ERISEY, Richard (1590-1667/8), of Erisey, Grade, Cornw.

Family and Education

b. 19 May 1590, 1st s. of James Erisey of Erisey and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Carew of Antony, Cornw.C142/662/107; Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 155. educ. Leiden Univ. 24 July 1606;Index to English-Speaking Students at Leyden ed. E. Peacock (1883), 33; HMC Salisbury, xvii. 37. M. Temple, 15 May 1610.MT Admiss. i. 95. m. (1) 9 Apr. 1615, Elizabeth, da. of Peter Carew of Bickleigh, Devon, 1s. (James*); (2) c.1620, Mary, da. of Sir James Ley† of Westbury, Wilts (later 1st earl of Marlborough), 3s. 1da. d. betw. 7 Oct. 1667-31 July 1668.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 155.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Cornw. by Oct. 1626 – 4 Oct. 1643, 25 May 1650–13 Sept. 1653. SP16/37/50, f. 77; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 78; C231/6, pp. 186, 205. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 7v. to examine tenures, 5 Mar. 1628;CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 7. subsidy, 1629, 1663.HMC 4th Rep. 405; SR. Member, cttee. for co. stock, c.July 1640.Antony House, Carew-Pole HD/13/1. Commr. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664.SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance… for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Dep. lt. 28 July 1642–?CJ ii. 694b. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Cornw. 1 July 1644;A. and O. Cornw. militia, 7 June 1648;LJ x. 311a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, c. 1650, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. PhD thesis, 1981), 170. tendering Engagement, 28 Jan. 1650;FSL, X.d.483 (47). oyer and terminer, Western circ. by Feb. 1654-June 1659.C181/6, pp. 9, 308.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Jan. 1648.SP16/518, f. 1.

: of Erisey, Cornw., Grade.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

ERISEY, Richard (1590-1667/8), of Erisey, Grade, Cornw.

Will

7 Oct. 1667, pr. 31 July 1668.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 155.

Estates

IPM of fa. (1601) lists Erisey and other manors in Cornw. in all 1,800 acres;C142/662/107; Keeler, Long Parliament, 165. by 1650, held lands as free tenant of duchy of Cornwall in Helston-in-Kerrier and (as freeholder) held manor of Trelugan, Gerrans parish from the same.Parl. Surv. Duchy Cornw. i. 44-5; ii. 193.

Oxford 1644

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Religion

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