JESSON, William (?1584-1651), of Little Park Street, Coventry and Nuthurst, Warws. and York Street, Covent Garden, London.

Family and Education

bap. ?13 Sept. 1584,Daventry, Northants. par. reg. 3rd s. of Richard Jesson of Coventry and Daventry, Northants. and Elizabeth Hill of Coventry. m. Elizabeth, da. of John Barker (d. 1634), draper, of Coventry, 3s. 2da.Vis. London 1633-4 (Harl. Soc. xvii), 11. d. 29 Aug. 1651.Keeler, Long Parliament, 238.

Offices Held

Civic: ?bailiff, Coventry 17 Nov. 1620; cllr. 19 Sept. 1621; searcher of cloth, 31 Aug. 1622; dep. alderman, Earl Street ward 6 Aug. 1625; mayor, 1631 – 32; alderman, Broadgate ward 12 Mar. 1634; Earl Street ward 13 Aug. 1638–20 Mar. 1651. Overseer of Gt. Park, 4 Mar. 1635.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/1, ff. 236, 244, 252, 277, 295v, 299v, 308v, 323, 329, 355v; Add. 11364, f. 15v; CJ vi. 551b.

Local: commr. further subsidy, Coventry 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. assessment, 1642, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR.; A. and O. Warws. 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Warws. and Coventry 21 Feb. 1645; Leics. 23 June 1647; Northants. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; commr. for Warws. and Coventry, assoc. of Staffs. and Warws. 31 Dec. 1642; 21 Feb. 1645; levying of money, Coventry 7 May 1643; Warws and Coventry, 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. sequestration, Coventry 7 May 1644.CJ iii. 482b; LJ vi. 543a. Member, London corporation for relief of poor, 17 Dec. 1647. Commr. London militia, 18 May 1648; militia, Warws. and Coventry 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

: of Little Park Street, Coventry and Warws., Nuthurst and London., York Street, Covent Garden.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

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JESSON, William (?1584-1651), of Little Park Street, Coventry and Nuthurst, Warws. and York Street, Covent Garden, London.

Will

23 Oct. 1650, cod. 25 Mar.1651, pr. 17 Nov. 1651.PROB11/219/206.

Estates

Bought land in Leics. for £2,000 from the Temple family, 1628.Keeler, Long Parliament, 238; CSP Dom. 1631-2, p. 374. Among 11 lessees of Coventry’s coal mines, 2 years rent free, 3rd year £100, then £100 p.a. for 21 years, 30 Jan. 1632.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/1, f. 248. Purchased ?lease of house in Little Park Street for £16, aft. 11 Feb. 1626.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/1, f. 299v. Bought for £120 from Ralph Walden and w. Hannah property in St Michael’s parish, and also for £40 the remainder of a lease belonging to Frances Walden within the property and a millstone in Charterhouse Leys, 23/24 Apr. 1634.Coventry Archives, PA/152/37/2-7. Paid £44 fine for lease of Radford mills, 21 years with 4 remaining, at £4 p.a. aft. 17 Sept. 1634.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/1, f. 326v. Acquired with ss. William and Thomas from Sir Walter Devereux† (later 5th viscount Hereford) and w. Elizabeth 17 acres in Allesley or Astley, aft. 1 Dec. 1638; consolidated by 1650 with lands at Southam and Itchington.Coventry Docquets, 731. Acquired lease of ground at Spon End for 24 years at £1 4s 6d p.a. 30 Jan. 1639.Coventry Archives, BA/H/C/17/1, f. 365. Acquired from Edward Trussell estate at Nuthurst, 2 July 1640, worth £100 p.a. in 1650.Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER4/551. House in York Street, Covent Garden, c.1647-d.Survey of London, xxxvi. 197. At d. property inc. in addition to the above: land at Onely [?Olney] bought from Henry Carey, 1st earl of Dover, and let for £150 p.a.; house purchased at Bablake; house and land purchased at Stivichall; land worth £250 p.a. purchased from Mr Chamberlayne of Eton, Berks. and land worth £40 p.a. purchased from Zouche Tate*, settled on 2nd son; in all, estate worth about £1,393 p.a.PROB11/219/206.

Oxford 1644

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