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b. c. 1559, 1st s. of John Pitt, mercer, of Blandford Forum, Dorset and Joan, da. of John Swayne, butcher, of Blandford.Hutchins, Dorset, iv. 90-1. m. c.1583, Edith (d. 3 Dec. 1633), da. and coh. of Nicholas Cadbury, yeoman, of Arne, nr. Wareham, Dorset, 5s. (2 d.v.p.) 4da. Ibid. i. 98; Memorials of St. Margaret’s, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke, 59, 61, 66, 68, 71, 74; PROB 11/171, f. 248. suc. fa. 1602; PROB 11/99, f. 150v. Kntd. 2 Feb. 1619. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 171. d. 29 May 1636. Hutchins, iv. 90.
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Dep. teller, Exch. c.1586-at least 1613; CSP Dom. 1598–1601, p. 227; Add. 29974, f. 257; HMC 4th Rep. 365. commr. reform of king’s Household 1617, M. Prestwich, Cranfield, 206. Navy 1618–25, APC, 1618–19, p. 174; A.P. McGowan, ‘The Royal Navy under the 1st Duke of Buckingham’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1967), p. 265. abuses in silk-dyeing 1620, HMC Rutland, i. 458. piracy 1623, plantations 1623, poor prisoners 1624, T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 4, pp. 46, 63, 136. recusancy compositions 1628, CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 205. goldsmiths’ abuses 1635. Rymer, viii. pt. 4, p. 123.

Surveyor of Crown lands, Dorset by 1594-at least 1614; Add. 29976, f. 118. commr. sewers, London 1606, Mdx. 1606, 1619, Westminster 1611, 1627, 1634, Dorset 1617, Wilts. and Hants 1630, I.o.W. 1631, C181/2, ff. 20v, 140v, 294, 347v; 181/3, f. 213v; 181/4, f. 49v, 89, 191. j.p. Westminster 1618 – d., Hants 1619 – 36, Mdx. 1619–33; C181/2, f. 331v; SP16/405; C231/4, f. 95; 231/5, p. 116; Add. 29974, f. 256. commr. gaol delivery, London 1619–25, C181/2, f. 351v; 181/3, f. 182v. oyer and terminer 1619 – 25, Mdx. 1620 – 25, Western circ. 1625–d., C181/2, ff. 351v-2v; 181/3, ff. 137, 182v-3v; 181/5, f. 32v. subsidy, Mdx. and Westminster 1621 – 22, 1624, E115/306/126; C212/22/20–1, 23. inquiry into New River, Herts. and Mdx. 1622–3, Add. 29974, ff. 61–4. sale of decayed munitions in Tower of London 1623, HMC 7th Rep. 252. Forced Loan, Westminster 1626–7. Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 144.

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PITT, William (c.1559-1636), of Old Palace Yard, Westminster and Hartley Wespall, Hants.
Main residences: Old Palace Yard, Westminster; Hartley Wespall, Hants.
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J.P.F.
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Commons 1604-1629
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PITT, William (c.1559-1636)

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