GRIFFITH, John III (1590/1-1643), of Lincoln’s Inn, London and Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London; later of Cefnamwlch, Penllech, Caern.

Family and Education

b. 1590 /1, 1st s. of John Griffith of Cefnamwlch and Jane, da. and coh. of Robert Owen of Bodafon, Anglesey.J.E. Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams. 169. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 1606, aged 15, BA 1609; L. Inn 1609. Al. Ox.; LI Admiss. m. settlement 11 Oct. 1612 (with £500), Margaret (d.1625), da. and coh. of Sir Richard Trevor† of Trevalyn, Denb., 3s. 2da. Flints. RO, D/PT/936; Griffith, 169. suc. fa. 1638. d. June 1643. C2/Chas.I/G54/24, 2/Chas.I/M47/77. sig. Jo[hn] Griffythe young[e]r of Llyn.

Offices Held

Sec. to ld. treas. Mandeville (Sir Henry Montagu*) 1620–1. NLW, 9057E/924, 948, 979.

Commr. subsidy, Caern. 1621 – 22, 1624, 1628, 1641; C212/22/20–3; E179/220/156; SR, v. 67, 90. constable, Caernarvon Castle, Caern. 1622 – d., freeman, Caernarvon 1622; NLW, 9058E/1033–4, 1041, 1044; M. Gray, ‘Castles and patronage in Sixteenth Cent. Wales’, WHR, xv. 491; SC6/Chas.I/1486, m. 6d. commr. subsidy arrears, Caern. 1626; E179/224/598. v.-adm., N. Wales 1627–?d.; Add. 37817, f. 17; HCA 14/49, no. 173. commr. piracy, N. Wales 1631; C181/4, f. 95v. j.p. Caern. ?1638–d.; JPs in Wales and Monm. ed. Phillips, 29–30. dep. lt., Caern. ?1638–d.; HEHL, EL7443. commr. poll tax, Caern. 1641, Irish aid 1642, assessment 1642 – 43, array, Caern. 1642. SR, v. 107, 141, 157; Northants. RO, FH133.

Commr. encroached cottages 1638, usurious loans 1638. CSP Dom. 1637–8, p. 602.

Parlimentarian

GRIFFITH, John III (1590/1-1643), of Lincoln’s Inn, London and Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London; later of Cefnamwlch, Penllech, Caern.

Main residences: Lincoln's Inn, London; Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London; Cefnamwlch, Penllech, Caern.

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

GRIFFITH, John III (1590/1-1643)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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