SHERMAN, William (c.1590-1667), of Lambeth, Surr.

Family and Education

b. c. 1590, 1st s. of Richard Sherman of Ottery St Mary, Devon, and 1st w. Joane, da. of John Eveleigh of Holcombe. m. 11 Apr. 1638, Judith (d. aft. Apr. 1667), da. of Edmund Morgan of ?Newington, Surr. 3s. (?1 d.v.p.) 4da. (?1 d.v.p.).Newington St Mary par. reg.; PROB11/324, f. 410; C6/149/66; Vis. Surr. (Harl. Soc. lx), 103. suc. fa. Dec. 1638.Regs. of Ottery St Mary, Devon ed. H. Tapley-Soper (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc.), ii. 833. bur. 6 June 1667.St John, Croydon par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: registrar to vicar-gen. Canterbury by 1625 – aft.Mar. 1645, by Aug. 1662–?d.LPL, COMM/1/50, 103; Diary and Corresp. of Dr John Worthington ed. J. Crossley (Chetham Soc. o.s. xxxvi), 115. J.p. Surr. 6 Sept. 1640–?C231/5, p. 406. Commr. assessment, Surr. 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sewers, Surr. and Kent 28 Nov. 1664.C181/7, p. 292.

: of Lambeth, Surr.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SHERMAN, William (c.1590-1667), of Lambeth, Surr.

Will

19 Nov. 1666, cod. 5 Apr. 1667, pr. 14 Aug. 1667.PROB11/324, ff. 409v, 411.

Estates

in 1638, acquired manors of Fulbrook and Westhall Hill and four messuages, Oxon.Coventry Docquets, 730. By 1640, lease of rectories of Alkham, Bredgar and Stone in Oxney and tithes of Swingfield, Kent, from the archbishop of Canterbury.Bodl. Rawl. B.372, ff. 34v, 35, 35v. By 1643, lease of‘dissolved college’ of Bredgar from the archbishop.Hasted, Kent, vi. 103. By 1650, part owner of mansion house of Addiscombe, Surr.C6/105/58. By 1656, owned manor of Buckland, Kent.Hasted, Kent, ix. 465. At his d. estate inc. manors of Fulbrook and Westhall Hill, worth at least £200 p.a.; a house in Croydon; and leases of rectories/parsonages of Alkham, Bredgar, Tonge and Wye, Kent, held of archbishop of Canterbury, and worth at least £100 p.a.PROB11/324, ff. 410-11.

Oxford 1644

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