Family and Education
b. c. 1575,STAC 8/4/9. 1st s. of John Browne, alderman and Mercer, of Gloucester and Hester, da. of one Michell of Gloucester, ?wid. of one Webbe. Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xv), 113; REQ 2/398/25; PROB 11/82, f. 259v. m. (1) 7 Feb. 1598, Soc. Gen. St. Nicholas, Gloucester par. reg. Eleanor (d. 14 July 1603), da. of Robert Robinson of Gloucester, T.D. Fosbrooke, Original Hist. of City of Gloucester, 183. s.p.; (2) Sarah (d. by 17 Dec. 1646), ?wid. of one Wilshire, s.p. Abstracts of Glos. Inquisitions Post Mortem ed. W.P.W. Phillimore and G.S. Fry (Index Lib. xiii), 79, 139; PROB 11/198, ff. 252, 255. suc. fa. 1593. PROB 11/82, f. 160. d. 29 Aug. 1638. Glos. RO, GBR B2/1, f. 62v.
Offices Held

Common councilman, Gloucester 1599, Glos. RO, GBR B3/1, f. 182. sheriff 1603–4, List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 185. alderman 1607–d., Glos. RO, GBR B2/1, f. 40. mayor 1610 – 11, 1621 – 22, 1634–5, Fosbrooke, 209. Aug.-Oct. 1636, Glos. RO, GBR B2/1, f. 62. commr. subsidy, 1621 – 22, 1624, C212/22/20–1, 23. dep. lt. 1623-at least 1626; Glos. RO, GBR H1/1; Glos. RO, GBR, H2/2, p. 67. commr. sewers, Glos. 1615, C181/2, f. 240. Wye valley 1621, C181/3, f. 33. martial law, Gloucester 1628. APC, 1627–8, p. 335.

Main residences: Gloucester; Churcham, Glos.
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Commons 1604-1629
Web Title

BROWNE, John I (c.1575-1638)

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Oxford 1644
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