. 122; Beaven, Aldermen of London ii. 81.

Parlimentarian
MOYER, Samuel (c.1609-83), of London and Clapham, Surr.
: Surr.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MOYER, Samuel (c.1609-83), of London and Clapham, Surr.

Will
7 Apr. 1682, pr. 3 Aug. 1683.PROB11/373/443.
Estates
Purchased bishops lands: manors of Wickham and Faunton, Essex, 31 Aug. 1649, for £3,080; manors of Ludham, Ludham Bacons, Walton Hall and Potter Higham, Norf., 20 Mar. 1650, for £2,588; ‘site’ or manor of Ludham, Norf., 27 Nov. 1650, for £1,312.Bodl. Rawl. B.239, pp. 35, 47, 52. Purchased Pitsea Hall, Pitsey, Essex, 2 July 1651, for £2,030.Hunts. RO, CON.3/5/1/18. At d. also owned lands at Charden Hall, a house and wharf at Leigh, Essex; leases of a house on Tower Hill (from Mercers’ Co.) and land in Essex (from dean and chapter of St Paul’s).PROB11/373/443.
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HERMAN (HARMAN), Nicholas (c.1586-1668), of Middleton Stoney, Oxon. and Chelsea, Mdx.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1586.Dunkin, Oxon. ii. 62, 75. m. (1) 9 Jan. 1621, Judith (d. 20 Nov. 1649), da. of Richard Shepherd, Grocer, of St Bartholomew’s Lane, London, s.p.St Bartholomew the Great par. reg.; HMC Sackville, i. 247-8; Dunkin, Oxon. ii. 62. (2) ?4 Feb. 1652, Susan ?Hudson, 1da.St George the Martyr, Southwark, par. reg.; PROB11/327/414. d. 2 Apr. 1668.Dunkin, Oxon. ii. 62, 75.
Offices Held

Household: sec. to Lionel Cranfield†, 1st earl of Middlesex by 1613–39;Kent AO, U269/0282/6. sec. to 21st earl of Arundel by 1639–?42.CSP Dom. 1639, p. 102.

Central: jt. farmer, customs, Ireland 1631.HMC Var. viii. 193.

Local: j.p. Mdx. Apr. 1638-bef. Jan. 1650.Coventry Docquets, 74. Sheriff, Oxon. Nov. 1648-Nov. 1649.CJ vi. 89a; List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix.), 110. Commr. assessment, 23 May, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 Dec. 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28).

Parlimentarian
HERMAN (HARMAN), Nicholas (c.1586-1668), of Middleton Stoney, Oxon. and Chelsea, Mdx.
: of Middleton Stoney, Oxon. and Mdx., Chelsea.
HARMAN
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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HERMAN (HARMAN), Nicholas (c.1586-1668), of Middleton Stoney, Oxon. and Chelsea, Mdx.

Will
11 June 1664, pr. 7 July 1668.PROB11/327/414.
Estates
inherited manor of Stoney, Middleton Stoney, Oxon. from his cousin, John Harman, 1629;VCH Oxon. vi. 246. assessed for 5s. 6d. at Middleton Stoney, 1642;Oxon. and North Berks. Protestation Returns (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. lix.), 115. part-owner of a house in Lime Street, London, 1644;CCC 9n. assessed for seven hearths at Middleton Stoney, 1665.Hearth Tax Returns, Oxon. 1665, 200.
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BASKERVILLE, Francis (c.1616-aft.1661), of Richardston, Winterborne Bassett, Wilts.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1616, 3rd but 1st surv. s. of Thomas Baskerville of Richardston and Joan Lorr (d. aft. 1634). m. 20 Apr. 1635, ‘aged 19’, with £2,000, Margaret (d. 28 Mar. 1696), da. of (Sir) John Glanville* of Broad Hinton, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.Broad Hinton par. reg.; Wilts. RO, 799/148; Burke Commoners, 92-3; Vis. Herefs. 1634 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xv), 54-5, 76, 94; Mar. Lics. Salisbury 1615-1682, 136; MIs Wilts. 1822, 213. suc. fa. betw. 8 Jan.-7 May 1621.PROB11/137/392. d. aft. 1661.
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Parlimentarian
BASKERVILLE, Francis (c.1616-aft.1661), of Richardston, Winterborne Bassett, Wilts.
: Winterborne Bassett, Wilts.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BASKERVILLE, Francis (c.1616-aft.1661), of Richardston, Winterborne Bassett, Wilts.

Will
not found.
Estates
livery 11 Nov. 1637 of all estates granted by James I to father;Wilts RO, 799/11; Coventry Docquets, 344. lands in 1621 will of latter: lease on Stanton Barnard farm (renewed for £1,062 in 1635) and rectory; lease of manor of Winterborne Bassett; messuage at Richardston; Stanmere; Blakes in Berwick Bassett; Oakhills and Stiles coppice in Clyffe Pypard; manor of Temple Rookley in Ogbourne St Andrew and Ogbourne St George, leased out for 99 years in 1619;Wilts RO, 799/148; VCH Wilts. ix. 33. Sept. 1651 and 1662, mortgages on property inc. Winterbourne farm in Winterbourne Bassett, Temple Rockley in Preshute, Stanton Fm, Upper Woodhills in Clyffe Pypard, and property in Berwick Bassett; all in Wilts.Wilts RO, 799/12; PROB11/137/392; Som. RO, DD/GB/149/37.
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