Family and Education
b. c. 1564, s. of Henry Doubleday of London, Haberdasher. MTR, 384; GL, ms 15857/1, ff. 98v, 126. educ. M. Temple 1598, called 1608. m. (1) 23 Mar. 1587, Agnes (bur. 30 Nov. 1589), wid. of John Varneham of Westminster and Gravesend, Kent, gardener, s.p.; Memorials of St. Margaret’s, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke, 300, 453; PROB 11/69, f. 565v. (2) by 21 Nov. 1590, Alice (bur. 9 June 1597), wid. of William Cooke of London, Fishmonger and Vintner, 2s. (at least 1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 prob. d.v.p.); WAM, lease bk. vii. f. 149v; GL, ms 15482/1, f. 48v; Memorials of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 54, 56, 57, 60, 468. (3) by Sept. 1598, Anne (bur. 28 Dec. 1607), 1s. prob. d.v.p. 4da. (1 ); Memorials of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 63-65, 67, 73, 489. (4) by Dec. 1609, Margaret, da. of Lawrence Caldwall of Battersea, Surr., 6s. (2 ) 3da. (1 ). bur. 26 Dec. 1620 26 Dec. 1620. Ibid. 80, 83, 85, 87, 90, 95, 98, 101, 106, 504-5, 514, 519. sig. Edmund Dowbleday.
Offices Held

Freeman, Haberdashers’ Co. 1585 – 90, Vintners’ Co. 1590–d.; GL, ms 15857/1, f. 126; 15482/1, f. 48v. feoffee, Westminster Military Co. by 1617. E112/100/1174.

Scrivener, London 1587; WAM, lease bk. vii. f. 6. overseer of poor, St. Margaret’s, Westminster 1590–1, WCA, E147 (1590–1 acct.), f. 1v. vestryman by 1603, WCA, E2413, unfol. trustee for poor by 1605-at least 1607, C54/1826; WAM, 36446. assessor, subsidy, 1597, 1600, E179/142/235, 237. commr. subsidy 1603, 1607 – 08, 1611; E115/418/40; E179/142/245; SP14/31/1; E115/87/30. high constable, Westminster 1592–5, WCA, E6 (1592–3 acct.); H.F. Westlake, St. Margaret’s Westminster, 211. burgess by 1601; W.H. Manchée, Westminster City Fathers, 210; WCA, WCB1 passim, WCB2 passim. commr. sewers, Westminster 1604, C181/1, ff. 88, 100. London and suburbs 1607, Lansd. 168, f. 152v. Coln valley, Herts. and Mdx. 1609; C181/2, f. 90. bailiff, Stanwell and Neate manors, Mdx. 1605-at least 1610; E315/310, f. 36; LR7/14/10. commr. houses belonging to kpr. of Westminster Palace 1611, E178/4192. oyer and terminer, London 1612 – at least13, 1618, C181/2, ff. 179, 195; 231/4, p. 119. Mdx. 1612, C181/2, ff. 178, 197. Newgate 1619, Ibid. f. 344v. annoyances, Mdx. 1613, Ibid. f. 199. new buildings, London and suburbs 1615, APC, 1615–16, pp. 121–2. ltcy. Mdx. 1617–20, C66/2137/7. tumult at Spanish amb.’s house 1618, C181/2, f. 319v. survey, L. Inn Fields 1618; T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 83. j.p. Surr. 1613–d., Cal. Assize Recs. Surr. Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 91, 196. Mdx. by 1613-at least 1617, Mdx. Sessions Recs. ed. W. le Hardy, i. 133; iv. 284. Westminster 1619–d. C181/2, f. 331v; C181/3, f. 16.

Teller of the mint (jt.) 1601–9, C66/1559 m.14; E351/2030, unfol. (sole) 1609 – d., warden (jt.) 1609–d.; C66/1822; E351/2034, unfol.; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 571. distiller of herbs and sweet waters, and librarian, Whitehall (jt.) 1604; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 89. commr. inquiry, lands of the earl of Somerset 1616, Thomas Eltofts 1617; C181/2, ff. 258, 289v. master in Chancery (extraordinary), July 1620–d. C216/1/77.

Main residences: the Neat House, King Street West, WestminsterWCA, F3344; unfol; WCA, E150 (1615 acct.), f. 3v.; the Middle Temple, London.
Dubbleday
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Commons 1604-1629
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DOUBLEDAY (DUBBLEDAY), Edmund (c.1564-1620)

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