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Family and Education
b. c. 1599, s. of Thomas Packe of Kettering, Northants. and Catherine.Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 136. educ. appr. bef. 1624. m. (1) Jane (bur. 13 July 1638), da. of Thomas Newman, Draper and merchant of Newbury, Berks., s.p.; (2) by 1639, Anne (bur. 16 Dec. 1658), da. of Simon Edmonds, Haberdasher, merchant and alderman of London, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 4da. (1 d.v.p.); (3) 13 July 1669, Elizabeth, da. of one Richards of Berks., wid. of Michael Herring, Haberdasher and alderman of London, s.p.Regs. St Michael Bassishaw (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxxxiii), 11, 13, 15-16, 18, 19-20, 95, 104, 107, 113; London Mar. Lics. 1005; Soc. Gen., Boyd’s Inhabitants 10,001; Obit. Richard Smyth (Camden Soc. xliv), 49. Kntd. 20 Sept. 1655.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 223. d. 27 May 1682.Vis. Eng. and Wales Notes vii. 136-9.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Drapers’ Co. 2 Oct. 1633; liveryman, 1639 – 47; asst. 1647 – 77, 1679 – 81; master, 1648 – 49, 1654–5. 14 Oct. 1647 – 7 Aug. 1660Drapers’ Co., ed. Boyd, 137; Woodhead, Rulers of London, 124; Oxford DNB. Alderman, Cripplegate ward, London; sheriff, London 1649 – 50; ld. mayor, 1654–5.Beaven, Aldermen of London i. 19, 125, 132; ii. 68; CLRO, Rep. 59, ff. 9v, 53; Rep. 67, f. 136.

Central: member, cttee. of accts. 22 Feb. 1644. Commr. customs, 14 Apr. 1645. Trustee, sale of bishops’ lands, 9 Oct., 17 Nov. 1646. Commr. for compounding, 8 Feb. 1647; for indemnity, 18 June 1649; relief on articles of war, 29 Sept. 1652.A. and O. Treas. relief of Piedmont Protestants, 25 May 1655;CSP Dom. 1655, p. 182. relief of Poland and Bohemia Protestants, 25 Mar. 1658.CSP Dom. 1657–8, p.344. Member, cttee. for trade, 12 July 1655.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 240. Commr. admlty. 31 Oct. 1655.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 402. Member, sub.-cttee. readmission of Jews, 15 Nov. 1655.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 23. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656. Member, cttee. for improving revenue of customs and excise, 26 June 1657.A. and O.

Local: commr. assessment, London 12 June 1645, 26 Nov. 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649, 26 Jan. 1660; Hunts., Leics. 9 June 1657;A. and O.; LJ ix. 544b. London militia, 4 May, 2 Sept. 1647, 17 Jan. 1649, 15 Feb. 1655;A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 43. London corporation for poor, 7 May 1649.A. and O. Pres. Bridewell and Bethlehem hosps. Nov. 1649-Aug. 1660.E.G. O’Donoghue, Bridewell Hosp. (2 vols., 1923) i. 272; Beaven, Aldermen of London ii. 68. Commr. oyer and terminer, London by Jan. 1654–3 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 2, 356. Midland circ. 12 Feb. 1656–22 June 1659;C181/6, pp. 147, 310. Surr. 21 Mar. 1659;C181/6, p. 348. gaol delivery, Newgate gaol by Jan. 1654–3 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 2, 356. ejecting scandalous ministers, London 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O. J.p. Leics. by Apr. 1655 – Mar. 1660; Surr. Apr. 1659-Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 308, 429. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth, London 25 Mar. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 238. Gov. Wyggeston’s Hosp. Leicester 7 Feb. 1657.CJ vii. 487a. Commr. sewers, London 13 Aug. 1657.C181/6, p. 256.

Religious: trier, seventh London classis, 20 Oct. 1645, 26 Sept. 1646, 29 Aug. 1648;A. and O. elder, 1648–9.Woodhead, Rulers of London, 124.

Mercantile: gov. Merchant Adventurers bef. Sept. 1656.CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 115. Member, E.I. Co. cttee. 10 Dec. 1657–5 July 1659.Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co. 1655–9, pp. 197, 268.

: of Bassinghall Street, London and Leics., Cotes.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, C. Johnson;Whereabouts unknown. line engraving, J. Basire, 1795;BM; NPG. fun. monument, J. Latham, Prestwold church, Leics.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

PACKE, Sir Christopher (c. 1599-1682), of Bassinghall Street, London and Cotes, Leics.

Will
10 Nov. 1681, pr. 26 June 1682.PROB11/370/248.
Estates
mortgage, manors of Cotes and Prestwold, Leics., c.1640, full possession by 1653;CCC 2016; VCH Leics. ii. 216; Trans. Leics. Arch. Soc. xvii. 9. purchased manor of Bugden, Hunts. (episcopal lands), 19 Jan. 1649 for £8,174;Bod. Rawl. B.239, p. 21. also manor of Cotes, Leics., c.1650.J.E. Farnell, ‘The Politics of the City of London, 1649-57’ (Chicago Univ. PhD thesis, 1963), 73. By 1681 held lease for 2 lives (held of bp. of Lincs.) of lands in parishes of Bugden and Brampton, Hunts.; also houses in Aldermanbury, Bassishaw and Cripplegate, London and 2 houses in Plymouth, Devon; advowson of Prestwold rectory; and lands in Burton-on-the-Wold, Leics.PROB11/370/248.
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