Family and Education
s. of William Jeffery, merchant, of Newport, I.o.W.Royalist’s Notebk. ed. F. Bamford, 139. m. Barbara (d.1630), PROB 11/158, f. 87v. 5s. 4da. F. Brown, Som. Wills, v. 61. Kntd. c. Oct. 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 129. d. 7 May 1611. C142/324/169; Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 267.
Offices Held

Town steward, Southampton 1589 – 90, bailiff 1592 – 94, sheriff 1595 – 96, mayor 1598 – 99, alderman by 1602; J.S. Davies, Southampton, 177; Court Leet Recs. ed. F.J.C. Hearnshaw (Soton Rec. Soc. iv), 374; Bk. of Remembrance ed. H.W. Gidden (Soton Rec. Soc. xxvii), 99, 100. commr. gaol delivery, Southampton 1602–d., C181/1, ff. 26v, 123v; 181/2, ff. 20v, 118. piracy, 1603–d.; C181/1, f. 67v; 181/2, f. 138v. freeman, Lyme Regis, Dorset 1606; Dorset RO, B7/B6/11, f. 9. j.p. Dorset 1608–d.; SP14/33, f. 16v. commr. subsidy, Dorset and Southampton 1608, SP14/31/1. aid, Southampton 1609. SP14/43/107.

Member, French Co. 1611. Select Charters of Trading Cos. ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 65.

Main residences: High Street, Southampton, Hants.; Catherston-Leweston, Dorset.
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JEFFERY, Sir John (-d.1611)

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