GRIMSTON, Harbottle (1603-1685), of Bradfield Hall, Essex and Lincoln’s Inn, London

J.p. Mdx. 1634 – at least38, 1660 – d., Essex 1638 – 48, 1660 – d., Herts. 1660 – d., St. Albans, Herts. (bor. and liberty) 1660-at least 1673; C231/5, ff. 128, 319; CSP Dom. 1637–8, p. 507; HMC 10th Rep. iv. 508–10; Essex Q. Sess. Order Bk. 1652–61 ed. D.H. Allen, xxxvi; C220/9/4, ff. 23, 36v, 53; C193/12/4, ff. 33v, 51, 72v; C181/7, pp. 52–3, 621. dep. lt. Essex 1642 – at least43, 1660-at least 1662, B. Whitelocke, Memorials of Eng. Affairs, i. 172; HMC 7th Rep. 550; HALS, Verulam ms IX. A. 43a, 46. Herts. 1660–?1666; SP29/11, f. 271; 29/42, f. 114v; 29/60, f. 141v. commr. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 1636 – at least41, 1660 – at least71, Essex 1640, London 1660 – at least64, Surr. and Suss. 1662, Herts. 1664, gaol delivery, Colchester, Essex 1637 – at least41, 1661 – at least71, Essex 1644 – at least45, London 1670 – at least72, sewers, Lexden and Winstree hundreds, Essex 1641, C181/5, pp. 114, 170, 366, 373, 423, 426, 474–5, 507; 181/7, pp. 68, 99, 130, 169, 294, 303, 560, 589, 603, 630. subsidy, Essex, Colchester and Harwich 1641, Harwich bor. recs. ms 97/6/2; SR, v. 62, 84. Essex 1661, 1663 – 65, 1672, 1677, 1679, Herts. 1661, 1663 – 65, 1672, 1677, 1679, St. Albans, 1661, 1663 – 65, 1677, 1679, Colchester 1672, 1677, 1679, SR, v. 331–2, 458, 460, 530, 532, 758–60, 810, 812, 905–8. poll tax, Essex, Colchester and Harwich 1641, Irish aid 1642, Ibid. 62, 107, 141. assessment, Essex 1644 – at least48, Colchester 1644 – at least48, Herts. 1657-at least 1660, A. and O. i. 91, 536–7, 638, 965–6, 1082–3; ii. 1070, 1370. levying money, Essex 1643, sequestration 1643, Colchester 1643, Eastern Assoc., Essex and Colchester 1643, New Model Ordinance, 1645; Ibid. i. 112, 147, 170, 229, 292, 621. commr. militia, Essex 1660, Herts. 1660, Ibid. ii. 1431–2. recusancy, Essex 1675. CTB, 1672–5, p. 750.

Recorder, Colchester 1638–49, Essex RO, D/Y 2/8, p. 69; Clutterbuck, i. 94; T.C. Glines, ‘Pols. and Govt. in Colchester, 1660–93’, (Univ. Wisconsin Ph.D. thesis, 1974), p. 66. Harwich 1634 – at least48, 1665–d.; Harwich bor. recs. ms 98/3, f. 58; Harwich Bor. Charters (1798), p. 57; HP Commons, 1660–90, ii. 446. bencher, L. Inn 1648 – d., kpr. of Black Bk. 1653, treas. 1658; LI Black Bks. ii. 379, 397, 420. high steward, Colchester 1663 – at least79, St. Albans 1664–d. Colchester Bor. Charters comp. W.G. Benham, 116; SR, v. 906; A.E. Gibbs, Corp. Recs. of St. Albans, 7, 81, 85.

Vestryman, parish of St. Bartholomew Exchange, London; Vestry Min. Bks. of St. Bartholomew Exchange ed. E. Freshfield, p. xxii. elder, Essex classis 1646–8. H. Smith, ‘Presbyterian Organisation of Essex’, Essex Review, xxviii. 16.

Member, Derby House cttee. 1648; CSP Dom. 1648–9, p. 1. commr. treaty of Newport 1648, Ibid. 277. church govt. 1648, sale of bp.’s lands 1648, militia 1648; A. and O. i. 1208, 1228, 1236. cllr. of state 1660; CJ, vii. 849b. master of the Rolls 1660–d.; HALS, Verulam ms IX. A. 41; HMC 1st Rep. 56. commr. to execute office of lord kpr. in Chancery causes 1670-at least 1672. HALS, Verulam ms IX. A. 51; XIII. A. 35.

Speaker of the House of Commons 1660. CJ, viii. 1a.