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BIRCHE, Thomas (1608-78), of Birch Hall, Manchester, Lancs.

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bap. 5 June 1608, o.s. of George Birch of Birch Hall, and Anne, da. of Ellis Hey of Monkshall, Eccles, Lancs.Eccles ed. A.E. Hodder (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xxv), 56; Booker, Birch, 86, 87. m. 21 Oct. 1623, Alice (d. 1697), da. of Thomas Brooke of Norton, Runcorn, Cheshire, 5s. 5da.Warrington ed. A. Sparke (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. lxx), 137; Booker, Birch, 98. suc. fa. 22 Aug. 1611.Lancs. IPM ed. J.P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. iii), 260. d. 6 Aug. 1678.Norris Pprs. ed. T. Heywood (Chetham Soc. o.s. ix), 20.
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Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) 13 June 1642; maj. 14 Dec. 1642; col. 15 Mar. 1643–8 Nov. 1645.CJ vi. 503b. Gov. Liverpool by Mar. 1649–?Apr. 1655.Perfect Diurnall no. 311 (9–16 July 1649), 2654 (E.531.22); CCAM 891; TSP iii. 359. Col. of militia ft. Lancs. 24 May 1650–?CSP Dom. 1650, p. 506.

Local: dep. lt. Lancs. 4 July 1642–?CJ ii. 649a; LJ v. 178b. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643;A. and O. Westmld. 8 July 1648;LJ x. 371b. assessment, Lancs. 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; defence of Lancs. 29 Aug. 1645.A. and O. J.p. 28 Sept. 1647-c.June 1660.Lancs. RO, QSC/47–61. Commr. northern cos. militia, 23 May 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, by June 1650, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; SP28/211, f. 672. Cheshire 8 Aug. 1659;CJ vii. 751b. maintenance of ministers, Lancs. 29 Mar. 1650;Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. H. Fishwick (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. i), i. 1–3. ct. martial, James Stanley†, 7th earl of Derby, 11 Sept. 1651.Stanley Pprs. ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxvii), p. cccxxxvi. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Lancs. 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Liverpool 7 Sept. 1649–?d.Chandler, Liverpool, 410; Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 254.

Central: commr. for compounding, 2 Nov. 1649.CJ vi. 318a. Member, cttee. for the army, 17 Dec. 1652;CJ vii. 230b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 25 June 1659.CJ vii. 693b.

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BIRCHE, Thomas (1608-78), of Birch Hall, Manchester, Lancs.
: of Birch Hall, Lancs., Manchester.
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BIRCHE, Thomas (1608-78), of Birch Hall, Manchester, Lancs.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1611, inherited Birch Hall, property in Birch, Rusholme and Withington and a moiety of 3 messuages in Manchester, Lancs.Lancs. IPM ed. Rylands, 259. In 1631, assessed at £10 for distraint of knighthood.J.P. Earwaker, ‘Obligatory knighthood temp. Chas. I’ (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xii), 215. In 1640, purchased property in Gorton, Manchester, for £41.Manchester Central Lib. M35/6/2/1. Estate reckoned to be worth about £250 p.a. bef. civil war.Blackwood, Lancs. 94. In 1650, he and Thomas Fell* 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. Ph.D. thesis, 1969), 254, 280. In 1651-2, Birche, Fell 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; SP28/288, f. 39. In 1652, Birche and Fell purchased, for £4,815, fee farm rents in Lancs. worth £369 p.a.SP28/288, ff. 56, 58, 61, 62, 63. In 1653, Birche and another gentleman purchased rents in the Wapentake of Salford, Lancs. for £1,103;Gentles, ‘Debentures Market’, 254; B.G. Blackwood, ‘The Lancs. Gentry, 1625-60: a Social and Economic Study’ (Oxford Univ. D.Phil. thesis, 1973), 360. and Birche purchased a mill and premises in Cheetham, Lancs. (part of forfeited estate of earl of Derby), for £208.C54/3766/6. In 1655, he purchased Carleton Hall, Lancs. and adjoining lands from a royalist private seller for £400.Lancs. RO, QDD/51/16. In 1659, purchased closes in Cheetham for £43 and (from William West*) former crown lands in Bolton-le-Sands, Lancs., for £14 9s.Lancs. RO, QDD/54/5; QDD/54/4.
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lodgings in St Martin’s Lane, between St Martin-in-the-Fields and Charing Cross, Westminster (1652).CCC 621.
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VYVYAN, Sir Richard (1613-65), of Trelowarren, Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornw.

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b. c. 1613, 1st s. of Sir Francis Vyvyan† of Trelowarren and his 2nd wife, Loveday, da. of John Connock of Treworgey, St Cleer.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 530. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. matric. 20 June 1631 (BA same day); DCL 19 Feb. 1644;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 16 Nov. 1631.MT Admiss. i. 125. m. lic. 24 Sept. 1636, Mary, da. of James Bulteel of Barnstaple, Devon, 2s. 6da (1 d.v.p.).Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 530; PROB11/322/197. suc. fa. 11 June 1635.C142/550/99. Kntd. 1 Mar. 1636.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 204. cr. bt. 12 Jan. 1645.Cornw. RO, V/BO/9; cf. CB. d. 3 Oct. 1665.CB.
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Local: commr. piracy, Cornw. 4 Aug. 1637.C181/5, f. 83. J.p. by 1641–6. Commr. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR. oyer and terminer for piracy, 11 Feb. 1641;C181/5, f. 187v. assessment, 1642, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;SR; An Ordinance… for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). ?array (roy.), c.Oct. 1642;Antony House, Carew-Pole BC/24/2/132. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 10 July 1660–d.C181/7, pp. 9, 326. Dep. lt. Cornw. 1662–d.C29/60/66. Commr. subsidy, 1663.SR.

Military: col. of horse (roy.), 1 Aug. 1642–?Apr. 1646.Cornw. RO, V/BO/4. Capt. Dennis Fort, Cornw. 19 Feb. 1644–?Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 147. Gov. St Mawes 1644–6, 13 July 1660–d.Cornw. RO, V/BO/10; T/1660.

Central: master of mint (roy.), Truro 14 Nov. 1642.-Oct. 1643; Exeter Oct. 1643-Apr. 1646;Coate, Cornw. 108–10; Cornw. RO, V/BO/18. Cornw., Devon and Exeter 3 Jan. 1644–?Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 123. Asst. Soc. of Mines Royal, 1656–d. Member, Soc. of Mineral and Battery Works, 1663–d.HP Commons 1660–1690.

Civic: freeman, Exeter 2 Oct. 1643.Exeter Freemen, 1266–1967, ed. Rowe and Jackson (Exeter, 1974), 137.

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VYVYAN, Sir Richard (c.1613-65), of Trelowarren, Mawgan in Meneage, Cornw.
: Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornw.
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VYVYAN, Sir Richard (1613-65), of Trelowarren, Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornw.

Will
1 Aug. 1665, pr. 1 Nov. 1666.PROB11/322/197.
Estates
inherited from fa. (1635) eight Cornish manors and portions of the boroughs of Okehampton, Plympton, Tiverton and Exminster in Devon.C142/550/99. Trelowarren was a house of 24 hearths at Vyvyan’s death.Cornw. Poll Tax, 133. Free tenant of duchy of Cornw. in manors of Helston and Tywarnhayle, Cornw. bef. 1650.Parl. Survey Duchy Cornw. i. 44-5; ii. 211.
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BOWYER, Sir William (1588-1641), of Knypersley, Biddulph, Staffs.

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b. 26 July 1588, 1st s. of John Bowyer† of Sidway Hall, Maer, and Knypersley, and Katherine, da. of Sir Christopher Yelverton† of Easton Maudit, Northants.WARD7/27/87; Vis. Staffs. ed. H. S. Grazebrook (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 50. educ. ?Pembroke Coll. Camb. c.1601;Al. Cant. Staple Inn; G. Inn 24 Oct. 1604.G. Inn Admiss. 110. m. 14 Nov. 1609, Hester (bur. 14 Jan. 1658), da. of Sir William Skeffington of Fisherwick, Staffs. 7s. (4 d.v.p.) inc. John*, 5da. (1 d.v.p.).Elford, Staffs. par. reg.; Biddulph Par. Reg. ed. N. W. Tildesley (Staffs. Par. Reg. Soc. 1991), 22, 55. suc. fa. 7 Mar. 1605;C142/289/97. Kntd. 5 Sept. 1617.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 165. d. 8 Mar. 1641.C142/702/36.
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Local: j.p. Staffs. 1614–d.C66/1988; C66/2858. Commr. subsidy 1621–2, 1624 – 25, 1628, 1641;C212/22/20, 21, 23; E179/283/27; Staffs. RO, D1798/HM Chetwynd/116; SR. charitable uses, 1621, 24 Nov. 1632, 29 Aug. 1638;C192/1, unfol.; Staffs. RO, D1798/HM Chetwynd/116. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 28 May 1624–d.;C181/3, ff. 119v, 260v; C181/4, ff. 12v, 194v; C181/5, ff. 7, 219. Forced Loan, Staffs. 1627;C193/12/2, f. 54. swans, midland cos. and Welsh borders 27 July 1627.C181/3, f. 227. Sheriff, Staffs. 4 Nov. 1627–8.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 129. Dep. lt. by Sept. 1629-aft. Feb. 1639.SP16/149/81i, f. 113; SP16/412/9, f. 17. Commr. knighthood fines, 16 June 1630;E178/7154/289. sewers, 1 Dec. 1634.C181/4, f. 189.

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BOWYER, Sir William II (1588-1641), of Knypersley, Staffs.
: of Knypersley, Biddulph, Staffs.
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BOWYER, Sir William (1588-1641), of Knypersley, Biddulph, Staffs.

Will
10 Oct. 1637, pr. 27 July 1641.Staffs. RO, B/C/11, will of Sir William Bowyer, 1641.
Estates
inherited estate valued at £500 p.a. comprising manors of Apedale, Bucknall and Knypersley; capital messuages of Podmore Hall and Sidway Hall; messuage of Norton-in-the-Moors; rectories of Biddulph and Maer; lands in Biddulph, Knypersley and Maer, Staffs.; manor of Docking, Norf.; and messuages in Cheshire and Salop.C142/289/97; C2/JASI/B19/1; C2/CHASI/B128/52; BRL, 917/1250; HMC Hatfield, xxiii. 204. In 1619, he and another gentleman purchased property in Burslem, Sneyd, Tunstall and elsewhere in Staffs. for £1,200.‘Final concords Staffs. temp. James I’ ed. W. K. Boyd (Collns. Hist. Staffs. n.s. vii), 204. In 1637, he covenanted to pay portions of £1,000 to each of his four daughters, and estimated that his purchase of the wardship of Francis Trentham would amount to £2,000.Staffs. RO, B/C/11, will of Sir William Bowyer, 1641. At his d. estate inc. manors of Audley, Bucknall and Knypersley; a third part of manor of Tunstall; Podmore Hall; rectory of Maer; and property in Apedale, Aston, Audley, Betley, Biddulph, Billington, Bradley, Bucknall, Derrington, Ellenhall, Haughton, Heakley, Keele, Knypersley, Maer, Madeley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Norton-in-the-Moors, Seighford, Sidway, Stallbrook and Whitmore, Staffs.C8/70/124; C142/702/36. The family also owned coalpits in Apedale.PROB11/251, f. 74. Family estate valued at c.£1,000 p.a. in 1644 and £900 p.a. in the early 1660s.C8/70/124; D. Fawkes, ‘The gentry of Staffs. 1662-3’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 4, xiii), 60.
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presented Anthony Rowley to vicarage of Biddulph, Staffs., 1619.IND1/17003, p. 3.
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LATHAM, Thomas (c. 1603-?1662), of Stifford, Essex and the Middle Temple.

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b. c. 1603, ?1st s. of Thomas Latham of Stifford and ?St. Lawrence Jewry, London. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 16 Nov. 1621, BA 26 Feb. 1625, MA 26 May 1627;Al. Ox. M. Temple 1632, called 24 May 1639.M. Temple Admiss. m. Martha, da. of John Cudmore of Kelvedon, Essex and I. Temple. 3s. 2da.Vis Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 387. d. bef. 10 May 1662.
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Local: commr. sewers, Essex 9 Dec. 1644, 28 June 1658, 1 Oct. 1660;C181/5, f. 245; C181/6, p. 297; C181/7, p. 60. London 14 Jan. – aft.Dec. 1645, 13 Aug. 1657;C181/5, ff. 247v, 267; C181/6, p. 258. Mdx. 7 Apr. 1645;C181/5, f. 261v. Mdx. and Westminster 10 Jan. 1655, 10 July 1656. 26 June 1648 – bef.Oct. 1653C181/6, pp. 68, 175. J.p. Westminster, by c.Sept.-7 Nov. 1656.C231/6, pp. 118, 351; C193/13/4, f. 128v; C193/13/6, f. 114. Dep. high steward, 1648-c.1656.CJ vi. 358a; CSP Dom 1652–3, pp 397, 410.

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: of Stifford, Essex and the Middle Temple.
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LATHAM, Thomas (c. 1603-?1662), of Stifford, Essex and the Middle Temple.

Will
21 June 1659, pr. 10 May 1662.PROB11/308/132.
Estates
purchased Stifford Hall and 60 acres in 1650;VCH Essex viii. 28. will (1659) inc. unspecified lands in Essex and Cheshire.PROB11/308/132.
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PEYTON, Sir Thomas (1613-84), of Knowlton, Kent.

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b. 18 Aug. 1613, 1st s. of Samuel Peyton†, 1st bt., of Knowlton, and Mary, da. of Sir Roger Aston of Cranford, Mdx.Vis. Kent 1619 (Harl. Soc. xlii), 66-7; Berry, Pedigrees of Kent, 213. educ. ?Oxf. univ.Add. 27999, f. 190. m. (1) 21 May 1636, Elizabeth (d. 10 Sept. 1642), da. of Sir Peter Osborne† of Chicksands Priory, Beds., 3da.; (2) lic. 18 Jan. 1648, Cecilia (d. 26 Oct. 1661), wid. of Sir William Swan of Hoopes, Southfleet, Kent, da. of Sir John Clerke of Ford Place, Wrotham, Kent, 1s (d.v.p.), 1da.; (3) 2 Mar. 1667, Jane (bur. 8 Feb. 1672), wid. of Francis Swift, of one Matthews, and of Sir Timothy Thornhill of Olantighe, Kent, da. of Sir William Monins, 1st bt. s.p. suc. fa. 27 Sept. 1623. d. 11 Feb. 1684.The Gen. n.s. viii. 102, 104, 150; CB; WARD7/68/8; Westminster Abbey Regs. 209.
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Central: treasurer’s remembrancer, exch. (in reversion) 16 Apr. 1639, 13 Nov. 1661.Coventry Docquets, 209; CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 144. Farm of duty on coals for 31 years, Jan. 1661.Eg. 2551, f. 15; CSP Dom. 1664–5, p. 230; CTB i. 109; ii. 623.

Local: commr. sewers, Mersham and Sandwich, Kent 16 July 1639, 1 July 1659, 21 Sept. 1660;C181/5, f. 146v; C181/6, p. 366; C181/7, p. 56. Ticehurst and River Rother, Kent and Suss. 4 Oct. 1660, 22 Mar. 1666;C181/7, pp. 60, 354. Kent 13 Nov. 1669, 28 Nov. 1671;C181/7, pp. 509, 605. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 May 1643, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;CJ iii. 91a; SR. array (roy.), 1642.Northants. RO, FH133. Dep. lt. Aug. 1642–3, July 1660–d.CJ ii. 724a; Dering Diaries and Pprs. 47; Twysden Lieutenancy Papers, ed. G. S. Thomson (Kent Recs. x), 13–14, 23, 37, 52–4, 64. J.p. July 1660–d.HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 10 July 1660-aft. Feb. 1673.C181/7, pp. 7, 639. Col. militia, Kent Oct. 1660–81.CSP Dom. 1680–1, p. 200. Commr. loyal and indigent officers, 1662;NMM, Southwell MS 17/15. corporations, 1662,Eg. 2985, f. 66. subsidy, 1663.SR. Sub-commr. of prizes, Dover 1665–7.CSP Dom. 1666–7, p. 246. Commr. recusants, Kent 1675.CTB iv. 788.

Civic: freeman, Sandwich 28 Oct. 1640–?, 24 July 1665.E. Kent RO, Sa/AC7, f. 377; Sa/AC8, f. 173.

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PEYTON, Sir Thomas, 2nd Bt. (1613-84), of Knowlton, Kent.
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PEYTON, Sir Thomas (1613-84), of Knowlton, Kent.

Will
admon. granted to creditor, 14 May 1684.PROB6/59, f. 52v.
Estates
inherited property in Sandwich, and leased a house there from the corporation bef. 1636-aft. 1654.Oxinden Lttrs. ed. Gardiner, 115; E. Kent RO, Sa/AC8, f. 111v. In 1635 he sold manor of Shrinkling and 100 acres of marsh to Thomas Hales, and in 1636, 210 acres of meadow in Marcham, Berks. to Samuel Hales.Coventry Docquets, 683, 692. Owned a house in Chelsea from bef. 1639, and property in Tuttle Street, Westminster, from bef. 1642.Add. 27999, f. 294; E. Kent RO, Sa/C1, pp. 103-4. In Aug. 1644 the commissioners for compounding valued Peyton’s estate at £1,000 p.a.CCC 864. For purposes of decimation, valued at £532 p.a. in Dec. 1655.Add. Ch. 66169; Add. 44846, f. 70v; SP28/159, unfol. Granted rectory of Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, in 1661.CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 214; 1661-2, p. 52; 1664-5, p. 495; Al. Cant.
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DENNE, Vincent (1628-93), of Denne Hill, Kingston, Kent.

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bap. 29 June 1628, 1st s. of Thomas Denne of Fordwich and St Alphege, Canterbury, and Susan, da. of Arthur Honeywood of Lenham, Kent.Berry, Pedigrees of Kent, 194-6, 269; Burke Commoners, iii. 21; Vis. Kent 1663 (Harl. Soc. liv), 47-8. educ. Queens’ Camb. 1645, matric. 1648;Al. Cant. BA, Magd. Hall, Oxf. 17 Oct. 1648; MA, 14 June 1651;Al. Ox. G. Inn, 19 Apr. 1648.G. Inn Admiss. 247. m. aft. 18 Nov. 1655, Mary (d. 19 Nov. 1701), da. of Thomas Denne† of St Mary Magdalen, Canterbury, and Denne Hill, 1s. (d.v.p.), 5da. (1 d.v.p.).St Andrew, Holborn, par. reg. (banns); Hasted, Kent, ix. 346; Parsons, Monuments, 411. suc. fa. 1657. d. 28 Oct. 1693.C.H. Wilkie, Par. Reg. of St Giles, Kingston (1893), 137; Parsons, Monuments in Kent, 411.
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Academic: student (fell.), Christ Church, Oxf. ?Oct. 1648.Al. Ox.

Legal: called, G. Inn 18 May 1655; ancient, 16 Nov. 1671; bencher, 12 Nov. 1677. Reader, Staple Inn 13 Nov. 1674–12 Nov. 1675.PBG Inn, i. 411; ii. 18, 34, 38, 47. Sjt.-at-law, June 1688–d.C202/73/3; Baker, Serjeants at Law, 201, 449.

Civic: freeman, Canterbury 9 Sept. 1656.Canterbury Cathedral Archives, CC/AC4, f. 407v. Recorder, Canterbury c.1659–d.;Add. 28004, f. 91. Dover 6 Aug. 1689–d.Jones, Annals of Dover, 347. Counsel, Sandwich by 1677–d.Add. 33512, ff. 107, 131. Steward, chancery ct. Cinque Ports, 1689–d.CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 355.

Local: j.p. Kent 7 Mar. 1657 – bef.Oct. 1660, 1689–d.C231/6, p. 362; C193/13/6, f. 45; C193/13/5, f. 54; Cent. Kent. Stud. Q/JC/19–21; A Perfect List (1660), 24. Commr. sewers, Walland Marsh, Kent and Suss. 13 May 1657, 1 July 1659, 19 Dec. 1660, 22 Nov. 1670;C181/6, pp. 226, 365; C181/7, pp. 73, 562. assessment, Kent 9 June 1657, 1689 – d.; Canterbury 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1679, 1689–d.;A. and O.; SR. militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.; A Perfect List (1660), 25.

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DENNE, Vincent (c.1628-93), of Denne Hill, Kingston, Kent.
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DENNE, Vincent (1628-93), of Denne Hill, Kingston, Kent.

Will
23 Oct. 1682, pr. 29 Jan. 1694.Canterbury Cathedral Archives, PRC32/56, f. 160.
Estates
owned Wenderton and Denne Hill in Kingston, an estate of 250 acres, 1657-d.Cent. Kent. Stud. TR1345/1-3; J Philipot, Villare Cantium (1659), 364.
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MERES, Thomas (1634-1715), of The Close, Lincoln, and Southampton Square, Bloomsbury, Mdx.

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bap. 17 Sept. 1634, 1st s. of Robert Meres, DD, of Kirton, Lincs., chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, and 1st w. Elizabeth (bur. 28 July 1639), da. of Hugh Williams of Y Wig, Caern., wid. of William Dolben, DD, preb. of Lincoln.Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. li), 666; Oxford DNB, ‘Sir Thomas Meres’. educ. Sleaford (Mr Gibson); Sidney Sussex, Camb. 23 Jan. 1651;Al. Cant. I. Temple 28 June 1653, called 30 May 1660.I. Temple Admiss. Database; CITR ii. 334. m. 28 Jan. 1658 (with £3,500), Anne (d. 4 Aug. 1698), da. and coh. of Sir Erasmus de la Fontaine of Kirby Bellars, Leics., 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.).All Hallows-on-the-Wall, London par. reg.; Lincs. RO, BRA 1597/1/1/1; PROB11/552, f. 125v; Lincs. Peds. 666. suc. fa. 7 Nov. 1652;Lincs. Peds. 666. Kntd. 11 June 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 228. d. 9 July 1715; bur. 23 July 1715 Kirby Bellars .Lincs. N. and Q. ii. 151.
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Civic: freeman, Lincoln 23 Sept. 1658–d.;Lincs. RO, L1/1/1/6 (Lincoln Council min. bk.), p. 74. Portsmouth 22 Sept. 1681–?d.Extracts from the Portsmouth Recs. ed. R. East, 365.

Local: commr. assessment, Lincs. 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689–?d.; Westminster 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Essex, Leics., London, Mdx. 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, Lincs. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Lincs. (Lindsey) Mar. 1660 – Feb. 1688, ? Oct. 1688 – d.; Holland Mar. – bef.Oct. 1660, 1680-Feb. 1688;A Perfect List [of JPs] (1660); HMC Portland, iii. 406; HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Thomas Meres’. Kesteven by Oct. 1660 – Feb. 1688, ?Oct. 1688–d.C220/9/4; HMC Portland, iii. 406; HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. sewers, Hatfield Chase Level 11 Aug. 1660-aft. July 1670;C181/7, pp. 20, 558. Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 14 Aug. 1660-aft. May 1670;C181/7, pp. 76, 544. Ancholme Level 23 June 1662;C181/7, p. 152. Mdx. and Westminster 27 May 1664;C181/7, p. 254. poll tax, Lindsey, Lincoln 1660;SR. oyer and terminer, Lincs. 10 Oct. 1661;C181/7, p. 121. Midland circ. 30 May 1662-aft. Feb. 1673.C181/7, pp. 159, 642. Dep. lt. Lincs. 13 July 1662 – ?87, 10 July 1691–?d.Lincs. RO, MON/3/28/51; CSP Dom. 1690–1, p. 441; 1701–2, p. 392; The Letter Bk. of Sir Anthony Oldfield 1662–7 ed. P.R. Seddon (Lincoln Rec. Soc. xci), 63, 64; HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. loyal and indigent officers, 1662;SR. corporations, 1662–3;Lincs. RO, L1/1/1/6, p. 111. swans, 30 May 1663, 13 Dec. 1664;C181/7, pp. 211, 299. complaints, Bedford Level 1663; subsidy, Lincs., Lincoln, Westminster 1663.SR. Capt. militia ft. Lincoln by 1665–?Oldfield Letter Bk. ed. Seddon, xxiv, 25. Commr. enclosures, Deeping Fen 1665;SR. concealments, Lincs. 17 July 1671;CTB iii. 912. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 696.

Central: commr. for maimed soldiers, Sept. 1660–1. 8 Feb. 1673 – 30 Dec. 1678CJ viii. 213b. Chairman, cttee. of elections and privileges,, 19 Mar.-27 May 1679. July 1678 – d.CJ ix. 249b, 260b, 568a, 572b; HMC Ormonde, n.s. v. 9. Asst. Sons of the Clergy,; v.-pres. 1696 – 1705, 1706–7.E.H. Pearce, Sons of the Clergy, 8, 286–7. Commr. admlty. 14 May 1679–19 May 1684;J.C. Sainty, Admiralty Officials 1660–1870, 21, 139. rebuilding St. Paul’s Cathedral, 3 May 1692–d.;CSP Dom. 1691–2, p. 267; HMC Downshire, i. 893–4; Wren Soc. xvi. 48, 115. land bank subscriptions, 14 Mar. 1699.CJ xii. 508a.

Parlimentarian
MERES, Thomas (1634-1715), of The Close, Lincoln and Southampton Square, Bloomsbury, Mdx.
: of The Close, Lincoln and Mdx., Southampton Square.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MERES, Thomas (1634-1715), of The Close, Lincoln, and Southampton Square, Bloomsbury, Mdx.

Will
pr. 14 May 1716.PROB11/552, f. 124.
Estates
in 1658, consisted of a messuage in The Close of Lincoln, manor of Hiptoft Hall in Algarkirk, manor of Scotton and Ferry, advowson of Scotton and property in Algarkirk, Beckingham, Boston, Fosdyke, Fenton, Frampton, Hardwick, Hiptoft, Holton le Moor, Kirton, Laughton, Scotton, Sibsey, Strubby, Susworth, Sutterton and Winthorpe, Lincs.Lincs. RO, BRA 1597/1/1/1. Estate reckoned to be worth £300 p.a. in the 1660s.‘Lincs. fams. temp. Charles II’, Her. and Gen. ii. 123. At his d. estate inc. houses in London (Southampton Square), Normanton and Lincoln and property in Stonesby and Kirby Bellars, Leics.PROB11/552, f. 124; E. Deacon, Descent of the Fam. of Deacon, 299.
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Religion
presented John Curtois to rectory of Branston, Lincs. 1680; Williamson Moore to rectory of Carleton Scroope, Lincs. 1680; John Morley to rectory of Scotton, Lincs. 1711.CCEd Record ID: 68888, 153256, 250457, The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835.
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BOSCAWEN, Edward (1628-85), of Worthevale Minster, Cornw.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 21 Nov. 1628, 5th s. of Hugh Boscawen of Tregothnan, Penkevil, Cornw. and Margaret, da. of Robert Rolle* of Heanton Satchville, Devon; bro. of Hugh Boscawen* and Charles Boscawen*.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 47-8; Morrice Entring Bk. iii. 46. educ. appr. Grocer, Thomas Hedges 8 Mar. 1648.London Apprenticeship Abstracts, 1442-1850. m. 5 Mar. 1665, Jael (bur. 18 Apr. 1730), da. of Francis Godolphin I* of Godolphin, Breage, Cornw. 1s. 2da. d. 28 Oct. 1685.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 47-8; Morrice Entring Bk. iii. 46.
Offices Held

Local: commr. militia, Cornw. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. assessment, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Westminster 1677, 1679.An Ordinance… for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. J.p. Cornw. ?1667–70.C231/7, p. 367. Stannator, Tywarnwhaile, Cornw. 1673.Add. 6713, f. 377. Commr. recusants, Cornw. 1675.CTB iv. 695.

Central: member, corporation for propagation of the gospel in New England, 1661.HP Commons 1660–1690.

Mercantile: freeman, Levant Co. 1670.HP Commons 1660–1690.

Parlimentarian
BOSCAWEN, Edward (1628-85), of Worthevale, Minster, Cornw. and Kensington, Mdx.
: Cornw.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BOSCAWEN, Edward (1628-85), of Worthevale Minster, Cornw.

Will
28 July 1685, pr. 3 May 1686.PROB11/383/130.
Estates
inherited unspecified estate from fa. (d. 1641) by deed of 20 May 1636;PROB11/188/277. at death owned a house in Suffolk Street, London; lands including barton of Worthevale and manor of Roscarrock, and tenement in Port Collumb, Cornw.; also stock in E. India Co.PROB11/383/130.
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WORSLEY, Charles (1622-56), of The Platt, Rusholme, Manchester, Lancs.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 24 June 1622, 1st s. of Raphe Worsley (d. 6 Nov. 1669) of The Platt, and Isabel (d. 29 July 1627), da. of Edward Massey of Manchester, wid. of Alexander Ford of Wigan, Lancs. m. (1) 18 Sept. 1644, Mary (d. 1 Apr. 1649), da. and coh. of John Booth of Manchester, 1s. 3da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 6 Oct. 1652, Dorothy (bur. 16 Mar. 1694), da. of Roger Kenyon of Park Head, Whalley, Lancs. 2s. 1da. d.v.p.C5/27/114; Manchester Ct. Leet Recs. ed. J.P. Earwaker (Manchester, 1887), iv. p. 117; Booker, Birch, 26, 28, 39, 49-50, 66; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxviii), 339-40. d. 12 June 1656.SP18/130/129, f. 201.
Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) 1644-aft. Apr. 1648;Booker, Birch, 39; Manchester Ct. Leet Recs. ed. Earwaker, iv. p. 17. lt.-col. c.June 1650–d.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 481; Booker, Birch, 37. Maj.-gen. Cheshire, Derbys. and Worcs. 9 Aug. – 11 Oct. 1655; Cheshire, Lancs. and Staffs. 11 Oct. 1655–d.CSP Dom. 1655, pp. 275, 378.

Local: j.p. Mdx. 20 Oct. 1653–d.;C231/6, p. 273. Westminster by Apr. 1655–d.;TSP iii. 349. Cheshire, Staffs. 22 Nov. 1655–d.C231/6, p. 319. Clerk of the peace, Lancs. 21 Feb. 1654–?d.Lancs. RO, DDKE/1/32; DDKE/9/33/14. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. militia, 14 Mar. 1655.SP25/76A, f. 16v. Farmer, excise on beer and ale by Dec. 1655–?d.Lancs. RO, DDKE/2/13/2.

Parlimentarian
WORSLEY, Charles (1622-56), of The Platt, Rusholme, Manchester, Lancs.
: of The Platt, Rusholme, Lancs., Manchester.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, unknown.Platt Hall, Manchester.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WORSLEY, Charles (1622-56), of The Platt, Rusholme, Manchester, Lancs.

Will
June 1656.C5/27/114.
Estates
in 1645-6, the Worsleys’ estate around Manchester inc. capital messuage called The Platt and lands adjoining; messuages in Rusholme and in Milngate, Manchester; property in Ashley Field, Manchester; and lease of part of a burgage in Salford, Lancs.Manchester Central Lib. M35/1/34/1. By 1648, Worsley was a non-resident burgage-holder in Manchester.Manchester Central Lib. M91/M1/8/16; Manchester Constables’ Accts. ed. J. P. Earwaker (Manchester, 1892), ii. pp. 200, 220. In 1652-3, he purchased from the treason trustees manor of Bolton and property in Halliwell and Salford for £290 13s; manor of Bury, Lancs. for £287 18s; and lands in and around Macclesfield, Cheshire.C54/3757/6; C54/3767/11; SP29/390/14x, f. 42; SP23/141, pp. 29-31, 33; Lancs. RO, DDK/1462/4; Manchester Central Lib. M35/2/4/1; CCC 1117. In 1652-3, he purchased for £1,544 fee farm rents in Lancs. and Northumb. worth £113 p.a.SP28/288, ff. 59, 61. In 1654, he purchased for £200 two thirds of the estate of a Lancs. recusant, paying rent of £80 p.a.SP23/141, pp. 11-22, 25-6, 27; SP23/149, pp. 201-5, 207, 209; CSP Dom. 1656-7, p. 171. At his d. estate inc. manors of Bolton and Bury, property in Manchester, Rusholme and Salford and rents worth £62 p.a. issuing out of Accrington, Bolton, Butterfield, Cliviger, Cottam Moss, Flookburgh, Grindleton, Gumples, Hackenshaw, Hall Flatts, Halliwell, Haslingden, High Park, Ingol, Nether Wyresdale, Slaidburn, Stalmine, Ulverston, West Bradford, Windle and rectory of Cartmel and Childwall, Lancs. and Yorks;C5/27/114. personal estate valued at £1,679 and debts on his estate reckoned at £489.Manchester Central Lib. M35/5/4/2.
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Runton, Norf. (1649);Manchester Central Lib. M35/5/24. St James’s Palace, Westminster (1653-5).Lancs. RO, DDKE/9/129/3; CSP Dom. 1652-3, p. 460; TSP iii. 186.
Religion
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TRENCHARD, Sir Thomas, (1582-c.1652), of Wolveton, Charminster, Dorset.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 11 Oct. 1582, 3rd but 1st surv. s. of Sir George Trenchard† and Anne, da. of Sir George Speke of Whitelackington, Som.; bro. of Sir George Trenchard jun.† and John Trenchard*; educ. St Alban Hall, Oxf. 1599, BA 1602;Al. Ox. M. Temple 15 June 1604.M. Temple Admiss., i. 82. m. by 1615, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Christopher Morgan of Mapperton, Dorset and wid. of John Molford of South Moulton, Devon, 4s. 8da.Vis. Dorset 1623 (Harl. Soc. xx), 94. Kntd. 15 Dec. 1613;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 154. suc. fa. 1630.Dorset RO, PE/CMR:RE1/1 (Charminster par. regs.); C142/472/99. d. c. 1652.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Dorset 1614 – 15 July 1642, by Mar. 1647–2 Mar. 1650.Som. and Dorset N. and Q. i. 156; C66/1988; C193/13/3, f. 15v; C231/5, p. 530; C231/6, p. 176; Western Circ. Assize Orders, 251. Commr. inquiry into earl of Somerset’s lands, Dorset and Som. Oct. 1616, 14 Feb. 1617;C181/2, ff. 260, 271v. sewers, Dorset 21 July 1617, 23 June 1638;C181/2, f. 294; C181/5, f. 113v. oyer and terminer for piracy, 22 Oct. 1622, 7 Oct. 1631, 26 Sept. 1639-aft. Feb. 1642;C181/3, f. 72v; C181/4, f. 104; C181/5, ff. 152v, 226v. oyer and terminer, 5 Dec. 1626; Western circ. 23 Jan. 1632-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/3, f. 212; C181/4, f. 111v; C181/5, f. 221. Forced Loan, Dorset 1627;C193/12/2, f. 11v. swans, Hants and western cos. 20 May 1629.C181/4, f. 2. Sheriff, Dorset Nov. 1634-c.Feb. 1636.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 39; CSP Dom. 1635–6, p. 211. Commr. hard soap, western cos. Jan., May 1638;C181/5, ff. 92, 102v. subsidy, Dorset 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Dec. 1649;SR; A. and O. array (roy.), 29 June 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. loans on Propositions, 20 July 1642;LJ v. 225b. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Dorset, Wilts. 1 July 1644;A. and O.; Dorset Standing Cttee, ed. Mayo, p. xii. Dorset militia, 24 July 1648;LJ x. 393a. militia, 7 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Lyme Regis 1617.Dorset RO, B7/B6/11, f. 13.

Central: commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
TRENCHARD, Sir Thomas, (1582-c.1652), of Wolveton, Charminster, Dorset.
: (1582-c.1652), of Wolveton, Dorset., Charminster 1582 – c.1652.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

TRENCHARD, Sir Thomas, (1582-c.1652), of Wolveton, Charminster, Dorset.

Will
Estates
inherited manors of Wolveton, Lychett Matravers, Hammoon, Child Okeford, Hillfield, Firehead Quintin, Deverells Combe, Sto’borough, Beere Regis, Fordington, Lytchett Minster, Bere Lytchett, Portsham, Tarrant Hinton, also advowsons of Lytchett Matravers, Hammoon, Child Okeford and Warmwell, all in Dorset; also manors of Hordell Tadiford and Duncton, Hants., and Ramsbury Trenchard, Wilts.C142/472/99.
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Addresses
Piazza, Covent Garden, c. July 1647.WPL, MS H433, unfol.
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