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2nd s. of Thomas Bayles (d. 21 May 1639) of Wilby, Suff. and Joan (d. 22 Sept. 1620), da. of William Walsh of Worcs.Vis. Suff. (Harl. Soc. xiv), 638; Vis. Suff. (Harl. Soc. lxi), 53; Add. 32483, ff. 19-20. educ. M. Temple, 7 Feb. 1623.M. Temple Admiss. i. 114. m. 8 Dec. 1651, Hannah (bap. 6 Jan. 1633), da. of William Wiffin (d.1636/7), citizen and Brewer, of All Hallows the Less, London, 1s. (d.v.p.).All Hallows the Less, St Bride’s, Fleet Street, London, par. regs.; W. Suss. RO, Wiston 4860-1; CSP Dom. 1665-6, p. 175; 1671-2, p. 58. d. bef. 25 Feb. 1685.PROB11/379/342.
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Legal: called. M. Temple, 24 June 1631; bencher, 5 Nov. 1652.MTR ii. 781; iii. 1040.

Local: j.p. Essex 9 Mar. 1641–?Oct. 1642;C231/5, p. 433; ASSI35/83/9/83. ?Berks. by 27 Nov. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653;Names of the Justices (1650), 5 (E.1238.4); C193/13/4, f. 4. Mdx. by Dec. 1662-aft. Apr. 1664;C220/9/4, f. 115v; C231/8, p. 5. Westminster by Dec. 1662-Apr. 1679.C220/9/4, f. 55; C193/12/3, f. 67. Commr. sewers, Essex and Kent 14 Mar. 1642, 11 Sept. 1660, 1 Mar. 1667;C181/5, f. 227v; C181/7, pp. 48, 391. River Kennet, Berks. and Hants 13 Oct. 1657;C181/6, p. 261. militia, Kent, Westminster 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 5 July-13 Nov. 1660;C181/7, pp. 4, 67. poll tax, Westminster 1660; assessment, Mdx. 1661, 1672; Westminster 1664, 1677, 1679.SR.

Civic: freeman, Queenborough 12 Jan. 1659.Cent. Kent. Stud. QB/JMS4, f. 208v.

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BAYLES, Thomas (d.?1685), of the Middle Temple, London.

Will
12 Sept. 1683, pr. 5 Mar. 1685.PROB11/379/342.
Estates
?inherited property at Witham, Essex, and in Worcs.Add. 32483, ff. 19-20; J. Walter, Understanding Popular Violence (1999), 215; C5/398/11. Purchased Withycombe Manor, Som., from Edward Southcott, a recusant, for £2,320, for which he sought to compound in Mar. 1649.CCC 1935; SP23/66, p. 733. He also compounded for Southcott’s estate in Surr. in July 1651, paying £126 p.a.CCC 463, 1936. Sometime bef. Oct. 1654, Bayles acquired a mortgage on Southcott’s manor of Petworth, Essex.SP23/118, p. 612. Upon his marriage, Bayles acquired property in North Cray and Bishops’ Wood, in Ruckinge, and in Hadlow, Kent, as well as property in Allhallows the Less, London.Canterbury Cathedral Lib. U101/II/R2/8; W. Suss. RO, Wiston 4864, 4879. At his d. London estate was valued at £126 p.a. and he also held property at Hernden on the Hill, Essex, Drayton, Berks., and Tonbridge, Kent.PROB11/379/342.
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