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SMYTH, Thomas I (c.1609-42), of Ashton Court, Long Ashton, Som.

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b. c. 1609, o.s. of Sir Hugh Smyth of Long Ashton, Som. and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Gorges of Langford, Wilts.Vis. Som. 1623 (Harl. Soc. xi), 101; Collinson, Som. ii. 293. educ. St John’s, Oxf. 1622, 4 June 1624.Cal. Corresp. Smyth Fam. 57-8; Al. Ox. m. 12 Apr. 1627, Florence, da. of John Poulett†, later 1st Baron Poulett, of Hinton St George, Som. 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 6da. (2 d.v.p.).Collinson, Som. ii. 293; Burke Dorm. and Extinct Baronetcies, 493. suc. fa. 1627.Collinson, Som. ii. 293. d. 2 Oct. 1642.Cal. Corresp. Smyth Fam. 202.
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Civic: freeman, Bridgwater 1628;Cal. Corresp. Smyth Fam. 85. Bristol 28 Sept. 1641.Cal. Corresp. Smyth Fam. 201–2.

Local: commr. swans, Hants and western cos. 1629.C181/4, f. 3v. J.p. Som. by 1631–d.Som. Assize Orders 1629–40, 16. Treas. hosps. 1633–4; maimed soldiers, 1634–5.QS Recs. Som. Charles I, 196, 220. Commr. sewers, 1634, 13 July 1641;C181/4, f. 172v; C181/5, f. 205. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 1635–d.C181/5, ff. 6, 221v. Col. militia ft. Som. 1639.Cal. Corresp. Smyth Fam. 136, 141. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. array (roy.), 11 July 1642.Cal. Corresp. Smyth Fam. 177–8; Northants. RO, FH133, unfol.

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SMYTH, Thomas (c.1609-1642), of Ashton Court, Long Ashton, Som.
: of Ashton Court, Som., Long Ashton.
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SMYTH, Thomas I (c.1609-42), of Ashton Court, Long Ashton, Som.

Will
27 Mar. 1638, pr. 21 Mar. 1650.PROB11/211/716.
Estates
owned extensive estates in northern Som. centred on Long Ashton.
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DYOT, Sir Richard (1589-1660), of Stafford, Sadler alias Robe Street, Lichfield, Staffs. and the Inner Temple, London.

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bap. 7 Dec. 1589, 1st s. of Anthony Dyott† and 1st w. Catherine, da. of John Harcourt of Ranton Abbey, Staffs.Thornton, Leics. par. reg.; Shaw, Staffs. i. 362; Vis. Staffs. ed. H. S. Grazebrook (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 118-19. educ. Corpus Christi, Oxf. 12 Oct. 1604, BA 9 Dec. 1607;Al. Ox. I. Temple 26 Apr. 1607.CITR ii. 29. m. 4 Jan. 1615, Dorothy (bur. 11 Apr. 1672), da. and h. of Richard Dorington, grocer and alderman of Stafford, 6s. (2 d.v.p.).Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 118-19; Shaw, Staffs. i. 335. suc. fa. Apr. 1622;Coll. Top. et Gen. v. 208. Kntd. 13 Sept. 1635;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 203. d. 8 Mar. 1660.Shaw, Staffs. i. 335.
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Legal: called, I. Temple 11 June 1615.CITR ii. 90. Justice, council of the north, 7 Mar. 1628-Aug. 1641.CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 8; R.R. Reid, King’s Council in the North (1921), 498. Steward (jt.), reader’s dinner, I. Temple 23 June 1633.CITR ii. 206. Temporal chan. palatinate of Dur. by 30 Mar. 1639-at least Mar. 1640.C181/5, p. 336; Cat. of Mss in the I. Temple ed. J.C. Davies (1972), ii. 928.

Civic: steward, Lichfield 12 Sept. 1622–41.Harwood, Lichfield, 345. Feoffee, Lichfield Conduit Lands trust by 1634-bef. Apr. 1657.P. Laithwaite, Hist. of the Lichfield Conduit Lands Trust (Lichfield, 1947), 79. Recorder, Stafford by 1624–31.Wm. Salt. Lib. S.MS.369, pp. 160–1; Staffs. RO, D1323/E/1, ff. 193v, 200.

Local: commr. subsidy, Lichfield 1624. 20 Mar. 1629 – 25 Feb. 1630C212/22/23. J.p. liberties of Ripon, 15 Mar. 1633-aft. Dec. 1641;C181/3, f. 265; C181/4, ff. 7v, 134v, 177; C181/5, ff. 19, 217. liberties of Cawood, Wistow and Otley, Yorks. 20 Mar. 1629 – 25 Feb. 1630, 1 July 1630-aft. Dec. 1641;C181/3, f. 266; C181/4, ff. 8v, 54v, 176v; C181/5, ff. 18v, 216v. Yorks. (E., N., W. Riding) June 1630-aft. 1641;C231/5, pp. 35, 36; C66/2858. Staffs. 8 July 1634-aft. Oct. 1642;C231/5, p. 143; Staffs. RO, Q/SO/5, p. 142. co. Dur. 30 Mar. 1639-aft. 1641.C231/5, p. 336; C66/2858. Commr. gaol delivery, liberty of Ripon 20 Mar. 1629 – 25 Feb. 1630, 15 Mar. 1633-aft. Dec. 1641;C181/3, f. 265v; C181/4, ff. 8, 135, 178; C181/5, ff. 19v, 217. co. Dur. 29 Mar. 1639-aft. July 1640;C181/5, ff. 134, 179. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 28 May 1630-aft. June 1641;C181/3, f. 61v; C181/4, ff. 108, 197v; C181/5, ff. 7v, 203. recusants, northern cos. July 1630-aft. July 1638;C231/5, p. 113; CSP Dom. 1629–31, pp. 301, 383; Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 1, p. 58; pt. 2, p. 162. charitable uses, Staffs. 6 Feb. 1634 – aft.June 1639; co. Dur. 22 Aug. 1639-aft. Nov. 1641;C192/1, unfol. sewers, 1 Dec. 1634;C181/4, f. 189. swans, Staffs. and Warws. 12 Feb. 1635, 6 Feb. 1638;C181/4, f. 199v; C181/5, f. 91. assizes, co. Dur. 29 Mar. 1639-aft. July 1640;C181/5, ff. 134, 179. array, Staffs. 16 July 1642.Northants. RO, FH133.

Central: master in chancery, extraordinary, by 1656–?Staffs. RO, D661/1/29.

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DYOTT, Richard (c.1590-1660), of Stafford, Sadler alias Robe Street, Lichfield, Staffs. and the Inner Temple, London
: of Stafford, Staffs., Sadler alias Robe Street, Lichfield and London., the Inner Temple.
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DYOT, Sir Richard (1589-1660), of Stafford, Sadler alias Robe Street, Lichfield, Staffs. and the Inner Temple, London.

Will
14 Dec. 1659, pr. 16 Apr. 1663.Staffs. RO, P/C/11, Lichfield consistory ct. wills (Lichfield Peculiar), Sir Richard Dyot.
Estates
in the early 1630s, assessed at £10 for distraint of knighthood.E407/35, f. 155. Inherited manor of Freeford, Staffs. which he let in 1632 for £100 p.a.Staffs. RO, D661/2/139; VCH Staffs. xiv. 257. By 1632, he was leasing the former Franciscan friary in Foregate Street, Stafford.S. Edeswick, Survey of Staffs. ed. T. Harwood (1844), 154; VCH Staffs. vi. 207. About 1637, he and two other gentlemen purchased a messuage in Plumstead, Kent, for £2,000.C7/100/28. In 1638, he purchased manor of Fulfen, Staffs.VCH Staffs. xiv. 279. By c.1640, his estate inc. manors of Freeford and Fulfen, lands in Fisherwick, Streethay, Tamhorn and Whittington, a watermill in Darnford and 12 messuages and 388 acres of land in Lichfield, Staffs.Staffs. RO, D661/1/775. In 1642, he leased his estate to pay debts of about £1,500, reserving £100 p.a. from the rents for his own use.Staffs. RO, D661/1/33. In the mid-1640s, his estate in Chorley, Freeford, Lichfield, Stafford, Stychbrook and Whittington (but not inc. his lands in Fulfen and Morghull) was valued at £430 p.a.; and in 1646, these same properties, inc. his lands in Morghull and Streethay, were valued at £250 p.a.Staffs. RO, D661/1/33; D260/M/F/4/18, f. 16. In 1645, he acquired lands in Whittington and Tamworth, Staffs.Staffs. RO, D661/1/47. By 1656, his estate inc. lands and tenements in Elford, Freeford, Lichfield, Morghull, Streethay, Tamhorn, Whittington and Wiggington, Staffs.Staffs. RO, D661/1/59. In 1666, his house in Streethay was assessed at 14 hearths and his house in Sadler Street, Lichfield, at 16 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 3, 1923), 211; ‘Hearth tax for Lichfield’ ed. P. Laithwaite (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 3, 1936, pt. ii), 150.
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BOARD, Herbert (1602-48), of Paxhill, Lindfield, Suss.

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bap. 27 June 1602, 3rd, but eldest surv. s. of Ninian Board of Lindfield and Margaret, da. of William Morley of Glynde.Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 92-3; (Harl. Soc. lxxxix), 15; Comber, Suss. Genealogies Ardingly, 19-24; W. Suss. RO, PAR416/2/10. educ. Catharine Hall, Camb., Easter 1624; BA, 1628.Al. Cant. m. bef. 1629, Mary (d. 1675), da. of Dr John Drury (d. 9 June 1614), master in chancery, of Chichester cathedral close, 6s. 5da.Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. lxxxix), 15; (Harl. Soc. liii), 126; Comber, Suss. Genealogies Ardingly, 23. suc. fa. 2 Oct. 1606.Notes IPMs Suss., 33. bur. 16 July 1648.Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc., lxxxix), 15; Comber, Suss. Genealogies Ardingly, 23; W. Suss. RO, PAR416/2/12.
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Local: commr. sewers, Suss. 26 May 1637;C181/5, f. 70. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642,SR. 14 Apr. 1643,CJ iii. 45a. 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647;A. and O. sequestration, 14 Apr. 1643.CJ iii. 45a. Member, Suss. co. cttee. 18 July 1643.CJ iii. 173a. Commr. defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643.A. and O. Treas. charitable uses, Suss. 3 May 1644.Suss. QSOB 1642–1649, 50. Commr. for Suss., assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644.A. and O. J.p. Suss. 1644–d.Suss. QSOB 1642–1649, 61, 66, 72, 76, 119, 145. Commr. oyer and terminer, 4 July 1644;C181/5, f. 235. gaol delivery, 4 July 1644;C181/5, f. 235v. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O.

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BOARD, Herbert (1602-48), of Paxhill, Lindfield, Suss.
: Suss., Lindfield.
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Commons 1640-1660
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BOARD, Herbert (1602-48), of Paxhill, Lindfield, Suss.

Will
7 Feb., pr. 30 Sept. 1648.PROB11/205/389.
Estates
inherited from fa. manor of Lindfield;E. Suss. RO, Glynde 1357. residence at Paxhill;Suss. Arch. Coll. xi. 1. 1623, £100 from uncle, Anthony Board;PROB11/142/523 (Anthony Board) 1627, assessed at £3 for lay subsidy;E179/191/377a. 1631, sold lands in Kensington and Fulham, Mdx., for £600; 1632, bought land there from Laurence Whitaker*.C54/2892/17; C54/2897/29.
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THOMSON, George (1607-91), of St Olave, Southwark, and Lee, Blackheath, Kent.

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bap. 12 Apr. 1607, 2nd s. of Robert Thomson (d. aft. 1633) of Watton-at-Stone, Herts. and Elizabeth, da. of John Harsnett (Halfhead, Harfett) of Watton-at-Stone; bro. of Robert Thomson* and William Thomson*.Watton, Herts. par. reg.; Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 97-8. educ. travelled abroad (Virginia), 1623-aft. 1628.J.C. Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons…who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600–1700 (1874), 244; L.G. Tyler Encyclopedia of Virginia Biog. (New York, 1915), i. 339. m. (1) betw. 1631-3, Elizabeth, da. of James Brickland of Thorncliffe, Cheshire or John Brickland of Derbys. s.p.; (2) bef. 5 Aug. 1645, Elizabeth (bur. 19 Mar. 1661), da. of William Humphryes of Southwark, and wid. of Thomas Moore of Wickham and Richard Tuffnayle* (bur. 18 Aug. 1640), at least 1s. d.v.p. 2da.;Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 282; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. liv), 164; St Olave, Southwark par. reg. (3) aft. 13 Aug. 1667, Abigail, da. and coh. of Thomas Barnes of Aldborough Hatch, Essex and wid. of John Lockey of Holmes Hill, Herts., Josias Berners* and Roger Hill II*, s.p.Som. RO, DD/X/VNL/1, p. 37; Vis. Som. 1672 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xi), 113. bur. 9 Jan. 1691 9 Jan. 1691.St Olave, Southwark, and St James Clerkenwell, Mdx. par. regs.
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Colonial: lt. militia, Elizabeth City, Virg. 1628/9. Member, house of burgesses, 1629.Encyclopedia Virginia Biog. i. 339.

Central: commr. sea adventure to Ireland, 17 June 1642;A. and O. for compounding, 8 Feb. 1647, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O.; CJ vi. 113b. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647;A. and O. cttee. of navy and customs by 19 Aug. 1647, 17 Feb. 1659;CJ v. 278a; vii. 279a, 605a. cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 4 Mar. 1648;CJ v. 476b; LJ x. 88b. cttee. for excise, 5 Jan. 1648.LJ ix. 639a; CJ v. 416b. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 29 Aug. 1648; removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 5 Sept. 1649.CJ vi. 290a. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1651, 25 Nov. 1652, 19 May 1659, 31 Dec. 1659, 25 Feb. 1660.A. and O.; CJ vii. 221a, 800b. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 22 May 1651.CJ vi. 577b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of forfeited estates, 16 July 1651;A. and O. for customs, 8 Apr. 1652–18 May 1653;CJ vii. 118a; SP25/69 f. 94. admlty. and navy, 10 Dec. 1652, by 21 Oct. 1654, 31 May 1659, 2 Feb. 1660;CJ vii. 225b, 228a; A. and O.; SP25/69 f. 94; SP18/76, f. 179. for governing army, 26 Dec. 1659;CJ vii. 797a. of accts. 1667-aft. 27 Feb. 1672.SR; CTB ii. 611; iii. 211, 669, 948, 959; SP29/322, f. 195.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of William Russell*, 5th earl of Bedford, army of 3rd earl of Essex, 17 July 1642.SP28/9/354; A list of the horse under the command of William Earl of Bedford (1642, 669.f.6.70). Col. of horse, army of Sir William Waller* bef. 29 Mar. 1644.Sir W. Sanderson, A compleat history of the life and raigne of King Charles (1658), 697; Juxon Jnl. 49. Col. of ft. vol. regt. London 10 Aug. 1659.CSP Dom. 1659–60, pp. 124, 563, 567.

Local: commr. sewers, Kent and Surr. 25 Nov. 1645, 14 Nov. 1657;C181/5, f. 264; C181/6, p. 263. London 15 Dec. 1645, 13 Aug. 1657;C181/5, f. 266v; C181/6, p. 259. Surr. 1 Sept. 1659.C181/6, p. 386. J.p. 8 June 1646 – Mar. 1656, Mar- bef. Oct. 1660; Kent by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653, ?- 11 Mar. 1656, Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, pp. 47, 327, 328; C193/13/3, f. 34; C193/13/4, f. 49v; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. assessment, Surr. 23 June 1647, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653; Kent, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Essex 17 Mar. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660; Southwark militia, 9 Sept. 1647, 14 Apr. 1648, July 1649, 14 July 1659; militia, Kent 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Surr. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Southwark 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Home circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 14, 373. ejecting scandalous ministers, Surr. 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Religious: trier, tenth London classis, 20 Oct. 1645; elder, 26 Sept. 1646.LJ vii. 616, 652a; A. and O.

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THOMSON, George (1607-91), of St Olave, Southwark, and Lee, Blackheath, Kent.
: Southwark and Kent., Lee.
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THOMSON, George (1607-91), of St Olave, Southwark, and Lee, Blackheath, Kent.

Will
15 Dec. 1690, pr. 17 Jan. 1691.PROB11/403/100.
Estates
bef. 1628, plantation in Va.R. Brenner, Merchants and Revolution (2003), 128. 9 Feb. 1636, share in 8,000 acres in Burckley or Berkeley hundred, Charles City co. Va.N.M. Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers (Baltimore, 1963), i. 53; Brenner, Merchants and Revolution, 146. 1635, interest in Montserrat colony;Brenner, Merchants and Revolution, 128-9, 186. manor of Brightlingsea, Essex.C5/339/219; PROB11/403/100. ?bef. 1650, Spilshill Court, Kent.J. Philpot, Villare cantianum (1650), 305; Hasted, Kent, vii. 119-29. ?Nov. 1651, adventure of £1,200 in united jt. stock, E. India Co.Cal. Ct. Mins. E. I. Co. 1650-1654 ed. Sainsbury, 133.
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ATKYNS, Robert (1621-1710), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Lower Swell, Glos.

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bap. 29 Apr. 1621, 1st s. of Sir Edward Atkyns, baron of the exchequer 1645-8, June 1660-9, j.c.p. 1649-Jan. 1660, of Hensington, Oxon. and Albury Hall, Herts. and 1st w. Ursula (d. 1644), da. of Sir Thomas Dacres of Cheshunt, Herts. and sis. of Sir Thomas Dacres*; bro. of Edward Atkyns†.Cheshunt par. reg.; Chauncy, Herts. i. 586; Oxford DNB, ‘Sir Robert Atkyns’. educ. Hertford g.s.; Sidney Sussex, Camb. 1637;Al. Cant. L. Inn 8 Oct. 1638, cr. MA Oxon. 1663.LI Admiss. 236; Al. Ox. m. bef. 1647 (1) Mary (d. 2 Mar. 1681), da. of Sir George Clarke, Grocer, of London and Watford, Northants. 3s. (2 d.v.p.); (2) lic. 21 Apr. 1681, Anne (d. 9 Oct. 1712), da. of Sir Thomas Dacres of Cheshunt, Herts. 2s. d.v.p., 3da. (2 d.v.p.).J.D. Thorp, 'Hist. Manor of Coates, County Gloucester', Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. l. 241-2. KB 23 Apr. 1661.Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 166. suc. fa. 9 Oct. 1669.Oxford DNB. d. 18 Feb. 1710.Foss, Judges of Eng, vii. 310.
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Legal: called, L. Inn 20 Nov. 1645; bencher, 5 June 1662; reader and treas. 1664.LI Black Bks. ii. 367, iii. 19, 39, 42. Solicitor-gen. to queen, 1662–72. KC, 1671. Recvr.-gen.of law duties, 1671–2. Sjt.-at-law, 1672. J.c.p. 15 Apr. 1672–80.HP Commons, 1660–90, i. 565. Assize judge, Midland circ. Jan. 1673.C181/7, p. 634. C. bar. exch. 1689–94.HP Commons, 1660–90, i. 565.

Local: j.p. Herts. 1646 – ?59; Glos. 1659 – 72, 1700 – d.; Mdx. Mar. – bef.Oct. 1660, 1662–72. 9 June 1657HP Commons 1660–1690, ‘Robert Atkyns’. Commr. assessment, Glos., 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689 – 90; Gloucester 1661; Mdx. 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689 – 90; Bristol 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Worcs. 1689 – 90; Serjeants’ Inn 1690;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 10 July 1660-aft. Feb. 1673;C181/7, pp. 12, 637. Mdx. 5 Nov. 1660-aft. Sept. 1671;C181/7, pp. 67, 589. London 14 May 1661-aft. Dec. 1672;C181/7, pp. 100, 630. Som. and Bristol 13 Dec. 1664;C181/7, p. 298. Midland circ. 3 Feb. 1673;C181/7, p. 641. poll tax, Glos. 1660;SR. gaol delivery, Newgate gaol 14 May 1661-aft. Dec. 1672.C181/7, pp. 100, 630. Dep. lt. Glos. 1662–?72. Commr. corporations, 1662;HP Commons 1660–1690, ‘Robert Atkyns’. loyal and indigent officers, 1662; subsidy, Glos., Mdx., Bristol 1663;SR. sewers, Glos. 7 Nov. 1671.C181/7, p. 599.

Civic: recorder, Evesham 1 Oct. 1653–13 July 1659.Evesham Borough Records ed. S.K. Roberts (Worcs. Hist. Soc. n.s. xiv), 50, 59–60. Recorder and alderman, Bristol May 1662–82.Bristol RO, 04264/6, p. 59

Central: chairman, cttee. of ways and means, 16 June 1663, 1 Dec. 1664, 16- 19 Oct. 1665; supply cttee. and ways and means, 9 Nov. – 2 Dec. 1669, 18 Feb.-10 Nov. 1670. Speaker, House of Lords, 15 Oct. 1689–93.HP Commons 1660–1690, ‘Robert Atkyns’; Oxford DNB.

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ATKYNS, Robert (1620-1710), of Lincoln’s Inn and Sapperton, Glos.
: of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. and Lower Swell, Glos.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ATKYNS, Robert (1621-1710), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Lower Swell, Glos.

Will
pr. 6 Mar. 1710.PROB11/514, f. 57.
Estates
Purchased manor of Lower Swell, Glos. with house known as the Bould, c. 1659; bought Sapperton Hall from trustees of Henry Poole*, 1661; bought Pinsbury manor and remainder of Sapperton estate, moieties of manors of Coates and Trewsbury, 1667, with remaining moieties in 1677; bought the 7 hundreds of Cirencester, 1667. At d. owned property in Cursitor’s Alley, Holborn, Mdx.Glos. RO, D 2212/1; Thorp, 'Hist. Manor of Coates', 242, 247.
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JENINGS, Edmund (1626-91), of Ripon, Yorks.

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bap. 30 Nov. 1626, 1st s. of Jonathan Jennings (d. 24 Aug. 1649) of Ripon and Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Giles Parker of Newby, Ripon; bro. of Jonathan Jenings*.Ripon par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 201. educ. privately, Silsden; Ripon g. s.; Sidney Sussex, Camb. 7 May 1641;Al. Cant. L. Inn 6 Oct. 1646.LI Admiss. m. 15 Dec. 1652, Margaret, da. of Sir Edward Barkham, 1st bt.† of Tottenham High Cross, Mdx. and Southacre, Norf., 5s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da. (2 d.v.p.).All Hallows, Tottenham par. reg.; Ripon par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 201. suc. gdfa. c.Oct. 1651;PROB11/218, f. 259. Kntd. 13 July 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 230. bur. 11 Sept. 1691 11 Sept. 1691.St Clement Danes, Westminster par. reg.
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Local: gov. Ripon g.s. by 1650–d.A.F. Leach, Early Yorks. Schools (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xxvii), 229–32. J.p. liberties of Ripon 24 Mar. 1658–10 May 1662;C181/6, pp. 283, 341. Yorks. (W. Riding) by c.Jan. 1660 – ?Sept. 1688, ?Nov. 1688–d.;Add. 29674, f. 152; C231/8, p. 203; HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Edmund Jennings’. N. Riding by July 1682–?Feb. 1688.N. Riding QS Recs. ed. J.C. Atkinson (N. Riding Rec. Soc. vii), 58; HP Commons 1660–1690, ‘Edmund Jennings’. Commr. gaol delivery, liberties of Ripon 24 Mar. 1658–9 June 1661;C181/6, pp. 283, 341. militia, Yorks. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; assessment, W. Riding 26 Jan. 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689, 1690; Yorks. 1 June 1660;A. and O.; SR; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660), 21 (E.1075.6). poll tax, W. Riding 1661; subsidy, 1663;SR. duties on wines, northern cos. 20 June 1668.C181/7, p. 474. Dep. lt. W. Riding 6 May 1669–?87.SP44/20, p. 197; Beinecke, Osborn Shelves, Danby boxes [OSB. MSS 6], box 2, folder 37 (W. Riding militia pprs.); HP Commons 1660–1690, ‘Edmund Jennings’. Commr. concealed lands, Yorks. 27 July 1670;CTB iii. 634. recusants, W. Riding 1675.CTB iv. 750. Sheriff, Yorks. 15 Nov. 1675–10 Nov. 1676.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 164.

Civic: freeman, Ripon 5 Jan. 1659–?d.; alderman 17 Nov. 1662 – 21 Apr. 1685; mayor, Jan. 1663-Jan. 1664.N. Yorks. RO, DC/RIC II 1/1/2, pp. 506, 549, 553; DC/RIC II 1/1/3, p. 149.

Central: surveyor-gen. of customs, 15 Mar. 1679–?CTB v. 1271. Commr. for prizes, 16 Mar. 1691–d.CTB ix. 1060.

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JENNINGS, Edmund (1626-91), of Ripon, Yorks.
: of Ripon, Yorks.
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JENINGS, Edmund (1626-91), of Ripon, Yorks.

Will
9 Dec. 1687, pr. 22 Sept. 1691.PROB11/406, f. 18v.
Estates
in the early 1630s, Jenings’s grandfa. was fined £16 for distraint of knighthood.‘Compositions for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I’ ed. W.P. Baildon, in Misc. 1 (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lxi), 98. Jenings’s grandfa.’s estate in Silsden and Ripon, Yorks. was valued at £429 p.a. in 1646; Jenings’s fa.’s estate in North Lees (in parish of Ripon) and Waddington, Yorks. was valued at £46 p.a.SP23/181, pp. 249, 255; SP23/187, p. 395; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 13-15, 58-9. In 1651, Jenings inherited an estate that inc. messuages and lands in Ripon, Silsden and Waddington and lease of tithes in Silsden.PROB11/218, f. 259. In 1652, he purchased houses and lands in Earby and Kelbrook, Yorks. for £1,100 from Sir William Lister*.Leeds Univ. Lib. MD234/74, 106. In 1662, Jenings’s house in Ripon, which he had built at the north-east angle of the Minster Yard, was assessed at 14 hearths and was the largest in the town.E179/210/386; Ripon Millenary ed. W. Harrison, ii. 66. In 1681, he sold several ‘farmholds, lands and tenements’ in Thorton, Yorks. which he had purchased from Sir William Lister, to Sir John Bright* for £515.Leeds Univ. Lib. MD234/53-55, 333.
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STAPYLTON, Brian (1588-1658), of Myton Hall, Myton-on-Swale, Yorks.

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Family and Education
bap. 4 Nov. 1588, 1st s. of Sir Robert Stapilton† of Easdyke, Wighill and 2nd w. Olivia, da. and coh. of Sir Henry Sharington† of Lacock Abbey, Wilts., wid. of John Talbot of Salwarpe, Worcs.Lacock, Wilts. par reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 171-2, 177. educ. Balliol Oxf. 30 Mar. 1604, BA 24 Nov. 1606;Al. Ox. M. Temple 3 Feb. 1608.M. Temple Admiss. m. by 1616, Frances, da. of Sir Henry Slingsby† of Scriven, Yorks. 3s. (inc. Henry* and Robert*) 3da. suc. fa. Oct. 1606;Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 171, 177. bur. 30 June 1658.Myton upon Swale Par. Reg. ed. H.I. Robinson (Yorks. Par. Reg. Soc. cxxi), 36.
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Local: recvr. crown revenues, honor of Knaresborough 1617 – aft.42; honors of Pontefract, Tickhill 1619-aft. 1642;SC6/JASI/1299–1301, 1314–16, 1318–20, 1682–7; SC6/CHAS1/1194–1211, 1247–62; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. Somerville, 151. manor of Wakefield May 1635–?d.;SO3/11, unfol. (May 1635); Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. Somerville, 154. honor of Pickering by 1646–?d.; manor of Ripon by 1646–?d.Bodl. Nalson XIV, f. 223; Stowe 1058, f. 84. J.p. Yorks. (N. Riding) 4 Feb. 1632–3 July 1635, 30 Jan. 1641–?, 6 Mar. 1647-bef. Jan. 1650.C231/5, pp. 73, 175, 426; C231/6, p. 155. Commr. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, W. Riding by Jan. 1634;LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/001, p. 44. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649;SR; A. and O. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Member, cttee. to command Northern Assoc. army, 12 May 1645.CJ iv. 138b; LJ vii. 367b. Commr. Northern Assoc. N., W. Riding 20 June 1645;A. and O. charitable uses, W. Riding 21 Feb. 1648;C93/19/33. militia, Yorks. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Central: commr. to Scottish Parl. 26 Oct. 1643, 3 Jan. 1645, 27 Jan. 1648.CJ iii. 279a; v. 442b; LJ vi. 273b; x. 4a.

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STAPYLTON, Brian (1588-1658), of Myton Hall, Myton-on-Swale, Yorks.
: of Myton Hall, Myton-on-Swale, Yorks.
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STAPYLTON, Brian (1588-1658), of Myton Hall, Myton-on-Swale, Yorks.

Will
1 Feb. 1656, pr. 26 Nov. 1658.PROB11/283, f. 275v.
Estates
by 1615, owned manor of Myton and 20 messuages and 1,300 acres in Myton, Rufforth, Spufforth and Aldborough in the North and West Ridings.H.E. Chetwynd-Stapylton, ‘The Stapeltons of Yorks.’, YAJ viii. 429. In 1640, granted a lease for three years of two houses in Covent Garden; moiety of a house in Leadenhall Street, London; a third part of a house in Islington and land in Stroud Green, Mdx.; and a messuage in Stow Maries, Essex – the rents of which were to pay off a debt due to him of £120.Leeds Univ. Lib. DD149/71. His properties in Myton, Eston and the Marishes, Pickering, were worth about £837 p.a. in the mid-1650s.N. Yorks. RO, ZLQ, Stapylton of Myton mss, Accts. and estate pprs. (mic. 1117). At d. in 1658, estate inc. a capital messuage, lands and tenements in the Marishes, par. of Pickering; and leasehold lands in Bishop Monkton in par. of Ripon, Yorks.; and in manor of Walker, Northumb.PROB11/283, ff. 275v-276v.
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Bow Street, St Paul Covent Garden, Westminster (1645-52).Survey of London, xxxvi, 187.
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HUTCHINSON, Richard (1598-1670), of St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London, and Mile End, Mdx.

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Family and Education
bap. 3 January 1598, 4th s. of Edward Hutchinson (d. 1631) of Alford, Lincs. mercer, and Susannah (d. 1645).Alford par. regs. educ. appr. to John Wilson, Ironmonger c.1616-23.GL, MS 16967/3, f. 285v. m. c.?1623 Mary Hily, 8s. (1 d.v.p.), 6da. (2 d.v.p.).Regs. St Mary Magdalen Milk Street (Harl. Soc. lxxii), 28-32, 49-50; RG4/4414, ff. 4, 5v, 70. d. c. Apr. 1670.The Diary and Letters of…Thomas Hutchinson ed. P.O. Hutchinson (2 vols. Boston, 1884-6), ii. 456-8; Lincs. Pedigrees (Harl. Soc. li), 534.
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Mercantile: freeman, Ironmongers’ Co. 18 Nov. 1623;GL, MS 16967/3, f. 285v. liveryman, 8 Aug. 1627;GL, MS 16967/3, f. 379. renter warden, 18 Nov. 1633;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 143. auditor, 8 July 1634;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 154. steward for mayor’s day, 8 Aug. 1639;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 292. warden, 1 July 1645, 2 July 1650;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 444; MS 16967/5, p. 81. cttee. for Irish lands 15 Jan. 1650;GL, MS 16967/5, p. 72. master, 10 July 1658.GL, MS 16967/5, p. 258.

Central: treas. relief of widows, 31 Oct. 1643;A. and O. relief of craftsmen, maimed soldiers and widows, 3 Aug. 1644;CJ iii. 578b. maimed soldiers, 23 July 1647. Commr. regulating navy and customs, 16 Jan. 1649. Asst. corporation propagating gospel in New England, 27 July 1649. by Mar. 1645 – Dec. 1650A. and O. Dep. treas. navy,; treas. 30 Dec. 1650–?May 1660.CSP Dom. 1644–5, p. 632; CJ vi. 482a.

Local: commr. arrears assessment, Bread Street Ward, London 24 Apr. 1648; assessment, London 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Surr. 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). J.p. Kent 29 June 1652-bef. Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 238; CUL, Dd.VIII.1, f. 54. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, London, Westminster, Mdx. and Surr. 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. sewers, London 13 Aug. 1657.C181/6, p. 258.

Civic: dep. alderman, ?Bread Street Ward, London by 26 Nov. 1650-aft. Aug. 1657.A. and O.; C181/6, p. 258.

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HUTCHINSON, Richard (1598-1670), of St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London, and Mile End, Mdx.
: Milk Street, London and Mile End, Mdx.
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HUTCHINSON, Richard (1598-1670), of St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London, and Mile End, Mdx.

Will
4 Nov. 1669, pr. 11 Apr. 1670.PROB11/332/487.
Estates
property in Cheapside, London, July 1641;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 249. invested £150 in Irish adventure in 1642-3, assigned a further £200 in 1654, and was allocated nearly 1500 acres in Iffa and Offa barony, co. Tipperary;CSP Ire. Adv. 97, 219; CSP Ire. 1647-60, p. 459: Bottigheimer, English Money and Irish Land, 184, 205. leased house and warehouse from Ironmongers’ Company, next to their hall, Jan. 1646;GL, MS 16967/4, p. 455. property in Boston, Mass. which was sold in 1658.Trans. Col. Soc. Mass. iii (1900), 89; Suffolk Deeds, iii. 124. At his death in 1670 owned manor of Aldeburgh, Norf., property in Boston and Skirbeck, Lincs. and estate in Ireland.PROB11/332/487.
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par. St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London, 1628-at least 1643;CSP Ire. Adv. 97. Mile End by 1648.RG4/4414, f. 4.
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ST BARBE, John (c.1616-58), of Broadlands, Romsey, Hants.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1616, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Henry St Barbe of Ashington, Som. and Anne or Amy, da. of Edward Rogers of Cannington, Som. m. bef. 1655, Grizel (bap. 4 Sept. 1635), da. of John Pynsent, prothonotary of common pleas, of Combe, Surr. 4s. suc. fa. 1652.Som. RO, DD/X/LSH; DD/SAS/HV61/36; PROB11/292/675; St Margaret, Westminster, par. reg. bur. 2 Sept. 1658 2 Sept. 1658.Romsey, Hants, par. reg.
Offices Held

Local: member, cttee. for Hants, 23 July 1642.LJ v. 233b-234a. Commr. defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652,A. and O. 24 Nov. 1653,Act for an Assessment (1653), 296 (E.1062.28). 9 June 1657; Som. 16 Feb 1648, 9 June 1657; levying of money, Hants 11 June 1645.A. and O. J.p. Som. 13 July 1646-bef. Jan. 1650;C231/6, p. 51 Hants by Feb. 1650–d.C193/13/3, f. 57; C193/13/5, f. 93. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, 1 June 1658.CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 42.

Military: ?lt. (parlian.) regt. of Richard Norton*, ?1642 – 43; capt. Sept. 1643–45.BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. Gov. Southampton 5 July 1645-aft. 1648.CJ iv. 196b.

Religious: elder, second Hants classis, 8 Dec. 1645.King, Bor. and Par. Lymington, 263.

Civic: burgess, Southampton 8 Oct. 1649.Southampton RO, SC3/1/1, fo. 218.

Central: member, cttee. for trade, 11 Jan. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 114.

Parlimentarian
ST BARBE, John (c.1616-58), of Broadlands, Romsey, Hants.
: Hants., Romsey.
Likenesses

Likenesses: fun. monument, attrib. E. Marshall, Romsey Abbey, Hants.

Volume
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ST BARBE, John (c.1616-58), of Broadlands, Romsey, Hants.

Will
18 Aug. 1658, pr. 29 June 1659.PROB11/292/675.
Estates
property in Romsey bef. 1649 (perhaps following d. of his bro. Francis in Sept. 1643). At his father’s d. in 1652 inherited (presumably) estate at Ashington and (more certainly) manor of Romsey, and Broadlands, said by John Ashburnham* in 1638 to consist of about 600 acres and ‘a sheepwalk’, and to be the best land in the county; previously let for £280-£300 p.a. it was then said to be worth nearer £400.Hants RO, 10M64/54; SP16/378, f. 90; VCH Hants, iv. 454. Most of his property appears to have been settled bef. he made his will in Aug. 1658, but he also left to his younger sons leases in Romsey and in Draycott, Som.PROB11/292/675.
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THELWALL, Lumley (aft. 1620-75), of Plas-y-Ward, Llanynys, Denb.

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Family and Education
b. aft. 1620, 3rd s. of Edward Thelwall of Plas-y-Ward (d. 1663) and Margaret (d. 1647), da. and h. of Andrew Maredydd of Glantanat, Llangedwyn; bro. of Simon Thelwall*. ? unm. d. 25 Mar. 1675.Hist. Powys Fadog. iv. 310.
Offices Held

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), army of Thomas Mytton* by July 1645;SP28/31, pt. 4, 365; CJ v. 265a. capt. under John Reynolds*, 1649–?53.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 613.

Irish: commr. revenue, 1650 – 53; commr. distressed subjects, cos. Galway and Roscommon by May 1653.CSP Ire. 1669–70, p. 368; TCD, 1641 Depositions website.

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THELWALL, Lumley (aft. 1620-75), of Plas-y-Ward, Llanynys, Denb.
: of Plas-y-Ward, Denb., Llanynys.
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THELWALL, Lumley (aft. 1620-75), of Plas-y-Ward, Llanynys, Denb.

Will
not found.
Estates
acquired the estate of Dunbill, barony of Gowran, co. Kilkenny [Ire.] bef. 1660, but lost this during the Restoration settlement on the 1st duke of Ormond.Bodl. Carte 60, f. 404. It is unclear whether he ever took possession of lands in co. Carlow settled upon him in compensation.Bodl. Carte 60, f. 406.
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