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b. 1589 /90, o.s. of (Sir) Edmund Sheffield* and Elizabeth. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1609; L. Inn 1612.Al. Cant.; LI Admiss. m. (1) 4 June 1615, Elizabeth (d. 31 July 1633), da. of John Darley of Kilnhurst, Yorks., wid. of Henry Topham of Aglethorpe, Yorks. (d. c.1612) and Sir Edmund Sheffield of York (d.1614), s.p.; St. Martin’s York (Yorks. Par. Reg. Soc. xxxvi), 57; Familiae Minorum Gentium (Harl. Soc. xxxix), 994; The Gen. n.s. xxxii. 111; C2/Jas.I/T10/71; F. Drake, Eboracum, 328. (2) lic. 23 Sept. 1634, aged 45, Mary (admon. 9 July 1639), da. and coh. of John Dent, Salter of London, wid. of Sir Henry Savile*, 1st bt., of Methley, Yorks., s.p. London Mar. Lics. ed. J. Foster, 1214; York Wills (Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. ser. xxxii), 245. suc. fa. 1615; Borthwick, City of York Act Bk. 1, f. 129. Kntd. 11 Apr. 1617. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 162. d. 26 Oct. 1646. C2/Chas.I/H111/21. sig. W[illiam] Sheiffeilde.
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J.p. Yorks. (N. Riding) 1617 – 43, York 1626 – 43, Ripon liberty 1628–42; C231/4, ff. 44, 217v; C181/3, f. 245. commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 1619 – 42, sewers, Lincs. (north of R. Gleane) 1619 – 27, subsidy, N. Riding 1622, 1624, recusants, Northern parts 1627 – 30, sewers, N. Riding 1627 – 32, Derwent 1629, Ainsty 1633; C181/2, ff. 333v, 353v; 181/3, ff. 169, 223; 181/4, ff. 1, 148v; C212/22/21, 23; APC, 1627, p. 313; CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 301. capt., militia ft. N. Riding by 1635; Add. 28082, f. 80v. dep. lt. N. Riding 1638–42; HMC Cowper, ii. 205–8; Strafforde Letters (1739) ed. W. Knowler, ii. 194. commr. assessment N. Riding 1641 – 44, Poll Tax 1641, Irish Aid 1642, sequestration 1643, levying of money 1643. SR, v. 61, 83, 107, 141; A. and O. i. 91, 112, 148, 229–30.

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SHEFFIELD, William (1589/90-1646), of Mowthorpe, Terrington, Yorks.
Main residence: Mowthorpe, Terrington, Yorks.
Author
J.P.F.
S.H.
Volume
Commons 1604-1629
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SHEFFIELD, William (1589/90-1646)

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