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Family and Education
b. c. 1588, 1st. s. of John Exton, merchant, of Southampton. m. (1) bef. 1613, Elizabeth,Southampton RO, SC5/2/2, f. 197; P.W. Coldham, English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 (2002), 180-1. at least 1da.;PROB11/314/359; ‘Robert Richbell’, HP Commons 1660-1690. (2) 7 Sept. 1630, Anne Baker (?d. 1642), wid. of Southampton;Hants Marriage Licences 1607-1640, 73. (3) Frances, 1da. PROB11/314/359. suc. fa. c.1611.Southampton RO, SC3/1/1, f. 172v; ‘James Exton’, Recs. of London’s Livery Cos. database. d. 1664. PROB11/314/359.
Offices Held

Mercantile: member, French Co. 1611.Select Charters of Trading Companies, ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 66.

Civic: burgess, Southampton 16 Aug. 1611;Southampton RO, SC3/1/1, f. 172v. constable, 1613–14;Southampton Assembly Bks. ed. Horrocks, iv. 23; Southampton RO, SC3/7/8–9. juror, 1615 – 44, 1648–d.;Southampton Court Leet Recs. ed. Hearnshaw, 471, 495, 516, 530; Southampton RO, SC3/7/14–22, 26–38. steward, 1615 – 17, bailiff, 1618–19;Southampton RO, SC3/7/10–15; Bk. of Remembrance ed. Gidden, 105–6. sheriff, 1620;Southampton RO, SC3/7/16; Bk. of Examinations and Depositions, 1642–1644 ed. Anderson, i. 22. mayor, 1623, 1636;Southampton RO, SC2/1/6, ff. 210, 289. alderman of the four wards, 1639 – 42, 1653–d.;Southampton RO, SC3/7/17–20, 29–38. auditor, 1639 – 47, 1652–d;Southampton RO, SC3/7/17–25, 28–38. kpr. of keys of Godshouse gate, 1639–40;Southampton RO, SC3/7/17–18. Westgate 1641;Southampton RO, SC3/7/19. Eastgate 1642, 1656–62;Southampton RO, SC3/7/20. overseer of workhouse, 1658–60.Southampton RO, SC3/7/34–37.

Local: commr. gaol delivery, Hants 20 Feb. 1624 – aft.Feb. 1635, 1658;C181/3, ff. 104v, 241v; C181/4, ff. 23, 202; C181/6, p. 313. piracy, Southampton 24 Mar. 1636;C181/5, f. 43v oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, 1635. 1639 – 42HMC 11th Rep. III, 55. J.p., 1655–d.Southampton RO, SC3/7/17–20, 30–38; A Perfect List (1660), 50; Woodward et al, General Hist. Hants, ii. 312. Commr. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Hants. 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 24 Nov. 1653, 1 June 1660, 1661; Hants and Southampton 10 Dec. 1652;SR; A. and O.; Act for an Assessment (1653), 296 (E.1062.28); Ordinance for an Assessment (1660), 51 (E.1075.6). sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Southampton 3 Aug. 1643; Hants 10 June 1645; defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; defence of Hants and Southampton 22 Nov. 1643; commr. for Hants and Southampton, assoc. of Hants, Surr. Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644.A. and O. Member, cttee. for Southampton, 19 Aug. 1648.LJ x. 447b. Commr. militia, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Hants and Southampton 1660;SR. corporations, Hants 1662;HMC 11th Rep. III, 55. subsidy, Southampton 1663.SR.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs by 18 Sept. 1645.SP16/509, f. 111v.

Religious: member, first Hants classis, 17 Nov. 1645.King, Bor. and Par. Lymington, 263.

: of St Lawrence’s, Hants., Southampton.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

EXTON, Edward (c.1588-1664), of St Lawrence’s, Southampton, Hants.

Will
17 Jan. 1663, pr. 17 July 1664.PROB11/314/359.
Estates
portions of manor of Hill, Hants, purchased in the 1650s, for £1,700.Southampton RO, SC4/3/255; Hants RO, 5M50/2022-3. In Jan. 1663 tenements at Hill once leased, but now ‘lately purchased’, from Richard Whithed II*. Orchard and house in East Street; dwelling house leased from churchwardens of St Lawrence; Bakers Close leased from Queen’s College, Oxf., all in Southampton. Wheatlands, Olivers and Ladland Great Marsh, all leased from Sir Walter Long†, deceased. Land and cottage Little Briddlesford, parish of Arreton; 6 acres of meadow, parish of Whippingham; close in parish of Bull Ring house and another in Newport; and other property in I.o.W.PROB11/314/359.
Oxford 1644
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