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b. c. 1578, s. of Laurence Whitaker and Cicely, wid. of Robert Beale of Peterborough, Northants.REQ 2/291/50. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1593, BA 1597, MA 1600, incorp. Oxf. 1603; M. Temple 1614. Al. Cant.; M. Temple Admiss.; Wood, Fasti Oxon., i. 300. m. (1) aft. 1618, PROB 11/131, f. 516. Margaret (d. 1 Feb. 1636), da. of Sir John Egerton* of Wrinehill, Staffs., wid. of Thomas Hall of London, s.p.; Ormerod, Cheshire, i. 629. (2) lic. 6 Feb. 1638, ‘aged 50’, Dorothy (d.1671), da. of Charles Hoskins of Holborn, Mdx., s.p. London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 1448. bur. 27 Apr. 1654 27 Apr. 1654. LMA, X105/036, unfol. sig. Laur:[ence] Whitaker.
Offices Held

Sec. to Sir Edward Phelips* by 1611; T. Coryate, Coryat’s Crudities (1611), STC 5808, sig. A8v. clerk of the Petty Bag 1611–14; C220/8/2. servant to Robert Carr, earl of Somerset 1614–16; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 10; Letters of Philip Gawdy ed. I. Jeayes, 180–1. clerk of the PC extraordinary 1624-c.42; CSP Dom. 1623–5, p. 331; PC2/42/54. commr. trade 1625; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 1, p. 60. recvr. of compositions, Crown lands 1629–30; CSP Dom. 1629–30, pp. 185–6; Rymer, viii. pt. 3, p. 77. commr. execution of poor laws 1632, CSP Dom. 1631–3, p. 424. soap monopoly 1634, C181/4, f. 186v. tobacco compositions 1635–9, CSP Dom. 1634–5, p. 573; 1639, p. 231. Chatham chest 1635, Ibid. 1635, p. 543. pursuivants 1636, Ibid. 1635–6, p. 326. prevention of butter exports 1636, Ibid. 162. gold and silver thread 1636, Ibid. 178. malting and brewing 1637, CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 404. brick and tile manufactures 1638, C181/5, ff. 117v, 118v, 119v; CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 36. beaver-makers 1639, C181/5, f. 148v. exclusion from sacrament 1646, scandalous offences 1648. A. and O. i. 853, 1209.

Vestryman, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. 1622; R. Dobie, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, 98. commr. swans, Northants., Lincs., Rutland and Notts. 1625, C181/3, f. 165v. Forced Loan, Mdx. 1626–7; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 435; Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 144. j.p. Mdx. 1627 – 42, 1649 – d., Westminster 1634–d.; C231/4, f. 237; 231/5, ff. 128, 533; C193/13/3, ff. 41v, 82; CCAM, 640. commr. subsidy, Mdx. 1628, E115/100/57. new buildings, 1629–41, CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 55. London 1625, 1630, C193/8, no. 58; Rymer, viii. pt. 3, p. 115. knighthood fines, Mdx. 1630, E178/7163; CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 342. repair of St. Paul’s 1631, GL, ms 25475/1, f. 61. sewers, Westminster 1634, 1645, Mdx. 1637, Lincs., Northants., and Hunts. 1638, Kent 1640, C181/4, f. 191; 181/5, ff. 81v, 101v, 168v, 225v. assessment, Mdx. 1643–52, A. and O. i. 93, 536, 637, 970, 1087. Westminster 1649–52, Ibid. ii. 38, 39, 303, 471, 472, 68, 669. sequestration, Mdx. 1643, levying money 1643, vols. 1644, maintenance of army 1644, New Model Ordinance 1645, militia, Mdx. 1648, Westminster 1648–9. Ibid. i. 114, 149, 383, 400, 623, 1239, 1246; ii. 20.

Parlimentarian
WHITAKER, Laurence (c.1578-1654), of Drury Lane, Westminster and Turnham Green, Chiswick, Mdx.
Main residences: Drury Lane, Westminster; Turnham Green, Chiswick, Mdx.
Author
V.C.D.M.
R.C.L.S.
Volume
Commons 1604-1629
Web Title

WHITAKER, Laurence (c.1578-1654)

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Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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