MACKWORTH, Thomas (1627-96), of Betton Strange, Shrewsbury.

Family and Education

b. 1627, 1st. s. of Humphrey Mackworth I* and 1st w. Anne, da. of Thomas Waller of Beaconsfield, Bucks.T. Blore, Hist. and Antiquities of Rutland (1811), 129; Trans. Salop Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. ser. 2, vii. 27-8. educ. St Catharine’s, Camb. Mich. 1642, BA 1645-6; G. Inn 6 Feb. 1645.Al. Cant.; G. Inn Admiss. i. 239. m. (1) July 1652, Anne (bur. 27 Apr. 1666), da. of Richard Bulkeley of Buntingsdale, Salop, 2s.; (2) 29 Sept. 1674, Sarah, da. of Thomas Mytton*, 1da.St. Chad’s Shrewsbury Par. Reg. (Salop Parish Reg. Soc. xv), 330, 415, 441; W. Glam. RO, NAS/Gn E 19/124. suc. fa. 1654. d. 15 Nov. 1696.Trans. Salop Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. ser. 2, vii. 28; ser. 4, xi. 142.

Offices Held

Civic: burgess, Ludlow 23 June 1646.Salop Archives, LB2/1/1 f. 233v.

Local: commr. assessment, Salop 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. 5 Mar. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6 p. 255. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. June 1659–10 July 1660.C181/6 p. 375. Sheriff, Salop 1668–9.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 30.

Central: member, cttee. for indemnity, 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 109a, 113b.

: Shrewsbury.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

MACKWORTH, Thomas (1627-96), of Betton Strange, Shrewsbury.

Will

not found.

Estates

patrimony of Betton Strange, Sutton, Abbots Betton, ‘Crowckhill’ and messuages in Shrewsbury; manor of Drakelow and Rudheath, Chester; manor of Sawley, Derbys.W. Glam. RO, NAS/Gn/ E 19/124.

Oxford 1644

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