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NEAST, William (1622-70), of Chaceley, Worcs. and Twyning, Glos.

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Family and Education
bap. 19 Dec. 1622, 1st s. of William Neast of Chaceley and Margaret (bur. 22 July 1642).Chaceley, Twyning par. regs. A. and O. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 27 Apr. 1638; M. Temple 29 Apr. 1640.Al. Ox.; MTR ii. 891. m. Elizabeth (d. 3 Aug. 1671), da. of Walter Atwood of Old Sodbury, Glos. 1s. 3da. suc. fa. 2 Apr. 1632. d. 27 May 1670.Chaceley, Twyning par. regs.; Bigland, Collections ed. Frith iii. 1269, 1358; Vis. Glos. 1682-3 ed. Fenwick and Metcalfe, 125.
Offices Held

Local: collector, local rates for Gloucester garrison, 1643 – 44; assessment, Kiftsgate division, Glos. 16 Aug.-11 Oct. 1644.E113/8; SP28/228, ff. 759–60. J.p. Glos. 5 Mar. 1650-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 177. Tewkesbury by 19 Nov. 1657–?C231/6, p. 379. Commr. assessment, Glos. 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); A. and O.; CJ vii. 355b. securing peace of commonwealth by 1656;E113/8; TSP iv. 354. ejecting scandalous ministers, 13 Sept. 1656;SP25/77, p. 322. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35). militia, 26 July 1659.A. and O.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) Tewkesbury garrison, 1644; Worcs. brigade, 1645-May 1646.E113/8. Capt. militia, Glos. by Nov. 1646; militia horse, 8 Feb. 1651.Glos. RO, TBR/A/1/2, p. 138; CSP Dom. 1651, p. 513. Maj. of ft. Dec. 1659–60.E113/8.

Civic: freeman, Tewkesbury 10 Nov. 1646; j.p. by 15 Mar. 1650 – 2 May 1660; capital burgess by 15 Mar. 1650-Aug. 1662.Glos. RO, TBR/A1/2, p. 138; A1/3, ff. 1, 2.

Central: member, cttee. for the army, 27 July 1653.A. and O.

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NEAST, William (1622-70), of Chaceley, Worcs. and Twyning, Glos.
: Worcs. and Twyning, Glos.
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Commons 1640-1660
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NEAST, William (1622-70), of Chaceley, Worcs. and Twyning, Glos.

Will
26 May 1670, pr. 17 Nov. 1670.Glos. RO, GDR/1670/209.
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BACON, Francis (1600-63), of Gray’s Inn, Mdx., and Ipswich, Suff.

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b. 30 Sept. 1600, 5th s. of Sir Edward Bacon† (d. 1618) of Shrubland, Barham, Suff. and Helen, da. and h. of Thomas Little† of Bray, Berks.;W.C. Pearson, ‘The Bacons of Shrubland Hall’, E. Anglian, n.s. iv. 34, 49; Vis. Suff. 1561, 1577 and 1612 ed. W.C. Metcalfe (Exeter, 1882), 109-10; F. Haslewood, ‘The ancient families of Suff.’, Procs. Suff. Inst. Arch. viii. 128-9, 136; W.E. Layton, ‘Bacon and Bures’, Misc. Gen. et Her. 3rd ser. iv. 164; Copinger, Manors of Suff. ii. 23, 244. bro. of Nathaniel*. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1617;Al. Cant. G. Inn 1 Aug. 1618.G. Inn Admiss. 151. m. 30 Apr. 1633, Katherine (d. 23 Oct. 1660), da. of Sir Thomas Wingfield of Letheringham, Suff. 6s. (4 d.v.p.) 2da.Suff. Par. Regs. ed. T.M. Blagg (1910-31), iv. 119; Pearson, ‘Bacons of Shrubland Hall’, 33; Survey of London, xx. 31. d. 23 Sept. 1663.Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA30/787, f. 183a.
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Legal: called, G. Inn ?1626; ancient, 1645; bencher, 1648; reader, 1662.PBG Inn, ii. 354, 370, 442.

Civic: recorder, Hadleigh by 1630-aft. 1641;C181/4, f. 67; Coventry Docquets, 766; C181/5, f. 195v. Aldeburgh by 1645–29 Sept. 1660.C181/5, f. 265v; A.T. Winn, ‘Extracts’, N and Q 12th ser. ix. 224; Suff. RO (Ipswich), EE1/O1/1, f. 127v. Counsel, Ipswich 1642–?d.; town clerk, 1643 – 47; freeman, 1645–?d.; bailiff 1652–3.Bacon, Annalls, 531, 541, 542.

Local: commr. gaol delivery, Hadleigh 1630-aft. Apr. 1641;C181/4, ff. 67, 164; C181/5, ff. 23v, 195v. Ipswich 7 Feb. 1644–d.;C181/5, ff. 231v, 244v; C181/6, pp. 72, 330; C181/7, pp. 19, 183. Suff. 11 Apr. 1644-aft. July 1645;C181/5, ff. 232v, 257. liberty and bor. of Bury St Edmunds 11 Apr. 1644;C181/5, ff. 233v, 234. Southwold, Suff. 26 July 1645, 26 May 1654;C181/5, f. 258; C181/6, pp. 35, 187. Aldeburgh 15 Dec. 1645;C181/5, f. 265v. liberty of St Etheldreda, I. of Ely 23 Dec. 1645. by 1639 – d.C181/5, f. 267v. J.p. Suff.; Norf. 8 July 1656 – aft.Mar. 1660, 6 Sept. 1660 – d.; Mdx., Westminster c.May 1662–d.Coventry Docquets, 766; Suff. RO (Ipswich), B105/2/1, f. 15; C193/13/3, f. 60v; C231/6, pp. 339, 377, 405; C231/7, p. 36; C193/12/3, ff. 67v, 76, 96v, 131; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. subsidy, Suff., Hadleigh 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; Ipswich 1660;SR. oyer and terminer for piracy, Suff. 22 June 1640;C181/5, f. 176. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Suff., Hadleigh 1642;SR. assessment, Suff. 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 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, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Aldeburgh 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; Ipswich 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; Westminster 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). loans on Propositions, Suff. 28 July 1642.LJ v. 245b. Dep. lt. 3 Sept. 1642–?LJ v. 337b. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, 12 Mar. 1644, 28 Aug. 1654; Cambs. By Oct. 1644;‘The royalist clergy of Lincs.’ ed. J.W.F. Hill, Lincs. Archit. and Arch. Soc. ii. 120; A. and O.; The Cambs. Cttee. for Scandalous Minsters, ed. G. Hart (Cambs. Rec. Soc. xxiv), 88, 89. regulating Cambridge Univ. by Mar. 1644;Cooper, Annals Camb. iii. 372. oyer and terminer, Suff. 11 Apr. 1644-aft. July 1645;C181/5, ff. 232v, 257. Norf. circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 379. New Model ordinance, Suff. 17 Feb. 1645; commr. I. of Ely, 12 Aug. 1645;A. and O. militia, Suff. 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660; Westminster 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 15v. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Suff. 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 10 July 1656–8 Oct. 1659;C181/6, pp. 175, 319. Norf. and Suff. 26 June 1658-aft. Feb. 1659;C181/6, pp. 292, 342. Suff. 20 Dec. 1658.C181/6, p. 341.

Religious: elder, seventh Suff. classis, 5 Nov. 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 426.

Central: member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 15 May 1646.CJ iv. 545b. Commr. hearing causes in chancery, 31 Oct. 1646; Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649. Judge, causes of poor prisoners, 9 June 1654.A. and O. Master of requests by Dec. 1656-aft. Jan. 1659.CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 182; C219/48: Ipswich election indenture, 18 Jan. 1659. Commr. tendering oath to MPs, 18 Jan. 1658, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 578a, 593a.

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BACON, Francis (1600-63), of Gray’s Inn and Ipswich, Suff.
: of Gray’s Inn, Mdx. and Suff., Ipswich.
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BACON, Francis (1600-63), of Gray’s Inn, Mdx., and Ipswich, Suff.

Will
7 Apr. 1663, cod. 10 Sept. 1663, pr. 31 Oct. 1663.PROB11/312/218.
Estates
worth £500 p. a.Soc. Antiq. MS 667, pp. 27, 61; Add. 15520, f. 12v. Owned land at Naughton, Suff. and a house at Kensington, Mdx.PROB11/312/218. Bought ?1643 house in Ipswich previously belonging to his bro.-in-law, William Bloys, and rented back to Bloys, 1651-2.Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA30/787, ff. 16a, 23a, 136a, 137b; HD11/52/1/19; Soc. Antiq. MS 667, p. 27; Add. 15520, f. 12v.
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HARLEY, Sir Robert (1579-1656), of Brampton Bryan, Herefs., Westminster and Ludlow, Salop.

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bap. 1 Mar. 1579, 1st s. of Thomas Harley of Brampton Bryan and 1st w. Margaret, da. of Sir Andrew Corbet† of Moreton Corbet, Salop.Collins, Peerage, iv. 56. educ. privately (Richard Harley); Oriel, Oxf. 9 Apr. 1597, BA 21 July 1599; M. Temple 24 Oct. 1599.Add. 70107, misc. 23, draft incomplete life of Sir Robert Harley; Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss. i. 75. m. (1) 13 Feb. 1603 (with £2,300), Anne (d. 1 Dec. 1603), da. of Charles Barret of Belhus, Aveley, Essex, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) by 1607, Mary (bur. 5 Aug. 1622), da. of Sir Francis Newport† of High Ercall, Salop, 1s. 8 other ch. d.v.p.; (3) 22 July 1623, with £1,600, Brilliana (d. Oct. 1643), da. of Sir Edward Conway† of Ragley, Warws., sec. of state 1623-8, 3s. 4da. (1 d.v.p.). cr. KB 1603. suc. fa. 1631.Collins, Peerage, iv. 56-59; J. Thorpe, Registrum Roffense (1769), 770; Brampton Bryan MSS, 30/12, 50/2, 83/26; J. Eales, Puritans and Roundheads. The Harleys of Brampton Bryan (Cambridge, 1990), 19. d. 6 Nov. 1656.Add. 70007, f. 90; Collins, Peerage, iv. 60; Eales, Puritans and Roundheads, 24.
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Local: j.p., Herefs. by 1604 – c.18, 4 July 1622 – July 1642, 15 Aug. 1644–49.C66/1662; Brampton Bryan MSS, 27/4; Add. 70004, Brilliana Harley to Harley, 8 July 1642. Ranger, Bringwood Forest 1604–?38.Brampton Bryan MSS, 88/2; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 133; Herefs. RO, F76/IV/7; Trans. Woolhope Naturalists Field Club (1923), 210, 212. Commr. sewers, Herefs. 18 May 1604; River Wye, Herefs. Mon. and Glos. 14 June 1621.C181/1, f. 91; C181/3, f. 33. Sheriff, Rad. 1606–7.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 269. Dep. justice in Eyre, Herefs. 1606–24. Commr. subsidy, 1608, 1624, 1626.SP14/31/1; Add. 11051, ff. 19, 141; C231/4 f. 140; C212/22/23; Eales, Puritans and Roundheads, 31. Dep. lt. 1618–45.Trans. Radnor Soc. xxviii. 31; HEHL, EL7443. Capt. militia ft. by 1619–42.Add. 70086; Add. 70109, view of trained bands, 1640; Add. 70004, Brilliana Harley to Harley, 14 July 1642. Commr. oyer and terminer, Wales and marches 22 Mar. 1621–40;C181/3, f. 26. Oxf. circ. 1634–24 Jan. 1642.C181/4, f. 168v; C181/5, ff. 6v, 200v. Member, council in the marches of Wales, 1623–41.HMC 13th Rep. IV, 220; Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 4, p. 7. Commr. exacted fees, Herefs. 1623;Add. 70001, unfol. (7 July 1623). Forced Loan, Herefs., Hereford 1627;Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145; C193/12/2, ff. 21v, 83v. knighthood fines, Rad. 1630–2;E178/7154, f. 134c; E178/5905, ff. 5,8,9. purveyance, Herefs. 1631–41;Add. 11051, f. 33v; C193/12/3 f. 83v; Add. 70109/63. charitable uses, Herefs. 21 May 1636, 6 Aug. 1640.C93/16/7; C93/18/19. Dep. steward, Kingsland manor, Herefs. by Apr. 1639–?49.Add. 70058, loose: paper of 20 Apr. 1639. Commr. further subsidy, Herefs. 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 27 Sept. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR; A. and O. Worcs. 18 Oct. 1644; Rad. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; sequestration, Herefs. and Hereford 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Herefs. 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Hereford 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Glos., Herefs. and S. E. Wales, 10 May 1644; for Worcester, 23 Sept. 1644;A. and O. Herefs. militia, 23 May 1648;LJ x. 276b. militia, Herefs., Rad. 2 Dec. 1648; ejecting scandalous ministers, Herefs. 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Central: master of the mint, 12 Sept. 1626 – 3 Aug. 1635, 6 May 1643–16 May 1649.J. Craig, Hist. Royal Mint (Cambridge, 1946), 143, 146, 151, 152. Commr. discovery of abuses, manufacture of gold and silver thread, London and Westminster 19 June 1627;Coventry Docquets, 212. for Irish affairs, 4 Apr. 1642.CJ ii. 302a, 453b; PJ ii. 403. Member, cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 393a. cttee. for examinations, 17 Aug. 1642;CJ ii. 725a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 9 Jan. 1643;Add. 15669, f. 1v. cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645; cttee. for Westminster Abbey and Coll. 18 Nov. 1645. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647; removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648.A. and O.

Civic: high steward, Hereford by Dec. 1646-aft. Nov. 1649.Add. 70005, f. 83 (3rd foliation); Add. 70006, f. 124.

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HARLEY, Sir Robert (1579-1656), of Brampton Bryan, Herefs.; Stanage Lodge, Herefs. and Aldermanbury, London.
: of Brampton Bryan, Herefs., Westminster and Salop., Ludlow.
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HARLEY, Sir Robert (1579-1656), of Brampton Bryan, Herefs., Westminster and Ludlow, Salop.

Will
28 Oct. 1652, rev. 9 Sept. 1656, ?never proved.Add. 70089, original will.
Estates
bought rectory, advowson and tithes of Presteigne, Rad. 8 Oct. 1619, later conveyed to feoffees for impropriations, thence to crown;Brampton Bryan MSS, 8/33, 34. inherited patrimony of Brampton Bryan, Buckton, Walford, Bredwardine, Boresford, Burrington, Wigmore, Byton, Eyton, Kingsland, Herefs.; Leintwardine, Kinton, Bucknell, Salop. producing rents of £1,211 in 1648.Brampton Bryan MSS, 22/47. Estimate of rents 1640: £1,669, tithes £69;Brampton Bryan MSS, 22/58. woods valued in Mar. 1647 at £3,499.Brampton Bryan MSS, 22/58 Advowsons of Clun, Clunbury, Llanfair Waterdine, Salop.; Brampton Bryan, Wigmore, Leintwardine, Aylton and Pixley, Herefs. Lands in Stannedge, Rad.; Lugwardine, Bodenham, Webton, Leinthall Starkes, Elton, Herefs.Brampton Bryan MSS, 30/12, 83/14, 84/21. Acquired lease of half rectory of Newport, lands in Christchurch, manor of Bassaleg, rectories of Bassaleg, Machen, Mynyddislwyn, Bedwellty, Henllys, Risca, St Brides Wentloog, Coedcernyw, Mon. for 40 years from 1610.Brampton Bryan MSS, 74/15. Brampton Bryan and Wigmore said to be worth £60,000 at time of royalist siege in 1643.Add. 70089, draft memoir of Edward Harley.
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Tuttle St. Westminster by Dec. 1646-50.Add. 70005, f. 85 (3rd foliation); Add. 70113, Edward Cooke to Edward Harley, n.d. 1650.
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BARNARDISTON, Sir Nathaniel (c.1588-1653), of Kedington, Suff.

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Family and Education
b. c. 1588, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Thomas Barnardiston (d. 1610) of Witham, Essex and Mary, da. of Richard Knightley of Fawsley, Northants.S. Clark, The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons (1683), pt. ii, 106; Vis. Suff. 1561, 1577 and 1612 ed. W.C. Metcalfe (Exeter, 1882), 113; Vis. Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. xiv), 546; W.H. Turnbull, ‘SS. Peter and Paul, Kedington’, Jnl. British Arch. Assoc. n.s. xxxvi. 313; F.A. Crisp, Vis. Eng. and Wales - Notes (1893-1921), vii. 171; R. Almack, ‘Kedington alias Ketton, and the Barnardiston fam.’, Procs. Suff. Inst. Arch. iv. 138. m. 16 May 1613, Jane (d. 17 Aug. 1669), da. of Sir Stephen Soame†, girdler, of London and Little Thurlow, Suff., ld. mayor 1598-9, 8s. (inc. Sir Thomas*; 2 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.).Vis. Essex, 546; Turnbull, ‘Kedington’, 313-15; Crisp, Vis. Notes, vii. 174-78; Almack, ‘Kedington’, 141-3; St Mary Le Bow, Cheapside, All Hallows, Honey Lane, and St Pancras, Soper Lane, ed. W.B. Bannerman (Harl. Soc. xlv), 325. Kntd. 1618;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 170. suc. gdfa. 1619. d. 25 July 1653.W. Robinson, The Hist. and Antiquities of the Par. of Hackney (1842-3), ii. 69; Turnbull, ‘Kedington’, 315.
Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Suff. and Essex 1617; Suff. 1626;C181/2, f. 272; C181/3, f. 201v. Mdx. 15 Oct. 1645.C181/5, f. 262v. J.p. Suff. 1622 – 27, 1628 – d.; Essex by Feb. 1650–d.C231/4, ff. 134, 228v, 261v; E163/18/72, f. 76; C193/13/3, f. 24v; Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxiii. Dep. lt. Suff. 1623–7, by Aug. 1642–?Add. 39245, f. 72; LJ v. 342b. Sheriff, 1623–4.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 132. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627; Orford, Suff. 1627;C193/12/2, ff. 55v, 77v. swans, England except south-western cos. c.1629;C181/3, f. 269. Suff. and Essex 1635;C181/5, f. 28v. subsidy, Suff. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652;SR; A. and O. loans on Propositions, 28 July 1642;LJ v. 245b. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. oyer and terminer, 11 Apr. 1644;C181/5, f. 232v. Essex 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/5, ff. 237v, 254. gaol delivery, Suff., Bury St Edmunds 11 Apr. 1644;C181/5, f. 233. Essex 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/5, ff. 238, 254. liberty of St Etheldreda, Ely 23 Dec. 1645;C181/5, f. 267v. New Model ordinance, Suff. 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A and O.

Central: member, cttee. for compounding, 8 Nov. 1643,CJ iii. 305a. 8 Feb. 1647;A. and O. cttee. for sequestrations, 7 Aug. 1644.CJ iii. 581b; LJ vi. 663a. Commr. exclusion from sacrament 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649.A and O.

Religious: elder, fourteenth Suff. classis, 5 Nov. 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 429.

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BARNARDISTON, Sir Nathaniel (c.1588-1653), of Kedington, Suff.
: of Kedington, Suff.
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Likenesses: line engraving, F.H. Van Hove, 1683; BM. fun. monument, Kedington church, Suff.

Volume
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Web Title

BARNARDISTON, Sir Nathaniel (c.1588-1653), of Kedington, Suff.

Will
10 Sept. 1651, cod. 18 Jan. 1653, pr. 8 Sept. 1653.PROB11/232/242.
Estates
worth £4,000 p.a.Suff. ed. Everitt, 16.
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MASON, Benjamin (1622-65), of London and Pixley Court, Herefs.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 24 Apr. 1622, ?4th s. of William Mason of Bury St Edmunds, Suff. and Gray’s Inn, custos brevium in k.b. (d. bef. Apr. 1629) and Anne, da. Robert Canton of Swaffham, Norf., later wife of one Phillipps of Herefs.Bury St. Edmunds St. James par. reg.; SP23/102, p. 81; PROB11/155/404; Berry, Pedigrees of Kent, 338. m. (1) ?, 1s. 1da.;PROB11/318/693. (2) 21 Dec. 1647 Sarah, da. of George Dodington of Nether Stowey, Som., 4s. 2da.Nether Stowey par. reg.; SP23/102, p. 82; PROB11/318/693. d. 1665.PROB11/318/693.
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Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), lifeguard of 3rd earl of Essex, 13 Dec. 1642-Apr. 1645;SP23/112, p. 363. regt. of John Fiennes*, Aug.-Oct. 1644.SP23/112, pp. 363–5. Lt. militia, Herefs. ?1654–60.Narrative of the Late Parliament (1658), 14 (E.935.5).

Local: sequestrator, Som. 18 Feb. – 10 May 1650, 30 Oct. 1650–14 Nov. 1650;CCC 173, 216, 345, 355. Herefs. 4 Dec. 1651 – 28 July 1653, 3 Nov. 1653–60.CCC 515, 646, 659. Commr. repair of Hereford Cathedral, 1652;Impostor Magnus (1654), 21. assessment, Hereford 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Essex, Herefs., Som. 9 June 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). J.p. Herefs. by Oct. 1653-Mar. 1660;C193/13/4, f. 42v; SP18/95/72i. Glos. 7 Mar. 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 361; C193/13/5, f. 44. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth, Herefs. 21 Sept. 1655;C115/67/5871. ejecting scandalous ministers, 14 Aug. 1656.CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 72.

Parlimentarian
MASON, Benjamin (1622-65), of London and Pixley Court, Herefs.
: Herefs.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MASON, Benjamin (1622-65), of London and Pixley Court, Herefs.

Will
5 May, pr. 19 Dec. 1665.PROB11/318/693.
Estates
at d. held manors of Pixley, Munsley, Cottley, Herefs; lease of manor of Goldcliff, Mon. Other lands in Herefs. and Essex.PROB11/318/693.
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Barbican, St Giles Cripplegate, London, 1644;SP23/112, ff. 297, 367. Nether Stowey, Som. 1650.CCC 221.
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SANKEY, Jerome (c.1621-86), of Coolmore, co. Tipperary.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1621, 2nd s. of Rev. Richard Sankey of Balderton Hall, Myddle, Salop, and Anne, da. of Hilary Smolt of Burford Castle, Dors.J.E. Auden, ‘Sir Jerome Zankey’, Trans. Salop Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. i. 172-3. educ. Trinity, Camb. Michaelmas 1637; Clare, 4 July 1640; BA 1641; MA 1644;Al. Cant. DCL May 1649;Reg. Visitors Univ. Oxford, 173, 227. DCL (h.c.), Trin. Coll. Dublin Aug. 1655.Merc. Politicus, no. 272 (23-9 Aug. 1655), 5578. m. bef. Sept. 1655, s.p.Henry Cromwell Corresp. 63, 67, 69; Auden, ‘Zankey’, 177. Kntd. 16 Nov. 1658.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 224. d. 1686.Auden, ‘Zankey’, 177.
Offices Held

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of Sir William Brereton* by Apr. 1643; maj. by Apr. 1645-Feb. 1648;Brereton Letter Bks. i. 324; SP28/51, f. 118. maj. of horse, regt. of Oliver Cromwell*, army in Ireland, June-c.Nov. 1649;SP28/61, ff. 442, 444; SP28/64, f. 13. col. Dec. 1649–60.HMC 7th Rep. 74; SP28/65, f. 6. Gov. Clonmel, co. Tipperary 1651-bef. Feb. 1657.Ire. under the Commonwealth, i. 100; Chatsworth, CM/29, unfol.: 27 Sept. 1656; Bodl. Carte 64, f. 460v. Cdr. Irish brigade, Aug.-Dec. 1659.Clarke Pprs. iv. 45.

Academic: fell. All Souls Coll. Oxf. by July 1648–1653; sub-warden, 29 Mar. 1649. Proctor, Oxf. Univ. Apr. 1649.Reg. of Visitors of Oxford, 1647–58 ed. M. Burrows (Camden Soc. n.s. xxix), 173, 227.

Irish: trustee, maintenance of Trin. Coll. and free sch. Dublin 8 Mar. 1650;A. and O. new coll. in Dublin, c. 1657 – 60; Erasmus Smith’s charity, Dec. 1657–d.Barnard, Cromwellian Ireland, 192n, 210. Commr. Kilkenny articles, 12 May 1652;TCD, MS 844, ff. 118–123. high ct. of justice, Dublin 30 Dec. 1652.TCD, MS 844, f. 136. Member, cttee. to settle Irish lands, 4 Jan. 1653; plague and poor relief, Dublin 7 June 1653. Commr. Ulster transplantation, July 1653. Asst. to parlty. commrs. Aug. 1653.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 309, 344, 360, 369. J.p. co. Dublin 15 Sept. 1653–?TCD, MS 844, f. 139v. Commr. assessment, co. and city of Dublin, cos. Kilkenny, Tipperary 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). Member, ct. martial for transplantation, 19 Mar. 1655.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 490. Agent for army in land settlement, July 1655–9.Down Survey ed. T.A. Larcom (Dublin, 1851), 76. Commr. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Auditor, land settlement, Dec. 1658.Down Survey ed. Larcom, 265–7.

Local: commr. assessment, Westminster, Staffs., Surr. 9 June 1657.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1655); A. and O.

Civic: burgess, Trim, co. Meath bef. Jan. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 149n.

Parlimentarian
SANKEY, Jerome (c.1621-86), of Coolmore, co. Tipperary.
: co. Tipperary.
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SANKEY, Jerome (c.1621-86), of Coolmore, co. Tipperary.

Will
d. intestate (admon. 4 Feb. 1687).Auden, ‘Zankey’, 178.
Estates
lease of Camyse, Middlethird barony, co. Tipperary, 22 Mar. 1652; £200 p.a. in Irish land, awarded Oct. 1652;Eg. 1762, ff. 34v-5r, 58; CJ vii. 117b-8a, 194b. granted c.900 acres in the barony of Iffa and Offa, co. Tipperary, mid-1650s.J.P. Prendergast, Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland (1865), 202-3; cf. Bottigheimer, English Money and Irish Land (Oxford, 1971), 209. In 1670 held land in Kilkenny Liberties and in 71 townlands in and around Tralee, Trughnackny barony, co. Kerry.Down Survey website.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Little Gaberagh, St Michan’s par., Dublin 1659.Irish Census, 1659, 373.
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