GAY, Richard (by 1559-1641), of Walcott Street and Westgate Street, Bath and Claverton, Som.

Family and Education

b. by 1559. Age calculated from record of admiss. as freeman. m. (1) 26 Aug. 1592, Agnes Masters, s.p.; (2) 27 Oct. 1611, Anne Chapman, s.p.; Abbey Church of SS. Peter and Paul, Bath ed. A.J. Jewers (Harl Soc. Reg. xxvii), i. 203, 207. (3) Alice Chambers, s.p. d. by Dec. 1641. PROB 11/187, f. 351.

Offices Held

Freeman, Bath 1580, alderman by 1614 – d., mayor and coroner 1614 – 15, 1620 – 21, 1625 – 26, 1632–3; Accts. of the Chamberlains of Bath, 1568–1602, p. 46; Bath RO, mayors of Bath transcript, 2; Procs. 1626, ii. 68. commr. subsidy, 1621 – 22, 1624. C212/22/20–1, 23.

Parlimentarian

GAY, Richard (by 1559-1641), of Walcott Street and Westgate Street, Bath and Claverton, Som.

Main residences: Walcott Street; Westgate Street, Bath; Claverton, Som.

Author

C.R.K.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

No

Addresses

Religion