CREWE, John I (c.1598-1679), of Steane, Northants. and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. c.1598, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Crewe† of Nantwich, Cheshire, and Steane and Temperance (d. 25 Oct. 1619), da. and coh. of Reginald Bray of Steane.Baker, Northants. i. 685. educ. G. Inn 30 Jan. 1615;G. Inn Admiss. called, 9 June 1624;PBG Inn, 264. Magdalen Coll. Oxf. 26 Apr. 1616, aged 18, BA 18 Jan. 1617.Al. Ox. m. 24 Feb. 1623, Jemima (d. 14 Oct. 1675), da. and coh. of Edward Waldegrave of Lawford Hall, Essex, 7s. 2da.Vis. Suffolke ed. J.J. Howard, ii. 226; Baker, Northants. i. 685; ‘Mems. of Nathaniel, Lord Crewe’ ed. A. Clark (Cam. Soc. ser. 2, liii), 3. suc. fa. 1 Feb. 1634;Baker, Northants. i. 685. cr. Baron Crew of Steane, 20 Apr. 1661;CP. d. 12 Dec. 1679.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Northants. 10 May 1630 – 15 Aug. 1639, 18 Mar. 1641 – bef.Jan. 1650, by c.Sept. 1656–d.C231/5, pp. 31, 352, 436. Commr. sewers, 1 June 1633, 18 July 1634;C181/4, ff. 140v, 180v. Mdx. 7 July 1657;C181/6, p. 244. Westminster c.Oct. 1658;C181/6, p. 319. Kent 22 May 1669;C181/7, p. 489. charitable uses, Northants. 19 July 1633, 16 Feb. 1637, 21 July 1641.C192/1, unfol. Dep. lt. by June 1642–?CJ ii. 614a. Commr. for associating midland cos. 15 Dec. 1642; assessment, Northants. 24 Feb. 1643, 12, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; accts. of assessment, 3 May 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. defence of Northants. 19 July 1643;LJ vi. 137b, 496b. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; Westminster 12 Mar. 1660; ejecting scandalous ministers, Northants. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 10 July 1660-aft. Feb. 1673;C181/7, pp. 16, 641. poll tax, Northants. 1660.SR.

Civic: recorder, Banbury by May 1634–20 Jan. 1635.Banbury Corporation Recs. (Banbury Hist. Soc. xv), 159, 160.

Central: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 1638-at least 1641.LC5/134, p. 265; LC3/1, unfol. Member, council of war, 2 Aug. 1643;CJ iii. 191b. cttee. of both kingdoms, 16 Feb., 23 May 1644; cttee. for foreign affairs, 21 Sept. 1644.CJ iii. 635b; LJ vi. 712a. Commr. Uxbridge Propositions, 28 Jan. 1645. Member, cttee. for the army, 31 Mar. 1645, 23 Sept. 1647.A. and O. Commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646; exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646.A. and O. Commr. to receive king, 6 Jan. 1647;CJ v. 44a; LJ viii. 648b. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647;A. and O. treaty with king at Newport, 6 Sept. 1648;LJ x. 492b. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649; visitation Oxf. Univ. 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O. Member, cttee. for trade, 1 Nov. 1655; cttee. relief of Piedmont Protestants, 4 Jan. 1656;CSP Dom. 1655–6, pp. 1, 100. cttee. for statutes, Durham Univ. 10 Mar. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 218. Cllr. of state, 25 Feb. 1660.A. and O. Commr. public accts. 1667.LJ xii. 57a; Seaward, Cavalier Parlt. 302.

: of Steane, Northants. and Mdx., Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Likenesses

Likenesses: wash drawing, unknown.Ashmolean Museum, Oxf.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CREWE, John I (c.1598-1679), of Steane, Northants. and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Will

19 Aug. 1678, pr. 15 Dec. 1679.PROB11/361, f. 253v.

Estates

in 1634, inherited an estate reckoned to be worth £4,000 p.a., inc. advowsons of Steane and Hinton.‘Mems. of Nathaniel, Lord Crewe’ ed. Clark, 1; Northants. RO, Fermor Hesketh Baker ms 717, p. 141. By 1656, owned a house on Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx., moving to the house next door (number 52) in 1661.Bodl. Carte 73, f. 51; ‘Mems. of Nathaniel, Lord Crewe’ ed. Clark, 2; Pepys Diary, ii. 213; Survey of London, iii, pt. 1, 75. In 1662-3, estate in Northants. valued at £1,660 p.a. and his estate in Essex at £800 p.a.Add. 34222, f. 38v; HMC 14th Rep. ix. 281. In 1670, house at Steane assessed for 33 hearths.E179/157/446, m. 8d.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

King’s Gate, Holborn (June 1642).SP28/131, pt. 3, f. 3v.

Religion

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