BERKELEY, Maurice (1599-1654), of Stoke Gifford, Glos.

Family and Education

b. 1599,J. Smyth, Berkeley Mss ed. J. Maclean, i. 265. 1st s. of Richard Berkeley* (d. 1661) of Stoke Gifford and his 1st wife Mary, da. of Robert Rowe, Haberdasher, of London. Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 9. m. (1) 1622, APC, 1621-3, p. 119. with £3,500, CSP Dom. 1634-5, p. 406. Elizabeth (d. Nov. 1623), Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 527. da. of Sir Edward Coke* of Stoke Poges, Bucks., 1da.; Vis. Glos. 9. (2) by 1627, with £2,800, HMC 6th Rep. 94. Mary, da. of Sir George Tipping of Wheatfield, Oxon., 2s. Smyth, i. 265. Kntd. 11 Sept. 1621. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 178. bur. 3 Jan. 1655 3 Jan. 1655. W.R. Williams, Parl. Hist. Glos. 50. sig. Mau[rice] Berkeley.

Offices Held

J.p. Glos. 1625 – 27, 1628–31, C231/4, ff. 188, 227, 261; C231/5, p. 51. 1643; Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6 ed. W.H. Black, 14. commr. sewers 1625, C181/3, f. 172. dep. lt. 1626, by 1639–42, SP16/41/30i; HMC 5th Rep. 345; LJ, v. 291. Forced Loan 1627, C193/12/2, f. 20v. commr. charitable uses 1630, C93/12/3. subsidy 1641–2, SR, v. 62, 84, 151. array 1642, Northants. RO, FH133. imprest 1643, sheriff (roy.) 1643. Docquets of Letters Patent, pp. 102, 117.

Member, Virg. Co. 1623. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 240.

Parlimentarian

BERKELEY, Maurice (1599-1654), of Stoke Gifford, Glos.

Main residence: Stoke Gifford, Glos.

Author

A.D.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

BERKELEY, Maurice (1599-1654)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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