Family and Education
3rd s. of William Hippisley (d. c.1630)I.F. Jones, Hippisley Fam. Notes, 100. of Marston Bigott, Som. and ?da. of one Burley, of I.o.W. Mdx. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxv), 82; I.F. Jones, 100. m. (1) Margaret, da. of Thomas Antrobus* of Heath House, Petersfield, Hants, s.p.; R.L. Antrobus, Antrobus Peds. 97. (2) 16 Mar. 1615, St. Mary Mounthaw (Harl. Soc. Reg. lviii), 7. Katherine (d. c.1659), PROB 11/304, f. 36. da. of Sir Richard Norton† of East Tisted, Hants, 1da. d.v.p. Arch. Cant. xxiii. 129. Kntd. 14 Apr. 1617. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 162. bur. 4 Dec. 1655 4 Dec. 1655. WCA, St. Martin-in-the-Fields par. reg. mic. 4, unfol. sig. Jo[hn] Hippisley.
Offices Held

Gent. of horse to Henry Percy, 9th earl of Northumberland by 1604–17; Percy Household Pprs. ed. G.R. Batho (Cam. Soc. ser. 3, xciii), 5, 95, 155. servant to George Villiers, 1st earl (later duke) of Buckingham 1617–28; SP16/154/77; CSP Dom. Addenda, 1625–49, p. 36. equerry, King’s Stables ?1621-at least 1645. LC2/6, f. 61; CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 230.

J.p. Mdx. 1621 – 42, Kent 1625 – 36, Mdx. and Westminster 1649–?d.; C231/4, f. 117, 184; C231/5, p. 533; Anon., Names of the JPs (Wing, N133), pp. 35, 72. ranger, Bushey Park, Mdx. c.1621–52; I.F. Jones, 110; CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 344. lt. of Dover Castle, Kent 1624–8; CSP Dom. 1623–5, p. 333, 374; J.B. Jones, Annals of Dover, 382. commr. martial law, Kent and Cinque Ports 1624–6, T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 4, p. 170; viii. pt. 2, p. 94. sewers, Kent and Suss. 1625, C181/3, ff. 157v, 173. piracy, Cinque Ports 1625-at least 1629; Ibid. ff. 175v, 247. freeman, Dover 1625; Add. 29623, f. 67. commr. Forced Loan, Kent and Mdx. 1626, E401/2586, p. 456; C193/12/2, f. 27. sale of Camber Castle, Suss. 1626, APC, 1626, p. 207; Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 115. of prize goods, Cinque Ports 1626–30, CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 61; E351/2508, 2509; APC, 1625–6, p. 350; 1627, p. 72. oyer and terminer, Mdx., Kent, Canterbury and Cinque Ports 1627, C181/3, ff. 215v, 219. victualling, Dover 1627, APC, 1627, p. 135. depopulations, Som. Wilts. and Glos. 1632, 1635, SP16/229/112; C181/5, ff. 1, 22. water supply, Hampton Court, Mdx. 1638, Rymer, ix. pt. 2, p. 184. sewers, River Colne, Bucks. Herts. and Mdx. 1638–9; C181/5, ff. 122, 136v. vestryman, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster 1641–d.; WCA, F2517, unfol.; F2003, p. 12. capt. militia horse, Mdx. to 1643; CJ, iii. 172b, 242b, 290a. commr. assessment, Mdx. 1643 – 52, Westminster 1647 – 52, Som. 1649 – 50, Cumb. 1649 – 52, levying money, Mdx. 1643, sequestration 1643, New Model Ordinance, Mdx. 1644, defence 1644, militia 1644, 1648, Westminster, 1648–9; A. and O. i. 93, 114, 149, 232, 383, 400, 536, 556, 623, 636, 970, 1087, 1177, 1239, 1246; ii. 20, 32, 38, 39, 42, 295, 303, 307, 463, 471, 472, 476, 659, 668, 669. dep. justice in Eyre (south) by 1644; CSP Dom. 1644–5, pp. 68, 96. gov. of Westminster sch. 1649–d. A. and O. ii. 257.

Main residences: The Mews, Westminster and Bushey Park, Mdx. and Dover Castle, Kent.
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Commons 1604-1629
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HIPPISLEY (EPSLEY), Sir John (-d.1655)

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