NEWMAN, George (c.1562-1627), of St. Margaret’s, Canterbury, Kent and Doctors’ Commons, London

Family and Education

b. c. 1562, s. of Richard Newman. educ. Trin. Hall, Camb. 1581, LLB 1584, LLD 1589. m. (1) Elizabeth, da. of Peter Wycliffe of Wycliffe, Yorks., 1s. 1da.; (2) Mary Gough, 1da.; (3) Sybilla, da. of George Wenland of Allensmore, Herefs., 4s. 4da. Kntd. 12 Nov. 1616; d. 7 June 1627. P. Parsons, Monuments and Painted Glass in Kent, 259-60; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. liv), 119; Al. Cant.; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 160; C142/435/122. sig. G[eorge] Newman.

Offices Held

Surrogate commissary-gen. dioc. of Canterbury by 1587 – 97, commissary-gen. 1597–1617; Arch. Cant. lvi. 1; xxi. 103; J.M. Potter, ‘Eccles. Ct. in Dioc. of Canterbury’ (London Univ. M.Phil. thesis, 1973), p. 134. official, Archdeacon’s Ct. Canterbury 1597–d.; Potter, 133. master in Chancery (extraordinary) 1603-at least 1604; C216/1/24; STAC 8/252/26, f. 58. member, Coll. of Advocates 1598 – 1604, 1604–d. (full admiss.), PRO 30/26/8, ff. 80v, 132; G.D. Squibb, Doctors’ Commons, 167; B.P. Levack, Civil Lawyers in Eng. 258. official, Ct. of Arches 1607, D.M. Owen, Cat. of Lambeth Mss, 24. auditor (jt.) 1612, PRO30/26/8, f. 99. dep. dean of Arches 1613–17; Cott. Cleopatra F.II, f. 169r-v; Levack, 258. member, High Commission, Kent by 1599, Canterbury province by 1605-at least 1620; Arch. Cant. lxxxix. 188; R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 355; HMC 13th Rep. IV, 383. judge, Admlty. Ct. of the Cinque Ports 1602–d., HMC 5th Rep. 139; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 47; APC, 1626, p. 261; 1627, p. 393. Ct. of Delegates by 1613-at least 1618, DEL 5/5, ff. 3, 169. Ct. of Audience, Canterbury province 1617-at least 1620, Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 105; Usher, 355. Ct. of Arches by 1619 – at least21, PCC by 1619 – at least21, Admty. 1620; DEL 8/70, ff. 16r-v, 18, 22v-3. master/clerk/commissary of Faculties by 1613–18. Cott. Cleopatra F.II, f. 169; Lansd. 156, f. 326; Levack, 258.

Freeman, Dover, Kent 1601, Canterbury 1608; Add. 29625, f. 37; Roll of Freemen of City of Canterbury comp. J.M. Cowper, 321. j.p. Kent 1602-at least 1625; C231/1, f. 146; Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 158. commr. piracy, Cinque Ports 1612 – at least16, oyer and terminer, Sandwich, Kent 1614; C181/2, ff. 185, 198, 245. collector, Benevolence, clergy of Canterbury dioc. (sole) and civilians in the Arches (jt.) 1614; E351/1950, unfol. commr. charitable uses, Kent 1616, C93/7/7. sewers 1625, C181/3, f. 157v. Forced Loan 1626. Harl. 6846, f. 37.

Parlimentarian

NEWMAN, George (c.1562-1627), of St. Margaret’s, Canterbury, Kent and Doctors’ Commons, London

Main residences: St. Margaret's, Canterbury, KentCanterbury Cathedral Archives, CC/FA/22(2), f. 424v.; Doctors' Commons, London.

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A.D.T.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

NEWMAN, George (c.1562-1627)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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Religion

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