Family and Education
bap. 24 Feb. 1591, 1st s. of William Farmery of Heapham, and Cassandra (bur. 2 Oct. 1620), da. of John Newland of Hackney, Mdx.Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. l), 346. educ. St John’s, Camb. Easter 1607,Al. Cant. foundress scholar 6 Apr. 1609,St John’s Coll. Archives, Camb. Reg. of fellows and scholars 1545-1612. BA 1611, MA 1614, LLD 1620; incorp. Oxf. MA 11 July 1618, LLD 13 July 1624.Al. Cant.; Al. Ox. m. by Dec. 1625, Bridget (d. aft. June 1649), da. of William Naylor of Flamborough, Yorks., 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. d.v.p. suc. fa. Nov. 1633.Lincs. Peds. 346; Lincs. RO, FRISWELL/1/1. bur. 6 June 1647.St George the Martyr par. reg.
Offices Held

Legal: chan. dioc. of Lincoln, 17 May 1621–d.Lincs. RO, Red Bk. (Episcopal act bk. 1611–93), ff. 142v-144v; PROB11/203, f. 234. Adv. Doctors’ Commons, 6 May 1637–42.LPL, Reg. of Doctors’ Commons, ff. 50, 110; Al. Cant.; B.P. Levack, Civil Lawyers in Eng. 1603–41 (Oxford, 1973), 229. Judge, Lincs. admlty. ct. Nov. 1638–?HCA25/215, Misc. warrants 1619–44.

Local: commr. charitable uses, Herts. 21 June 1621 – 27 June 1627, 30 Feb. 1630-aft. May 1637;C93/9/10; C192/1, unfol. Bucks. 29 Aug. 1621 – 3 May 1631, 20 Feb. 1633-aft. July 1640;C93/9/16, 21; C93/10/7; C93/11/8; C93/12/6; C192/1. Lincoln 29 June 1622-aft. Dec. 1633;C93/9/15; C192/1. Lincs. 12 Dec. 1622-aft. Jan. 1642;C93/9/18; C93/11/9; C192/1 Leics. 30 May 1625-aft. Nov. 1639;C93/10/14; C192/1. Beds. 11 June 1629 – aft.July 1641; Caistor, Lincs. 25 Nov. 1634; Stamford 8 July 1635; Rutland 3 June 1636, 15 May 1637;C192/1. Stamford g.s. 10 July 1639.C93/17/14. J.p. Lincs. (Lindsey) 15 Jan. 1622–?d.;C231/4, f. 133. Kesteven 23 Feb. 1631–?d.C231/5, p. 49. Commr. recusants, Lincs. Lindsey 1624;HMC Rutland, i. 471. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 19 May 1625-aft. Feb. 1642;C181/3, ff. 169, 229; C181/4, ff. 40, 155; C181/5, ff. 149v, 223v. Ancholme Level 6 May, 14 Dec. 1637;C181/5, ff. 67, 88v. East, West and Wildmore Fens, Lincs. 23 June 1638;C181/5, f. 111v. swans, Northants., Lincs., Rutland and Notts. 28 May 1625;C181/3, f. 165. Lincs. 26 June 1635;C181/5, f. 14v. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1633;LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/001, p. 31; LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/005, p. 20; CLC/313/I/B/005/MS25474/002, ff. 7v, 8v. Forced Loan, Lindsey 1627.C193/12/2, f. 33.

Civic: freeman, Lincoln 16 Jan. 1637–d.Lincs. RO, L1/1/1/4 (Lincoln council min. bk. 1599–1638), f. 276v.

: of St Peter in Eastgate, Lincoln and Heapham, Lincs.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

FARMERIE, Dr John (1591-1647), of St Peter in Eastgate, Lincoln, and Heapham, Lincs.

Will
5 June 1647, pr. 5 Feb. 1648.PROB11/203, f. 234.
Estates
purchased property at Heapham, Lincs., land in Isle of Axholme (possibly reclaimed fenland) and the ‘site’ of his house in Lincoln – this was his ‘mansion or dwelling house...now demolished’ in par. of St Peter in Eastgate.PROB11/203, f. 234; Lincs. RO, FRISWELL/1/1.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
The Bell, Carter Lane, London (1635).CSP Dom. 1634-5, p. 523.
Religion
presented Thomas Durant to rectory of West Rasen, Lincs., 1624; John Smith to rectory of Heapham, Lincs., 1632; Daniel Chandler, 1634, 1637.Lincs. RO, P.D./1624/10; P.D./1634/26; IND1/17002, p. 139; Clergy of the C of E database, ID 130421, 189145, 201029.
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