RICH, Nathaniel (1585-1636), of Warwick House, Holborn, London and Stondon Massey, Essex

Family and Education

b. c. 1585,Rich Pprs.: Letters from Bermuda ed. V.A. Ives, 387. 1st s. of Richard Rich of Leez Priory, Essex and Jane, da. of John Machell, Clothworker, of London. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 441. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 1601, BA 1604; G. Inn 1609; travelled abroad (France) 1612. Al. Cant.; GI Admiss.; R.C. Bald, Donne and the Drurys, 97. unm. suc. fa. 1598; Essex RO, D/ABW 32/91. Kntd. 8 Nov. 1617. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 167. d. c. Nov. 1636. PROB 11/172, ff. 253v-55. sig. Na[thaniel] Riche.

Offices Held

Cttee. Somers Is. Co. 1615, J.H. Lefroy, Mems. of the Bermudas (repr. 1981), i. 98. Virg. Co. 1619, W.F. Craven, Dissolution of Virg. Co. 90. Providence Is. Co. 1630 – d., dep. gov. 1635. A. Brown, Genesis of US, ii. 979–80.

Commr. inqury [I] 1622 – 23, 1625, ecclesiastical survey [I] 1623, APC, 1621–3, p. 422; T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 231; pt. 4, pp. 66, 90; viii. pt. 1, p. 46. plantation of Virg. 1624–5, Rymer, vii. pt. 4, p. 144; APC Col. 1613–80, p. 87. trade 1625. Rymer, viii. pt. 1, p. 59.

Commr. sewers, Essex 1625–d., C181/3, ff. 162v, 164, 233v; 181/4, ff. 138, 191v. swans, Essex and Suff. 1635. C181/5, f. 28.

Parlimentarian

RICH, Nathaniel (1585-1636), of Warwick House, Holborn, London and Stondon Massey, Essex

Main residences: Warwick House, Holborn, London; Stondon Massey, Essex.

Author

G.Y.

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

RICH, Nathaniel (c.1585-1636)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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