COOKE, Thomas (d. by 1682), of Hunt’s Hall, Pebmarsh, Essex.

Family and Education

1st s. of Thomas Cooke of Pebmarsh, Essex and Grace Upcher.Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii-xiv), i. 383. educ. DCL, Oxf. 1651.Ath. Ox. iv. pt. ii. 168; Al. Ox. m. (1) 1631, Elizabeth (d. Jan. 1646), da. and coh. of John Duke of Colchester, Essex, 7s. 4da.;Vis. Essex, i. 383; Morant, Essex, ii. 263; Josselin, Diary, 54; Boyd’s marriage index. (2) c.1646, Judith (d.1674), da. of Oliver St John of Keysoe, Beds.Morant, Essex, ii. 263. d. bef. 24 Nov. 1682.PROB11/371/418.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Essex, bef. 1641 – bef.Oct. 1660; Saffron Walden 30 Aug. 1649 – ?; Suff. 8 July 1656-Mar. 1660.Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxiv; C231/6, pp. 165, 340. Commr. assessment, Essex 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. Cambs. 10 Aug. 1643; Essex 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O.; Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). ejecting scandalous ministers, 24 Feb. 1644, 28 Aug. 1654;‘The royalist clergy of Lincs.’ ed. J.W.F. Hill, Lincs. Archit. and Arch. Soc. ii. 120; A.and O. oyer and terminer, 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/5, ff. 238, 254v. Home circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 13, 373. gaol delivery, Essex 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/5, ff. 238v, 254v Colchester 20 Mar. 1656, 21 Feb. 1659;C181/6, pp. 150, 347. New Model ordinance, Essex 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659.A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 78. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. sewers, Mdx. 31 Mar. 1654, 5 Feb. 1657;C181/6, pp. 5, 201. for public faith, Essex 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35).

Military: ?capt. of ft. (parlian.) Eastern Assoc. army, 1643; ?col. bef. May 1643.BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; Cooper, Annals Camb. iii. 344; F.J. Varley, Cambridge during the Civil War (Cambridge, 1935), 114; Josselin, Diary, 48. ?Gov. Camb. by Sept. 1643-bef. Apr. 1644.Harl. 165, f. 136v. Col. militia ft. Essex by 1649–?, 19 Feb. 1650–?1660.A Diary of the Siege of Colchester (1648, 666.f. 13.6); CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 499; 1650, p. 504.

Central: trustee, sale of royal lands, 16 July 1649; sale of fee-farm rents, 11 Mar. 1650; sale of royal forests, 30 Aug. 1654. Commr. high ct. of justice, 26 Mar. 1650;A. and O. ct. martial, Oct. 1651.CSP Dom. 1651, p. 479.

: Pebmarsh, Essex.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

COOKE, Thomas (d. by 1682), of Hunt’s Hall, Pebmarsh, Essex.

Will

Jan. 1680, pr. 24 Nov. 1682.PROB11/371/418; Geneal. Gleanings in Eng. ed. H.F. Waters (Boston, Mass. 1901), i. 674-5.

Estates

bought Hunt’s Hall, Pebmarsh, 1652.Morant, Essex, ii. 263. Also bought wood at Wickham St Pauls (adjacent to Pebmarsh), formerly belonging to dean and chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral.Morant, Essex, ii. 276.

Oxford 1644

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Religion

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