GARDNER, Samuel (1594-1660), of All Saints, Evesham, Worcs.

Family and Education

bap. 28 Mar. 1594, 4th surv. s. of Philip Gardner (bur. 4 Feb. 1617) and 2nd w. Jane (bur. 24 Apr. 1619). m. ?15 Apr. 1618, Mary Bennett of Offenham, 3s. bur. 5 May 1660.All Saints, Evesham par. reg.; Worcs. Archives, will 1618/153 (Philip Gardner); Phillimore, Worcs. Mar. Regs. i. 97.

Offices Held

Civic: asst. burgess, Evesham 23 Sept. 1617; capital burgess and coroner, 26 Mar. 1625; mayor, 4 Oct. 1625, 1 Oct. 1633, 30 Aug. 1642 – 25 Aug. 1643; alderman, 26 Aug. 1645 (elected), 25 Aug. 1646 (sworn); sen. alderman, 28 Aug. 1657–d. J.p. 1 July 1653–d. Gov. g.s. 2 Jan.1657.Evesham Borough Records of the Seventeenth Century ed. S.K. Roberts (Worcs. Hist. Soc. n.s. xiv), 18, 25, 26, 34, 42, 43, 44, 49, 53, 54, 61.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of 2nd Lord Brooke, 21 Jan.-15 May 1643. Capt. of horse, regt. of Sir Arthur Hesilrige*, army of Sir William Waller*, 15 May 1643–2 Apr. 1645.SP28/147 pt. 3 f. 559; E315/5.

Local: commr. for Worcester, 23 Sept. 1644; assessment, Worcs. 18 Oct. 1644, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 24 Nov. 1653;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

: Worcs., Evesham.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GARDNER, Samuel (1594-1660), of All Saints, Evesham, Worcs.

Will

admon. 1660.PROB6/36, f. 50.

Estates

co-purchaser 16 Aug. 1648, parcel of manor of Kempsey, confiscated from bp. Worcester, for £75 12s. 6d.Bodl. Rawl. B.236, p. 15. Said to have an income of £275 p.a. in the 1650s.S.K. Roberts, ‘The Quakers in Evesham 1655-1660: A Study in Religion, Politics and Culture’, MH xiv. 81.

Oxford 1644

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