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BULLER, Anthony (1613-79), of Dean’s Yard, Westminster.

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bap. 14 Nov. 1613, 5th s. of Sir Richard Buller* (d. 1642) of Shillingham, St Stephen-by-Saltash, Cornw. and Alice, da. of Sir Rowland Hayward, alderman of London;Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 57. bro. of Francis Buller I* and George Buller*. educ. ?appr. to Henry Boothby; freeman, Haberdashers’ Co. 1637.LMA, Haberdashers’ Co. reg. m. 6 Jan. 1646, Anne, da. of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, Som. 1s. 2da.St Decumans, Watchett, Som. par. reg.; PROB11/361/163. d. bef. 31 May 1679.PROB11/361/163.
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Military: capt.-lt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of Philip Skippon*, army of 3rd earl of Essex, ?May-Aug. 1643;SP28/7/44, SP28/9/189. capt. of horse, regt. of Hans Behr by Oct. 1643-Apr. 1645;SP28/10/336; CSP Dom. 1644–5, p. 411; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. maj. of horse, regt. of Edward Massie*, May 1645; lt.-col. bef. Sept. 1645. 29 June 1647 – 6 Aug. 1648CSP Dom. 1644–5, pp. 411, 553; SP28/144/10, p. 2. Gov. Scilly Isles; dep. gov. 1666–7. May 1660HMC Pepys, 274. Col. of ft. expedition to W. I. 1654–5. May 1660Narrative of General Venables ed. C.H. Firth (Cam. Soc. 1900), xix-xx, 137–8. Capt. of horse, regt. of Thomas Belasyse*, Visct. Fauconberg (later duke of York’s horseguard),; maj. July 1660-Jan. 1661;Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 168–9. capt. of ft. admlty. regt. (duke of York’s ft.) 1667–d.HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Anthony Buller’.

Local: commr. assessment, Cornw. 1 June 1660.An Ordinance… for an Assessment (1660, E1075.6).

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BULLER, Anthony (1613-79), of Weybridge, Surr.
: Westminster.
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BULLER, Anthony (1613-79), of Dean’s Yard, Westminster.

Will
16 Feb. 1677, pr. 31 May 1679.PROB11/361/163.
Estates
residence in Dean’s Yard, Westminster, 1659.Longleat, Whitelocke Pprs. xix, no. 3. On d. owned estate at Weybridge, Surr. and property in St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, and (from the proceeds of sale and other money) left £2,000 legacies to each of his three children.PROB11/361/163.
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OWFEILD (OLDFIELD), Samuel (1593-1643), of Upper Gatton, Surr. and Elsham, Lincs.

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b. May 1595, 1st s. of Roger Owfeild, Fishmonger, of Billiter Lane, London and Thomasine, da. and coh. of John More†, merchant, of Ipswich, Suff.PROB11/112/508; PROB11/178/313; H.F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in Eng. (Boston, Mass. 1901), i. 730-1, 770-1. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 27 Jan. 1612;Al. Cant. M. Temple 24 Jan. 1614.M. Temple Admiss. i. 101. m. by 1623, Katherine (d. 1664), da. and h. of William Smith, Mercer, of Thames Street, London, 6s. (2 d.v.p.) 7da. (2 d.v.p.).Par. Regs. of Gatton, ed. W.B. Bannerman (1908), 6; Manning, Bray, Surr. ii. 245. suc. fa. 1608;C142/660/30. Kntd. 13 May 1641.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 208. bur. 4 May 1643.J. Sykes, ‘St Mary’s, Hull’, Yorks. Arch. Jnl. xii. 468.
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Local: member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 1617. Apr. 1634 – aft.Feb. 1635Ancient Vellum Bk. 29. Commr. sewers, Ancholme Level; Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 10 Feb. 1642;C181/4, ff. 170, 201; C181/5, f. 223. subsidy, Lincs. (Lindsey) 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. assessment, Lindsey, Surr. 1642; Lincs. 24 Feb. 1643. Mar. 1642 – d.SR; A. and O. Dep. lt. Surr.; Lincs. Jan. 1643–d.CJ ii. 485b, 498b, 926a. J.p. Surr. ?-19 July 1642.C231/5, p. 532. Commr. sequestration, Lincs. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May 1643.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Fishmongers’ Co. 1618.W.P. Haskett-Smith, Worshipful Co. of Fishmongers of City of London: Lists of Apprs. and Freemen (1916), 32.

Mercantile: member, E. I. Co. by 1624.CSP Col. E.I. 1622–4, p. 488.

Central: commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR.

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OWFIELD (OLDFIELD), Samuel (1595-1643), of the Middle Temple, London and Upper Gatton, Surr.
: of Upper Gatton, Surr. and Lincs., Elsham.
OLDFIELD
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OWFEILD (OLDFIELD), Samuel (1593-1643), of Upper Gatton, Surr. and Elsham, Lincs.

Will
6 Dec. 1636, pr. 10 Feb. 1645.PROB11/192/365; Waters, Genealogical Gleanings, i. 869.
Estates
inherited lands at Elsham, Lincs. 1608;PROB11/112/508. bought manors of Upper Gatton, Chipstead and Purbright, Surr.;Lord Hylton, ‘The manor of Chipsted, alias Chipstead’, Surr. Arch. Coll. xlviii. 43; VCH Surr. iii. 191, 193, 199. transferred his lands to feoffees, inc. Robert Holman* and Edward Thurland*, to the use of himself and his wife, 1637.PROB11/315/229.
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SAWREY, John (d.1666), of Plumpton, Ulverston, Lancs.

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b. bef. 1610, 1st surv. s. of Anthony Sawrey of Plumpton, and Alice (d. aft. 1646), da. of Thomas Farrington of Worden, Lancs.: bro. of Roger Sawry*.Lancs. RO, DF/1279; Cartmel ed. H. Brierley (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xxviii), 227; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxviii), 255; Ulverston Par. Regs. ed. C.W. Bardsley, L.R. Ayre (Ulverston, 1886), 100, 101, 104, 105. m. 2 Dec. 1629, Esther, da. of Adam Sandys of Graythwaite, Hawkshead, Lancs. wid. of Thomas Rawlinson (bur. 18 Apr. 1626) of Graythwaite, at least 1s. 2da.Regs. of Colton in Furness Fells ed. A.A. Williams, J.P. Burns (Kendal, 1891), 13; Oldest Reg. Bk. of Hawkshead ed. H.S. Cowper (1897), 123, 163; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. Raines, 255; Ulverston Par. Regs. ed. Bardsley, Ayre, 145. suc. fa. c.1623;Lancs. and Cheshire Wills and Inventories ed. J. P. Earwaker (Chetham Soc. n.s. xxviii), 193. bur. 30 Jan. 1666 30 Jan. 1666.Ulverston Par. Regs. ed. Bardsley, Ayre, 156.
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Civic: freeman, Preston by 1622 – 42, 1662–d.Preston Guild Rolls ed. W. A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 79, 152.

Local: j.p. Lancs. by 1 Sept. 1649-bef. Oct. 1660.Lancs. RO, QSC/51–61. Commr. assessment, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 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). maintenance of ministers, 29 Mar. 1650;Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. H. Fishwick (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. i), i. 1–3. militia by Nov. 1650, 26 July 1659;SP28/211, f. 705; A. and O. sequestration, 13 Aug. 1652;CCC 603, 629; Lancs. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.H. Stanning (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxiv), 185. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth by Nov. 1655;TSP iv. 733; v. 242. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35).

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

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SAWREY, John (d.1666), of Plumpton, Ulverston, Lancs.
: of Plumpton, Ulverston, Lancs.
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SAWREY, John (d.1666), of Plumpton, Ulverston, Lancs.

Will
20 Oct. 1665, pr. 16 May 1666.Lancs. RO, WRW/F, will of John Sawrey of Plumpton 1666.
Estates
inherited Plumpton and a mill.Lancs. RO, RCHY/2/3/70. Plumpton was worth about £68 p.a. before the civil war.Lancs. RO, DF/1279.
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NAPIER, Sir Robert (1602-1661), of Luton Hoo, Luton, Beds.

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b. 10 Aug. 1602, 1st s. of Sir Robert Napier alias Sandy, 1st bt., of Luton Hoo, and 3rd w. Mary, da. of John Robinson, merchant, of London.Sloane 1708, f. 118; Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 184-5; C142/560/161. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 17 Dec. 1619;Al. Ox. G. Inn 15 Mar. 1620.G. Inn Admiss. m. (1) 30 Apr. 1623, Frances (bur. 29 Mar. 1626), da. of Sir William Thornhurst of Agnes Court, Old Romney, Kent, 1s. d.v.p. 1da. d.v.p. ;Chamberlain Letters ed. N. E. McClure, ii. 495; Vis. Beds. 185; Procs. 1626, ii. 431; Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 187, 188. (2) by 1633, Penelope (bur. 16 July 1658), da. of John Egerton†, 1st earl of Bridgewater, 6s. (4 ) 3da. (2 ).CB; Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 182, 183, 187, 188. Kntd. 30 Apr. 1623;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 181. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 15 Apr. 1637.C142/560/161. bur. 7 Mar. 1661 7 Mar. 1661.Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 189.
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Local: j.p. Yorks. (N., E. Riding) 26 July 1633-aft. 1640, by c.Jan. 1660–d.;C231/5, p. 112; C66/2858; Add. 29674, ff. 152v, 153. Beds. 15 May 1635 – 4 Mar. 1637, Mar. 1660–d.C231/5, pp. 165, 233. Commr. array, N. Riding 31 Aug. 1640;Add. 28088, f. 94; C231/5, p. 404. (roy.) Yorks. 4 July 1642; Beds. 15 Aug. 1642;Northants. RO, FH133. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 1 June 1660; Yorks. 1 June 1660;SR; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). militia, Beds., Yorks. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Dep. lt. Beds. c.Aug. 1660–d.SP29/11/146, f. 186.

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NAPIER, Sir Robert (1602-1661), of Woolbridge, Dorset and Luton Hoo, Beds
: of Luton Hoo, Beds., Luton.
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NAPIER, Sir Robert (1602-1661), of Luton Hoo, Luton, Beds.

Will
29 Jan. 1661, pr. 26 Apr. 1661.PROB11/304, f. 48v.
Estates
in 1631, acquired manor of Seamer, Yorks. (N. Riding).VCH N. Riding, ii. 485. In 1637, inherited Luton Hoo and other manors and property in Luton; the advowson of the vicarage of Luton, Beds.; and property in Northants. that included Grafton and Perry parks.VCH Beds. ii. 353, 355, 356, 360, 361; CSP Dom. 1619-23, p. 92; 1623-5, p. 112. In 1652, purchased for £42 a fee farm rent in Beds. worth £3 p.a.SP28/288, f. 56.
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presented Thomas Pomfret to vicarage of Luton, Beds., 1660.W. Austin, Hist. of Luton (2 vols., Newport, 1928), ii. 93.
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STRODE, Sir Richard (1584-1669), of Lower Chalmington, Cattistock, Dorset and Newnham, Plympton St Mary, Devon.

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bap. 1 July 1584, 1st s. of Sir William Strode† and 1st w. Mary, da. of Thomas Southcote† of Shillingford St George and Bovey Tracey, Devon; bro. of William Strode I*.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 719. educ. St John’s, Camb. 1598.Al. Cant. m. (1) settlement c. Jan. 1597,C142/764/3. Katherine (d. c.1608), da. and h. of Sir Robert Strode of Parnham, Dorset, 3da. (1 d.v.p.);Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 131-2, 243. (2) settlement 31 Oct. 1612,Plymouth RO, 72/MTD3/3, now missing. Elizabeth (d. 27 June 1652), da. of Thomas Erle of Charborough, Dorset, 1s. 5da.; (3) Anne, da. of Sir John Drake† of Ashe, Devon, 1s. 1da.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 719; Som. and Dorset Notes and Queries, viii. 249. Kntd. 14 Mar. 1604;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 130. suc . fa. 1637. bur. 9 Oct. 1669 9 Oct. 1669.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 719.
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Civic: freeman, Lyme Regis 1607.Dorset RO, B7/B6/11, f. 9. ?Recorder, Plympton by 1639–40.CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 288; J.B. Rowe, Hist. Plympton Erle, 158.

Local: j.p. Dorset 1619-c.1627.C231/4, f. 79v; E163/18/12, f. 19v; HMC Cowper, i. 305. Commr. martial law, 1626; billeting, 1626;APC 1626, pp. 221, 223–4. hard soap, western cos. 1638.C181/5, f. 92. ?Dep. lt. Devon 1642–3.SP24/78, order of Devon standing cttee. 23 Aug. 1649; petition of Strode, Chudleigh and Pole, 21 Sept. 1652. Commr. levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Devon, 1 July 1644; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649;A. and O. Dorset 1664.SR.

Colonial: member, cttee. Dorchester New England Co. Mar. 1624.Whiteway Diary, 61; F. Rose-Troup, John White, The Patriarch of Dorchester (1930), 63.

Military: scoutmaster (parlian.), army of Henry Grey*, 1st earl of Stamford, 1643.SP24/78, petition of Sir Richard Strode; CCAM 38; PA, Main Papers, 1 July 1645.

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STRODE, Sir Richard (1584-1669), of Lower Chalmington, Cattistock, Dorset and Newnham, Plympton St. Mary, Devon
: of Lower Chalmington, Cattistock, Dorset and Plympton St Mary, Devon., Newnham.
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STRODE, Sir Richard (1584-1669), of Lower Chalmington, Cattistock, Dorset and Newnham, Plympton St Mary, Devon.

Will
20 July 1669, pr. 27 July 1670.PROB11/333, f. 222v.
Estates
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KYRTON, Edward (1585-1654), of Almsford Park and Castle Cary, Som.

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bap. 15 May 1585, 1st s. of Daniel Kyrton, and Frances, da. of ? (later w. of Sir Robert Vernon of Mitcham).Som. RO, D/P/Ans2/1/1; Heraldic Cases in Ct. of Chivalry (Harl. Soc. cvii), 129; Brown, Abstracts of Som. Wills, i. 44. educ. Oxf. Univ. MA (hon.), 16 Jan. 1643.Al. Ox. m. by 1618, Margaret, s.p.C2/Chas.I/D58/46. suc. fa. c.1591.PROB6/4, f. 156v. bur. 30 Jan. 1654 30 Jan. 1654.Som. Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. xvi, pt. 2, 27; Coll. Top. et Gen. v. 39.
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Household: clerk to Sir Robert Vernon, c. 1604 – 11, 1614–15;E.T. Bradley, Life of Lady Arabella Stuart, ii. 269; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 613. servant to Lady Arbella Stuart, c.1614;APC, 1616–17, p. 134. servant to William Seymour†, Lord Beauchamp and subsequently 2nd earl of Hertford, by 1619.C2/Chas.I/D58/46; Coll. Top. et Gen. v. 39.

Local: j.p. Som. 18 Oct. 1624 – 8 July 1626, 20 Aug. 1641–46.C231/4, f. 193; C231/5, p. 479; Som. RO, DD/PH/219/66. Commr. depopulation, 4 Apr., 8 July 1635.C181/5, ff. 1, 22. Treas. hosps. eastern division, Som. Apr. 1638.QS Recs. Som. Charles I, 296. Grand juror, Som. 2 July 1638.Som. Assize Orders 1629–40, 61. Commr. array (roy.), Aug. 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol.; Rushworth, Hist. Collns. iv. 685. rebels’ estates (roy.), 10 July 1643.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 55. Recvr. composition money (roy.) by Apr. 1644.CSP Dom. 1644, p. 108.

Central: commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641.SR. Dep. gent. of the robes, household of prince of Wales by Aug. 1641–6.HMC Portland, ii. 133; CSP Dom. 1644–5, p. 260. Treas. and recvr.-gen. revenue of prince of Wales, Jan. 1645–46.SO3/13, unfol.; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 397.

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KIRTON, Edward (1585-1654), of Westminster, Almsford Park and Castle Cary, Som.
: of Almsford Park and Som., Castle Cary.
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KYRTON, Edward (1585-1654), of Almsford Park and Castle Cary, Som.

Will
not found.
Estates
income p.a. as estimated on 1640 rates: £60 from Castle Cary lands rented from the 2nd earl of Hertford; £30 from other lands rented from the same; £100 from impropriated rectory of Castle Cary, rented from the bishop of Bath and Wells; and personal estate worth £40.SP23/194, p. 491.
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PETTY, Dr William (1623-87), of Tokenhouse Yard, Lothbury, London and Mount Mangorton, co. Kerry.

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b. 26 May 1623, 3rd s. of Anthony Petty of Romsey, Hants. educ. Univ. of Caen 1637-8; Utrecht and Amsterdam 1643-4; Leiden 26 May 1644; Paris, 1646.Al. Ox.; Lodge, Peerage, ii. 77, 80n; Petty Papers: some unpublished writings of Sir William Petty ed. H.W.E. Petty-Fitzmaurice, marquess of Lansdowne (2 vols. 1927), i. pp. xl-xli; ii. 260-2; Oxford DNB. m. 1667, Elizabeth (d. 1708), wid. of Sir Maurice Fenton* of Mitchelstown, co. Cork, and da. of Sir Hardress Waller* of Castletown, Co. Limerick, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 1da. Kntd. 11 Apr. 1661. d. 16 Dec. 1687.Lodge, Peerage, ii. 80-3; Petty Pprs. i. pp. xli-xlii.
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Academic: asst. to Dr Thomas Clayton, prof. of anatomy, Oxf. Univ. 1649–50. MD and fell. of Brasenose, 7 Mar. 1650. Prof. anatomy, Jan. 1651; music, Gresham Coll. London 1651. Fell. Coll. of Physicians, 1658; pres. 8 Aug. 1667. FRS, 1663.Al. Ox.; Lodge, Peerage, ii. 77–9.

Irish: physician, army in Ireland, May 1652-June 1659.SP28/88, f. 40; CSP Dom. pp. 1651–2, pp. 236, 613; Lodge, Peerage, ii. 80n. Surveyor, land settlement, 27 Oct. 1654-Mar. 1656.Down Survey by Dr William Petty ed. T.A. Larcom (Dublin, 1851), 12–13, 108, 166. Member, cttee. to visit schs. Mar. 1656.Barnard, Cromwellian Ireland, 197. Commr. distribution of army lands, 7 July 1656–9.Down Survey ed. Larcom, 184–5. Sec. to Henry Cromwell*, ?Nov. 1657-June 1659. Clerk of council of state, ?Nov. 1657-June 1659.Petty Pprs. ii. 260–2. Commr. 1649 officers, 2 Mar. 1661;NAI, Lodge’s MSS 1.A.53.55, f. 130. ct. of claims, 19 Mar. 1661.Lodge, Peerage, ii. 79. MP, Inistioge, co. Kilkenny 1661–6.CJI, i. 591. Judge, admlty. ct. 1676–85.Petty Pprs. i. p. xli.

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PETTY, Dr William (1623-87), of Tokenhouse Yard, Lothbury, London and Mount Mangorton, co. Kerry.
: Lothbury, London and Mount Mangorton, co. Kerry.
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Likenesses: oil on canvas, I. Fuller, c.1651;NPG. oil on canvas, J. Closterman;Bowood, Wilts. oil on canvas, attrib. G. Kneller;Romsey Town Hall. line engraving, E. Sandys, 1683;BM; NPG. line engraving, E. Sandys, 1685;National Gallery of Ireland. mezzotint, J. Smith aft. J. Closterman, 1696.BM; NPG.

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PETTY, Dr William (1623-87), of Tokenhouse Yard, Lothbury, London and Mount Mangorton, co. Kerry.

Will
2 May 1685.Lodge, Peerage, ii. 80n-83n.
Estates
(according to his own estimate): in 1652 possessed £500; by 1660 had purchased £13,000-worth of debentures for Irish lands (inc. extensive estates in cos. Kerry, Limerick and Louth); in 1685 owned property in London (inc. a house in Tokenhouse Yard, Lothbury, purchased in 1658), Erith in Kent and Romsey in Hants; also Irish lands worth £4,200 p.a., interests in iron, fishing, lead and marble in Ireland worth £600 p.a., wife’s jointure lands worth £850 p.a., and £12,000 in money, plate and personal property. His ‘bad debts’ at that time were £30,000.Lodge, Peerage, ii. 80n-81n.
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CALEY, Jacob (1612-80), of Ipswich, Suff.

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bap. 12 May 1612, 4th s. of Thomas Caley (d. 1618) of Little Waldingfield, Suff. and Thomasine, da. of Thomas Gosse of Little Waldingfield.Little Waldingfield par. reg.; Vis. Suff. 1664-1668 (Harl. Soc. lxi.), 150. m. (1) 11 Oct. 1636, Mary (d. 1635), da. and h. of John Reynolds of Ipswich, 1da.;St. Stephen, Ipswich par. reg., p. 56; Add. 15520, f. 9. (2) by 1649, Elizabeth Bence of London, 3s. 5da.Vis. Suff. 1664-1668, 150; St. Stephen, Ipswich par. reg., p. 72. d. betw. 8 May and 20 Aug. 1680.PROB11/363/525.
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Civic: freeman, Ipswich 1633 – 43; chamberlain, 1640 – 41; constable, 20 Mar. 1643 – 3 Sept. 1649; claviger, 1643 – 49; portman, 3 Sept. 1649 – 13 Apr. 1660; bailiff, Mich. 1649-Mich. 1650; j.p. 1649–50.Suff. RO (Ipswich), C5/14/3, f. 256v; C5/14/4, ff. 3, 42v, 43v, 128v; D. Heavens, ‘“To be Doers of what you have been Hearers”: The politics and religion of the town governors of Ipswich, c.1635-c.1665’, University of Essex PhD thesis, 2012, 293.

Religious: churchwarden, St Mary le Tower, Ipswich 1638.St Mary le Tower par. reg., f. 37v. Elder, Ipswich classis, 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 424.

Local: commr. additional ord. for levying of money, Ipswich 1 June 1643; assessment, 17 Mar. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Suff. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). high ct. of justice, East Anglia 10 Dec. 1650.A. and O. J.p. Suff. July 1652-bef. Oct. 1653.C231/6, p. 240; C193/13/4, f. 95v. Commr. gaol delivery, Ipswich 16 Nov. 1654-July 1660.C181/6, pp. 72, 330.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) Ipswich by May 1645-aft. June 1648.Suff. RO (Ipswich), HD36/2672/81; The Earl of Norwich, Lord Capel, & Sir Charls Lucas, their Peremptory Answer (1648), 14, E.449.30. Capt. militia ft. Ipswich Oct. 1650.SP25/119, p. 66.

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CALEY, Jacob (1612-80), of Ipswich, Suff.
: of Ipswich, Suff.
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CALEY, Jacob (1612-80), of Ipswich, Suff.

Will
20 May 1679, cod. 8 May 1680, pr. 20 Aug. 1680.PROB11/263/525.
Estates
owned various properties in Ipswich and lands at Badingham, Falkenham and Trimley, Suff.PROB11/263/525.
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THOMAS, John (1597-1675), of Tremayne, St Martin-in-Meneage, Cornw.

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bap. 19 Oct. 1597, s. of William Thomas of Cury, Cornw. and Jane, da. of Nicholas Penticost. m. Susanna (d. 1666), da. of John Vaughan of Exeter, 4s. (1 d.v.p.), 6da. bur. 30 Sept. 1675 30 Sept. 1675.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 449-50; Cornw. RO, St Martin-in-Meneage par. regs.
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Local: bailiff of hundreds of Cornw. 16 May 1639.E315/311, p. 42. Commr. assessment, Cornw. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 8 June 1654, 9 June 1657, 29 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1654, E.1064.10); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Cornw. militia, 7 June 1648;LJ x. 331a. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O. J.p. 7 Mar. 1657-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 361. Commr. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35). militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Capt. militia ft. Apr. 1660.Mercurius Politicus no. 615 (5–12 Apr. 1660), 1243 (E.182.28). Commr. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663.SR.

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THOMAS, John (1597-1675), of Tremayne, St Martin-in-Meneage, Cornw.
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16 Aug. 1672, pr. 12 Jan. 1675.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 450 (Cornwall archdeaconry court).
Estates
by 1649 held Trewennicke lands from duchy of Cornwall in parish of Helston in Kerrier;Parl. Surv. Duchy Cornwall, 47, 49. 3 Nov. 1659 leased lands in Mullion par. from the Hawkinses of Trewithan.Cornw. RO, HH/7/57.
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FARINGTON, William (d. 1658), of Worden, Leyland, Lancs.

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1st s. of Thomas Farington of Worden and 1st w. Mabel, da. and coh. of George Benson of Hugill, Westmld. m. by Aug. 1607 (settlement 28 May 1609, with £500), Margaret (bur. 3 Jan. 1660), da. of Henry Worrall of Wysall, Notts. 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.).Lancs. RO, DDF/1058, 1062; DDF/Box/24, will of William Farington 1657; Farington Pprs. ed. S.M. Farington (Chetham Soc. o.s. xxxix), iii-iv; Baines, Lancs. iv. 169-70; Reg. Bk. of Leyland ed. W.S. White (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxi), 188. suc. fa. Oct. 1622. bur. 20 Apr. 1658 20 Apr. 1658.Reg. Bk. of Leyland ed. White, 3, 181.
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Civic: freeman, Preston by 1602–?d.;Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 54, 78, 111. Wigan by Mar. 1640–?d.;Sinclair, Wigan, i. 216. Liverpool 1 Oct. 1640-bef. Jan. 1645.Chandler, Liverpool, 269, 329.

Local: j.p. Lancs. 1618–4 Aug. 1646.D.J. Wilkinson, ‘The commission of peace in Lancs. 1603–42’, in Seventeenth-Century Lancs. ed. J.I. Kermode, C.B. Phillips, Trans. Historic Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, cxxxii. 64. Capt. militia horse by Apr. 1628–?;Lancs. RO, DDN/1/64, ff. 46–7, 112; QSC/4–38. col. militia ?ft. by 4 July 1642–?Farington Pprs. ed. Farington, 78–9. Commr. knighthood fines, 19 June 1631.J.P. Earwaker, ‘Obligatory knighthood temp. Chas. I’ (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xii), 199. Sheriff, 1635–6.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 73. Dep. lt. 12 Feb. 1638–?Lancs. RO, DF/388. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), 11 June 1642.Farington Pprs. ed. Farington, 77.

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FARINGTON, William (d. 1658), of Worden, Leyland, Lancs.

Will
4 June 1657.Lancs. RO, DDF/Box/24.
Estates
in 1610, inherited from his gra. an estate inc. capital messuages of Penwortham and Worden and property in Aughton, Becconsall, Bickerstaffe, Bretherton, Eccleston, Howick, Hutton, Leyland, Longton, Ormskirk, Penwortham, Preston, Ulnes Walton, Whittingham and Whittle-le-Woods, Lancs.Lancs. RO, DDF/1062, 1446; Lancs. IPM ed. J.P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. iii), 180-5. In 1649, estate inc. lands, mills and leases in Farington, Penwortham, Shaw Hall and Worden, Lancs., valued at £221 p.a.Lancs. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.H. Stanning (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxvi), 287. Estate at his d. inc. manor of Penwortham; manor, manor house (Littlewood) and demesne lands of Ulnes Walton; and lease of a mill and kiln in Ulnes Walton, Lancs.Lancs. RO, DDF/Box/24, will of William Farington 1657; Blackwood, Lancs. 120. In 1675, grandson’s estate valued at £1,131 p.a.B. G. Blackwood, ‘The economic state of the Lancs. gentry on the eve of the civil war’, NH xii. 55.
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