Family and Education
bap. 8 May 1622, 1st s. of Sir William Luckyn, 1st bt. of Little Waltham, Essex, and his 1st w. Mildred, da. of Sir Gameliel Capel† of Rookwood Hall, Abbess Roding, Essex.CB. educ. Bishop’s Stortford c.1631-9; Caius, Camb. 1639;J. Venn, Biographical Hist. of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897 (Cambridge, 1897-1901), i. 335; Al. Cant. L. Inn, 17 June 1640, called 18 Nov. 1647.LI Admiss. i. 243; LI Black Bks. ii. 375. m. 20 Jan. 1648 (with £2,500), Mary (d. 1719), da. of Harbottle Grimston*, 6s. (3 d.v.p.) 7da. (3 d.v.p.).Herts. RO, IX.B.45a, unfol.; IX.B.4/1; IX.B.5; J.H. Round, ‘Some Essex fam. corresp.’, Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. n.s. vi. 209. Kntd. 2 June 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 227. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. Feb. 1661. d. 23 Jan. 1680.Herts. RO, IX.B.45a, unf.; IX.B.10; Round, ‘Some Essex fam. corresp.’, 209 and n.
Offices Held

Local: commr. militia, Essex 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Mar. 1660–d.A Perfect List (1660), 16. Commr. assessment, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Harwich 1664, 1672, 1677; poll tax, Essex 1660; Harwich 1666; subsidy, Essex 1663;SR. sewers, River Stour, Essex and Suff. 4 July 1664;C181/7, p. 277. Essex 22 Mar. 1666, 21 Mar. 1672;C181/7, pp. 353, 620. gaol delivery, Colchester 3 Dec. 1667, 25 Nov. 1671;C181/7, pp. 418, 603. recusants, Essex 1675.CTB iv. 696, 750.

: of Hutton and later of Messing Hall, Essex., Messing.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, unknown;Round, ‘Some Essex fam. corresp.’, pl. opp. 207. oils, attrib. ‘Van Diest’.N. King, The Grimstons of Gorhambury (Chichester, 1983), monochrome pl. 10.

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Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

LUCKYN, Capel (1622-80), of Hutton, and later of Messing Hall, Messing, Essex.

Will
9 Aug. 1676, pr. 17 Feb. 1680.PROB11/362/264.
Estates
presented with manor of Hutton by his fa. in 1648;Essex RO, VI.D.38; Round, ‘Some Essex fam. corresp.’, 210-11 this land sold in 1650 for £6,500 and the manor of Messing bought by his father for him for £9,000.Essex RO, V.A.36; V.A.38; V.A.40-9; VI.D.38-9.
Oxford 1644
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