Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 26 Mar. 1598,WARDS7/51/264. 1st s. of Lodowick Lewis of Trewalter, Llangorse, and Elinor (d. aft. 7 Dec. 1643), da. of William Watkin of Llangorse.T. Jones, Hist. Brec. iii. 65; NLW, Coleman Deeds, 13. educ. ?Univ. Coll. Oxf. 1 July 1613; BA, 4 July 1616;Al. Ox. L. Inn, 2 Nov. 1616.LI Admiss. i. 175. m. bef. 1623, Mary (bur. 22 Feb. 1636), da. of Robert Calton of Goring, Oxon., wid. of Sir Thomas Neale (d. 3 Feb. 1621) of Warnford, Hants, 1s. 2da.CB; Visitation of Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv). 149; PROB11/137/201 (Sir Thomas Neale); Hants RO, 44M69/L61/100. suc. fa. betw. 2 May–18 Oct. 1614;PROB11/124/407 (Lodowicke Lewis). ?; ?Kntd. 14 Oct. 1619.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 174. cr. bt. 14 Sept. 1628.CB. d. betw. 19 Oct.-28 Nov. 1677.PROB11/355/313.
Offices Held

Local: sheriff, Brec. ?1618 – 19, 21 Dec. 1636–1637. bef. 28 Feb. 1632 – 10 June 1642CB; HP Commons 1660–1690; Coventry Docquets, 368. J.p. Hants, 22 Sept. 1648 – bef.Jan. 1650, by Oct. 1660–d.;Western Circ. Assize Orders, 41, 73, 175; C231/5, p. 528; C231/6, p. 122. Brec. 22 Mar. 1647 – ?Mar. 1649, 8 Aug. 1660 – d.; Glam. 8 Sept. 1660–?d.Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 271–80, 304–6. Commr. oyer and terminer for piracy, Hants and I.o.W. 21 Oct. 1636;C181/5, f. 58. sewers, Hants and Surr. 10 June 1638;C181/5, f. 115v. Hants 25 July 1671.C181/7, p. 584. Dep. lt. by 1 July 1640–?;CSP Dom. 1640, p. 438. Brec. c.Aug. 1660–74.HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. further subsidy, Hants 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; Brec. 1660;SR. disarming recusants, Hants 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677; Brec. 23 June 1647, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677; Rad. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, Hants 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643, 10 June 1645; defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; commr. for Hants, assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644.A. and O. Kpr. East Meon park bef. 1648, 1661. 2 Dec. 1648VCH Hants, iii. 67; Hants RO, 11M59/D1/2 pages 53, 55. Commr. militia, Hants, 12 Mar. 1660; Brec. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. preservation of timber, New Forest 1 Mar. 1660.CJ vii. 856b. Custos rot. Brec. Mar. 1660–d.A Perfect List (1660); C231/7, p. 24; Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 275. Commr. subsidy, Hants 1663;SR. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 23 June 1671-aft. Feb. 1673;C181/7, pp. 592, 612, 636. recusants, Hants 1675.CTB iv. 697.

Military: gov. (parlian.) Portsmouth 8 Sept. 1642–?May 1644.CJ ii. 785b; iii. 129a, 492b.

Civic: freeman, Portsmouth 1644, 11 July 1662;Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 353, 357. Lymington 1661.King, Bor. and Par. Lymington, 226.

Central: member, cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645; cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 4 Oct. 1645. Commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646; exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O. Member, Derby House cttee. of Irish affairs, 14 Oct. 1646, 7 Apr. 1647;CJ iv. 693b; LJ ix. 127b. cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647; removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648. Cllr. of state, 25 Feb. 1660.A. and O.

Religious: elder, fourth Hants classis, 19 Jan. 1646.King, Bor. and Par. Lymington, 263.

: 1st bt. (1598-1677), of Llangorse, Brec. 1598 – 1677 and Bordean House, East Meon, Hants.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, aft. 1648.NPG.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

LEWIS, Sir William, 1st bt. (1598-1677), of Llangorse, Brec., and Bordean House, East Meon, Hants

Will
4 Mar. 1675, cods. 20 Dec. 1676 and 19 Oct. 1677, pr. 28 Nov. 1677.PROB11/355/313.
Estates
1614, manor of Llangorse and other lands in Brec. inc. at Llanfihangel Tal-y-llyn, some in reversion aft. d. of mother;PROB11/124/407; T. Jones, Hist. Brec. iii. 65. bef. 14 Oct. 1619, land in Hants;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 174. property at Bordean and manors of East Meon and Langrish, Hants originally leased from bishopric of Winchester, much of which acquired 1649-60 by Francis Allein*;PROB11/355/313; SP29/20, f. 54. bef. 1635, advowson of St Katherine, Catherington;VCH Hants, iii. 101. 13 Feb. 1635, lease from crown of East Meon Park, said 1647 to be worth £70 p.a. ‘by improvement’;VCH Hants, iii. 67. Oct. 1643, allegedly lost betw. £2,000-£3,000 plundered from Hants estates, ‘by means whereof, his lands being unstocked, he made not three pence of them in three years’;State Trials, iv. 902. 6 Nov. 1648-26 Jan. 1649, sold land in High Street, Brecon town worth £100;NLW, 112. 20 Nov. 1660, 7 Mar. 1668, leases of Heydon woods, East Meon, from bishopric of Winchester.Hants RO, 11M59/D1/2, pp. 13, 423.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
Image