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COODE, William (1573-1655), of Morval, Cornw.

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bap. 14 Nov. 1573, 1st s. of John Coode of Morval and Margaret, da. of Philip Mayowe of Looe. m. (1) bef. 1600, Leodia (d. 1613), da. of Walter Kendall of Pelynt, Cornw. 6s. (4 d.v.p.) 7da. (at least 1 d.v.p.); (2) Anna, da. of John Stucley of Aston, Devon. suc. fa. 28 May 1590. bur. 20 Apr. 1655 20 Apr. 1655.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 95.
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Local: ?j.p. Cornw. by 1616. Sheriff, 1616.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 23.

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COODE, William (1573-1655), of Morval, Cornw.
: Cornw.
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Commons 1640-1660
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COODE, William (1573-1655), of Morval, Cornw.

Will
23 Mar. 1642, codicil 19 Aug. 1648, pr. 16 Feb. 1656.PROB11/253/316.
Estates
lands at Morval, inherited from Thomas Kendall (on 1st wife’s interest?);PROB11/253/316. also included duchy of Cornwall lands: village of Rastin alias Roselin, part of the manor of Helston, and freeholder in manor of Liskeard.Parl. Surv. Duchy of Cornw. i. 45, 80.
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WYLDE, John (1591-1669), of the Harriots, Droitwich, Worcs., Inner Temple and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, and Hampstead, Mdx.

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Family and Education
b. 1591, 1st s. of George Wylde† of the Harriots and Frances, da. of Sir Edmund Huddleston of Sawston, Cambs.; bro. of George*.C142/356/104; Vis. Worcs. 1634 (Harl. Soc. xc), 105; St Peter, Droitwich par. reg. educ. I. Temple 30 Jan. 1603;I. Temple database. Balliol, Oxf. 18 Jan. 1605 ‘aged 14’, BA 1607 (incorp. Camb. 1608), MA Oxf. 1610.Al. Ox. m. (1) by 10 Oct. 1613, 1da. ?d.v.p.;St Peter, Droitwich par. reg. (2) Anne (d. 6 May 1624),G. Griffiths, Hist. of Tong, Salop (1894), 79-80. da. of Sir Thomas Harris†, 1st bt. of Tong, Salop, sjt.-at-law, 1da. suc. fa. 1616. d. 1669.E. Foss, Judges of Eng. vi. 522.
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Legal: called, I. Temple 29 Jan. 1612; auditor steward’s accts. 1626 – 27, 1635 – 36; auditor, accts. of treas. 1627 – 28; bencher, 3 Nov. 1628; steward for reader, 1629; reader, 1630. 29 May 1636CITR i. 65, 153, 164, 170, 174, 183, 185, 225. Sjt.-at-law,; adm. Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane 31 Jan. 1637; treas. 1639–42. 6 Feb. 1647Baker, Serjeants at Law, 186, 544. Assize judge, Oxf. circ., 15 June 1659;CJ v. 76ab; vii. 686b, 687b, 748a; C181/6, p. 369; C231/6, pp. 79, 81. Western circ. (Hants, Dorset, Devon only) 8 July 1647;CJ v. 236ab; C231/6, p. 96; Western Circ. Assize Orders, 258, 262, 264. (Wilts., Cornw., Som. only) 31 Jan., 13 May, Oct. 1648;CJ v. 451a, 598a; vi. 49a; Western Circ. Assize Orders, 272, 274, 278. special commn. oyer and terminer, Hants 10 Jan. 1648;CJ v. 425b. Canterbury 18 Apr. 1648.CJ v. 534a. C. bar. exch. 15 Nov. 1648 – 16 Dec. 1653; 18 Jan.-29 May 1660.W.H. Bryson, Equity Side of the Exchequer (Cambridge, 1975), 177; CJ vii. 814b.

Local: j.p. Worcs. by 18 Apr. 1620-Mar. 1660;Harl. 1043, f. 7. Herefs. 15 Aug. 1644-bef. Oct. 1653;Brampton Bryan MS 27/4; C193/13/4, f. 41. Montgom. by 13 Mar. 1648-bef. Oct. 1653;Justice of the Peace ed. Phillips, 143–4. Glos. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1660;C193/13/3, f. 26v. Devon, Dorset, Hants, Leics., Mdx., Norf., Northants., Salop, Som., Suff., Westminster, Wilts. by Feb. 1650-bef. c.Sept. 1656;C193/13/3, ff. 13, 15, 41, 45, 47v, 35, 53v, 54v, 56, 60, 68v, 81v; C193/13/4, ff. 18, 22, 51v, 59, 67, 71, 81, 83v, 86, 92, 108, 127v. Cornw., Essex, Kent, Mon., Oxon., Surr., Warws., Anglesey, Caern., Denb., Flint, Merion. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C193/13/3, ff. 9v, 24, 32v, 44, 51, 62, 65v; C193/13/4, ff. 13, 34v, 47v, 65v, 77, 96, 102v; Justice of the Peace ed. Phillips, 13, 31, 49–50, 76, 111, 359–60. Commr. subsidy, Worcs. 1622, 1628;C212/22/21; E179/283/27. charitable uses, Worcester 9 Apr. 1624;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 190. Worcs. 10 May 1624, 1 July 1631, 9 June 1638;C93/10/13, C93/17/6, C93/13/8. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 63. sewers, River Avon, Glos. and Worcs. 29 June 1629;C181/4, f. 18. gaol delivery, Worcs. and Worcester 24 Mar. 1630, 9 Mar. 1638;C181/4, f. 44v; C181/5, f. 100. Norf. 3 July 1644-aft. Sept. 1645;C181/5, ff. 234v, 260v. Essex 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/5, ff. 238, 254. Kent, Surr. 4 July 1644;C181/5, ff. 236v, 238, 239v. Newgate gaol 16 Nov. 1644 – aft.Nov. 1645, 9 Jan. 1654;C181/5, ff. 244, 265; C181/6, p. 1. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 9 June 1632, 23 Jan. 1637 – aft.Jan. 1642, by Feb. 1654-June 1659;C181/5, ff. 62v, 219; C181/6, pp. 10, 302. London 12 Jan. 1644 – aft.Nov. 1645, 9 Jan. 1654;C181/5, ff. 230v, 265; C181/6, p. 1. Mdx. 13 Jan. 1644 – aft.Jan. 1645, 9 Jan. 1654;C181/5, ff. 231, 246v; C181/6, p. 3. Norf. 3 July 1644-aft. Sept. 1645;C181/5, ff. 234, 260v. Essex 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/5, ff. 237v, 254. Kent, Surr. 4 July 1644;C181/5, ff. 236, 239. Lincs. 26 Apr. 1645;C181/5, f. 252. Worcs., ?Glos. July 1646.Whitelocke, Diary, 187; J. Dorney, Certain Speeches (1653), 23. Member, council in the marches of Wales by 12 May 1633.NLW, Herbert mss. series ii. bdle. 12. Commr. assessment, Worcs. 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 11 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Worcester 16 Feb. 1648, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Mdx. 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, Worcs. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Glos., Herefs. and S. E. Wales, 10 May 1644.A. and O. Kpr. Hainault Walk, Waltham Forest, Essex July 1644.CCC 2480. Commr. for Worcester, 23 Sept. 1644; militia, Worcs. and Worcester 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Glos., Mdx. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Custos rot. Worcs. 3 July 1651–22 Nov. 1655;C231/6, pp. 270, 319; Cal. QS Pprs. ed. Willis Bund, i. 324. Glos. by Oct. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/4, f. 38. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Worcs. 28 Aug. 1654; Westminster militia, 28 June 1659.A. and O.

Civic: recorder, Droitwich 8 Nov. 1624-bef. 6 Oct. 1662;C66/2326; Worcs. Archives, 261.4/BA 1006 box 34, 680. Worcester 2 Mar. 1640 – 28 Aug. 1643, 24 July 1646–14 Sept. 1660.Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 337, 372, 414; Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A14, chamber order bk. 1650–68, f. 38. Under-steward, Kidderminster 1636.J.R. Burton, Hist. Kidderminster (1890), 74.

Central: member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288a. cttee. for Irish affairs, 3 Sept. 1642;CJ ii. 750b. cttee. for sequestrations, 27 Mar. 1643.CJ iii. 21b. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647.LJ vi. 55b; LJ viii. 411a; ix. 500a. Member, Westminster Assembly, 12 June 1643. Commr. gt. seal 10 Nov. 1643, 19 Mar. 1646.A. and O. Member, cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645, 29 May 1645.A. and O.; CJ vi. 219b. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650.A. and O. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 219b.

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WYLDE (WILDE), John (c.1591-c.1669), of the Harriots, Droitwich, Worcs. and the Inner Temple, London; later of Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London and Hampstead, Mdx.
: Worcs., Droitwich and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane and Mdx., Hampstead.
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Commons 1640-1660
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WYLDE, John (1591-1669), of the Harriots, Droitwich, Worcs., Inner Temple and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, and Hampstead, Mdx.

Will
Not found.
Estates
Sold house at Huntingdrop, Dodderhill, Worcs. 1 Sept. 1616 for £56;Worcs. Archives, 705:7/BA 7335/35/2. owned house in Coken St. Worcester, 1630s;Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A10, box 3, vols. 2, city accts. 1623-39, f. 3. leased 6 ‘bullaries’ (salt-pits) at Droitwich, 19 messuages and a garden in Worcester for 99 years, £800 and peppercorn rent, 4 June 1642;Worcs. Archives, 705:232/BA 5955/7/8. owned house of 17 hearths on Belsize estate, Hampstead, Mdx. prob. by 1643;VCH Mdx. ix. 51, 96; CJ iii. 142a. co–purchaser messuages and 30 acres in Great Comberton, Worcs. Feb. 1644;C54/3315/17. borrowed £1,248 from Thomas Gwillim, June 1644;C54/3317/59. paid £100 of £500 awarded him as commr. of great seal, Sept. 1645;SC6/Chas I/1664 m.16. reputed to have received £2,000 from the Derby House cttee. 1648;The Second Centurie [1648], 5 (E.465.13). with Humphrey Salwey* bought tithes of Sir Thomas Lyttelton* on authority of cttee. for advance of money for £2,160, Feb. 1649, to maintain four ministers;C54/3450/28; C54/3582/46. was paid £250 for one term, part of £1,000 p.a. as c. bar. exch. 22 Nov. 1649;E404/237, unfol. bought fee farm rents of Impney manor, Dodderhill, Worcs. for £90, and of Droitwich, for £738 16s 6d, 29 Apr. 1650;E308/7, pt. 1 (c) ff. 8, 78. bought 15 acres of woodland in Himbleton, Worcs. for £130, Jan. 1652;C54/3627/23. owned 5 bullaries or salt-pits, Droitwich, 1660s.PROB11/435, f. 149.
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House in Belsize estate, Hampstead, Mdx. from 1643.VCH Mdx. ix. 51, 96; CJ iii. 142a.
Religion
Presented Thomas Garland to St. Peter, Droitwich, 9 Nov. 1640.Worcs. Archives, 732.4/BA 2337/23. With Humphrey Salwey* presented George Lawrence to amalgamated parishes of St Andrew and St Helen, Worcester, 21 Apr. 1647.Worcs. Archives, Worcester St Helen’s par. reg. Recommended John Freeston for living of Hampton Lovett, Worcs. 17 Dec. 1652; Roger Norbury for living of St Andrew, Droitwich, Worcs. 1 Dec. 1653.Add. 36792, ff. 58v, 78v. Presented Roger Norbury to St Peter, Droitwich, 23 Oct. 1663.Worcs. Archives, 732.4/BA 2337/25.
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MCDOWALL, Sir James (d. 1661), of Garthland, Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire.

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Family and Education
1st s. of Sir John McDowall of Garthland and Margaret Ker, da. of Lord Jedburgh. m. Anna, da. of Sir John Hamilton of Grange, at least 1s. suc. fa. May 1637.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 451; P.H. McKerlie, Hist. of the Lands and their Owners in Galloway (Edinburgh, 5 vols. 1877-9), i. 57-8. Kntd. ?1646.
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Local: sheriff, Galloway 1642. 31 Dec. 1655Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 451. Commr. assessment, Wigtownshire and Kircudbright, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 841; A. and O.

Religious: elder, presbytery of Stranraer, gen. assembly, 1642.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 451.

Military: col. of horse, Scottish army, 1643, 1648.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 451.

Scottish: commr. Wigtownshire, convention of estates, 1643; loan and tax, 1643. Member, cttee. of war, 1643 – 48, 1651; cttee. of estates, 1644 – 48, 1651. Commr. Wigtownshire, Scottish Parl. 1644 – 47, 1648; plantation of kirks, 1644. Member, cttee. for peace propositions with king, 1644. Negotiator with king, 1646–7. Agent in Ulster, Feb. 1646, May 1648.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 450; Government of Scot. under the Covenanters ed. D. Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1982), 38n, 58, 82. Dep. Wigtownshire, tender of union, Feb. 1652, Oct. 1653.Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, pp. xxxv, xliv, 38; R. Landrum, ‘Recs. Anglo-Scottish Union Negotiations, 1652–3‘, Scot. Hist. Soc. Misc. xv. 197. Commr. claims, ordinance of grace and pardon, 12 Apr. 1654, 16 Apr. 1656;A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 279. excise, customs and sequestrations, Sept. 1655;TSP iv. 48. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Civic: burgess and guildbrother, Edinburgh 31 Oct. 1655.Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses, ed. C.B.B. Watson (Edinburgh, 1929), 325.

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MCDOWALL, Sir James (d. 1661), of Garthland, Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire.
: Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MCDOWALL, Sir James (d. 1661), of Garthland, Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire.

Will
Estates
centred on Garthland Castle, near Stranraer, and inc. lands in parishes of Stoneykirk and Clashant, Wigtownshire.McKerlie, Galloway, i. 57.
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JOHNSTONE, James (1625-72), 2nd earl of Hartfell [S], of Lochwood and Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 1625, 1st s. of James, 1st earl of Hartfell [S], and his first wife, Margaret (d. 1 June 1673), da. of William Douglas, 1st earl of Queensberry [S]. m. (contract, 29 May 1645) Henrietta (d. 1 June 1673), da. of William Douglas, 1st marquess of Douglas [S], 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 7da. (3 d.v.p.). suc. fa. Apr. 1653. cr. earl of Annandale [S], 13 Feb. 1661. d. 17 July 1672.CP; Scots Peerage, i. 258-63; W. Fraser, Annandale Family Bk. (2 vols. Edinburgh, 1894), i. pp. ccxlvii, ccxlvii, cccxxvi.
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Military: col. Nithsdale regt. Mar. 1651.Fraser, Annandale, i. p. cciv. Capt. of horse, 1 Jan. 1667–?d.Scots Peerage, i. 262.

Scottish: PC, Apr. 1661–d. Member, high commn. 16 Jan. 1664–6.J. Nicoll, Diary of Public Transactions (Edinburgh, 1836), 326, 409; Scots Peerage, i. 262.

Local: commr. assessment, Dumfriesshire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. part 2, p. 839; A. and O. J.p. 1656–?Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 311. Hereditary steward of Annandale and kpr. of Lochmaben Castle, 23 Apr. 1662.Fraser, Annandale, i. p. xxiv; Scots Peerage, i. 262.

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JOHNSTONE, James (1625-72), 2nd earl of Hartfell [S], of Lochwood and Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire.
: 2nd earl of Hartfell [S], of Lochwood and Dumfriesshire., Lochmaben.
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Commons 1640-1660
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JOHNSTONE, James (1625-72), 2nd earl of Hartfell [S], of Lochwood and Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire.

Will
testament of 13 Apr. 1672.Fraser, Annandale, i. p. ccxlvi.
Estates
mostly in Annandale, including lands and baronies of Johnstone, Corrie, Knock, Newbie, Moffat, and the heritable keepership of Lochmaben Castle; received crown charter of estates, 1662; on death, rental income of £41,757 Scots (£3,480 sterling) payable from 23 baronies and other estates.Scots Peerage, i. 262, 264; Fraser, Annandale, i. p. ccxxxiv.
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Chandos Street, Covent Garden, Westminster Aug. 1655.Fraser, Annandale, ii. 305.
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FLEETWOOD, Miles (?1630-88), of Aldwincle All Saints, Northants.

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Family and Education
bap. 7 Jan. 1630, 1st s. of Sir William Fleetwood* and his 1st w. Frances, da. of Henry Sture of Maridge, Ugborough, Devon.St Albans, Herts. par. reg.; Northants. N and Q n.s. i. 111-13, 149; Vis. Oxon 1669 and 1673 (Harl. Soc. n. s. xii), 87. educ. Queens’, Camb. 7 Sept. 1646; G. Inn, 23 June 1648.Al. Cant.; G. Inn Admiss. 248. m. (1) by 1651, Elizabeth (bur. 4 Dec. 1657), da. and coh. of Nathaniel Still (d. 1626) of Hutton Court, Som. 5s.;Wootton, Oxon. par reg.; Northants. N and Q n.s. i. 113-6; Vis. Som. 1623 (Harl. Sic. xi), 104. (2) lic. 12 Dec. 1666, Barbara, da. and coh. of John St Andrew of Gorham, Notts. and East Haddon, Northants. and wid. of Sir Oliver St John, 1st bt. (d. 1662), of Woodford, Northants.Fac. Office Marr. Lics. (Harl. Soc. xxiv), 96; Northants. N and Q n.s. i. 116; CB. suc. fa. 12 Feb. 1674. bur. 28 July 1688.Northants. N and Q n.s. i. 113-6.
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Local: j.p. Northants. July 1653–?, 26 Feb. 1657-aft. Apr. 1664, Mar. 1672–?80;C231/6, pp. 264, 359; C231/7, p. 410; C193/12/3, f. 72; HP Commons 1660–1690. Oxon. by Oct. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660;C193/13/4, f. 78; C193/13/5, f. 84; A Perfect List (1660). Woodstock 1 Apr. 1656-aft. Aug. 1660.C181/6, pp. 157, 331; C181/7, p. 30. Commr. assessment, Northants. 9, 26 June 1657, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1679; Oxon. 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660; A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, Northants., Oxon. 12 Mar. 1660; subsidy, Northants. 1663. A. and O.; CJ vii. 867a.

Central: clerk of privy seal, 30 June 1656–10 Dec 1658.E403/2523, pp. 114–5, 189; C231/6, p. 359. Teller of exch. 13 Dec. 1658–?60.E403/2523, pp. 184–7; Add. 4197, f. 233.

Civic: freeman, Woodstock ?1659–?d.; common cllr. by Michaelmas 1661–10 July 1662.Oxon. RO. Woodstock archives BOR4/5/A1/1.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 1 June 1660.LC3/2, f. 9.

Parlimentarian
FLEETWOOD, Miles (c.1630-88), of Aldwinkle All Saints, Northants.
: of Aldwincle All Saints, Northants.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

FLEETWOOD, Miles (?1630-88), of Aldwincle All Saints, Northants.

Will
16 Aug. 1686, pr. 7 Oct. 1689.PROB11/397/53.
Estates
?life tenancy at Aldwincle from 1650, possession from 1674;VCH Northants. iii. 165. £150 p.a. from clerkship of privy seal, 1656-8; £400 p.a. and house from office of teller in Exchequer, 1658-?60.E403/2523, pp. 114-5, 184-7, 189.
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WHALLEY, Peter (1605-56), of All Saints, Northampton, Northants.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 2 June 1605, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Roger Whalley (d. 19 Sept. 1605) of All Saints, Northampton. m. by 1633, Hannah Cartwright (d. 1672), da. of ?William Cartwright of Coventry, Warws., 8s. (2 d.v.p.) 3da. (2 d.v.p.). suc. bro. Apr. 1606; d. 8 Apr. 1656.R.M. Serjeantson, Hist. of St Giles, 288-91; PROB11/257, ff. 363r-v; PROB11/339, f. 102; CSP Dom. 1657-8, p. 170; G. Ford, ‘Where’s Whalley? The search for Sir Samuel uncovers a Whalley-Cartwright alliance in Northants.’, Northants. P & P lxii (2009), 31, 34.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Northampton 2 May 1625;Ford, ‘Where’s Whalley?’, 288. bailiff, 1636 – 37; chamberlain, 1640 – 43; mayor, 1646 – 47, 1655 – d.; alderman, 1647–d.;Northampton Bor. Recs. ii. 552, 562, 568. auditor, 1649–55.Northants. RO, Northampton assembly bk. 3/2, pp. 107, 129.

Religious: sidesman, All Saints, Northampton 15 Apr. 1628; churchwarden, 17 Apr. 1639–26 Apr. 1641.Northants. RO, 223p/24 (All Saints, Northampton vestry min. bk.), pp. 9, 24, 25.

Local: collector, assessment, west division Northants. by Mar. 1643–?SP28/199, ff. 214, 216. Recvr. sequestration, Northants. Apr. 1643–d.;SP20/1, f. 5v. crown revenue, Northants. and Rutland c.Nov. 1646–?;CSP Dom. 1645–7, p. 490; 1656–7, p. 137. Leics., Northants., Rutland and Warws. c.Oct. 1655–d.CCC 733; CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 137; 1657–8, p. 170. Commr. assessment, Northants. 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Military: capt. vol. ft. Northampton June 1648.Northampton Bor. Recs. ii. 441.

Parlimentarian
WHALLEY, Peter (1605-56), of All Saints, Northampton, Northants.
: of All Saints, Northants., Northampton.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WHALLEY, Peter (1605-56), of All Saints, Northampton, Northants.

Will
3 Mar. 1656, pr. 4 Nov. 1656.PROB11/257, f. 363.
Estates
by 1652 he had purchased fee farm rents in Rutland.CCC 851. In 1653, he and another Northampton man purchased advowsons of St Giles and St Sepulchre, Northampton.VCH Northants. iii. 57; Serjeantson, St Giles, 64-5. At his death, his estate included a ‘dwelling house’ with a close in Northampton; and a house and close called the Tower House, Northampton.PROB11/257, ff. 363r-v.
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TOLSON, Richard (1622-90), of Bridekirk, Cumb., and Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorks.

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Family and Education
bap. 6 June 1622, 4th but o. surv. s. of Henry Tolson of Bridekirk, and Margaret (bur. 25 Jan. 1632), da. and h. of Henry Savile of Wath-upon-Dearne.Bridekirk Par. Regs. ed. J.F. Haswell (Penrith, 1927), 28, 272; Hunter, S. Yorks. ii. 68. educ. Oriel, Oxf. 11 Oct. 1639;Al. Ox. L. Inn 3 Dec. 1641;LI Admiss. i. 248. G. Inn 23 Oct. 1646;G. Inn Admiss. 242. called, L. Inn 6 Feb. 1656.LI Black Bks. ii. 411. m. 27 June 1650, Anne (bur. 27 Mar. 1714), da. of Gilbert Gregory of Barnby upon Don, Yorks. 5s. (2 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.).Pleasley, Derbys. par. reg.; Bridekirk Par. Regs. ed. Haswell, 48, 55, 57, 58; Hunter, S. Yorks. ii. 68; Burke’s Commoners, ii. 135. suc. fa. Oct. 1663.Bridekirk Par. Regs. ed. Haswell, 284. bur. 2 July 1690.Wath-upon Dearne par. reg.
Offices Held

Central: commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648;A. and O. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 3 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647.LJ viii. 411a; LJ ix. 500a.

Local: commr. assessment, Cumb. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; Westmld. 12 Mar. 1660. J.p. Cumb. by Feb. 1650-bef. c.Sept. 1656, Mar. 1660 – June 1688, 18 Oct. 1688–d.;C193/13/3; A Perfect List (1660); C231/8, p. 201; HP Commons, 1660–90, ‘Richard Tolson’. Yorks. (W. Riding) 9 Mar. 1652-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 234. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. by Feb. 1654-June 1659;C181/6, pp. 18, 310. poll tax, Cumb. 1660.SR. Steward, Ennerdale manor, Cumb. 22 Dec. 1660–?72.E315/311, m. 27; CTB i. 99. Commr. subsidy, 1663.SR. Sheriff, 7 Nov. 1666–6 Nov. 1667.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 28. Bailiff and collector, queen mother’s revenues, ?Cumb. by 1669-c.1673.CTB iv. 394. Commr. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 789.

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TOLSON, Richard (c.1622-89), of Bridekirk, Cumb. and Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorks.
: of Bridekirk, Cumb. and Yorks., Wath-upon-Dearne.
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TOLSON, Richard (1622-90), of Bridekirk, Cumb., and Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorks.

Will
admon. 26 Mar. 1691.Borthwick, Doncaster Deanery Act Bk. 24B, f. 35v.
Estates
in 1650, purchased manor of Brundholme and a burgage tenement in Cockermouth, Cumb. for £1,000.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), WYL639/226-8. In 1672, settled manors of Bridekirk, Broughton, Brundholme, Dundraw, Papcastle and Tallentire, Cumb. and Brampton, Brampton Bierlow, Holmfirth and Wath, Yorks. on his heir.Burke’s Commoners, ii. 135. In 1675, his property at Bridekirk was valued at £100 p.a.A Cursory Relation of All the Antiquities and Familyes in Cumberland ed. R.S. Ferguson (Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. tract ser. iv), 23.
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house of William Kidd, ‘Larches buildings’, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx. (1655).Cumb. RO (Whitehaven), DLEC/107/169/1655: Tolson to Hugh Potter*, 1655.
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WALLOP, Sir Henry (1568-1642), of Farleigh Wallop, Hants.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 18 Oct. 1568, 1st s. of Sir Henry Wallop† of Farleigh Wallop and Enniscorthy, co. Wexford, and Katherine (d. 1599), da. of Richard Gifford of King’s Somborne, Hants.Berry, Pedigrees of Hants, 41-2; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1939, i. 82. educ. St John’s, Oxf. 9 Oct 1584, BA (Hart Hall) 12 Feb. 1588;Al. Ox. L. Inn, 24 Mar. 1590.L Inn Admiss. i. 110. m. c.1596, Elizabeth (d. 5 Nov. 1623), da. of Robert Corbet† of Moreton Corbet, Salop, 1s. (Robert Wallop*), 5da.Berry, Pedigrees of Hants, 41-2; Chamberlain Letters, ii. 52. suc. fa. 1599; uncle, William Wallop†, aft. 15 Nov. 1617.Chamberlain Letters, i. 82; PROB11/130/731. Kntd. 6 Aug. 1599.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 97. d. 15 Nov. 1642.PROB6/29/352.
Offices Held

Local: steward, Lymington and Somerford manors 1594-aft. 1607. 1596 – 10 June 1642E315/310, f. 16v; E316/3/191; HMC Salisbury, xx. 283. J.p. Hants; Salop 1608–d.SP14/33, f. 51v, 55; C193/13/1, ff. 81v, 87; C66/1620, 1688; C231/5, p. 528. Sheriff, Hants 1603–4, 1629 – 30; Salop Feb.-Nov. 1606. 26 June 1606 – 26 June 1627List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 56, 119; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 231; Coventry Docquets, 362. Capt. militia ft. Hants by 1605–25. 26 June 1606 – 26 June 1627Whithed Letter Bk. (Hants Rec. ser. i), 27; Add. 21922, ff. 5, 38. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ., 17 June 1625-aft. Jan. 1642;APC 1627–8, p. 318; C181/2, ff. 7v, 269v; C181/3, ff. 178, 259v; C181/4, ff. 11v, 193v; C181/5, ff. 5v, 221. Wales and marches 8 Nov. 1606-aft. July 1640.C181/2, ff. 17v, 299; C181/3, ff. 26, 191v; C181/4, f. 162v; C181/5, f. 185. Gov. Basingstoke free sch. Hants 1607.Woodward et al. General Hist. Hants, iii. 228; Baigent, Millard, Hist. Basingstoke, 145n. Commr. subsidy, Hants 1608, 1610, 1624.E179/175/486; SP14/31/1; C212/22/20, 21, 23. Collector of aid, 1609.SP14/43, f. 107; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 552. Commr. aid, 1612;E403/2731, f. 168v; E403/2732, f. 100v; Harl. 354, f. 68. sewers, Winchester 16 Oct. 1617;C181/2, f. 296v. River Avon, Hants and Wilts. 25 June 1629-aft. May 1630;C181/4, ff. 17v, 49v. River Kennet, Berks. and Hants 16 July 1633.C181/4, f. 147v. Member, council in the marches of Wales, 1617.Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 21. Custos rot. Hants 1624–d.C231/4, f. 173v. Commr. disarming recusants, 1625;Add. 21922, f. 38. pressing seamen, 1625;APC 1623–5, p. 499. billeting, 1626;APC 1626, p. 224. martial law, 1626–8;CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 419; 1627–8, p. 440; APC 1626, p. 221; Add. 21922, f. 123; C181/3, f. 241. Forced Loan, Hants, Salop 1627;Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145; C193/12/2, ff. 48, 51. swans, Hants and western cos. 20 May 1629;C181/4, f. 2 oyer and terminer for piracy, Hants. and I.o.W. 26 Sept. 1635-aft. Oct. 1636;C181/5, ff. 24, 58. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, cttee. for Hants, 23 July 1642.LJ v. 233b-234a.

Civic: freeman, Southampton 1597.HMC 11th Rep. III, 22. High steward, Basingstoke 1629–d.Baigent, Millard, Hist. Basingstoke, 487.

Irish: dep. treas.-at-war, 1598–9.APC 1597–8, p. 619.

Central: commr. for trade, 1622, 1625.Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 2, p. 11; viii. pt. 1, p. 59.

Parlimentarian
WALLOP, Sir Henry (1568-1642), of Farleigh Wallop, Hants; Poynton, Salop and Little St. Bartholomew, London
: Hants.
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Web Title

WALLOP, Sir Henry (1568-1642), of Farleigh Wallop, Hants.

Will
admon. 8 Sept. 1654.PROB6/29/352.
Estates
inherited from fa. 1599 substantial lands in Hants, inc. manors of Farleigh Wallop, Over Wallop, Wallop’s in Soberton and (?leasehold) Ecchinswell.VCH Hants, iii. 225, 261, 365; iv. 105, 203-4, 210, 253, 289, 358, 367, 409, 516, 518, 532. Also inherited over 5,000 acres of land in co. Wexford, Ireland; grant confirmed 1 Mar. 1637.H. Goff, ‘English conquest of an Irish barony’, in Wexford: Hist. and Society ed. K. Whelan (1987), 131-2, 142, 146-7; Coventry Docquets, 402. Acquired aft. marriage lands in Salop and manor of Gladley, Beds. in the right of his wife, coh. in some estates of her fa. Robert Corbet† (d.1583) and h. of her uncle Richard Corbet† (d.1606), who had received the main family patrimony.VCH Beds. iii. 405; VCH Salop x. 30, 91; HP Commons 1558-1603. In Feb. 1617 Wallop owned lands in Farleigh Wallop, Over Wallop, Nether Wallop, Cliddesden, Hatch, Ellisfield, Soberton, Appleshaw, Redenham, Fyfield in Hants; Allington, Wilts; Hopton and Hopton Castle, Shelderton, Broadward, Abcott, ‘Oblages’, Clungunford and Clunbury, Salop.V.J. Watney, The Wallop Family (1928), i. p. xlvii. House in St Bartholomew the Less, London, bef. 1615-?, and at 6-7 Covent Piazza, Westminster, bef. 1640-d.HMC 7th Rep. 43; Survey of London, xxxvi. 96. In Nov. 1617 inherited from his uncle William Wallop† land at Wield, Hants, in reversion aft. d. of William’s wid. Marjorie.PROB11/130/731; HP Commons 1558-1603. In 1620 owned moiety of the manor of Ruan-Lanihorne, Cornw.D. Lysons and S. Lysons, Magna Britannia iii. Cornwall (1814), 279. Acquired manors of Appleshaw and Tytherley, Hants, 1626; further land in Over Wallop, 1631; manor of Hurstbourne Priors for £1,747 12s 4d, 1636 from Sir Robert Oxenbridge, with lands in Tufton and elsewhere, allegedly totalling £12,067 12s 4d.Coventry Docquets, 551, 616; VCH Hants, iv. 289, 409, 516; Wallop Fam. p. xlvii. Interest in woods and ironworks in Herefs. in dispute with earl of Lindsey, May 1635.PC2/44/557. Advowson of Dallington, Northants.A Certificate from Northamptonshire (1641), 8 (E.163.13).
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WHITGREAVE, Thomas (c.1625-95), of Great Bridgeford, Seighford, Staffs.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1625, 1st s. of Thomas Whitgreave of Burton, Castle Church, Staffs. and Mary, da. of Thomas Crompton† of Stone, Staffs. m. Mary (bur. 30 Nov. 1693), da. of Sir William Bowyer* of Knypersley, Staffs. ?s.p. suc. fa. 2 Feb. 1643;Vis. Staffs. ed. H.S. Grazebrook (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 307-8; Staffs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxiii), 241-2; Seighford Par. Regs. ed. N. W. Tildesley, 102. Kntd. by Apr. 1658-1660, by Oct. 1660;Staffs. RO, QS/O 6, f. 97; QS/O 7, unfol.; SR v. 218. bur. 3 June 1695.Seighford Par. Regs. ed. Tildesley, 104.
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Local: j.p. Staffs. 1 May 1651-aft. 1662, 22 May – 24 Dec. 1680, 26 June 1683–?d.C231/6, p. 214; C231/8, pp. 29, 40, 84. Commr. militia, 26 July 1650, 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660;CSP Dom. 1650, p. 254; SP25/76A, f. 15v; A. and O. assessment, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance ... for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, c.Nov. 1655;Staffs. RO, D593/P/8/1/50. for public faith, Staffs. 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35). poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663;SR. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 697.

Military: capt. militia horse, Staffs. by 1652-aft. Feb. 1658.SP28/242, f. 380; [G. Wharton], A Narrative of the Late Parliament (1658), 14 (E.935.5).

Central: member, cttee. for trade, 30 Jan. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 141. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 29 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
WHITGREAVE, Thomas (c.1625-95), of Great Bridgeford, Seighford, Staffs.
: of Great Bridgeford, Seighford, Staffs.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WHITGREAVE, Thomas (c.1625-95), of Great Bridgeford, Seighford, Staffs.

Will
not found.
Estates
in early 1630s, grandfa. assessed at £17 for distraint of knighthood.H.S. Grazebrook, ‘Obligatory knighthood temp. Charles I’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, ii. pt. 2), 17. Whitgreave’s estate was reckoned to be worth £600 p.a. after the Restoration.Wm. Salt. Lib. S.MS.209. In 1666, his house at Seighford was assessed at 8 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. 1921), 89.
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presented Matthew Drakeford to rectory of Colton, Staffs. 1682; John Ethrington, 1683.IND1/17008, p. 90.
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FERRIS, Richard (1580-1649), of Barnstaple.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 4 Aug. 1580, 1st s. of Philip Ferris of Barnstaple and Thomasine, da. of Robert Cade of Barnstaple.Barnstaple Par. Reg. ed. T. Wainwright (Exeter, 1903), 25; ‘Barnstaple Members of Parl.’, Trans. Devonshire Assoc. lxxii. 260. m. (1) 6 June 1625 Mary, da. of Richard Beaple of Barnstaple, s.p.;Barnstaple Par. Reg. ed. Wainwright, 21. (2) by Jan. 1632 Elizabeth, da, of John Downe, rector of Instow, s.p.PROB11/161/550. suc. fa. Feb. 1617.Barnstaple Par. Reg. 41. d. 1649.Chanter, Lit. Hist. Barnstaple, 22.
Offices Held

Mercantile: member, French Co. 1611.Select Charters of Trading Companies ed. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 67.

Diplomatic: asst. consul, Lisbon 1617.HMC Buccleuch, i. 180.

Civic: capital burgess, Barnstaple 8 Aug. 1629; bridgewarden, 1631 – 32; mayor, 1632 – 33, 1646 – 47; senior alderman and coroner, 1633–4.N. Devon Athenaeum, HRD-HO54, p. 8; N. Devon RO, B1/3974; J.B. Gribble, Memorials of Barnstaple (Barnstaple, 1830), 202–3.

Local: commr. exacted fees and ‘innovated’ offices, Devon and Exeter 13 June 1638.C181/5, f. 109v.

Parlimentarian
FERRIS, Richard (1580-1649), of Barnstaple.
:, .
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Commons 1640-1660
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FERRIS, Richard (1580-1649), of Barnstaple.

Will
19 June 1646, pr. 3 Jan. 1650.PROB11/211/20.
Estates
cash bequests of £5,245 in will; Fisherton barton, mills and other parcels of land in Bishop’s Tawton; Middleton, manor, Parracombe; house and garden, High St., and tenement in Seavers Lane, Barnstaple.PROB11/211/20.
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