GYLES, Edmund (1626-86), of White Ladies Aston, Worcs.

Family and Education

bap. 13 Nov. 1626, 1st s. of Edmund Gyles and Elinor (bur. 25 May 1631), da. of one Ingram.White Ladies Aston par. reg. educ. Oxf.; L Inn 2 May 1648.PROB11/386, f. 40; LI Admiss. i. 257. m. 4 Mar. 1652 Joan, da. of Sir John Barrington of Barrington Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex.St Mary Abchurch, London par. reg.; Vis. Essex 1664-8 ed. Howard, 15. suc. fa. Apr. 1674. d.s.p. bur. 19 Sept. 1686 19 Sept. 1686.White Ladies Aston par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: commr. assessment, Worcs. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sales of lead from Worcester Cathedral steeple, 18 Feb. 1648.Worcester Cathedral Lib. MS D247. J.p. 12 July 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 258. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654; militia, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Legal: called, L. Inn 7 June 1654.LI Admiss. ii. 403. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 11 Aug. 1654.A. and O. Master in chancery in ordinary, 22 Nov. 1655–2 June 1660.T.D. Hardy, Principal Officers of Chancery, 92; LI Black Bks. ii. 414.

: of White Ladies Aston, Worcs.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GYLES, Edmund (1626-86), of White Ladies Aston, Worcs.

Will

3 Apr. 1680, cod. 2 Mar. 1683, pr. 22 Jan. 1687.PROB11/386, f. 40.

Estates

in Jan. 1648 held reversionary interest in a moiety of 60 acres, and houses called Hunts Place and Cocks, in White Ladies Aston manor; on 3 May 1648 with Thomas Rawlins and Christopher Gyles bought the manor, confiscated from bp. of Worcester, for £255 4s 9d. Lost the manor in 1660, but retained his freehold estate.Worcs. Archives, 009:1/BA 2636/46/1, BA 2636/134/47594; BA 2636/4 ff. 138-9. At d. meadows in Severn Stoke, lands in Spetchley, reversionary interest in lands in Kempsey, Worcs.; house in Mdx.; leasehold lands in Bucks.PROB11/386, f. 40.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Lincoln’s Inn, 3 May 1649-d.L. Inn Red Bk. i. f. 225v; PROB11/386, f. 40.

Religion

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