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MASON, Robert II (c.1590-1662), of Mason’s House, Croome’s Hill, Greenwich, Kent and Doctors’ Common, London; formerly of St. Clement Danes, Westminster

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Family and Education

b. c. 1590, 1st s. of George Mason of Greenwich, and Barbara, da. of John Perkins of Flint.Bath Abbey Regs. (Harl. Soc. xxviii), 375; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 85. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1606, BA 1610, MA 1613, DCL 1628; incorp. at Oxf. 1617; Padua 1631; G. Inn. 1633.Al. Cant.; Al. Ox.; H.F. Brown, Inglesi e Scozzesi all’Universita di Padova dall anno 1618 sino al 1765, p. 146; GI Admiss. m. 1633, Judith (d.1675),PROB 11/350, f. 422v. da. of Sir Christopher Buckle of Great Burgh, Banstead, Surr., 6s. 5da.C. Berry, Berks., Bucks. and Surr. Genealogies, pt. 3, p. 18; Vis. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 208; E. Hasted, Kent, i. 81; H. Lambert, Hist. Banstead, 8. suc. fa. 1609.PROB 11/114, f. 491. bur. 27 June 1662.Bath Abbey Regs. 375.

Offices Held

Proctor, Camb. Univ. 1619–20;Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae ed. J. Le Neve, iii. 622. chan., Winchester dioc. 1628–?d.;B. Levack, Civil Lawyers in Eng. 253; SP16/470/102. commissary, archdeaconry of Surr. 1629–?d.;Hants RO, 21M65/A1/30, ff. 19v, 51, 51v. judge of V.-Admlty., Hants and I.o.W. 1635-at least 1638;HCA 30/820, no. 25; CSP Dom. 1637–8, p. 502. commr. piracy, Hants and I.o.W. 1635 – 36, London 1635, 1662, Winchester, Hants 1636, Southampton, Hants 1636,SP16/350/22; 16/390/64; C181/5, ff. 24, 27, 43v, 58; 181/7, p. 142. oyer and terminer, Hants 1635, London and Mdx. 1635–9,SP16/295/30; C181/4, ff. 188, 189; 181/5, f. 130v. sewers, Kent 1640.C181/5, f. 168.

Sec. to George Villiers, duke of Buckingham by 1624–8;R. Lockyer, Buckingham, 460; CSP Dom. 1623–5, p. 243; 1628–9, p. 9. member, Coll. of Advocates 1629-at least 1640;G. Squibb, Doctors’ Commons, 64; C. Coote, Lives of Eminent English Civilians, 77. master of Requests, extraordinary, 1630–40,APC, 1630–1, p. 20. ordinary 1640 – at least42, 1660–d.Levack, 63; I. Leadam, Select Cases in Ct. of Requests (Selden Soc. xii), l; CTB, 1660–7, pp. 236, 580; CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 427.