HIPPISLEY, Sir John (d. 1655), of The Mews, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, and Bushy Park, Hampton, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. 3rd s. of William Hippisley (d. c.1630) of Marston Bigot, Som. and ?, da. of one Burley of I.o.W.Vis. Rutland (Harl. Soc. lxxiii), 5; I.F. Jones, Hippisley Fam. Notes, 100. m. (1) Margaret, da. of Thomas Antrobus† of Heath House, Petersfield, Hants, s.p. (2) 16 Mar. 1615, Katherine (d. c.1659), da. of Sir Richard Norton† of East Tisted, Hants, 1da. d.v.p. PROB11/304, f. 36; R.L. Antrobus, Antrobus Peds. 97; Reg. of St. Mary Mounthaw (Harl. Soc. Reg. lviii), 7; Jones, Hippisley Fam. 116. Kntd. 14 Apr. 1617.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 162. bur. 4 Sept. 1655 4 Sept. 1655.St Martin-in-the-Fields par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Mdx. 10 Jan. 1621 – 4 July 1642, by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653;C231/4, f. 117; C231/5, p. 533; C193/13/3, f. 41v; C193/13/4, f. 60. Kent 18 Apr. 1625-c.July 1634;C231/4, f. 184. Westminster by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C193/13/3, f. 82; C193/13/4, f. 128. Commr. subsidy, Mdx. 1621–2, 1624.C212/22/20–1, 24. Kpr. Bushy Park c.1621-Dec. 1652;CSP Dom. 1628–9, pp. 272, 344; CJ vii. 239b-240a; Jones, Hippisley Fam. 110. Middle Park, Hampton Court by Oct. 1642 – aft.Sept. 1648; Marylebone Park by Oct. 1643-aft. Sept. 1648.Bodl. Nalson XIV, ff. 218, 336–7; CJ iii. 267b; [C. Walker], Hist. of Independency (1648), 168 (E.463.19). Commr. martial law, Kent and Cinque Ports 30 Dec. 1624, 4 Oct. 1626;Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 4, p. 170; viii. pt. 2, p. 94. sewers, Kent 20 Apr. 1625;C181/3, f. 157v. Kent and Suss. 1 June 1625;C181/3, f. 173. River Colne, Bucks. Herts. and Mdx. 14 Dec. 1638, 30 May 1639;C181/5, ff. 122, 136v. piracy, Cinque Ports 4 June 1625–15 Apr. 1629;C181/3, ff. 175v, 247; C181/4, f. 1v. privy seal loan, Kent, Mdx. 1625–6;E401/2586, p. 456. sale of prize goods, Cinque Ports 24 Feb. 1626, 21 Feb. 1627;APC 1625–6, p. 350; 1627, p. 72. sale of Camber Castle, Suss. 22 Aug., 15 Nov. 1626;APC 1626, p. 207; Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 115. Forced Loan, Kent 1627;C193/12/2, f. 27. oyer and terminer, Kent and Canterbury 23 Mar. 1627;C181/3, f. 215v. Mdx. 18 May 1627–28 Nov. 1628;C181/3, ff. 219, 219v. depopulations, Glos. 1632, 8 July 1635;SP16/229, f. 210; C181/5, f. 22v. Som. Wilts. 1632, 28 May, 8 July 1635;SP16/229, f. 210; C181/5, ff. 1, 22, 22v. water supply, Hampton Court 26 Sept. 1638;Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 2, p. 184. assessment, Mdx. 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Westminster 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Cumb. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Som. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650.A. and O. Capt. militia horse, Mdx. by Mar.-c.Sept. 1643.CJ ii. 990b; iii. 172b, 242b, 290a. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; defence of London, 17 Feb. 1644.A. and O. Dep. justice in eyre, Mdx. 24 Oct. 1644; Kent 5 Nov. 1644.CSP Dom. 1644–5, pp. 68, 96. Commr. Mdx. militia, 25 Oct. 1644, 2 Aug. 1648; New Model ordinance, Mdx. 17 Feb. 1645; militia, Mdx. Westminster 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. Westminster militia, 19 Mar. 1649, 7 June 1650.A. and O.; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11).

Religious: overseer of poor, St Martin-in-the-Fields 1623–4.WCA, STM/F/1/350, unfol. Vestryman, 29 July 1641–d.WCA, STM/F/1/2517, unfol. Sequestrator, vicarage of St Martin-in-the-Fields, 14 Jan. 1643.CJ ii. 924b; LJ v. 553a, 557a. Feoffee for poor revenues, 6 Dec. 1652–d.WCA, STM/F/1/2003, p. 12. Presented John Browne to rectory of Hope, Kent, 1652; Henry Crispe to rectory of Great Shefford, Berks. 1653.Add. 36792, ff. 53, 70v.

Military: dep. warden of the Cinque Ports and lt. of Dover Castle, c.Nov. 1624-Mar. 1629.CSP Dom. 1623–5, pp. 333, 374; St. 743, f. 134; Add. 49977, ff. 51–2v; J.B. Jones, Annals of Dover, 382.

Court: equerry, king’s stables by Dec. 1624-aft. Mar. 1646.E179/70/131, 136, 146; SP16/154, f. 110; SC6/CHAS.I/1662, m. 12; Bodl. Nalson XIV, f. 218.

Civic: freeman, Dover 6 Apr. 1625–?d.Add. 29623, f. 67.

Central: commr. for maintenance of army, 26 Mar. 1644;A. and O. to present Newcastle Propositions to king, 8 July 1646;CJ iv. 604a, 606b. to attend king on I.o.W. 2 Aug. 1648.CJ v. 658b, 660a. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 4 July 1650;CJ vi. 437a. cttee. regulating universities, 9 Apr. 1651.CJ vi. 557b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 10 Apr. 1651.CJ vi. 558a.

: of The Mews, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and Bushy Park, Mdx., Hampton.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

HIPPISLEY, Sir John (d. 1655), of The Mews, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, and Bushy Park, Hampton, Mdx.

Will

25 Jan. 1655, pr. 14 Feb. 1656.PROB11/253, f. 98.

Estates

c.1620, purchased site and manor of Lesnes Abbey, Kent, but apparently held this property only briefly.Jones, Hippisley Fam. 109; Coventry Docquets, 600. By 1629, leased a house in The Mews as a royal equerry, to which he added rooms and stables.CSP Dom. 1633-4, p. 428; 1661-2, p. 230; CJ vi. 300b. In 1629, lands in Marston Bigot were enclosed and settled on Hippisley as lord of the manor.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 163. In 1641, he sold manor of Marston Bigot to Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork for £10,350 (for which he was still owed £1-2,000 in 1642 – a debt that Parliament commuted into a loan for its service and which it sought to repay in 1649 by offering him £1,300 worth of dean and chapter lands).Eg. 80, f. 8; C6/4/107; PJ i. 383, 384, 388; ii. 128; CJ ii. 432b; v. 32b, 43a; vi. 210b, 274a; Lismore Pprs. ed. A.B. Groshart, ser. 1, v. 182-4, 223. In 1646, he was leasing a farm in Kent from Sir Thomas Walsingham*.C6/156/60. In 1650, he purchased from the trustees for the sale of dean and chapter lands manors of Hinton Ampner, Hants, and Rochford Tower, Lincs., paying £1,915 15s. for the latter.Eg. 1048, f. 121; Jones, Hippisley Fam. 115. In 1651, purchased a fee farm rent in Mdx. for £6 10s.SP28/288, f. 32. In 1652, purchased manor of Trudoxhill, Som. for £1,000;C54/3684/11. and purchased from trustees for the sale of crown lands manor of Farrington Gurney, Som. for £3,097.C54/3680/20.

Oxford 1644

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