WHITE, William (1606-c.1661), of Bashall, Mitton, and Bishopthorpe, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. 16 Feb. 1606, 1st s. of William White of Duffield, Derbys., and 2nd w. Sarah, da. of Matthew Cradock of Staffs.Duffield par. reg.; The Genealogist, n.s. viii. 178. educ. I. Temple 27 Feb. 1647.I. Temple database. m. (1) c.1629, Margaret (bur. 15 Apr. 1648), da. and coh. of Thomas Talbot of Bashall, s.p.;Chetham’s Lib., A.3.90 (Letter bk. of Raphe Assheton), f. 4; ‘Paver’s marr. lics.’ ed. J.W. Clay, YAJ xx. 89. (2) 14 Aug. 1649 (with £2,500), Frances, da. of Sir Edward Barkham, 1st bt.†, of Tottenham, Mdx., s.p.All Hallows, Tottenham par. reg.; Add. Ch. 19546. suc. fa. 18 Oct. 1619.C142/379/20; WARD7/60/190. d. 6 Sept. 1660 /28 Nov. 1661.Borthwick, Wills in York Registry, Prerogative wills, Sept. 1662.

Offices Held

Civic: out-bailiff, Clitheroe 1638 – 39; out-burgess by 1639–?d.W.S. Weeks, Clitheroe in the Seventeenth Century, 231. Freeman, Preston by Sept. 1642–d.Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 118.

Local: j.p. Yorks. (W. Riding) 9 Oct. 1638–?c.June 1642, 23 Aug. 1644-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/5, p. 311; C231/6, p. 6; Add. 29699, f. 6; Belvoir, PZ.1, f. 48; News from Yorke (1642, 669 f.6.44). Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 14 May 1649, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Jan. 1660; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 1 June 1660; York 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 1 June 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, W. Riding 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; militia, Yorks. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; York. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. charitable uses, W. Riding 21 May 1650;C93/20/30. Yorks. 22 Apr. 1651;C93/21/13. inquiry concerning church livings, c.May 1650;W. Yorks. Archives Service (Wakefield), C413. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 18, 376. sewers, E. Riding 22 June 1654–12 Jan. 1657;C181/6, p. 46. York and Ainsty 13 Dec. 1658.C181/6, p. 331.

Legal: clerk of assize, Oxf. circ. 11 July 1643-aft. Mar. 1646.CJ iii. 161b; LJ vi. 129b-130a; Eg. 2978, f. 85; Bodl. Nalson XIV, f. 224v.

Military: col. of ft. (parlian.) by 21 Apr. 1644-July 1645.SP28/41, f. 429; CSP Dom. 1644, p. 130; Jones, ‘War in north’, 406–7.

Central: commr. to the army, 12 June-c.26 July 1647.CJ v. 209a; LJ ix. 262a. Member, cttee. of navy and customs by 8 Sept. 1647, 29 May 1649;CJ v. 296b; vi. 219b. cttee. for excise, 5 Jan. 1648, 29 May 1649.CJ v. 419b; vi. 219b; LJ ix. 639b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648, 20 June 1649;A. and O. arrears of revenue, 26 May 1659;CJ vii. 667a. customs/excise, 28 Sept. 1659, 27 Dec. 1659, 7 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 31 Dec. 1659.CJ vii. 800b.

: of Bashall, Mitton and Bishopthorpe, Yorks.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WHITE, William (1606-c.1661), of Bashall, Mitton, and Bishopthorpe, Yorks.

Will

6 Sept. 1660, pr. 3 Sept. 1662.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 45, f. 125.

Estates

in 1619, inherited a capital messuage in Chaddesden and lands in Spondon and Duffield, Derbys.C142/379/20. In 1639, purchased a moiety of manor of Bashall for £3,800.WARD9/575, p. 121. In 1645, estate worth about £640 p.a.CCAM 827. By 1645, leasing a house in Covent Garden worth £20 p.a.Add. 21417, f. 2v; Stowe 1058, f. 85v. In 1648, purchased from trustees for the sale of church lands manor of Bishopthorpe, Yorks. for £525; in 1649, purchased manor and grange of Beckley, Yorksfor £626.Col. Top. et Gen. i. 6, 125. In 1649, purchased Nunn Ings, worth £60 p.a., and ‘Campleshon’s farm’, Yorks.Add. 21417, f. 162; Add. 21418, f. 42. In 1651-2, purchased, for £3,148, fee farm rents in Yorks. worth £245 p.a.C54/3655/28; SP28/288, ff. 48, 56. At his d. estate inc. manor and capital messuage of Bashall, lands, tenemenents, mills, tithes etc. in Bashall worth at least £500 p.a. and manor of Bishopthorpe, Nunn Field and Nunn Ings.Add. Ch. 19546; CRES6/1, p. 189; Borthwick, Wills in York Registry, Prerogative wills, Sept. 1662.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Whitehall (July, Aug. 1659, Feb. 1660).CSP Dom. 1659-60, pp. 27, 94, 348.

Religion

presented Conyers Rutter to rectory of Bishopthorpe, Yorks. 1653.Add. 36792, f. 71v.

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