PHELIPS, Sir Edward (1554-1614), of Boswell House, Drury Lane, Mdx.; Montacute, Som.; and Wanstead, Essex

Family and Education

b. c. 1554, 4th s. of Thomas Phelips† of Sock Denis, Som. and Elizabeth, da. of Matthew Smyth, merchant, of Bristol.A. Kittermaster, ‘Sir Edward Phelips’, Som. and Dorset N and Q, xxxi. 306-15. educ. ?St. Paul’s sch.; New Inn; M. Temple 1572, called ?1578. Smyth Corresp. (Bristol Rec. Soc. xxxv), 46; M. Temple Admiss. m. (1) c.1585, Margaret (bur. 18 Apr. 1590), da. of Robert Newdigate of Newdigate, Surr. 2s; (2) c.1601, Elizabeth (d.1638), da. of Thomas Pigott of Doddershall, Bucks., 1ch. d.v.p. Kittermaster, 306-15; S.W. Bates Harbin, Som. MPs, 135; Procs. Som. Antiq. and Nat. Hist. Soc. xxxii. (pt. 1), p. 64. suc. fa. in Montacute estate 1590; C142/228/6. Kntd. 23 July 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 114. d. 14 Sept. 1614. C142/366/190. sig. Ed[ward] Phelipps.

Offices Held

J.p. Som. c.1591–d. (custos rot. 1607–11), Durham 1604–9, Ripon and Cawood liberties, Yorks. 1605 – 10, Southwell liberty, Notts. 1607 – 10, Mdx. by 1608–d.; C181/1, ff. 97, 107–8; 181/2, ff. 44v, 81, 99v, 112–13. commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. by 1602 – d., Oxf. circ. 1603, Northern circ. 1604 – 10, London 1607 – d., Mdx. and the Verge 1607, 1610; C181/1, ff. 17, 53, 96v; 181/2, ff. 54–5, 57, 106v, 108v, 133, 194, 213v. v.-adm., I. of Purbeck, Dorset by 1602-at least 1605; C181/1, ff. 24, 117. commr. piracy, Dorset 1602 – 05, London 1603, sewers, Som. 1603, Hants and Wilts. 1605, Westminster 1611, West Ham, Essex 1613, subsidy, Som. 1608. Ibid. ff. 24, 62v, 66v, 70, 103v, 114; C181/2, ff. 140, 192v; SP14/31/1.

Reader, M. Temple 1596, bencher 1596–d.; MTR, 356, 364. king’s sjt. 1603–d.; List of Eng. Law Officers comp. J. Sainty (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. vii), 17. steward, Crown manors, Som. 1604; E315/310, f. 19. member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1604–d.; HMC Hatfield, xvi. 290. judge of assize, Northern circ. 1604 – 05, 1607 – 10, Western circ. 1610; J.S. Cockburn, Hist. Eng. Assizes, 268–9. fee’d counsel, Wells, Som. 1607; Som. RO, DD/PH/228/11. chan. to Prince Henry 1610–12; Som. RO, DD/PH/223/3. master of the Rolls 1611–d. List of Eng. Law Officers, 17.