MEREDITH, William (c.1620-65), of Kilcullen, co. Kildare.

Family and Education

b. c. 1620, 1st of Sir Robert Meredith (d. 1668) of Greenhills, co. Kildare, and Anne, da. of Sir William Ussher, clerk of PC [I]. m. Nov. 1655, Mary (d. 1669), da. of Sir Robert King* of Boyle Abbey, Co. Roscommon, ?1s. cr. bt. 20 Nov. 1660. d. Feb. 1665.CB.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of Philip Sidney, Visct. Lisle*, army in Ireland, c.Apr. 1647.CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 625. Capt. of horse, regt. of Michael Jones, Sept. 1647-Dec. 1649;HMC Egmont, i. 467; TCD, MS 844, f. 52; SP28/64, ff. 41, 303; SP28/70, f. 677. maj. regt. of Sir Theophilus Jones* by Nov. 1650-Aug. 1653;SP28/82, f. 163; SP28/93, f. 411; SP28/96, f. 59; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), ii. 224–5. capt. regt. of Edmund Ludlowe II*, Aug. 1653–55;TSP iii. 710; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 601. regt. of Henry Cromwell* bef. June 1659; regt. of Peter Wallis, July 1659-aft. Dec. 1659.CSP Ire. 1647–60, pp. 686, 695, 700; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 246, 250; Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 60n, 121. Capt. of horse, royal army in Ireland, 1660–9 Sept. 1662.CSP Ire. 1669–70, p. 384; HMC Ormonde, o.s. i. 253.

Irish: commr. assessment, co. Kildare 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). Agent for army, settlement of arrears, c.1656.Down Survey ed. T.A. Larcom (Dublin, 1851), 198. Commr. poll money, Dublin 24 Apr. 1660; co. Kildare 24 Apr. 1660, 1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 620–1, 639.

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Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

MEREDITH, William (c.1620-65), of Kilcullen, co. Kildare.

Will

2 June 1664, pr. 11 Apr. 1665.PROB11/316/367.

Estates

pre-deceased fa. so did not succeed to patrimonial estate; held lease of lands at Kilkcullen, co. Kildare, bef. 1657-d.NAI, Ferguson MS 9, p. 280; PROB11/316/367.

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