JANE, Joseph (1595-1658), of Liskeard, Cornw.

Family and Education

bap. 1 Sept. 1595, o.s. of Thomas Jane of Liskeard and Honor, da. of ?one Molton of Pillaton, Cornw. m. (1) 29 June 1629, Jane (bur. 27 May 1632), da. of William? Sparke of Plymouth, Devon, 1da. d.v.p.; (2) 15 Aug. 1633, Loveday (bur. 7 June 1660), da. of William Kekewich of Catchfrench, Cornw., 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. suc. fa. 1636.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 587; Cornw. RO, FP126/1/1, pp. 78, 116, 219, 223, 226-7, 254; FP188/1/1a, p. 26; Reg. St. Andrew’s, Plymouth ed. M.C.S. Cruwys (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. 1954), p. 119; T51/1, p. 37. d. by 14 Sept. 1658. Nicholas Pprs. IV ed. G.F. Warner (Cam. Soc. ser. 3. xxxi), 68. sig. Joseph Jane.

Offices Held

Feoffee of town lands, Liskeard 1625, Cornw. RO, B/LIS/26, no. 10. chief steward by 1629-at least 1637, J. Allen, Hist. Liskeard, 239; Cornw. RO, B/LIS/289. capital burgess by 1631-at least 1648, Allen, 58, 271. mayor and j.p. 1631 – 32, May-Oct. 1636; Allen, 58; Cornw. RO, B/LIS/284, 288; FP126/1/1, p. 223. commr. salvaged goods, Cornw. 1631; APC, 1630–1, pp. 272–3. escheator, Devon and Cornw. 1632–3; List of Escheators comp. A.C. Wood (L. and I. Soc. lxxii), 38. commr. assessment, Cornw. 1641, SR, v. 82. (roy.) 1644–6. Allen, 86; A.C. Miller, Sir Richard Grenville, 198 n. 36.

Clerk of PC in exile (extraordinary) 1650 – 53, (ordinary) 1653–d. CCSP, ii. 63, 206; CSP Dom. 1657–8, pp. 377–8.

Parlimentarian

JANE, Joseph (1595-1658), of Liskeard, Cornw.

Main residence: Liskeard, Cornw.

Author

P.M.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

JANE, Joseph (1595-1658)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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