BAMPFYLDE, John (c.1610-50), of Poltimore, Devon.

Family and Education

b. c. 1610, 3rd but 1st surv. s. of John Bampfylde† (d. c.1657) of Poltimore and Elizabeth (d. 1629), da. of Thomas Drake of Buckland Abbey.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 40. educ. Wadham, Oxf. 30 Oct. 1629; M. Temple 5 Feb. 1631.Al. Ox.; MTR ii. 772. m. (lic. 30 Apr. 1632) Gertrude (d. 1658), da. and coh. of Amias Coplestone of Coplestone, Colebrooke and Warleigh, Tamerton Foliot, 5s. 6da.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 40. cr. bt. 14 July 1641. d. 24 Apr. 1650.CB ii. 101; PROB 11/268, f. 94; MI, Poltimore church.

Offices Held

Local: commr. disarming recusants, Devon 30 Aug. 1641.LJ iv. 385a. Dep. lt. May 1642–?CJ ii. 483b, 591b. Commr. defraying expenses of army in Devon, 17 Jan. 1643; sequestration, 29 Apr. 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; assessment, 18 Aug. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; commr. for Devon, 1 July 1644. J.p. by 6 Mar. 1647–d.A. and O.; Devon RO, DQS, 28/3. Commr. Devon militia, 7 June 1648;LJ x. 311b. militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Military: col. of ft. (parlian.) Aug. 1642–?44.M. Coate, ‘An original diary of Col. Robert Bennett’, Devon and Cornw. Notes and Queries, xviii. 256. Gov. Plymouth fort and island, June 1644–29 May 1645.Add. 35297, ff. 29v, 68.

Central: commr. ct. martial, 16 Aug. 1644; abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646; exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647; cttee. for plundered ministers, 27 Dec. 1647.CJ v. 407a.

: Devon.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BAMPFYLDE, John (c.1610-50), of Poltimore, Devon.

Will

not found.

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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