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bap. 13 Mar. 1608,Lydiard Tregoze par. reg. 1st s. of William Yorke (b. 1576) of Bassetts Down, Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts. and Anne (c.1582-1661), da. of Simon Stampe of Oxon.Vis. Wilts. 1623 (Harl. Soc. cv), 221; Aubrey, Wilts. Top. Collections ed. Jackson, 181; MIs Wilts. 1822, 246. educ. Pembroke, Oxf. 25 May 1627, ‘aged 17’; BA 23 Jan. 1630;Al. Ox. I. Temple 5 Feb. 1630.I. Temple database. m. bef. 27 Oct. 1646, Elizabeth (bap. 7 Apr. 1609, d. aft. 1657), wid. of Henry Danvers I*, da. and coh. of William Bower (d. 1645) of West Lavington, 1s. d.v.p. 1da.West Lavington par. reg.; Wilts. N and Q i. 326; MIs Wilts. 1822, 246; PROB11/308/327. suc. fa. May 1660.Lydiard Tregoze par. reg.; PROB11/308/327. bur. 29 Nov. 1666 29 Nov. 1666.CITR iii. 446.
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Legal: called, I. Temple 21 May 1637; bencher, 24 Nov. 1652.CITR ii. 234, 305.

Local: commr. excise (roy.), Wilts. 22 May 1644, 8 Mar. 1645. 30 Nov. 1646 – bef.Nov. 1650Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 212. J.p., 28 May 1652 – 23 Mar. 1657, 4 July 1657–1658, by 4 Oct. 1659–d.C231/6, pp. 69, 363, 371; C193/13/3, f. 69v; C193/13/4, f. 109v; C193/13/6, f. 96v; C193/13/5, f. 116; Wilts. RO, A1/160/1, 2; A Perfect List (1660), 59; HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. assessment, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. oyer and terminer, Western circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 378. poll tax, Wilts. 1660; subsidy, 1663.SR.

Mercantile: dep. gov. Society of Mineral and Battery Works, 2 Dec. 1652–d. Asst. Soc. of Mines Royal, 1654–5; dep. gov. 1655–d.HP Commons 1660–1690.

Civic: freeman, Devizes 1660; recorder, 27 Sept. 1661; alderman, 1662–d.Cunnington, Devizes, 133; HP Commons 1660–1690.

Religious: churchwarden, St Mary, Devizes 1662–6.Wilts. RO, 189/2, ff. 129v, 136v, 141, 147.

: of West Lavington, Wilts. and London., the Inner Temple.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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YORKE, William (1608-66), of West Lavington, Wilts. and the Inner Temple, London.

Will
not found.
Estates
property in West Lavington (probably in the right of his wife), Stanley Grange (parish of Lydiard Tregoze), and Devizes. In May 1660 his inheritance from fa. inc. land in Swindon, subject to his mother’s life interest until 1661.PROB11/308/327.
Oxford 1644
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