BARKER, Abel (1616-1679), of Hambleton, Rutland.

Family and Education

bap. 14 May 1616, 2nd s. of Abel Barker (d. c.Mar. 1637) of Hambleton, and Elizabeth (d. 1666), da. of one Wright.Hambleton par. reg.; J. Wright, Rutland, 84; Vis. Rutland (Harl. Soc. lxxiii), 32; CB; Leics. RO, DG11/788, 995, 1000; PROB11/173, f. 438. m. (1) c.July 1646 (with £1,500), Anne (d. Jan. 1648), da. of Sir Thomas Burton, 1st bt. of Stockerston, Leics. 1s.; (2) 6 Sept. 1655 (with £600), Mary, da. of Alexander Noel of Whitwell, Rutland, 3da.Leics. RO, DG11/957, 960; Vis. Rutland (Harl. Soc. lxxiii), 32; CB; HMC 5th Rep. 391, 397. suc. bro. 1648.J. Wright, Rutland, 84. cr. bt. 9 Sept. 1665.CB. bur. 2 Sept. 1679 2 Sept. 1679.The Gen. iii. 332.

Offices Held

Local: commr. defence of Rutland, 21 June 1645. 1 Dec. 1646 – 29 Nov. 1647A. and O. Sheriff,; Leics. 16 Nov.-26 Nov. 1652. 15 Jan. 1647 – 29 July 1652List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 75, 114. J.p. Rutland, 30 Sept. 1653–d.C231/6, pp. 74, 244, 269. Commr. inquiry, Leighfield Forest, Rutland 4 Mar. 1657;C181/6, p. 220. assessment, Rutland 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 22 Sept. 1659–?d.;C181/6, p. 394; C181/7, pp. 78, 543; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/12. River Welland 18 July 1664.C181/7, p. 282. Dep. lt. Rutland 1 Sept. 1660–?d.Leics. RO, DG11/1136–8. Commr. poll tax, 1660; loyal and indigent officers, 1662; subsidy, 1663; enclosures, Deeping fen 1665.SR.

: of Hambleton, Rutland.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BARKER, Abel (1616-1679), of Hambleton, Rutland.

Will

16 Sept. 1670, cod. 8 Dec. 1670.Leics. RO, DE730/1/111-12; DG11/1005.

Estates

1637, bequeathed £1,200 in his fa.’s will; lease of house and lands in Hambleton; lease of land in Gunthorpe, Rutland.PROB11/173, f. 437v; Leics. RO, DG11/995. 1641 subsidy, assessed at £1 4s in lands in Hambleton.Eg. 2986, f. 113. 1645, estate at Hambleton valued at £200 p.a. and personal estate at £3,000.Leics. RO, DE730/1/25. 1646, estate inc. cap. messuage of Hambleton; lands in Hambleton; lands in Counthorpe, Creeton, Swafield, and Castle Bytham, Lincs.Leics. RO, DG11/957. c.1648, Barker and his bro. purchased moiety of manor of Keythorpe, Rutland, for £4,500.Leics. RO, DG11/1065-6. 1660, estate reckoned to be worth c. £1,000 p.a.Burke, Commoners, i. 691. 1662, sold moiety of manor of Keythorpe to Geoffrey Palmer* for £6,300.Leics. RO, DG11/727. 1662, Barker and his bro. purchased manor and advowson of Lyndon, Rutland, for £9,200.VCH Rutland, ii. 67, 75; Leics. RO, DG11/729, 731. 1665, owned house in Hambleton of 10 hearths.Rutland Hearth Tax 1665 ed. J. Bourne, A. Goode (Rutland Rec. Soc. 1991), 38. 1670, estate inc. copyhold messuage in Uppingham; and lands in Gunthorpe, Lyndon, and Manton, Rutland.Leics. RO, DE730/1/111. At d. personal estate was inventoried at £3,110.Leics. RO, DE730/1/131.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

West Smithfield, London (1645).HMC 5th Rep. 388.

Religion

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