Family and Education
b. c. 1569,C142/665/58. 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Christopher Chiborne of Messing and his 1st or 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of Edward Laurence of East Tilbury, Essex. P. Morant, Hist. and Antiqs. of Essex (1798), ii. 177; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 374-5, which describes two of Christopher’s wives as his 1st. educ. Furnival’s Inn; L. Inn 1586, called 1594. LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. ii. 35. m. (1) settlement 18 Aug. 1593, Essex RO, D/DH V.A.15, 16. Jane (bur. 10 Jan. 1606), da. of Thomas Spilman of Great Chart, Kent, 1s. 3da.; (2) by 20 July 1608, Winifred, da. of William Wiseman* of Mayland, Essex, 1s. d.v.p. 3da.; (3) settlement 8 Aug. 1613, Margaret (d.1628), da. of Sir Charles Young of York, s.p. suc. fa. 1606; Essex RO, microfiche D/P 188/1/1; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 374-5, 527; PROB 11/115, f. 102r-v; Canterbury Mar. Lics. 1619-60 ed. J.M. Cowper, 325-6; C142/384/162; D. Lysons, Environs of London, i. 485. Vis. Essex names his 1st wife ‘Anne’, an error reproduced by W. Prest, Rise of the Barristers, 350. Kntd. 19 May 1619. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 171. d. 14 Nov. 1619. Diary of Sir Richard Hutton 1614-39 ed. W.R. Prest (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. ix), 24. sig. Charles Chiborne.
Offices Held

Reader, Furnival’s Inn 1599, Readings and Moots at Inns of Ct. Vol. II ed. S.E. Thorne and J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. cv), p. cv. reader’s steward (jt.), L. Inn 1600, bencher 1609 – 14, marshal 1612 – 13, reader 1613; LI Black Bks. ii. 59, 120, 142, 147. recorder, Maldon, Essex 1608–d.; Essex RO, D/B 3/1/19, ff. 15, 123v. sjt.-at-law 1614, to Prince Charles 13 Jan. 1619–d.; SC6/Jas.I/1682, unfol. fee’d counsel, Vintners’ Co. London by 1617. GL, ms 15333/2, p. 672.

Commr. sewers, Essex 1607, highways’ repair 1614, C181/2, ff. 32, 33v, 226. assist Colchester bailiffs, 1616, APC, 1615–16, pp. 422–3. charitable uses 10 June 1619–d.; C93/8/5. j.p. Essex by 1607 – d., Maldon 1608, Harwich, Essex 1618 – d.; freeman, Maldon 1608. Cal. Assize Recs. Essex Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 14, 218; C231/4, f. 71; Essex RO, D/B 3/1/19, f. 15.

Main residences: Messing Hall, Essex; St. Andrews, Holborn; Lincoln's Inn, London.
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Commons 1604-1629
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CHIBORNE, Charles (c.1569-1619)

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Oxford 1644
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