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NICHOLAS, Reginald (d.1613), of Prestbury, Glos.

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s. of Humphrey Nicholas. m. by 1575, Winifred, da. of William Pierson, scrivener, of London,Rudder, Glos. 710; Vis. Glos. (Harl. soc. xxi), 117; PROB 11/48, f. 475. 3s. 4da. PROB 11/122, f. 174; PROB 11/180, f. 224. d. 7 June 1613. C142/335/27.
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Servant of Sir Thomas Chamberlain† to 1580. C2/Jas.I/N3/35.

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NICHOLAS, Reginald (d.1613), of Prestbury, Glos.
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NICHOLAS, Edward (1593-1669), of Dover Castle, Kent and King Street, Westminster; later of West Horsley, Surr.

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b. 4 Apr. 1593, 1st s. of John Nicholas, attorney, of Winterbourne Earls, Wilts. and the Middle Temple, London and Susannah, da. of William Hunton of East Knoyle. educ. Salisbury g.s. 1603; privately (household of Lawrence Hyde I*), Salisbury 1605, Winchester 1607-8, Bishopstone, Wilts. (Richard Badcock) 1609-11; Queen’s, Oxf. 1611-13; M. Temple, entered 1611, 1613-15, 1618; travelled abroad (France) 1615-16. m. 24 Sept. 1622 (with £600), Jane (d. 15 Sept. 1688), da. of Henry Jay, Draper and alderman, of Budge Row, London and Holverston, Norf., 6s. (2 d.v.p.) 3da.D. Nicholas, Mr. Secretary Nicholas, 11-17, 24, 29-30; Wilts. Vis. Peds. (Harl. Soc. cv), 144-5; CSP Dom. 1619-23, p.427 Kntd. 26 Nov. 1641; suc. fa. 1644.Nicholas, Mr. Secretary Nicholas, 147, 199. d. 1 Sept. 1669. sig. Edward Nicholas.
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Sec. to Sir John Dackombe*, chan. of the duchy of Lancaster, 1617–18,CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 518. to the ld. warden of the Cinque Ports (successively Edward Zouche, 11th Lord Zouche and George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham) 1619–28;Add. 37818, f. 7; 37819, passim. sec. of Admlty. 1624–38;SP16/117, f. 103; Add. 64916, f. 15. clerk of PC (extraordinary) 1627 – 35, (ordinary) 1635–41;APC, 1627, p. 287; CSP Dom. 1635, p. 420. commr. maltsters 1637,CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 404. inquiry into money paid by the Crown for freight of ships 1638;Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry 1625–40 ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv), 49. surveyor, duchy of Lancaster (south parts) 1641/2–60;Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 77. sec. of state 1641–62;CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 186; 1661–2, p. 524; F.M.G. Evans, Sec. of State, 123, 126. PC 1641–d.;PC2/53, p. 196. commr. Treas. (roy.) 1642-at least 1643,CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 394; Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6 ed. W.H. Black, 14, 60. Admlty. (roy.) 1643, Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6, p. 109. wardrobe 1661.CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 33.

Sec. Fishery Soc. (jt.) 1632.Ibid. 1631–3, p. 388.

Freeman, Winchelsea, Suss. 1621, Dover, Kent 1628;E. Suss. RO, WIN 55, f. 235; Add. 29623, f. 79. commr. piracy, Hants and I.o.W. 1635, C181/5, f. 24. array, Wilts. 1642,Northants. RO, FH133. assessment, Wilts. (roy.) 1643,Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6, p. 16. Mdx. 1660–1,SR, v. 216, 334. oyer and terminer, Wilts. (roy.) 1644; kpr. Windsor Great Park, Berks. 1645 (roy.), 1660–2;Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6, pp. 406–7; CSP Dom. 1661–2, pp. 309, 508. commr. to inquire into the estates of delinquents, Oxon., Berks., Bucks., Warws., Northants., Hants, Wilts., Glos., Beds., Herts. and Mdx. (roy.) 1646;Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6, p. 283. gamekeeper, Hampton Court, Mdx. 1660; CSP Dom. Addenda 1660–70, p. 650. j.p. and custos rot. (roy.) Mdx. 1643, Mdx. and Wilts. 1660 – d., Westminster 1662–d.Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6, p. 108; C220/9/4; C193/12/3.

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NICHOLAS, Edward (1593-1669), of Dover Castle, Kent and King Street, Westminster; later of West Horsley, Surr.
Main residences: Dover Castle, Kent; King Street, Westminster; West Horsley, Surr.
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LAKE, Sir Thomas I (1561-1630), of Little Church Lane, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and Canons, Little Stanmore, Mdx.

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bap. 11 Oct. 1561, s. of Emery Lake of Southampton, Hants, burgess and petty customer. Third Bk. of Remembrance, iii. ed. A.L. Merson (Soton Rec. Soc. viii), 33, n. 2. educ. ?King Edward VI g.s., Southampton c.1571; G. Inn 1592; MA Oxf. 1592. C.F. Russell, Hist. of King Edward VI Sch. Southampton, 97; GI Admiss. 81; Al. Cant. m. 29 June 1591, Mary (bur. 25 Feb. 1642), da. and coh. of Sir William Rider, Haberdasher and ld. mayor of London 1600-1, 3s. 2da. Reg. St. Christopher le Stocks ed. E. Freshfield, i. 24; G.E. Cokayne, Some Acct. of Ld. Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 3; Mdx. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxv), 152; D. Lysons, Environs of London, iii. 413. Kntd. 20 May 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 109, incorrectly described as being of Derbys. d. 17 Sept. 1630.
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Clerk to sec. of state Sir Francis Walsingham† by 1584 – 90; clerk of the Signet 1589–?14; Third Bk. of Remembrance, iii. 33; T. Birch, Mems. of Reign of Queen Eliz. i. 57. kpr. of the recs., Whitehall 1603–11; C66/1624; M. Giuseppi, Guide to Contents of PRO, ii. 1; E214/605. commr. Union 1604; CJ, i. 208b. Latin sec. 1609–19; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 575; T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 89. member, PC 1614–19; APC, 1613–14, p. 403. commr. to treat with agents from Stade 1614; Cott. Galba E.I, f. 432. member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1605-at least 1613; R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 353. sec. of state 1616–19; C66/2059/7. commr. sale of Cautionary Towns 1616, Rymer, vii. pt. 2, pp. 210–11. muster men, Tower defence 1616, PSO 5/3, unfol. inquiry, gold and silver thread 1618, Archaeologia, xli. 251. exile and banish Jesuits and seminary priests. Rymer, vii. pt. 3, p. 65.

Clerk of castle and ct. of York (jt.), 1599-at least 1603; Wentworth Pprs. ed. J.P. Cooper (Cam. Soc. ser. 4. xii), 42; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 43. freeman, Southampton 1603; HMC 11th Rep. III, 22. commr. sewers, Lea valley 1607, Coln valley 1609, 1624, C181/2, ff. 50, 90; 181/3, f. 116. subsidy, Mdx. 1608, SP14/31/1. musters 1608; Add. 11402, f. 142. j.p. Mdx. by 1608 (custos rot. by 1608-at least 1614), Hunts. 1614, C66/1988. Westminster 1619; C181/2, f. 331. woodward, Wallwood and Hamfrith Woods, Essex 1614; C66/2041/14. commr. new buildings, London 1615, APC, 1615–16, p. 122. oyer and terminer, the Verge 1615-at least 1617. C181/2, ff. 235, 287.

Member, Spanish Co. 1605, French Co. 1611. Spanish Co. ed. P. Croft (London Rec. Soc. ix), 96; Select Charters of Trading Cos. ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 64.

Contractor (jt.) to purchase Crown rectories and parsonages 1607-at least 1612; A.F. Upton, Sir Arthur Ingram, 25; C66/1827/24; E214/611, 621. farmer (jt.) on behalf of the queen, imposts on sugar by 1609-at least 1611. CSP Dom. 1603–10, pp. 524, 588; E403/2730, ff. 73v, 238v.

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LAKE, Sir Thomas I (1561-1630), of Little Church Lane, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and Canons, Little Stanmore, Mdx.
Main residences: Little Church Lane, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, WestminsterBk. of Architecture of John Thorpe ed. J. Summerson (Walpole Soc. xl), 5.; Canons, Little Stanmore, Mdx.
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NEWPORT, Richard (1587-1651), of High Ercall, Salop.

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b. 7 May 1587, 1st. s. of Sir Francis Newport† of High Ercall and Beatrice, da. of Rowland Lacon† of Kinlet and Willey, Salop.Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxix), 373-4. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 1604, BA 1607.Al. Ox. m. settlement 22 Feb. 1614 (with £3,500), Rachel (d. 31 Jan. 1661), da. of Sir John Leveson* of Halling, Kent and Trentham, Staffs. 2s. 7da.C142/402/146; Staffs. RO, D593/P/4/3; Vis. Salop, 373-4. Kntd. 2 June 1615;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 155. suc. fa. 15 Mar. 1623;C142/402/146. cr. Bar. Newport of High Ercall, 14 Oct. 1642. d. 8 Feb. 1651.CP. sig. Ric[hard] Newport.
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J.p. Salop 1617–42;C231/4, f. 51. commr. subsidy, Salop 1621 – 22, 1624, 1641, Shrewsbury, Salop 1624, oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 1623–42;C212/22/20–23; C181/3, f. 89; SR, v. 65, 88. burgess, Much Wenlock liberty, Salop 1624;Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 2), vi. 276. sheriff, Salop 1626–7;List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 119. commr. Forced Loan, Salop 1626 – 27, knighthood fines 1630, Poll Tax 1641, assessment 1642, Irish aid 1642, array 1642.C193/12/2; E178/7154, f. 60; SR, v. 107, 141, 155; Northants. RO, FH133.

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NEWPORT, Richard (1587-1651), of High Ercall, Salop.
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LAKE, Sir Arthur (1598-1633), of Canons, Little Stanmore, Mdx. and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster.

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bap. 26 Nov. 1598, Regs. St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Harl. Soc. xxv), 28. 2nd s. of Sir Thomas Lake I* and Mary, da. of Sir William Rider, Haberdasher and alderman of London; bro. of Sir Thomas II* and Lancelot†. Mdx. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxv), 152; A.B. Beaven, Aldermen of London, i. 64. educ. M. Temple 1610; New Coll. Oxf. 1610, BA Hart Hall, Oxf. 1613, MA Camb. 1617; M. Temple Admiss.; Al. Ox. travelled abroad (France) 1615-17. APC, 1615-16, p. 340; T. Birch, Ct. and Times of Jas. I, i. 460. m. (1) by 1618, Letitia (bur. 2 May 1619), 1s. d.v.p. ; Clifford Diary ed. V. Sackville-West, 88, 95; Regs. St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 179. (2) Anne, da. of Francis Plowden of Shiplake, Oxon., 1da. C7/426/73, f. 1; Vis. Oxon. (Harl. Soc. v), 277. Kntd. 18 Aug. 1617. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 164. bur. 19 Dec. 1633 19 Dec. 1633. Lipscomb, Bucks. ii. 76.
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Member, E.I. Co. 1617. CSP Col. E.I. 1617–21, p. 99.

Commr. sewers, Essex 1627, Kent 1631. C181/3, f. 233v; 181/4, f. 100v.

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LAKE, Sir Arthur (1598-1633), of Canons, Little Stanmore, Mdx. and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster.
Main residences: Canons, Little Stanmore, Mdx.; St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster.
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NEWMAN, George (c.1562-1627), of St. Margaret’s, Canterbury, Kent and Doctors’ Commons, London

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b. c. 1562, s. of Richard Newman. educ. Trin. Hall, Camb. 1581, LLB 1584, LLD 1589. m. (1) Elizabeth, da. of Peter Wycliffe of Wycliffe, Yorks., 1s. 1da.; (2) Mary Gough, 1da.; (3) Sybilla, da. of George Wenland of Allensmore, Herefs., 4s. 4da. Kntd. 12 Nov. 1616; d. 7 June 1627. P. Parsons, Monuments and Painted Glass in Kent, 259-60; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. liv), 119; Al. Cant.; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 160; C142/435/122. sig. G[eorge] Newman.
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Surrogate commissary-gen. dioc. of Canterbury by 1587 – 97, commissary-gen. 1597–1617; Arch. Cant. lvi. 1; xxi. 103; J.M. Potter, ‘Eccles. Ct. in Dioc. of Canterbury’ (London Univ. M.Phil. thesis, 1973), p. 134. official, Archdeacon’s Ct. Canterbury 1597–d.; Potter, 133. master in Chancery (extraordinary) 1603-at least 1604; C216/1/24; STAC 8/252/26, f. 58. member, Coll. of Advocates 1598 – 1604, 1604–d. (full admiss.), PRO 30/26/8, ff. 80v, 132; G.D. Squibb, Doctors’ Commons, 167; B.P. Levack, Civil Lawyers in Eng. 258. official, Ct. of Arches 1607, D.M. Owen, Cat. of Lambeth Mss, 24. auditor (jt.) 1612, PRO30/26/8, f. 99. dep. dean of Arches 1613–17; Cott. Cleopatra F.II, f. 169r-v; Levack, 258. member, High Commission, Kent by 1599, Canterbury province by 1605-at least 1620; Arch. Cant. lxxxix. 188; R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 355; HMC 13th Rep. IV, 383. judge, Admlty. Ct. of the Cinque Ports 1602–d., HMC 5th Rep. 139; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 47; APC, 1626, p. 261; 1627, p. 393. Ct. of Delegates by 1613-at least 1618, DEL 5/5, ff. 3, 169. Ct. of Audience, Canterbury province 1617-at least 1620, Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 105; Usher, 355. Ct. of Arches by 1619 – at least21, PCC by 1619 – at least21, Admty. 1620; DEL 8/70, ff. 16r-v, 18, 22v-3. master/clerk/commissary of Faculties by 1613–18. Cott. Cleopatra F.II, f. 169; Lansd. 156, f. 326; Levack, 258.

Freeman, Dover, Kent 1601, Canterbury 1608; Add. 29625, f. 37; Roll of Freemen of City of Canterbury comp. J.M. Cowper, 321. j.p. Kent 1602-at least 1625; C231/1, f. 146; Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 158. commr. piracy, Cinque Ports 1612 – at least16, oyer and terminer, Sandwich, Kent 1614; C181/2, ff. 185, 198, 245. collector, Benevolence, clergy of Canterbury dioc. (sole) and civilians in the Arches (jt.) 1614; E351/1950, unfol. commr. charitable uses, Kent 1616, C93/7/7. sewers 1625, C181/3, f. 157v. Forced Loan 1626. Harl. 6846, f. 37.

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NEWMAN, George (c.1562-1627), of St. Margaret’s, Canterbury, Kent and Doctors’ Commons, London
Main residences: St. Margaret's, Canterbury, KentCanterbury Cathedral Archives, CC/FA/22(2), f. 424v.; Doctors' Commons, London.
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NEWDIGATE, John (1600-1642), of Arbury, Warws.

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b. 27 May 1600,C142/345/145; V. Larminie, Wealth, Kinship and Culture: The Newdigates of Arbury and their World, 210. 1st s. of Sir John Newdigate of Arbury, and Anne (bur. 22 July 1618), da. of Sir Edward Fitton† of Gawsworth, Cheshire; bro. of Richard†. C142/368/105; A.E. Newdigate-Newdigate, Gossip from a Muniment Room, app. C. educ. privately (Henry Simpson), 1607-18, ‘Undergraduate Acct. Bk. of John and Richard Newdigate, 1618-21’ ed. V. Larminie, Cam. Misc. xxx (Cam. Soc. ser. 4. xxxix), 151. Trinity, Oxf. 1618, G. Inn and I. Temple 1620. Al. Ox.; I. Temple Admiss. m. (with £5,350) Warws. RO, CR136/B1380. 27 June 1621, Mar. Regs. of St Dunstan Stepney, 1568-1639 ed. T. Colyer-Fergusson, 127. Susanna (d.1654), da. of Arnold Lulls, denizen of London, s.p. Larminie, Wealth, Kinship and Culture, 210. suc. fa. 28 Mar. 1610. C142/345/145. d. 29 Nov. 1642. Warws. RO, CR136/B1380. sig. Jo[hn] Newdigate.
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Sheriff, Warws. 1625–6; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 147. j.p. Warws. 1630–6; C231/5, f. 25; A. Hughes, Pols., Soc. and Civil War in Warws. 1620–60, 52, 350, 352. commr. swans, Warws. and Staffs. 1635, 1638, C181/4, f. 199v; 181/5, f. 91. oyer and terminer, Northants. Warws. and Leics. 1640–d. C181/5, ff. 172v, 220v.

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NEWDIGATE, John (1600-1642), of Arbury, Warws.
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NEWBERY, Humphrey (c.1574-1638), of Waltham St. Lawrence and New Windsor, Berks.

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b. c. 1574, 1st s. of Henry Newbery of Waltham St. Lawrence and his w. Margaret.PROB 11/117, f. 233. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 1592, aged 17; L. Inn 1595, called 1603. Al. Ox.; L. Inn Admiss.; LI Black Bks. ii. 79. m. ?by 1608, Mary (d. 14 Aug. 1640), da. of Thomas Weldon of Shottesbrooke, Berks., 7 ch. of whom at least 1da. d.v.p. Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi), 140; Ashmole, Berks. ii. 434; E178/7154, ff. 308, 310. suc. fa. 1611. C142/324/145. d. 13 or 14 July 1638. C142/581/118; Ashmole, ii. 433. sig. Humfr[ey] Newberie/Newbery.
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Under-steward, New Windsor 1608 – 13, 1624 – d.; steward, Maidenhead, Berks. by 1623. R.R. Tighe and J.E. Davis, Annals of Windsor, ii. 47, 85; Vis. Berks. 64.

Estate steward to Sir Henry Neville III* by 1619; commr. sewers, Berks. and Bucks. 1626. STAC 8/276/27, f. 3; C181/3, f. 203.

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NEWBERY, Humphrey (c.1574-1638), of Waltham St. Lawrence and New Windsor, Berks.
Main residences: Waltham St. Lawrence; New Windsor, Berks.
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LACON, Rowland (c.1591-1657), of The Birches, Kinlet, Salop

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b. c. 1591,Assuming an age of 18 at entry to L. Inn. 1st. s. of Sir Francis Lacon* of Willey and Kinlet and his 1st w. Jane, da. of Anthony Browne, 1st Visct. Montagu. Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxix), 308. educ. New Inn; L. Inn 1609; travelled abroad 1609. LI Admiss.; SO3/4, unfol. m. (1) Mary (d.1632), da. of Sir Robert Purslowe of Sudbury, Salop, 1da.; Vis. Salop, 416. (2) 12 Dec. 1633 (with £1,500), Jane, wid. of Norton, da. of Calthorpe ?s.p.. Vis. Salop, 308; C2/Chas.I/L16/66. suc. fa. by 1647. CCC, 1718. bur. 9 Sept. 1657 9 Sept. 1657. Kinlet (Salop par. reg. soc. ix), 5.
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Freeman, Much Wenlock liberty 1625. Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 2), vi. 276.

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LACON, Rowland (c.1591-1657), of The Birches, Kinlet, Salop
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