CHESTER, Henry (1598-1666), of Beckerings Park, Ridgmont, Lidlington Park, Lidlington, and Tilsworth, Beds.

Family and Education

b. 30 Apr. 1598, 3rd s. of Sir Anthony Chester (d. 1 Dec. 1635) CB; Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 443. and Elizabeth Boteler (d. 5 Apr. 1629), da. of Sir Henry Boteler of Hatfield Woodhall, Herts. MI, Chicheley church, Bucks. m. (1) settlement 10 Mar. 1628 (with £2,000), Judith (d. bef. Dec. 1643), da. of Robert Bankworth of Bow Lane, London, scrivener; 1s d.v.p.; R.E.C. Waters, Geneal. Memoirs of the Extinct Fam. of Chester of Chicheley (1878), i. 136n. (2) settlement 16 Dec. 1646, Mary, da. of Thomas Wood of Hackney, Mdx., clerk of the pastry to Charles I, and wid. of Samuel Cranmer, alderman of London (d. 5 Oct. 1640), s.p. KB 23 Apr. 1661. Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 166. d. 30 July 1666.Waters, Chester, i. 132.

Offices Held

Local: sheriff, Beds. 1636 – 37, 1658–9. Coventry Docquets, 367; ‘The Ship Money pprs. of Henry Chester and Sir William Boteler, 1636–9’ ed. F.G. Emmison and M. Emmison, Publ. Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xviii. 43–54; Waters, Chester, i. 129. J.p. 1638–?, 11 Mar. 1647-bef. Nov. 1650, Mar. 1660–d.Coventry Docquets, 75; C231/5, p. 299; C231/6, pp. 81, 155; C193/13/3, f. 1v; Justices of Peace (1650); A Perfect List (1660). Kpr. Beckerings Park, Ridgmond, Beds. 15 Feb. 1640–1 Dec. 1643.Beds. RO, CH 567–8. Commr. subsidy, Beds. 1641, 1663; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664; Bucks. 1 June 1660; Bedford 1661;SR; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). loans on Propositions, Beds. 17 Sept. 1642;LJ v. 361a. militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Dep. lt. 1660–d.Waters, Chester, i. 130. Commr. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. 1661–d.C181/7, pp. 89–364.

Civic: burgess, Bedford Oct. 1661–d.Min. Bk. of Bedford Corp. 147.

: Lidlington Park, Ridgmont and Tilsworth, Beds.

Likenesses

Likenesses: monument, Tilsworth Church, Beds.Waters, Chester, i. 131-2.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CHESTER, Henry (1598-1666), of Beckerings Park, Ridgmont, Lidlington Park, Lidlington, and Tilsworth, Beds.

Will

2 Apr. 1666, pr. 6 Nov. 1666.PROB11/322/222; Beds. RO, CH 27.

Estates

estates in Beds. settled on him by his fa. Sir Anthony Chester, 1st bt. in 1628; held, by 1659, estates in Tilsworth and, by 1664, Lidlington, Beds.; Waters, Chester, i. 132; Beds. Co. Recs.: Notes and Extracts…a Calendar of the Sessions Min. Bks. 1651-60, ii. 51; Beds. RO, CH 71. claimed to hold mortgage of manor of Tyringham, at 25 Jan. 1645; Luke Letter Bk. 422. purchased, in 1646, from his royalist brother, Sir Anthony, 568 acres in Chicheley, Bucks. for £6,300, 1646; Waters, Chester, i. 128. park and free warren at Lidlington, Beds. Bef. 11 Apr. 1659. Beds. County Recs.: Notes and Extracts...a Calendar of the Sessions Minute Books, 1651-60, ii. 51.

Oxford 1644

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