SAUNDERS, Sir Nicholas (c.1563-1649), of Ewell, Surr.
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Family and Education
b. c. 1563, 1st s. of Nicholas Saunders† of Ewell and 1st w. Isabel, da. of Sir Nicholas Carew† of Beddington. Surr. educ. Balliol, Oxf. 1581, aged 18; I. Temple 1583. m. by 1583, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Richard Blount† of Williton, Som. and Coleman Street, London, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. suc. fa. 1587;M.L. Walker, ‘Manor of Batailles and the Fam. of Saunder in Ewell during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Cents.’, Surr. Arch. Colls. liv. 97, 102; Al. Ox.; I. Temple Admiss. Kntd. 11 May 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 107.d. 9 Feb. 1649. Add. 34172, p. 3.
Offices Held
J.p. Surr. 1590–6,Cal. Assize Recs. Surr. Indictments, Eliz. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 340, 422. 1597 – 1601, 1602–25, C231/1, ff. 43v, 117, 127; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 16. 1636-at least 1642; C231/5, p. 218; ASSI 35/84/6. commr. suppression of Jesuits, Surr. 1591–2; Walker, 97. collector subsidy, Surr. 1593; A.R. Bax, ‘Lay Subsidy Assessments for the County of Surr. in 1593 or 1594’, Surr. Arch. Colls. xviii. 200. commr. inquiry into lands of Henry Brooke alias Cobham†, 11th Lord Cobham, Surr. 1603, C181/1, f. 71v. subsidy 1608, 1622, 1624, SP14/31/1; C212/22/21, 23. inquiry, Wandle river, Surr. 1610, M.S. Giuseppi, ‘River Wandle in 1610’, Surr. Arch. Colls. xxi. 176. sewers, Surr. 1613, Kent and Surr. 1624–5. C181/2, f. 191; 181/3, ff. 114v, 161v.