PEIRCE (PIERSE), Sir Edmund (d.1667), of Greenwich, Kent and Holborn, Mdx.

Family and Education

educ. Corpus Christi, Camb. 1629, Trinity Hall 1633, Ll.B 1635, Ll.D 1639, DCL 1639; adv. Doctors’ Commons 1640-6, 1661-; d. ; M. Temple 1641. m. 16 Aug. 1629, Jane (bur. 18 Oct. 1665), da. of James Franklyn of Maidstone, Kent, 1s. 1da. Kntd. 10 July 1645.C. A. H. Franklin, Franklyn Fams. 26; Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 3), ii. 210; Mar. Lic. (Harl. Soc. xxiv), 77; City of Oxford (Oxf. Hist. Soc. xxvii), 208.

Offices Held

Commissary, archdeaconry of Suff. 1637 – 42; dep. v.-adm. Suff. 1637 – c.40, commr. for piracy 1640, judge of Admiralty, Cinque Ports May 1660 – d.; chancellor, Wells dioc. July 1660 – d.; j.p. Essex, Kent and Mdx. July 1660 – d., Som. 1662 – d.; commr, for assessment, Kent Aug. 1660–3, 1664 – d., Colchester and Essex 1664 – d., corporations, Kent 1662 – 63, loyal and indigent officers, Essex, Kent, London and Westminster 1662.B. P. Levack, Civil Lawyers, 261–2; SP23/192/623; HMC Wells, ii. 430; Q. Sess. Recs. (Som. Rec. Soc. xxxiv), p. xvi.

Proctor, ct. of arches 1639; master of requests 1644 – 46; master in Chancery June 1660 – d.

Officer, R. Life Gds. 1642; col. of horse (royalist) 1643 – 46, 1648; judge adv.-gen. c.1643–6.

Parlimentarian

PEIRCE (PIERSE), Sir Edmund (d.1667), of Greenwich, Kent and Holborn, Mdx.

Main residences: Greenwich, Kent; Holborn, Mdx.

Author

B.D.H.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

PEIRCE (PIERSE), Sir Edmund (-d.1667)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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