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b. c. 13 Oct. 1591,Calculated from WARD 7/33/100. o.s. of William Masham of St. Botolph without Aldgate, London and Alice Calton. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 1607; I. Temple 1610. m. 26 June 1611, Elizabeth (d. by 18 Mar. 1656), da. of Sir Francis Barrington* of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, wid. of Sir James Altham (d.1610) of Mark Hall, Latton, Essex, 3s. (at least 1 d.v.p.) 1da. d.v.p. suc. fa. 1605; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 244, 444-5; I. Temple database of admiss.; Al. Ox.; D. Lysons, Environs of London, iii. 501; PCC Admons. iv. 1596-1608 ed. M. Fitch (Brit. Rec. Soc. lxxxi), 86; PROB 11/256, f. 389; Essex RO, microfiche D/P 111/1/1, da.’s burial, 10 Oct. 1644; G. Aylmer, State’s Servants, 98. cr. bt. 20 Dec. 1621. C66/2247. admon. 1 July 1656. PROB 11/256, f. 390. sig. W[illia]m Masham.
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J.p. Essex 1618 – 26, 1628 – 36, 6 Apr. – 15 July 1642, 1644–d. (custos rot. 1654–d.), Mdx. 1629; C231/4, p. 59, 260; 231/5, pp. 18, 222, 517, 530; HMC 10th Rep. iv. 507–10; Names of the JPs (1650), p. 21; Essex Q. Sess. Order Bk. 1652–61 ed. D.H. Allen, xxxvii. commr. bankruptcy of William Steward, Essex 1618–19, C54/2397/25. subsidy 1621 – 22, 1624, 1641, C212/22/20–1, 23; SR, v. 62, 84. oyer and terminer (repair of highways) 1622, 1645, Home circ. 1623 – 36, 1642; C181/3, ff. 68v, 78; 181/5, ff. 50, 65, 222, 254. freeman, Maldon, Essex 1624; Essex RO, D/B 3/3/392/53. commr. Forced Loan, Essex 20-c.25 Oct. 1626, Bodl. Firth C4, p. 257. gaol delivery, Colchester, Essex 1629 – d., Essex 1644 – at least45, Havering-atte-Bower, Essex 1655–d., C181/4, f. 6v; 181/5, ff. 237v-8; 181/6, pp. 104, 149, 185, 347. charitable uses, Essex 1629 – at least30, 1634-at least 1636, C192/1, unfol. sewers, Stepney marshes, Mdx. 1629 – at least39, Dengie, Rochford and Thurstable hundreds, Essex 1633 – at least45, Essex and Herts. 1638, C181/4, ff. 23, 137v; 181/5, ff. 112v, 116v, 142v, 249. perambulation of Waltham Forest, Essex 1641, C181/5, f. 208. poll tax 1641, Irish aid 1642, SR, v. 107, 141. assessment 1644 – at least52, Mdx. 1650 – at least52, Westminster 1650-at least 1652, A. and O. i. 91; ii. 466, 471–2, 663, 668–9. sequestration of delinquents 1643, execution of ordinances 1643, levying money 1643; Ibid. i. 112, 169, 229. dep. lt. Essex, by 1643; Eg. 2643, ff. 19, 20v. commr. Eastern Assoc., Essex 1643, felling of timber on delinquents’ estates, Essex and Kent 1644, New Model Ordinance, Essex 1645, militia, Essex 1648, 1655; A. and O. i. 292, 423, 621, 1236; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 78. gov. Westminster sch. Mdx. 1649; commr. for judging poor prisoners, Essex and Colchester 1653, scandalous ministers, Essex 1654. A. and O. ii. 257, 758, 971.

?Member, Virg. Co. 1623. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iv. 214.

Commr. excise 1645, revenues of Elector Palatine 1645, Westminster Abbey 1645, exclusion from sacrament 1646, indemnity 1647; A. and O. i. 691, 784, 804, 853, 937. member, Derby House cttee. 1648; CSP Dom. 1648–9, p. 1. commr. church govt. 1648, trial of Chas. I 1649; A. and O. i. 1208, 1254. cllr. of state 1649–53 (lord pres. 25 Oct.-22 Nov. 1652); Ibid. ii. 2, 335; CSP Dom. 1651–2, pp. 454, 501; 1652–3, p. 451. commr. to oversee treas.-at-war 1649, sale of bps.’ lands 1649 – 50, remove obstructions to sale of royalists’ lands 1651, Army finance 1652; A. and O. ii. 64, 152, 689; VCH Essex, ii. 62; Index of Royalists comp. M.G.W. Peacock (Index Soc. ii), 5. master (jt.), ct. of c.p. by 1655. Aylmer, 81, 98.

Elder, Essex classis 1646. H. Smith, ‘Presbyterian Organisation of Essex’, Essex Review, xxviii. 16.

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MASHAM, Sir William, 1st Bt. (1591-1656), of Otes, High Laver, Essex
Main residence: Otes, High Laver, Essex.
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MASHAM, Sir William, 1st Bt. (1591-1656)

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