Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 11 Aug. 1575, 1st s. of Edward Cage of Ipswich and Burstall and 1st w. Mary.St. Matthew’s Ipswich par. reg.; H.W. Birch, ‘Some Suff. church notes’, E. Anglian, n.s. xiii. 68. m. (1) 11 June 1602, Rabedge (d. 25 Sept. 1635), da. of Thomas Woods, yeoman, of Beaumont, Essex, 1 da. d.v.p.;Birch, ‘Some Suff. church notes’, 68; Wills from the Archdeaconry of Suff. 1629-1636 ed. M.E. Allen and N.R. Evans (Boston, 1986), 238-9. (2) lic. 10 Sept. 1636, Alice, da. of John Lea of Coddenham, Suff., wid. of Simon Blomville of Coddenham, s.p.Marriage Lics. from the official note books of the Archdeaconry of Suff. ed. F.A. Crisp (1903), 106; Copinger, Manors of Suff. ii. 286. suc. fa. 1607.PROB11/110/349. d. 4 Nov. 1645.Bacon, Annalls, 443n; Birch, ‘Some Suff. church notes’, 68.
Offices Held

Local: under-sheriff, Suff. 1600–1. 1610 – d.E134/44&45Eliz/Mich39. Commr. gaol delivery, Ipswich; Suff. 1635 – d.; Bury St Edmunds borough and liberty 11 Apr. 1644;C181/2, ff. 130v, 350; C181/3, ff. 18, 242; C181/4, ff. 22, 187v; C181/5, ff. 26, 244v. inquiry, lands of John Bacon, Suff. 1619;C181/2, f. 449v. subsidy, Ipswich 1621 – 22, 1624, 1641.C212/22/20–1; C221/22/23; SR. Dep. lt. Ipswich 1624, by Sept. 1642–?d.; Suff. Mar. 1642–d.SP14/179/34; CJ ii. 485b; LJ iv. 683a; v. 342b. Commr. sewers, 1626;C181/3, f. 202. Ticehurst and River Rother, Kent and Suss. 1639;C181/5, f. 144v. swans, Essex and Suff. 1635;C181/5, f. 29. piracy, Suff. June 1640.C181/5, f. 176. J.p. 12 Aug. 1641–d.C231/5, p. 468; Suff. RO (Ipswich), B105/2/1, ff. 44v, 65. Commr. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643; Suff. and Ipswich 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645;SR; A. and O. loans on Propositions, Suff. 28 July 1642;LJ v. 245b. recvr. Ipswich 10 Sept. 1642.LJ v. 346b. Member, co. cttee. Suff. 1643–d.Suff. ed. Everitt, 132. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643;A. and O. Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Suff. 11 Apr. 1644;C181/5, f. 232v. New Model ordinance, Suff. and Ipswich 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Ipswich 1605 – d.; chamberlain, 1606 – 07; claviger, 1608 – 10; coroner, 1609 – 10; bailiff, 1610 – 11, 1616 – 17, 1623 – 24, 1630 – 31, 1636 – 37, 1640 – 41; justice 1610 – 13, 1616 – 18, 1621 – 25, 1628–d.Bacon, Annalls, 423, 425, 434, 439, 443, 460, 480, 494, 512, 523; D. Heavens, ‘“To be Doers of what you have been Hearers”: The politics and religion of the town governors of Ipswich, c.1635-c.1665’ (Univ. of Essex PhD thesis, 2012), 293. Gov. Christ’s Hosp. Ipswich 1611–12, 1618 – 19, 1624 – 25, 1627 – 28, 1633 – 35, 1639 – 40, 1641–2.Bacon, Annalls, 448, 483, 489, 503, 507, 521.

Central: commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, cttee, for examinations, 24 Feb. 1642;CJ ii. 452b. cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 378b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 31 Dec. 1642;CJ ii. 909a; Add. 15669, f. 1v. cttee. for foreign affairs, 24 July 1644.CJ iii. 568a; LJ vi. 640b.

Religious: elder, first Suff. classis, 5 Nov. 1645.A. and O.; Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 423.

: of Ipswich and Burstall, Suff.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

CAGE, William (1575-1645), of Ipswich and Burstall, Suff.

Will
15 Sept. 1645, cod. 1 Oct. 1645, pr. 4 Mar. 1646.PROB11/195/320.
Estates
worth £400-£500 p.a. (inc. wife’s estate);Soc. Antiq. MS 667, pp. 27, 108; Add. 15520, f. 12v. owned lands at Ipswich, Akenham, Burstall, Sproughton, Walton, Ixworth and Reydon, Suff.PROB11/195/320.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
Image