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PHESANT, Stephen (1617-59), of Upwood, Hunts.

Family and Education
b. 22 May 1617, 1st s. of Peter Phesant and Mary, da. of Richard Bruges of Combes, Glos.St Olave Old Jewry, London par. reg.; Lincs. Ped. ed. A.R. Maddison (Harl. Soc. lii), 777; Lansd. 921, f. 71; F.C.Cass, East Barnet (1892), ped. opp. 32. educ. G. Inn 9 Aug. 1624 and 8 May 1629;G. Inn Admiss. 174, 187. St Catherine’s, Camb. 1631.Al. Cant. m. (1) 27 Aug. 1639, Sarah (d. 1654), da. of Walter Rogers, Leatherseller, of St Edmund King and Martyr, London, 2s. (1 d.v.p.), 7da. (at least 2 d.v.p.); (2) 28 Feb. 1655, Mary, wid. of Francis Staunton and da. of Arthur Staveley of Laughton, Leics. 3da.Lincs. Ped. 777; Lansd. 921, f. 71; Hunts. RO, 2130/1/1, ff. 9v, 10, 29v, 30; All Hallows, Lombard St, London par. reg.; The Regs. of St Bene’t and St Peter, Paul’s Wharf, London, ed. W.A. Littledale (Harl. Soc. xl), 294; St Andrew Holborn, London par. reg. suc. fa. 1 Oct. 1649.Smyth’s Obit. 28; Lincs. Ped. 777. bur. 31 May 1659.Hunts. RO, 2130/1/1, f. 30v.
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Civic: common pleader, London c.May 1643–?d.Prest, Rise of the Barristers, 159–60.

Local: dep. steward, Barnet manor, East Barnet, Herts. bef. Oct. 1645; steward by 20 Apr. 1647-bef. 24 May 1648.Cass, East Barnet, 35, 37, 39. J.p. Hunts. Mar. 1652-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 241. Commr. assessment, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). ejecting scandalous ministers, Cambs., Hunts. and I. of Ely 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, Hunts. Sept. 1655.TSP iv. 229.

: of Upwood, Hunts.
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Likenesses: oil on panel, double portrait with sister, unknown, 1622.Whereabouts unknown.

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PHESANT, Stephen (1617-59), of Upwood, Hunts.

Will
May 1659, pr. 2 Nov. 1660.PROB11/302/15.
Estates
owned land at Upwood, Hunts.
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POLWHELE, John (1607-72), of Treworgan, St Erme, Cornw.

Family and Education
b. 1607, 1st s. of Thomas Polwhele of Polwhele and Dioness, da. of Sir John Glanville† of Tavistock, Devon.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 377. educ. L. Inn, 11 Oct. 1623; called 3 Feb. 1631.LI Admiss. i. 194; LI Black Bks ii. 299. m. c.1638, Anne, da. of Thomas Baskerville of Richardston, Wilts. at least 6s. 3da. d. 6 July 1672.R. Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections, Domestic, Clerical and Literary (2 vols. 1826), 13-15; Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 377; St Erme MI.
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Local: commr. further subsidy, Cornw. 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; assessment, 1642, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664. 4 Oct. 1643 – Apr. 1646SR; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). J.p., c.May 1660–d.Docquets of Letters Patent ed Black, 78; Recs. Quakers Cornw. 29. Commr. subsidy, 1663.SR.

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POLWHELE, John (1607-72), of Treworgan, St Erme, Cornw.

Will
1667, pr. 30 Mar. 1678.PROB11/356/6.
Estates
centred on Treworgan House (10 hearths in 1664), St Erme par.;Cornw. Hearth Tax, 156. owned lands in St Clement’s par. adjacent to Truro borough; also leased Pengelley Prior (Trevennen manor), land in Tibesta manor (Creed par.) and received royalties of manor of Tywarnhayle (Perranzabuloe), from duchy of Cornw. bef. 1650.Parl. Surv. Duchy Cornw. i. 91; ii. 174, 203, 214.
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BOWYER, John (1623-66), of Knypersley, Biddulph, Staffs.

Family and Education
bap. 21 Sept. 1623, 5th but 2nd surv. s. of Sir William Bowyer*.C8/70/124; Biddulph Par. Reg. ed. N. W. Tildesley (Staffs. Par. Regs. Soc. 1991), 32. m. (1) 4 Apr. 1648, Mary (bur. 6 June 1665), da. and h. of Robert Milward of Bradlow Ash, Derbys., 4s. 2da.; (2) 11 Sept. 1665, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Ralph Egerton of Betley, Staffs. s.p.Biddulph Par. Reg. ed. Tildesley, 59, 63; F. Parker, ‘Chetwynd’s hist. of Pirehill Hundred’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. n.s. xii), 217. suc. bro. Richard 17 Mar. 1644;C8/70/124. Kntd. 30 May 1660; cr. bt. 11 Sept. 1660;CB. bur. 18 July 1666.Biddulph Par. Reg. ed. Tildesley, 64.
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Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) 24 Dec. 1642 – 24 May 1644; col. 24 May 1644–24 Aug. 1646. Capt. of horse, 30 May 1644–24 Aug. 1646; col. 4 Nov. 1645–24 Aug. 1646.SP28/134, pts. 5, 10; SP28/144, pt. 6, f. 27; SP28/242, f. 400; Staffs. Co. Cttee. 77, 121; HMC 4th Rep. 264. Gov. Shugborough, Staffs. by Jan.-c.Mar. 1644;Staffs. Co. Cttee. 26, 45, 62. Leek c.May 1644-aft. Jan. 1645.Staffs. Co. Cttee. 121, 242.

Local: j.p. Staffs. by 26 Apr. 1647 – bef.Jan. 1650, Mar. 1660–d.Staffs. RO, D948/1/5/1; S. Erdeswick, Survey of Staffs. ed. T. Harwood (1843), p. xviii; A Perfect List (1660); J. C. Wedgwood, ‘Keepers and justices of the peace for Staffs.’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. 1912), 333. Dep. lt. 27 May 1647–?, c.Aug. 1660–?d.SP29/11, f. 229; SP29/60, f. 148; Staffs. RO, D948/1/5/1. Commr. assessment, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, Staffs. and Lichfield 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Staffs. 1660.SR. Sheriff, 30 Jan. 1662–29 Jan. 1663.C202/46/4; List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 129. Commr. subsidy, 1663.SR.

: of Knypersley, Biddulph, Staffs.
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BOWYER, John (1623-66), of Knypersley, Biddulph, Staffs.

Will
1 June 1666, pr.?,Pape, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 149.
Estates
in 1644, on d. of his elder bro. Richard, inherited the bulk of the family’s estate in Biddulph, Leek and elsewhere in Staffs. which he claimed was worth £1,000 p.a.C8/70/124. In 1649, estate inc. manors of Apedale, Bucknall, Knypersley and Norton-in-the-Moors and Podmore Hall, Staffs.BRL, 917/1532. In 1652, he borrowed £6,000 (£3,000 by statute staple), which he lent to his distant relation, the Derbyshire recusant Rowland Eyre, to help him purchase his forfeited estate.LC4/203, f. 193; Derbys. RO, Bag C/2764-70, 2772, 2774; R. Meredith, ‘A Derbys. fam. in the seventeenth century’, Recusant Hist. viii. 32, 33, 35-6. Bowyer’s estate was valued at £900 p.a. in the early 1660s.D. Fawkes, ‘The gentry of Staffs. 1662-3; additions to the list’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 4, xiii), 60. At his d. estate inc. manor of Stallbrook and Derrington, capital messuage of Sidway and lands in Aston, Maer, Mucklestone and Sidway, Staffs.Pape, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 149. In 1666, his house at Knypersley was assessed at 20 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. 1921), 171.
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presented William Armett to vicarage of Biddulph, Staffs. 1663;Clergy of the C. of E. database. Maurice Harrison, 1665.IND1/17005, f. 37.
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BIDDULPH, Theophilus (c. 1612-83), of Cheapside, London and Westcombe Park, Greenwich, Kent.

Family and Education
b. c. 1612, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Michael Biddulph* of Elmhurst, Staffs. and Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Skeffington, 1st bt. of Fisherwick; bro. of Michael Biddulph I†.Staffs. Parl. Hist. ed. Wedgwood (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), ii. 129-30. educ. apprentice Draper Apr. 1628.Roll of the Drapers’ Co. ed. P. Boyd (1934), 18. m. 10 May 1641, Susanna (d. 1702), da. of Zachary Highlord, Skinner and alderman, of Hart Street, London and Morden, Surr., 6s. (4 d.v.p.), 4 da. (2 d.v.p.), 1 other ch. (d.v.p.).Staffs. Parl. Hist. ii. 129-30; S. Shaw, Hist. of Staffs. (1798) i. 352; The Regs. of Morden, Surr., ed. F. Clayton (1901), 6; GL, St Mary Colechurch par. reg (MS 4438), St Lawrence Jewry par. reg. (MS 6975). Kntd. 16 May 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 226. cr. bt. 2 Nov. 1664.CB. suc. bro. Nov. 1666. d. 25 Mar. 1683.Staffs. Parl. Hist. ii. 129-30.
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Mercantile: freeman, Drapers’ Co. 1636; liveryman, 1644 – 50; asst. 1654 – d.; master, 1657–8.A.H. Johnson, Hist. of Drapers’ Co. (Oxford, 1914) iv. 422, 447, 454. Trustee, Irish Adventure, London 1 Aug. 1642.CSP Ire. Adv. 309. Freeman, E.I. Co. 18 Aug. 1647; member, cttee. 2 July 1657–62.Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co., ed. Sainsbury, 1644–9, p. 217; 1655–9, pp. 153, 197, 268, 333; 1660–3, pp. 23, 104.

Civic: alderman, London 29–31 July 1651;Aldermen of London i. 50. common cllr. Dec. 1654–65; auditor, 1655–7.J.R. Woodhead, Rulers of London, 1660–89 (1965), 30; D.C. Elliot, ‘Elections to the Common Council of the City of London, 21 Dec. 1659’, Guildhall Studies in London Hist. iv. 170, 175, 184.

Local: commr. assessment, London 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Kent, Staffs. 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Lichfield 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Warws. 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. sewers, Kent 17 June 1657, 18 Sept. 1660-aft. June 1671;C181/6, pp. 228; C181/7, pp. 51, 579. London 13 Aug. 1657, 24 July 1662;C181/6, p. 257; C181/7, p. 164. Kent and Surr. 14 Nov. 1657;C181/6, p. 264. oyer and terminer, London 19 May 1659 – 27 Nov. 1666; gaol delivery, Newgate gaol 19 May 1659–27 Nov. 1666;C181/6, p. 357; C181/7, pp. 2, 336. London militia, 7 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; HMC Leyborne-Popham, 168. militia, Kent 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Mar. 1660 – July 1681; Staffs. June 1668–?82.A Perfect List (1660), 24; C231/7, p. 330; C231/8, p. 52. Commr. poll tax, Kent, London 1660.SR. Member, corporation for propagation of the gospel in New England, 17 May 1661.PC2/55, p. 217. Dep. gov. Irish Soc. 1662–3.Johnson, Hist. of Drapers iii. 266. Commr. subsidy, Kent, London, Staffs. 1663;SR. recusants, Kent, Staffs. 1675.CTB iv. 697, 788.

Central: commr. tendering oath to MPs, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 593a.

: of Cheapside, London and Westcombe Park, Kent., Greenwich.
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BIDDULPH, Theophilus (c. 1612-83), of Cheapside, London and Westcombe Park, Greenwich, Kent.

Will
30 Apr. 1681, pr. 8 May 1683.PROB11/373/44.
Estates
purchased Westcombe manor, Greenwich, June 1650;Hasted’s Hist. of Kent: Part One - the Hundred of Blackheath, ed. H.H. Drake (1886), 53. Frodshall manor, Staffs., c.1660; inherited Elsmshurst St Chad manor from bro.;S. Erdeswick, Surv. of Staffs. (1844), 52, 304-5. purchased manors of Lapley and Aston, 1663;VCH Staffs. iv. 147. at d. owned manor of Frankton, Warws.PROB11/373/44.
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FIENNES, Nathaniel II (d. ?1673), of Bromby, Lincs.

Family and Education
1st s. of Nathaniel Fiennes I* and 1st w. Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Eliot† (d. 1632) of Port Eliot, Cornw.CP. educ. Lincoln, Oxf. 28 Mar. 1655; G. Inn, 5 Nov. 1655.Al. Ox; G. Inn Admiss. 274. m. ?4 May 1671, ?22 Aug. 1672, Elizabeth (d. aft. 1685), da. of Richard Williams of ?Frodingham, Lincs., later w. of Francis Sherrard of Stapleford, Leics. and Edward King of Ashby de la Launde, Lincs.Lincs. RO, 2PG/12/3/7; 1PG/2/2/10; Lincs. mar. bonds MB1671/55; Lincs. par. regs. transcriptions; Cal. Mar. Lics. Fac. Office ed. G.E. Cockayne (1905), 131. suc. fa. 16 Dec. 1669.PROB11/334/450. d. ?1673.CP; C5/481/2.
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: of Bromby, Lincs.
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FIENNES, Nathaniel II (d. ?1673), of Bromby, Lincs.

Will
not found.
Estates
?maintenance in Lincs. in father’s lifetime, inc. Princes Wood, Bromby; Bromby, Lincs. from 16 Dec. 1669.PROB11/334/450; E367/2755.
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DUNCH, Edmund (1603-78), of Little Wittenham, Berks.

Family and Education
b. 22 Feb. 1603, 1st s. of Sir William Dunch† of Little Wittenham and Mary, da. of Sir Henry Cromwell alias Williams† of Hinchingbrooke, Hunts.Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi-lvii), i. 87-8, 197; Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, ii. 195. educ. G. Inn 2 Nov. 1621.GI Admiss. 164. m. 8 Feb. 1630, Bridget, da. and h. of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney, Glos. 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.St Ann Blackfriars, London par. reg.; HP Commons 1604-1629; Vis. Berks. i. 197; Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, ii. 198. suc. fa. 1611;CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 268; Ashmole, Antiquities, i. 60. gdfa. 1623. cr. Baron Burnell of East Wittenham, 26 Apr. 1658.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iv. 789-91. bur. 24 Aug. 1678 24 Aug. 1678.Little Wittenham par. reg.
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Local: commr. subsidy 1624, 1628;E115/144, f. 112. charitable uses, Berks. 1626-aft. 1638. 1633 – 34C93/10, f. 22; C192/1, unfol. Sheriff, Berks.; Oxon. 1667–8.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 6, 110. Commr. sewers, River Kennet, Berks. and Hants 1633, 13 Oct. 1657;C181/4, f. 147v; C181/6, p. 261. River Thames, Wilts. to Berks. 1635;C181/5, f. 21v. Glos. 20 Feb. 1654;C181/6, p. 19. River Thames, Wilts. to Surr. 18 June 1662;C181/7, p. 152. perambulation, Windsor Forest, Berks. 10 Sept. 1641;C181/5, f. 211. further subsidy, Berks. 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR. assessment, 1642, 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., 1 June 1660; Berks. 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; Glos. 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). additional ord. for levying of money, Berks. 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Berks. and Oxon. 25 June 1644. 9 May 1646 – bef.Oct. 1653A. and O. J.p. Wilts., by c. Sept. 1656 – Mar. 1660; Oxon. 22 Mar. 1647 – Mar. 1660; Berks. by Feb. 1650 – Mar. 1660; Glos. July 1651 – bef.Oct. 1653, 27 Mar. 1655-Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 45, 84, 221, 307; C193/13/4, ff. 38v, 109; C193/13/5, ff. 43, 116; C193/13/6, f. 96; Berks. RO, W/AC al, f. 115v; Sheffield Archives, EM1480; C181/4, f. 147v; C181/5, f. 42. Commr. militia, Berks., Oxon. 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. Westminster militia, 7 June 1650;Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. by Feb. 1654–28 June 1658.C181/6, pp. 11, 279. ?Constable, Wallingford Castle bef. 1660.The Mystery of the Good Old Cause (1660), 9 (E.1923.2).

Civic: freeman, Wallingford 1628.Berks. RO, W/AC1/1/1, f. 115v.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 1635-aft. 1641.LC5/134, f. 87; LC3/1, f. 25.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 16 Oct. 1644.CJ iii. 666b.

: of Little Wittenham, Berks.
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Likenesses: family group on father’s fun. monument, Little Wittenham church, Berks.

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DUNCH, Edmund (1603-78), of Little Wittenham, Berks.

Will
1 Mar. 1675, pr. 19 Oct. 1678.PROB11/358/144.
Estates
sold manors of Wittenham Abbas and Swynford, Berks. 1630; sold land at Aston Tirrold, Berks. 1631; sold land at Basildon, Berks. 1633; sold land at Purton, Chelworth, Brokenborough and Cricklade, Wilts. to 1st earl of Manchester (Sir Henry Montagu†) and others, 1635;Coventry Docquets, 597, 617, 636, 645, 676. bought manor of Ewelme, Oxon. for £500, 1650;I.J. Gentles, ‘The debenture market and military purchasers of crown lands, 1649-60’, (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 276.sold manor of Over Court, Silchester, Hants bef. 1667.VCH Hants, iv. 54.
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NUTT, John (1605-68), of Nackington and Canterbury, Kent.

Family and Education
bap. 6 Oct. 1605, 1st s. of William Nutt of Nackington and St George, Canterbury, and Anne, da. of John Polhill of Otford, Kent.St George the Martyr, Canterbury, par. reg.; Vis. Kent 1663-8 (Harl. Soc. liv), 122. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 3 May 1621; M. Temple, 21 May 1623.Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss. i. 114; MTR i. 682. m. (1) 12 Feb. 1628, Anne (d. May 1641), da. of Sir Edward Masters* of Ospringe, Kent, 2s. 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) Anne (bur. 24 July 1673), da. of John Aldrich of Norfolk, 1s.Nackington par. reg.; Vis. Kent 1663-8, 122. suc. fa. 23 Apr. 1607.C142/317/111; St George the Martyr, Canterbury, par. reg. bur. 13 Oct. 1668 13 Oct. 1668.Nackington par. reg.
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Military: capt. militia, Canterbury by Feb. 1635.Nackington par. reg.

Civic: freeman, Canterbury 29 Nov. 1636.Canterbury Cathedral Archives, A/C4, f. 121v; HMC 9th Rep. i. 164a.

Local: commr. sewers, Kent 16 July 1639, 1 July 1659;C181/5, f. 147; C181/6, p. 366. Walland Marsh, Kent and Suss. 13 May 1657–19 Dec. 1660;C181/6, pp. 226, 365. Denge Marsh, Kent Oct. 1658;C181/6, p. 321. E. Kent 21 Sept. 1660;C181/7, p. 56 commr. subsidy, Canterbury 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 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. 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Kent, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; sequestration, Canterbury 27 Mar. 1643; Kent 16 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Dep. lt. by 20 Apr. 1643–?Add. 33512, f. 78. Commr. for Kent, assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Kent 4 July 1644;C181/5, f. 236. Home circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 13, 373. gaol delivery, Kent 4 July 1644;C181/5, f. 237. New Model ordinance, Canterbury 17 Feb. 1645; indemnity, Kent 20 Jan., 4 Apr. 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659; Canterbury 1 Aug. 1659, 12 Mar. 1660. by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653A. and O.; CJ vii. 744a; Add. 42596, f. 8. J.p. Kent, ?- 11 Mar. 1656, Mar-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/3, f. 33v; C193/13/4, f. 48v; C231/6, p. 328; A Perfect List (1660).

Central: commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649;A. and O. removing obstructions, sale of forfeited estates, 1 Oct. 1651.CJ vii. 23a.

: Kent.
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NUTT, John (1605-68), of Nackington and Canterbury, Kent.

Will
not found.
Estates
purchased Pisinge manor from commrs. for sale of church lands, for £509, 15 Dec. 1647;Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 4. purchased South Bishopsden wood, part of Westgate manor, for £536, 7 June 1648.Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 13.
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PILE (PYLE), Sir Francis, 2nd bt. (c.1617-49), of Compton Beauchamp, Berks.

Family and Education
b. c. 1617, 1st s. of (Sir) Francis Pile, later 1st bt. of Compton Beauchamp and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Francis Popham*.Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi-lvii), i. 261; Wilts. Vis. Pedigrees 1623 (Harl. Soc. cv-cvi), 151. educ. Univ. Coll. Oxf. 22 Nov. 1633, ‘aged 16’; M. Temple 28 Oct. 1637.Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss. i. 133. m. (1) 9 June 1634, Mary, da. of Samuel Dunch*, 1s d.v.p.;Vis. Berks. i. 261. (2) 18 July 1639, Jane Still (d. 1692), 3da.Lyncombe and Widcombe par. reg.; Vis. Berks. i. 261; MIs Wilts. 1822, 185-6; CB ii. 57; London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 700. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 1635.CB ii. 56. d. 12 Feb. 1649.MIs Wilts. 1822, 185.
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Local: member, Berks. co. cttee. by Aug. 1642.LJ v. 311a. Commr. assessment, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Sheriff, 19 Jan. 1644.CJ iii. 354b; LJ vi. 384a. Commr. for Berks. 25 June 1644; militia, Berks., Wilts. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

: 2nd bt. (c.1617-49) of Compton Beauchamp, Berks. 1617 – 49.
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PILE (PYLE), Sir Francis, 2nd bt. (c.1617-49), of Compton Beauchamp, Berks.

Will
21 Feb. 1648, pr. 13 Apr. 1649.PROB11/207/535.
Estates
inherited lands at Compton Beauchamp, Berks. and Collingbourne Kingston, Wilts.;PROB11/171/240. lands assigned to trustees, 1648.PROB11/207/535.
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BOYLE, Roger, Lord Broghill [I] (1621-79), of Blarney Castle, co. Cork, and Marston Bigot, Som.

Family and Education
b. 25 Apr. 1621, 5th but 3rd surv. s. of Sir Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork [I] (d. 1643), and Catherine (d. 1630), da. of Sir Geoffrey Fenton of Mitchelstown, co. Cork; bro. of Viscount Dungarvan [I] (Sir Richard Boyle*).CP. educ. Dublin Univ. May 1630; G. Inn, 17 Mar. 1636; travelled abroad, Mar. 1636-Mar. 1639; Acad. Geneva, ?1639.Al. Dub. 89; Lismore Pprs. ser. 1, iii. 30; G. Inn Admiss. 211; Le Livre du Recteur de l’Académie de Genève ed. S. Stelling-Michaud (Geneva, 1959-80), i. 191. m. 27 Jan. 1641, Margaret (d. 1689), da. of Theophilus Howard, 2nd earl of Suffolk, 2s. 5da (1 d.v.p.). cr. Baron Boyle of Broghill [I] 28 Feb. 1628; earl of Orrery [I] 5 Sept. 1660. d. 16 Oct. 1679.CP; Lodge, Peerage, i. 192-3.
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Military: attached to tp. of Viscount Dungarvan, royal army, Apr.-June 1639.Lismore Pprs. ser. 1, v. 89. Capt. of ft. and gov. Lismore Castle 1641–3. Col. of horse, 1643-Aug. 1653. Gov. Youghal 1644–7. Master of ordnance [I], 17 Mar. 1648;CJ v. 502b-3a. lt.-gen. of ordnance [I], Feb. 1651–60.Ludlow, Mems. i. 264. Capt. of reformados, Aug. 1653–60. Maj.-gen. June 1662–d.Lodge, Peerage, i. 188.

Irish: commr. management, Cork City Nov. 1649;Bodl. Tanner 56, f. 140. revenue and admin. of justice, co. Cork 2 Jan. 1652;Eg. 1762, f. 202v. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Member for co. Waterford, Dublin Univ. gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 199, 211. Pres. Munster, 7 May 1660–72.Chatsworth, Burlington’s Journal, unfol.: 11 May 1660. PC, Oct. 1660–d. Ld. justice, Dec. 1660–2.CP. Gov. co. Clare 1661–72.CP.

Scottish: pres. Scottish council, May 1655–?1659.TSP iii. 423. PC, 26 May 1665–21 Apr. 1679.CP.

Local: j.p. Som. 4 Mar. 1657-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 360; C193/13/5, f. 90. Mdx., Westminster Aug./Oct. 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 373, 376; C193/13/5, ff. 65, 135. Commr. assessment, Som. 9 June 1657.A. and O.

: Lord Broghill [I] (1621-79), of Blarney Castle, co. Cork 1621 – 79 and Som., Marston Bigot.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, 1660.Private colln.; photograph, NPG.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BOYLE, Roger, Lord Broghill [I] (1621-79), of Blarney Castle, co. Cork, and Marston Bigot, Som.

Will
Estates
inherited lands in north co. Cork, co. Kerry and co. Limerick, inc. Askeaton and Broghill Castles, by indentures of 1636 and 1641; £5,000 invested in lands at Marston Bigot, Som. on m.; custodian of Blarney Castle estate, Jan. 1650, and grant of same, June 1650 (passed as act, June 1657); also lands in Imokilly Barony, co. Cork, including Ballymaloe Castle, c.1657.P.J.S. Little, ‘The Political Career of Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, 1636-1660’ (PhD, London Univ. 2000), 11, 185-99.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
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D’OYLY, John (1602-?60), of Chiselhampton, Oxon. and Greenland House, Bucks.

Family and Education
bap. 3 Mar. 1602,Stadhampton, Oxon. par. reg. 1st s. of (Sir) Cope D’Oyly (d. 1633) of Greenland and Chiselhampton, and Martha (bur. 13 Sept. 1618), da. of James Quarles of Romford, Essex.Vis. Oxon. 1634 (Harl. Soc. v), 325; W.D. Bayley, A Biographical, Historical, Genealogical and Heraldic Acct. of the House of D’Oyly (1845), 27-9; Stadhampton par. reg. educ. Wadham, Oxf. 27 Nov. 1618.Al. Ox. m. 1 July 1628, Marah (1609-aft. 1661), da. of Sir John Shirley (d. 1631) of Wiston, Surr.; 3s (1 d.v.p.), 9 da. (2 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 4 Aug. 1633.Bayley, House of D’Oyly, 28-30. d. betw. May 1660-31 May 1662.Bayley, House of D’Oyly, 31.
Offices Held

Local: ?jt. surveyor, Braden Forest, Wilts. 19 Mar. 1627.Coventry Docquets, 29. Sheriff, Oxon. 1638–9.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 110; Reg. Univ. Oxford, ii. pt. i, 314. Commr. disarming recusants, 1639, 30 Aug. 1641;CSP Dom. 1639–40, p. 12; LJ iv. 385b. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660. 12 Aug. 1641 – 10 June 1642SR. J.p., 25 June 1649 – bef.Oct. 1653, Mar. 1660–d.;C231/5, pp. 474, 528; C231/6, p. 159; C193/13/4, f. 78; C220/9/4, f. 68v; A Perfect List (1660). ?Surr. 28 May 1644.C231/6, p. 3. Commr. perambulation, Wychwood, Shotover and Stowood forests, Oxon. 28 Aug. 1641;C181/5, f. 210. Windsor Forest, Berks. 10 Sept. 1641;C181/5, f. 211. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Oxon. 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). commr. for Bucks. and Oxon. 25 June 1644;A. and O. ?oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, Surr. 4 July 1644;C181/5, ff. 239, 239v. militia, Oxon. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Oxf. 14 Dec. 1646;Oxford Council Acts 1626–65, 140.

Central: commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647.CJ v. 121a; A. and O.

: of Chiselhampton, Oxon. and Greenl and House, Bucks.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

D’OYLY, John (1602-?60), of Chiselhampton, Oxon. and Greenland House, Bucks.

Will
15 Sept. 1655, pr. 31 May 1662.PROB11/308/248.
Estates
Chiselhampton manor, advowsons of Stadhampton and Chiselhampton, Oxon.;VCH Oxon. vii. 10, 88. Greenland House, manors of Greenland and Eweden, land in Hambledon, Bucks. inherited in 1633 and sold to Bulstrode Whitelocke* for £6,500 in 1651.Bayley, House of D’Oyly, 30; Whitelocke Diary, 272; Coventry Docquets, 333, 572.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
the Minories, London 5 Aug. 1645-15 Apr. 1648.PA, Main Pprs. 2 Aug. 1645; CJ v. 532b.
Religion
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