SERLE, George (?1585-1658), of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, Som.

Family and Education

b. ?1585, 1st s. of Edward Searle, linen draper, of Honiton, Devon.Honiton par. reg.; PROB11/110/99. m. (1) by 1615, ? (d. by 1627), 2s. 2da.; (2) 25 Jan. 1629, Elizabeth Hurlie (d. 1630), 1da. d.v.p.; (3) ?by 1633, Welthian (d. by 1678), 1s. d.v.p.Devon RO, 1639A/PW 1; Honiton par. reg.; Taunton St Mary par. reg.; PROB11/359/185. suc. fa. Apr. 1607.Honiton par. reg. d. 28 Sept. 1658.‘Additions to the museum’, Procs. Som. Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. i. 70.

Offices Held

Religious: churchwarden, Honiton 1626–7.Devon RO, 1639A/PW 1. Elder, Taunton, Bridgwater and Dunster classis, 1648.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 420–1.

Civic: mayor, Taunton bef. 1638, 1649 – 50, 1654–5.‘Additions to the museum’, 70; Cases in the High Court of Chivalry 1634–1640 ed. R.P. Cust and A.J. Hopper (Harl. Soc. n.s. xviii), 33; CJ vi. 293a; Som. RO, DD/PM/7/4/11.

Local: commr. loans on Propositions, Som. 20 July 1642;LJ v. 226a. assessment, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Som. 1 July 1644; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O. J.p. Apr. 1649–4 Mar. 1657.C231/6, pp. 149, 205, 360. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. by Feb. 1654–d.C181/6, pp. 9, 308.

: Som., Taunton.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SERLE, George (?1585-1658), of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, Som.

Will

admon. 6 Dec. 1658.PROB8/52, f. 347v.

Estates

presumably owned property in Taunton; possibly tenant of Sir John Northcote* at Honiton.PROB11/359/185.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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