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b. c. 1589, 1st s. of Sir George Sayer of Bourchiers Hall, Aldham and Dorothy, da. of Sir John Heigham† of Barrow, Suff.Aldham par. reg.; Vis. Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. xiii-xiv), i. 286, 485; Morant, Essex, ii. 199. m. bef. 1616, Hester, da. of Robert Honywood of Charing, Kent and Markshall, Essex, 2s. d.v.p. 3da.Vis. Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 and 1634, i. 286, 424, 485, ii. 733-4; ‘The posterity of Mary Honywood’, Topographer and Genealogist, i. 404; PROB11/287/442; Morant, Essex, ii. 200. suc. fa. 1631.Aldham par. reg. bur. 19 Aug. 1658 19 Aug. 1658.Aldham par. reg.
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Local: capt. militia ft. Colchester 1613–22.Maynard Lieut. Bk. 28–54. J.p. Essex 17 July 1641–?, 21 Dec. 1644-Mar. 1652, 30 June 1657–d.C231/5, p. 459; C231/6, pp. 8, 370; Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxix. Commr. loans on Propositions, Tendring hundred, Essex July 1642.LJ v. 203b. Dep. lt. Essex 15 Sept. 1642-aft. Dec. 1643.LJ v. 354b; Northants. RO, FH133; Essex RO, D/Y 2/9, p. 119. Commr. assessment, 24 Feb. 1643, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; Tower Hamlets militia, 8 Jan. 1648; militia, Essex 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Religious: elder, Lexden classis, Essex 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 388.

Central: member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 15 May 1646.CJ iv. 545b.

: Aldham, Essex.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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SAYER, John (c.1589-1658), of Bourchiers Hall, Aldham, Essex.

Will
29 May 1645, pr. 17 Feb. 1659.PROB11/287/442.
Estates
mortgaged lands at Stanway, Essex for £3,168, 1632;Essex RO, D/Dge/460. Tobias Frere* and Thomas Cullum mortgaged lands at Thorndon, Suff. to Sayer and others, 1633;Suff. RO (Bury), 613/122; 613/128. sold manor of Motts, Lexden, Essex, 1634;VCH Essex, ix. 395. sold land at Lexden for £264, 1640.Essex RO, D/DJ 20/3.
Oxford 1644
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