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bap. 8 Apr. 1586,J. Venn, Annals of a Clerical Family (1904), 53, 140. 2nd s. of Simon Venn, yeoman, of Lydiard St Lawrence, Som. and Maud Lawrence. educ. appr. Merchant Taylor 28 June 1602.GL, Merchant Taylor’s Co. Apprenticeship binding bks. iii. 94. m. (1) 1619, Mary (bur. 1 Aug. 1625), da. of Henry Wood, merchant of London, 3s. (2 d.v.p.). (2) lic. 13 Feb. 1626, Margaret, da. of Geoffrey Langley of Colchester, Essex, wid. of John Elliot, Salter, and John Scarborough, Haberdasher of London, 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 1da.Guildhall Misc. iii. 104n; Vis. Essex 1634 (Harl. Soc. xiii), 433; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 308; London Mar. Lics. (Harl. Soc. xxvi), 126, 161; Venn, Annals, 52, 79. d. 28 June 1650.Smyth's Obit., 29; cf. SP28/68/1.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Merchant Taylors’ Co. 27 Aug. 1610; liveryman, 2 July 1621–38; asst. 13 Nov. 1638 – d.; warden, 13 July 1641–3;GL, index of freemen, Merchant Taylors’ Co.; Merchant Taylors’ Co. ct. min. bks. xi, ff. 125, 153v. common councilman, London 1638 – d.; auditor, 1639–41.CLRO, Jnl. 39, ff. 65, 68, 99; Beaven, Aldermen of London i. 290.

Local: member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 19 Apr. 1614;Ancient Vellum Bk., 20. asst. 1632;CLRO, Rep. 47, f. 154. serj. maj. 1636; dep. pres 1639.Pearl, London, 172, 187. Capt. London trained bands, 1616;G. Emberton, Skippon’s Brave Boys (1984), 50. lt.-col. yellow regt. Apr. 1642.Names, Dignities and Places of all Cols. ... of City of London (1642, 669.f.6.10). Commr. disarming recusants, London 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b. assessment, 1642, 21 Feb. 1645, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Som. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Mdx. 7 Dec. 1649; levying of money, Berks. 3 Aug. 1643; New Model ordinance, Mdx. 17 Feb. 1645; London militia, 2 Sept. 1647, 17 Jan. 1649.A. and O.

Mercantile: asst. Massachusetts Bay Co. 20 Oct. 1629.Winthrop Pprs. (Mass. Hist. Soc. 1931) ii. 160.

Religious: churchwarden, All Hallows’ Bread Street 1631.BDBR iii. 267.

Central: recvr. subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288b. cttee. for examinations, 13 Jan., 9 Feb. 1642;CJ ii. 375b; PJ i. 329. cttee for Irish affairs, 3 Sept. 1642.CJ ii. 750b. Commr. ct. martial, 16 Aug. 1644. Member, cttee. for the army, 31 Mar. 1645, 23 Sept. 1647, 17 Apr. 1649. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646;A. and O. cttee for plundered ministers, 27 Dec. 1647.CJ v. 407a. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648, 20 June 1649; high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee for indemnity, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 109a, 113b. cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 19 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 121b. cttee. of navy and customs by 29 Jan. 1649;Bodl. Rawl. A.224, f. 6v. cttee. for excise, 10 Feb. 1649.CJ vi. 137b. Treas. for petty emptions, 21 Aug. 1649.CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 285. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Commr. for compounding, 2 Nov. 1649.CJ vi. 318a.

Military: col. ft. (parlian.) by Sept. 1642-May 1645.CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 391. Gov. Windsor Castle 28 Oct. 1642–13 May 1645.CJ v. 484a.

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Commons 1640-1660
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VENN, John (1586-1650), of Bread Street, London and Windsor Castle, Berks.

Will
pr. 1 July 1650.PROB11/213/13.
Estates
at d. owned tenement in Walbrook and messuages in Candlewick Street and Nicholas Lane, London; lands in Lincs. and Northants., a house at Lydiard St Lawrence, Som., a tenement and other land in Colchester, Essex.PROB11/213/13.
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