SEWALL (SHOWELL), Henry (c.1544-1628), of Bayley Lane, Coventry, Warws.

Family and Education

b. c. 1544. Aged c.80 in 1624: PROB 11/153, f. 498. educ. appr. draper, Coventry by 1562. Coventry Archives, PA 154/2, p. 55. m. Margaret, 2s. 2da. PROB 11/153, ff. 498v-9. d. 16 Apr. 1628. C142/448/101. sig. Henry Sewall.

Offices Held

Master, Drapers’ Co., Coventry 1573, 1577, 1582, 1587, 1591, 1600, 1609, ?1611, ?1620, ?1623. Coventry Archives, PA 154/2, pp. 87, 94, 102, 109, 116, 132, 150, 158, 181, 189.

Sheriff, Coventry 1581–2, List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 178. member, Gt. Council 1585 – d., mayor 1587 – 88, 1606 – 07, alderman by 1597–d., Coventry Archives, BA H/C/17/1, ff. 102, 107v, 134v, 160v, 290–1. commr. enclosure riots 1607, C181/2, f. 42 (as ‘Shevell’). subsidy 1608, 1621 – 22, 1624, SP14/31/1; C212/22/20–1, 23. j.p. 1621–d., Coventry Archives, BA H/C/17/1, f. 244. commr. Forced Loan 1626. C193/12/2, f. 76.

Parlimentarian

SEWALL (SHOWELL), Henry (c.1544-1628), of Bayley Lane, Coventry, Warws.

Main residence: Bayley Lane, Coventry, Warws.

Showell

Author

P.M.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

SEWALL (SHOWELL), Henry (c.1544-1628)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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