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b. c. 1581.SP20/13/71, unfol. (case of Robert Harvey of Chester, 19 Mar. 1647). m. lic. 4 Feb. 1619, Alice, da. of ?, wid. of one Sutton, at least 1s. 1da.Archdeaconry of Chester Mar. Lics. ed. W. F. Irvine (Lancs. and Cheshire. Rec. Soc. lvi), 80; Cheshire RO, WC 1666, Inventory of Charles Walley. bur. 7 Aug. 1663 7 Aug. 1663.St John, Chester par. reg.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Chester 19 Feb. 1619–?d.;Cal. Chester City Mins. ed. M. J. Groombridge (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cvi), 94. Liverpool 29 Nov. 1649–?d.Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 9. Common cllr. Chester 20 Aug. 1619-;Cal. Chester City Mins. ed. Groombridge, 98. sheriff, 1619–20;Ormerod, Cheshire i. 214. alderman, 1624- 1 Oct. 1646, 29 July 1653–d.;Cal. Chester City Mins. ed. Groombridge, 126; LJ viii. 506; Cheshire RO, ZAB/2, f. 101v. auditor, 1629, 1634–5;Cal. Chester City Mins. ed. Groombridge, 158, 181, 187. mayor, 1630 – 31, 1644–6.Ormerod, Cheshire i. 214.

Mercantile: member, Chester Innholders Co. 1 Mar. 1619; alderman, 1620 – 21, 1623–48.Cheshire RO, ZG 13/1, unfol.

Local: commr. privy seal loan, ?Chester 1626. 1 Oct. 1646SP16/53/28, f. 38. J.p. Chester 1630-, 29 July 1653–d.Cal. Chester City Mins. ed. Groombridge, p. xi. Commr. charitable uses, Flint 12 July 1637;C192/1, unfol. subsidy, Chester 1641, 1663; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). array (roy.), 27 June 1642;Cheshire RO, ZP/Cowper/2, f. 4. militia, 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660.SP25/76A, f. 15v; A. and O.

: St John, Cheshire., of Foregate Street, Chester.
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Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WALLEY, Charles (c.1581-1663), of Foregate Street, St John, Chester, Cheshire.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1625, assessed at £10 for the privy seal loan.Cheshire RO, DLT/B/11, p. 11. In 1646, estate consisted of lands and tenements in Boughton, Cotton Abbotts and Huntington; an estate for three lives in a tenement in Churton Heath and lands and tenements in Church Coppenhall and Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire; and The Red Lion inn and a nearby house in Chester – in all, worth £193 p.a.SP23/180, pp. 786-7, 792, 798, 800, 802, 808; CJ iv. 605b; R.H. Morris, ‘The siege of Chester’ ed. P.H. Lawson, Jnl. Chester and N. Wales. Arch. and Historic Soc. n.s. xxv. 10, 206-7. At d. owned lands in Churton and a house and lands in Saighton, near Chester.Cheshire RO, WS 1663, inventory of Charles Walley; WC 1666, inventory of Charles Walley. His house in Chester was assessed at 10 hearths in 1664-5.Chester Hearth Tax Returns ed. F. C. Beazley (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lii), 30.
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