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Family and Education
b. c. 1594, s. of Sir Edwin Rich of Mulbarton, Norf. and Honora or Margaret, da. of Charles Wolryche of Wickham Brook and Cowling, Suff.CB iv. 72. educ. L. Inn, 12 Nov. 1612.LI Admiss. i. 160. m. 14 Sept. 1629, Jane (d. 1662) da. of John Reve of Bury St Edmunds, Suff., wid. of Charles Hawkins of London and Sir John Suckling† of St Andrew’s Norwich, s.p.The Gen. n.s. xii. 216. suc. fa. Feb. 1648.CB. Kntd. 10 July 1666.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 242. d. 16 Nov. 1675.CB.
Offices Held

Legal: called, L. Inn 21 Oct. 1619; bencher, 25 Jan. 1638; master of the walks, 27 Apr. 1675.LI Black Bks. ii. 213, 345; iii. 99.

Local: v.-adm. Norf. 19 Mar. 1644–?1663.Vice-Admirals of the Coast (L. and I. Soc. cccxxi), 37. J.p. Mdx. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653, Nov. 1653-Apr. 1670.C231/6, pp. 274, 431; C231/7, pp. 13, 365; C193/13/3, f. 41v; C193/13/4, f. 60v. Commr. assessment, 10 Dec. 1652, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1674;A. and O; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Westminster 10 Dec. 1652;A. and O. sewers, River Lea, Herts., Essex and Mdx. 4 Mar. 1657;C181/6, p. 221. Norf. and Suff. 20 Dec. 1658;C181/6, p. 339. militia, Mdx. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. oyer and terminer, 5 July 1660–17 Nov. 1664;C181/7, pp. 4, 219. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663.SR.

Central: master in chancery, c.1645–?1666 (suspended Oct.-Dec. 1658).PRO31/17/33, pp. 86, 279; CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 163; LJ xi. 12a. Counsel for the state, cttee. for advance of money by Jan. 1646–22 Feb. 1650;CCAM 81, 526, 1505. cttee. for compounding by Sept. 1646-Nov. 1654.CCC 46, 657, 708.

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Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

RICH, Edwin (c.1594-1675), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx.

Will
24 Apr. 1675, pr. 17 Nov. 1675.PROB11/349/254.
Estates
main seat was Mulbarton, Norf.; in will mentions lands in Beccles, Norf. and ‘my lands in Suffolk I had by marriage’, and also had interests in Norwich and Thetford, Norf. and Enfield, Mdx.PROB11/349/254.
Oxford 1644
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