HOBART, Sir Henry (c.1554-1625), of Highgate, Mdx.; Intwood and Blickling, Norf. and Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street, London

Assoc. bencher, L. Inn 1583, gov. 1591, bencher 1596 – 1603, Lent reader 1601, 1603, 1608, 1610, double reader 1602, marshal 1600 – 01, treas. 1606–7; LI Black Bks. ii. 46, 61, 74, 81, 95, 99, 100, 161. under-steward, Gt. Yarmouth, Norf. 1590 – 1605, steward, Norwich, Norf. 1595–1618; Norf. Official Lists ed. H. L’Estrange, 128, 170. fee’d counsel, King’s Lynn, Norf. 1594, Norf. RO (King’s Lynn), KL/C7/10, f. 40. Gt. Yarmouth 1596; C.J. Palmer, Hist. Gt. Yarmouth, 359. sjt.-at-law 1603 – 05; att. Ct. of Wards 1605 – 06; att.-gen. 1606 – 13, c.j.c.p. 1613–d.; LC4/198, unfol.; Oxford DNB; E. Foss, Judges of Eng. vi. 329. justice assize, W. circ. 1614, Home circ. 1615 – 16, Midland circ. 1617–d. E403/1717, unfol.; J.S. Cockburn, Hist. Eng. Assizes, 269.

Freeman, Norwich 1592; Reg. Norwich Freemen ed. P. Millican, 101. j.p. Norf. c. 1593 – d., Isle of Ely 1607 – 10, Mdx. 1608 – d., Westminster 1618–d.; Hatfield House, ms 278, unfol.; C181/2, ff. 34v, 96; SP14/33, f. 42; SP16/14/45; E403/1717, unfol.; C193/13/1, f. 71v. commr. oyer and terminer, Norwich 1601 – at least06, Norf. circ. 1602 – d., London 1606 – d., the Verge 1606 – d., Mdx. 1607 – d., Norf. 1612, Western circ. 1614, Midland circ. 1617 – d., Marshalsea 1620–4, C181/1, ff. 9, 16, 99v; 181/2, ff. 11v, 13v, 30, 160, 284; 181/3, ff. 1, 20, 21v, 29, 97, 131, 138. sewers Norf. 1601 – 07, Gt. Yarmouth to Cromer 1604, London 1606 – d., R. Lea, Essex, Herts. and Mdx. 1607, 1609, Ely 1608, Essex 1610 – d., Norwich 1611, 1622, Surr., Kent 1613, 1624, Gt. Fens 1617 – 18, London, Mdx. 1618, Lincs. 1618 – at least21, Mdx. 1619, C181/1, ff. 14v, 88v; 181/2, ff. 20, 50, 46, 62, 94, 105v, 148v, 281v, 320v, 324v, 330, 347; 181/3, ff. 35, 41, 43, 103v, 114v; Lansd. 168, f. 151v. piracy Norf. 1602, 1604, London, Mdx. 1606, 1609, London, Mdx., Kent, Essex, Surr. 1615, C181/1, ff. 21v, 76v; 181/2, ff. 11v, 101, 220v. gaol delivery, Norwich 1605, Newgate 1606 – d., London 1607 – d., Ely 1607 – 10, Mdx. 1608–d., C181/1, f. 111v; 181/2, ff. 19, 36v, 73; 181/3, ff. 20, 132. subsidy, London, Mdx., Norf. 1608, 1621, 1624, Gt. Yarmouth, Norwich 1608, SP14/31/1; C212/22/20, 23. swans, Gravesend to Windsor 1609, C181/2, f. 89. aid, Mdx., London 1609, E179/283. seabreaches, Norf. 1610, Norf., Suff. 1616, C181/2, ff. 127v, 263v. annoyances, Surr. 1611, Mdx. 1613, Ibid. ff. 142, 199. navigation, R. Welland, Lincs. 1623; C181/3, f. 99. duchy of Lancaster recvr. in Norf., Suff. and Cambs. 1612–d. Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 199.

Commr. Union 1604–6; CJ, i. 208b, 319a. member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1608–d.; R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 352. commr. to enfranchise copyholders 1612, C181/2, f. 172. investigate murder of Sir Thomas Overbury 1616, HMC Downshire, v. 413. relieve poor 1619–20. Add. 12504, f. 67v.

Member, Virg. Co. 1609, N.W. Passage Co. 1612, E.I. Co. 1617. A. Brown, Genesis of US, 211; CSP Col. E.I. 1513–1616, p. 239, 1617–21, p. 80.

Chan., Prince Charles’s Household 1617-Mar. 1625. E315/1/360; SC6 Jas.I/1682, unfol.