Family and Education
b. 1591 /2, 1st s. of Henry Neville of Chevet and Eleanor, da. and coh. of Henry Sandford of Thorpe Salvin, Yorks.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 158; Vis. Yorks. ed. Foster, 340. educ. Trinity Camb. Mich. 1608;Al. Cant. G. Inn 20 Nov. 1610.GI Admiss. m. (1) 24 Sept. 1615, Rosamund, da. of Cyril Arthington of Arthington, Yorks. 1s. 3da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) by 1626, Anne (bur. 26 Jan. 1656), da. of Thomas Tanckred of Brampton Hall, Yorks., wid. of William Arthington of Arthington, 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 1da.; (3) 1658, Anne, da. and coh. of Charles Markham of Ollerton, Notts., wid. of Robert Waterton of Walton, Yorks., and Sir John Middleton of Thirntoft, Yorks. s.p.Royston par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 70; ii. 158-9, 171; Foster, Yorks. Peds.; Adel Par. Regs. ed. G. D. Lumb (Thoresby Soc. v), 19, 20. suc. fa. 21 Mar. 1635;SP17/G, f. 20. d. 4 Apr. 1666.Royston par. reg.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Yorks. (W. Riding) 20 Dec. 1627 – aft.July 1642, by Oct. 1660–d.C231/4, f. 237v; C220/9/4; W. Riding Sessions Recs. ed. J. Lister (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec .ser. liv), 390. Commr. recusants, northern cos. 11 July 1628;CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 205. charitable uses, W. Riding 5 July 1632–28 Apr. 1638;C192/1, unfol. sewers, Hatfield Chase Level 17 May 1634-aft. Dec. 1637;C181/4, f. 174; C181/5, ff. 17, 87. Notts. and Yorks. 30 June 1635;C181/5, f. 17. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, W. Riding by July 1636;LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/003, p. 40. assessment, 1642;SR. Yorks. 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660), 22 (E.1075.6); SR. array (roy.), 18 June 1642;Northants. RO, FH133. levying of money (roy.) c.Dec. 1642-c.Dec. 1643;SP23/107, p. 863; CCC 842, 843. poll tax, W. Riding 1660;SR. corporations, Yorks. 19 Feb. 1662;HMC 8th Rep. i. 275. swans, River Trent, Yorks. 30 May 1663;C181/7, p. 210. subsidy, W. Riding 1663.SR. Dep. lt. by c.1664–d.Beinecke, Osborn Shelves, Danby boxes [OSB.MSS 6], box 2, folder 36 (W. Riding militia pprs.).

: of Chevet, Royston, Yorks.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

NEVILE, Francis (1591/2-1666), of Chevet, Royston, Yorks.

Will
21 Mar. 1666, pr. 11 Oct. 1666.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 48, f. 27; Leeds Univ. Lib. MD335/3/12/3.
Estates
in 1625, acquired lease of manor of Chevet at a rent of £200 p.a.WYAS (Wakefield), C1358/387. In early 1630s, fined £25 for distraint of knighthood.‘Compositions for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I’ ed. W. P. Baildon, in Misc. 1 (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lxi), 92. In 1633, acquired lease of ‘water corn mills’ of Wakefield, paying rent of £250 p.a.C3/455/16. In 1636, estate inc. manors of Chevet and Church Fenton; messuages and lands in Chevet, Church Fenton, Pledwick, Sandal, Wakefield and Walton; and corn and fulling mills in Sandal and Wakefield, Yorks.WYAS (Wakefield), C1358/8-9; E112/344/33; E112/348/290, 332; E112/349/374, 385. In 1636, sold manor of Thorpe Salvin for £6,200.C54/3160/31; C54/3265/37; WYAS (Wakefield), C1358/8-9. In 1645, estate was reckoned to be worth betw. £1,200 and £1,500 p.a., although he himself valued it as no more than £500 p.a.SP23/2, pp. 55, 62; SP23/107, p. 863; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 4. By 1648, owned corn mills in Leeds.SC6/CHAS1/1190, p. 35. In 1652, assigned to Lionel Copley* his interest in ironworks known as Chapel Furnace and Kimberworth Forge (in the parishes of Rotherham and Ecclesfield), which he had leased at a rent of £100 p.a.Doncaster Archives, SY570/Z/5/1. In 1653, he entered into a statute staple for £2,000, defeasanced for £1,000 plus interest.C33/272, f. 247. By 1654, estate inc. messuages and lands in Chevet, Crofton, Horbury, Painthorpe, Royston, Sandal, Wakefield, Walton and Wragby, Yorks., and manors of Beltingham, Henshaw, Ridley, Thorngrafton and Willimoteswick and capital messuage of Willimoteswick, Northumb.C33/272, ff. 246v-247; C54/3265/37; WYAS (Wakefield), C1358/16, 799. In 1665, he valued his estate at about £1,400 p.a.Coll. of Arms, Yorks., Dur., Northumb. Vis. Pprs. 1672.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
the Sugar Loaf and Roll by Gray’s Inn Gate (June 1653).Notts. RO, DDSR 211/128/23.
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