DODINGTON (DORRINGTON), Sir William I (1572-1638), of Breamore, Hants.
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Family and Education
b. 1 July 1572,C142/261/28. o.s. of William Dodington†, auditor of imprests 1570-95, of Aldersgate, London and Breamore and Christian, da. of William Walsingham of Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent, wid. of John Tamworth† of Sutton, Lincs. C.A. Bradford, ‘William Dodington, a Tragedy of St. Sepulchre’s, Holborn, 1600’, London and Mdx. Arch. Soc. Trans. n.s. vii. 125.educ. M. Temple 1591.M. Temple Admiss.m. (settlement 17 Feb. 1595) C142/378/132. Mary (d.1629), da. and h. of Sir John Herbert*, sec. of state 1600-17, of Neath Abbey, Glam. and Mortlake, Surr., 5s. (3 d.v.p.) 6da. (2 d.v.p.).Cardiff Recs. ed. J.H. Matthews, iii. 512; PROB 11/130, f. 346; PROB 11/179, f. 362v.suc. fa. 1600; C142/261/28. Kntd. 23 July 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 118.d. 23 Oct. 1638. WARD 7/95/136.sig. W[illiam] Dodington.
Offices Held
J.p. Hants 1602 – 34, 1636–d.;Whithed Letter Bk. (Hants Rec. ser. i), 22; C231/1, f. 129; 231/5, f. 151. commr. sewers, Hants and Wilts. 1605, I.o.W. 1631; C181/1, f. 103v; 181/4, f. 89. sheriff, Hants 1605–6;List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 56. commr. survey, Hurst Castle, Hants 1608, SP/14/37/109. disarming recusants, Hants 1613, 1625,Whithed Letter Bk. 98; Add. 21922, f. 38. survey, Christchurch bridge, Hants 1617, Hants RO, 4M53/140, f. 206v. subsidy, Hants 1621 – 22, 1624; C212/22/20, 21, 23. col. militia ft. Hants by 1626–d.; Add. 21922, ff. 62, 81v, 110, 151v, 159. commr. martial law, Hants 1626–8,CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 419; 1627–8, p. 440; C181/3, f. 241. billeting 1626–8,APC 1626, pp. 221, 224; 1627–8, p. 318. oyer and terminer 1628, Western circ. 1629–37, C181/3, ff. 241, 259v; 181/4, ff. 11v, 185; 181/5, ff. 5v, 61v. swans, Hants, Wilts., Dorset, Som., Devon, Cornw. and I.o.W. 1629. C181/4, f. 2v.