HICKS, Sir William, 1st Bt. (1596-1680), of Beverstone, Glos.; Ruckholts, Low Leyton, Essex and Austin Friars, London
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Family and Education
b. Jan. 1596, 1st s. of Sir Michael Hicks* and Elizabeth, Gabriel Colston, Grocer, of London.Lansd. 80, f. 168; Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 81; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 466; VCH Essex, vi. 195.educ. Moreton sch., Essex (George Goodwin); ?Trin. Camb. c.1612. Lansd. 93, f. 56.m. 8 Sept. 1625, Margaret (bur. 10 Sept. 1652), da. of William, 5th Lord Paget, 2s. 1da. 8 other ch. d.v.p. S.E. Hicks Beach, Cotswold Fam. 206, 217; PROB 11/365, f. 213; CB, i. 125.suc. fa. 1612; A.G.R. Smith, Servant of the Cecils, 174.cr. bt. c. July 1619.CSP Dom. 1619-23, pp. 64, 65.d. 9 Oct. 1680. F. Chancellor, Ancient Sepulchral Mons. Essex, 306.
Offices Held
Collector (jt.), Privy Seal loan ?Essex 1626,APC, 1626, p. 286. dep. lt. 1638 – at least44, 1660–?,Maynard Ltcy. Bk. 1608–1639 ed. B.W. Quintrell (Essex Historical Docs. iii), 413; LJ, v. 382; Stowe 189, f. 34; SP29/11/163. lt. of Waltham forest, Essex 1640–?d.; W.R. Fisher, Forest of Essex, 120; CTB, 1679–80, p. 203. commr. oyer and terminer, Essex 1640, perambulation of Waltham Forest 1641; C181/5, ff. 178, 208. j.p. Essex Apr. – July 1642, 1660–d.; C231/5, ff. 519, 530; C220/9/4, f. 23v; S.N., Catalogue of Names of All his Majesties Justices of the Peace in Several Counties Throughout England and Wales (1680), p. 6. commr. sewers, Essex and Kent 1642, Essex 1644, C181/5, ff. 227, 245. assessment, Essex 1643 – 48, 1660–d.,A. and O. i. 91, 536, 638, 965. 1082; SR, v. 213, 458. 530, 758, 810, 905. Glos. 1647 – 48, 1677–d.,A. and O. i. 966, 1083; SR, v. 810, 906. sequestration, Essex 1643, levying money 1643, defence 1643, New Model Ordinance 1645;A. and O. i. 112, 147, 292, 621. elder, Braintree classis, Essex 1648; W.A. Shaw, Hist. of English Church during Civil Wars and Under the Commonwealth, ii. 375. commr. recusancy, Essex and Mdx. 1675.CTB, 1672–5, pp. 696, 750.