Family and Education
bap. 18 Sept. 1593, 1st s. of William Stockdale of Green Hammerton, Whixley, and 2nd w. Dorothy, da. of Thomas Millot of Whithill, Chester-le-Street, co. Dur.Whixley par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 277; Hutchinson, Co. Dur. ii. 416. m. Nov. 1625, Margaret, da. of Sir William Parsons, 1st bt. of Bellomont, Dublin, 1s. 2da.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 277-8; J. Lodge, Peerage of Ireland (1754), ii. 275; V. Treadwell, Buckingham and Ireland 1616-28: a Study in Anglo-Irish Politics (Dublin, 1998), 49. suc. fa. 1614.E134/14Jas1/Mich15; E. Hargrove, Hist. of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough (1789), 293. bur. 25 Dec. 1653 25 Dec. 1653.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 277.
Offices Held

Irish: att. ct. of wards, c.Sept. 1619–?CSP Ire. 1615–25, p. 261. Surveyor of Irish customs farm, Feb. 1623–?NAI, Clayton Mss: G. Villiers, duke of Buckingham to T. Stockdale of Dublin, 3 Feb. 1623; Treadwell, Buckingham and Ireland, 95. Dep. v.-adm. Munster, 1624–?Treadwell, Buckingham and Ireland, 99–100, 101. Clerk of treasury, clerk of pells and writer of tallies in receipt of exch. 25 May 1625–31 Aug. 1636.Rymer, Foedera, viii(2), 27; CSP Ire. 1669–70, pp. 346–7; Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, ii. 275, 343–4.

Local: commr. subsidy, Yorks. (W. Riding) 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641.SR. J.p. 16 Aug. 1641-c.June 1642, by 1648–d.;C231/5, p. 475; News from Yorke (1642, 669 f. 6.44); Add. 29674, f. 148. liberties of Ripon 27 Nov. 1648–d.C231/6, p. 127. Commr. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, W. Riding 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;SR.; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653), 277 (E.1062.28). sequestration, W. Riding 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; E., N. Riding 3 Aug. 1643; Northern Assoc. W. Riding 20 June 1645.A. and O. Treas.-at-war, Northern Assoc. by July 1645–?SC6/CHASI/1190. Commr. taking accts. in northern cos. W. Riding 29 July 1645; militia, Yorks. 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. charitable uses, W. Riding 21 May 1650;C93/20/30. Yorks. 22 Apr. 1651;C93/21/1. Ripon 5 May 1653.C93/22/14.

Military: capt./maj. of ft. (parlian.) by July 1643–?;Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer no. 26 (11–18 July 1643), 206 (E.61.1); Jones, ‘War in north’, 404. col. by Dec. 1645-aft. June 1648.CJ iv. 368b; HMC Portland, i. 455.

Central: member, council of war, 2 Aug. 1643;CJ iii. 191b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 4 July 1650.CJ vi. 437a.

: of Bilton Park, Yorks., Knaresborough.
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Commons 1640-1660
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STOCKDALE, Thomas (1593-1653), of Bilton Park, Knaresborough, Yorks.

Will
20 Dec. 1651.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), WYL132/240.
Estates
his fa.’s main property, a farm in Green Hammerton on long lease from Henry 3rd earl of Northumberland, was worth c.£40 p.a. above the rent, and his personal estate was valued at £225 at his d. in 1614.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 33, f. 397; E134/14Jas1/Mich15. In 1631, Stockdale purchased Bilton Park, nr. Knaresborough, for £1,880 – a property worth at least £100 p.a.C54/2879/31; W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), WYL132/16-20. In 1634, Peter and Henry Benson* sold to Stockdale rectory and parsonage of Farnham, Yorks. with all tithes, glebelands and appurtenannce belonging in Arkendale, Farnham, Ferrensby, Loftus and Scotton; a further sale of lands in Knaresborough was later disputed.Coventry Docquets, 657; C33//221, f. 748; C10/72/45. Estate bef. the civil war was worth c.£400 p.a. or more.Cliffe, Yorks. 359. In 1648, appears to have purchased manor of Green Hammerton from Algernon 4th earl of Northumberland.Alnwick, X.II.6, box 11, bundle g: Stockdale to Hugh Potter*, 30 Sept. 1648. In 1651-2, he and three others purchased manor of Knaresborough for £2,680 and royalties in the forest of Knaresborough for £240.E121/5/5/19. At his d. estate inc. lands in Bilton, manor of Green Hammerton and rectory of Farnham.W. Yorks. Archives (Leeds), WYL132/240, 257.
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