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bap. ?7 May 1549, 2nd but o. surv. s. of Thomas Overbury, yeoman, of Aston Subedge, Glos. and Isabell, da. of Nicholas Rutter of Hidcote, Glos.G.W. Marshall, ‘Ped. of Overbury’, The Gen. i. 271; MTR, 198. educ. New Inn; M. Temple 1574, called 1582. M. Temple Admiss. m. by 1580, Mary (bur. 14 June 1617), da. of Giles Palmer of Compton Scorpion, Ilmington, Warws., 6s. (5 d.v.p.) 4da. (2 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1581; Marshall, 271-5; PROB 11/200, ff. 207-8 Kntd. 22 Aug. 1621. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 177. bur. 31 May 1643. D. Royce, ‘Bourton-on-the-Hill’, Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. xvi. 72.
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Escheator, Glos. 1594–5; List of Escheators comp. A.C. Wood (L. and I. Soc. lxxii), 59. j.p. Glos. by 1600-at least 1641, C66/1523, 66/2859. liberty of Slaughter, Glos. 1605–37, C181/1, f. 122; C181/5, f. 71. Card. Carm. and Pemb. 1611–37; JPs in Wales and Monm. ed. Phillips, 162, 167. commr. charitable uses, Glos. 1603 – 19, Worcs. 1624–31, C93/3/7, 93/8/7, 93/13/18; C181/3, f. 114. subsidy, Gloucester 1604, Glos. and Gloucester 1608, 1621 – 22, 1624; STAC 8/4/9; SP14/31/1, ff. 14v, 15; C212/22/20–1, 23. steward of Chipping Campden bor. Glos. 1605; S. Rudder, New Hist. Glos. app. p. xl. commr. sewers, Glos. 1609, 1615, C181/2, ff. 104, 240. aid, Glos. and Gloucester 1609; SP14/43/107. member, Council in Marches of Wales 1610 – 38, v.-pres. 1625, 1626; HMC 13th Rep. IV, 253, 273; HMC Cowper, ii. 195. commr. oyer and terminer, Wales and the Marches 1617 – 34, Glos. 1631, C181/2, f. 277; C/81/4, ff. 88v, 162. piracy, Card. Carm. Pemb. 1617, 1623, C181/2, f. 276: C181/3, f. 97v. gaol delivery, Worcester, Worcs. by 1624–30, C181/3, f. 128; C181/4, f. 44v. mines, Card. 1625, T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 1, p. 48. subsidy arrears, Card. 1626, E179/224/598. Forced Loan, Gloucester 1626 – 27, Glos. 1626 – 27, Card. 1627, Carm. 1627, Pemb. 1627,Cal. of Recs. of Corp. of Gloucester comp. W. H. Stevenson, 68; C193/12/2, ff. 20v, 66v, 67, 73, 83v; Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 145. repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Glos. 1632. Glos. RO, TBR A1/1, f. 80.

Bencher, M. Temple 1600 – d., reader 1600, treas. 1610–11; MTR, 198, 321. recorder, Gloucester 1603 – 27, standing counsel 1627–d.; Glos. RO, GBR B3/1, ff. 196v, 516v. c.j. S. Wales circ. 1610–37. C66/1884/8; W.R. Williams, Hist. of Gt. Sessions in Wales, 166.

Parlimentarian
OVERBURY, Nicholas (1549-1643), of Bourton on the Hill, Glos. and the Middle Temple, London
Main residences: Bourton on the Hill, Glos.; the Middle Temple, London.
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A.D.
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Commons 1604-1629
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OVERBURY, Nicholas (1549-1643)

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Oxford 1644
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