Family and Education
b. c. 1535, 5th s. of William Boys (d.c.1549), of Fredville, Nonington, Kent by Mary, sis. and h. of Sir Edward Ringeley of Knowlton, Kent. educ. ?Trinity, Camb. 1552; M. Temple 1560, called by 1570. m. (1) Dorothy, da. of Thomas Pawley of London, 1s. 1da. both d. young; (2) Jane (d.1635), da. and coh. of Thomas Walker of London, s.p. Kntd. 1604.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. lxxv), 123-4; W. Berry, Co. Genealogies, Kent, 440-1; L. B. Behrens, Under Thirty-Seven Kings, passim; Add. 44918; 45500, ff. 42, 71.
Offices Held
Recorder, Sandwich 1572 – 79, from 1606; of counsel to the Cinque Ports by 1573 to at least 1594; steward of liberties to abp. of Canterbury from c. 1572; brodhull representative for Sandwich 1575; Autumn reader and bencher, M. Temple 1580, treasurer 1598 – 99; common councilman and recorder, Canterbury from 1592; judge of Chancery court of Cinque Ports at Dover; j.p.q. Kent from 1573, commr. piracy from 1578.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: St. Gregory's, Canterbury; the Middle Temple, London; Betteshanger, Kent.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
BOYS, John (c.1535-1612)
Will
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Oxford 1644
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Religion
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