CROSSING, Francis (c.1598-1638), of Exeter, Devon.

Family and Education

b. c. 1598,C142/394/18. o. s. of Hugh Crossing, cloth merchant of Exeter, and Joan, da. of John Barret of Barnstaple, Devon.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 255; C2/Chas.I/C103/49. educ. Balliol, Oxf. 1615;Al. Ox. appr. cloth merchant, France, c.1616-17.C2/Chas.I/C103/49. m. by 1620, Elizabeth, da. of Matthew Pitt* of Weymouth, Dorset, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.).Vivian, Vis. Devon, 255. suc. fa. 1622. bur. 7 Nov. 1638 7 Nov. 1638.Regs. Exeter Cathedral ed. W.U. Reynell-Upham and H.T. Soper (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc.), 64. sig. Francis Crossinge.C2/Chas.I/C36/42.

Offices Held

Freeman, Exeter 1619–d.,Exeter Freemen ed. M.M. Rowe and A.M. Jackson (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. extra ser. i), 121. bailiff 1621 – 22, 1628 – 29, common councilman 1623–d.,A. Jenkins, Hist. Exeter, 135, 138, 163; Devon RO, ECA Act Bk. 7, f. 250v. sheriff 1629–30,List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 182. capt. militia by 1630,T. Westcote, View of Devon in 1630, p. 153. mayor 1634 – 35, j.p. 1634 – 35, by 1637–d.,Jenkins, 143, 163. alderman by 1637–d.;SP16/323, p. 64. commr. innovated offices, Devon June 1638–d.C181/5, f. 109v.

Member, Dorchester New Eng. Co. from 1624;F.R. Troup, John White, 457. treas. Exeter French Co. 1625 – 26, gov. 1631–2.W.B. Stephens, ‘Officials of French Co., Exeter in Early Seventeenth Cent.’, Devon and Cornw. N and Q, xxvii. 112.

Parlimentarian

CROSSING, Francis (c.1598-1638), of Exeter, Devon.

Main residence: Exeter, Devon.

Author

P.M.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

CROSSING, Francis (c.1598-1638)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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