HOSKINS, John (1566-1638), of the Middle Temple, London and Widemarsh Street, Hereford, Herefs.; later of Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street, London and Moorhampton, Abbey Dore, Herefs.

Family and Education

b. 1 Mar. 1566,L.B. Osborn, Life, Letters and Writings of John Hoskyns, 16. 3rd but 2nd s. of John Hoskins (d. by 3 Mar. 1607), of Monkton, Llanwarne, Herefs. and Margery, da. of Thomas Jones of Llanwarne. Vis. Herefs. (Harl. Soc. n.s. xv), 50; B.W. Whitlock, John Hoskyns, Sjt.-at-Law, 269. educ. Westminster sch. 1578; Winchester coll. Hants 1579; New Coll. Oxf. 1585, fell. 1586-92, BA 1588, MA 1592; M. Temple 1593, called 1600. J. Aubrey, Brief Lives, i. 417; T.F. Kirby, Winchester Scholars, 14; Al. Ox.; Osborn, 18-19; M. Temple Admiss. m. (1) 1 Aug. 1601, Regs. Abbey Church of SS. Peter and Paul, Bath ed. A.J. Jewers (Harl. Soc. Regs. xxvii), 205. Benedicta (d. 6 Oct. 1625), da. of John Moyle of Buckwell, Kent, wid. of Francis Bourne (bur. 24 Feb. 1601), of Sutton St. Clere, Som. and the Middle Temple, 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 1da.; Osborn, 22, 56, 82; C.J. Robinson, Hist. Mansions and Manors of Herefs. 133; Regs. of Abbey Church of SS. Peter and Paul, Bath, 338. (2) 10 Dec. 1627, Isabel, da. of William Riseley† of Chetwode, Bucks., wid. of Thomas Heath of Shelswell, Oxon. and Devereux Barrett of Tenby, Pemb., s.p. Osborn, 56; Vis. Bucks. (Harl. Soc. lviii), 106; VCH Oxon. vi. 287. d. 27 Aug. 1638. C142/610/99.

Offices Held

Dep. steward, Hereford by 1602–14, Whitlock, 176. common councilman by 1619–?, alderman by 1634–d.; Duncumb, County of Hereford, i. 356; Vis. Herefs. 15. commr. sewers, Herefs. 1604, Wye valley 1621; C181/1, f. 91v; 181/3, f. 33. j.p. Herefs. by c.1605-at least c.1611, 1618–d., C66/1662; 66/1898; C231/4, f. 75; SP16/405, f. 29v. Mon. 1620 – d., Carm., Card., and Pemb. 1621 – d., Haverfordwest by 1622–d.; JPs in Wales and Monm. ed. Phillips, 164, 168, 193, 196, 214, 217, 237, 240, 353, 358. commr. subsidy, Hereford 1608, 1621 – 22, 1624, Herefs. 1621 – 22, 1624, 1626, SP14/31/1; C212/22/20–1, 23; Add. 11051, f. 141. aid, Herefs. 1609; SP14/43/107. piracy, Card. Carm. Pemb. 1623, oyer and terminer, Wales and the Marches 1624 – at least34, Oxf. circ. 1625–38, C181/3, ff. 97v, 129v, 179v; 181/4, f. 162; 181/5, f. 95. mines, Card. 1625, T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 1, p. 48. subsidy arrears, Card. 1626, E179/224/598. Forced Loan, Herefs. 1626 – 27, Card. 1627, Carm. 1627, Mon. 1627, Pemb. 1627, Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 145; C193/12/2, ff. 22, 36v, 66v, 67, 73. swans, Eng. except West Country ?1629. C181/3, f. 269v.

Member, Virg. Co. 1610. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 318.

Reader, M. Temple 1620; bencher 1620–3; MTR, 646, 650. second j. S. Wales circ. 1621–d.; W.R. Williams, Hist. Gt. Sessions in Wales, 167. sjt.-at-law 1623–d. Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 519.

Parlimentarian

HOSKINS, John (1566-1638), of the Middle Temple, London and Widemarsh Street, Hereford, Herefs.; later of Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street, London and Moorhampton, Abbey Dore, Herefs.

Main residences: the Middle Temple, London; Widemarsh Street, Hereford, Herefs.; Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street, London; Moorhampton, Abbey Dore, Herefs.

Author

J.P.F.

B.C.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

HOSKINS, John (1566-1638)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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