CREWE, John II (1603-70), of Utkinton, Tarporley, Cheshire.

Family and Education

b. 11 June 1603, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Sir Ranulphe Crewe† (d. 13 Jan. 1646) of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. and Crewe Hall, Barthomley, Cheshire, and 1st w. Julia (d. 19 July 1603), da. of John Clippesby of Clippesby, Norf.Cheshire RO, DAR/I/37; Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 1, p. 314. educ. L. Inn 28 Oct. 1618.LI Admiss. i. 181. m. 11 Dec. 1636, Mary (d. 6 July 1690), da. and coh. of Sir John Done of Utkinton, 1s. 3da. (2 d.v.p.).Cheshire RO, DAR/I/37; ZCR 63/2/695; Ormerod, Cheshire, ii. pt. 1, p. 249. d. 12 May 1670.Ormerod, Cheshire, ii. pt. 1, p. 249.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Cheshire 1 July 1637 – 25 July 1650, 13 Oct. 1653–d.C231/5, p. 250; C231/6, pp. 196, 271. Commr. charitable uses, 15 Nov. 1638; Flint 19 Apr. 1642;C192/1, unfol. subsidy, Cheshire 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641.SR. Bailiff and chief forester, Delamere Forest, Cheshire July 1641–?d.SO3/12, f. 162; Cheshire RO, DAR/B/29; DAR/C/4; DAR/I/23. Commr. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Cheshire 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664; Chester 26 Jan. 1660.SR.; A. and O.; An Ordinance ...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Member, Cheshire co. cttee. Feb. 1643-aft. Aug. 1648.SP28/224, ff, 270, 306; Bodl. Tanner 58, f. 429; HMC Portland, i. 96. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Chester 26 July 1659; ejecting scandalous ministers, Cheshire 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. sewers, 12 Feb. 1658.C181/6, p. 270.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) by May 1643–?SP28/224, f. 327; M.D.G. Wanklyn, ‘Landed Society and Allegiance in Cheshire and Shropshire in the First Civil War’ (Manchester Univ. PhD thesis, 1976), 237–8.

: of Utkinton, Cheshire., Tarporley.

Likenesses

Likenesses: fun. monument, attrib. T. Burman, Tarporley church, Ches.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CREWE, John II (1603-70), of Utkinton, Tarporley, Cheshire.

Will

2 May 1668, pr.?,Cheshire RO, WS 1678, will of John Crewe.

Estates

at his marriage in 1636, property settled on him in Coton, Noneley and Stoke on Tern, Salop, and in Scarborough, Leics. – in all, worth £500 p.a.Cheshire RO, DAR/D/16/10; DAR/I/29 (Memo. bk.:‘Purchases and fines’). In 1639, estate inc. manors of Eaton, Flaxyards and Rushton; mansion house of Flaxyards; half of manor of Kelsall; and property in Alpraham, Clotton, Cuddington, Duddon, Eaton, Flaxyards, Kingsley, Longley, Manley Hollins, Newton, Rushton, Tarporley, Utkinton and Willington, Cheshire.Cheshire RO, DAR/C/91/6. In 1646, inherited his fa.’s house in Westminster, ‘near the Abbey’, which he sold in 1652 for £800.PROB11/196, f. 101v; Cheshire RO, DAR/I/29 (Memo. bk: ‘Purchases’); ZCR 63/2/691/16. In 1646, estate inc. property in Colehurst, Salop;Cheshire RO, DAR/F/28: P. Jones to Crewe, 15 June 1646. in 1664, inc. manors of Utkinton, Tarporley and Willington; a moiety of manors of Eaton, Kelsall and Rushton; advowson of Tarporley; property in Alpraham, Chorley, Clotton, Cuddington, Flaxyards, Haughton, Kingsley, Manley, Newton, Norley, Peckforton, Sandbach, Tattenhall, Utkinton and Weston, Cheshire; lordship of Noneley, property and rents in Coton and Stoke on Tern, Salop; and property in Scarborough, Leics. – in all, worth about £1,200 p.a.Cheshire RO, DAR/C/4.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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