COLLES, Humphrey (by 1510-70/71), of Barton Grange and Nether Stowey, Som.

Family and Education

b. by 1510, 1st s. of Humphrey Colles of North Tawton, Devon by da. of John Hext of High Ham Som. m. (1) by 1541, Elizabeth, da. of Roger Darcy of Danbury, Essex, 1s. John; (2) lic. 1 Feb. 1544, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Nicholas Lambert of London, wid. of [?John] Boys of London, 2da. suc. fa. 20 Oct. 1531.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., C142/53/9. Vis. Som. ed. Weaver, 16; PCC 5 Hogen, 24 Holney; CPR, 1554-5, p. 223; Mar. Lic. Fac. Off. (Harl. Soc. xxiv), 1.

Offices Held

Surveyor, Devon lands of Sir Thomas Wentworth I, 1st Baron Wentworth of Nettlestead, and of the 2nd Earl of Bath c.1540; commr. relief, Som. 1550; j.p. 1554 – 58, q. 1558/59; sheriff, Som. and Dorset 1557 – 58; churchwarden, Cannington, Som. LP Hen. VIII, xvi, J. E. Kew, ‘The land market in Devon 1536–58’ (Exeter Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1967), 203; CPR, 1553, p. 359; information from Conrad Russell.

Parlimentarian

COLLES, Humphrey (by 1510-70/71), of Barton Grange and Nether Stowey, Som.

Main residences: Barton Grange; Nether Stowey, Som.

Author

R.V.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

COLLES, Humphrey (by 1510-70/71)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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