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Family and Education
bap. 7 Mar. 1602, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Job Beck (bur. 25 Mar. 1619) of Wood Stanway, Stanway, Glos., and Susan, da. of ?Stanway, Glos. par. reg.; Glos. RO, D1375/22-3. educ. L. Inn 5 May 1632;LI Admiss. called, 12 Feb. 1648.LI Black Bks. ii. 377. m. 30 Nov. 1648, Ann, da. of Samuel Dunch* of North Baddesley, Hants., at least 1s.St Dunstan-in-the-West, London par. reg.; St Margaret, Westminster par. reg. bur. 9 Feb. 1665 9 Feb. 1665.St Margaret, Westminster par. reg.
Offices Held

Central: member, sub-cttee., cttee. for advance of money, c.Sept. 1643.CCAM 26. Clerk-register to treasurers for assessment, 30 Sept. 1644, 15 Aug. 1645, 9 Mar., 1 May 1646.CJ iii. 644b; A. and O. i. 550; LJ viii. 205a-b; CTB i. 202. Clerk, ct. of wards, 10 June 1645–?LJ vii. 422a-b. Member, cttee. to register royalists in London, 13 Nov. 1645. Auditor, Irish accts. 4 Aug. 1646-aft. June 1649.CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 486; CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 201. Visitor, Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647.A. and O. Commr. ordinance for raising £50,000 for Ireland, 25 Jan. 1648.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 771. Trustee, Irish lands, 5 June 1648.A. and O. Solicitor, protectoral council, 8 May 1656-c.Apr. 1659.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 312; PRO31/17/33, p. 371.

Local: member, Glos. co. cttee. 3 July 1646;LJ viii. 410b. sub-cttee. of accts. Oxon. by Feb. 1647.SP28/257, pt. 1, unfol. (Becke et al. to the Cttee. of Accts. 11 Feb. 1647). J.p. 11 Mar. 1647-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 81. Glos. 8 July 1656-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 340. Westminster 5 Apr. 1658-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 390. Commr. assessment, Oxon. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Berks., Glos., Hants 9 June 1657; Westminster 9 June 1657, 2 Mar., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; CJ vii. 858b; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). militia, Oxon. 16 Aug. 1650;CSP Dom. 1650, p. 290. Westminster 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 7 July 1657–31 Aug. 1660.C181/6, pp. 244, 399.

: St Margaret’s, of Great Chapel Street, Westminster.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BECKE, Gabriel (1602-65), of Great Chapel Street, St Margaret’s, Westminster

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1619, inherited lands in Batsford, Glos.Glos. RO, Gloucester wills 1619/114 (Job Becke). In 1632, ‘Gabriel Becke of London gent.’ sold 4 messuages in Batsford.C54/2899/13; Coventry Docquets, 624. In 1642, invested £300 as an Irish Adventurer, and in the 1650s received lands in Co. Westmeath, Ireland.Bottigheimer, Eng. Money and Irish Land, 176; CSP Ire. 1647-60, pp. 497, 547. In 1648, purchased Withington Wood, Glos., from trustees for the sale of bishops’ lands for £241.Col. Top. et Gen. i. 7. In 1650, purchased 4 fee farm rents in Berks. worth £87 p.a. for £806, and 9 fee farm rents in Glos. worth £144 p.a. for £1,300.SP28/288, ff. 6, 7, 8. By 1651, Becke and another gent. had acquired for £4,335 a 99 year lease on a mortgaged estate in Sapperton, Glos. worth £500 p.a.CCC 1050; VCH Glos. xi. 91. His house in Great Chapel Street, Westminster, assessed for 10 hearths in 1664.London and Mdx. 1666 Hearth Tax ed. M. Davies et al. (BRS cxxx), 1707.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Mr Miller’s house, White’s Alley, Chancery Lane, London (June 1643).Bodl. Clarendon 22, f. 80.
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