ASHTON, William I (1575-1646), of Swan Close, St. Martin’s Lane, Westminster and Tingrith, Beds.

Family and Education

bap. 6 Apr. 1575,Woburn Par. Reg. (Beds. Par. Regs. iii), 4. 4th s. of Robert Ashton (d.1590)Ibid. 139. of Woburn, Beds. and Alice, da. of one Furneys.Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 76-7. m. by 1605, Anne, da. of one Moate, 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.Ibid.; PROB 11/198, ff. 286-7. Kntd. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 195. bur. 10 Nov. 1646 10 Nov. 1646.WCA, St. Martin-in-the-Fields par. reg., unfol.

Offices Held

Clerk of the market 1604–8;Lansd. 1217, f. 68v. servant to Robert Cecil†, 1st earl of Salisbury by 1611;HMC Hatfield, xxi. 289; xxiv. 206. gent. of the privy chamber extraordinary bef. 1628.LC3/1, unfol.

Commr. inquiry, Mdx. 1615,C181/2, f. 223v. sewers, Mdx. 1619, 1637 – 39, Stepney marshes, Mdx. 1629 – 30, Westminster 1634, 1645,Ibid. f. 347v; C181/4, ff. 23, 63v, 191; 181/5, ff. 81, 143, 255. swans, Mdx., Beds., Bucks., Berks., Cambs., and elsewhere 1627, 1629;C181/3, ff. 227v, 270v. j.p. Westminster 1630–d.;C231/5, p. 30; SP16/405, f. 86. commr. sequestration, Westminster 1643, levying money Mdx. and Westminster 1643, vols. Mdx. 1644, subscriptions, Worcs. 1644, assessment 1644, Mdx. 1644 – 45, New Model ordinance 1645; elder, Westminster classis 1645.A. and O. i. 114, 232, 383, 507, 536, 542, 623, 636, 796, 873.

Parlimentarian

ASHTON, William I (1575-1646), of Swan Close, St. Martin’s Lane, Westminster and Tingrith, Beds.

Main residences: Swan Close, St. Martin's Lane, Westminster; Tingrith, Beds.

Author

J.P.F.

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

ASHTON, William I (1575-1646)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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