GOUGH, Robert (1611-1700), of Merriott, Som. and Vernhams Dean, Hants.

Family and Education

bap. 10 Nov. 1611,South Perrot par. reg. 1st son of John Gough of Merriott, and Amy, da. of William Gibbes of South Perrott, Dorset.Vis. Som. 1623 (Harl. Soc. xi), 43. educ. Wadham, Oxf. 30 Oct. 1629; I. Temple, 3 Oct 1631, called 26 Jan. 1640.Al. Ox.; I. Temple database. m. 26 May 1636, Frances, da. of John Goddard of St Benet, Paul’s Wharf, London, 2s. d.v.p. 4da (1 ).St Benet, Paul’s Wharf, par. reg.; Whitelocke, Diary, 784, 786-7; PROB11/455/248. suc. grandfa. betw. 10 Oct. 1625-31 Jan. 1626; fa. betw. 4 Feb.-23 June 1635.PROB11/148/185; PROB11/168/321. bur. 10 Apr. 1700 10 Apr. 1700.Vernhams Dean par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Som. Mar. 1647 – bef.Jan. 1650; Hants 2 Mar. 1647 – 26 Feb. 1652, 10 July 1656-bef. Oct. 1660.QS Recs. Som. Commonwealth, 12, 27; C231/6, pp. 76, 130, 229, 340; Names of the Justices (1650), 50 (E.1238.4); A Perfect List (1660) 50. Commr. assessment, Som. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Hants 23 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance … for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654; militia, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, 1660;SR. sewers, 25 July 1671.C181/7, p. 585.

: Som. and Vernhams Dean, Hants.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

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GOUGH, Robert (1611-1700), of Merriott, Som. and Vernhams Dean, Hants.

Will

6 Feb. 1699, pr. 26 Apr. 1700.PROB11/455/248.

Estates

inherited from grandfa. several tenements in Merriott.PROB11/148/185; PROB11/168/321. Inherited from fa. part of manor of Merriott (which he sold in 1669), leases in Crewkerne and Ilchester, (possibly) other land in the county and an interest in a farm at Corscombe, Dorset.VCH Som. iv. 54, 58, 61; PROB11/168/321. In or bef. 1641 acquired property in Vernhams Dean, Hants, possibly leased from Winchester College. When he made his will in 1699 he had land there on such a lease, but had also acquired the manor of Vernhams Dean and other lands there and in East Vernham and Hurstborne Tarrant; he was then living at Chilton Park, Wilts.PROB11/455/248.

Oxford 1644

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