MOUNDEFORD, Edmund (c.1595-1643), of Dunton’s Manor, Feltwell, Norf.
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Family and Education
b. c. 1595, o.s. of Sir Edmund Moundeford of Feltwell, and Frances, da. of Thomas Gawdy, of Claxton, Norf.F. Blomefield, Hist. Norf. ii. 191educ. Wymondham g.s., Norf.; Caius, Camb. 1612.Al. Cant.m. (1) 2 Sept. 1614, Penelope, da. of William Brews of Wenham, Suff., s.p.; (2) by 1632, da. of Sir John Heveningham* of Ketteringham, Suff., s.p.Knyvett Letters ed. B. Scofield (Norf. Rec. Soc. xx), 52-3; Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 202, 221; W. Rye, Norf. Fams. 580; PROB 11/192, ff. 360-3.suc. fa. 1617; C142/369/166. Kntd. 9 Sept. 1629. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 197.d. 5 May 1643. C142/710/33.
Offices Held
Commr. Forced Loan, Norf. 1626; W. Rye, Norf. State Pprs. 48. capt. militia ft. 1626-at least 1628; Ibid. 32, 78, 130. commr. sewers, King’s Lynn, Norf. 1630, C181/4, f. 21v. Lincs. and Norf. 1630, Ibid. f. 31v. Hunts. and Lincs. 1631, 1635, Ibid. f. 93v; 181/5, f. 10. Lincs. Norf. and Northants. 1641, C181/5, f. 196v. Lincs. Norf. and Hunts. 1641, Ibid. f. 215. swans, Norf. 1632; C181/4, f. 123. j.p. Norf. 1632 – d.; commr. canal inquiry, Bury St. Edmunds, Suff. 1636, PC2/45, p. 435. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. 1640, C181/5, f. 341. assessment, Norf. 1641–d.,SR, v. 153; A. and O. i. 93. disarming recusants 1641;LJ, iv. 385b. dep. lt. Norf. 1642,CJ, ii. 889a. commr. sequestration 1643.A. and O. i. 115.
Providence Is. Co. 1630-at least 1636.CSP Col. 1574–1660, pp. 123, 166, 175.