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CEELY, Thomas (1602-aft.1661), of Lyme Regis, Dorset, and Penryn, Cornw.

Family and Education
b. 1602, 2nd s. of William Ceely of St Ives, Cornw. and Anne, da. of Thomas Penrose of Sithney, Cornw.; bro. of Peter Ceely*.Vis. Cornw. 1620 , ed. J.L. Vivian and H.H. Drake (1874), 38-9. m. Judith, da. of --- Roze, wid. of one Trowbridge, 1s. 1da.Vis. Cornw. 1620, 38-9. d. aft. Oct. 1662.Dorset RO, DC/LR/D1/1, 97; DC/LR/D2/1, unfol.
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Civic: burgess, Lyme Regis 12 Mar. 1638–10 Oct. 1662;Dorset RO, DC/LR/B6/11, p. 17; DC/LR/D2/1, unfol. mayor, 1641 – 42, 1643–4.Dorset RO, DC/LR/D1/1, 81; Bayley, Dorset, 128.

Local: commr. assessment, Dorset 21 Mar. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;LJ v. 658b; A. and O. Devon 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649;A. and O. Cornw. 8 June 1654, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1654, E.1064.10); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, Dorset 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Devon, Dorset 1 July 1644;A. and O. Dorset militia, 24 July 1648; LJ x. 393a. tendering Engagement, Cornw. 28 Jan. 1650;FSL, X.d.483 (47). militia, c. 1650, 12 Mar. 1660. by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 170; A. and O. J.p., by c.Sept. 1656-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/3, f. 10; C193/13/4, f. 13; C193/13/6, f. 12. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 27 Mar. 1655.C181/6, p. 99.

Military: col. (parlian.) bef. July 1643.Bodl. Gough Dorset 14, f. 87. Gov. Lyme Regis Jan. 1644-Apr. 1646.Bayley, Dorset, 128. Capt. militia ft. Cornw. 14 Feb. 1650;CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 521. lt.-col. Apr. 1660.Mercurius Politicus no. 615 (5–12 Apr. 1660), 1243 (E.182.28).

: of Lyme Regis, Dorset and Cornw., Penryn.
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CEELY, Thomas (1602-aft.1661), of Lyme Regis, Dorset, and Penryn, Cornw.

Will
not found.
Estates
purchased manor and lordship of Penryn, Cornw. (formerly belonging to diocese of Exeter) 23 Apr. 1649 for £1,177.Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 28.
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GELL, Thomas (1594-1657), of the Inner Temple, London.

Family and Education
b. 22 June 1594, 2nd s. of Thomas Gell (d. 11 Nov. 1594) of Hopton, Wirksworth, Derbys., and Millicent, da. of Ralph Sacheverell of Stanton by Bridge, Derbys.Derbys. RO, D258/38/4; M. Waldo, ‘The Gells of Hopton’, Jnl. of the Derbys. Arch. and Natural Hist. Soc. xxxiv. 148, 149. educ. I. Temple, 28 May 1612.I. Temple database. unm. bur. 3 Apr. 1657 3 Apr. 1657.Wirksworth par. reg.
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Legal: called, I. Temple 15 Oct. 1620; auditor, 1633 – 34, 1635–6.CITR ii. 120, 208, 225.

Local: recvr. honour of Tutbury 30 June 1632–52.Derbys. RO, D258/9/11/13; D258/32/11/1; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 164; HMC 9th Rep. ii. 395. Commr. sewers, London 28 Nov. 1632.C181/4, f. 129. Member, Derbys. co. cttee. 3 Aug. 1642–?LJ v. 260b. Dep. lt. 1 Nov. 1642-aft. Jan. 1645.CJ ii. 828a; LJ v. 428a; Derbys. RO, D1232/O/10. Commr. for associating midland cos. 15 Dec. 1642; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 26 May 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Derby, 21 Feb. 1645;A. and O. gaol delivery, 8 Feb. 1645;C181/5, f. 248. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, Derbys. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Military: lt.-col. of ft. (parlian.) 10 Nov. 1642-Nov. 1645.SP28/40, f. 170; SP28/128, pt. 15, f. 24v; Derbys. RO, D258/9/3/2; D3287/44/4/4.

Civic: freeman, Derby by c. Dec. 1644 – d.; recorder, c.Dec. 1644-c.Oct. 1649.LJ vii. 96b, 97b; Derby Local Studies Lib. DBR/C/6, ff. 122–3.

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GELL, Thomas (1594-1657), of the Inner Temple, London.

Will
10 Jan. 1654, cod. 8 Mar. 1657, pr. 29 June 1658.PROB11/277, f. 292.
Estates
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Wallingford House, The Strand, London (1653).Derbys. RO, D258/27/14.
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HASELL, Samuel (1617-c.1685), of Sudbury, Suff.

Family and Education
bap. 17 Feb. 1617, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of William Hasell of Sudbury, Suff.All Saints, Sudbury par. reg. m. by 1641, Martha Amis, 1s.All Saints, Sudbury par. reg. d. betw. 23 May 1684-12 Nov. 1685.PROB11/381/378.
Offices Held

Local: collector, assessments, Sudbury c.1651. Commr. Suff. and Sudbury 9 June 1657;Suff. RO (Bury), EE501/2/7, unfol.; A. and O. ?militia, 26 July 1659.A. and O. J.p. Aug. 1659-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 441.

Civic: alderman, Sudbury by Apr. 1654 – bef.Mar. 1663; mayor, Sept. 1658-Sept. 1659.Suff. RO (Bury), EE501/2/7, unfol.; EE501/2/8, pp. 1–3, 16, 54.

Military: ?cornet militia, Suff. by 1659.

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HASELL, Samuel (1617-c.1685), of Sudbury, Suff.

Will
23 May 1684, pr. 12 Nov. 1685.PROB11/381/378.
Estates
owned land at Preston and Great Cornard, Suff.PROB11/381/378.
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WELBY, William (1604-57), of Denton, Lincs.

Family and Education
b. 25 Nov. 1604, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of William Welby, yeoman, of Denton, and Judith (bur. 19 Dec. 1617), da. of William Newton of Gonerby, Lincs.Denton par. reg.; Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lii), 1053. m. 3 Oct. 1633, Eleanor (bur. 13 June 1688), da. of John Williams of Denton, 7s. (2 d.v.p.) 7da.Denton par. reg.; PROB11/270, f. 68v; Lincs. Peds. 1053. suc. fa. May 1627;Denton par. reg. bur. 30 July 1657.W. Betham, The Baronetage of Eng. v. app. p. 22.
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Local: commr. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 10 Feb. 1642–d.C181/5, f. 224v; C181/6, pp. 40, 206; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/7–10. J.p. Lincs. (Kesteven) 13 July 1646-July 1652, 11 Mar. 1656 – d.; Lindsey, Holland 11 Mar. 1656–d.C231/6, pp. 51, 161, 328; C193/13/4, f. 56. Commr. charitable uses, Morton, Lincs. 17 Feb. 1647;C93/19/23. assessment, Kesteven 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Lincs. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 28 Jan. 1654, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1653–4, p. 371. militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

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WELBY, William (1604-57), of Denton, Lincs.

Will
27 July 1657, pr. 24 Nov. 1657.PROB11/270, f. 68v.
Estates
in 1648, purchased manor and capital messuage of Denton for £2,600.[Anon.], Notices of the Fam. of Welby, 64. At his d. estate consisted of manor of Denton; a moiety of manor of ‘Limmage’, Hunts.; lands and messuages in Leics. and Notts.; and lands and property in Allington, Carlton, Denton, Doddington, Dry Donington, Grantham, Harmston, Hougham, Long Benington, Milnthorpe, Ponton, Ropsley, Spittlegate (Grantham), Swarby, Welby and Welbourn, Lincs.PROB11/270, f. 68v; Lincs. RO, Misc. Dep. 178/1/68, 71. According to the list of nominees to the order of the royal oak, William Welby junior’s estate was worth £600 p.a.Burke, Commoners, i. 690.
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presented Richard Grant to rectory of Redmile, Leics. 1643.Lincs. RO, P.D./1643/39.
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HOWARD, Charles (1628-85), of Naworth Castle, Cumb., and Hinderskelfe, Yorks.

Family and Education
b. 4 Feb. 1628, 2nd s. of Sir William Howard of Naworth (d. 28 Jan. 1642) and Mary, da. of William, 4th Baron Eure of Malton Castle, Yorks.; bro. of Philip Howard*.C142/774/15; CP; Naworth Estate and Household Accts. ed. C.R. Hudleston (Surt. Soc. clxviii), ix. educ. privately (Robert Howard);LJ viii. 296b. travelled abroad (Holland) 1646-7.LJ viii. 499b; ix. 260a. m. c. Dec. 1645, Anne (bur. 4 Sept. 1703), da. of Edward Howard*, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick, 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.).CP; Naworth Estate and Household Accts. ed. Hudleston, xiii; ‘Charles Howard, 1st earl of Carlisle’, Oxford DNB. suc. bro. 4 June 1644;C142/774/15; Naworth Estate and Household Accts. ed. Hudleston, ix. cr. Visct. Howard of Morpeth 20 July 1657; earl of Carlisle 30 Apr. 1661.CP. d. 24 Feb. 1685.F. Drake, Eboracum (1736), 503.
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Local: j.p. Cumb. 21 Sept. 1647–d.;C231/6, p. 98. Northumb. 29 July 1652–d.;C231/6, p. 244; C231/7, pp. 174, 224. Yorks. (E. Riding) 6 Oct. 1653-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 270. N. Riding 6 Oct. 1653 – Mar. 1660, by Oct. 1660–d.;C231/6, p. 270; C220/9/4. co. Dur. 25 July 1656–d.;C231/6, p. 346. Westmld. by c.Sept. 1656–d.;C193/13/6. Mdx. 23 Oct. 1675–d.C231/7, p. 502. Commr. assessment, Cumb. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660; Yorks. 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 1 June 1660; Northumb. 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660; co. Dur. E., N. Riding, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9 June 1657; Westmld. 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Sheriff, Cumb. 7 Nov. 1649–21 Nov. 1650.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 28. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. by Feb. 1654–15 July 1659, 10 July 1660–d.;C181/6, pp. 18, 280; C181/7, pp. 17, 640. northern marches 2 Mar. 1663;C181/7, p. 194. Yorks. and York 9 Dec. 1663.C181/7, p. 220. Trustee, St Anne’s Hosp. Appleby, Westmld. 27 Mar. 1654–?d.E.A. Heelis, ‘St Anne’s hospital at Appleby’, Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. ser. 2, ix. 193–4. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cumb. co. Dur. Northumb. and Westmld. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. gaol delivery, Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655;C181/6, p. 101. sewers, Hatfield Chase Level 2 July 1655;C181/6, p. 108. surveying church livings, Westmld. c.4 July, 18 Nov. 1656; Cumb. c.2 Aug. 1656.Nightingale, Ejected of Cumb. and Westmld. 1300–2, 1311–12. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Commr. for public faith, Cumb., Northumb. 16 Dec. 1657;SP25/77, p. 331. militia, Cumb., Northumb., Westmld., Yorks. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Custos. rot. Cumb. Mar. 1660–d.A Perfect List (1660); C231/7, p. 14. Ld. lt. Cumb. and Westmld. 1 Oct. 1660–d.;Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLAW/7/8. co. Dur. 18 Apr. 1672–19 Nov. 1674.C231/7, pp. 412, 485. Lt.-gen. of militia, Cumb., co. Dur., Northumb. and Westmld. 18 June 1667–?d.CSP Dom. 1667, p. 208. Warden, Barnard Castle, Teesdale forest and Marwood Chase, co. Dur. 1672–d.CTB iii. 1234.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.) by 1650–?;J. Musgrave, A True and Exact Relation (1650), 10 (E.619.10). capt. of lifeguard to Oliver Cromwell*, Apr. 1651 – Mar. 1655, Sept. 1655-Feb. 1656;Clarke Pprs. iii. 51; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 52, 151; ii. 522; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2016), ii. 69. col. of horse, Jan. – Sept. 1655, 25 Feb.-Oct. 1660;Mercurius Politicus no. 241 (18–25 Jan. 1660), 5067 (E.826.7); Ludlow, Mems. ii. 238; Letters from Roundhead Officers to Captain Adam Baynes ed. J.Y. Akerman (Edinburgh, 1856), 111; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 52, 151, 209; ii. 522. col. of ft. July 1656-Apr. 1659.Henry Cromwell Corresp. 509–10; Ludlow, Mems. ii. 82; Baker, Chronicle, 642; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 522. Gov. Carlisle by July 1654 – Apr. 1659, Feb. – Dec. 1660, 15 Feb. 1678 – d.; Berwick-upon-Tweed, Tynemouth by July 1654-Apr. 1659.CSP Dom. 1654, p. 244; 1660–1, pp. 304, 431; 1677–8, p. 649; A Second Narrative of the Late Parliament (1659), 22 (E.977.3); Clarke Pprs. iii. 196; CCSP iv. 194; Baker, Chronicle, 642; Mordaunt Letter-Bk. 11; Ludlow, Mems. ii. 238; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 151. Dep. maj.-gen. Cumb., Northumb. and Westmld. Oct. 1655-c.Feb. 1657.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 387. V.-adm. Northumb., Cumb. and co. Dur. 18 June 1661–d.Vice-Admirals. (L. and I. cccxxi), 10, 19, 40. Capt. Prince Rupert’s Horse, 13 June 1667.CSP Dom. 1667, p. 182. Lt.-gen. forces in England and Wales 20 June 1667.CSP Dom. 1667, p. 214.

Central: cllr. of state, 14 July, 1 Nov. 1653.CJ vii. 284b, 344a. Member, cttee. for trade, 3 Apr. 1656,CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 252. 20 Oct. 1668, 16 Apr. 1669.J.C. Sainty, Officials of the Boards of Trade 1660–1870 (1974), 19, 25. PC, 2 June 1660–21 Apr. 1679;CP. member, PC cttee. for trade and plantations, 12 Mar. 1675.Sainty, Officials of the Boards of Trade, 19, 25. Farmer of wine customs [I], 1660–81.CSP Ire. 1669–70, pp. 390–1. Commr. for prizes, 1664.CSP Dom. 1664–5, p. 147. Dep. earl marshal, 1673–d.CSP Dom. 1673, pp. 413–14.

Civic: freeman, Carlisle 21 Sept. 1653–d.;Cumb. RO (Carlisle), CA/2/27, unfol. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 19 Jan. 1656–d.;Reg. of Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne ed. M.H. Dodds (Newcastle upon Tyne Recs. Cttee. iii), 71. Portsmouth 1680–d.Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 364. Mayor, Carlisle 1677–8.S. Jefferson, Hist. and Antiquities of Carlisle (Carlisle, 1838), 447.

Scottish: cllr. of state, 4 May 1655–59.CSP Dom. 1655, pp. 108, 152; TSP iii. 423. Commr. assessment, Berwickshire, Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 838, 839, 841; A. and O. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Mercantile: member, Co. of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa, 18 Dec. 1660, 10 Jan. 1664–d.;CSP Col. 1661–8, p. 120; Select Charters of Trading Companies ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 173, 178. Royal Fishery Co. 25 Sept. 1677–d.;Select Charters ed. Carr, 197. Hostmen’s Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9 Aug. 1667–d.Tyne and Wear Archives, GU.HO/1/1, p. 262.

Diplomatic: amb. extraordinary, Denmark, Sweden and Russia 1663 – 65; Sweden 1668–9.Castle Howard Archives, J3/3/4–5; G.M. Bell, Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives 1509–1688 (1990), 37, 226, 276, 277.

Academic: FRS, 14 June 1665–d.M. Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660–1700 (1982), 196.

Colonial: gov. Jamaica 1 Mar. 1678–6 Aug. 1681.F. Cundall, The Governors of Jamaica in the Seventeenth Century (1936), 86.

: of Naworth Castle, Cumb. and Yorks., Hinderskelfe.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, 1677;Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle. oil on canvas, attrib. G. Kneller;Castle Howard, Yorks. line engraving, W. Faithorne, 1669;BM; NPG. line engraving, A. Blooteling, 1679.BM; NPG.

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HOWARD, Charles (1628-85), of Naworth Castle, Cumb., and Hinderskelfe, Yorks.

Will
16 Jan. 1685, pr. 11 May 1685.PROB11/380, f. 27.
Estates
in 1644, succeeded to an estate inc. rectories of Brampton, Cumb., and Old and New Malton, Yorks.C142/774/15. In 1655, he granted a lease to Hesilrige of lands and coalmines in Newbiggin, Northumb. at a rent of £100 p.a.; the remainder of this lease was granted to Howard in 1663.CSP Dom. 1666-4, pp. 76, 133. In 1655, purchased from Thomas Craister*, for £2,050, manor of Carlisle, worth £100 p.a.LR2/266, f. 72; Durham Univ. Lib. HNP C49/7, 9. Estate on the Borders (mainly in Cumb.) inc. manors or lordships of Brampton, Castle Carrock, Cumwhitton, Farlam, Gilsland, Hayton, Irthington and Talkin; in all, worth over £2,300 p.a. by 1659.A True Representation of the State of the Bordering Customary Tenants in the North (1655), 3-4 (E.730.12); Naworth Estate and Household Accts. ed. Hudleston, xiv. Estate in Yorks. inc. manors of Butterwick, Fearby, Hinderskelfe, Morton-on-Swale, Thornton-le-Moor, Thorpe Bassett and Welbury; in all, worth £1,968 by 1667.Add. 32163, ff. 4-5v, 33. Estate in Northumb. inc. castle, manor and lordship of Morpeth, advowson of Morpeth church, manors of Netherton and Stannington and numerous other properrties; worth, in all, at least £2,000 p.a.Durham Univ. Lib. HPN C644/17. By 1676, owned manor of Dorking, Surr.C204/71. At his d. estate inc. manor of Yarnfield, Som. and a lease of of manor Carlisle.PROB11/380, f. 27.
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assigned lodgings of Sir Arthur Hesilrige* at Whitehall (June 1653).CSP Dom. 1652-3, p. 412.
Religion
presented Ambrose Rowland to vicarage of Bongate, Westmld. 1654;Add. 36792, f. 82. Nathaniel Burnand to rectory of Castle Carrock and Cumwhitton, Cumb., 1656; Andrew Mandrake to vicarage of Brampton, Cumb., 1657; Nathaniel Burnand, 1659.Nightingale, Ejected of Cumb. and Westmld. 253, 256, 1404.
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FELL, Thomas (1600-58), of Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston, Lancs.

Family and Education
bap. 13 Mar. 1600, 1st s. of George Fell of Hawkswell, Lancs. and ?Elizabeth, wid. of John Jackson.Dalton-in-Furness par. reg.; Ulverston Par. Regs. ed. C.W. Bardsley, L.R. Ayre (Ulverston, 1886), 90. educ. ?Univ. Coll. Oxf. 23 June 1621; ?BA 29 May 1623;Al. Ox. G. Inn 20 Oct. 1623.G. Inn Admiss. 171. m. ?10 Dec. 1632, Margaret (d. 23 Apr. 1702), da. of John Askew of Marsh Grange, Dalton-in-Furness, Lancs. 1s. 7da. 1ch. d.v.p.Urswick in Furness ed. H. Brierley (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc.), 37; M. Fell, A Brief Colln. of Remarkable Passages...Rel. to...Margaret Fell (1710), 2; Ulverston Par. Regs. ed. Bardsley, Ayre, xlix; Jnl. of George Fox, i. 407; ‘Margaret Fell’, Oxford DNB. suc. fa.?; d. 8 Oct. 1658.Ulverston Par. Regs. ed. Bardsley, Ayre, 154.
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Legal: called, G. Inn 21 Nov. 1631; ancient, 24 Nov. 1645; bencher, 10 Feb. 1651.PBG Inn, i. 308, 354, 380. Att. gen. Cheshire and Flint 6 Mar. 1648–20 July 1649.CJ v. 481a; vi. 266a; LJ x. 98b. Sjt.-at-law and ?att.-gen. duchy of Lancaster 3 Aug. 1649–?;PRO30/26/21, pp. 51, 64; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 51, 101. v.-chan. 4 Sept. 1649-c.Oct. 1653;E351/1959; PRO30/26/21, pp. 34, 45; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 95. commr. seal, 17 Sept. 1653 – 1 Jan. 1654, 28 Feb.-9 June 1654;CJ vii. 320a; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 2; A. and O. commr. and judge, 9 June 1654–?d.A. and O. Second justice, Chester, Flint, Denb. and Mont. 10 Aug. 1649–d.CJ vi. 277b; vii. 749a.

Local: commr. assessment, Lancs. 1642, 26 Jan. 1643, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;SR; LJ v. 573b; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; taking accts. in northern cos. 29 July 1645; defence of Lancs. 29 Aug. 1645.A. and O. J.p. 4 Aug. 1646–d.;Lancs. RO, QSC/42–61. Denb. 10 Aug. 1649–d.;C193/13/3; Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 76. Flint, Mont. 25 July 1650–d.;C231/6, p. 196; Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 112. Cheshire by Nov. 1650–d.The Names of the Iustices of Peace (1650, E.1238.4). Commr. militia, Lancs. 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. maintenance of ministers, 29 Mar. 1650.Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. H. Fishwick (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. i), i. 1. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Liverpool by Jan. 1645–d.G. Chandler, Liverpool under Charles I, 326, 329; Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 2, 51. Retained counsel, Chester 20 Nov. 1646–4 Feb. 1653.Cheshire RO, ZAB/2, ff. 79v, 101v; ZAF/28/6.

Military: lt.-col. of ft. (parlian.) by Jan. 1645–?Jan. 1646.Add. 59661, f. 10; Chandler, Liverpool, 326; Gratton, Lancs. 286.

Religious: elder, ninth Lancs. classis, 1646.LJ viii. 512.

Central: member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 4 July 1650.CJ vi. 437a.

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FELL, Thomas (1600-58), of Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston, Lancs.

Will
23 Sept. 1658, pr. 4 Dec. 1658.PROB11/285, f. 62v.
Estates
about 1632, acquired Marsh Grange by marriage and purchase.N. Penney, ‘George Fell and the story of Swarthmoor Hall’, Jnl. Friends’ Historical Soc. xxix. 51; A.W. Braithwaite, ‘The mystery of Swarthmoor Hall’, Jnl. Friends’ Historical Soc. li. 25. In 1634, acquired a moiety of three water mills and one windmill in Dalton-in-Furness.Cumb. RO (Kendal), WDRAD/T/18. About 1640, estate reckoned to worth £150 p.a.Blackwood, Lancs. 94. In 1650, he and Thomas Birche* purchased from a private seller former crown manor of Haslingden, Lancs. for £350, which they sold in 1652.Lancs. RO, QDD/50/23; I. Gentles, ‘The Debentures Market and Military Purchases of Crown Land, 1649-60’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 254, 280. In 1650-1, Fell purchased fee farm rents in Lancs. worth at least £402 p.a. for at least £5,084.SP28/288, ff. 9, 10, 45, 52; Lancs. RO, QDD/50/19; Cumb. RO (Kendal), WDRAD/T/19; B.G. Blackwood, ‘The Lancs. Gentry, 1625-60: a Social and Economic Study’ (Oxford Univ. DPhil. thesis, 1973), 362. In 1651, he and Samuel Terricke* purchased former church property in rectory of Whalley, Lancs. for £1,602.C54/3634/29. In 1652, Fell, Birche and four others purchased fee farm rents in former crown manor of West Derby, Lancs. for £1,816 (part of which they sold in 1654).C54/3674/1; C54/3801/15. In 1652, Fell and Birche purchased, for £4,815, fee farm rents in Lancs. worth £369 p.a.SP28/288, ff. 56, 58, 61, 62, 63. In 1652, Fell purchased fee farm rents in Backbarrow, Hawkshead and Lowick, Lancs. for £789.C54/3774/15. At his d. estate inc. manors of Blawith and Nibthwaite and a moiety of manor of Ulverston, Lancs.VCH Lancs. viii. 354; ‘Thomas Fell’, Oxford DNB.
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chambers at G. Inn, Holborn Ct. (by 1654).I. Ross, Margaret Fell: the Mother of Quakerism (1984), 116.
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FENWICKE, William (c.1617-76), of Wallington, Hartburn, Northumb.

Family and Education
b. c. 1617, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir John Fenwick, 1st bt.* and 2nd w. Grace; half-bro. of John Fenwick*.Hist. Northumb. xii. 352-3. educ. Morpeth g.s. (Mr Oxley); Christ’s, Camb. 26 June 1633, aged 16, MA 1636;Al. Cant. G. Inn 10 Feb. 1636.G. Inn Admiss. 210. m. 10 Apr. 1636, Jane, da. of Henry Stapleton of Wighill, Yorks. 1s. (Sir John Fenwick†) 2da.Wighill bishop’s transcript; Hist. Northumb. xii. 352-3. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. c.1658.Supra, ‘Sir John Fenwick’. d. c. 6 Mar. 1676.C5/480/60; Hist. Northumb. xii. 352-3.
Offices Held

Local: commr. disarming recusants, Northumb. 30 Aug. 1641.LJ iv. 385b. Dep. lt. 9 Oct. 1644–?, c.Aug. 1660–d.CJ iii. 657b; SP29/11, f. 217; CSP Dom. 1670, p. 383. Commr. oyer and terminer, 17 Dec. 1644;C181/5, f. 245v. Northern circ. by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 18, 375; C181/7, pp. 18, 640. northern marches 18 July 1654-aft. Mar. 1667;C231/6, p. 294; C181/7, pp. 194, 392. assessment, Northumb. 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. by Feb. 1650–d.C193/13/3. Commr. propagating gospel northern cos. 1 Mar. 1650;CJ vi. 374a; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 23 (28 Feb.-7 Mar. 1650), 312 (E.534.15). gaol delivery, Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655.C181/6, p. 102. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Sheriff, Northumb. 1658–9.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 99. Commr. sewers, River Tyne 21 May 1659;C181/6, p. 359. Northumb. 19 Mar. 1663.C181/7, p. 197. Capt. militia horse, 24 Apr. 1660–?Mercurius Publicus no. 17 (19–26 Apr. 1660), 269 (E.183.6). Commr. poll tax, 1660.SR. Capt. vol. horse, May 1661.Mercurius Publicus no. 19 (9–16 May 1661), 298 (E.195.96). Commr. subsidy, 1663.SR.

Central: master in chancery, extraordinary, July 1655–?C202/39/5. Commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Military: col. militia horse and ft. by Aug. 1659–?St. 185, f. 161; SP18/220/71, f. 116v. C.-in-c. Northumb. Jan. 1660–?CCSP iv. 526.

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FENWICKE, William (c.1617-76), of Wallington, Hartburn, Northumb.

Will
died intestate.C5/480/60.
Estates
in 1656, purchased with another gentleman rent charges worth £150 p.a. issuing out of lands in Swinburne, Northumb.C54/3921/35. In 1659, purchased manor or regality of Hexham.C54/4039/32. His lands in and around Fenwick and Wallington valued at £1,506 p.a. in 1663.Hodgson, Northumb. pt. 3, i. 328-9. In 1663, his estate inc. manors of Alnwick Grange, Ashington, Cartington Hall, Catcherside, Conway, East Matfen, Elford, Fenwick, Greenleighton, Gunnerton, Rothley, Ryal, Sweethope and Hawick, Walker and Wallington; the dissolved monastery of Newminster; the rectory of East and West Allendale.; and other properties in Northumb.C8/161/63. At d. his estate was burdened with a debt of £4,000 and £1,900 in annuities.HP Commons 1660-90, ‘Sir John Fenwick’. Personal estate, inc. debts owed to him, reportedly worth £2,000 ‘and upwards’.C5/480/60.
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presented Robert Anderson to vicarage of Chollerton, Northumb. 1663.IND1/17005, f. 88.
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OLDISWORTH, Michael (?1591-1664), of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Family and Education
bap. 17 Jan. 1591,Reg. St Martin in the Fields (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxv), 22. 2nd s. of Arnold Oldisworth† (d. 1621) of the Strand, Westminster, and Bradley, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos. and Lucy, da. of Francis Bertie, merchant, of Foster Lane, London.G. Oldisworth, Father of the Faithful Tempted (1676), 3. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 21 Nov. 1606; BA, Magdalen, 10 June 1611; fell. 1612; MA 5 July 1614.Al. Ox. m. (1) 26 Apr. 1617, Susan, da. of Thomas Poyntz (d. 1597) of Gray’s Inn and grandda. of Sir Gabriel Poyntz (d. 1608) of Ockenden, Essex, ?1 da. (d.v.p.);Par. reg. St Gregory by St Paul’s, London; London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 994; Reg. St Martin in the Fields, 54; SP16/519, ff. 236-8; J. Maclean, Hist. and Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Poyntz (1886), 41, 48-9. (2) bef. 30 July 1641, Jane (bur. 14 Apr. 1668), da. of Sir John Stradling†, 1st bt. of St Donats, Glam. and wid. of William Thomas (d. 9 June 1636) of Wenvoe, Glam. s.p.Bodl. Add. B.109, f. 18; Ludlow, Mems. i. app. i; P. Jenkins, The Making of a Ruling Class (Cambridge, 1983), 296. bur. 1 Feb. 1664 1 Feb. 1664.St Martin-in-the-Fields par. reg.
Offices Held

Household: sec. to William Herbert, 3rd earl of Pembroke, ?1621-Apr. 1630;SO3/7, unfol. (Dec. 1621); HP Commons 1604–1629. to Philip Herbert*, 4th earl of Pembroke, ?1630-c.Nov. 1640.CSP Dom. 1629–1, p. 398; 1631–3, pp. 67, 88; Nicholson, Burn, Westmld. and Cumb. i. 296.

Mercantile: asst. Mineral and Battery Co. bef. 8 Feb. 1621; dep. gov. 20 May 1641–23 Aug. 1663.BL, Loan 16 pt. 2, ff. 1, 90, 138v, 140v.

Military: sec. horse regt. royal lifeguard, 11 May 1639.CSP Dom. Add. 1625–49, p. 607.

Civic: freeman, Salisbury 26 Feb. 1640.Wilts. RO, G23/1/3, f. 416.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 17 Aug. 1642;CJ ii. 725a. cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649; Derby House cttee. 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 112a, 113b. Jt. registrar of prerogative ct. of Canterbury, 18 July 1649-aft. 1 Dec. 1653.CJ vi. 263b; CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 238; 1653–4, pp. 217, 271, 280; CCAM 687–8. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 4 May 1649;CJ vi. 187a, 200b. cttee. for indemnity, 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 219b. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A and O. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 10 Apr. 1651.CJ vi. 558a. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 25 June 1659.CJ vii. 693b.

Local: member, cttee. of Glos. 13 Aug. 1645.CJ iv. 239b; LJ vii. 537b. Commr. Glos and S. E. Wales militia, 12 May 1648; militia, Wilts. 2 Dec 1648, 26 July 1659; Glam. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Westminster 12 Mar. 1660; sequestrations, S. Wales 23 Feb. 1649;A and O. Westminster militia, 19 Mar. 1649, 7 June 1650, 28 June 1659;A and O.; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). assessment, Westminster, Wilts., Glam. 7 Apr., 7 Dec 1649, 26 Nov 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660.A and O. J.p. Westminster by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C193/13/3, f. 82; C193/13/4, f. 128v. Commr. high ct. of justice, S. Wales 25 June 1651;CJ vi. 591b. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 23 June 1656 – 3 Feb. 1657, 28 June 1658-June 1659;C181/6, pp. 164, 303. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 10 July 1656–8 Oct. 1659.C181/6, pp. 176, 320.

Religious: member, vestry of St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1647.WCA, F2517, f. 28.

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OLDISWORTH, Michael (?1591-1664), of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Will
not found.
Estates
portion of £1,500 from 1st wife’s grandfa. Sir Gabriel Poyntz, probably never fully paid, from 1617;SP16/519, ff. 236–8; manor of Sundridge, Kent, by grant from James I at fee farm rent of £42 p.a. in return for £1,200;CSP Dom. 1629-31, p. 133. land at Sutton Marsh, Lincs. by grant from Charles I, 1631 and at rent increased upon improvement to £266 p.a. 1634;C3/411/12, 13; CSP Dom. 1634-5, p. 357; CCC 1531-4; LJ xi. 665a, b. grant of goods and chattels forfeited to king within stannaries of Devon and Cornwall, 25 July 1636, at £10 for 31 years;Coventry Docquets, 229; CSP Dom. 1637, p. 300. bef. Aug. 1641, wardship, with wife Jane, of Edmund Thomas* (b. 1633), of Wenvoe, Glam.;CJ iv. 525a; Bodl. Add. B.109, f. 18. alleged share with earl of Pembroke of profits of patronage of offices in c.p. (worth £3,000) and, from 1648, of keepership of Windsor park.A list of the names of the Members of the House of Commons (1648, 669.f.12.103); Wood, Fasti, i. 357.
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BARKER, John I (d. aft. 1669), of Coventry, Warws.

Family and Education
s. of John Barker (d. 1634), draper of Coventry.A.L. Hughes, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warws. 13. ? appr. draper.Add. 11364, f. 16. m. ?(1) 27 Apr. 1612, Woscalin Dreyton of Mancetter (bur. 1 July 1624), at least 1s. 1d.;Mancetter par. reg. (2) by 1650, Elizabeth (d. aft. Aug. 1662).C6/113/30; Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/2, f. 145v. d. aft. 1669.Coventry Archives, BA/H/Q/A79/249.
Offices Held

Civic: cllr. Coventry 11 Apr. 1632;Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/1 f. 311v. mayor, 1634 – 35, 1644–5;Add. 11364, ff. 16, 18v; Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/2, f. 41v. alderman, Jordan Well ward 11 Nov. 1635–11 Apr. 1655.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/1 f. 333v; BA/H/C/17/2, f. 118v. Gov. house of correction, 6 Aug. 1638.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/1 f. 354

Local: commr. further subsidy, Coventry 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Warws. 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Warws. and Coventry 21 Feb. 1645, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653.SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Dep. lt. Warws. by 27 June 1642–?Add. 11364, ff. 16v, 17v; LJ v. 166a. J.p. Coventry 15 Aug. 1642–9 Jan. 1643;A. and O. i. 58. Warws. 26 Nov. 1651-bef. Oct. 1660.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/2, f. 101; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. for Warws. and Coventry, assoc. of Staffs. and Warws. 31 Dec. 1642; levying of money, Coventry 7 May 1643; Warws. and Coventry 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. sequestration, Coventry 7 May 1644;CJ iii. 482b; LJ vi. 543a. New Model ordinance, Warws. and Coventry 17 Feb. 1645;A. and O. gaol delivery, Coventry Apr. 1645;C181/5, f. 251. militia, Warws. and Coventry 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659.A. and O.

Military: col. of ft. and horse (parlian.), Coventry 27 June 1642.CSP Dom. Add. 1625–49, p. 641; Warws. RO, CR2017/C9/39. Gov. Coventry.SP28/136/19; Add. 11364, ff. 16v, 17v; Add. 31116, p. 309; Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/2, f. 44; LJ vii. 394b, 421a. Col. militia ft. 27 June 1650.SP25/119, p. 77.

Central: member, cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650.CJ vi. 388b.

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BARKER, John I (d. aft. 1669), of Coventry, Warws.

Will
not found.
Estates
c.Oct. 1632 acquired with John Stanton a messuage in the suburbs of Coventry from Edward and Alice Hill, and Edward and Elizabeth Knightley.Coventry Docquets, 621. ?By Feb. 1632, interest with Matthew Collins and others in coal works near Coventry.CSP Dom. 1631-3, p. 270. Sept. 1634, lessee of tenter yard under the town wall, for 21 years at £1 15s.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/1 f. 326v. Aug. 1636, lessee of a farm in Stoke owned by Coventry corporation, for 21 years at £40 entry fine and £4 rent.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/20/1, p. 218; BA/H/C/17/1 f. 338v. c.June 1637, acquired with Humfrey Robinson Maxstoke Park, inc. land in Maxstoke, Coleshill and Shustoke, from Thomas Dilke.Warws. RO, CR2981/Dining room/Cabinet/Drawer 6/61; Coventry Docquets, 707. July 1645, lease of Priory dye house and grounds at £11 p.a. for 28 years.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/2, f. 46v. Oct. 1645, lease of all but one house in a close given by Simon Norton*, at £19 13s 4d for 21 years.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/2, f. 49. In 1648 paid a total of £33 18s 4d in rent to Coventry corporation for property in the city inc. in Great Pudding Croft and Gosford Street.Coventry Archives, BA/A/A/26/2, ff. 185, 188-9, 193. In 1650 relinquished lease of lands at Stoke.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/2, f. 89v. In May 1653 relinquished Grangers and Whitmores in Aston.Salop Archives, 5586/1/457. In Dec. 1653 and Mar. 1654 reassigned his £1,200 share in the Irish Adventure.SP63/283, f. 265; SP63/294, ff. 125-9.
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BELLOTT, George (c.1626-60), of Uttoxeter, Staffs.

Family and Education
b. c.1626, 3rd s. of John Bellott (d. 9 Nov. 1659), of Moreton, Astbury, Cheshire, and The Ashes, Leek, Staffs. and Ursula, da. of John Bentley of The Ashes.Staffs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxiii), 21; Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. 44. educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. 20 May 1640, aged 16.Al. Ox. m. 6 Nov. 1647, Anne, da. of Thomas Colt of Rotherham, Yorks. wid. of William Cotton of Crakemarsh, Uttoxeter, Staffs. s.p.St Mary, Uttoxeter par. reg.; Staffs. Peds. 21; Vis. Staffs. ed. H. S. Grazebrook (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 97. bur. 11 Oct. 1660 11 Oct. 1660.St Mary, Uttoxeter par. reg.
Offices Held

Local: commr. assessment, Staffs. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). J.p. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/3. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. militia, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;SP25/76A, f. 15v; A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, c.Nov. 1655;TSP iv. 648. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35). oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. June 1659–10 July 1660.C181/6, p. 375.

Military: capt. militia horse, Staffs. by 1651-aft. Aug. 1659.SP28/242, f. 379; Bodl. Rawl. C.179, p. 304; CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 412.

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BELLOTT, George (c.1626-60), of Uttoxeter, Staffs.

Will
admon. 19 Dec. 1660.Staffs. RO, B/C/11, admon. of George Bellott, 1660.
Estates
in 1646, his fa.’s estate was valued at £333 p.a., and he and his second son John also possessed an estate in reversion valued at £320 p.a.CJ iv. 705a. John Bellott’s estate was valued at £1,500 p.a. in the early 1660s.‘The gentry of Staffs. 1662-3’ ed. R.M. Kidson (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 4, ii), 8. Bellott received an annuity of £8 from his fa.’s estate.SP23/180, p. 754; Harl. 2144, f. 75v; CJ iv. 705a. In 1666, his house was assessed at seven hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. 1921), 96.
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lodgings in Whitehall (June 1653).CSP Dom. 1652-3, p. 412.
Religion
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