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Family and Education
bap. 18 Feb. 1599, 1st s. of John Chetwode of Oakley, and Bridget, da. of Henry Birkenhead of Huxley, Waverton, Cheshire.Waverton par. reg.; Vis. Staffs. ed. H.S. Grazebrook (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 75. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 28 Mar. 1617;Al. Ox. I. Temple 24 Mar. 1619.I. Temple database. m. by 1641, Eleanor (bur. 6 Sept. 1669), da. of William Stephenton of Dothill, Salop, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.).Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 75; Mucklestone Par. Reg. ed. H. Urry, H.R. Thomas (Staffs. Par. Reg. Soc. 1929), 121, 160. suc. fa. 29 June 1615;Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook 75. bur. 25 Apr. 1667 25 Apr. 1667.Mucklestone Par. Reg. ed. Urry, Thomas, 155.
Offices Held

Local: commr. assoc. of Staffs. and Warws. 28 Feb. 1643. 20 Apr. 1647 – Mar. 1660LJ v. 628a. J.p. Staffs.; Salop 5 Mar. 1653-Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 90, 255. Member, sub-cttee. of accts. Staffs. by July 1647–?SP28/257, unfol. Commr. assessment, 23 Oct. 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Salop, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;CJ v. 341b; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance ... for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). militia, Staffs. and Lichfield 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. Staffs. 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;SP25/76A, f. 15v; A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, c.Nov. 1655;TSP iv. 648. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 375. sequestration, Staffs. by Sept. 1659;CCC 748. poll tax, 1660.SR.

: of Oakley, Mucklestone, Staffs.
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Commons 1640-1660
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CHETWODE, John (1599-1667), of Oakley, Mucklestone, Staffs.

Will
n.d., pr. 15 Oct. 1667.Staffs. RO, B/C/11, will of John Chetwood, 1667.
Estates
fa. stipulated in his will that a large part of his estate in Cheshire – which inc. property in Acton, Bunbury, Church Coppenhall, Henhull, Monks Coppenhall, Tilstone Fearnall, Wettenhall, Wich Malbank and Worleston – be sold to raise £2,000 in portions and legacies for his younger children.WARD7/53/288; WARD9/216, f. 226v. In the early 1630s, Chetwode was assessed at £12 for distraint of knighthood.H.S. Grazebrook, ‘Obligatory knighthood temp. Charles I’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, ii. pt. 2), 14. In 1654, he sold land in Mucklestone for £800.C54/ /3807/11. His estate was valued at £600 p.a. in the early 1660s.‘The gentry of Staffs. 1662-3’ ed. R.M. Kidson (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 4, ii), 12. His house at Oakley was assessed at 11 hearths in 1666.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. 1921), 136. His personal estate was inventoried at £346.Staffs. RO, B/C/11, will of John Chetwood, 1667.
Oxford 1644
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Religion
presented John Masterson to rectory of St Vigors Fulbourn, Cambs. 1653; John Bendy to rectory of Pattingham, Salop, 1653; John Hotchkiss to rectory of Longford, Salop, 1654.Add. 36792, ff. 75, 77, 81.
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