EDGCUMBE, Piers (c.1610-67), of Mount Edgcumbe, Cornw. and Cothele, Calstock, Cornw.

Family and Education

b. c. 1610, 1st s. of Sir Richard Edgcumbe† of Mount Edgcumbe and his 2nd wife, Mary, da. of Sir Thomas Coteel of London; bro. of Richard Edgcumbe*.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 142. educ. St John’s, Camb. Easter 1626;Al. Cant. Leiden Univ. 25 June 1629;E. Peacock, Index to Eng. Speaking Students at Leyden Univ. (Index Soc. xiii), 32. travelled (France and Spain) 1631-2; Padua Univ. 1632-3;G. Andrich, Univ. Patavinae (1892), 140. Oxf. Univ. MD (h.c.) 22 Mar. 1644.Al. Ox.; Cornw. RO, ME/3090. m. 6 June 1636, Mary, da. of (Sir) John Glanville* of Broad Hinton, Wilts. 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 2 da.Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, v. 218; C142/579/52; Cornw. RO, ME/841, 3044; PROB11/324/89. suc. fa. Mar. 1639; uncle Thomas Coteel†, 1640. d. 6 Jan. 1667.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 142; PROB11/184/393.

Offices Held

Mercantile: member, Mines Royal Co. 1639 – d.; dep.-gov. 1654 – 57; asst. 1657–64.BL, Loan 16 (iii), ff. 4, 8, 10, 16, 49.

Local: master of game, Devon estates of Francis Russell, 4th earl of Bedford, 1639.Cornw. RO, ME/3089. Commr. further subsidy, Cornw. 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR. assessment, 1642, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;SR; An Ordinance… for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). array (roy.), 29 June 1642; Devon 8 Aug. 1642. 1642 – ?46Northants RO, FH133, unfol. J.p. Cornw. 15 July, by Oct. 1660-c.1666; Devon by Oct. 1660-c.1666.C231/5, p. 529; C220/9/4, ff. 12v, 17; C66/3074. Sheriff, Cornw. 1660–1.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 23. Dep. lt. by 1662.C29/60/66. Commr. loyal and indigent officers, 1662; subsidy, 1663;SR. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 23 Jan. 1665–d.C181/7, pp. 313, 358.

Military: col. militia ft. and gov. Mount Edgcumbe and Milbrook garrisons by Nov. 1642-Mar. 1646.Cornw. RO, ME/2925; C181/7, pp. 313, 358.

: Cornw. and Cothele, Cornw., Calstock.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

EDGCUMBE, Piers (c.1610-67), of Mount Edgcumbe, Cornw. and Cothele, Calstock, Cornw.

Will

12 May 1666, pr. 14 May 1667.PROB11/324/89.

Estates

by mar. sett. of 3 June 1636, and on d. of fa. (Mar. 1639) held possession or reversionary interest in 13 manors in Devon and Cornwall, lands in Truro borough, and advowsons of parishes of Truro and Mevagissey, Cornw.C142/579/52. Additional lands (mostly in I.oW.) inherited from uncle, Thomas Coteel of Titchfield, Hants, June 1639.Cornw. RO, ME/877. Free tenant of duchy of Cornw. in manors of Calstock, Tewington (St Austell par.) and Tibesta (Creed par.), freeholder in Trematon (St Stephen-by-Saltash).Parl. Surv. Duchy Cornw. i. 13-14, 19-21, 166, 174, 197. Purchased manor of Beeding, Sussex, 1641.VCH Sussex, vi, part 3, p. 34. Income estimated at betw. £2,000 and £3,000 in later 1640s, and at £2,000 in 1660.Keeler, Long Parliament, 164; J. Polsue, Complete Parochial Hist. Cornw. (4 vols., 1868-72), suppl. p. 26; Burke’s Commoners, i. 688.

Oxford 1644

Yes

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