BARBON, Praise or Praise-God (c.1599-1679), of Fleet Street, London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1599. educ. appr. Leatherseller, London, c.1615.N. and Q. ser. 3, i. 211; Oxford DNB. m. bef. 1635, Sarah, 1s. 1 da. d.v.p.J.T. Squire, Regs. Par. of Wandsworth, Surr. 306. d. c. Dec. 1679, bur. 5 Jan. 1680 5 Jan. 1680.GL, St Andrew Holborn, par. reg.; N. and Q. ser. 4, iii. 215.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Leathersellers’ Co. 20 Jan. 1623; warden of yeomanry, 6 July 1630; liveryman, 13 Oct. 1634; third warden, 16 June 1648. 21 Dec. 1649 – Dec. 1651N. and Q. ser. 3, i. 211. Common councilman, London, 21 Dec. 1657–60.GL, MS 3016/1, pp. 353, 390, 494, 499, 526–7, 553–4.

Local: member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 27 Nov. 1627.Ancient Vellum Bk., ed. Raikes, 42. Commr. London militia, 7 July 1659; assessment, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.

Central: comptroller for sequestrations, 8 Oct. 1659-Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 794a; CCC, 776.

: London., of Fleet Street.

Likenesses

Likenesses: etching, G.P. Harding, late eighteenth century.NPG.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BARBON, Praise or Praise-God (c.1599-1679), of Fleet Street, London.

Will

not found.

Estates

lease of ‘Lock and Key’ (house and warehouse) in Fleet St.; renewed 1656 for 14 years at £40 p.a., until burned down in 1666, when renewed for 40 years at £15 p.a.; sold to son in 1669. Also lease of house in Fetter Lane; and house in Shoe Lane for £25 p.a. by 1676. A.B. Suter, The Worthies of St Dunstan’s (1856), 23; N.G. Brett James, ‘A Speculative London Builder of the seventeenth century’, Trans. London and Mdx. Arch. Soc. n.s. vi. 112; N and Q. ser. 3, i. 253; Oxford DNB.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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