WEST, Edmund (1608-83), of Marsworth, Bucks.

Family and Education

bap. 24 Mar. 1608, o.s. of Edmund West of Marsworth, Bucks. and Theodora, da. of Sir Edmund Tyrrell† of Thornton, Bucks.Bucks. RO, Marsworth par. reg. transcript; Vis. Bucks. 1634 (Harl. Soc. lviii), 119, 125. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 6 Dec. 1622;Al. Ox.; Brasenose College Reg. 1509-1909 (Oxford, 1909), 145. I. Temple 5 May 1624.I. Temple database. m. 9 July 1629, Anne, da. of Henry Beake of Castle Acre, Norf. 3s (2 d.v.p.) 7da (2 d.v.p.).Tittleshall par. reg.; Vis. Bucks. 1634, 125; Bucks. RO, Marsworth par. reg. transcript; Le Neve, Monumenta, iv. 194; PROB11/372/320. suc. fa. 1618.Bucks. RO, Marsworth par. reg. transcript; C142/376, no. 95. d. bef. 8 Mar. 1683.PROB11/372/320.

Offices Held

Local: commr. further subsidy, Bucks. 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660.SR. Collector, poll tax, 1641; loans on Propositions, 1642. 1642SP28/151: answers of Bucks. parishes, 1646–7. Commr. assessment,, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Beds. 10 Dec. 1652.SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Member, Bucks. standing cttee. June 1642.George Nugent-Grenville, Lord Nugent, Some Mems. of John Hampden (1832), ii. 458. Dep. lt. Bucks. 4 July 1642–?LJ v. 178b. Commr. loans on Propositions, 12 July 1642;LJ v. 207b. sequestration, 14 Apr. 1643.CJ iii. 43b. Member, Bucks. co. cttee. 29 May 1643-aft. Aug. 1649.CJ iii. 108b; SP28/126, f. 357v Commr. levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Bucks. 25 June 1644. 1647 – 12 July 1653A. and O. J.p. by Mar., by c.Sept. 1656-aft. 1662.T. Langley, The Hist. and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough (1797), 17; C231/6, pp. 148, 259; C193/13/6, f. 5; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. militia by Aug. 1650, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. tendering Engagement, Oct. 1650;National Art Lib. V. and A., Forster MS 58, nos. 32–2. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 16, 379. ejecting scandalous ministers, Bucks. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth by March 1656.TSP iv. 583.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), Aug. 1642.SP28/1a, f. 124; Peacock, Army Lists, 52; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. Capt. militia, Bucks. by Oct. 1642.Bucks. Contributions for Ireland, 112.

Central: commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647. Member, cttee. for the army, 2 Feb. 1660. Commr. admlty. and navy, 2 Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 824a, 825b; A. and O.

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Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WEST, Edmund (1608-83), of Marsworth, Bucks.

Will

23 Jan. 1678, pr. 8 Mar. 1683.PROB11/372/320.

Estates

worth £700 p.a.;I.F.W. Beckett, Wanton Troopers (Barnsley, 2015), 8. bought manor of Monks Risborough, Bucks. 1633; sold land at Bourton, Bucks. 1634 and 1636.Coventry Docquets, 636, 666, 694-5.

Oxford 1644

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