WITHRING, Thomas (c.1596-1651), of Sherborne Lane, St Mary Abchurch, London.

Family and Education

b. c.1596, 2nd s. of Thomas Withering (d. 1618) of Overton, Checkley, Staffs. and Dorothy, da. of John Fearne of Crakemarsh, Staffs.MI, St Andrew, Hornchurch, Essex; Staffs. RO, Wills and Prob. in the Consistory Ct. of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Inventory of Thos. Witherings [sic], 24 Nov. 1618; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 340. appr. haberdasher, London 10 July 1618.LMA, CLC/L/HA/C/011/MS15860/004, f. 119. m. by 1640, Dorothy (bur. 18 Jan. 1655), da. of John Oliver of Little Wilbraham, Cambs. at least 1s. 1da.St Andrew, Hornchurch par. reg.; PROB11/219, f. 393; PROB11/259, f. 265; Vis. London, 340; CSP Dom. 1652-3, pp. 367, 662. d. 28 Sept. 1651.W.J. Hyde, Early Hist. of the Post (1894), 211.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Mercers’ Co. 15 Feb. 1626–d.Mercers’ Co. Archives, Acts of Ct. 1625–31, f. 284.

Central: harbinger, ct. of Henrietta Maria, ?-c.1632.CSP Dom. 1633–4, p. 123; HMC Cowper, ii. 20. Dep. postmaster for foreign posts, 15 Mar. 1632–29 July 1640;Bodl. Bankes 41/2, f. 97; HMC 4th Rep. 22; HMC 5th Rep. 47; Coventry Docquets, 183. for inland and colonial posts, 22 June 1637–29 July 1640.Bodl. Bankes 5/2, f. 136; HMC 5th Rep. 47; Coventry Docquets, 202.

: St Mary Abchurch, London., of Sherborne Lane.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WITHRING, Thomas (c.1596-1651), of Sherborne Lane, St Mary Abchurch, London.

Will

12 Nov. 1649, pr. 27 Dec. 1651, 17 Feb. 1652.PROB11/219, f. 393; PROB11/220, f. 372v.

Estates

said to have acquired estate in Essex by 1637 worth at least £800 p.a.SP16/375/20, f. 43v; HMC Cowper, ii. 249. By 1637 owned a house in St Mary Abchurch, London.J. Taylor, The Carriers Cosmographie (1637), sig. C4v; Inhabitants of London, 1638, 105. In 1640, purchased property at Duston, Northants. which he appears to have sold in 1643.HMC Cowper, ii. 248, 249, 254, 256, 331. His wife came with an estate worth at least £105 p.a.CSP Dom. 1652-3, p. 367. About 1646, purchased manor of Nelmes in Hornchurch, Essex.VCH Essex, vii. 37. His office as postmaster probably worth more than £1,000 p.a. and according to some reports, betw. £4,000 and £5,000 p.a.Bodl. Bankes 5/2, f. 137; K. Sharpe, ‘Thomas Witherings and the reform of the foreign posts, 1632-40’, BIHR lvii. 156. His personal estate and his properties in Essex, Lincs. and elsewhere were valued by his widow at £18,000.C7/387/8.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Walthamstow, Essex (1638, 1641).HMC Cowper, ii. 191; CSP Dom. 1641-3, p. 160.

Religion

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