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GOULSTON (GULSTON), Richard (c.1612-86), of Wyddial Hall, Wyddial, Herts.

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b. c. 1612, 1st s. of John Goulston of London and Wyddial, protonotary of c.p., and 1st w. Jane, da. of Richard Ketteridge of South Mimms, Mdx.Vis. Herts. 1572 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. xxii.), 60; Clutterbuck, Herts. iii. 472, 475, 476; Chauncy, Herts. i. 223, 225; Cussans, Herts. Edwinstone, 120; Berry, Pedigrees Herts. 202. m. (lic. 6 Dec. 1637) Alice (d. 1692), da. of William Meggs, Draper, of Whitechapel, Mdx., 2s. 4da. (3 d.v.p.).London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 597; Clutterbuck, Herts. iii. 472, 475; Chauncy, Herts. i. 223, 224; Cussans, Herts. Edwinstone, 120-1; Berry, Pedigrees Herts. 202-3. suc. fa. 1643.CJ iii. 283a. d. 2 Sept. 1686.Clutterbuck, Herts. iii. 476.
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Local: j.p. Herts. 9 Feb. 1646–d.C231/6, p. 37. Commr. assessment, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663;SR. oyer and terminer, 24 Dec. 1664.C181/7, p. 304. Treas. turnpike toll, Gt. N. Road, Herts. by 1677–d.Herts. County Recs. vi. 294, 408. Dep. lt. 1685–d.CSP Dom. 1685, p. 101.

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GOULSTON (GULSTON), Richard (c.1612-86), of Wyddial Hall, Wyddial, Herts.
: of Wyddial Hall, Herts., Wyddial.
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GOULSTON (GULSTON), Richard (c.1612-86), of Wyddial Hall, Wyddial, Herts.

Will
21 Sept. 1678, pr. 23 Sept. 1686.PROB11/384/372.
Estates
owned manor of Wyddial, Wyddial, Herts.VCH Herts. iv. 116.
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NEEDHAM, Sir Robert (d. 1661), of Clapham and Lambeth, Surr.

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b. 1st s. of Thomas Needham of Pool Park, Clocaenog, Denb., and Eleanor (bur. 27 Mar. 1657), da. and coh. of Sir Henry Bagenal† of Plas Newydd, Llanddaniel Fab, Anglesey, wid. of Sir Robert Salesbury† (d. 14 July 1599) of Bachymbyd, Llanynys, Denb.Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxix), 372; G. Steinman Steinman, Some Particulars Contributed towards a Memoir of Mrs Myddelton, 1-2, 14-15; HP Commons 1558-1603, ‘Robert Salesbury’. educ. L. Inn 6 July 1620.LI Admiss. m. (1) 15 June 1630, Elizabeth (bur. 31 July 1639), da. and h. of John Hartop of Godstone and Kingston-upon-Thames, Surr., wid. of Robert Copping of St Margaret, Westminster, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 3 Jan. 1644, Jane (d. 10 Oct. 1666), da. and h. of William Cockayne of Clapham, wid. of John Worfield, barrister, of All Hallows, Barking, Essex, 2s. d.v.p. 6da. (2 ).St Ann Blackfriars, London par. reg.; C3/455/7; Steinman Steinman, Memoir of Mrs Myddelton, 2-5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 20. Kntd. 4 June 1630;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 197. suc. fa. c.1628.NLW, MS 467E/1514; Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 70. bur. 8 Aug. 1661 8 Aug. 1661.Steinman Steinman, Memoir of Mrs Myddelton, 15.
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Local: commr. defence of Surr. 1 July 1645.A. and O. Dep. lt. Denb. 2 July 1646–?CJ iv. 598b; LJ viii. 406a. Commr. assessment, Surr., Denb. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; sequestration, Surr. 18 Oct. 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660.A Perfect List (1660), 54.

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NEEDHAM, Sir Robert (d. 1661), of Clapham and Lambeth, Surr.
: of Clapham and Surr., Lambeth.
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NEEDHAM, Sir Robert (d. 1661), of Clapham and Lambeth, Surr.

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DARLEY, Henry (c.1596-1671), of Sand Hutton and Buttercrambe, Bossall, Yorks.

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b. c. 1596, 1st. s. of Sir Richard Darley of Buttercrambe, and Elizabeth (d. aft. 1657), da. of Edward Gates† of Seamer, Yorks.; bro. of Richard*.C10/466/6; Vis. Yorks. ed. Foster, 87. educ. Trinity Camb. Mich. 1611;Al. Cant. G. Inn 26 Oct. 1614.G. Inn Admiss. m. (1) 23 Dec. 1619, Margery (d. Apr. 1624), da. of Ralph Hungate of Sand Hutton, Yorks., 1da.;Bossall, Yorks. par reg.; N. Yorks. RO, ZDA, Darley of Aldby mss, DDDA/21/34; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 48; Wills in the Yorks. Registry 1620-7 (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xxxii), 25. (2) settlement 22 Nov. 1631, Elizabeth (d. bef. Aug. 1642), da. and h. of William Wattes of the Inner Temple, Mdx., 1s.C54/3290/6; N. Yorks. RO, ZDA, DDDA/21/37. suc. fa. 1654.C10/466/6; CCC 3215. bur. 6 Aug. 1671 6 Aug. 1671.Buttercrambe par. reg.
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Local: commr. sewers, Yorks. (N. Riding) 30 June 1627, 28 Apr. 1632;C181/3, f. 223v; C181/4, f. 114. River Derwent, N. Riding 15 Apr. 1629;C181/4, f. 1. E. Riding by June 1654-Sept. 1660;C181/6, pp. 46, 403. swans, England except south-western cos. c.1629.C181/3, f. 270. Capt. militia ft. N. Riding by c.1635–42.Add. 28082, f. 80v. Commr. assessment, E. Riding 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645; N. Riding 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Jan. 1660; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 1 June 1660.SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Member, cttee. at Hull 24 May 1642.CJ ii. 577b; LJ v. 82b. Commr. sequestration, E., N. Riding 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. J.p. Northumb. 20 Jan. 1645-bef. Jan. 1650;C231/6, p. 8. N. Riding by 1648-bef. Oct. 1660;Add. 29674, f. 148v. E. Riding Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660.A Perfect List [of JPs] (1660). Member, cttee. to command Northern Assoc. army, 12 May 1645.CJ iv. 138b; LJ vii. 367b. Commr. Northern Assoc. N. Riding 20 June 1645; militia, Yorks. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. charitable uses, Yorks. 19 Sept. 1650, 22 Apr. 1651;C93/20/27; C93/21/1. N. Riding 13 Nov. 1658;C93/25/1. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660.C181/6, pp. 18, 376.

Colonial: member, Massachusetts Bay Co. 1628–9-?;F. Rose-Troup, The Massachusetts Bay Co. and its Predecessors (New York, 1930), 20. Providence Is. Co. 22 Nov. 1632-aft. Feb. 1650;CO124/2, ff. 38, 198. Saybrook Co. by July 1635–?Winthrop Pprs. (Mass. Hist. Soc.), iii. 198–9 Dep. gov. Providence Is. Co. 26 May 1636–8 May 1638.CO124/2, ff. 140v, 169.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 17 Aug. 1642.CJ ii. 725a. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647;LJ vi. 55b; LJ viii. 411a; ix. 500a. to Scottish Parliament, 19 July 1643;A. and O. to reside with Scottish army, 9 Apr. 1645.CJ iv. 105b. Member, cttee. for advance of money, 31 Oct. 1645;CJ iv. 314a; LJ vii. 670b. cttee. for compounding by Jan. 1646,SP23/3, p. 2. 8 Feb. 1647; cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650;CJ vi. 388b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 4 July 1650.CJ vi. 437a. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1651.A. and O. Member, cttee. for the army, 17 Dec. 1652.CJ vii. 230b. Commr. admlty. and navy, 2 Feb. 1660.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Berwick-upon-Tweed Sept. 1643–?d.Berwick RO, B1/9, Berwick Guild Bk. f. 262.

Military: gov. Berwick-upon-Tweed by 13 Oct. 1643–?Berwick RO, B1/9, f. 265; The Scotch Intelligencer (13–17 Oct. 1643), 7 (E.71.11).

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DARLEY, Henry (1595/6-1671), of Scryingham, Yorks. and Gray’s Inn Lane, London
: of S and Hutton and Buttercrambe, Bossall, Yorks.
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Commons 1640-1660
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DARLEY, Henry (c.1596-1671), of Sand Hutton and Buttercrambe, Bossall, Yorks.

Will
admon. 12 Aug. 1671.Index of Wills, Admons. and Probate Acts in the Yorks. Registry 1666-72 (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lx), 132.
Estates
in 1630, purchased fourth part of manor of Sand Hutton for £1,250, which he sold in 1664 for £1,260.N. Yorks. RO, ZDA, DDDA/21/36, 41. In 1634, sold for £1,400 an annuity of £100 issuing out of his annuity of £350 on property in Aldby, Bugthorpe, Buttercrambe, Holgate Sutton and Scrayingham, Yorks.C54/3289/30; N. Yorks. RO, ZDA, DDDA/6/1. In 1636, he leased East Park and lodge at Helmsley, Yorks.Belvoir, PZ.1, f. 43. Before 1642, estate inc. moiety of manor of Sand Hutton, Yorks.; property in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex acquired through his second marriage; and the above annuity of £350.N. Yorks. RO, ZDA, DDDA/6/1; DDDA/21/36; DAR.62; DAR.S.1; Yorks. Stuart Fines ed. W. Brigg (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lviii), 197; VCH N. Riding, ii. 94. In 1642, sold his property in Essex (except one messuage) for £1,950.C54/3290/6. In 1650, purchased for £1,215 lands in manor of Northallerton, Yorks. from trustees for sale of church lands. In 1651, he and John Wastell* purchased borough of Northallerton for £237 from trustees for sale of church lands.Coll. Top. et Gen. i. 8, 290-1. By early 1650s, had debts of more than £2,500.LC4/203, f. 237v; C10/466/6. In 1654, inherited goods and chattels valued at £4,000.C10/466/6. In 1661, estate worth at least £544 p.a.N. Yorks. RO, ZDA, DAR.62.
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The Lamb in Gray’s Inn Lane [now Gray’s Inn Road], 1636;Winthrop Pprs. (Mass. Hist. Soc.), iii. 226-7. Gray’s Inn Lane, 1654.CSP Dom. 1653-4, p. 347.
Religion
presented George Blackaller to vicarage of Kilnwick, Yorks., 1651; James Browne to rectory of Burnby, Yorks., 1651; Thomas Gill to rectory of Wentworth, Cambs., 1651, and to rectory of Nunburnholme, Yorks., 1653.Add. 36792, ff. 26v, 29v, 37v, 65v.
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DOVE, John (c.1596-?1665), of Salisbury and Ivy Church, Wilts.

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b. c.1596, 1st s. of Henry Dove (c.1559-1616), brewer, of Salisbury and Whaddon, Wilts. and ?Anne (bur. 28 May 1612), ?da. of John Abbott.St Edmund, Salisbury, par. reg.; C.W. Holgate, ‘Recovery of an ancient brass at Salisbury’, Wilts. Arch. Mag. xxvii. 180–1; Churchwardens’ Accounts Sarum ed. Swayne, 162; PROB11/129/556. educ. appr. 10 Sept. 1613.Wilts. RO, G23/1/128, f. 9. m. (1) 21 Jan. 1619, Elizabeth (bur. 28 Mar. 1657), da. and coh. of Geoffrey or Jeffrey Bigge (d. 1630), master of St Nicholas’ Hospital, Salisbury, and vicar of Patney, at least 2s. 4da. (2 d.v.p.);The Fifteenth Century Cartulary of St Nicholas’ Hospital, Salisbury ed. C. Wordsworth (Salisbury, 1902), p. lxxvi; St Edmund and St Thomas, Salisbury, par. regs. (2) ?10 Mar. 1658, Anne Aurstin (d. after 1664).St Peter, Paul’s Wharf, London par. reg.; PROB11/316/264. suc. fa. Aug. 1616.St Edmund, Salisbury, par. reg. bur. 9 Mar. 1665 ?9 Mar. 1665.PROB11/316/264; St Giles Cripplegate, London, par. reg.
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Civic: freeman, Salisbury 1625;Wilts. RO, G23/1/3, f. 323. asst. of the forty-eight, 1629;Wilts. RO, G23/1/3, f. 341v. alderman, 1631–1662;Wilts. RO, G23/1/3, f. 366; G23/1/4, f. 134v. mayor, 1634–5.Wilts. RO, G23/1/3, ff. 385v–393.

Religious: churchwarden, St Edmund, Salisbury 1625–7.Churchwardens’ Accounts Sarum ed. Swayne, 182–4, 384.

Local: commr. subsidy, Salisbury 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, Wilts. 1642, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). commr. for Wilts. 1 July 1644.A. and O. J.p. by Aug. 1647 – bef.Oct. 1660; Hants July 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653; Mdx. 24 Jan. – Mar. 1660; Westminster Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660.Wilts, RO, A1/160/1, ff. 116, 175, 195, 217, 239; A1/160/2, pp. 1, 73, 107, 113, 129, 135; Stowe 577, f. 58; C193/13/3, f. 69v; C193/13/4, f. 109v; C193/13/5, f. 116; C193/13/6, f. 96v; C231/6, pp. 190, 205, 324, 326; CJ vii. 821a; A Perfect List (1660); Western Circ. Assize Orders, 261. Commr. militia, Wilts. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Westminster militia, 7 June 1650.Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Wilts. 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Sheriff, 1654.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 154. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth by Dec. 1655.TSP iv. 295.

Central: member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647;A. and O. cttee. for plundered ministers, 24 Mar. 1648.CJ v. 512b. Commr. for compounding, 18 Dec. 1648;CJ vi. 99a; LJ x. 632b. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 13 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 117a. cttee. for excise, 10 Feb. 1649;CJ vi. 137b. cttee. for advance of money, 22 May 1649.CJ vi. 214a. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for the army, 4 Feb. 1650, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652;CJ vi. 357b; A. and O. cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650.CJ vi. 388b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of forfeited estates, 1 Oct. 1651.CJ vii. 23a.

Military: col. militia, Wilts. 10 Aug. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 50.

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DOVE, John (c.1596-?1665), of Salisbury and Ivy Church, Wilts.
: of Salisbury and Wilts., Ivy Church.
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Commons 1640-1660
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DOVE, John (c.1596-?1665), of Salisbury and Ivy Church, Wilts.

Will
22 Oct. 1664, pr. 9 Mar. 1665.PROB11/316/264.
Estates
inherited from fa. land in Whaddon, parish of Alderbury.PROB11/129/556. Later in possession of land in Market Street, Salisbury, and at ?Abestone.Wilts. RO, G23/1/174, f. 30; Hoare, Hist. Wilts. v (Frustfield), 120. Bought Dry Farm, Whiteparish, Wilts. 1646;Hoare, Hist. Wilts. v (Frustfield), 46. manors of Fountell (1649) and Lockerley and Dean (1650), Hants; manor of Blewbury, Berks. 1650; manor of Winterbourne Earls, Wilts. 1650;Bodl. Rawl. B.239, pp. 22, 49, 51, 56; VCH Hants, vi. 499. Chisenbury Priors, Wilts. 1650; Beresford Farm, Hants, 1653;Hoare, Hist. Wilts. iv (Everley), 17. part of Clarendon Park, Wilts. for £7,000; islands and fishing rights in the River Avon;S.J. Madge, The Domesday of Crown Lands (1968), 215n, 388, 390, 393. lands and houses in London; Ivy Church, Wilts.PROB11/316/264.
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BARTON, Nathaniel (c.1616-72), of Derby, Derbys.

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Family and Education
b. c. 1616, 1st s. of Edmund Barton, rector of Broseley, Salop, and Mary.Al. Ox.; Broseley Par. Regs. ed. A. F. C. Langley, 18. educ. New Inn Hall, Oxf. 12 Dec. 1634, aged 18, BA 9 Apr. 1639, MA 7 July 1641, BD 19 May 1649.Al. Ox. m. 6 May 1639, Sarah (d. after 1673), da. of ? of Longstone, Derbys. at least 2s. 5da.Longstone par. reg.; Staffs. RO, B/C/11, will of Nathaniel Barton, 1673. suc. fa. c.1653;E339/1/5; Birmingham Univ. Cadbury Research Lib. MYT/1, p. 194A. bur. 26 Dec. 1672 26 Dec. 1672.Longstone par. reg.
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Religious: ?curate, par. Foremark, Derbys. by Feb. 1642;PA, Main Pprs. 26 Feb. 1642, f. 101. Cauldwell, par. Stapenhill, Derbys. by 1661–2.Calamy Revised, 33.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.) by July 1643-June 1647;E121/4/6/8; S. Gunton, Hist. of the Church of Peterborough ed. S. Patrick (1686), 334. maj. June 1647 – June 1649, July-c. 20 Oct. 1659, Jan.-June 1660.Clarke Pprs. iv. 102; The Declaration of the Officers of the Army Opened (1659), 29 (E.1010.16); CJ vii. 709b, 723a, 815a, 839a; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 107, 114, 229–30, 288. ?Gov. Barton Park, Derbys. by May 1645–?Brereton Letter Bks. i. 498–9. C.-in-c. Derbys. militia, 2 Mar. 1650–?CSP Dom. 1650, p. 504.

Local: commr. assessment, Derbys. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 26 Jan. 1660; Staffs. 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). J.p. Derbys. 9 Mar. 1650–15 Mar. 1655;C231/6, pp. 180, 306. Staffs. 30 Sept. 1653-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 269. Commr. charitable uses, Derbys. 19 Dec. 1650;C93/21/2. ejecting scandalous ministers, Derbys. and Notts. 28 Aug. 1654; militia, Staffs. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Derbys. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Central: cllr. of state, 1 Nov. 1653.CJ vii. 344b. Judge, probate of wills, 24 Dec. 1653, 3 Apr. 1654. Commr. arrears of excise, 29 Dec. 1653.A. and O.

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BARTON, Nathaniel (c.1616-72), of Derby, Derbys.
: of Derby, Derbys.
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Commons 1640-1660
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BARTON, Nathaniel (c.1616-72), of Derby, Derbys.

Will
30 Mar. 1672, pr. 10 Nov. 1673.Staffs. RO, B/C/11.
Estates
in 1649, Barton purchased from the trustees for the sale of dean and chapter lands a messuage in Lichfield, Staffs. for £2,060 17s.C54/3470/14. Betw. 1651 and 1658, he and a group of fellow army officers purchased (with indentures) from the treason trustees or the trustees for the sale of crown lands, the honour, manor and castle of Kenilworth and adjoining lands and mills, Warws. for £18,775 and £7,187; the manor and castle of Tutbury, Staffs. for £3,245; and lands in the manor of Witham Friary, Som.E121/4/6, 8, 101; E121/5/1/2, 18; C54/3602/8; C54/3677/30; C54/3806/5; C54/3819/9; C54/3986/13; I. Gentles, ‘The Debentures Market and Military purchases of Crown Land, 1649-60’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 250. He also purchased, with ‘public faith bills’, ‘some small rents and revenues’ from the lands belonging to the canons and vicars choral of the cathedral church of Lichfield, Staffs.E113/11, unfol.; A. and O. ii. 100.
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Mrs Grimsel’s house, at the sign of the Sugar Loaf, King Street, near St Margaret’s church, Westminster (1659).Derbys. RO, D1232/O/83.
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STAPLEY, Anthony II (1630-72), of Lewes, Suss., and Long Acre, Westminster.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 31 Jan. 1630, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Anthony Stapley I*; bro. of John Stapley*.Add. 5698, f. 119v; The Gen. new ser. xviii. 145–6. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 11 June 1646;Al. Cant. G. Inn, 6 May 1647; I. Temple, 30 Apr. 1649.G. Inn Admiss. i. 244; I. Temple database. m. bef. May 1654, Douglas (d. 25 Feb. 1695), da. of Sir Henry Holcroft† of Long Acre, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx. and East Ham, Essex, d.s.p. bur. 9 Mar. 1672 9 Mar. 1672.Suss. Manors, i. 54; E. Suss. RO, A42, f. 90; Add. 5698, ff. 118, 119v; The Gen. n. s. xviii. 145-6, 152.
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Local: commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Suss. 28 Aug. 1654. 24 Apr. 1656 – 14 July 1658A. and O. J.p., Jul. 1659–?C231/6, pp. 332, 399; C193/13/5; C193/13/6; ASSI35/98/9; ASSI35/99/10; E. Suss. RO, QR/E124. Commr. assessment, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). surveying Ashdown Forest, Suss. 19 June 1657;A. and O. for public faith, Suss. 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62–3 (E.505.35). poll tax, 1660;SR. sewers, 21 Sept. 1660, 28 Feb. 1670.C181/7, pp. 55, 539.

Military: capt. of horse (roy.) under John Stapley*, Dec. 1657.TSP vii. 85–7.

Court: gent. pensioner, 3 Sep. 1660–7 Dec. 1669.Badminton, Beaufort archives, Fm H2/4/1, ff. 22, 23v.

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STAPLEY, Anthony II (1630-72), of Lewes, Suss., and Long Acre, Westminster.
: Suss. and Westminster., Long Acre.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

STAPLEY, Anthony II (1630-72), of Lewes, Suss., and Long Acre, Westminster.

Will
intestate, admon. to (Sir) John Stapley*, 13 Nov. 1674.PROB6/49, f. 120.
Estates
inherited manors of Boreham and Rockland, sold 1654;Suss. Manors, i. 54. from fa. Jan. 1655, with £200, lands in Herstmonceux, Wartling and Pevensey, sold 1665.PROB11/246/60; E. Suss. RO, SAS/H/84. Purchased Netherfield Manor from Heneage Finch†, 3rd earl of Winchilsea, 1650; sold to John Ashburnham*, 1661.Suss. Manors, ii. 316; C54/3575/2. Owned a house in Lewes by 1658.TSP vii. 85–7.
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HOWE, Richard Grobham (1621-1703), of Great Wishford, Wilts.

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Family and Education
b. 28 Aug. 1621, 1st s. of Sir John Howe, 1st bt. of Little Compton, Withington, Glos. and Bridget (d. 15 June 1642), da. of Thomas Rich, master in chancery, of North Cerney, Glos.; bro. of John Grobham Howe*.Vis. Wilts. 1623 (Harl. Soc. cv, cvi), 75; Vis. England and Wales Notes ed. Crisp, xiii. 95; A. Collins, Peerage of England ed. E Brydges (1812), 137. educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. 27 Mar. 1640;Al. Ox. L. Inn, 24 Feb. 1641.LI Admiss. i. 245. m. (1) by 1646, (with £4,000) Lucy (bap. 15 July 1621, bur. 29 Mar. 1658), da. of Sir John St John, 1st bt. of Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts. 5s. (4 d.v.p.), 4da.; (2) Anne (bur. 8 Mar. 1697), da. of John King, bp. of London 1611-1621, wid. of John Dutton* (d. 14 Jan. 1657), of Sherborne, Glos.Add. 23682; Lydiard Tregoze par. reg. Kntd. c. 1665.Great Wishford par. reg.; Withington, Glos. par. reg.; Vis. England and Wales Notes, xiii. 95; Collins, Peerage, 137; ‘Anne King’, Oxford DNB. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. c. 1671.Wilts. N and Q, ii. 175. bur. 12 Mar. 1703 12 Mar. 1703.Great Wishford par. reg.
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Local: j.p. Wilts. by Aug. 1647 – bef.Oct. 1653, by 17 July 1655–1680, ?1689 – d.; Surr. May 1670–?Wilts. RO, A1/160/1, ff. 116, 128, 138, 151, 164, 175, 185; A1/160/2, pp. 37, 47, 59, 97, 165, 181, 187; C193/13/3, f. 69v; C193/13/4, f. 109v; C193/13/6, f. 96v; C193/13/5, f. 116; C231/6, p. 367; Stowe 577, f. 58v; A Perfect List (1660); Western Circ. Assize Orders, 261; HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. assessment, Wilts. 26 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689–?d.;A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Capt. militia horse, Apr. 1660.HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663. 1670 – ?June 1688SR. Sheriff, 1668–9. 1670 – ?June 1688List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 154. Dep. lt., Oct. 1688–d.HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. for rebel estates, 1686.CTB viii. 546.

Court: gent of privy chamber, extraordinary, July 1660–?LC3/2, f. 10.

Civic: freeman, Salisbury 1672;Hoare, Hist. Wilts. iv. (Old and New Sarum), 473. Wilton 1685.CSP Dom. 1685, p. 99.

Parlimentarian
HOWE, Richard Grobham (1621-1703), of Great Wishford, Wilts.
: of Great Wishford, Wilts.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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HOWE, Richard Grobham (1621-1703), of Great Wishford, Wilts.

Will
19 Dec. 1701, pr. 27 Aug. 1703.PROB11/471/316.
Estates
(from 1648) life interest in manors of Great Wishford and Langford Combe, and Kingmans farm, Wilts.; from c. 1671, advowson of Great Wishford, manors of Steeple Langford, and of Bridgwater, Som.; 1688, manor of Brooke, I.o.W.; 1693, moiety of manor of Stapleford, Wilts.Add. 23682; VCH Wilts. xv. 187, 257, 288; VCH Som. vi. 209; Wilts. Arch. Mag. xl. 394; I.o.W. RO, JER/SEL/1A/10.
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HOSKINS, Bennet or Benedict (1609-80), of Morehampton, Abbey Dore, and Harewood, Herefs.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 1609, 1st s. of John Hoskins† of Morehampton, sjt.-at-law, and 1st w. Benedicta (d. 6 Oct. 1625), da. of Robert Moyle of Buckwell, Kent, wid. of Francis Bourne of Sutton St Clere, Som. and the M. Temple.Robinson, Mansions and Manors, 133. educ. M. Temple 16 Mar. 1620.MTR ii. 646. m. (1) Ann, da. of Sir John Bingley† of Templecombe, Som., auditor of exchequer, 2s.; (2) Dorothy, da. of Francis Kyrle of Much Marcle, Herefs., wid. of John Abrahall of Ingeston, s.p.Robinson, Mansions and Manors, 125, 133, 281. suc. fa. 27 Aug. 1638.Aubrey, Brief Lives, i. 422-3. cr. bt. 18 Dec. 1676.CB iv. 79. d. 10 Feb. 1680.Reg. Bks. of Llandinabo, Pencoyd and Harewood ed. J.H. Parry (Devizes, 1900), 88; Robinson, Mansions and Manors, 133.
Offices Held

Legal: called, M. Temple 11 Feb. 1631; bencher, 26 Oct. 1649; auditor, 1654, 1662, 1666; Lent reader, 1662; treas. 1664. 1654 – 59MTR ii. 773; iii. 1070, 1165–6, 1181, 1204,1212. Justice, Carm. circ.; c.j. 14 Mar.-Aug. 1660.CJ vii. 876a; Williams, Welsh Judges, 172.

Local: j.p. Herefs. 14 June 1641–?, 3 July 1649-bef. Oct. 1653, by c.Sept. 1656–d.C231/5, p. 453, C231/6, p.157; C193/13/4, f. 41v; C193/13/6, f. 37v. Commr. Herefs. militia, 30 Sept. 1642, 23 May 1648;HMC Portland, iii. 100; LJ x. 277a; Add. 70108, misc. 41. assessment, 17 Mar. 1648, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; taking accts. of money for propagation of the gospel in Wales, S. Wales 30 Aug. 1654;A. and O. poll tax, Herefs. 1660; subsidy, 1663;SR. making Rivers Wye and Lugg navigable, Oct. 1664;Herefs. RO, S33/6. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 696.

Central: commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

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HOSKINS, Bennet or Benedict (1609-80), of Morehampton, Abbey Dore, and Harewood, Herefs.
: Abbey Dore and Herefs., Harewood.
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Commons 1640-1660
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HOSKINS, Bennet or Benedict (1609-80), of Morehampton, Abbey Dore, and Harewood, Herefs.

Will
12 Dec. 1679, pr. 19 Dec. 1685.PROB11/381/611.
Estates
at d. held manors of Harewood, Evaston, Pettishold and other lands in Herefs.; 2 messuages, Wigmarsh ward, Hereford;Hereford City Lib. Hill MSS vol. 4 (Hereford), p. 184. properties in Milk Lane, St John Baptist par., Hereford.PROB11/381/611; Herefs. RO, transcripts of city docs. 22.xiv.viii-viiia.
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BIGG, Walter (c.1606-59), of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c.1606.Ashmole, Antiquities, i. 48. educ. appr. Merchant Taylor, London.M. Davies and A. Saunders, The Hist. of the Merchant Taylors’ Co. (2004), 217. m. (1) 6 Sept. 1633, Fidelia Milner (bur. 13 Nov. 1646), ?2s. 2da.;St Ann Blackfriars, London par. reg.; St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. par. reg. ff. 19v, 58v; PROB11/296/44. (2) 3 May 1647, Anne (d. by 1672), da. of Francis Thriscrosse, Clothworker, of St Benet Fink, London and wid. of Roger Colman (d. 1639), Grocer, of London, 2s.St Anne and St Agnes, London par reg.; PROB11/181/165; PROB11/252/96; St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. par. reg. ff. 49, 58v; PROB11/340/168; PROB11/296/44; LMA, COL/CA/01/01/071, ff. 16v-17, 25v-26. d. 5 Aug. 1659.Ashmole, Antiquities, i. 48.
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Local: overseer, St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. 1641. Sept. 1652 – d.J. Parton, Some Acct. of the Hospital and Par. of St Giles in the Fields (1822), 358–9. Commr. militia, Westminster 2 Dec. 1648. Sept. 1652 – d.A and O. J.p. Mdx.; Wallingford Nov. 1658–d.C231/6, pp. 245, 413. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Mdx. and Westminster 28 Aug. 1654;A and O. oyer and terminer, London 20 Nov. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 77, 357. Mdx. 20 Nov. 1655, 11 Oct. 1658;C181/6, pp. 130, gaol delivery, Newgate gaol 20 Nov. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 77, 357. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 10 Jan. 1655–d.;C181/6, pp. 69, 245. London 13 Aug. 1657;C181/6, p. 256. assessment, Mdx. 9 June 1657;A and O. London militia, Mar. 1658.CSP Dom. 1657–8, p. 330.

Military: capt. (parlian.) St Giles’s coy. Red trained band, Westminster by 1643; maj. by 1645; lt.-col. by 1648.L.C. Nagel, ‘The militia of London, 1641–1649’ (PhD thesis, King’s College, London, 1982), pp. 109, 302; Parton, St Giles in the Fields, 359.

Religious: elder, eleventh classis, London 20 Oct. 1645, 26 Sept. 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A and O.

Civic: alderman, Castle Baynard ward, London 1653 – 57; Cripplegate ward 1657–8.Beaven, Aldermen of London, i. 95, 133. Sheriff, London 1653–4.LMA, COL/CA/01/01/066, f. 386.

Central: commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A and O.

Parlimentarian
BIGG, Walter (c.1606-59), of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.
: Mdx.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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BIGG, Walter (c.1606-59), of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Will
19 Apr. 1659, pr. 4 Oct. 1659.PROB11/296/44.
Estates
owned property in St Giles-in-the-Fields and at Wallingford, Berks.; owned land at Great Staunton and Grafham, Hunts.PROB11/296/44; VCH Hunts. ii. 362, iii. 60, 63.
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DOWNING, George (1623-84), of Axe Yard, Westminster, and East Hatley, Cambs.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. Aug. 1623, 2nd s. of Emmanuel Downing, attorney, of Peterborough Court, Fleet Street, London, and Salem, Mass. and 2nd w. Lucy (d. 19 Apr. 1679), da. of Adam Winthrop of Groton, Suff.Muskett, Suff. Manorial Fams. i. 99; Winthrop Pprs. (Mass. Hist. Soc. ser. 5, i), 116; J. Beresford, The Godfather of Downing Street, 24. educ. Maidstone sch. Kent 1636;Winthrop Pprs. (Mass. Hist. Soc. ser. 5, i), 14. Harvard Coll. Mass. 1639, BA 1642;J.L. Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard Univ. (Camb. Mass. 1873), i. 28-9. G. Inn 7 July 1655;G. Inn Admiss. 273. L. Inn 5 Aug. 1669.LI Admiss. i. 305. m. by 9 Aug. 1654,TSP ii. 533. Frances (d. 10 July 1683), da. of Sir William Howard of Naworth Castle, Cumb. 3s. 5da. (2 d.v.p.).CB; Muskett, Suff. Manorial Fams. i. 99; Beresford, Godfather, 59, 288. suc. fa. Dec. 1660.St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster par. reg. Kntd. 21 May 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 226. cr. bt. 1 July 1663.CB. bur. 24 July 1684.Beresford, Godfather, 287.
Offices Held

Religious: chaplain, New Model army by Aug. 1646-bef. Mar. 1648;T. Edwards, Gangraena (1646), iii. 81–2; Beresford, Godfather, 48, 49; A. Laurence, Parliamentary Army Chaplains (Woodbridge, 1990), 122. regt. of Sir Arthur Hesilrige*, c.Aug. 1648-c.Apr. 1650.SP28/125, pts. 1–3, unfol.; SP28/240, f. 70; Laurence, Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 122.

Irish: comptroller of customs, Londonderry 21 Mar. 1648–?CJ v. 503a; LJ x. 127a.

Military: scoutmaster-gen. by Nov. 1649–57.SP28/114, f. 229; Beresford, Godfather, 52.

Diplomatic: amb. extraordinary, Swiss Confederation 28 July-25 Oct. 1655;HMC 3rd Rep. 287; G.M. Bell, Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives 1509–1688 (1990), 282. United Provinces 1 Dec. 1671–7 Feb. 1672.Bell, British Diplomatic Representatives, 203. Resident, 17 Dec. 1657–17 Jan. 1660. Envoy extraordinary, 17 Jan.-May 1660, May 1660-c.Sept. 1665.Downing Coll. Camb. DCPP/SHA/2/1; Bell, British Diplomatic Representatives, 201; CTB i. 308.

Central: member, cttee. for trade, 27 Dec. 1655,CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 73. 7 Nov. 1660, 20 Oct. 1668, 16 Apr. 1669.J.C. Sainty, Officials of the Boards of Trade 1660–1870 (1974), 18–19, 94. Teller of exch. 8 Sept. 1656–d.Sl. 3243; J.C. Sainty, Officers of the Exchequer (L. and I. spec. ser. xviii), 238. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Member, cttee. for improving revenues of customs and excise, 26 June 1657.A. and O. Sec. to Treasury, May 1667-Sept. 1671.J.C. Sainty, Treasury Officials 1660–1870 (1972), 30, 123. Commr. customs, 26 Sept. 1671;CSP Dom. 1671, p. 505. marine treaty with Holland, 21 June 1674.CSP Dom. 1673–5, p. 287.

Local: j.p. Mdx. Westminster 6 Nov. 1656-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 351. Cambs. 29 Oct. 1674–d.C231/7, p. 483. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Commr. assessment, Cumb., co. Dur., Westmld. 9 June 1657; Westminster 9 June 1657, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; SR. Cambs. 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Northumb. 1672, 1677, 1679; poll tax, 1660; subsidy, Cambs. 1663.SR.

Mercantile: freeman, E. I. Co. 28 June 1672–d.Cal. of the Ct. Mins. of the E. I. Co. 1671–3 ed. E.B. Sainsbury, 142.

Parlimentarian
DOWNING, Sir George (1623-84), of St. Stephen’s Court, Westminster and East Hatley, Cambs.
: of Axe Yard, Westminster and Cambs., East Hatley.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, T. Smith, c.1675-90.Harvard Art Museum, Camb. Mass.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

DOWNING, George (1623-84), of Axe Yard, Westminster, and East Hatley, Cambs.

Will
24 Aug. 1683, cod. 7 July 1684, pr. 19 July 1684.PROB11/377, ff. 322, 324.
Estates
in 1650, purchased lands worth £300 p.a.Winthrop Pprs. (Mass. Hist. Soc. ser. 5, i), 373. In 1652, purchased fenlands at Sawtry, Cambs. in the Great Level.Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fens 1658 ed. F. Wilmoth, E. Stazicker (Camb. ?2016), 53. In 1652, estate was valued at £500 p.a.Winthrop Pprs. (Mass. Hist. Soc.) vi. 225. In 1654 and 1664, purchased a messuage and lease of land in King Street and lease of Peacock Court, Westminster (site of Downing Street).C54/3812/20; Beresford, Godfather, 133. Betw. 1657 and 1683, purchased manors of Clopton, East Hatley and Tadlow; Gamlingay Park; lands in Bottisham, Croydon, Gamlingay, Gransden, Hatley St George, Little Wilbraham, Reach, Stow cum Quy, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior [sic] and Tadlow; rectory of Tadlow; advowson of East Hatley (all in Cambs.); two thirds of manor of Wrestlingworth, Beds.; and lands in Cowling, Suff.C10/118/16; C54/4118/18; C54/4119/38; C54/4131/5; E367/2519; PROB11/377, ff. 322-3; Downing Coll. Camb. DCAR/1/1/1/1/1; VCH Cambs. v. 74; vi. 143; viii. 33, 35, 44, 47, 129, 130, 131; VCH Beds. ii. 257; Beresford, Godfather, 125, 294-5. By 1663, owned a house in St Stephen’s Court, New Palace Yard, Westminster. By 1684, he owned lands and tenements in New England .Beresford, Godfather, 138, 299.
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Canonbury, Islington, Mdx. (1648);Winthrop Pprs. (Mass. Hist. Soc.) v. 207. Axe Yard, Westminster (1654-5).Eg. 2618, f. 46; G. Inn Admiss. i. 273.
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