BODURDA, Griffith (c.1621-77), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. and Westminster.

Family and Education

b. c. 1621, 3rd s. of John Bodurda (d.1648) of Bodwrda, Aberdaron, Caern. and Margaret, da. of John Griffith I* of Cefnamwlch, Tudweiliog.Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams., 168. educ. Shrewsbury 1638; St John’s Camb. 27 Oct. 1639, ‘aged 18’; L. Inn 1649.Shrewsbury School Register 1636 to 1664 ed. Auden, 11; Al. Cant.; LI Admiss. 261. m. (1) 6 July 1648, Mary, da. of Arthur Squibb, Clarenceux King of Arms, of Henley Park, Ash, Surr., 1s; (2) lic. 23 July 1664, Katherine (d.1677), da. of John Sisney of Thorpe, Rutland, wid. of Richard Shaxton, merchant and Fishmonger, of Silver Street, London, s.p.Procs. Dorset Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc. lxviii. 62; London Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 147; St Margaret Pattens, London par. reg. d. by 19 July 1679.CSP Dom. 1679-80, p. 200.

Offices Held

Local: commr. assessment, Caern. 23 June 1647, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677; Anglesey 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; London 26 June 1657; Mdx. 1664;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. for Caern. 10 July 1648;CJ v. 613a; LJ x. 373a. associated cos. of N. Wales, 21 Aug. 1648; militia, N. Wales, Westminster 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Anglesey Mar-bef. Oct. 1660; Caern. Mar. 1660–d.Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 33–4. Commr. poll tax, Anglesey, Westminster 1660; subsidy, Caern. 1663.SR. Conservator, Bedford Level 1665–6.Wells, Drainage of the Bedford Level, i. 457. Commr. preserving order, Mdx. 1666;T.E. Tomlins, Yseldon: Perambulation of Islington (1824), 183–4. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 10 Aug. 1671-aft. Oct. 1672.C181/7 pp. 587, 628.

Central: agent for wine licences by July 1648-Dec. 1653.HMC 7th Rep., 39; CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 36; CJ vii. 711b. Recvr. first fruits, exch. c.1648–60.Mystery of the Good Old Cause (1660), 11–12 (E.1923.2). Kpr. of recs. Common Bench, 1656-June 1660.CSP Dom. 1656–7, pp. 147, 199. Member, cttee. for improving revenues of customs and excise, 26 June 1657.A. and O.; Henry Cromwell Corresp. 321–2. Commr. duties on wine, 1668–70.CTB 1667–8, p. 581; C181/7 pp. 463–76, 516.

Irish: dep. commr. of treasury, ?1672–d.Whereas our very good Lord Richard (Dublin 1672, Wing I856); CSP Dom. 1672–3, p. 449.

: of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. and Westminster.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BODURDA, Griffith (c.1621-77), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. and Westminster.

Will

d. intestate in Ireland.HP Commons 1660-90, i. 674.

Estates

bought fee farm rents of ‘Penlassoch’ and Ferry Boat, Conway, Caern., Jan. 1651; bought Huntingdon priory, Hunts., 1651 and sold it to Edward Montagu II*, 1655.E308/7 Pt. 2, f. 323; R. Carruthers, Hist. Huntingdon (1824), 106.

Oxford 1644

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