Family and Education
b. c. 1551, 6th but 3rd surv. s. of Robert Hicks (d.1557), Ironmonger, of Soper Lane, London and Juliana, da. of William Arthur of Clapton in Gordano, Som.; bro. of Michael*.J. Stow, Survey of London ed. J. Strype, i. pt. 1, p. 288; A.G.R. Smith, Servant of the Cecils, 16; Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 80-1. educ. ?St. Paul’s g.s.; Trin. Camb. 1568; I. Temple 1573. M. McDonnell, Regs. St. Paul’s Sch. 45; Al. Cant.; I. Temple Admiss. m. 7 Sept. 1584, All Hallows Bread Street ed. W. Bruce Bannerman (Harl. Soc. Reg. xliii), 100. Elizabeth (bur. 11 Aug. 1643), da. of Richard May, Merchant Taylor, of London, CP. 3s. d.v.p. 3da. (1 d.v.p.). Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 80-1; St. Mary Magdalen Milk Street ed. A.W. Hughes Clarke (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxxii), 21-23. Kntd. 24 July 1603; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 127. cr. bt. 1 July 1620; C66/2235/4. Visct. Campden 5 May 1628. C66/2494/7. d. 18 Oct. 1629. Stow, i. pt. 1, p. 288.
Offices Held

Freeman, Mercers’ Co. 1577, liveryman 1586, Mercers’ Hall, London, Acts of Ct. 1560–95, ff. 309, 418. warden 1596 – 97, master 1603 – 04, 1610 – 11, 1621–2; Mercers’ Hall, London, Acts of Ct. 1595–1629, ff. 6v, 51, 109, 224v. trustee, Gresham Coll. London 1597–d.; Ibid. f. 17; Mercers’ Hall, London, Gresham Repertories, ii. 1626–69, p. 13. cttee. Virg. Co. 1609. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iv. 369.

Capt. militia ft. London by 1588; HMC Foljambe, 39. common councilman 1589–1603, F.F. Foster, Pols. of Stability, 166. auditor 1601; churchwarden, St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London, 1590; gov. St. Bartholomew’s hosp. London 1597–1601; R.M. Benbow, ‘Tables of London Citizens’ (typescript in IHR), 248. j.p. Mdx. by c.1609–d., C66/1822, 66/2527. Glos. 1618–d.; C231/4, f. 62; C66/2527. commr. oyer and terminer, the Verge 1613 – 17, Oxf. circ. 1618 – d., Mdx. 1627–8, C181/2, ff. 179, 287, 315; 181/3, ff. 207, 219, 243; 181/4, f. 12. musters, Mdx. 1614, APC, 1613–14, p. 566. new buildings, London 1618-at least 1625, C66/2165; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 1, p. 70. repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral 1620, B. Woodd Smith, ‘Sir Baptist Hicks’, Mdx. Co. Recs. ed. J.C. Jeaffreson, iv. 339. subsidy, Glos. and Mdx. 1621 – 22, 1624, C212/22/20–1, 23. annoyances, Mdx. 1624; Rymer, vii. pt. 4, p. 96. dep. lt. Mdx. 1625-at least 1627; CSP Dom. 1623–5, p. 508; 1627–8, p. 188. collector Forced Loan, Brentford division, Mdx. 1626; APC, 1626, p. 353. commr. Forced Loan, Mdx. 1626 – 27, Glos. 1627; Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 144; C193/12/2, ff. 20, 30. gov. Chipping Campden g.s. 1627–d. P.C. Rushen, Chipping Campden, 159.

Mercer to the queen 1596, to the king 1603-at least 1613; APC, 1596–7, p. 329; Foster, 143. contractor for Crown lands 1609, 1611; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 513; 1611–18, p. 55. commr. Virg. plantation 1624, poor prisoners 1624, 1628. Rymer, vii. pt. 4, pp. 136, 144; C66/2454, m. 93d.

Main residences: Milk Street, London and Kensington, Mdx. and Chipping Campden, Glos.
Hickes
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Commons 1604-1629
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HICKS (HICKES), Sir Baptist, 1st Bt. (c.1551-1629)

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