JONES, John (d.1630), of College Green, Gloucester, Glos.
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Family and Education
s. of Hugh Jones of Bredon’s Mitton, Worcs. and Joan, da. of one Webb of Suff. m. (1) Joan (d. 18 Jan. 1595), da. of one Weale, wid. of one Huntley, 3s. (?2 d.v.p.); Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 96; T.D. Fosbrooke, Original Hist. City of Gloucester, 165; PROB 11/159, ff. 292v-4; MTR, 444. (2) Elizabeth, da. of Jerome Gilbert, recorder of Colchester, Essex, 2s. 1da.; 1s. 3da.Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 405; Oxford DNBsub Gilbert, William; Vis. Glos. 96; PROB 11/159, ff. 292v-4.d. 1 June 1630. Fosbrooke, 137.sig. John Jones.
Offices Held
Freeman, Gloucester 1580, common councilman by 1584, Glos. RO, GBR B3/1, ff. 70v, 91v. sheriff 1587 – 88, 1592–3,List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 185. alderman 1594–d., Glos. RO, GBR B2/1, f. 37v. mayor 1597 – 98, 1618 – 19, 1625–6; Fosbrooke, 209. registrar, Gloucester dioc. 1581–d.;Comm. Eccles. Causes ed. F.D. Price (Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. Recs. x), 103n. dep. lt. Gloucester by 1604-at least 1627, C66/1618; Glos. RO, GBR, H2/2, p. 103. commr. subsidy 1604, STAC 8/4/9. 1608, SP14/31/1, f. 15. 1621 – 22, 1624, C212/22/20–1, 23. charitable uses 1606–9, C93/2/26, 93/3/33. sewers, Glos. 1609, assarts, Glos. 1615, Berks. and Glos. 1616, C181/2, ff. 104, 234, 257. martial law, Gloucester 1628.APC, 1627–8, p. 335.