GRIFFITH (GRIFFYTHE), John I (1590/1-1643), of Cefnamwlch, Tudweiliog, Caern.

Family and Education

b. 1590 /1, 1st s. of John Griffith of Cefnamwlch and Jane, da. and coh. of Robert Owen of Bodafon, wid. of Richard Owen Tudor of Penmynydd, Anglesey.Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams. 169. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 31 Oct. 1606, aged 15, BA 5 July 1609;Al. Ox. L. Inn 29 Oct. 1609.LI Admiss. m. settlement 11 Oct. 1612 (with £500), Margaret (bur. 19 Mar. 1625), da. and coh. of Sir Richard Trevor† of Trevalyn, Denb., 3s. 2da.Flints. RO, D/PT/936; St Bride, Fleet Street par reg.; Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams. 169. suc. fa. c.1638;C2/ChasI/M47/77. bur. 11 July 1643.St Mary the Virgin, Oxford par. reg.

Offices Held

Central: sec. to Ld. Treas. Mandeville (Sir Henry Montagu†) 1620–1. 22 Aug. 1638NLW, 9057E/924, 948, 979. Commr. encroached cottages,; usurious loans, 22 Aug. 1638.CSP Dom. 1637–8, p. 602.

Local: commr. subsidy, Caern. 1621 – 22, 1624, 1628,C212/22/20–3; E179/220/156. 1641.SR. Constable, Caernarfon Castle c.Sept. 1622–d.NLW, MS 9058E/1033–4, 1037, 1041, 1044; SC6/Chas.I/1486, m. 6d; PJ i. 414. Commr. subsidy arrears, Caern. 1626;E179/224/598. Forced Loan, 1627.C193/12/2, f. 68. V.-adm. N. Wales 16 Feb. 1627–d.V.-adms. of the Coast (L. and I. Soc. cccxxi), 56. Commr. piracy, 2 Sept. 1631.C181/4, f. 95v. J. p. Caern. 15 Feb. 1638–d.Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 29. Dep. lt. by 1637–d.HEHL, EL7443. Commr. oyer and terminer, Wales and marches 31 July 1640;C181/5, f. 185. further subsidy, Caern. 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards the relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), 12 Aug. 1642.Cal. Wynn Pprs. 278.

Civic: freeman, Caernarfon 1622–?d.NLW, 9058E/1044. Recorder, Beaumaris 1640–d.G. Roberts, ‘The parl. hist. of Beaumaris’, Anglesey Antiq. Soc. Trans. (1933), 106.

: of Cefnamwlch, Tudweiliog, Caern.

GRIFFYTHE

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GRIFFITH (GRIFFYTHE), John I (1590/1-1643), of Cefnamwlch, Tudweiliog, Caern.

Will

died intestate.

Estates

in 1638, inherited estate in Aberdaron, Bryncroes, Cefnamwlch and elsewhere in Caern. worth an estimated £1,300 p.a.C2/ChasI/G54/24. It was claimed that at his d. that Griffith had owned livestock worth £2,000; timber, corn and other goods worth £4,000; £2,000 owed to him by his creditors; and at least 7 brass cannon and munitions worth £2,100 that he had seized from ships as v.-adm. of n. Wales.C2/ChasI/G5/12.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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