DIXWELL, John (1613-89), of Folkestone, Kent.

Family and Education

b. 21 Mar. 1613, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Edward Dixwell (d. bef. 23 May 1636), vicar of Ponteland, Northumb. and Mary Hawksworth.Al. Ox.; Ponteland par. reg.; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 297; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xiv), 41; Northumb. RO, QSI/1, f. 102; PROB11/180/656 (William Dixwell). educ. L. Inn, 3 Feb. 1631;LI Admiss. i. 212. called 30 Jan. 1638.LI Black Bks. ii. 345. m. (1) 3 Nov. 1673, Joanna (d. Nov. 1673), wid. of Mr Ling; (2) 23 Oct. 1677, Bathsheba How (d. 27 Dec. 1729), 1s. 2da.E. Stiles, A Hist. of Three of the Judges of King Charles I (1794), 128, 148. d. 18 Mar. 1689.Stiles, History, 135.

Offices Held

Local: commr. defence of Hants and southern cos. Kent 4 Nov. 1643;A. and O. sequestration, 6 Nov. 1644;CJ iii. 689a. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; assessment, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652,A. and O. 24 Nov. 1653,Act for an Assessment (1653), 282 (E.1062.28). 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; military rule, 23 Apr. 1645;A. and O. sewers, Walland Marsh, Kent and Suss. 21 Aug. 1645, 13 May 1657–19 Dec. 1660;C181/5, f. 259; C181/6, pp. 226, 365. Denge Marsh, Kent Oct. 1658;C181/6, p. 321. Kent 1 July 1659;C181/6, p. 366. I. of Sheppey 5 Oct. 1659.C181/6, p. 396. J.p. Kent July 1646-bef. Oct. 1660.Cent. Kent. Stud. Q/JC/3–9; The Names of the Justices (1650), 29 (E.1238.4); A Perfect List (1660), 23. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648,A. and O. 19 Feb. 1651,CSP Dom. 1651, p. 53. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. oyer and terminer, Home circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 13, 373. ejecting scandalous ministers, Kent 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35).

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) Aylesford Lathe regt. Kent by Dec. 1643-aft. 1 May 1645.A. and O.; C.E. Woodruff, ‘The Parliamentary Survey of the Precincts of Canterbury Cathedral’, Arch. Cant. xlix. 216; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. Col. militia ft. Kent 27 June 1650–60.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 507; CJ vii. 753a. Gov. Dover Castle 12 Oct., 31 Dec. 1659–60.CJ vii. 796b; Whitelocke, Diary, 588.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112b. cttee. of navy and customs by 24 Jan. 1649;Bodl. Rawl. A.224, f. 4v. cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650.CJ vi. 388b Cllr. of state, 25 Nov. 1651, 19 May, 31 Dec. 1659.CJ vii. 42b-43a; A. and O.; CJ vii. 800b.

Civic: burgess, Hanau, landgraviate of Hesse, c.1662.Ludlow, Voyce, 297.

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Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

DIXWELL, John (1613-89), of Folkestone, Kent.

Will

7 May 1688, pr. New Haven.Connecticut State Lib., New Haven Probate Recs. ii. pt. 1, pp. 8-9; Stiles, History, 136-7.

Estates

trustee during the minority of his nephew of a sizeable estate in Kent, and acquired (?on his own account) the manor of Brickland and property in Dover and Folkestone worth over £234 p.a.Add. 40717, ff. 169-74, 181-99. Share in the Irish adventure.Cent. Kent. Stud. U270/T267. In 1647 bought property in Barham from Sir Thomas Soames; manor of Diggs, purchased for £6,000.Stiles, History, 138-43, 148; Dexter, ‘Dixwell Papers’, 371-3; Oxinden and Peyton Lttrs. ed. Gardiner, 110. In March 1660 sold at least some of his estate to his kinsman Sir Thomas Peyton* for £3,758.Add. 40717, ff. 175, 177. A conveyance of 1682 effective after his death gave his wife property in Hougham, Kent, and his son the priory of Folkestone, as well as property in Romsey Marsh and Hougham, and Buckland Manor in Faversham.Stiles, History, 138-43, 148; Dexter, ‘Dixwell Papers’, 371-3. Left a personal estate of £276 and a house and small parcels of land in New Haven, Connecticut.Connecticut State Lib., New Haven Probate Recs. ii, pt. 1, pp. 8-9; Stiles, History, 136-7.

Oxford 1644

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