ROPER, Lancelot (1568/9-1647), of High Street, Austin ward, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. 1568 /9.E178/5816. educ. appr. merchant, London. Hull RO, Freemen’s Reg. 1396-1645, f. 125v. m. by 1598, Isabel (bur. 17 Feb. 1621), 7s. (3 d.v.p.) 4 da. (1 d.v.p.). Yorks. ERRO, PE158/1, pp. 87, 96, 101, 104, 112, 116, 452, 464, 466, 496; PE185/1, unfol. bur. 27 Apr. 1647 27 Apr. 1647. Yorks. ERRO, PE158/1, p. 510. sig. Lancelott Roper.

Offices Held

Freeman, Hull 1597; Hull RO, Freemen’s Reg. 1396–1645, f. 125v. collector subsidy, Whitefriar Ward, Hull 1599; Hull RO, Bench Bk. 4, f. 323. chamberlain, Hull 1603–4; Ibid. f. 353. collector Tenth and Fifteenth, Hull 1606; E401/2406. sheriff, Hull 1612 – 13, alderman 1617 – d., mayor 1619 – 20, 1630–31; Hull RO, Bench Bk. 5, ff. 12, 25v, 34, 116, 377. commr. piracy, Hull 1637, subsidy 1641, Poll Tax 1641, recvr. (jt.) billeting monies 1641, assessment 1642; C181/5, p. 80; SR, v. 84, 107, 115, 151 member, governing cttee., Hull 1643. Hull RO, Bench Bk. 5, f. 292.

Member, Hull Merchants’ Co. c.1597, Hull RO, Merchants’ Soc. Reg. 1647–1706 [DSN 1]. French Co. 1611. Select Charters of Trading Cos. ed. T.C. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 65.

Parlimentarian

ROPER, Lancelot (1568/9-1647), of High Street, Austin ward, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks.

Main residence: High Street, Austin ward, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks.

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

ROPER, Lancelot (1568/9-1647)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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