PYM, Charles (c.1615-71), of Westminster

Family and Education

b. c. 1620, 2nd s. of John Pym* of Brymore, Som. and Holborn, Mdx. and Anne (d.1620), da. of John Hooke of Bramshott, Hants.Gen. Mag. ii. 363-4; ‘John Pym’, Oxford DNB. educ. St Catharine’s, Camb. 1632; L. Inn 10 Nov. 1635, called 1 July 1644.Al. Cant.; L. Inn Admiss. i. 229; L. Inn Black Bks. ii. 363. m. (lic. 24 Feb.) 1663, ‘aged 35’, Katherine, da. of Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1st bt. of Flambards, Mdx. 1s 1da.St Nicholas Acon, London, par. reg.; London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 1104; Gen. Mag. ii. 364. suc. bro. Nov. 1661. kntd. 14 Feb. 1663; cr. bt. 14 July 1663.Reg. St. Margaret Westminster (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxiv), 194; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 237, CB iii. 281. d. c. June 1671.Som. RO, DD/BR/ely2/2; DD/BW/2/324.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of John Dalbier, army of 3rd earl of Essex by June 1643-bef. 18 Apr. 1645.SP28/7/57; CJ iv. 115b. Capt. of dragoons, Eastern Assoc. army bef. 1645.Eliott-Drake, Fam. and Heirs, i. 334.

Local: commr. militia, Som., Westminster 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; C181/7, pp. 25, 38; SR. assessment, Som. 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. sewers, 11 Aug. 1660; Mdx. and Westminster 31 Aug. 1660.C181/7, pp. 25, 38.

Central: commr. for plantations, Dec. 1660–70.‘Charles Opym’, HP Commons, 1660–90.

Mercantile: member, general board, jt. stock co. for whale fishing, Bermuda by 1666–d.Som. RO, DD/BR/ely/2/1/1; J.H. Lefroy, Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas (2 vols. 1879), ii. 358.

: of Westminster.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PYM, Charles (c.1615-71), of Westminster

Will

8 Mar. 1671, pr. 8 Jan. 1672.

Estates

in 1661 inherited manors of Brymore, Cutcombe, Cutcombe Rawleigh, Cutcombe Mohun, Hawkwell, Langham and Poole, and Woolavington Pym, Som.; other lands bought by John Pym including at Bridgwater, Puriton and Huntspill.Som. RO, DD/BW/2/224, 230, 265. Inherited 1,000 acres, Slane, East Meath and 14 shares in Pembroke Tribe and Pagett’s Tribe, Bermuda.Som. RO, DD/BR/ely/3/3, 5; Lefroy, Memorials, ii. 679, 685, 687.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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