KENT, John (c.1558-1630), of Market Place, Devizes, Wilts.

Family and Education

b. c. 1558, o.s. of Roger Kent of Coppenhall, Cheshire, and Petronelle Hawkins.Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. lix), 137. educ. Barnard’s Inn. Lansd. 47, f. 118. m. 13 Dec. 1585, Mary (d.1640), da. of Thomas Wyatt of Calne, Wilts., 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 1da. Wilts. RO, 2083/1, unfol.; PROB 11/183, f. 197v; Vis. Wilts. (Harl. Soc. cv-cvi), 47; E. Kite, Monumental Brasses of Wilts. 76; Wilts. RO, 1597/1, ff. 6r-v, 54. d. 1 Oct. 1630, aged 72. MI, St. John’s, Devizes. sig. John Kent.

Offices Held

?Estate commr. Wilts. to Frances Walsingham, countess of Clanricarde, c.1584–?d., I. Ide, ‘John Kent (1558–1630) of Devizes, Potterne and Winsley’, Wilts. Arch. Mag. lxxxviii. 91. Edward Seymour, 1st earl of Herford by 1617. Wilts. N and Q, iii. 361.

Coroner, Devizes 1587 – 1600, 1602–6, Wilts. RO, G20/1/16, ff. 110v, 185, 195v, 222v. member of the Twelve 1589, Ibid. f. 121. chamberlain (jt.) 1592 – 95, 1624–d., Ibid. ff. 150v, 158; G20/1/17, ff. 27, 65v; B.H. Cunnington, Some Annals of Bor. of Devizes, i. pt. 2, p. 20. town clerk 1592–d., Wilts. RO, G20/1/16, ff. 130, 213. mayor 1602–3, Ibid. ff. 188, 195–6. j.p. 1605–d., Ibid. f. 214v. steward of ct. of record (jt.) 1612–29, Wilts. RO, G20/1/17, ff. 31v, 65v. warden, new almshouse 1603–26; Ibid. f. 202; Wilts. RO, G20/1/17, f. 49. clerk of the peace, Wilts. 1597–1626. E. Stephens, Clerks of the Counties, 178. Stephens observes, however, that bet. 1597 and 1600 Kent’s forename appears on the pipe rolls as ‘William’.

Parlimentarian

KENT, John (c.1558-1630), of Market Place, Devizes, Wilts.

Main residence: Market Place, Devizes, Wilts.

Author

H.J.L.

A.D.T.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

KENT, John (c.1558-1630)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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