BARNARDISTON, Sir Thomas (c.1618-69), of Kedington, Suff.

Family and Education

b. c. 1618, 1st s. of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston* and Jane, da. of Sir Stephen Soame of London and Little Thurlow, Suff.Vis. Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. xiv), 546; CB; F.A. Crisp, Vis. of Eng. and Wales - Notes (1893-1921), vii. 174. educ. St. Catherine’s, Camb. 1633;Al. Cant. G. Inn, 1 May 1635.G. Inn Admiss. 207. m. bef. 1644, Anne (d. 25 Aug. 1671), da. of Sir William Armyne*, 8s. (2 d.v.p.) 6da.Burke Dorm. and Extinct Baronetcies, 40-1; Crisp, Vis. Notes, vii. 174-8; R. Almack, ‘Kedington alias Ketton, and the Barnardiston fam.’, Procs. Suff. Inst. Arch. Iv. 145-6. Kntd. 4 July 1641;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 209. cr. bt. 7 Apr. 1663.CSP Dom. 1663-4, pp. 79, 92; CB iii. 272. suc. fa. 1653. d. 4 Oct. 1669.Hatchments in Britain 2: Norf. and Suff. ed. P. Summers (1976), 109.

Offices Held

Local: commr. loans on Propositions, Suff. 28 July 1642.LJ v. 245b. Member, Suff. standing cttee. 1642–60.Suff. ed. Everitt, 131. Dep. lt. 3 Sept. 1642-aft. June 1648.CJ ii. 749b; LJ v. 337b-338a; Suff. RO (Ipswich), EE1/O2/1, f. 102v. Commr. assessment, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;A. and O.; Act for An Assessment (1653), 297 (E.1062.28); Ordinance for an Assessment (1660), 51 (E.1075.6); SR. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May 2003; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; Eastern Assoc. Suff. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Suff. 11 Apr. 1644-aft. July 1645;C181/5, ff. 232v, 256v. Home, Norf. circs. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 372, 379. gaol delivery, Suff. 11 Apr. 1644-aft. July 1645;C181/5, ff. 233, 256v. Bury St Edmunds liberty and borough 11 Apr. 1644.C181/5, ff. 233v, 234. J.p. Suff. by July 1644 – d.; Essex by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653, by c.Sept. 1656–1660.C193/13/3, f. 24v; C193/13/4, f. 35; C193/13/6, f. 32; Suff. RO (Ipswich), B105/2/1, f. 63; Bodl. Tanner 226, p. 187; Essex QSOB, ed. Allen, p. xxxiii. Commr. militia, Suff. 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660; Essex, Lincs. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 15v. ejecting scandalous ministers, Suff. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth by 20 Nov. 1655;TSP iv. 225. to survey ‘surrounded grounds’, Norf. and Suff. 13 May 1656;C181/6, p. 158. sewers, 26 June 1658-aft. June 1659;C181/6, pp. 291, 360. River Stour, Essex and Suff. 4 July 1664;C181/7, p. 277. poll tax, Suff. 1660; subsidy, 1663.SR.

Religious: elder, fourteenth Suff. classis, 5 Nov. 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 429.

Central: commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O.

Military: col. militia ft. Suff. by May-Aug. 1648.J.G.A. Ive, ‘The local dimensions of defence’ (PhD diss. Univ. of Cambridge, 1986), 230–1.

: of Kedington, Suff.

Likenesses

Likenesses: stipple drawing, R. Page, 1820.The Lives of Eminent and Remarkable Characters (1820), ‘Sir Thomas Barnardiston’.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BARNARDISTON, Sir Thomas (c.1618-69), of Kedington, Suff.

Will

admon. 6 Nov. 1669.PROB6/44, f. 98.

Estates

inherited manor of Kedington from his fa. 1653;Copinger, Manors of Suff. v. 259. worth £3,000 p.a. late 1650s;Soc. Antiq. MS 667, p. 192. £2,000 p.a. 1663.CSP Dom. 1663-4, p. 96.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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