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Family and Education
bap. 20 Oct. 1591, 2nd s. of John Evelyn (d.1627) of Godstone and Elizabeth, da. and h. of William Stephens of Kingston-upon-Thames.H. Evelyn, Hist. of the Evelyn Family (1915), 198– 202. educ. Emmanuel, Camb., 13 Mar. 1606;Al. Cant. M. Temple, 29 Nov. 1610.MT Admiss. i. 96. m. 24 Nov. 1618, Thomazine (bur. 13 Jan. 1676), da. of William Heynes of Chessington, 4s. (2 d.v.p.), 3 da. (1 d.v.p.).Hist. of the Evelyn Family, 202–3, 206, 215. Kntd. 25 June 1641.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 209. bur. 18 Jan. 1664 18 Jan. 1664.Hist. of the Evelyn Family, 203.
Offices Held

Mercantile: member, Virg. Co. bef. 1613; E. I. Co bef. 1619.A. Brown, Genesis of the United States (1890), ii. 547; CSP Col. E. Indies 1622–4, p. 492. Patentee for supply of gunpowder to crown, 1621–36.SP16/323, f. 71; SP16/332, f. 86; SP16/361, f. 18.

Local: j.p. Surr. by 1629 – 19 July 1642, by 1644 – bef.Jan. 1650, Apr. 1659–d.C66/2527; C231/5, p. 532; C231/6, p. 429; ASSI35/85/4; 35/89/5; C193/12/3. Commr. subsidy, 1641, 1663; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR . disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR . assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660, 1661;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 24 Jan. 1642; Surr. 4 July 1644;C181/5, ff. 222v, 239. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. gaol delivery, 4 July 1644;C181/5, f. 239v. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; defence of Surr. 1 July 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. sewers, Kent and Surr. 25 Nov. 1645, 14 Nov. 1657, 1 Sept. 1659, 20 Aug. 1660.C181/5, f. 264; C181/6, pp. 263, 386; C181/7, p. 30. ?Gov. Covent Garden precinct, 7 Jan. 1646.A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 30 June 1645;LJ vii. 468a. Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 1 July 1645;A. and O. cttee. for plundered ministers, 15 May 1646.CJ iv. 545b. Commr. exclusion from the sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646.A. and O.

Religious: elder, Reigate classis, 16 Feb. 1648.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 434.

: of Lee Place, Surr., Godstone.
Likenesses

Likenesses: fun. monument, attrib. T. Burman, Godstone church, Surr. 1664.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

EVELYN, John (1591-1664), of Lee Place, Godstone, Surr.

Will
20 Apr. 1663, pr. ‘16 Jan. 1664’.Hist. of the Evelyn Family, 204-6.
Estates
manors of Flore, Mardon, Tillingdowne and other lands and tithes in the parishes of Godstone, Bletchingley, Caterham, Tandridge and Walkhampstead; Hist. of the Evelyn Family, 204, 208, 212. rectory and advowson of Godstone, 1 Apr. 1633.Coventry Docquets, 635.
Oxford 1644
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