RODENEY, Sir Edward (1590-1657), of Pilton, Som.

Family and Education

b. 29 June 1590, 1st s. of Sir John Rodeney† of Stoke Rodney and Jane, da. of Sir Henry Seymour† of Marwell, Hants.‘The genealogy of the family of Rodney of Rodney Stoke’, The Gen. n.s. xvii. 103; CUL, Dd.III.84, f. 92; Vis. Som. 1623 (Harl. Soc. xi), 94. educ. Trowbridge g.s. 1598-1604; Magdalen, Oxf. 1605;‘Genealogy of the fam. of Rodney’, xvii. 103. M. Temple 13 May 1608;M. Temple Admiss. i. 91. travelled abroad (Low Countries and France) 1611-12.‘Genealogy of the fam. of Rodney’, xvii. 103. m. 29 May 1614 (with £2,000), Frances (d. 3 Aug. 1659), da. of Sir Robert Southwell† of Wood Rising, Norf. 5s. d.v.p. 8da. (3 d.v.p.).Vis. Som. 1623, 94; ‘Genealogy of the fam. of Rodney’, xvii. 104; CUL, Dd.III.84, f. 91v; Collinson, Som. iii. 605, 607. suc. fa. 1612; Kntd. 1614.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 154. d. 25 May 1657.Rodney Stoke par. reg.; Collinson, Som. iii. 607.

Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Som. 1610, 1615, 1625, 13 July 1641.C181/2, ff. 130, 246; C181/3, f. 186; C181/5, f. 204v. J.p. 1616–45.QS Recs. Som. James I, 195. Treas. maimed soldiers, 1619.QS Recs. Som. James I, 279. Col. militia ft. by 1625-aft. 1642.Wells Convocation Acts Bks. i. 415; Bellum Civile, 2, 9. V.-adm. by 1625-aft. 1642.Vice Admirals of the Coast, comp. Sainty and Thrush (L. and I. Soc. cccxxi), 42. Dep. lt. by 1626–45.Som. RO, DD/PH/222/7. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 49v. enclosure, Sedgemoor, Som. 1628;T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 267. subsidy, Som. 1628;Wells Convocation Acts Bks. 471. swans, W. Country 1629;C181/4, f. 2. knighthood fines, Som. 1630–1;E178/7154, f. 168; 178/5614, ff. 7, 13; Som. and Dorset N and Q, iv. 107. repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1633;Wells Convocation Acts Bks. 606. depopulation, Apr. 1635;C181/5, f. 1. oyer and terminer, 20 July 1640;C181/5, f. 183. array (roy.), 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. contributions (roy.), 25 Sept. 1643; accts. (roy.) 20 May 1644.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 75, 208. Gov. Sexey’s hosp. Bruton by 1648.Som. RO, DD/SE/41/1.

Civic: recorder, Wells 1619 – 25; freeman, 1620.Wells Convocation Acts Bks. i. 333.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, by 1641–?LC3/1, f. 25.

Military: col. of ft. (roy.) by Oct. 1644-Sept. 1645.P.R. Newman, Royalist Officers (1981), 316; C.L. Scott, The Battles of Newbury (Barnsley, 2008), 124.

: of Pilton, Som.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

RODENEY, Sir Edward (1590-1657), of Pilton, Som.

Will

24 May 1657, pr. 31 July and 1 Aug. 1657.PROB11/266/391; PROB11/267/20.

Estates

owned land at Pilton and Rodney Stoke, Som.

Oxford 1644

Yes

1640 Volume

oxford

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