PROWDE, Lewis (c.1560-1617), of Lincoln’s Inn, London and St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. c. 1560, 1st s. of George Prowde, draper of Milk Street, Shrewsbury and Eleanor, da. of Lewis ap Evan Coytmore of Shrewsbury, Salop.Ex inf. James Lawson, archivist of Shrewsbury Sch.; also Vis. Salop, (Harl. Soc. xxix), 327; Salop RO, 567/2F/1. educ. Shrewsbury g.s. 1567, 1572; St. John’s, Camb. 1576; Furnival’s Inn; L. Inn. 1578, called 1586. Al. Cant.; LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. ii. 2. m. 31 Dec. 1590, Ursula, da. of Francis Trappes, Goldsmith of London, 2s. 1da. St. Michael Bassishaw (Harl. Soc. reg. lxxii), 87-8, 91, 118; Vis. Yorks. (Harl. Soc. xcvi), 391; PROB 11/126, f. 230v. Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi) mistakenly describes Ursula as the da. of Sir William Blount, who was actually her stepfa. suc. fa. 1591/2. Salop RO, ms transcript of St. Julian’s, Shrewsbury reg. bur. 16 Jan. 1617 16 Jan. 1617. Reg. Westminster Abbey ed. J.L. Chester, 113; Liber Famelicus of Sir J. Whitelocke ed. J. Bruce (Cam. Soc. lxx), 53. sig. Lewis Prowde.

Offices Held

Fee’d counsel, Westminster Abbey c. 1587 – 92, steward (jt.) 1592 – d., under-steward (jt.), liberty of St. Martin-le-Grand, London ?1610–d.; Westminster Dean and Chapter Acts ed. C.S. Knighton, ii. 123–4, 151, 198–9; Liber Famelicus, 19, 53, 60. bencher, L. Inn 1602–d.; LI Black Bks. ii. 73. j.k.b. [I] 1604–5; F.E. Ball, Judges in Ire. i. 314. marshal, L. Inn 1604 – 05, reader 1606, kpr. black bk. 1608–9; LI Black Bks. ii. 84, 94–5, 97, 114. justice, N. Wales circ. 1610–d.; C66/1884/5. treas. L. Inn 1613–14. LI Black Bks. ii. 158.

Commr. inquiry, London suburbs 1603, piracy, London and lower Thames 1606 – d., sewers, London 1606 – 11, Westminster and Chelsea, Mdx. 1611, subsidy, Westminster 1608; C181/1, f. 50v; 181/2, ff. 12v, 20, 140v, 154, 214v, 221; SP14/31/1. j.p. Anglesey, Caern. and Merion. 1610–d.; JPs in Wales and Monm. ed. Phillips, 6–7, 24–5, 42–3. commr. annoyances, Mdx. 1613; C181/2, f. 199v. gov., Charterhouse hosp. Mdx. 1615–?d. G.S. Davies, Charterhouse in London, 352.

Parlimentarian

PROWDE, Lewis (c.1560-1617), of Lincoln’s Inn, London and St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Main residences: Lincoln's Inn, London; St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

PROWDE, Lewis (c.1560-1617)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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