POTTER, Hugh (1596-1662), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Petworth, Suss.

Family and Education

bap. 1 Aug. 1596, 1st s. of Tobias Potter of Iddesleigh, Devon, and Susan (bur. 5 Apr. 1635), da. of Hugh Osborne of Iddesleigh.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 612. educ. L. Inn 10 June 1615;LI Admiss. i. 170. called 9 July 1622.LI Black Bks. ii. 236. unm. suc. fa. aft. 1633.C7/172/138. d. 12 Feb. 1662.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 612.

Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Suss. 30 Mar. 1630 – 7 Aug. 1631, 16 Dec. 1637–20 July 1641;C181/4, ff. 47v, 54v; C181/5, f. 70v. poll tax, Suss. 1660; assessment, Northumb. Suss., Yorks. (W. Riding) 1661.SR.

Central: registrar, ct. of admlty. May 1639–44, 6 Sept. 1660–d.J.C. Sainty, Admiralty Officials 1660–1870 (1975), 96, 146.

Civic: freeman, Berwick-upon-Tweed 11 Mar. 1640–d.Berwick RO, B1/9, Berwick Guild Bk. ff. 187v-188.

: of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. and Suss., Petworth.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

POTTER, Hugh (1596-1662), of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx., and Petworth, Suss.

Will

5 Jan. 1659, cod. 12 Feb. 1662, pr. 25 Apr. 1662.PROB11/308, f. 6.

Estates

in 1654, Potter and another gentleman purchased capital messuage of dissolved priory of Nunburnholme, Yorks.C54/3783/42. Involved with Robert Scawen* and others in purchasing several parcels of land during the 1640s, but this was almost certainly on behalf of the earl of Northumberland.C54/3299/19; C54/3344/12.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Northumberland House, Westminster (1640, 1648, 1650, 1660, 1661);Alnwick, X.II.6, box 12, bdle. k: Melton to Potter, 17 Jan. 1640; box 11, bdle. g: John Stanley to same, 8 Sept. 1648, 15 Feb. 1650; box 12, bdle. l: Philip Wilson to same, 12 Mar. 1660; Cumb. RO (Whitehaven), DLEC/169/1648: Thomas Hockin to same, 24 Aug. 1648; Pennington to same, 1 Sept. 1648; DLEC/169/1660: Potter to Sir Patricius Curwen* et al. 19 Jan. 1661; Curwen to Potter, 21 Jan. 1661. Alnwick Castle, Northumb. (1640, 1645, 1646, 1649);Alnwick, Y.III.2(4)8: Robert Scawen* to Potter, 14 Apr. 1640; P.I.3(q, r): Potter to Northumberland, 28 Oct. 1645, 4 Nov. 1646; X.II.6, box 11, bdle. g: George Payler* to same, 10 Apr. 1649. Temple Hirst, Yorks. (1644);Alnwick, P.I.3(p): Potter to Northumberland, 26 Dec. 1644. Leconfield, Yorks. (1645);Alnwick, P.I.3(p): Potter to Northumberland, 27 Jan. 1645. The George Inn, Coney Street, York (1647);Alnwick, X.II.6, box 11, bdle. g: Robert Stapylton* to Potter, 7 May 1647. Cockermouth, Cumb. (1651, 1652);Cumb. RO (Whitehaven), DLEC/169/1651, 1652: William Brisco* to Potter, 13 Oct. 1651, 16 Apr. 1652. Petworth House, Suss. (1652, 1653);Cumb. RO (Whitehaven), DLEC/169/1651-2: James Peirson to Potter, 11 Feb. 1652; Alnwick, X.II.6, box 12, bdle. l: George Fenwick* to same, 13 July 1653; The Corresp. of John Cosin ed. G. Ornsby (Surt. Soc. lii), 97. York House, Westminster (1656).Cumb. RO (Whitehaven), DLEC/169/1655: James Chaloner* to Potter, 13 Feb. 1656.

Religion

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