EDGAR, Thomas (1603-92), of Gray’s Inn, Mdx., and Ipswich, Suff.

Family and Education

b. 20 Mar. 1603, 2nd s. of Lionel Edgar (d. 1657) of Ipswich and his 2nd w. Katherine, da. of Thomas Glascock of Ipswich.Framsden par. reg.; Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA247/7/5; HA247/7/7, unfol.; HA247/9, unfol.; Harl. 6762, f. 25; Vis. Suff. 1561, 1577 and 1612, 134; Vis. Suff. 1664-1668 (Harl. Soc. lxi.), 142; Add. 19128, ff. 56v-57; Bacon, Annalls, 472n, 546n; Burke LG, 335. educ. Ipswich sch.; G. Inn 1619.Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA247/7/5; GI Admiss. m. 7 Apr. 1635, Mary (d. 1695), da. of Philip Powle, draper, of London,St Andrew, Holborn par. reg., f. 122; Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA247/7/5; Gen. Collections concerning the Scottish House of Edgar (1873), 24; Par. Reg. of St Mary Aldermary, London ed. J.L. Chester (Harl. Soc. v. 1880), 74; PROB11/181/230; Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA247/4/1; Vis. Suff. 1664-1668, 142; St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich par. reg. f. 120. 6s. (4 d.v.p.), 4da. (3 d.v.p.).Gen. Collections, 24-5; Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA247/7/7, unfol.; HA247/7/9, unfol.; HA247/7/5; Add. 19128, ff. 56v-57, 58v-59; St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich par. reg. ff. 39a, 39, 40, 40v, 55v, 62. d. 11 Apr. 1692.Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA247/7/9, unfol.; St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich par. reg. f. 119v.

Offices Held

Legal: called, G. Inn 9 May 1625; Lent reader, 1642; ancient, 24 Nov. 1645; bencher, Lent 1662.PBG Inn, 268, 354; Baker, Readers and Readings, 59, 260, 261, 374; J. Gibbon, Introductio ad Latinam Blasoniam (1682), 159. Counsel, high ct. of justice, E. Anglia 11 Dec. 1650–10 Jan. 1651.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 466.

Local: j.p. Suff. 9 May 1646 – Oct. 1660, Feb. 1664 – July 1670, Jan. 1671–d.C231/6, pp. 45, 180; A Perfect List (1660), 51; Suff. RO (Ipswich), B105/2/4, ff. 119, 121v; B105/2/5, ff. 33, 34; C231/7, pp. 224, 374, 383; C193/12/4, f. 113. Commr. assessment, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689 – d.; Ipswich 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689–d.;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. gaol delivery, 16 Nov. 1654-aft. Feb. 1671;C181/6, pp. 72, 330; C181/7, pp. 19, 576. sewers, Norf. and Suff. 26 June 1658-aft. June 1659;C181/7, pp. 293, 362. Suff. 20 Dec. 1658;C181/7, p. 341. commr. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/7, p. 379. militia, Suff. 26 July 1659;A. and O. subsidy, 1663; poll tax, 1666.SR.

Civic: recorder, Orford ?-?; Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA247/7/5. Ipswich July 1671 – July 1684, Oct. 1688–d.;W.E. Layton, ‘Notices from the great court and assembly bks. of the borough of Ipswich’, E. Anglian, 3rd ser. viii. 302; Suff. RO (Ipswich), C5/14/5, ff. 26v, 37v-38; C6/1/7, p. 67. Eye July 1673–?Oct. 1680.Suff. RO (Ipswich), EE2/I/2, f. 4v; EE2/I/1, unfol.

: of Gray’s Inn, Mdx. and Suff., Ipswich.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, unknown; oils, M. Dahl, aft. 1678.Whereabouts unknown; Suff. RO (Ipswich), q.S.92c: E. Farrer, ‘Portraits in Suffolk houses, east’ MS, iv. ff.137-8, 203-4.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

EDGAR, Thomas (1603-92), of Gray’s Inn, Mdx., and Ipswich, Suff.

Will

2 Dec. 1690, pr. 25 Mar. 1696.Suff. RO (Ipswich), IC/AA1/126/121.

Estates

bought lands at Westerfield, Suff. 1624;Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA247/1/15-16. bought land in St Margaret’s, Ipswich for £200, 1641;Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA247/1/7. bought the manors of Burwash and Gurdon’s Hall, Witnesham, Suff. by 1650;Copinger, Manors of Suff. iii. 121-2. bought the manor of Demeford Hall, Plomesgate, Suff. for £1,330, 1657;Copinger, Manors of Suff. v. 182. sold lands at Witnesham, Henley and Swilland, Suff. 1670.Suff. RO (Ipswich), HA247/1/1.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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