WHALLEY, Peniston (1624-93), of Kirkton Hall, Screveton, Notts.

Family and Education

b. c. 23 Nov. 1624, 2nd but o. surv. s. of Thomas Walley (d. 2 Sept. 1628) of Kirkton Hall, and Mary, da. of Thomas Peniston of Rochester, Kent.C9/38/100; WARD9/126/13, f. 58; Vis. Notts. (Harl. Soc. n.s. v), 5-6. educ. Trinity, Camb. Mich. 1642.Al. Cant. m. (1) by 1648, Margaret (d. 10 Sept. 1675), da. and h. of George Ireland of Southworth, Lancs., 1s. d.v.p. 3da. (1 );Lancs. RO, QDD/49/F9; Vis. Notts. 6; J.T. Godfrey, Notes on the Churches of Notts.: Hundred of Bingham (1907), 395-6. (2) 16 Feb. 1686, Johanna (d. aft. Feb. 1691), da. of ?, wid. of one Cawthorne of ?St Ann, Blackfriars, London, s.p.St. Anne, Blackfriars par. reg.; PROB11/416, f. 279v. suc. gdfa. c.Oct. 1632;C6/123/172; Vis. Notts. 5. bur. 29 Aug. 1693 29 Aug. 1693.St Andrew, Holborn par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: commr. assessment, Notts. 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. by Oct. 1660 – 19 Aug. 1673, 3 Feb. 1674–?;C231/7, pp. 458, 474. liberties of Southwell and Scrooby, Notts. 19 Dec. 1664-aft. 29 June 1669.C181/7, pp. 302, 502. Commr. subsidy, Notts. 1663;SR. swans, 30 May 1663.C181/7, p. 210. Recvr. hearth tax, Lincs. (Holland, Kesteven) 1667–8.CTB ii. 29, 540, 592. Commr. sewers, Notts. 22 May 1669;C181/7, p. 488. charitable uses, 20 Feb. 1671.Notts. RO, DD/625/1.

Military: capt. of ft. regt. of earl of Chesterfield, 13 June 1667–?CSP Dom. 1667, p. 181.

: of Kirkton Hall, Notts., Screveton.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WHALLEY, Peniston (1624-93), of Kirkton Hall, Screveton, Notts.

Will

4 Feb. 1691, pr. 16 Oct. 1693.PROB11/416, f. 279.

Estates

inherited a garden with appurtenances in St Leonard’s Shoreditch, Mdx.; manor of Kirkton Hall alias Screveton; tithes of corn and hay in Aslockton, Car Colston, Elston and Screveton, Notts.; a moiety of manor of Willoughby-by-Norwell, Notts.; and lands in Cartlon-on-Trent, Notts.C142/445/24; G. Jaggar, ‘The Fortunes of the Whalley Fam. of Screveton, Notts.’ (Southampton Univ. M.Phil. thesis, 1973), 31, 35, 250. He claimed that his inheritance was worth £600 p.a.C9/38/100; Jaggar, ‘Whalley Fam.’, 252. In 1648 and 1654, Whalley and his wife sold manor of Southworth and other property in Lancs. for £6,200.C54/3820/30, 33; Lancs. RO, QDD/49/F9; Jaggar, ‘Whalley Fam.’, 268. In 1651-2, sold messuages and lands in Carlton-on-Trent and lands and tithes in Screveton for £2,630. In 1653, purchased two manors in Car Colston for £4,084, mortgaging part of these premises that year for £1,200. In 1653, sold his moiety of manor of Willoughby-by-Norwell for £4,530.C54/3705/1; Notts. RO, DD/VC/24/1; Jaggar, ‘Whalley Fam.’, 255, 261-2, 264-5, 279. Value of his estate in about 1660 variously reckoned at £1,200 and £1,500 p.a.E. Calamy, The Nonconformist’s Memorial (1775-8), iii. 98; Jaggar, ‘Whalley Fam.’, 274. In 1670, he sold messuages and lands in Aslockton, Car Colston and Screveton for £2,000.Jaggar, ‘Whalley Fam.’, 281. By 1674, owned a house of 9 hearths in Screveton.Notts. Hearth Tax 1664, 1674 ed. Webster, 88. In 1685, sold manor of Kirton Hall alias Screveton for £6,016.Jaggar, ‘Whalley Fam.’, 285.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

presented Thomas Holcroft to vicarage of Car Colston, Notts. 1655.LPL, COMM II/137.

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