Family and Education
b. 1544, 2nd s. of John Peyton of Knowlton, Kent (d.1558), by Dorothy, da. of Sir John Tyndale of Hockwold, Norf. m. 8 June 1578, Dorothy, da. and coh. of Edmund Beaupré of Beaupré Hall, wid. of (Sir) Robert Bell, 1s. John III 1da. Kntd. 24 Nov. 1586.DNB; Vis. Camb. (Harl. Soc. xli), 5; R. E. Chester Waters, Chester of Chicheley Mems. i. 247, 289-98.
Offices Held
In household of Sir Henry Sidney in Ireland c. 1564 – 76; with Leicester in the Netherlands 1586; j.p. Norf. from c. 1581, sheriff 1588 – 89, dep. lt. 1588 – 96, commr. sewers by 1590; j.p. Isle of Ely from c. 1579, commr. sewers by 1594; j.p. Mdx. from c. 1597, commr. musters 1598; dep. gov. of Bergen-op-Zoom 1586; receiver, Norf. Hunts. and Norwich 1593; lt. of the Tower 1597; gov. of Jersey 1603–28.
Main residences: Beaupré Hall, Norf.; Doddington, Ely, Cambs.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
PEYTON, John I (1544-1630)
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Oxford 1644
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Religion
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