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Family and Education
b. c. Apr. 1602, o.s. of Anthony Barwis of Ilekirk Grange, and Grace (bur. 26 July 1616), da. of William Fleming of Rydal, Westmld.C142/354/101; WARD9/205, f. 10v; Westward par. reg.; F. B. Swift, ‘Barwis of Cumb. pt. II’, Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. ser. 2, li. 118-19. educ. G. Inn 18 Mar. 1641.G. Inn Admiss. 230. m. by 1640, Frances (bur. 1 Apr. 1670), da. of Sir Edward Musgrave† of Hayton Castle, Aspatria, Cumb. s.p.Swift, ‘Barwis of Cumb. pt. II’, 119, 123. suc. fa. 5 July 1616.WARD9/204, f. 201v. d. 13 Feb. 1649.Swift, ‘Barwis of Cumb. pt. II’, 118, 121.
Offices Held

Mercantile: member, Carlisle merchants’ guild, 1624–?d.; undermaster, 1634–5.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DGC 4/1, ff. 14v, 99.

Civic: freeman, Carlisle 1624–d.;Cumb. RO (Carlisle), CA/2/27. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 14 Apr. 1645–?d.Extracts from the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Council Min. Bk. ed. M. H. Dodds (Newcastle-upon-Tyne Recs. Cttee. i), 39. Alderman, Carlisle 1636–d.;Royal Charters of Carlisle ed. R. S. Ferguson (Carlisle, 1894), xxiv, 188. mayor, 3 Oct. 1636–7,Cumb. RO (Carlisle), CA/2/21/4; CA/2/27. Feb.-Apr. 1648.CJ v. 467a; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DMH/10/5/17, p. 310.

Local: j.p. Cumb. 12 July 1626–d.;C231/4, f. 207. Northumb. 20 Jan. 1645–d.C231/6, p. 8. Commr. Forced Loan, Cumb. 1627;C193/12/2, f. 8v; SP16/56/34, f. 48. oyer and terminer, 28 Jan. 1630;C181/4, f. 25. piracy, 28 Mar. 1631.C181/4, f. 81. Sheriff, 5 Nov. 1634–5.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 28. Commr. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR; A. and O. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Member, cttee. to command Northern Assoc. army, 12 May 1645.CJ iv. 138b; LJ vii. 367b. Commr. Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645.A. and O. Dep. lt. 6 Dec. 1645–d.CJ iv. 368a. Commr. charitable uses, 2 June 1647;C93/19/24. militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Central: gent. waiter, extraordinary, by 1641–?LC3/1, f. 33. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647;LJ vi. 55b; viii. 411a; ix. 500a. commr. to Scottish Parliament, 26 Oct. 1643.CJ iii. 279a; LJ vi. 273b. Member, cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O.

: of Ilekirk Grange, Cumb., Westward.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, unknown.Colln. of H. Ballatyne Dykes, 1937; A. MacDonald, ‘The fam. of Barwis’, Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. ser. 2, xxxvii. opp. p. 118.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BARWIS, Richard (1602-49), of Ilekirk Grange, Westward, Cumb.

Will
24 Jan. 1649, pr. 12 Mar. 1649.PROB11/207, f. 264.
Estates
in 1616, inherited manors of Thornthwaite in Le Fell and Blencogo, a moiety of manors of Dearham and High Ireby, capital messuage of Ilekirk Grange, lands and messuages in Braithwaite, Hameshill, Keswick, Portinscale, Ruthwaite, Setmurthy, ‘Stockdale’, Southwaite and Whinfell, a house in Carlisle and burgages and land in Cockermouth, Cumb.C142/354/101; Cumb. RO (Kendal), WDRY/1/3/26/29; Swift, ‘Barwis of Cumb. pt. II’, 118. Leased Westward Low Park and other lands in Cumb. from earls of Northumberland.Alnwick, X.II.3, box 10, g. At his d. estate inc. capital messuage of Ilekirk Grange with corn mill, Ilekirk Park, manor of Blencogo, manor and tithes of Dearham with coalmines and quarries, messuages in Hameshill and Keswick, and salt pans at Crosscanonby, Cumb.PROB11/207, ff. 264-5; Swift, ‘Barwis of Cumb. pt. II’, 121-2.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
‘Gray’s Bridge over against [the] Black Bull in the Strand’, London (1646).Bodl. Tanner 59, f. 152.
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