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bap. 3 Oct. 1602, 1st s. of Thomas St Nicholas of The Mote, Hoaden, and 1st w. Dorothy (d. 18 Sept. 1605), da. of William Tilghman of Snodland.Ash par. reg.; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. liv), 143; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. lxii), 30; Nichols, Leics. iv. pt. 1, 270; At Vacant Hours: Poems by Thomas St Nicholas and His Fam. ed. H. Neville Davies, xxvi. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 5 Apr. 1619;Al. Cant. I. Temple 26 Jan. 1624.I. Temple Admiss. Database. m. (1) 17 Feb. 1625, Elizabeth (d. 9 Mar. 1632), da. of Henry Croke of the I. Temple and Well Place, Ipsden, Oxon., 4s. d.v.p.;Col. Top. et Gen. v. 217; Dugdale, Warws. ii. 961; At Vacant Hours ed. Neville Davies, xxviii, 6. (2) c.Jan. 1633, Susan, da. of William Copley of Wadworth, Yorks., 2ch. d.v.p. 2s. (1 ) 1da.Vis. Kent, 143; At Vacant Hours ed. Neville Davies, xxviii, xxix, 229, 291-2. suc. fa. Nov. 1626; bur. 17 May 1668.Ash par. reg.
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Legal: called, I. Temple 17 June 1632.CITR ii. 199. Counsel for the commonwealth, cttee. for compounding by May 1650-aft. May 1652.SP28/258, f. 116; CCC 180; T. St Nicholas, The Case in Law and Equity of Tristram Wodward (1652), 19. Steward, ct. of chancery and admlty. Cinque Ports, Feb. 1651-aft. Sept. 1658.Add. 32471, f. 12v; E403/2608, p. 8; CSP Dom. 1651, p. 47. Master in chancery, 2 May 1655–?1660.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 704.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), 20 Dec. 1643–3 Oct. 1645.E113/7, pt. 2, unfol.; E121/5/5/10; Jones, ‘War in north’, 400.

Local: recvr. public revenues, Yorks. (W. Riding) Feb. – May 1644, July 1645-May 1649.Add. 24516, f. 68; SC6/CHAS1/1190; SP28/258, f. 116; E113/7, pt. 2. Commr. assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649; Kent 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Canterbury, Westminster 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Northern Assoc. W. Riding 20 June 1645; taking accts. in northern cos. 29 July 1645.A. and O. Steward, sequestered manorial courts, wapentake of Barkston Ash, W. Riding by Dec. 1645-aft. May 1647;SP28/250, ff. 49, 50. liberty of St Augustine, Canterbury by 1656-July 1660.C6/170/114; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 139. J.p. W. Riding by Nov. 1646-Mar. 1660;Belvoir, Original letters, Members of the Long Parliament, PZ.2, f. 19v; Add. 29674, f. 148. Kent 20 Sept. 1649-bef. Oct. 1660;C231/6, p. 165. Westminster 4 Oct. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 269. Commr. charitable uses, W. Riding 21 Feb. 1648;C93/19/33. northern cos. militia, Yorks. 23 May 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648; Westminster 28 June 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Kent, Canterbury 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; ejecting scandalous ministers, Kent 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. sewers, Walland Marsh, Kent and Suss. 1 July 1659;C181/6, p. 365. Kent 1 July 1659-aft. Sept. 1660;C181/6, p. 367; C181/7, p. 57. Mdx. and Westminster 8 Oct. 1659–31 Aug. 1660.C181/6, p. 399.

Central: cllr. of state, 14 July 1653. by 14 May – 13 Oct. 1659CJ vii. 285a. Commr. approbation public preachers, 20 Mar. 1654. by 14 May – 13 Oct. 1659A. and O. Clerk of the Parliament, 26 Dec. 1659–16 Mar. 1660.CJ vii. 652b, 659a, 805b, 853b.

Civic: freeman, Canterbury 4 July 1654 – d.; common cllr. 29 Sept. 1658-c.1660.Canterbury Cathedral Archives, AC/4 (Canterbury Burghmote book), ff. 370v, 446v. Counsel, Dover 11 Sept. 1654–?Add. 29623, f. 159. Recorder, Canterbury 1655-bef. July 1660;The Oxinden and Peyton Letters ed. D. Gardiner, 137; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 139. Sandwich 1658–64.W. Boys, Collns. for a Hist. of Sandwich (1792), 423.

: Hoaden, Kent., Ash.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ST NICHOLAS, Thomas (1602-68), of The Mote, Hoaden, Ash, Kent.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1626, inherited property at or near Hoaden and in Elmstone, Kent.Kent Hist. and Lib. Centre, PRC/32/48/32; At Vacant Hours ed. Neville Davies, 205. Estate during 1650s inc. house at the Mote, Hoaden, 47 acres of ‘fresh marsh’ in the parish which he had purchased in 1653 for ‘several great and considerable sums’, a house in Westminster and another in cathedral close at Canterbury – both probably acquired from trustees for the sale of church lands.C6/170/114; CSP Dom. 1653-4, p. 52; C.E. Woodruff, ‘The parliamentary survey of the precincts of Canterbury in the time of the Commonwealth’, Arch. Cantiana, xlix. 217. Also a lessee with Lionel Copley* and two other gentleman of a farm and two ironworks near Sheffield, Yorks.Sheffield City Archives, ACM/SD/180; WWM/D1715; Yorks. Comp. Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 130.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Eastwood, Rotherham (1642);At Vacant Hours ed. Neville Davies, 18, 237. Blake Street, St Michael-le-Belfrey, York (c.1646-c.1649);E113/7, pt. 2 (deposition of John Ramsden); At Vacant Hours ed. Neville Davies, 260-1. Prince’s Arms, Paternoster Row, London (1649).Add. 21418, f. 33.
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