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GAWDY, Sir Bassingbourne (1560-1606), of Bardwell Hall, West Harling, Norf.

Family and Education
b. 1560, 1st s. of Bassingbourne Gawdy† of West Harling and his 1st w. Anne, da. of John Wootton of Tuddenham, Norf.; bro. of Philip†. educ. Clifford’s Inn; I. Temple 1578.HMC 7th Rep. 518; I. Temple Admiss. m. (1) Anne (d.1594), da. of Sir Charles Framlingham of Crow’s Hall, Debenham, Suff., 3s.; (2) Dorothy, da. of Nicholas Bacon† of Redgrave and Culford, Suff., 2s. 3da. P. Millican, ‘Gawdys of Norf. and Suff.’, Norf. Arch. xxvi. 350-4; Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 126. suc. fa. 1590; Norf. RO, West Harling par. reg. Kntd. 1597. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 94. d. 17 May 1606. C142/293/9. sig. bassingborne gaudy.
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Capt. militia ft., Norf. 1588, HMC Gawdy, 30. lt.-col. ft. 1599, Norf. RO, WLS XVII/1, bk. 2, f. 10. dep. lt. 1605–d.; Norf. RO, PHI/583. j.p. Norf. by 1591, Thetford 1603–d.; C181/1, ff. 66, 103. sheriff, Norf. 1593 – 94, 1601–2; Norf. Official Lists ed. H. L’Estrange, 20. commr. subsidy, Norf. 1596, 1598–1603, Norf. RO, WLS XVII/1, bk.1, ff. 22v-3, 27v-8; bk.2, ff. 41v, 168v. musters 1599, Ibid. bk.1, f. 1v. lic. passage overseas 1599, Ibid. bk.2, ff. 12–14. oyer and terminer, Norf., Suff., Cambs., Hunts., Beds., Bucks. 1601–d., Ibid. bk.2, f. 56; C181/1, ff. 16, 30, 38, 52, 76v, 96, 116. piracy, Norf. 1602, 1604, C181/1, ff. 21, 76v. sewers 1604, Fenland 1605, Norf. and Suff. 1605. Ibid. ff. 78, 112v, 125.

Master of game to Thomas Howard, 21st earl of Arundel, Norf. 1603–d. Add. 64868, ff. 66–7.

Main residence: Bardwell Hall, West Harling, Norf.
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GAWDY, Framlingham (1589-1655), of Bardwell Hall, West Harling, Norf.

Family and Education
b. 8 Aug. 1589,F. Blomefield, Hist. Norf. i. 306. 1st s. of Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy* of West Harling and his 1st w. Anne, da. and coh. of Sir Charles Framlingham of Crow’s Hall, Debenham, Suff. educ. G. Inn 1624. GI Admiss. m. 16 Feb. 1609, Lettice (bur. 3 Dec. 1630), da. and coh. of Sir Robert Knollys I* of Westminster, 6s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. d.v.p.; (2) 28 Jan. 1653, Dorothy (d.1659), da. of Philip Gawdy* of West Harling and London, s.p. suc. fa. 1606. P. Millican, ‘Gawdys of Norf. and Suff.’, (Norf. Arch. xxvi), 335-90; Vis. Norf. (Harl Soc. xxxii), 126; PROB 11/109, f. 227. d. 25 Feb. 1655. Millican, 368. sig. Framlingham Gaudy.
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J.p. Thetford, Norf. 1611 – 49, Norf. 1614–49; Norf. RO, T/C1/3, p. 33; C231/2, f. 155; 231/4, f. 204; Add. 27396, f. 169. commr. subsidy, Norf. and Thetford 1621, 1624, 1628; C212/22/20, 23; W. Rye, Norf. State Pprs. 137. capt. militia foot, Norf. by 1626, Rye, 32, 130. commr. Forced Loan 1627, Ibid. 48. sheriff 1627–8, Norf. Official Lists ed. H. L’Estrange, 21. commr. charitable uses 1629–33, C192/1, unfol. assessment 1641, SR, v. 153. dep. lt. 1642, Jnls. Mar.-June 1642, p. 54. commr. New Model Ordinance 1645, 1645 – 48, militia 1648. A. and O. i. 623, 641, 1089, 1240.

Treas. k.b. and Marshalsea, 1615–16. Norf. RO, MC 98/1/3; HMC Gawdy, 109.

Main residence: Bardwell Hall, West Harling, Norf.
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FLEETWOOD, Sir William II (c.1566-1630), of Great Missenden, Bucks.

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b. c. 1566, Age calculated from date of admiss. to the M. Temple. 1st. s. of William Fleetwood† of Great Missenden and Bacon House, Foster Lane, London, and Marian, da. of John Barley of Kingsey, Bucks. Lancs. and Cheshire Fun. Certs. ed. T.W. King and F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. lxxv), 28; Oxford DNB sub. Fleetwood, William; Vis. Bucks. (Harl. lviii), 55. educ. M. Temple 1584; travelled abroad (Neths.) 1592; Poems of Sir John Davies ed. R. Krueger, pp. xxviii-xxix. MA Oxf. 1605. Al. Ox. m. Anne (bur. 13 Mar. 1622), da. Ralph Barton† of Smithhills Hall, Lancs., 7s. (4 d.v.p.) 7da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1594. Vis. Bucks. (Harl. lviii), 55; Soc. Gen. Great Missenden par. reg.; Lancs. and Cheshire Fun. Certs. 28. Kntd. 9 June 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 110. d. 13 Dec. 1630. WARD 7/80/169. sig. Will[ia]m Fletewoode.
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J.p. Bucks. 1603–22, C231/1, f. 150v; 231/4, f. 138. by 1625–9, T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 4; Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry 1625–40 ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv-vii), 64. Berks. by c.1604-at least c. 1611, Mdx. by c.1604-at least 1608, C66/1620; 66/1898; SP14/33, f. 42. Evesham, Worcs. 1605; G. May, Descriptive Hist. Town of Evesham, 468–9. commr. inquiry, lands of Thomas 15th Lord Grey of Wilton, Bucks. 1603, sewers, Oxon. and Berks. 1604, Bucks., Herts., Mdx. 1609 – 25, Herts. 1617, inquiry, lands of the Gunpowder plotters, Bucks. 1606, C181/1, ff. 78, 85, 130v; 181/2, ff. 90, 297v; 181/3, f. 184. charitable uses, Berks. 1607 – 12, 1617, 1626 – 27, Bucks. 1621, 1629–30, C93/3/13; 93/5/4; 93/7/1; 93/8/15; 93/10/22; 93/11/13; 93/12/6. subsidy, Bucks. 1608, 1621 – 22, 1624, 1626; SP14/31/1; C212/22/20–1, 23; E115/92/91. steward, Haddenham, Bucks. 1612; E315/310, f. 66. commr. oyer and terminer, Hertford, Herts. 1620; C181/3, f. 14v. sheriff, Bucks. 1622–3; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 9. commr. Forced Loan, Bucks. 1627; C193/12/2, f. 3v. commr. swans, Eng. except the West Country 1629. C181/3, f. 269.

Surveyor gen., duchy of Cornw. 1610–12. T. Birch, Life of Prince Henry (1760), p. 218; LC2/4/6, f. 34.

Member, Virg. Co. by 1610. A. Brown, Genesis of US, 466.

Main residence: Great Missenden, Bucks.
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FINCH, Sir Theophilus (1573-1619), of Heneage House, London and Eastwell, Kent

Family and Education
b. 29 Oct. 1573,Soc. Antiq. ms 168, f. 187v. 1st s. of Sir Moyle Finch†, 1st bt. of Eastwell, and Elizabeth, suo jure 1st countess of Winchelsea, da. and h. of Thomas Heneage† of Copthall, Essex; bro. of Francis*, Heneage*, John I* and Sir Thomas, 3rd bt.*B. I’Anson, Finch Fam. 41. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 1588, BA 1592; G. Inn 1618.Al. Ox.; GI Admiss. m. 16 July 1596,Vis. Norf. (Norf. Arch.), ii. 200. Agnes (bur. 16 Feb. 1621)CP, xii. 775-6; PROB 11/137, f. 122., da. of Sir Christopher Heydon† of Baconsthorpe, Norf., s.p.Vis. Norf. (Norf. Arch.), ii. 190. Kntd. 30 July 1599;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 96. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 18 Dec. 1614.C142/349/173; CB, i. 35. d. 20 Nov. 1619.W. Camden, Annalium Apparatus (1691), p. 51.
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Vol. [I] by 1599.CSP Ire. 1600, p. 234.

Commr. sewers, Kent and Suss. 1616–18.C181/2, ff. 247, 295, 328v.

Main residences: Heneage House, London; Eastwell, Kent.
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FINCH, Heneage (1580-1631), of St. Bartholomew’s and the Inner Temple, London; later of Kensington House, Kensington, Mdx. and Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street, London

Family and Education
b. 15 Dec. 1580, 5th but 4th surv. s.B. I’Anson, Finch Fam. 41. of Sir Moyle Finch†, 1st bt. (d.1614) of Eastwell, Kent, and Elizabeth, suo jure 1st countess of Winchilsea, da. and h. of Sir Thomas Heneage† of Copt Hall, Essex, chan. of the duchy of Lancaster 1590-5; bro. of Francis*, John I*, Sir Theophilus* 2nd bt. and Sir Thomas, 3rd bt.*; educ. Trin. Coll. Camb. c.1592, BA 1595-6; I. Temple 1598, called 1606. m. (1) aft. 1607 (?with 1,000 marks), Frances (d. 11 Apr. 1627), da. of (Sir) Edmund Bell† of Beaupré Hall, Outwell, Norf., 3s. 1da.; (2) 16 Apr. 1629, Elizabeth (d. c. Sept. 1661), da. of William Cradock, wid. of Richard Bennett (d.1628) of Beachampton, Bucks. and St. Olave’s Jewry, London, Mercer and alderman of London, 2da. Vis. Mdx. 1663 ed. Foster, 1; Al. Cant.; I. Temple database of admiss. 148; CITR, ii. 21; Soc. Gen., St. Dunstan’s in the West par. reg.; Vis. Bucks. (Harl. Soc. lviii), 147; PROB 11/111, f. 70; Conway Letters ed. M.H. Nicolson, 196. His will indicates that he had other children who predeceased him, but their number, sex and maternity have not been ascertained: PROB 11/160, f. 504v. Kntd. 22 June 1623. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 182. d. 5 Dec. 1631. Le Neve, Mon. Angl. (1719), i. 132. sig. Heneage Finche.
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Commr. codification of penal laws 1610, Add. 11402, f. 160. trade 1625; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 1, p. 59. member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1625–d.; R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 350. commr. plantation of Virg. 27 June 1631–d., Rymer, viii. pt. 3, p. 192. repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral, 10 Apr. 1631–d. CSP Dom. 1631–3, p. 6.

Reader, Lyon’s Inn 1612–14; J.H. Baker and J.S. Ringrose, Cat. of English Legal Mss in CUL, 122; Harl. 1692, ff. 17–19v, 22v-3. steward’s auditor, I. Temple 1613, 1615, treas.’s auditor 1617, 1619, steward, reader’s dinner 1621, reader’s attendant 1621, bencher 1621 – 23, reader 1622; CITR, ii. 75, 92, 104, 115, 124–6, 130. fee’d counsel, Charterhouse hosp. London 1617-at least 1622, LMA, Acc/1876/G/02/1, pp. 78, 153. to Prince Charles by 1619-at least 1621, SC6/Jas.I/1682–4, unfol. Merchant Taylors’ Co. 1621–d., GL, Merchant Taylors’ accts. vols. 12–15. Barber Surgeons’ Co. 1624–?d., GL, ms 5255/1, unfol. Maidstone, Kent 1626–d., Recs. of Maidstone, 90. Cinque Ports 1630–d.; Add. 29622, ff. 200–1. recorder, London 1621–d.; Remembrancia ed. W.H. and H.C. Overall, 295. sjt.-at-law 1623–d., Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 333. to Prince Charles 1623 – 25, Charles I 1625-at least 1628, DCO, ‘Inrollments of patents, Prince Chas. 1620–5’, f. 140; SC6/Jas.I/1687, unfol.; APC, 1628–9, p. 186. Henrietta Maria 1629-at least 1630. LR5/57, f. 28; E101/438/7.

Freeman, Southampton 1614; HMC 11th Rep. III, 23. steward, duchy of Lancaster lands in Essex 1614–d.; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 205. j.p. Kent, Surr., Essex, Mdx. and Westminster 1621–d.; C231/4, f. 119; C66/2527; Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Chas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 147. commr. subsidy, London 1621, 1624 – 25, 1628, Mdx. 1621, 1624, C212/22/20, 23; E115/112/100; 115/145/140. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 1621 – at least28, London 1621 – d., Essex (highways’ repair) 1622, Home circ. by 1629–d., C181/3, ff. 21, 22, 68v, 244, 261; 181/4, ff. 98, 103. gaol delivery, Newgate 1621–d., C181/3, f. 23; 181/4, f. 103. sewers, London 1621 – at least29, Herts. and Essex 1625 – 28, Havering and Dagenham levels, Essex and Bromley Marsh, Mdx. 29 Jan. 1631–d., C181/3, ff. 27, 184v, 251, 255v; 181/4, f. 76. assurances, London 1621–d., C181/3, f. 28; 181/4, f. 102. suppress illegal hunting, Mdx. 1622, CSP Dom. 1619–23, p. 352. new buildings, London 1625, 1630, Rymer, viii. pt. 3, p. 114; C193/8/58. charitable uses 1626, Surr. 1630, C93/10/21; C192/1, unfol. Forced Loan, London 1627, Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 142. knighthood fines, Mdx. 1630–d., E178/7163, m.5. survey and repair highways, Kent to London 16 June 1631–d. C231/5, p. 58.

Freeman, E.I. Co. 1617, Haberdashers’ Co. 1621; CSP Col. E.I. 1617–21, p. 99; Leics. RO, DG7 Box 4966 (Finch Pprs. xviii, Law 3), f. 1. member, Virg. Co. by 1624. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iv. 157.

Speaker of the House of Commons 1626.

Main residences: St. Bartholomew’s; the Inner Temple, London; Kensington House, Kensington, Mdx.; Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street, London.
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HONING, Edward (1550-1609), of Eye, Suff.; formerly of Darsham, Suff.

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b. 21 May 1550, 1st s. of William Honing† of Carlton, Suff., clerk of the Signet 1543-69, and Frances, da. of Nicholas Cutler† of Eye. m. by 1573, Ursula (bur. 29 Mar. 1628), da. and coh. of Anthony Wingfield of Sibton, Suff., 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 7da. (2 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1569. bur. 6 May 1609.‘Description of a picture of the fam. of Honing’ Coll. Top. et Gen. vii. 398-9.
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Recvr.-gen. of Crown revenue, Suff. and Cambs. (sole) 1589 – 1604, (jt.) 1604 – d., (jt.) Norf. and Hunts. 1600–3; CPR 31 Eliz. ed. S.R. Neal (L. and I. Soc. ccc), 73; C66/1523; CSP Dom. 1603–10, pp. 152, 164, 441. freeman, Eye 1594; Letters of Philip Gawdy ed. I.H. Jeayes, 83–4. j.p. Suff. by 1596–d.; SP13/F/11, f. 31; SP14/33, f. 58v. commr. sewers, Norf. and Suff. 1605, to inquire into lands of Gunpowder plotters, Suff. 1606, subsidy 1608. C181/1, f. 125; 181/2, f. 3v; SP14/31, f. 38.

Main residences: Eye, Suff.; Darsham, Suff.
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FETTIPLACE, John (1583-1658), of Swinbrook, Oxon. and Childrey, Berks.

Family and Education
bap. 23 May 1583, 1st s. of Sir Edmund Fettiplace of Swinbrook and Childrey and Anne, da. of Roger Alford† of Hitcham, Bucks.Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 5), ii. 205-6. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 1594; ?BA Hart Hall 1600; L. Inn 1601. Al. Ox.; LI Admiss. unm. suc. fa. 1613. C142/333/42. d. 20 or 21 Mar. 1658. Parochial Collections made by Wood and Rawlinson (Oxon. Rec. Soc. xi), 298; Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 5), ii. 206. sig. John Fetiplace.
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Commr. swans, Oxf. circ. 1615; j.p. Berks. 1619 – bef.25, 1629-at least 1640, C231/4, f. 83v; 231/5, p. 10; C66/2858, dorse. commr. charitable uses 1626-at least 1641, C93/10/22; 93/11/13; 93/15/19; C192/1, unfol. subsidy 1628 – 29, 1641, E115/144/112; 115/153/20; SR, v. 82. sheriff 1630–1, List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 6. commr. sewers, Berks. and Hants 1633, C181/4, f. 147v. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 1639-at least 1642, C181/5, ff. 140v, 173, 219v. assessment, Berks. 1642, SR, v. 149. array 1642, Oxon. 1642, Northants. RO, FH133. excise, Oxon., Northants., Warws., Berks., Bucks. and Oxf. (roy.) 1645, to administer oath, Oxf. (roy.) 1645. Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6 ed. W.H. Black, 259, 263, 268.

Main residences: Swinbrook, Oxon; Childrey, Berks.
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HOLT, William (c.1571-1637), of Gray’s Inn, London and Ashworth, Lancs.

Family and Education
b. c. 1571, 2nd s. of Robert Holt (d.1624) of Ashworth and 2nd w. Agnes.DL7/24/95; Lancs. IPMs ed. J.P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xvii), 437-41. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 1586, aged 15; G. Inn, 1588. Al Ox.; GI Admiss. m. (1) by c.1599, Elizabeth (d. bef. 1618), at least 1s.; Lancs. RO, WCW, Will of Robert Holt, 1609. (2) by 1618, Anne, ?s.p.; APC, 1618-19, p. 257. (3) Priscilla (d. aft. 1637), da. of Sir Cotton Gargrave† of Nortell Priory, Yorks., s.p. Misc. Gen. et Her. i. 226. d. by Sept. 1637. PROB 6/16, f. 105v. sig. Will[iam] Holt.
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Freeman, Preston, Lancs. by 1602; Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 55. steward of Sir John Byron’s court, Rochdale, Lancs. 1609; H. Fishwick, Hist. of Par. of Rochdale, 299. j.p. Lancs. c.1620–7. Lancs. RO, QSC 4.

Reader, G. Inn 1614, bencher 1615–d. PBG Inn, i. 215; W.R. Prest, Rise of the Barristers, 370.

Main residences: Gray's Inn, London; Ashworth, Lancs.
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DELABERE (DE LA BERE), Richard (c.1559-1636), of Tyberton, Herefs. and Lincoln’s Inn, London; later of Southam, Glos.

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b. c. 1559,Age calculated from date of admiss. to university. 2nd s. of Kennard Delabere (d.1607) of Kinnersley and Tyberton, Herefs. and Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Huddleston of Millom, Cumb.; bro. of John†.Vis. Glos. 1623 (Harl. Soc. xxi), 49; Vis. Herefs. 1569 ed. F.W. Weaver, 25. educ. St. Mary Hall, Oxf. 1575, aged 16; Lyon’s Inn; L. Inn 1580, called 1589.Al. Ox.; LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. 11. m. 12 May 1608, Margaret, da. and h. of John Newman of Bellington, Worcs., s.p.Worcs. RO, microfilm 15/1; Glos. RO, D1637/F9. suc. bro. 1607.PROB 11/110, ff. 270v-1. d. 25 Feb. 1636. C142/781/100.
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Att.-gen. Brec., Card., Carm., Pemb., Rad. 1595–1613;STAC 5/W38/27, f. 3; CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 209. bencher, L. Inn 1603, reader 1606, 1607, kpr. Black Bk. 1611–12.LI Black Bks. 79, 104, 141.

Commr. sewers, Glos. 1607, 1615, Glos. and Worcs. 1609;C181/2, ff. 23v, 104v, 240v. j.p. Glos. 1618–25.C181/2, f. 324v; 181/3, ff. 186, 356v.

Main residences: Tyberton, Herefs.; Lincoln's Inn, London; Southam, Glos.
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DELABERE (DE LA BERE), Richard (c.1559-1636)

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