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1st s. of Thomas Elvines of Worcester. m. Susanna (bur. 18 May 1663), 3s. (1.d.v.p.), 7 da.(4 d.v.p.). suc. fa. by Mar. 1610. bur. 8 Apr. 1665 8 Apr. 1665.St Nicholas, Worcester, par. reg.; Worcs. Archives, consistory ct. admin. 1609/166, Thomas Elvins, 8 Mar. 1610.
Offices Held

Civic: constable, St Nicholas ward, Worcester 1613 – 14, 1619 – 20, 1622–3. 1627 – 12 June 1645Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 123, 160, 180. Member, forty-eight, Worcester, 6 Aug. 1646–14 Sept. 1660;Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, shelf 18, box 4, town clerk’s bk. unfol.; shelf A14, chamber order bk. 1650–68, f. 38; Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 395, 414–5. auditor, 1633, Oct. 1653;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 277; shelf A14, chamber order bk. 1650–68, f. 12. collector of poor rate, St Nicholas ward 1632 – 33, 1638, May 1642-Jan. 1643;Worcs. Archives, 850/BA 3696/1, St Nicholas poor bk. 1632–50, unfol. rates assessor, 1633; city chamberlain, 1635–6;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 280, 295. collector for defence of city, 25 Aug. 1642;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 355. sheriff, 6 Aug. 1646; mayor and judge of orphans, 31 Aug. 1646, Sept. 1651. J.p. 31 Aug. 1646 – ?60; high alderman, 30 Aug. 1647, 22 Mar. 1650. 1647 – ?60Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 414–15, 416, 417, 435, 454; Nash, Collections, ii. app. cxiii. Member, twenty-four, 28 Aug. 1646–14 Sept. 1660. 1647 – ?60Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 416; Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A14, chamber order bk. 1650–68, f. 38. Gov. free sch. and almshouses, by 13 June; treas. 17 June 1649–50.Worcs. Archives, b261.1/BA 3617 ff. 116–18. Member, cttee. to approve master of storehouse, 7 Dec. 1649.Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 456. Surveyor, city lands, 8 Oct. 1655, 13 Oct. 1656.Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A14, chamber order bk. 1650–68 ff. 21, 26.

Local: commr. sales of lead from Worcester Cathedral steeple, 18 Feb. 1648;Worcester Cathedral Lib. MS D247. militia, Worcester 2 Dec. 1648; Worcs. and Worcester 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. assessment, Worcs. 7 Apr., 7 Dec.1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Sub-commr. excise, Worcester 25 Feb. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 12; Bodl. Rawl. C386, 10 May 1650. Commr. charitable uses, Worcs. 5 Mar. 1652;C93/22/10. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Military: gov. Worcester Sept. 1651.P. Styles, ‘City of Worcester during the Civil Wars, 1640–60’, Studies in Seventeenth Century West Midlands History (Kineton, 1978), 251.

: of St Nicholas parish, Worcester.
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Commons 1640-1660
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ELVINES, Edward (d. 1665), of St Nicholas parish, Worcester.

Will
29 Oct. 1664, pr. 3 May, 1665.Worcs. Archives, consistory ct. wills, Edward Elvines.
Estates
lessee of Lower Pitchcroft meadow, Worcester, from chamber of Worcester, 1636;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 305. (with Robert Sterrop) bought confiscated fee farm rent of rectory of Powick, Worcs. for £110, 10 Dec. 1650;E308/7 pt. 2, vol. fol. 252-434 ff. 298v, 307. lessee of tavern in Broad St., Worcester, property of bp. of Worcester, 1661;Worcs. Archives, b009:1/BA 2636/40/3/43801. held messuages in High St. and Broad St. at death.Worcs. Archives, consistory ct. wills, Edward Elvines, 1665.
Oxford 1644
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