b. c. 1549,E134/7Jas.I/Mich 27. 5th s. of John Man (d.1577/8), merchant, of Poole, being 2nd s. with his 2nd w. Amy, da. of one Harvey of Tarrant Launceston, Dorset, wid. of John Ryves of Damory Court, Blandford, Dorset.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. lxxv), 134; PROB 11/60, f. 244; Vis. Dorset (Harl. Soc. xx), 52, 80.m. (1) 8 Feb. 1576, Temperance, da. of John Hassard, sen., merchant, of Lyme Regis, Dorset, 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.; (2) Eleanor, sis. of Lewis Pope* of Taunton, Som., s.p. d. 22 Dec. 1622. Hutchins, Dorset, i. 47; Som. Par. Reg. vii. 10; PROB 11/141, f. 49v.
Offices Held
Freeman, Poole 1585, Dorset RO, DC/PL/B/1/1, f. 30v. mayor 1589 – 90, collector of bor. revenues 1590 – 91, senior bailiff 1593 – 94, 1598 – 99, 1600 – 01, 1604 – 05, 1607 – 08, 1613–14, Ibid. Poole bor. audit bk. 5, pp. 4–9. common cllr. 1601–d., Ibid. DC/PL/B/1/1, f. 42. commr. gaol delivery 1602, C181/1, f. 23. piracy, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset 1602, Dorset 1603, 1605, Ibid. ff. 24, 62v, 114v. Admlty. causes, Purbeck 1605; Ibid. f. 117. collector of customs, Poole by 1605-at least 1609,HMC Hatfield, xvii. 113; E134/7Jas.I/Mich 27. commr. subsidy 1608, 1621–2, SP14/31/1; C212/22/20–1. aid 1609, E179/283/12. oyer and terminer 1611, sewers, Dorset 1617. C181/2, ff. 139v, 294.
Member, Spanish Co. 1605,Spanish Co. ed. P. Croft (London Rec. Soc. ix), 70. French Co. 1611. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 337.