STEWARD, Robert (1617-72), of Barton Mills, Suff. and Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx.

Family and Education

bap. 6 Apr. 1617, 3rd s. of Thomas Steward of Barton Mills and Sarah, da. of Sir Edward Lewkenor† of Denham, Suff.Denham Par. Regs. (Bury St Edmunds, 1904), 6-7; Vis. Suff. 1664-8 (Harl. Soc. lxi.), 194. educ. Mildenhall g.s.; Bury St Edmunds g.s.;Biographical List of Boys Educated at King Edward VI Free Grammar School, Bury St Edmunds (Bury St Edmunds, 1908), 371-2. Sidney Sussex, Camb. 1633, BA 1639, MA (Trinity Hall) 1641;Venn, Al. Cant. L. Inn 1641.LI Admiss. m. Elizabeth (d.1692), 2da.PROB6/47, f. 89v; PROB11/412/432. Kntd. 1670.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 244. bur. 10 July 1672.HP Commons 1660-1690.

Offices Held

Legal: called, L. Inn 1651; bencher, 1669.LI Black Bks. Ii. 392; iii. 66, 67. Master in chancery, 1670–d.T.D. Hardy, Cat. of Lord Chancellors (1843), 94.

Local: j.p. Norf. 11 July 1657–d.C231/6, p. 372. Commr. assessment, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664; Suff. 26 June 1657; I. of Ely 1661; King’s Lynn 1661, 1664;A. and O; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, Norf. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, 1660;SR. sewers, Cambs. and Norf. 7 Sept. 1660;C181/7, p. 42. Norf. and Suff. 1 Aug. 1664, 20 Dec. 1669;C181/7, pp. 287, 523. subsidy, Norf., King’s Lynn 1663.SR.

Civic: freeman, King’s Lynn 1659;Cal. Lynn Freemen, 168. recorder, Apr. 1660–d.Le Strange, Norf. Official Lists, 200.

Central: chairman, cttee. of ways and means, 27 Nov. 1666 – 25 Jan. 1667, 14 Mar.-25 Apr. 1668.HP Commons 1660–90. Trustee, sale of fee farm rents, 1670–d.CTB iii. 414.

: of Barton Mills, Suff. and Mdx., Lincoln’s Inn.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

STEWARD, Robert (1617-72), of Barton Mills, Suff. and Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx.

Will

admon. 20 July 1672.PROB6/47, f. 89v.

Estates

probably resident in King’s Lynn by 1660;Add. 41656, f. 13. possibly owned lands at Wisbech and Leverington, Cambs.PROB 11/412/432.

Oxford 1644

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