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b. c. 1604, 1st s. of Robert Castell, of East Hatley, Cambs. and Elizabeth, da. of Edmund Alleyn of Hatfield Peverel, Essex.Vis. Cambs. 1575 and 1619 (Harl. Soc. xli), 43; VCH Cambs. viii. 44. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 1621; L. Inn 15 June 1624, called 1632.Al. Cant.; LI Admiss. i. 195; LI Black Bks. ii. 306. m. (1) 13 Feb. 1631, Susan (d. 21 June 1633), da. of Sir Peter Saltonshall of Barkway, Herts. 1s. 1da.;Vis. Cambs. 1575 and 1619, 43; Vis. Herts. 1572 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. xxii), 90; PROB11/294/187; Clutterbuck, Herts. iii. 362; F.C. Cass, ‘Castell of East Hatley, Cambs.’, N. and Q. 7th ser. ix. 172. (2) ? 1s.Vis. Cambs. 1575 and 1619, 43. suc. fa. by 1638.PROB11/178/70. d. 5 Aug. 1665.MIs Cambs. 43.
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Local: commr. subsidy, Cambs. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641. 4 Mar. 1641 – bef.Oct. 1660SR. J.p.; Herts. 10 July 1656 – ?Mar. 1660; I. of Ely 12 Mar. 1657-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/5, p. 433; C231/6, pp. 340, 362; C193/13/5, f. 50; C193/13/6, ff. 31, 41v; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Cambs. 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 8 June 1654, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;SR; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1654, E.1064.10); A. and O.; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). militia, 6 Jan. 1643, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Cambs. and I. of Ely 2 Dec. 1648;SP28/5, ff. 74–5; A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 16. sequestration, Cambs. 27 Mar. 1643.A. and O. Member, Eastern Assoc. cttee. Camb. by May 1643-aft. Mar. 1645.SP28/222, f. 316; CJ iii. 180a; SP28/152/12, f. 5. Commr. levying of money, Cambs. 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cambs. 15 Mar. 1644; Cambs., Hunts. and I. of Ely 28 Aug. 1654;W.M. Palmer, A Hist. of the Par. of Borough Green (Camb. Antiq. Soc. octavo ser. liv), 165, 169; A. and O. regulating Camb. Univ. aft. Mar. 1644;Cooper, Annals Camb. iii. 372. sewers, I. of Ely 13 Sept. 1644;C181/5, f. 242v. Cambs. 24 July 1645;C181/5, f. 256. Deeping and Gt. Level 31 Jan. 1646, 6 May 1654-aft. July 1659.C181/5, f. 269v; C181/6, pp. 27, 381. Member, Cambs. standing cttee. by Sept. 1644-aft. Oct. 1649.SP28/222, f. 652; SP28/223. Commr. New Model ordinance, Cambs. 17 Feb. 1645; commr. I. of Ely 12 Aug. 1645;A. and O. charitable uses, 10 Apr. 1647.C93/19/25. Sheriff, Cambs. and Hunts. Nov. 1649-Nov. 1650.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix) 15. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth, Cambs. 21 Sept. 1655;Bodl. Rawl. C.948, p. 24. gaol delivery, I. of Ely 12 Mar. 1657-Aug. 1660.C181/6, pp. 223, 385. Jt. treas. propagating the gospel in New England, Cambs. 26 Aug. 1657.GL, MS 8011, p. 42. Commr. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35). oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. July 1659–10 July 1660.C181/6, p. 379. Bailiff, Bedford Level 1663–d.SR.

Military: col. militia, Cambs. by Apr. 1644-aft. Aug. 1659.SP28/152/20, ff. 18, 41v; SP25/77, pp. 864, 887; CSP Dom. 1659–60, pp. 16, 149.

Mercantile: comptroller, Bedford Level Co. June 1649 – ?; expenditor, Feb.-Mar. 1650.Cambs. RO, R.59.31.9.1, 2nd fol. f. 8; R.59.31.9.2, unfol.; R.59.31.9.3, 1st fol. ff. 33, 45v; R.59.31.9.4, f. 95.

Central: commr. visitation Camb. Univ. Dec. 1649, 2 Sept. 1654;CUL, University Archives, O.I.21(4); A. and O. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

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CASTELL, Robert (c.1604-65), of East Hatley, Cambs.

Will
not found.
Estates
granted lands at East Hatley by his father, possibly in 1631; bought a quarter share in the Bedford Level Adventure, 1632; transferred that share to Edmund and their sister, Martha, 1652; also owned drained fenland at Soham, Cambs. 1656;Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fenns ed. F. Willmoth and E. Stazicker (Cambs. Recs. Soc. xxiii), 46-7. sold lands at East Hatley and Tadlow to (Sir) George Downing*, 1661.CP25/2/632/12-13CHAS II HIL, no. 12; VCH Cambs. viii. 44, 130-1, 133.
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