ST. JOHN, Oliver I (c.1583-1646), of Bletsoe, Beds. of Abbot’s Ripton, Hunts. and St. Bartholomew-the-Great, London

Family and Education

b. c. 1583, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Oliver, 3rd Bar. St. John† of Bletsoe and Dorothy, da. and h. of John Rede† of Boddington, Glos.;Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 194. bro. of Sir Alexander*, Sir Anthony*, Sir Beauchamp*, Sir Henry* and Sir Rowland*. educ. Peterhouse, Camb. c.1595; G. Inn 1597. Al. Cant.; GI Admiss. m. settlement 21 Apr. 1602, Elizabeth (bur. 26 Oct. 1655), da. and h. of William Poulett of Yelden, Beds. and M. Temple, 4s. 3da. Beds. RO, SJ.1; Bletsoe ed. F.G. Emmison (Beds. par. reg. xxiv), 25; C142/207/111; Vis. Hunts. ed. H. Ellis (Cam. Soc. xliii), 2. cr. KB 2 June 1610; Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 158. suc. fa. as 4th Bar. St. John 1618; cr. earl of Bolingbroke 28 Dec. 1624. C142/376/126; CP. d. bet. 5 June-3 July 1646. A. and O. i. 853; PROB 6/21, f. 72. sig. O[liver] St. John.

Offices Held

Commr. depopulation, Hunts. 1607, C205/5/1. sewers, Gt. Fens 1609 – 31, 1646; C181/2, ff. 83, 282, 320v, 330; 181/3, f. 35v; 181/4, ff. 19v, 29; 181/5, f. 268v. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. 1617–36;C181/2, f. 265; C231/5, p. 214. recorder and j.p., Bedford 1618 – 36, j.p., Beds. and Hunts. 1618 – 26, 1628–d.; C231/4, ff. 73–4, 228, 261; 231/5, p. 223. ld. lt. (jt.) Hunts. 1619 – 27, 1629–36, Sainty, Lords Lieutenants, 24. Beds. (parl.) 1642–d.; Add. ch. 33168A-B; A. and O. i. 1. commr. subsidy, Beds. 1621 – 22, 1624, Forced Loan 1626, C212/22/20–3; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 144. charitable uses 1635,C93/15/21. cts. martial, London and Westminster 1644. A. and O. i. 487.

Adventurer, Bedford Level 1631–d.; Hunts. RO, D/DM19/3/1. member, Bedford Level corp. 1635. W. Dugdale, Hist. Imbanking and Draining of Divers Fens and Marshes (1772), p. 410.

Commr. gt. seal 1643, assessment arrears 1645, excise fraud 1645, relief of Ire. 1645, heraldry abuses 1646. A. and O. i. 342, 658, 691, 723, 839.

Commr. scandalous offences 1646. Ibid. i. 853.

Parlimentarian

ST. JOHN, Oliver I (c.1583-1646), of Bletsoe, Beds. of Abbot’s Ripton, Hunts. and St. Bartholomew-the-Great, London

Main residences: Bletsoe, Beds.; Abbot's Ripton, Hunts.; St. Bartholomew-the-Great, London.

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

ST. JOHN, Oliver I (c.1583-1646)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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