BANISTER, Henry (c.1538-1628), of Clapton, Hackney, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. ?c.1538. m. 18 May 1584, Anne/Agnes (d. 4 Jan. 1634), da. of Bernard Townley of Hurstwood, nr. Burnley, Lancs. 1s. (d.v.p.) 2da. (d.v.p.). d. 25 July 1628. J. Stowe, Survey of London ed. J. Strype (1720), ii. app. 1, pp. 126-7; Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. lxxxviii), 311; PROB 11/154, f. 154; IGI, ‘Lancs.’, ‘London’. sig. He[nry] Banister.

Offices Held

Freeman, Goldsmiths’ Co. London by 1581, 3rd warden 1609 – 10, 2nd warden 1611 – 12, prime warden 1614–15. Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, appr. bk. 1, f. 27; apprenticeship and freedom index.

Gunner in the Tower, 1603–?d. PSO5/2, unfol.

Freeman, London by 1609, alderman, Aldgate ward 31 Jan.-4 Feb. 1622; A.B. Beaven, Aldermen of London, i. 12; ii. 56. j.p. Mdx. by 1614 – 21 Mar. 1625, 9 Apr. 1625–?d.; Cal. Sess. Recs. Mdx. ed. W. le Hardy, n.s. ii. 351; iii. 313; C231/4, ff. 177, 183. commr. to order the estate of Sir Richard Martyn, master of the Mint 1616–17, Add. 38170, ff. 282–3. gaol delivery, Newgate, London 1621 – 26, oyer and terminer, London 1621–6, C181/3, ff. 23v, 47, 182v, 212. subsidy, Mdx. 1621 – 22, 1624; C212/22/20–1, 23. foreign burgess, Preston, Lancs. by 1622; Rolls of Burgesses at Guilds Merchant of Preston ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 78. commr. annoyances, London and Westminster 1625. T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 4, p. 97.

Vestryman, Mdx. Hackney 1613. Monuments in Hackney Church comp. R. Simpson, 11.

Parlimentarian

BANISTER, Henry (c.1538-1628), of Clapton, Hackney, Mdx.

Main residence: Clapton, Hackney, Mdx.

Author

A.D.T.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

BANISTER, Henry (c.1538-1628)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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