Family and Education
b. ?1601, 1st s. of Edward Partheriche of Bridge, and Susanna, da. of William Steede of Harrietsham.Vis. Kent 1619 (Harl. Soc. xlii), 71; Al. Ox. educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. 30 Oct. 1618, ‘aged 17’;Al. Ox. M. Temple, Jan. 1622.MTR ii. 669. m. (1) bef. 3 Dec. 1627, Catherine (d. 1 July 1632), da. of Sir Arthur Throckmorton† of Paulerspury, Northants. 2s. (?1 d.v.p.);Coventry Docquets, 315; Bridges, Northants. i. 312; VCH Worcs. iv. 7-8; Al. Cant.; Hollingborne, Kent, par. reg. transcript. (2) 30 July 1633, Mary (bur. 26 May 1647), da. of Edward Fagge of Faversham, Kent;Coventry Docquets, 639; Oxinden Lttrs. ed. Gardiner, pp. xvii, 168, 170; E. Kent Marriage Index; St Mary, Faversham, par. reg. (3); suc. fa. 9 July 1612.Bridge par. reg.; C142/328/152; SP14/79, f. 69v. Kntd. 31 July 1641.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 210. d. Nov. 1662.E. Suss. RO, Danny 879; C6/50/171.
Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Ticehurst and River Rother, Kent and Suss. 1629, 1630, 1639;C181/4, ff. 19, 38v; C181/5, f. 144v. Kent 1631, 1639, 1 July 1659;C181/4, ff. 75v, 101v; C181/5, f. 147; C181/6, p. 366. Deeping and Gt. Level 1 June 1641 – aft.Jan. 1646, 6 May 1654-aft. Nov. 1658;C181/5, ff. 147, 269v; C181/6, pp. 27, 333; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/5. Cambs. 24 July 1645;C181/5, f. 256. Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 25 June 1646-aft. Apr. 1649;Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/7, 8. subsidy, Kent 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641.LJ iv. 385b. J.p. 16 Aug. 1641-bef. Jan. 1650;C231/5, p. 472 Cambs. 30 June 1649–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 155, 320; C193/13/5, f. 8v. Commr. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Kent 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 May 1643;SR; CJ iii. 91a. Cambs. 18 Oct. 1644; I. of Ely 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657;A. and O. array (roy.), Kent 1642;Northants. RO, FH133. sequestration, 18 May 1643;CJ iii. 91a. levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; New Model ordinance, Cambs. 17 Feb. 1645; militia, Cambs. and I. of Ely 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O. Ld. of the Gt. Level, 29 Sept. 1656.Cambs. RO, R.59.31.9.8, f. 1.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 378b. cttee. for examinations, 16 Oct. 1644.CJ iii. 666b.

: Kent and Isle of Ely., Littleport.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

PARTHERICHE, (Sir) Edward (?1601-1662), of Langley, Kent, and Littleport, Isle of Ely.

Will
admon. 30 June 1666.PROB6/41, f. 118v.
Estates
acquired Alderminster manor, and lands in Strensham, Condicote, Upthorpe and Eckington, Worcs. on his first marriage in 1627.E. Suss. RO, Danny 875, 877. Settled manor of Patrixbourne Marten, rectory of Patrixbourne, a messuage and 200 acres, all in Kent, in anticipation of his second marriage, July 1633, and received in the right of his wife land in Faversham, inc. advowson of Goodneston.Coventry Docquets, 639; Oxinden Lttrs. ed. Gardiner, 168, 256. Sold manor of Bridge and manor and advowson of Patrixbourne to Sir Arnold Braems in 1638, and purchased Littleport manor, Cambs. from Sir Miles Sandys†, May 1639.Coventry Docquets, 719; Hasted, Kent, ix. 288; E. Suss. RO, Danny 878; C5/32/12; E214/524; VCH Cambs. iv. 98. By September 1656 he owned 500 acres of the Bedford Level; 350 in Littleport and 150 in Whelpmore.Cambs. RO, R.59.31.9.8, f. 2v. Acquired manor of Folkington, Suss. 1651.Suss. Manors, i. 171.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
in 1641 he was lodging in Drury Lane.E. Kent RO, Sa/C1, pp. 84-5, 123. By 1649 he occupied a house in Petty France, Westminster.Cambs. RO, R.59.31.9.3, f. 52.
Religion
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