TANFIELD, Lawrence (c.1554-1625), of Burford Priory, Oxon.; Wych Street, Westminster and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London

Family and Education

b. c. 1554, 1st s. of Robert Tanfield of Burford and Wilgiford Fitzherbert. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 294-6. educ. Eton 1564; I. Temple 1569, called c.1578. Eton Coll. Reg. comp. W. Sterry, 327; I. Temple database of admiss.; HMC 9th Rep. pt. 2, p. 373. m. by 1585, E.K. Chambers, Sir Henry Lee, 207. Elizabeth (d.1629), da. of Giles Symonds of Cley, Norf., 1da. Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 278. suc. fa. c.1557; Baker, Northants. ii. 276. Kntd. 14 Mar. 1604. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 129. d. 13 Apr. 1625. C142/417/44. sig. Law[rence] Tanfeild.

Offices Held

J.p. Oxon. c.1583–d., Lansd. 737, f. 151v; C66/1620; SP14/33, f. 49v; C66/1988; C193/13/1; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 13. New Woodstock, Oxon. 1602–d., C181/1, f. 36; 181/3, f. 49. Glos. by 1603–d. C181/1, f. 65v. Berks. 1614–d., C66/1988; C193/13/1; Rymer, viii. pt. 2, pp. 4, 8. Mdx. 1622, Westminster 1622–d.; C193/13/1; Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 21. commr. gaol delivery, Glos. and Dorset 1601 – 08, Newgate, London 1607 – d., London 1617–18, C181/1, ff. 13, 122v; 181/2, ff. 52v, 60v, 279v, 301, 323v; 181/3, ff. 22v, 132. sewers, Oxon. and Berks. 1604 – 12, Lea valley, Essex, Herts. and Mdx. 1609 – 22, Mdx. 1611 – 19, Surr. 1613 – 24, Essex 1613 – 15, London 1615–23, C181/1, f. 85; 181/2, ff. 97v, 140v, 168v, 191, 230v, 243, 306, 347; 181/3, ff. 26v, 43, 103v, 114v. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 1605 – d., Western circ. 1606 – d., London, Mdx. and the Verge 1606–d., C181/1, f. 116; 181/2, ff. 3, 7v, 11v, 13, 287; 181/3, ff. 131, 132, 136v, 137. swans, Oxon. Berks., Wilts. Glos. Hants and Northants. 1606, 1615, C181/2, ff. 4v, 232v. piracy, Devon 1606 – 16, Cornw. 1607 – 24, Hants and Dorset 1611 – 14, London 1615, Hants 1618, C181/2, ff. 25v, 52, 56, 138v, 139v, 159, 175, 186, 208v, 220v, 242, 309; 181/3, f. 113 subsidy, London 1608, Oxon. 1608, 1621 – 22, 1624; SP14/31/1; C212/22/20, 21, 23. commr. nisi prius Bristol, Glos. 1613 – 24, Southampton, Hants 1618, C181/2, ff. 200v, 342; 181/3, f. 121v. survey, L. Inn Fields, Mdx. 1618, Rymer, vii. pt. 3, p. 83. new buildings, Mdx. 1624, Rymer, vii. pt. 4, p. 96. annoyances, Mdx. 1625. C181/3, f. 157.

Bencher, I. Temple 1591 – 1603, reader 1595; CITR, i. 378, 397. counsel to Oxf. Univ. 1597; A. Wood, Hist. Univ. Oxf. ii. 264. recorder, New Woodstock by 1602–6; C181/1, f. 36; Woodstock Chamberlain’s Accts. 1609–50 ed. M. Maslen (Oxon. Rec. Soc. lviii), 85. sjt.-at-law 1603; Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 176, 539. commr. Union with Scotland 1604–6; CJ, i. 208a, 319a. j.k.b. 1606–7; C66/1664. j. assize, Western circ. 1606–17; J.S. Cockburn, Hist. Eng. Assizes, 268–70. c. bar. exch. 1607–d.; C66/1734; Sainty, Judges, p. 95. member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1608–d. C193/6, no. 173; R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 358.

Member, Newfoundland Co. 1610. Select Charters of Trading Cos. ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 52.

Commr. to enfranchise copyholders 1612, C181/2, f. 171v. cloth exports 1614, HMC Downshire, iv. 338. warrens 1614, C66/2043. tolls and customs 1618, 1620, C66/2169, 2221. grant of lands to James Hay, Visct. Doncaster 1619, LR2/74, f. 221v et seq. logwood imports 1620, CD 1621, vii. 410. defective titles 1622–5. Rymer, vii. pt. 3, p. 249, pt. 4, p. 77; viii. pt. 1, p. 32.

Parlimentarian

TANFIELD, Lawrence (c.1554-1625), of Burford Priory, Oxon.; Wych Street, Westminster and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London

Main residences: Burford Priory, Oxon and Wych Street, Westminster and Serjeants' Inn, Chancery Lane, London.

Author

A.D.

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

TANFIELD, Lawrence (c.1554-1625)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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