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MANWOOD, Sir Peter (c.1568-1625), of Hales Place, Hackington alias St. Stephens, Kent, Ford Place, Hothe, Kent and St. Bartholomew the Great, London

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b. c.1568,C142/244/112; Staffs. RO, D593/S/4/60/17. o. surv. s. of Sir Roger Manwood† of Hackington, c. bar. exch. 1575-92, and 1st w. Dorothy, da. of John Theobald (Tebald) of Seal, Kent, wid. of John Croke† of Doctors’ Commons, London and Christopher Aleyne, Mercer, of London and Littlebury, Essex. educ. Saffron Walden g.s. Essex; I. Temple 1584; travelled abroad 1595?, 1598, 1604. m. 10 Jan. 1588, Frances, da. of Sir George Hart of Lullingstone, Kent, 6s. (4 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.). Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 144; Add. 29759, ff. 26v-7, 49v; CITR, i. 327; IGI (Kent); N. Carlisle, Endowed Gram. Schools, i. 442; CSP Dom. 1595-7, p. 148; 1598-1601, p. 132. suc. fa. 1592; cr. KB 25 July 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 155. d. 20 June 1625. sig. Pe[ter] Manwood
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Commr. survey, Dover harbour, Kent 1590, Lansd. 66, f. 34. inquiry into Catholic missionaries, Kent 1592; Staffs. RO, D593/S/3/6. j.p. Kent 1590–d.; Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Eliz. ed. J.S. Cockburn, 293; Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 158. capt. militia ft. 1595-at least 1621; Lansd. 78, f. 140; HMC Finch, i. 42. commr. grain 1595, Staffs. RO, D593/S/3/7. subsidy, 1595, Ibid. D593/S/4/38/16. 1602–8, E115/260/114; 115/266/122, 156; 115/275/118; SP14/31/1. Canterbury, Kent 1603–4, E115/244/79; 115/245/6. Kent and Canterbury 1621, 1624, C212/22/20; 212/22/23. sewers, Kent by 1596 – d., Kent and Suss. 1604-at least 1609, CSP Dom. 1595–7, p. 224; C181/1, f. 57; 181/3, f. 157v. musters, Kent 1597; APC, 1597, p. 109. bridge warden, Rochester, Kent 1598–1621 (snr. warden 1599, 1609, 1615); Traffic and Pols. ed. N. Yates and J.M. Gibson, 293. gov. Cobham New Coll. Kent by 1599, pres. aft. 1599; Arch. Cant. xxvii. 84. dep. lt. Kent 1601-at least 1619; APC, 1601–4, p. 450; 1618–19, p. 339. commr. oyer and terminer, Home circ. by 1602–d.; C181/1, f. 15v; 181/3, f. 138v. sheriff, Kent 1602–3; List of Sheriffs comp. A Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 69. commr. lands of Lord Cobham (Henry Brooke II† alias Cobham), Kent 1608, C181/2, f. 64v. Admty. causes 1608, HCA 14/39/217. aid 1609–10, SP14/43/107. piracy, Cinque Ports 1612-at least 1616; C181/2, ff. 185, 246v. kpr. Ford Palace and Park 1613-at least 1617; D.M. Owen, Cat. of Lambeth Mss 889 to 901, p. 25; LPL, TGI, ff. 1, 10v. commr. charitable uses, Kent 1615–16; C93/6/18; 93/7/7. trustee, properties to finance scholarships at King’s sch. Canterbury 1618; W.K. Jordan, Social Institutions in Kent (Arch. Cant. lxxv), 93. freeman, New Romney, Kent 1621. SP14/119/19.

Steward, Christmas feast, I. Temple 1615 – 18, 1623. CITR, ii. 92, 97, 104, 109, 140.

Main residences: Hales Place, Hackington alias St. Stephens, Kent; Ford Place, Hothe, Kent; St. Bartholomew the Great, London.
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PACKER, John (1572-1649), of Westminster, Shellingford, Berks. and Chilton Foliat, Wilts.

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b. 12 Nov. 1572, Harl. 7517, f. 88. 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of William Packer of Twickenham, Mdx. and his w. Elizabeth. Soc. Gen., MX/R 205, pp. 12-13, 16; MX/R 207 (unpag.). educ. Westminster Sch. by 1589; Trinity Coll. Camb. 1590, BA 1594. J. Welch, List of Queen’s Scholars of Westminster Sch. 61 (as Pucker); Al. Cant. m. lic. 13 July 1613, Bp. of London Mar. Lics. 1611-1828 ed. G.J. Armytage (Harl. Soc. xxvi), 22. Philippa, da. of Francis Mylles†, clerk of the privy seal, of Southampton, Hants, 5s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.). Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi), 254; Al. Ox.; Regs. Westminster Abbey ed. J.L. Chester, (Harl. Soc. Regs. x), 65. suc. fa. 1601. Soc. Gen. MX/R 207 (unpag.). d. 9 Feb. 1649. Harl. 7517, f. 101v. sig. Jo[hn] Packer.
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Sec. to Sir Henry Neville I* by 1600, Ibid. f. 88v. Visct. Rochester (later earl of Somerset) 1612-c.1615, Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 358; HMC Downshire, v. 510. Sir George Villiers (later earl, mq. and duke of Buckingham) c.1616–28. SP14/90/2; Harl. 7517, f. 90.

Amb. extraordinary, Denmark 1610–11. Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives comp. G.M. Bell, 32.

Acting prothonotary of Chancery (jt.) from 1614; CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 228. clerk of the privy seal 1618–43. HMC Downshire, vi. 503; HMC 6th Rep. 90.

J.p. Westminster 1618-at least 1648, C181/2, f. 331v; A. and O. i. 1191. commr. subsidy 1624, C212/22/23. inquiry, Fleet prison abuses, London 1635, CSP Dom. 1635, p. 80. sewers, Mdx. 1637 – 38, Westminster 1645, C181/5, ff. 81, 115, 255. assessment, Berks. 1644 – at least48, Mdx. 1647 – at least48, Westminster 1648, execution of New Model Ordinance, Mdx. 1645; A. and O. i. 455, 623, 970, 1078, 1087. tryer, Westminster 1645 – at least48; visitor, Oxf. Univ. 1647; commr. militia, Westminster 1648. Ibid. i. 796, 925, 1191, 1246.

Member, New River Co. 1619, Select Charters of Trading Cos. ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 111. Fishery Soc. from 1633. CUL, MS Dd.xi.71, f. 31.

Main residences: Westminster; Shellingford, Berks.; Chilton Foliat, Wilts.
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MANWOOD, Roger (1591-1623), of Hackington, Kent

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bap. 29 Aug. 1591, 1st s. of Sir Peter Manwood* (d.1625) and Frances, da. of Sir George Hart of Lullingstone, Kent; bro. of Sir John†.IGI, Kent; W. Boys, Sandwich, 246. educ. Lincoln Coll. Oxf. 1607, BA 1610; I. Temple 1610; travelled abroad (France, Italy, Hungary, Germany) 1610-13; riding academy, Angers 1613. Al. Ox.; Add. 29759, ff. 23r-v, 143; A. Joubert, ‘Les Gentilhommes Etrangers ... a l’academie d’Equitation d’Angers’, Revue d’ Anjou, xxvi. 14; Carleton to Chamberlain ed. M. Lee, 123. m. settlement 2 May 1615, Mary (d. 31 July 1627), da. and coh. of Thomas, 2nd Bar. Darcy of Chiche, s.p. C142/451/108. d. by 30 Dec. 1623.
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Commr. sewers, Kent and Suss. 1616. C181/2, f. 247.

Main residence: Hackington, Kent.
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EVELYN, Sir John (1601-1685), of West Dean, Wilts.

Family and Education
b. 11 Aug. 1601, 1st s. of George Evelyn of West Dean, six clerk in Chancery 1606-36, and Elizabeth, da. and h. of John Rivers of Chafford, Kent. educ. Merchant Taylors’ 1613; Emmanuel, Camb. 1615, BA 1619; M. Temple 1618. m. 2 Apr. 1622, Elizabeth (bur. 10 May 1658), da. and coh. of Robert Coxe, Grocer, of London, 1s. d.v.p. 4da. (2 d.v.p.). Kntd. 8 Aug. 1623; suc. fa. 1636. d. 26 June 1685. Reg. Merchant Taylors’ Sch. comp. C.J. Robinson, i. 74; Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 2), iv. 329-31; Al. Cant.; M. Temple Admiss.; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 182.
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Commr. sewers, Hants and Wilts. 1629 – 30, oyer and terminer, Wilts. 1631, Western circ. 1638 – 42, Devon, Dorset, Som. and Wilts 1655; C181/4, ff. 17v, 49v, 88v, 101; 181/5, f. 94, 221; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 114. j.p. Wilts. 1636 – 42, by 1650 – d., Hants 1646–60; C231/5, pp. 213, 529; 231/6, f. 41; Perfect List of all such Persons as by Commission under Great Seal of Eng. are now Confirmed to be Custos rotulorum, Justices of Oyer and Terminer, JPs and Quorum (1660), p. 49; C193/13/2, f. 68v; 193/12/4, f. 131. commr. subsidy, Wilts. 1641 – 42, 1663–4, SR, v. 89, 156, 468. assessment 1643 – 52, 1660 – 68, 1673 – 80, Hants 1647–8, A. and O. i. 95, 236, 541, 974, 977, 1092, 1095; ii. 45, 311, 480, 677, 1381; SR, v. 341, 542, 772, 825, 922. sequestrations, Wilts. 1643, levying money 1643, execution of ordinances, Hants 1645; gov. of Covent Garden precinct, Mdx. 1646; commr. militia, Wilts. 1648, 1660, Hants 1660, draining Fens, 1649, scandalous ministers, Wilts. 1654, A. and O. i. 117, 151, 696, 815, 1244; ii. 139, 976, 1442, 1445. poll tax, Wilts. 1660, SR, v. 221. recusants, Hants 1675. CTB, iv. 698.

Commr. assembly of divines 1643, provision for New Model Army 1645, Admty. 1645 – 48, abuses in heraldry 1646, exclusion from sacrament 1646, 1648, managing assessment 1647; member, cttee. of both kingdoms 1648; cllr. of state 25 Feb.-29 May 1660. A. and O. i. 181, 658, 669, 839, 853, 1016, 1208; ii. 1418; CJ, v. 416.

Main residence: West Dean, Wilts., [I]
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MANSELL, Sir Thomas (c.1556-1631), of Margam, Glam.

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b. c. 1556,STAC 8/124/3, f. 1; C142/209/35. 1st s. of Edward Mansell† of Margam and Jane, da. of Henry Somerset, 2nd earl of Worcester; bro. of Sir Robert*. educ. travelled abroad (Italy) 1578. HMC Hatfield, ii. 173. m. (1) 30 July 1582 (settlement 11 July with £2,000), Mary (d. by 1603), da. of Lewis Mordaunt†, 3rd Bar. Mordaunt, 3s. (2 d.v.p.); D. Lysons, Environs of London, ii. 118; C142/290/35; R. Halstead, Succinct Genealogies of Mordaunt, (1685), pp. 611-13; D.M. Cole, ‘Mansells of Oxwich and Margam, 1487-1631’ (Univ. of Birmingham MA thesis, 1966), p. 123; C2/Jas.I/M15/52. (2) by 1603 Jane (bur. 14 Mar. 1624), da. of Thomas Pole of Bishop Hall, Mdx., wid. of John Bussey of Lincs. and John Fuller (d.1592) of Stepney, Mdx., 2da. (1 d.v.p.) C78/319/15; Descriptive Cat. of Penrice and Margam Abbey Mss ed. W. de Gray Birch, ii. 105-6, 114. suc. fa. 1585; C142/209/35. Kntd. by 1593; NLW, Penrice and Margam 2965. cr. bt. 22 May 1611. C66/1942/86. d. 20 Dec. 1631. C142/490/179. sig. Th[omas] Mansell.
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J.p. Glam. c.1580–d.; SP16/31/44. In this letter of 1626 Mansell claimed to have served as a magistrate for 46 years, whereas the modern compilation of Welsh justices dates his tenure from 1585: JPs in Wales and Monm. ed. Phillips, 289–99. chamberlain and chan., S. Wales 1585–d.; Cole, 69; E315/310, f. 12; E214/371. steward, Gower and Swansea, Glam., Penkelly, Brecs., royal manors, Pemb. 1585–d.; Cole, 69; NLW, Penrice and Margam L.67; W.J. Hemp Deeds 70; W. Glam. AS, B/S Corp. B1, ff. 104, 159, 202; C66/1709/3; M. Gray, ‘Power, Patronage and Pols.’, in Estates of English Crown ed. R.W. Hoyle, 153. commr. piracy, S. Wales 1586, 1601, 1615; APC, 1586–7, p. 144; C181/1, f. 6; 181/2, f. 228. dep. lt. Pemb. 1590–5, APC, 1590, pp. 248, 353; G. Owen, Taylor’s Cussion, pt. 1, f. 36. Glam. 1595–d.; APC, 1595–6, p. 15; E112/275/3; SP16/202/42. commr. recusants, Carm. 1592; APC, 1591–2, pp. 544–5. sheriff, Glam. 1593 – 94, 1603 – 04, 1622–3; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 257. Member, Council in the Marches 1601–d. P. Williams, Council in Marches of Wales, 352–3. commr. oyer and terminer, Wales 1602-at least 1626, C181/1, f. 32v; 181/2, ff. 17v, 201. sewers, Glam. 1604-at least 1626; C181/1, f. 87; 181/2, f. 234v; 181/3, f. 201. collector, Privy Seal loan, Glam. 1605, E401/2585, f. 75. commr. repair of sea walls, Glam. 1607 – 08, 1627, Glam. RO, Bushby I.12; W. Glam. AS, B/S Corp. B2, f. 126. subsidy 1608, 1622, 1624, 1629, SP14/31/1; C212/22/21, 23; E179/221/286. aid 1609, E179/283; SP14/43/107. houses of correction 1610, C181/2, f. 122v. public money retained in private hands, 1626, APC, 1626, p. 114. subsidy arrears 1626, E179/224/598. Forced Loan 1626–7. C193/12/2, f. 70v; SP16/53/84.

Member, Virg. Co. c.1618. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iii. 86, 329.

Main residence: Margam, Glam.
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MANSELL (MANSFIELD, MANSFELT), Sir Robert (1570/1-1652), of Pentney, Norf.; Marquess House, Broad Street, London; and Church Street, Croom’s Hill, East Greenwich, Kent.

Family and Education
b. 1570 /1, HCA 13/30, f. 187. 4th (or 6th) s. of Sir Edward Mansell† (d.1585) of Penrice, Oxwich and Margam, Glam. and Jane, da. of Henry Somerset, 2nd earl of Worcester; bro. of Sir Thomas*. educ. Staple Inn 1585; Brasenose, Oxf. 1587; L. Inn 1615. m. (1) ?by 1593, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Nicholas Bacon†, ld. kpr., of York House, London, Redgrave, Suff. and Gorhambury, Herts., wid. of Sir Francis Wyndham† (d.1592) of Pentney, s.p.; (2) 11 Mar. 1617, Elizabeth Roper (d.1658), s.p. E. Williams, Staple Inn, 190; Al. Ox.; LI Admiss.; CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 406; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 62; Kirby, 85. Kntd. 27 June 1596. S. and E. Usherwood, Counter-Armada, 1596, p. 147. bur. 21 Aug. 1652 21 Aug. 1652. Soc. Gen. transcript, par. reg. St. Alfege, E. Greenwich. sig. Robert(e) Mansell.
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Capt. of privateer, W. Indies expedition 1591; HCA 13/30, f. 187r-v. capt. RN, Cadiz expedition 1596, flag capt. Is. Voyage 1597, v.-adm. 1597, adm. Irish sqdn. 1599, Fleet to the W. 1601, Narrow Seas 1602 – 03, escort of Danish King 1606, Algiers expedition 1620–1; Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson ed. M. Oppenheim (Navy Rec. Soc. i), 359; ii. 38, 88, 169; E351/2239, unfol.; 351/2241, unfol.; 351/2244, unfol.; T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 165. treas. of Navy 1604 – 18, lt. of Admty. 1618–?d.; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 98; 1611–18, p. 541; C54/2374/10. member, Council of War 1624–6, Rymer, vii. pt. 4, p. 149; Procs. 1626, ii. 263. 1637. CSP Dom. 1637, pp. 86, 224.

J.p. Norf. by 1593 – 1600, 1601 – 26, Kent by 1605 – 26, 1628–37; Hatfield House, ms 278; Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 13; Harl. 286, f. 297; C231/4, f. 261; 231/5, p. 232. commr. to license passage overseas, Norf. 1599, Norf. RO, WLS XVII/1, bk. 2, ff. 12–14. v.-adm. 1600–18, HCA 49/106, packet A, nos. 53, 65. commr. sewers, Norf. and Cambs. 1601–4, C181/1, ff. 14, 78. musters, Norf. 1601, APC, 1600–1, p. 227. capt. militia ft. 1601, A.H. Smith, ‘Elizabethan Gentry of Norf.’ (Univ. of London Ph.D. thesis, 1959), p. 310. commr. subsidy 1608, SP14/31/1. piracy, London and Mdx. 1609 – at least19, London, Mdx., Kent and Essex 1614, London, Mdx., Kent, Essex and Surr. 1615, Mdx. Kent and Surr. 1617, oyer and terminer, Kent 1615; C181/2, ff. 101, 214, 220v, 228, 299v, 339. vestryman, E. Greenwich, Kent by 1629; Kirby, 85. freeman, Portsmouth, Hants 1631; R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 350. commr. array, Kent 1642. Northants. RO, FH133.

Gent. of privy chamber by 1604-at least 1615; C54/2374/10; SP15/40/28. commr. Union 1604–6, CJ, i. 208b, 319b. privileges, New Merchant Adventurers 1614, HMC Downshire, iv. 338. export of iron ordnance 1619–?20. CD 1621, vii. 416; CSP Dom. Addenda 1580–1625, p. 629.

Freeman, Merchant Taylors’ Co. 1607; Memorials of Merchant Taylors’ Co. ed. G.M. Clode, 159. cttee. Virg. Co. 1607, Jamestown Voyages ed. P.L. Barbour (Hakluyt Soc. ser. 2, cxxxvi), i. 74. NW Pass. Co. 1612, CSP Col. E.I. 1513–1616, p. 239. New Eng. Council by 1622 – 35, auditor (jt.) 1622; CSP Col. 1574–1660, pp. 34, 204; Procs. American Antiq. Soc. 1867, p. 59. member, Muscovy Co. by 1608, Jacobean Commissions of Enquiry, 1608 and 1618 ed. A.P. McGowan (Navy Rec. Soc. cxvi), 229. ?E.I. Co. 1609, CSP Col. E.I. 1513–1616, p. 194. Somers Is. Co. 1615, A. Brown, Genesis of US, 770. Africa Co. 1618, Select Charters of Trading Cos. ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 99. Fishing Assoc. by 1636. CUL, ms Dd. xi. 71.

Patentee, glass monopoly 1615–42. CD 1621, vii. 362; and see below.

Main residences: Pentney, Norf.E115/273/32; Lansd. 168; f. 189. and Marquess House, Broad Street, London and Church Street, Croom's Hill, East Greenwich, Kent.
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EDMONDES, Clement (c.1567-1622), of Westminster and Preston Deanery, Northants.

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b. c. 1567, s.of one Edmondes, yeoman, of Shrawardine, Salop.Ath. Ox. ii. 322-3. educ. All Souls, Oxf. 1586, aged 19, BA 1589, MA 1593.Al Ox. m. (lic. 15 Feb. 1598),London Mar. Lic. (Harl. Soc. xxv), 247. Mary, da. of Robert Clerke of Grafton, Northants., 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxv), 165; PROB 11/150, f. 243. Kntd. 29 Sept. 1617.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 166. d. 12 Oct. 1622.C142/395/99; T. Birch, Ct. and Times of Jas. I, ii. 341.
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Fell. All Souls, Oxf. 1590–8;Al Ox. dep. remembrancer, London 1601 – 05, remembrancer 1605–9;CLRO, Reps. 25, f. 228, Reps. 27, ff. 40v, 41; HMC Hatfield, xi. 159, 203; xxi. 150. commr. annoyances, Surr. 1611, Mdx. 1613,C181/2, ff. 142v, 199v. musters, Mdx. 1614, 1616;APC, 1613–14, p. 565; 1615–16, p. 569. j.p. Mdx. 1616 – d., Westminster 1618 – d., Northants. 1620–d.;C231/4, ff. 26, 111; C181/2, f. 331v; 181/3, f. 15v; C193/13/1. commr. oyer and terminer, Mdx. and London 1616–d.,C181/2, ff. 262v, 263v, 351v, 352v; 181/3, ff. 21, 22, 47, 77v. gaol delivery, Newgate, London 1617–d.,C181/2, ff. 279v, 351v; 181/3, f. 23. new buildings, London 1618,C66/2165. survey, L. Inn Fields 1618,T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 83. sewers, Mdx. 1619, fenland 1621,C181/2, f. 347; 181/3, f. 35v. drainage, fenland 1622.C181/3, f. 49v.

Clerk of PC 1609–d.;Add. 11402, f. 148; C66/1814; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 535. muster-master-gen. 1613–d.;C66/1994; CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 201. commr. treating with Utd. Provinces 1615, 1619;Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives comp. G.M. Bell, 195; CSP Col. E.I. 1513–1616, p. 362; BL, India Office Lib. H/39, f. 68; Carew Letters ed. J. Maclean, (Cam. Soc. lxxvi), 5; CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 272; HMC Buccleuch, i. 130; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 254. commr. trade 1621–d.APC, 1621–3, p. 80.

Main residences: Westminster; Preston Deanery, Northants.
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