FRAUNCEYS (FRANCIS), Edward (c.1566-1626), of Petworth and Wappingthorne, nr. Steyning, Suss.

Family and Education

b. c. 1566,Age calculated from date of admiss. to St. John’s, Camb. ?2nd s. of William Fraunceys of Ticknall, Derbys. and Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Cotton of Combermere, Cheshire. Harl. 6160, f. 23v; PROB 11/83, f. 219; Vis. Eng. and Wales Notes ed. Crisp, ix. 83. educ. Shrewsbury g.s. 1577; St. John’s, Camb. 1582. Shrewsbury Sch. Regestum Scholarium, 1562-1635 comp. E. Calvert, 50; Al. Cant. m. Elizabeth, da. of Edward Atslowe, fell., Royal Coll. of Physicians, of Downham, Essex, 1da. CSP Dom. 1603-10, p. 223; The Gen. n.s. xxi. 62; Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 46. Kntd. 26 Feb. 1605. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 137. bur. 23 May 1626. Memorials of St. Margaret’s, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke, 544.

Offices Held

Steward, 9th earl of Northumberland’s household 1593 – 1603, and of earl’s Petworth estate, Suss. 1603–20. Household Pprs. of Henry Percy, Ninth Earl of Northumberland ed. G. R. Batho (Cam. Soc. ser. 3. xciii), 153.

Paymaster, gent. pens. 1603–8. CSP Dom. 1603–10, pp. 13, 424.

J.p. Suss. 1602 – 05, 1619–26, C231/1, f. 131; 231/4, f. 90; C66/1620; Arundel, Autograph Letters 1617–32, Peers to Spiller, 16 Jan. 1626. commr. sewers 1604-at least 1625, C181/1, f. 81; 181/2, ff. 134, 292v; 181/3, ff. 133v, 166v. subsidy 1621 – 22, 1624, C212/22/20–1, 23. impressment of seamen 1625. C181/1, f. 81; APC, 1625–6, p. 29.

Parlimentarian

FRAUNCEYS (FRANCIS), Edward (c.1566-1626), of Petworth and Wappingthorne, nr. Steyning, Suss.

Main residences: Petworth; Wappingthorne, nr. Steyning, Suss.

Francis

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Commons 1604-1629

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FRAUNCEYS (FRANCIS), Edward (c.1566-1626)

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Oxford 1644

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