JESSOP, William (1603-75), of St Andrew, Holborn, Mdx.

Family and Education

bap. 22 Sept. 1603, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Thomas Jessoppe (bur. 18 May 1617) of St Mary, Stafford, and Margery (bur. 25 June 1615), ?da. of one Bache of Aston juxta Birmingham, Warws.St Mary Stafford Par. Reg. ed. H.R. Thomas (Staffs. Par. Reg. Soc. 1935-6), 124, 132, 136, 172, 179; Aston juxta Birmingham Par. Regs. ed. W.F. Carter (Birmingham, 1900), 35A. educ. G. Inn, 25 Aug. 1662.G. Inn Admiss. 294. m. (1) lic. 8 July 1634, Margaret (d. 1 Nov. 1651), da. of Philip Edwin, Fishmonger, of St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, London, at least 1s. d.v.p. 1da.; (2) 18 Feb. 1656, Mary, da. of Abel Ewer of Shenley, Herts., wid. of Alban Coxe of Beaumonts, nr. St Albans, Herts., s.p.Add. 63854B, f. 210; Add. Ch. 71765; PROB11/244, f. 276; Lancs. RO, Hulton of Hulton mss, DDHU/53/26; DDHU/55/13; DDHU/56/3; London Mar. Lics. ed Foster, 762; T. Jordan, Divinity and Morality in Robes of Poetry (1660), unpag. bur. 8 Mar. 1675 8 Mar. 1675.Lancs. RO, DDHU/53/31.

Offices Held

Colonial: sec. Providence Is. Co. Nov. 1630-Feb. 1650.CO124/2, ff. 1v, 198. Clerk, Saybrook patentees, c.1632-c.1644.Winthrop Pprs. (Collns. of the Mass. Hist. Soc. ser. 5, i), 394; A.P. Newton, Colonising Activities of the English Puritans (New Haven, CT, 1912), 177; K.A. Kupperman, Providence Is. 1630–41 (Cambridge, 1993), 325, 333. Member, Somers Is. [Bermuda] Co. by Oct. 1644-aft. June 1653.Mems. of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas ed. J.H. Lefroy (1877–9), i. 590; ii. 42.

Central: dep. treas.-at-war (parlian.) by Sept. 1642-c.Mar. 1645.Add. 46190, f. 49v; CSP Dom. 1641–3, pp. 395, 446, 449, 457, 497; 1644–5, p. 178; 1625–49, p. 644; LJ vi. 397b, 398a; CJ vi. 11a, 12b. Sec. cttee. for foreign plantations, Nov. 1643-aft. Aug. 1648;Supra, ‘Committee for Foreign Plantations’. cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, Apr. 1645-May 1648.Supra, ‘Committee for the Admiralty and Cinque Ports’. Member, cttee. for taking artillery officers’ accts. 1 July 1646;CJ iv. 596a; SP28/256, unfol. (Jessop et al. to Cttee. of Accts. 23 Sept. 1646). cttee. of accts. 23 Nov. 1649,A. and O. 16 June 1653,CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 415. 24 Nov. 1655.C231/6, p. 320. Asst. sec. council of state, 3 Nov. 1653-c.Jan. 1654; under clerk, 16 Jan.-May 1660.CSP Dom. 1653–4, pp. 229, 458; 1659–60, p. 310; Aylmer, State’s Servants, 237. Clerk, protectoral council by 23 Mar. 1654-May 1659;TSP ii. 189; Aylmer, State’s Servants, 237. House of Commons, 1660 Convention, 25 Apr.-29 Dec. 1660;CJ viii. 1a. cttee. of public accts. c.Jan. 1668–9.Lancs. RO, DDHU/47/27; ‘William Jessop’, Oxford DNB. Treas. ld. protector’s contingencies, 17 Aug. 1655-bef. May 1659.Add. 46190, f. 51; Aylmer, State’s Servants, 236. Commr. for accts. 24 Nov. 1655.C231/6, p. 320; CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 14. Commr. tendering oath to MPs, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 593a. Auditor, act for disbanding army and garrisons, 1660; assessment, 1660.SR.

Local: ballaster, River Thames c.Dec. 1648-c.July 1657.Lancs. RO, DDHU/53/29; New Coll. Oxf. Ms 9483; CSP Dom. 1657–8, pp. 37–8; Aylmer, State’s Servants, 237. Dep. clerk, duchy of Lancaster council by Nov. 1649–d. Register, duchy of Lancaster ct. by 1653–d.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. Somerville, 34, 37. J.p. Mdx. 15 Sept. 1655-Oct. 1660;C231/6, pp. 317, 376. Westminster 15 Sept. 1655-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 317. St Albans 15 July 1656-aft. 4 Oct. 1658.C181/6, pp. 180, 317. Warden, Chatham Hosp. May 1656-aft. June 1659.Add. 4184, f. 187; CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 366. Commr. oyer and terminer, St Albans 15 July 1656-aft. 4 Oct. 1658;C181/6, pp. 179, 316. Mdx. 11 Oct. 1658–?;C181/6, p. 328. assessment, Herts. 9 June 1657;A. and O. Mdx. 1 June 1660;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). ejecting scandalous ministers, 24 Oct. 1657;SP25/78, p. 238. poll tax, 1660.SR.

Religious: tryer, twelfth London classis, 20 Oct. 1645, 26 Sept. 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O.

: of St Andrew, Mdx., Holborn.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

JESSOP, William (1603-75), of St Andrew, Holborn, Mdx.

Will

not found.

Estates

in 1636, Sir Nathaniel Rich† bequeathed Jessop £50, a suit of wearing apparel, all his East India shares, and lease of a tenement at Stondon Massey, Essex.PROB11/172, ff. 254, 254v. By 1648, Jessop owned a 16th part of the privateer Constant Warwick.CSP Dom. 1651-2, p. 188. By 1649, he owned or rented a house in Holborn, next to ‘the White Cross ... over against Warwick House’.PRO30/26/21, p. 38; Add. 46190, f. 42. By 1653, he was receiving an annuity from the earl of Warwick of £100 p.a.PROB11/276, f. 245. In 1653-4, he acquired £310 of lands in Westmeath as an Irish Adventurer.Bodl. Carte 63, ff. 630-1, 636; Lancs. RO, DDHU/45/1; DDHU/46/12; Bottigheimer, Eng. Money and Irish Land, 205; CSP Ire. Advs. 1642-59, pp. 193, 345, 349. In 1656, acquired through his second wife a messuage and lands in Shenley, Herts.PROB11/244, f. 276; Add. Ch. 71765. In 1667, acquired lease of a chamber in Jones Buildings, Holborn Court, Gray’s Inn, for £160.Add. 46190, f. 160; Add. Ch. 71770. In 1667, acquired lease of crown lands in Westmeath, Ireland.Lancs. RO, DDHU/22/1. In 1673, purchased a share of lands called Pagetts Tribe in Bermuda.Som. RO, DD/BR/ely/2/2.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

chamber in Warwick House, Holborn (?-1675);Lancs. RO, DDHU/53/32. the south side of High Holborn (by Nov. 1643);SP28/167, pt. 5, unfol. lodgings at Whitehall (Jan. 1659).Lancs. RO, DDHU/46/4.

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