PENROSE, John (c.1611-52), of Penrose, Sithney, Cornw.

Family and Education

b. c. 1611, 1st s. of John Penrose of Helston and Jane, da. of John Trefusis of Mylor.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 367. educ. L. Inn, 8 Feb. 1632.LI Admiss. i. 216. m. 20 July 1633, Amy, da. of Sir Anthony Buggs of Harlow, Essex, 2s. 4da.LMA, St Benet, Paul’s Wharf par. regs.; Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 367; PROB11/224/129. suc. fa. 8 Nov. 1617. d. bef. July 1652.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 367.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Cornw. by 18 Aug. 1646–d.Western Circuit Assize Orders ed. Cockburn, 240, 275; C193/13/3, f. 10; C231/6, p. 205. Commr. assessment, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650;A. and O. Cornw. militia, 25 May, 7 June 1648;LJ x. 283a, 311a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, c.1650;A. and O.; R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 170. tendering Engagement, 28 Jan. 1650.FSL, X.d.483 (47).

Military: capt. militia ft. Cornw. 14 Feb. 1650–d.CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 521.

: Sithney, Cornw.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PENROSE, John (c.1611-52), of Penrose, Sithney, Cornw.

Will

27 Feb. 1643, pr. 8 July 1652.PROB11/224/129.

Estates

based on manor of Penrose Methleigh, Sithney parish, with a house of 13 hearths (in the 1660s).Cornw. Hearth Tax, 114. Free tenant of duchy of Cornw. in manor of Helston, and also held the fishing rights of the Loe Pool, Sithney par.Parl. Survey Duchy Cornw. i. 44, 48, 50.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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