WERE, Humphrey (c.1569-1625), of Halberton, Devon and the Inner Temple, London

Family and Education

b. c. 1569, s. of John Were of Bradworthy and Halberton.W. Prest, Rise of the Barristers, 401. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 1585 aged 16; Lyon’s Inn; I. Temple 1589, called 1597. Al. Ox.; I. Temple Admiss. m. ?(1) 6 June 1597, Margery Whytinge; Devon RO, St. Mary Arches, Exeter par. reg. (2) Elizabeth, 1s. 4da. PROB 11/145, ff. 389-90. ?; ?suc. fa. 1621. D. and S. Lysons, Devonshire, 252. admon. 10 May 1625. PROB 11/145, f. 390.

Offices Held

Feodary, Devon 1600-at least 1605, J. Roberts, ‘Armada Ld. Lt.’, Reps. and Trans. Devon Assoc. ciii. 110; HMC Hatfield, xxiii. 199. commr. aid, Exeter, Devon 1609, E179/283/12. piracy, Devon 1611–14, C181/2, ff. 140, 201. j.p. by 1612–d.; C66/1898; 66/2310. feoffee, Tiverton g.s., Devon 1617; P. Blundell, Donations of Benefactors to Free G.S. at Tiverton, app. i. p. xlii. commr. subsidy, Devon 1621 – 22, 1624. C212/22/20–1, 23.

Bencher, I. Temple 1613 – d., Lent reader 1614; CITR, ii. 71, 150; Readers and Readings in Inns of Ct. and Chancery ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. xiii), 95. recorder, Tiverton, Devon 1615–18. M. Dunsford, Hist. Mems. Tiverton, 456.

Parlimentarian

WERE, Humphrey (c.1569-1625), of Halberton, Devon and the Inner Temple, London

Main residences: Halberton, Devon; the Inner Temple, London.

Author

G.Y.

P.M.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

WERE, Humphrey (c.1569-1625)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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