TOLHURST, Jeremiah (1615-71), of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.

Family and Education

bap. 3 Nov. 1615, o.s. of Jeremy Tolhurst, yeoman, of Icklesham, Suss. and 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of Paul Wymond, attorney, of Winchelsea, Suss.Icklesham bishop’s transcripts; E. Suss. RO, Lewes Archdeaconry wills, B4/37; B5/127; Cal. Suss. Mar. Lics. (Suss. Rec. Soc. i.), 79. m. (1) 27 Nov. 1636, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Robert Soule, tailor, of Rye, Suss. 1da.;Playden, Suss. bishop’s transcripts; Cal. Suss. Mar. Lics. (Suss. Rec. Soc. i.), 232. (2) by 1661, ? (bur. 15 Jan. 1667) 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da.St Nicholas, Newcastle par. reg.; Royalist Composition Pprs. in Durham and Northumb. ed. R. Welford (Surt. Soc. cxi), 288. suc. fa. 1623.E. Suss. RO, Lewes Archdeaconry wills, B5/127. d. c. Oct. 1671.CSP Col. 1669-74, p. 264.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) by Apr. 1645 – bef.Aug. 1648, July 1659 – bef.29 Feb. 1660; maj. by Aug. 1648 – July 1659, by 29 Feb. 1660-Nov. 1660.SP28/125, pt. 3, unfol.; CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 394; CJ vii. 710a, 713a; HMC Leyborne-Popham, 165; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 452–3, 459, 523, 525. Dep. gov. Carlisle c.Dec. 1651–c.Mar. 1660.Supra, ‘Thomas Fitch’; TSP iii. 300; HMC Leyborne-Popham, 165; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 461, 522. Gov. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Mar.-c.Sept. 1660.Worc. Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS LIII, unfol.; TSP vii. 861; CJ viii. 153a. Maj. of ft. regt. of Sir John Sayer, 13 June 1667–?CSP Dom. 1667, p. 181.

Civic: freeman, Dumfries by July 1654–?;OPH xx. 307. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 24 Sept. 1655–?Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. Welford, 288; Reg. of Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne ed. M.H. Dodds (Newcastle upon Tyne Recs. Cttee. iii), 72.

Local: commr. sequestration Cumb., Westmld. 18 May 1655. 1 Aug. 1656 – bef.Oct. 1660CCC 724. J.p. Cumb.; Northumb. 16 July 1657-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, pp. 346, 372. Jt.-farmer of excise, Cumb., Westmld., Northumb. by 25 Mar. 1657–25 Mar. 1658.CTB i. 344. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May. 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Commr. sewers, River Tyne 21 May 1659;C181/6, p. 359 Northumb. 19 Mar. 1663;C181/7, p. 197. militia, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Cumb. 12 Mar. 1660; assessment, Northumb. 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Cumb. 1 June 1660.A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Sub-commr. of excise, Cumb., Westmld. 17 Dec. 1661-bef. Jan. 1663.CTB i. 178, 467. Customs official, Newcastle-upon-Tyne by May 1663-at least 1668.PRO30/24/7/480; CTB ii. 264, 281, 398, 631; CSP Dom. 1663–4, p. 649; HP Commons, 1660–90, ‘Jeremiah Tolhurst’.

Mercantile: member, Hostmen’s Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 28 Sept. 1655–?d.; auditor, 1662–3.Tyne and Wear Archives, GU.HO/1/1, pp. 26–7, 165; Extracts from the Recs. of the Co. of Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ed. F.W. Dendy (Surt. Soc. cv), 270.

Scottish: commr. assessment, Dumfriesshire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 839; A. and O. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

: of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

TOLHURST, Jeremiah (1615-71), of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.

Will

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Estates

by Sept. 1651, an interest in John Hedworth’s colliery at Harraton, co. Dur. which generated revenues of £5,475 p.a.J. Hedworth, The Oppressed Man’s Out-Cry (1651), 3. By May 1652, jt. lessee of Winlaton colliery, co. Dur.Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. Welford, 287. In 1652, he and six others purchased manor of Barnsley cum Dodsworth, Yorks. and King’s Colliery, co. Dur. from trustees for the sale of crown lands for £2,866.C54/3628/1; I. Gentles, ‘The Debentures Market and Military Purchases of Crown Lands, 1649-60’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1969), 345. By 1654, either owned or leased a house in South Shields, co. Dur.C. Sharp, Chronicon Mirabile (1841), 66.

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