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NEILE, Sir Paul (1613-86), of Hutton Bonville, Birkby, Yorks. and Codnor Castle, Alfreton, Derbys.

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bap. 11 May 1613, o.s. of Richard Neile, archbishop of York 1632-1640, and Dorothy (bur. 3 May 1647), da. of Christopher Dacre of Lanercost, Cumb.St Benet Fink par. reg.; Mems. St Margaret’s Westminster, 85; Oxford DNB, ‘John Richard’; ‘Sir Paul Neile’. educ. Pembroke Coll. Camb. 20 May 1627, BA 1631.Al. Cant. m. (settlement 2 Feb. 1636, with £4,000) Elizabeth, da. of Gabriel Clarke, DD, archdeacon of Durham, 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 3da. (3 d.v.p.).SP28/193, p. 349; St Mary, Richmond par. reg. (burial entry for 20 June 1648); Surtees, Co. Dur. i. p. lxxxix; Dur. Cathedral Regs. ed. E.A. White (Harl. Soc. xxiii), 6, 92, 93; A Foster, ‘A Biography of Archbishop Richard Neile, 1562-1640’ (Oxford Univ. DPhil. thesis, 1978), 310. Kntd. 27 May 1633;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 201. suc. fa. 31 Oct. 1640;P. Heylin, Cyprianus Anglicus (1671), 459. bur. 9 Feb. 1686 9 Feb. 1686.St Benet Fink par. reg.
Offices Held

Central: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, c.Jan. 1635–41; gent. of privy chamber, in ordinary, 1641 – ?49, 31 May 1660–d.;Eg. 2542, f. 361; LC3/1, ff. 1v, 25; LC5/134, p. 34; Carlisle, Privy Chamber, 141, 163. gent. usher of privy chamber, 4 June 1660–d.Eg. 2542, f. 362; LC3/24, f. 3. Sub-commr. prizes by May 1672–?CTB iii. 1071; CSP Dom. 1672, pp. 494, 674; 1672–3, p. 174. Commr. excise appeals, 24 May 1673–d.CTB iv. 143; viii. 72, 597. Dep.-gov., Soc. of Mines Royal and Mineral and Battery Works. 4 Dec. 1673–d.BL, Loan 16, pt. 2, ff. 159, 204.

Military: vol. horse, royal army by June 1639–?SP16/427/38, ff. 71, 73.

Civic: freeman, Ripon 24 Dec. 1639–d.N. Yorks. RO, DC/RIC II, 1/1/2, p. 356.

Local: commr. levying of money (roy.), Yorks. c.Dec. 1642-aft. Apr. 1644;C10/55/96; Bodl. Firth c.7, f. 8; Add. 18981, ff. 121r-v. subsidy, royal household c.May 1671;CTB iii. 842. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 28 Jan. 1673.C181/7, p. 633.

Academic: FRS, 28 Nov. 1660 – d.; member, council, 1662–?d.E. S. de Beer, ‘The earliest Fellows of the Royal Soc.’, Notes and Recs. of the Royal Soc. of London, vii. 184.

Mercantile: member, Hudson’s Bay Co. 2 May 1670–?d.P.C. Newman, Co. of Adventurers, i. 320.

: of Hutton Bonville, Birkby, Yorks. and Codnor Castle, Derbys., Alfreton.
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NEILE, Sir Paul (1613-86), of Hutton Bonville, Birkby, Yorks. and Codnor Castle, Alfreton, Derbys.

Will
18 Dec. 1682, cod. 24 Mar. 1684, pr. 12 Feb. 1686.PROB11/382, f. 163v.
Estates
in 1634, Neile and his fa. purchased manor, castle and park of Codnor, Derbys. for £5,840.C54/3032/12; Coventry Docquets, 657. In 1635, they purchased manor of Hutton Bonville, Derbys. for £7,700.C54/3056/11; C7/453/75; VCH N. Riding, i. 401. In 1639, Neile and two other gentlemen purchased lease of coal mines in Auckland, co. Dur. worth about £40 p.a. on improvement. In 1640, he purchased leasehold property in Cockerton, Wearsdale, West Auckland and Wolsingham, co. Dur.Parl. Surveys of the Bishopric of Dur. ed. Kirby, 35-6, 38, 107, 143, 152-3, 160. In 1646, estate comprised manors of Codnor and Hutton Bonville, Derbys.; a franktenement, in right of his w., in tenements in St Gregory’s, London; a house, in right of his w., in St Gregory’s in reversion; a house in Lincoln, held by lease from dean and chapter of Lincoln; site and demesnes of manor of Bishop Norton, Lincs., held by lease from bishop of Lincoln; property in Auckland, Burnhope, Evenwood and Wolsingham and a third part of colliery of Bitchburne, all held by lease from bishop of Durham; a house in Knightrider Street, London, held by lease from dean and chapter of St. Paul’s; three houses in St Gregory’s, London, held by lease from vicars choral and petty canons of St Paul’s; and lands and tenements (held in trust as executor of his w.’s grandmo.) in lordship of Fenwick and Folliot, Yorks., and houses in London – in all, worth about £1,265 p.a. before the war.SP23/193, pp. 337-41, 353-6; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 132-3; CTB i. 150. This estate was charged with annuities and interest payments of £520 p.a. of which there was £1,350 owing by 1646. Neile also had debts of £500, including £300 he owed to his kinsman Chaloner Chute I*. In 1647, he borrowed a further £1,500 by statute staple from Chute.LC4/202, f. 356. In 1653, he acquired lease of Hill House, White Waltham, Berks.Lysons, Magna Britannia, i. 405; VCH Berks. iii. 174.
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Bishopthorpe, Yorks. 1640;Parl. Surveys of the Bishopric of Dur. ed. D.A. Kirby (Surt. Soc. clxxxiii), 152-3. Maidenhead, Berks. 1649;C6/160/184. Farnham, Surr. by Dec. 1651;SCA, Hartlib Pprs. 28/1/73B. the houses of Mr Gouldin and Mr Taylor, St Clement Danes, London, Jan., Mar. 1656 the house of Mr Leake, Russell Street, Covent Garden Apr. 1656.Add. 34014, ff. 6v, 21v, 28, 46v, 72.
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LONG, Lislebone (1613-59), of Stratton on the Fosse, Som.

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Family and Education
bap. 25 Apr. 1613, 1st s. of William Long of Stratton on the Fosse and Mary, da. of Thomas Lovibond of Shorwell, I.o.W.Beckington par. reg.; Vis. Som. 1623 (Harl. Soc. xi), 70; J.A. Manning, Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons (1851), 336. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 4 Dec. 1629, BA 1 Feb. 1631;Al. Ox.; Ath Ox. ii. Fasti, col. 454. L. Inn 27 Nov. 1632.LI Admiss. i. 219. m. 18 Feb. 1641, Frances, da. of John Mynne of Epsom, Surr. at least 1s.St Benet Paul’s Wharf, London par. reg.; S.W. Bates Harbin, Members of Parliament for the Co. of Som. (Taunton, 1939), 166. suc. fa. 1645;Stratton on the Fosse par. reg. Kntd. 15 Dec. 1656.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 223. d. 16 Mar. 1659.Whitelocke, Diary, 509; CCSP iv. 163; Stratton on the Fosse par. reg.
Offices Held

Legal: called, L. Inn 4 Feb. 1640; bencher, 1654.LI Black Bks. ii. 354, 401.

Local: commr. for Som. 1 July 1644; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). sewers, 15 Nov. 1645 – aft.Jan. 1646, 21 Nov. 1654–20 Dec. 1658;C181/5, ff. 263v, 268; C181/6, pp. 74, 268. Mdx. and Westminster 10 July 1656–d.;C181/6, pp. 175, 319. London 13 Aug. 1657. Aug. 1646 – d.C181/6, p. 257. J.p. Som. by; Essex, Kent, Mdx., Surr. Westminster Sept. 1655–d.Som. Assize Orders ed. Cockburn, 9; C231/6, p. 317. Commr. militia, Som. 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Western circ. by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 8, 307. London 13 July. 1655–d.;C181/6, pp. 113, 315. Mdx. 10 Nov. 1655–d.;C181/6, pp. 129, 328. Home circ. 16 June 1657–d.;C181/6, pp. 237, 306. gaol delivery, Newgate gaol 13 July 1655–d.;C181/6, pp. 113, 315. charitable uses, London Oct. 1655;Publick Intelligencer no. 7 (12–19 Nov. 1655), 97–8 (E.489.15). securing peace of commonwealth, 25 Mar. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 238.

Central: member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 15 May 1646.CJ iv. 545b. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O. Member, cttee. for sequestrations, 23 Dec. 1648;LJ x. 636b. cttee. for indemnity, 29 May 1649;CJ vi. 219b. cttee. regulating universities, 22 May 1651.CJ vi. 577b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of forfeited estates, 16 July 1651.A. and O. Master of requests, Jan. 1654-aft. May 1655.Perfect Diurnall no. 215 (16–23 Jan. 1654), 3116 (E.223.23); Severall Proceedings of State Affairs no. 226 (19–26 Jan. 1654), 3569 (E.223.25); DK 5th Rep. app. ii. 263; Som. Assize Orders, ed. Cockburn, 72–3. Commr. policies of assurances, 10 Nov. 1655–d.;C181/6, pp. 130, 318. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656;A. and O. tendering oath to MPs, 18 Jan. 1658, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 578a, 593a. Speaker (acting), House of Commons, 9–16 Mar. 1659.CJ vii. 612a, 613b-614a.

Civic: recorder, London 12 June 1655–d.LMA, COL/CA/01/01/067, ff. 347v, 348; COL/CA/01/01/070, f. 223.

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LONG, Lislebone (1613-59), of Stratton on the Fosse, Som.

Will
admon. 2 Apr. 1659.Brown, Abstracts of Som. Wills, iii. 125.
Estates
bought manor of Stratton on the Fosse, which had formerly belonged to the duchy of Cornwall for £1502 9s 9d, 1651.CTB i. 359; I.J. Gentles, ‘The debenture market and military purchasers of crown lands, 1649-60’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 309.
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RUSSELL, William (1616-1700), of Woburn Abbey, Beds., Chenies, Bucks. and Bedford House, Strand, Westminster.

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b. Aug. 1616, 1st s. of Francis Russell†, 4th earl of Bedford, and Catharine (d. 30 Jan. 1657), da. of Giles Brydges†, 3rd Baron Chandos.; bro. of John Russell*. educ. ?Magdalen, Oxf.; L. Inn 24 Feb. 1630;State Trials, iii. 646; Clarendon, Hist. iii. 155; L. Inn Admiss. i. 210. travelled abroad (France, Spain) 1635-7.Oxford DNB; Letters and Pprs. of the Verney Fam. ed. J. Bruce (Cam. Soc. lvi), 159. m. 11 July 1637 (with £12,000) Anne (1615-84), da. of Robert Carr† (Ker), 1st earl of Somerset, 6s. (3 d.v.p.), 3da (1 d.v.p.).Collins, Peerage; G. Scott Thomson, Life in a Noble Household 1641-1700 (1937), 72; HP Commons 1690-1715, v. 321, 332-3. Kntd. KB 1626, KG 1672.Shaw, Knights of Eng. suc. fa. 9 May 1641 as 5th earl of Bedford; cr. duke of Bedford 1694, Baron Howland 1695. d. 7 Sept. 1700.CP.
Offices Held

Local: ld. lt. (jt. with fa.) Devon, Exeter 30 Mar. 1637 – 9 May 1641, (sole) 10 Feb. 1642–23 Aug. 1643;Sainty, Lords Lieutenants, 18; CJ ii. 424b; iii. 216a. Som. 1642 – 23 Aug. 1643; Beds. ?1642–?, 1689–d.; Cambs. 1689 – d.; Mdx 1692–d.Sainty, Lords Lieutenants, 15, 16, 25; LJ v. 280b. Gov. Bedford Level 1663–d.S.A. Wells, Drainage of the Bedford Level (2 vols. 1830), i. 457. Custos rot. Mdx. 6 Feb. 1692–d.J.C. Sainty Custodes Rotulorum1660–1828 (2002).

Military: gen. of horse (parlian.), 14 July 1642-Aug. 1643.LJ v. 211a; Clarendon, Hist. iii. 143. Lt.-col. of horse (roy.) by Sept. 1643-Dec. 1643.Clarendon, Hist. iii. 193, 246n. Gov. Plymouth 1671.HP Lords 1660–1715, iv. 243.

Central: dep. earl marshal, 1673.CSP Dom. 1673, p. 414. PC, 1689–d.HP Lords 1660–1715, iv. 243.

: Beds., Bucks., Chenies and Bedford House, Westminster., Strand.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, J. Priwitzer, 1627;Woburn Abbey, Beds. oil on canvas, double portrait with Lord George Digby*, A. Van Dyck, 1637-9;Althorp, Northants. oil on canvas, double portrait with wife, A. Van Dyck;Wilton House, Wilts. oil on canvas, P. Lely, 1676;Woburn Abbey, Beds. oil on canvas, studio of P. Lely;NT, Hardwick Hall. oil on canvas, G. Kneller, c.1692;NPG. chalk on copper, E. Lutterell, 1698;NPG. line engraving, G. Glover, aft. 1641;BM; NPG. line engraving, unknown, 1642-3;BM. mezzotint, R. Williams aft. E. Lutterell, c.1698;BM; NPG. fun. monument, attrib. F. Bird, Chenies church, Bucks.

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RUSSELL, William (1616-1700), of Woburn Abbey, Beds., Chenies, Bucks. and Bedford House, Strand, Westminster.

Will
22 June 1700, pr. 5 May 1701.PROB11/460/135.
Estates
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RAYMOND, Oliver (d.1679), of Belchamps Walter, Essex.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 1st s. of John Raymond of Belchamps Walter, Essex, and Anne, da. of John Sparrow of Guestingthorpe, Essex.Vis. Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. xiii-xiv), i. 476, ii. 696. educ. privately (Mr Bedford); Trinity, Camb. 1622, Christ’s 27 Jan. 1624;Al. Cant.; J. Peile, Biographical Reg. of Christ’s College 1505-1905 (Cambridge, 1910-13), i. 356. L. Inn 11 Feb. 1626, called 1633.LI Admiss. i. 198; LI Black Bks. ii. 309. m. Frances, da. of Sir William Herries of Margeretting, Essex, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 4da., plus 14 other children (d.v.p.)Vis. Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 and 1634, i. 476, ii. 696. suc. fa. 1635.Geneal. Gleanings in Eng. ed. H.F. Waters (Boston, Mass. 1901), ii. 1287. bur. 25 Mar. 1679 25 Mar. 1679.Al. Cant.
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Local: j.p. Essex 17 July 1641 – Mar. 1652, 1654 – July 1670; Suff. 8 July 1656-Mar. 1660.C231/5, p. 459; C231/6, pp. 234, 340; C213/7, p. 373; Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxix; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. assessment, Essex 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Member, Essex standing cttee. bef. Sept. 1643.SP28/227: warrant, 3 Aug. 1643. Commr. Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, Essex 24 Feb. 1644, 28 Aug. 1654;‘The royalist clergy of Lincs.’ ed. J.W.F. Hill, Lincs. Archit. and Arch. Soc. ii. 120; A. and O. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663;SR. sewers, River Stour, Essex and Suff. 4 July 1664.C181/7, p. 277.

Religious: feoffee, repair of Belchamp Otton church, 1643–d.Essex RO, D/DQ 84/116; D/P 214/25/11, pp. 26–48.

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RAYMOND, Oliver (d.1679), of Belchamps Walter, Essex.

Will
12 Jan. 1676, pr. 28 May 1679, sentence 13 Nov. 1679.PROB11/361/10; PROB11/360/677.
Estates
he and his fa. bought rectory of Belchamps Walter, 1627;Coventry Docquets, 567. held manor of Norton, Herts. as trustee for Cleaver family, 1629;Herts. RO, DE/Pm/19553; DE/Pm/19306. owned land at Belchamps Walter.PROB11/361/10.
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SMYTH, George (c.1602-58), of St Margaret’s, Herts.

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b. c. 1602, s. of John Smyth of Kidford, Suss. educ. Trinity, Oxf. 29 Jan. 1619, aged 16; G. Inn 16 Feb. 1624.Al. Ox.; G. Inn Admiss. 172. m. bef. 1634, Joanna, da. of Robert Tichborne*, merchant of London, 4da.Vis. London, 1633-5 (Harl. Soc. xvii), 289; PROB11/286/245. d. 26 Sept. 1658.J. Nicoll, Diary of Public Transactions (Edinburgh, 1836), 219; TSP vii. 435.
Offices Held

Legal: called, G. Inn 29 May 1633; ancient, 24 May 1650.PBG Inn, 314, 376.

Local: member, Herts. co. cttee. 27 Sept. 1645.A. and O. J.p. July 1650–57.C231/6, p. 192. Commr. assessment, 9 June 1657.A. and O.

Scottish: commr. admin. justice, Apr. 1652.Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, 175. Visitor, univs. c.June 1652.Scot. and Commonwealth ed. Firth, 44–5. Commr. claims, ordinance of pardon and grace, 12 Apr. 1654.A. and O. Judge of exch. and ld. of session, 16 May 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 326. Commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Civic: burgess and guildbrother, Edinburgh 14 May 1652.Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1642–55, 281. Burgess, Ayr 14 May 1656.NRS, B6/18/2, f. 111v.

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SMYTH, George (c.1602-58), of St Margaret’s, Herts.

Will
25 Sept. 1658, pr. 18 Jan. 1659.PROB11/286/245.
Estates
by 1645 had purchased estate at St Margaret’s, Herts. with rental income sufficient to allow his widow an annuity of £200 p.a.PROB11/286/245; A. and O. Salary as commr. for admin. of justice, £600 p.a.TSP iv. 528.
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ALLEIN, Francis (1605-58), of Fleet Street, London and Caron House, Lambeth, Surr.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 1 Jan. 1606, 3rd s. of George Allein (bur. 25 Jan. 1640), vicar of Gretton, Northants. and Bridget, da. of Reginald Lisle of Moxhull, Wishaw, Warws.Gretton par. reg.; Goldsmiths' Co. Lib. Apprentice Bk. I, f. 250; Visitation Northants. ed. Metcalfe, 110; I.H. Longden, Northants. and Rutland Clergy, i. 41. educ. appr. Goldsmith, London 17 Aug. 1621.Goldsmiths' Co. Lib. Apprentice Bk. I, f. 250. m. 11 Dec. 1628, Elizabeth, wid. of John Nunn, Goldsmith of St Dunstan-in the West, London, s.p.St Martin Ludgate par. reg.; GL, Ms 9171/25 f. 201 (Commissary Court of London, probate recs). bur. 6 Oct. 1658 6 Oct. 1658.St Mary at Lambeth par. reg.; HMC 15th Rep. 146.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Goldsmiths’ Co. 17 Oct. 1628; liveryman, 8 Nov. 1644; asst. 12 Oct. 1649; prime warden, 10 May 1650–1.Goldsmiths' Co. Lib. Court Bk. Q, f. 92; Court Bk, W, ff. 267v-268v; Court Bk. Y, ff. 89, 146, 165. Common councilman, London 13 Dec. 1644-Dec. 1646;GL, MS 3016/1 (St Dunstan-in-the-West Vestry Mins.), pp. 251, 270, 286, 287. alderman, 1648–51.A.B. Beaven, Aldermen of London.

Religious: scavenger, St Dunstan-in-the-West, 7 Aug. 1641- c.July 1642; vestryman, 29 Nov. 1644- c.1648; elder, 3 Aug. 1646-c.1648.GL, MS 3016/1, pp. 221, 225, 228–9, 249, 280. Trier, twelfth London classis, 20 Oct. 1645, 26 Sept. 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O; CJ vi. 437a.

Central: commr. customs, Jan. 1643–?;CJ ii. 937b. to Scottish Parliament, 26 Oct. 1643.CJ iii. 279a; LJ vi. 273b. Member, cttee. for compounding, 13 Nov. 1643,CJ iii. 310b. 8 Feb. 1647; cttee. for the army, 31 Mar. 1645, 23 Sept. 1647, 17 Apr. 1649, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652. Treas. at war, 31 Mar. 1645, 23 Sept. 1647, 17 Apr. 1649. Member, cttee. for foreign plantations, 21 Mar. 1646. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647.A. and O. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 28 Oct. 1647;LJ ix. 500a. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648, 20 June 1649; high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for excise, 10 Feb. 1649; cttee. of navy and customs, 10 Feb. 1649.CJ vi. 137b. Treas. sale of crown lands, 16 July 1649; sale of fee farm rents, 11 Mar. 1650; sale of forfeited estates, 16 July 1651, 4 Aug., 18 Nov. 1652.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 4 July 1650.CJ vi. 437a. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of forfeited estates, 16 July 1651. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1651. Commr. to inspect treasuries, 10 Dec. 1652, 1 Jan. 1653.A. and O. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses by 1656.SP28/292, unfol.

Colonial: member, Somers Is. [Bermuda] Co. by Oct. 1644–?d.Mems. of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas ed. J.H. Lefroy (1877–9), i. 590.

Local: commr. London militia, 15 Aug. 1645, 23 July 1647, 2 Sept. 1647, 17 Jan. 1649;A. and O. sewers. Mdx. 15 Oct. 1645, 31 Jan. 1654; C181/5, p. 262v; C181/6, p. 5. Kent and Surr. 14 Nov. 1657;C181/6, p. 263. assessment, Hants 16 Feb., 17 Mar. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Surr. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Cumb. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; London 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Mdx. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). arrears of assessment, London 24 Apr. 1648; militia, Hants 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O. J.p. Mdx. 2 June 1649-bef. Oct. 1653;C231/6, p. 152; C193/13/4, f. 60v. Cumb. by Feb. 1650–6; Hants by Feb. 1650 – d.; Surr. 15 Sept. 1653–d.C231/6, pp. 266, 330. Commr. Southwark militia, July 1649;A. and O. Westminster militia, 7 June 1650;Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). oyer and terminer, London by Jan. 1654–1 Oct. 1658;C181/6, pp. 2, 267. Western circ. by Feb. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 9, 308. Home circ. 23 June 1656–d.;C181/6, pp. 171, 306. gaol delivery, Newgate gaol by Jan. 1654–1 Oct. 1658;C181/6, pp. 2, 267. ejecting scandalous ministers, Surr. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. charitable uses, London Oct. 1655;Publick Intelligencer no. 7 (12–19 Nov. 1655), 97–8 (E.489.15). securing peace of commonwealth, Hants Dec. 1655.TSP iv. 363.

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ALLEIN, Francis (1605-58), of Fleet Street, London and Caron House, Lambeth, Surr.

Will
27 Feb. 1658, pr. 7 Sept. 1659.PROB11/295, ff. 121-123v.
Estates
1647, jt. purchaser of manors of Waltham and Droxford, Hants. 1649, purchased manor of East Meon, Hants 1651, purchased manors of Ealing and Acton, Mdx.Bodl. Rawl. B239, pp. 1, 36, 54.
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HOPKINS, Edward (c.1602-57), of Connecticut and London.

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Family and Education
b. c. 1602, ?2nd s. of Edward Hopkins of Elton, Herefs. and Katherine, da. of John Lello of Clunton, Salop.PROB11/157/45; Vis. Herefs. 1634 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xv), 141; ‘Edward Hopkins’, Oxford DNB. educ. appr. as merchant in Levant trade, London. m. 5 Sept. 1631, Ann (d. 14 Dec. 1698), da. of Thomas Yale of Plas Grono, Wrexham, Denb., stepda. of Theophilus Eaton of London, later of New Haven, s.p. suc. bro. Henry Hopkins, 1655.St Anholin, Budge Row, London par. reg.; PROB11/243/261; Oxford DNB. d. 13 Mar. 1657.‘Edward Hopkins’, ‘Thomas Yale’, ‘Elihu Yale’, Oxford DNB; W.R. Chaplin, ‘Nehemiah Bourne’, Colonial Soc. of Massachusetts, Trans. xlii. 69-70; Jnl. of John Winthrop, 1630-49 ed. R.S. Dunn, J. Savage, L. Yeandle (1996), 570n.
Offices Held

Colonial: asst. Connecticut 1639; gov. 1640, 1644, 1646, 1648, 1650, 1652, 1654; dep. gov. 1643, 1645, 1647, 1649, 1651, 1653.Public Recs. of Connecticut i ed. J.H. Trumbull (Hartford, Conn. 1850), 57; F.C. Norton, The Governors of Connecticut (Hartford, Conn. 1905), 7–8. Commr. for Connecticut, federation of utd. colonies of New England, 31 July 1644–1652; pres. utd. colonies, 1 Sept. 1644–52.Recs. of the Colony of New Plymouth ... Acts of the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England i. ed. D. Pulsifer (1859), 16, 31, 61, 84, 109, 139, 161, 192.

Central: commr. navy, 20 Dec. 1652;CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 44. propagating gospel in New England, ?1653.GL, MS 8011, p. 35. Trustee, maintenance of preaching ministers, 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O. Commr. admlty. and navy, 8 Nov. 1655.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 10.

Local: j.p. Surr. 3 Mar. 1656–d.;C231/6, p. 327; C193/13/6, f. 85v. Kent 11 Mar. 1656–d.C231/6, p. 328; C193/13/5, f. 53v.

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Web Title

HOPKINS, Edward (c.1602-57), of Connecticut and London.

Will
7 Mar. 1657, pr. 30 Apr. 1657.PROB11/263/523.
Estates
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HALE, Matthew (1609-76), of Alderley, Glos. and Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 1 Nov. 1609, o.s. of Robert Hale of Alderley and barrister of L. Inn and Joan (d. c.1611), da. of Matthew Poyntz of Alderley.G. Burnet, Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale (1682), 1-3; Vis. Glos. 1682-3 ed. Fenwick and Metcalfe, 87. educ. Wotton under Edge, Glos. (John Stanton); Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 20 Oct. 1626; L. Inn 8 Nov. 1628.Ath. Ox. iii. 1090; E.S. Lindley, ‘Hale of Alderley’, Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. lxxiv, 201; LI Admiss. i. 206. m. (1) Anne (bur. 23 Jan. 1660), da. of Sir Henry More of Fawley, Berks. 4s (3 d.v.p.), 2da. (1 d.v.p.) and 4ch. d.v.p.;Burnet, Life and Death, 109; Glos. Par. Regs. ed. Phillimore, x. (1905), 55. (2) 18 Oct. 1667, Anne, da. of Joseph Bishop of Fawley, s.p.Glos. Par. Regs. x. 30, 55. suc. fa. 1614. Kntd. 30 Jan. 1662.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 236. d. 25 Dec. 1676.Burnet, Life and Death, 61, 70; Glos. Par. Regs. x. 30.
Offices Held

Legal: called, L. Inn 17 May 1636; bencher, 16 Nov. 1648.LI Black Bks. ii. 339, 379. Retained counsel, Charterhouse, Mdx. 1650; Gloucester corporation, 1653. 31 Jan. 1654Glos. RO, D1086/X2, X3. Justice of the Common Bench,, 29 Sept. 1658-May 1659. Assize judge, var. circs. by Feb. 1654-July 1658, Feb. 1662 – aft.Feb. 1673; co. palatine of Lancaster, 28 Feb. 1654. Sjt.-at-law (Chancery Lane), Hil. 1654. C. bar. exch. 7 Nov. 1660–71. C.j.k.b. 18 May 1671–20 Feb. 1676.C181/6, pp. 7, 298; C181/7, pp. 128, 634; Glos. RO, D1086/F70/X4; Baker, Serjeants at Law, 189, 242; Sainty, Judges of Eng. 11, 76, 96; A. and O.

Local: gov. Covent Garden precinct 7 Jan. 1646. by Jan. 1654 – aft.Jan. 1673A. and O. Judge, probate of wills, 8 Apr. 1653. by Jan. 1654 – aft.Jan. 1673A. and O. Commr. oyer and terminer, var. circs.; London, Mdx. by Jan. 1654-aft. Jan. 1673;C181/6–7, passim. Wales 8 Nov. 1661;C181/7, p. 119. the Verge 10 Apr. 1662-aft. Nov. 1668;C181/7, pp. 141, 456. gaol delivery, Newgate gaol by Jan. 1654-aft. Jan. 1673;C181/6–7, passim. Havering-atte-Bower, Essex 12 Feb. 1658;C181/6, p. 272. sewers, Glos. 20 Feb. 1654, 7 Nov. 1671;C181/6, p. 19; C181/7, p. 598. Essex 28 June 1658;C181/6, p. 296. Haverfordwest 19 Oct. 1659;C181/6, p. 402. Gt. Level 26 May 1662;C181/7, p. 148. London 24 July 1662;C181/7, p. 164. charitable uses, Oct. 1655.Publick Intelligencer no. 7 (12–19 Nov. 1655), 97–8 (E.489.15). J.p. Glos 1656–d. Commr. militia, 26 July 1659;A. and O. assessment, 1661, 1664, 1672; Mdx. 1672;SR. piracy, London 18 Mar. 1667.C181/7, p. 394.

Central: commr. law reform, 17 Jan. 1652.CJ vii. 74a; Add. 35863. Member, cttee. for trade, 1 Nov. 1655.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 1.

: Glos. and Mdx., Lincoln’s Inn.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, J.M. Wright, 1670;Guildhall Art Gallery, London. oil on canvas, J.M. Wright, 1671;Government Art Colln. oil on canvas, aft. J.M. Wright;NPG. oil on canvas, aft. J.M. Wright;Oxfordshire Museum. oil on canvas, aft. J.M. Wright;Hertford Coll. Oxf. oil on canvas, aft. J.M. Wright, c.1690;Astley Hall Museum, Chorley, Lancs. mezzotint, unknown, c.1670;BM; NPG. line engraving, R. White, 1676;BM; NPG. line engraving, R.H. van Hove, 1677;BM; NPG. line engraving, J. Clark, c.1679.NPG.

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Web Title

HALE, Matthew (1609-76), of Alderley, Glos. and Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx.

Will
3 Feb. 1676, cod. 2 Nov. 1676, pr. 6 Feb. 1677.LPL, MS 3474, ff. 192-215.
Estates
patrimony of Rangeworthy and Maiseyhampton manors, Glos.; bought Wortley manor 1647, exchanged Maiseyhampton for Alderley manor, 1656; bought Tresham manor, 1664, Hillersley manor 1674.Glos. RO, D1086/T2; T31; T44/1; T81. Lands at Ewelme mills, Oxon bought 1674; lands in Acton, Mdx.; quarter of Cheadle manor, Staffs.; tenement of ‘Dudmandale’, Lincs.; Old Sodbury park, Glos.LPL, 3474, ff. 192-215; Glos. RO, D1086/T2, bdle 4, pt 1.
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Addresses
Religion
presented Evan Griffith to Alderley, 28 Aug. 1665.Glos. RO, GDR/1/B.
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CHEKE, Sir Thomas (1570-1659), of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, and Pyrgo, Havering, Essex.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 7 Jan. 1570, 1st s. of Henry Cheke† of Elstow, Beds. and the King’s Manor, York, and Frances, da. of Sir Humphrey Radcliffe† of Elstow.Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii-xiv), i. 177, 373. educ. ?St Peter’s, York g.s.;J. Strype, The Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke (Oxford, 1821), 145. L. Inn, 2 Nov. 1590.LI Admiss. i. 111. m. (1) bef. 3 Mar. 1594, Katherine (d. Feb. 1615), da. of Peter Osborne† of South Fambridge, Essex and Chicksands, Beds. ?1da. d.v.p. ; (2) bef. June 1616, Essex (d. 1658), da. of Robert Rich†, 1st earl of Warwick, 5s. (2 ) 6da. (1 ).Vis. Essex, i. 177, 373; Morant, Essex i. 61; Reg. of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials in the Par. of St Martin in the Fields. ed. T. Mason (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxv), 50, 52, 102, 170, 176, 177; Reg. of St Martin-in-the-Fields London 1619-1636, ed. J.V. Kitts (Harl. Soc. lxvi), 5; D. Lysons, The Environs of London (1792-4), iv. 199; J.P. Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (1802-7), iii. 216. suc. fa. 1586; Kntd. 11 May 1603. bur. 25 Mar. 1659 25 Mar. 1659.Strype, Sir John Cheke, 146.
Offices Held

Mercantile: cllr. Virg. Co. 1619-aft. 1622.The Recs. of the Virginia Co. of London, ed. S.M. Kingsbury (Washington D.C. 1906–35), i. 211, 227; iv. 80. Member, Amazon River Co. ?-1620; Somers Is. [Bermuda] Co. 1620; Providence Is. Co. c.1632.APC 1619–21, p. 204; T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire (Cambridge, Mass. 1967), 264; A.P. Newton, The Colonising Activities of the English Puritans, (New Haven and London, 1914), 126; Kupperman, Providence Island, 357.

Civic: freeman, Boston 1620; Maldon 1626; Colchester 1628.J.F. Bailey, Transcription of Mins. of Boston Corp. ii. 318; W.J. Petchey, Prospect of Maldon (1991), 267; Essex RO, T/A465/114, f. 69v.

Local: commr. subsidy, Essex 1621 – 22, 1624, 1626, 1628, 1641. 1621 – 32SR. J.p., by Sept. 1644 – bef.Jan. 1650; Havering-atte-Bower 1639–?Maynard Lieut. Bk. 369; HMC 10th Rep. iv. 503–10. Commr. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 1622–33, 5 June 1641 – aft.Jan. 1642; Essex 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/3, ff. 56v, 208; C181/4, ff. 1v, 120v; C181/5, ff. 193, 222, 237v, 254. sewers, Havering and Dagenham levels 1622 – aft.32; Rainham bridge to Mucking mill, Essex 1627 – aft.43; Dengie and Rochford hundreds 1633 – aft.44; Mdx. 1639; Essex and Kent 1642. 1625 – 26C181/3, ff. 43–233v; C181/4, ff. 76, 191v; C181/5, ff. 142v, 227v, 249. Dep. lt. Essex, by Aug. 1643–?Maynard Lieut. Bk. 93, 140–1; HMC 7th Rep. 556. Commr. Forced Loan, Essex 1626–7; Maldon, Harwich 1627;Bodl. Firth c.4, p. 257; SP16/52/64; C193/12/2, ff. 80v, 84v. charitable uses, Essex 1629-aft. 1629;C191/1, unfol. gaol delivery, Havering-atte-Bower 1630 – d.; Essex 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/4, ff. 48, 139; C181/5, ff. 2v, 238, 254; C181/6, pp. 104, 185, 272. swans, Essex and Suff. 1635;C181/5, f. 28. perambulation, Waltham Forest, Essex 27 Aug. 1641;C181/5, f. 208. further subsidy, Essex 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards the relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 July 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR, A. and O. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 20 Aug., 28 Oct. 1642.CJ ii. 728b, 825b.

Religious: elder, Becontree and Havering classis, Essex 4 Nov. 1645.Add. 37491, f. 81.

: of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and Pyrgo, Essex., Havering.
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Commons 1640-1660
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CHEKE, Sir Thomas (1570-1659), of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, and Pyrgo, Havering, Essex.

Will
30 Aug. 1658, codicil 22 Sept. 1658, pr. 18 Apr. 1659.PROB11/290/215.
Estates
bought manors of North Weald, North Weald Bassett, and of Pyrgo, Havering, both in Essex, 1621.VCH Essex, iv. 287-8; vii. 16.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
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COOPER, Thomas II (d. 1659), of Southwark, Surr. and St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
m. (c.1650?) Grace, da. of Edward Price of Gunley, Forden, Mont., 4s. 2da. d. 21 Dec. 1659.PROB11/301/341.
Offices Held

Military: lt. (parlian.) reformado coy. army of 3rd earl of Essex, c.1644.SP16/510, f. 242. Capt.-lt. of ft. regt. of Edward Aldridge bef. Apr. 1645.Harl. 166, f. 174v; Wanklyn, New Model Army, i. 49. Capt. regt. of Walter Lloyd (later William Herbert), New Model army, May 1645–?Wanklyn, New Model Army, i. 59. Maj. of horse, parliamentary guard, July-Sept. 1648.CSP Dom. 1648–9, pp. 178–270. Col. of ft. army in Scotland, Aug. 1650-June 1659. Col. of ft. army in Ireland, Dec. 1655-July 1659. Gov. Ulster Dec. 1655-July 1659.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 477–8, 668–9; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 79, 92, 231. Col. of horse, July 1659–d.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 125; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 242.

Local: member, militia sub-cttee. Southwark May 1647-July 1649.Clarke Pprs. i. 154; A. and O. J.p. Surr. 2 Apr. 1649–?d.C231/6, p. 146; C193/13/3, f. 63v; C193/13/5, f. 104. Commr. assessment, 9 June 1657; militia, Mont., Denb., Flint, Caern., Merion., Anglesey 26 July 1659.A. and O.

Scottish: dep. Orkney, tender of union, 1652.Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, 164. Commr. assessment, Orkney and Shetland c.July 1653.Scotland and the Commonwealth, ed. Firth, 175.

Irish: commr. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. J.p. co. Antrim by Sept. 1657–?Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 670.

: of Southwark, Surr. and St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

COOPER, Thomas II (d. 1659), of Southwark, Surr. and St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Will
12 July 1659, pr. 1 Sept. 1660.PROB11/301/341.
Estates
purchased crown lands in Lincs., Yorks., Glos. and Flint. worth £302 p.a. (Sept. 1651, Feb. and Aug. 1652); acquired Gwersyllt Hall and other lands in Denbighshire (Sept. 1658); and granted, by debenture, 1,945 acres in Moyashell barony, Westmeath (1654, held by his wid. 1670).PROB11/301/341; Down Survey website. Purchased lands in Kinneil, Scotland, from George Monck*, c.1655.Scotland and the Protectorate, 320.
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