GRENE, Giles (c.1596-1656), of Afflington, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset.

Family and Education

b. c. 1596, o.s. of John Grene, merchant, of Dorchester, Dorset.PROB11/125/127. educ. M. Temple, 24 June 1614.M. Temple Admiss. i. 102. m. Elizabeth (admon. 24 Oct. 1673),PROB11/343, f. 118; London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 1493. 2s. 5da.Som. and Dorset N. and Q. iii. 78; London Vis. Peds. (Harl. Soc. xcii), 36; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 840. suc. fa. c.1615.PROB11/125/127. bur. 5 Jan. 1656 5 Jan. 1656.Som. and Dorset N. and Q. ii. 288.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Weymouth bef. Jan. 1618;Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 451. bailiff, 1620 – 21; capital burgess, 1621.Dorset RO, Weymouth corp. order bk. ff. 68, 72.

Household: steward, Corfe Castle lordship c.1620-c.1642.Hutchins, Dorset, i. 527, 529.

Central: clerk in crown office, k.b. by 1622-aft. 1623.Nicholas, Procs. 1621, i. 321; STAC8/295/30. Commr. Algiers expedition debts, 1627–8.APC 1627–8, p. 34; CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 567. Surv. of salt works, Apr. 1636.CSP Dom. 1635–6, p. 360. Member, cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 378b. cttee. for Irish affairs, 3 Sept. 1642.CJ ii. 750b. Commr. for navy, 15 Sept. 1642.A. and O. Member, cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 19 Oct. 1642, 19 Apr. 1645;LJ v. 407b; A. and O. cttee. for foreign affairs, 24 July 1644;CJ iii. 568a; LJ vi. 640b. cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645;A. and O. cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 30 June 1645.LJ vii. 468a. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647.A. and O.

Local: commr. piracy, Dorset 1622;C181/3, f. 73. inventory of prize goods, Weymouth and Poole 1627;APC, 1627, p. 87. shipwreck enquiry, Isle of Purbeck 1633;CSP Dom. 1631–3, pp. 531–2. sewers, Dorset 29 June 1638;C181/5, f. 113v. charitable uses, 1638–9;C192/1, unfol. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR; A. and O. loans on Propositions, 20 July 1642;LJ v. 225b. commr. for Dorset, 1 July 1644;A. and O. Dorset militia, 24 July 1648;LJ x. 393a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Mercantile: member, cttee. Dorchester Co. Mar. 1624–8.F. Rose-Troup, John White, the Patriarch of Dorchester (1930), 63, 456; Whiteway Diary, 60–1.

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Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GRENE, Giles (c.1596-1656), of Afflington, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset.

Will

21 Dec. 1655, pr. 20 May 1656.PROB11/252/668.

Estates

lease of Afflington, worth £160 p.a., by Nov. 1620;Hutchins, Dorset, i. 527, 529, 579. by 1636 held Great Farm, Kimmeridge;SP16/319/89. purchased Payne’s Place (of 16 hearths) Motcombe, for £4,500, in 1654.C7/418/59; Dorset Hearth Tax, 34.

Oxford 1644

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