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b. c. 1583, eldest s. of Edward Goring of Wappingthorne and Okehurst and Elizabeth Wiseman (?of London). m. 18 Jan. 1610, Mary, da. of Thomas Eversfield of Denne, 2s. (1 d.v.p.), 10da.Berry, Suss. Pedigrees, 138-40; Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 45-6; Add. 5698, ff. 197v-98; London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster; Cal. Suss. Mar. Lics. (Suss. Rec. Soc. ix), 42. suc. fa. 20 May 1617.Notes IPMs Suss. 106. bur. 26 Feb. 1655 26 Feb. 1655.Add. 5698, f. 258.
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Local: j.p. Suss. 1619 – bef.Sept. 1644, 21 Feb. 1646-bef. Jan. 1650.ASSI35/85/1; ASSI35/91/6; C231/4, f. 101; C231/6, p. 40; Harl. 1622; SP16/405, ff. 66–67v; C193/13/3; E163/18/12, f. 81v; SP16/212, f. 63. Commr. sewers, 1624, 1625, 1630, 1637;C181/3, ff. 133v, 167; C181/4, ff. 47, 54; C181/5, f. 70. Forced Loan, 1627.C193/12/2, f. 60. Feoffee, Steyning g.s. 1630.W.P. Breach, ‘Wm. Holland, Alderman of Chichester and the Steyning Grammar School’, Suss. Arch. Colls. xliii. 80. Commr. charitable uses, Suss. 1636, 1638, 1639;C192/1, unfol. oyer and terminer for piracy, 23 May 1637;C181/5, f. 69. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 14 Apr. 1643;SR; CJ iii. 45a. sequestration, 14 Apr. 1643.CJ iii. 45a.

Household: trustee for Sir Edward Bishoppe*, 2nd bt. Apr. 1643;W. Suss. RO, Wiston MS 3624. for George Goring†, 1st earl of Norwich, 1649–53.Suss. Manors, i. 236; E. Suss. RO, DAN/1137–9, 1144, 1149, 1151–5, 1157, 1159, 1163, 1166.

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GORINGE, Henry (c.1583-1655), of Okehurst in Billingshurst and Highden in Washington, Suss.

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Estates
inherited from gfa. Sir Henry Goring (d. 1594) Lattenhurst in Shipley, near Horsham and £100.PROB11/85/293 (Sir Henry Goringe). Inherited from fa. manors of Highden and Findon in Washington, and Okehurst in Billingshurst, together with lease of Billinghurst parsonage, in 1617.Notes IPMs Suss., 106; PROB11/129/545. Sold Findon to Lionel Cranfield, 1st earl of Middlesex in 1623, but enhanced his estate by leasing Amberley Castle from dean and chapter of Chichester, 1624–aft. 1644. Acquired manors of Cudham and Byne in 1632, and Hope manor bef. 1642.Acts Dean and Chapter Chichester 1545-1642, 230; W. Suss. RO, Wiston MSS 955-6, 2219, 4330-1, 4333, 4335, 4338-9; Suss. Manors, i. 85, 223; C54/2946/41. Estate settled on his s. Henry Goring† in 1650 said to be worth £2,000 p.a.W. Suss. RO, Wiston MSS 2223, 2264, 3252-3; Blaauw, ‘Passages of the Civil War in Suss.’, 104.
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