OXBURGH alias HEWER, Lawrence (1610-78), of Emneth, Norf.

Family and Education

bap. 2 Dec. 1610, 2nd s. of Thomas Oxburgh (d. bef. 1623) of King’s Lynn and Emneth, Norf. and Ethelreda (Audrey) (d. 1663), da. of George Grymes of Foulsham and Antingham.Foulsham par. reg.; Vis. Norf. 1563, 1589 and 1613 (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 211; Vis. Norf. 1563 ed. G.H. Dashwood (Norwich, 1878), i. 150; Vis. Norfolk 1664 (Norf. Rec. Soc. iv-v), ii. 152; G.H. Holley, ‘Observations and comments’, Misc. (Norf. Rec. Soc. xxvii), 87; Blomefield, Norf. viii. 405. educ. ?Westerham, Kent, c.1620-4; Caius, Camb. 1624; Queens’, Camb. 1626;Al. Cant.; J. Venn, Biog. Hist. of Gonville and Caius Coll. (Cambridge, 1897-1901), i. 265. G. Inn 1626.GI Admiss. m. aft. 1630, Dorothy, da. of Sir John Peyton† of Doddington, Cambs., 4s. 1da.Vis. Norf. 1664, ii. 152; R.E.C. Waters, Geneal. Mems. of the Extinct Fam. of Chester of Chicheley (1878), i. 317; Burke Dorm. and Extinct Baronetcies, 412. suc. bro. Hewar 1628;C142/449/48; WARD7/78/73. gt. uncle Sir Thomas Hewar 1630.PROB11/158/470. bur. 25 July 1678.J. Venn, Biographical Hist. of Gonville and Caius College (Cambridge, 1897-8), i. 265.

Offices Held

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 1633-aft. 1641.LC5/132, f. 348; LC3/1, f. 24v.

Local: sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 31 Jan. 1646, 6 May 1654-aft. July 1659;C181/5, f. 269v; C181/6, pp. 27, 381. Norf. and Suff. 20 Dec. 1658;C181/6, p. 339. Norf., Suff. and I. of Ely 7 Sept. 1660-aft. Dec. 1669. Sept. 1656 – d.C181/7, pp. 41, 524. J.p. I. of Ely c.; Norf. c.Sept. 1656–d.C193/13/6, ff. 31, 63; C193/12/3, ff. 27v, 76. Commr. assessment, I. of Ely 9 June, 26 June 1657; Norf. 26 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677;A. and O.; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.60); SR. gaol delivery, I. of Ely 12 Mar. 1657 – 29 July 1659, Aug. 1660-aft. July 1672;C181/6, pp. 223, 284; C181/7, pp. 33, 624. poll tax, Norf. 1660.SR. Capt. militia ft. 1660; lt. col. by 1676.Bodl. Tanner 96, f. 133. Commr. subsidy, 1663;SR. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 698.

: of Emneth, Norf.

HEWER

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

OXBURGH alias HEWER, Lawrence (1610-78), of Emneth, Norf.

Will

admon. 20 Nov. 1682.PROB6/57, f. 136.

Estates

valued at £800, on nom. as knight of the royal oak, 1660;Burke Commoners, i. 691. sold lands at Emneth for £3,581, 1669.Wisbech and Fenland Museum, E.M.3: indentures and receipt, 28-29 Dec. 1669.

Oxford 1644

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