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Family and Education
b. 10 Apr. 1596, 1st s. of Ralph Bossevile of Gunthwaite and London and Mary, da. of Christopher Copley of Wadworth, Yorks. educ. privately, in household of stepfa. m. 4 May 1614 Margaret, da. of Sir Edward Greville of Harold Park, Essex, 1s. 3da.C142/354/114; Hunter, S. Yorks. ii. 346. suc. fa. by 4 May 1614.C142/354/114. bur. 9 Apr. 1658 9 Apr. 1658.St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster par. reg.; Hunter, S. Yorks. ii. 346.
Offices Held

Local: treas. maimed soldiers, Yorks. (W. Riding) c.1620.C193/12/13; SP16/405; Foster, Yorks. Peds. sub ‘Bosville’. J.p. by 1626-c.1639;Harl. 1622, f. 24; C66/2858. Warws. by July 1645–?, 10 Jan. 1653–d.Northants. RO, FH4284; C193/13/3, f. 66; C193/13/4, f. 103v; C231/ 6, p. 250. Commr. Forced Loan, W. Riding 1627.C193/12/2, f. 15v. Capt. militia ft. by c.1635–?Add. 28082, f. 80. Dep. lt. Warws. by 21 June 1642–?CJ ii. 635a. Commr for Warws. and Coventry, assoc. of Staffs. and Warws. 31 Dec. 1642; assessment, W. Riding 24 Feb 1643, 18 Oct. 1644; Warws. 24 Feb 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Warws. and Coventry 21 Feb. 1645, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653: sequestration, W. Riding, Warws. 27 Mar 1643; accts. of assessment, Warws. 3 May 1643; levying of money, W. Riding, Warws. and Coventry 7 May, 3 Aug 1643; New Model ordinance, Warws. 17 Feb. 1645; Northern Assoc. W. Riding 20 June 1645; northern cos. militia, Yorks. 23 May 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28).

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) Warwick 27 Jan. 1643 – 13 May 1645; lt.-col. 27 Jan. – 3 Mar. 1643; col. 3 Mar. 1643–13 May 1645.HUL, DDBM/30/2; Alice, Lady Macdonald, The Fortunes of a Fam. (Bosville of New Hall, Gunthwaite and Thorpe) through Nine Centuries (Edinburgh, 1928), 62; CJ iv. 184a.

Central: member, cttee. for indemnity, 19 Jan. 1648.CJ v. 327b; LJ ix. 669a. Commr. for compounding, 18 Dec. 1648.CJ vi. 99a; LJ x. 632b. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 6 Jan. 1649, 4 July 1650;CJ vi. 112b, 437a. cttee. for the army, 6 Jan., 17 Apr. 1649, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652;CJ vi. 113b; A. and O. cttee. of navy and customs, 5 Sept. 1649.CJ vi. 290a. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 10 Apr. 1651;CJ vi. 558a. approbation of public preachers, 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O. Member, cttee. for trade, 4 Jan. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 100.

: Peniston, Yorks. Wroxall and Warws., Warwick.
Likenesses

Likenesses: Portrait at Thorpe, Rudston, Yorks. E. Riding, 1928.Repr. in Macdonald, Fortunes of a Fam. 81.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BOSSEVILE, Godfrey (1596-1658), of Gunthwaite, Peniston, Yorks. Wroxall and Warwick, Warws.

Will
not found.
Estates
patrimony of manors of Gunthwaite, Oxspring, Peniston, Yorks. W. Riding; lands in Thurlston, Cawthorn, Barnsley, Ardslow, Denby, Walton, Rough Birchworth, Kersford Hill, W. Riding, said to bring in rents of £620 11s 4d p.a.;Hunter, S. Yorks. ii. 347; Macdonald, Fortunes of a Fam. 81. annuity of £100 for 16 years from 2nd Baron Brooke (Robert Greville†), commuted to lump sum of £1,100, 28 June 1634;Warws. RO, CR 1886/ 6781. member of Providence Island Co. 26 June 1634, with one quarter of one share, owed £224 18s 3½d to the co. by Aug. 1642;CO124/ 2, ff. 38, 77, 85, 140, 153, 154, 197; Warws. RO, CR 1886/box 457. leased lands at Alcester, Warws. for £28 6s from Lord Brooke, 1641.Warws. RO, CR 1886, box 411/3.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
appointed Charles Broxholme (fined and suspended, 1632) to chapelry of Denby, Peniston, after Dec. 1627; Daniel Clarke to Denby chapelry;Hunter, S. Yorks. ii. 352; Cliffe, Yorks. 270-1. nominated William Jones to Orpington rectory, with chapelry of Cray, Kent, 7 Apr. 1653; Thomas Gill to Nunburnholme rectory, Yorks. E. Riding, 7 Apr. 1653; Christopher Lancaster to moiety of Linton rectory, Yorks. W. Riding, 16 June 1653.Add. 36792, ff. 65, 65v, 69.
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