MEAUTYS (MEWTAS), Thomas (aft. 1585-1649), of Gorhambury, Herts. and Angel Court, Charing Cross, Westminster.

Family and Education

b. aft. 1585, 3rd s. of Thomas Meautys (d. c.1618) of St Julian’s Hosp. St Albans, Herts. and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Henry Coningsby of North Mimms, Herts.Add. 5524, f. 176; Vis. Herts. 1572 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. xxii), 75; The Private Corresp. of Jane, Lady Cornwallis ed. Lord Braybrooke (1842), pp. xlix-l. educ. L. Inn 1608; G. Inn 1626.LI Admiss. i. 147; G. Inn Admiss. 178. m. bef. May 1641, Anne (bur. 20 Sept. 1680), da. of Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Culford, Suff. 1da.Herts. RO, II.A.9; II.A.12. Kntd. 25 Feb. 1641.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 208. bur. 31 Oct. 1649 31 Oct. 1649.A. C. Bunten, Sir Thomas Meautys (1918), 99.

Offices Held

Household: ?servant to Robert Cecil†, 1st earl of Salisbury, ?-1612.HMC Hatfield, xxiv. 226. Sec. to Sir Francis Bacon†, Visct. St Albans by 1616–22.Bunten, Meautys, 12; The Letters of John Chamberlain ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1939), ii. 216; Clutterbuck, Herts. i. 101; L. Jardine and A. Stewart, Hostage to Fortune (1998), 418, 489.

Central: clerk of the privy council, extraordinary, 1619; in ordinary, 1622–d.APC 1617–19, p. 386; 1625–6, p. 4; C66/2269, m. 11; CCSP ii. 63. Clerk of writs and processes, star chamber, 1626–31.C66/2382, m. 3; Coventry Docquets, 182. Recvr. of tobacco fines, 1634–41.CSP Dom. 1635, pp. 160–1. Jt. muster-master-gen. 1636–42.CSP Dom. 1635–6, pp. 298, 323; C66/2733, m. 8; Coventry Docquets, 196. Commr. maltsters and brewers, 1637.CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 404. Sec. to depopulations commn. by 1640.CSP Dom. 1640–1, p. 209.

Civic: freeman, Camb. 1620–d.Cooper, Annals Camb. iii. 137.

Local: commr. boundaries, London 1626, 1631.APC 1626, p. 355; 1630–1, p. 347 . Overseer of poor accts. St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster 1628–9.WCA, F355, unfol. Visitor, St Albans g.s. 1645.VCH Herts. ii. 64.

Mercantile: treas. Starchmakers’ Co. 1638–41.Coventry Docquets, 233; CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 165.

: of Gorhambury, Herts. and Angel Court, Westminster., Charing Cross.

MEWTAS

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, attrib. P. van Somer, c.1620.Gorhambury, Herts.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

MEAUTYS (MEWTAS), Thomas (aft. 1585-1649), of Gorhambury, Herts. and Angel Court, Charing Cross, Westminster.

Will

intestate, admon. 3 Dec. 1649.PROB6/24, f. 147.

Estates

granted estates of Viscount St Albans by ct. of chancery in 1632 in order to settle St Albans’s debts; these lands were sold after his death to Sir Harbottle Grimston* for £12,760; income from court offices prob. £1,000-£1,200 p.a.Aylmer, King’s Servants, 204, 294.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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