MATHEW, Roger (c.1576-1646), of Dartmouth, Devon.

Family and Education

b. c. 1576.HCA13/48/215. educ. appr. m. (1) 29 Jan. 1599, Joan Carnes, wid. of ?Dartmouth, ?s.p.;Devon RO, Townstall bishops’ transcripts. (2) 16 Nov. 1607,St Saviour’s, Dartmouth par. reg. Jane, da. of Robert Martin of Dartmouth, merchant, 4s. 3da.SP23/103, pp. 889, 891; PROB11/197/234. bur. 14 July 1646.Mems. St Margaret’s, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke (1914), 612.

Offices Held

Mercantile: member, French Co. 1611.Select Charters of Trading Companies, ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 66.

Civic: recvr. Dartmouth 1615–16;E. Windeatt, ‘Borough of Clifton-Dartmouth-Hardness’, Trans. Devonshire Assoc. xliv. 652. overseer of poor, 1618–19;Devon RO, DD 61943. a ‘master’ by 1620;Vis. Devon 1620 (Harl. Soc. vi), 331. mayor, 1623 – 24, 1631 – 32, 1639–40.Dartmouth Corporation, Provisional List of Mayors.

Local: commr. exacted fees and ‘innovated’ offices, Devon and Exeter 1638;C181/5, f. 109v. further subsidy, Devon 1641; poll tax, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 18 Feb. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee for Examinations’; CJ ii. 396a, 439b. cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 378b, 402b. cttee. for Irish affairs, 3 Sept. 1642.CJ ii. 750b.

: of Dartmouth, Devon.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

MATHEW, Roger (c.1576-1646), of Dartmouth, Devon.

Will

4 Nov. 1645, pr. 10 Aug. 1646.PROB11/197/234.

Estates

legacy in 1628 from fa.-in-law valued in 1646 at £422 13s. 10d.SP23/103, p. 889. Lost £2,000 to royalist seizures.SP23/181, p. 47. In 1646, held tenement of Combe in Townstall valued at £60; leases for lives or copyholds in Dartmouth, Stoke Fleming, Berry Pomeroy valued at £109; debts put at £650.SP23/181, pp. 49-51. Personal estate valued at £222, of which £74 sold by sequestrators.SP23/103, p. 899. At death, at least two houses in Dartmouth; meadow and closes in Berry Pomeroy.PROB11/197/234.

Oxford 1644

Yes

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