Family and Education
b. 21 Oct. 1543, 1st s. of Robert Hicks, Ironmonger, of Soper Lane, London and Juliana, da. of William Arthur of Clapton in Gordano, Som.;Regs. St. Mary Le Bow, Cheapside, All Hallows, Honey Lane, and St. Pancras, Soper Lane, London ed. W. B. Bannerman (Harl. Soc. Reg. xliv), 128; PROB 11/40, f. 72v; Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 80-1. bro. of Sir Baptist Hicks, 1st Bt.*; educ. ?St. Paul’s g.s.; Trin. Camb. 1559; L. Inn 1565, called 1577. M. McDonnell, Regs. St. Paul’s School, 41; Al. Cant.; LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. i. 402. m. Dec. 1594 (with £5,000+), Elizabeth (bur. 14 Feb. 1635), Gabriel Colston, Grocer, of London, wid. of Henry Parvish (d. Aug. 1593), merchant, of London and Ruckholt, 2s. 1da. A.G.R. Smith, Servant of the Cecils, 102, 163; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 466; Lansd. 93, f. 56v; VCH Essex, vi. 195. suc. fa. by 22 Feb. 1558; PROB 11/40, f. 73. Kntd. 6 Aug. 1604. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 135. d. 15 Aug. 1612. Smith, 174.
Offices Held

Servant to Lord Burghley (Sir William Cecil†) 1573, sec. 1580 – 98; dep. for compositions (jt.), Alienations Office 1609–?d. Ibid. 28, 36, 131.

Feodary, Essex 1598 – 1601; recvr.-gen. of Crown lands, Essex, Herts., London and Mdx. 1603 – 04; dep. steward, Barking and other manors, Essex 1603 – 08, steward 1608–d.; Ibid. 111, 128. commr. inquiry regarding damage to G. Inn Fields, Clerkenwell Fields, Finsbury Fields and Moorfields, Mdx. 1603, inquiry, lands of Henry Brooke†, 11th Lord Cobham, Essex 1603, sewers, Lea Valley 1604 – 09, Mdx. 1604, London and Mdx. 1606 – 11, Essex 1611 – 12, Westminster 1611; C181/1, ff. 50v, 71v, 89v, 100v; 181/2, ff. 20, 50, 97v, 137, 140v, 153v, 165v. j.p. Essex 1605 – d., Mdx. 1609–d.; Smith, 111. commr. oyer and terminer, the Verge 1606–10, C181/2, ff. 13, 108v. subsidy, Essex 1606, 1608, Eg. 2644, f. 171; SP14/31/1; Smith, 123. annoyances, Surr. 1611, to bring fresh water to London 1611; C181/2, ff. 142v, 149v. kpr. of Enfield park, Mdx. by 1608. Lansd. 90, f. 210v.

Main residences: St. Peter's Hill; Austin Friars, London; Ruckholt, Low Leyton, Essex.
Hickes
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HICKS (HICKES), Michael (1543-1612)

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