NEILE, Sir Paul (1613-86), of Hutton Bonville, Birkby, Yorks. and Codnor Castle, Alfreton, Derbys.

Family and Education

bap. 11 May 1613, o.s. of Richard Neile, archbishop of York 1632-1640, and Dorothy (bur. 3 May 1647), da. of Christopher Dacre of Lanercost, Cumb.St Benet Fink par. reg.; Mems. St Margaret’s Westminster, 85; Oxford DNB, ‘John Richard’; ‘Sir Paul Neile’. educ. Pembroke Coll. Camb. 20 May 1627, BA 1631.Al. Cant. m. (settlement 2 Feb. 1636, with £4,000) Elizabeth, da. of Gabriel Clarke, DD, archdeacon of Durham, 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 3da. (3 d.v.p.).SP28/193, p. 349; St Mary, Richmond par. reg. (burial entry for 20 June 1648); Surtees, Co. Dur. i. p. lxxxix; Dur. Cathedral Regs. ed. E.A. White (Harl. Soc. xxiii), 6, 92, 93; A Foster, ‘A Biography of Archbishop Richard Neile, 1562-1640’ (Oxford Univ. DPhil. thesis, 1978), 310. Kntd. 27 May 1633;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 201. suc. fa. 31 Oct. 1640;P. Heylin, Cyprianus Anglicus (1671), 459. bur. 9 Feb. 1686 9 Feb. 1686.St Benet Fink par. reg.

Offices Held

Central: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, c.Jan. 1635–41; gent. of privy chamber, in ordinary, 1641 – ?49, 31 May 1660–d.;Eg. 2542, f. 361; LC3/1, ff. 1v, 25; LC5/134, p. 34; Carlisle, Privy Chamber, 141, 163. gent. usher of privy chamber, 4 June 1660–d.Eg. 2542, f. 362; LC3/24, f. 3. Sub-commr. prizes by May 1672–?CTB iii. 1071; CSP Dom. 1672, pp. 494, 674; 1672–3, p. 174. Commr. excise appeals, 24 May 1673–d.CTB iv. 143; viii. 72, 597. Dep.-gov., Soc. of Mines Royal and Mineral and Battery Works. 4 Dec. 1673–d.BL, Loan 16, pt. 2, ff. 159, 204.

Military: vol. horse, royal army by June 1639–?SP16/427/38, ff. 71, 73.

Civic: freeman, Ripon 24 Dec. 1639–d.N. Yorks. RO, DC/RIC II, 1/1/2, p. 356.

Local: commr. levying of money (roy.), Yorks. c.Dec. 1642-aft. Apr. 1644;C10/55/96; Bodl. Firth c.7, f. 8; Add. 18981, ff. 121r-v. subsidy, royal household c.May 1671;CTB iii. 842. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 28 Jan. 1673.C181/7, p. 633.

Academic: FRS, 28 Nov. 1660 – d.; member, council, 1662–?d.E. S. de Beer, ‘The earliest Fellows of the Royal Soc.’, Notes and Recs. of the Royal Soc. of London, vii. 184.

Mercantile: member, Hudson’s Bay Co. 2 May 1670–?d.P.C. Newman, Co. of Adventurers, i. 320.

: of Hutton Bonville, Birkby, Yorks. and Codnor Castle, Derbys., Alfreton.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

NEILE, Sir Paul (1613-86), of Hutton Bonville, Birkby, Yorks. and Codnor Castle, Alfreton, Derbys.

Will

18 Dec. 1682, cod. 24 Mar. 1684, pr. 12 Feb. 1686.PROB11/382, f. 163v.

Estates

in 1634, Neile and his fa. purchased manor, castle and park of Codnor, Derbys. for £5,840.C54/3032/12; Coventry Docquets, 657. In 1635, they purchased manor of Hutton Bonville, Derbys. for £7,700.C54/3056/11; C7/453/75; VCH N. Riding, i. 401. In 1639, Neile and two other gentlemen purchased lease of coal mines in Auckland, co. Dur. worth about £40 p.a. on improvement. In 1640, he purchased leasehold property in Cockerton, Wearsdale, West Auckland and Wolsingham, co. Dur.Parl. Surveys of the Bishopric of Dur. ed. Kirby, 35-6, 38, 107, 143, 152-3, 160. In 1646, estate comprised manors of Codnor and Hutton Bonville, Derbys.; a franktenement, in right of his w., in tenements in St Gregory’s, London; a house, in right of his w., in St Gregory’s in reversion; a house in Lincoln, held by lease from dean and chapter of Lincoln; site and demesnes of manor of Bishop Norton, Lincs., held by lease from bishop of Lincoln; property in Auckland, Burnhope, Evenwood and Wolsingham and a third part of colliery of Bitchburne, all held by lease from bishop of Durham; a house in Knightrider Street, London, held by lease from dean and chapter of St. Paul’s; three houses in St Gregory’s, London, held by lease from vicars choral and petty canons of St Paul’s; and lands and tenements (held in trust as executor of his w.’s grandmo.) in lordship of Fenwick and Folliot, Yorks., and houses in London – in all, worth about £1,265 p.a. before the war.SP23/193, pp. 337-41, 353-6; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 132-3; CTB i. 150. This estate was charged with annuities and interest payments of £520 p.a. of which there was £1,350 owing by 1646. Neile also had debts of £500, including £300 he owed to his kinsman Chaloner Chute I*. In 1647, he borrowed a further £1,500 by statute staple from Chute.LC4/202, f. 356. In 1653, he acquired lease of Hill House, White Waltham, Berks.Lysons, Magna Britannia, i. 405; VCH Berks. iii. 174.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Bishopthorpe, Yorks. 1640;Parl. Surveys of the Bishopric of Dur. ed. D.A. Kirby (Surt. Soc. clxxxiii), 152-3. Maidenhead, Berks. 1649;C6/160/184. Farnham, Surr. by Dec. 1651;SCA, Hartlib Pprs. 28/1/73B. the houses of Mr Gouldin and Mr Taylor, St Clement Danes, London, Jan., Mar. 1656 the house of Mr Leake, Russell Street, Covent Garden Apr. 1656.Add. 34014, ff. 6v, 21v, 28, 46v, 72.

Religion

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