Family and Education
b. c.1612, 1st s. of Ralph Sneyd of Keele Hall, and Felicia (bur. 23 Aug. 1659), da. of Nicholas Archbold of Uttoxeter, Staffs.Vis. Staffs. ed. H.S. Grazebrook (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 274-5; Wolstanton Par. Reg. ed. P.W.L. Adams (Staffs. Par. Reg. Soc. 1914), 81. m. 20 Jan. 1630 (with £3,500), Jane da. of Roger Downes of Wardley Hall, Worsley, Lancs. 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da. (1 d.v.p.).Keele par. reg.; Keele Par. Reg. ed. N.W. Tildesley (Staffs. Par. Reg. Soc. 1949-50), 13; Wolstanton Par. Reg. ed. Adams, 15, 20, 30, 39; Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 275; M.R. Sneyd, Never Oppressed, Never Oppressor: The Sneyds of Staffs. (Huddersfield, c.2003), 19-20. suc. fa. Apr. 1643.Wolstanton Par. Reg. ed. Adams, 49. d. Mar. 1651.SP23/118, p. 495.
Offices Held
Military: col. of horse (roy.), Sept. 1642–d.
: of Keele Hall, Staffs., Keele.
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Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
SNEYDE, Ralph (c.1612-51), of Keele Hall, Keele, Staffs.
Will
no will recorded.
Estates
inherited Keele and other manors in Staffs. and two manors in Cheshire – in all, valued at £1,376 p.a.Keele Univ. Lib. Sneyd Pprs. 71, 504, 1838, 2922; Sneyd, Never Oppressed, 19, 20. By 1644, estate inc. Bradwell Hall, Bradwell Park, tithes of Wolstanton, lands in Keele and Bentley and rents in lordships of Bradwell, Chatterley, Hulton, Keele and Tunstall, Staffs.Staffs. Co. Cttee. 60. By 1646, estate consisted of manors of Keele and Norton; rectory impropriate of Wolstanton; lands and tenements in Bemersley, Bradwell, Burslem, Chatterley, Chell, Keele, Madeley, Sneyd, Stadmorslow, Stafford, Thursfield, Tunstall, Wedgwood and Wolstanton; and rents in Chatterley, Chesterton, Hulton, Keele, Tunstall and Wolstanton, Staffs. – in all, valued at £797 p.a. Estate was charged with a mortgage of £457 and annuities of £100 p.a. and his debts amounted to £1,453. Personal estate reported as ‘very inconsiderable’.SP23/190, pp. 321-3, 337-9, 341-2. According to his brother William Sneyd†, Ralph’s estate was charged with £5,000 to provide portions for his daughters, his debts at his death amounted to at least £2,000, and the value of his estate at his d. was not above £300 p.a. – Sneyde having sold lands worth £500 p.a. (or £1,000 p.a. as William Sneyd would later claim) to pay his debts, composition fine and losses through sequestration that amounted to £3,500.SP23/118, p. 495; Keele Univ. Lib. Sneyd Pprs. 413, 509; CSP Dom. 1661-2, pp. 164-5. In 1666, Keele Hall was assessed at 24 hearths and his house at Chatterley at 14 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. 1921), 147, 162.
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