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COMBE, William (1586-1667), of The College, Old Stratford and Welcombe, Stratford-upon Avon, Warws.

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b. 15 Dec. 1586, 1st s. of Thomas Combe of Stratford-upon-Avon and Mary (d. 1617), wid. of William Yonge of Caynton, Edgmond, Salop, da. of Anthony Bonner of Chipping Campden, Glos.Stratford-upon-Avon par. reg.; Dugdale, Warws. ii, 685-6; Vis. Salop 1623, ii. (Harl. Soc. xxix), 519; M. Eccles, Shakespeare in Warws. (Madison, Wisconsin, 1963), 120; E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare (2 vols. Oxford, 1930), ii. 138. educ. M. Temple 17 Oct. 1602;MTR i. 425, ii. 503. Christ Church, Oxf. 8 July 1603;Al. Ox. m. 7 June 1612 (with £2,000) Katherine (d. 21 June 1662), da. of Edward Boughton of Little Lawford, Warws., 1s. d.v.p. 9da. (7 d.v.p.). suc. fa. Jan. 1609. d. 30 Jan. 1667.Newbold-on-Avon, Warws. par. reg.; Dugdale, Warws. ii, 685-6; R.B. Wheler, Hist. and Antiquities of Stratford-upon-Avon (Stratford-upon-Avon, 1806), 79, 84.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Warws. by Mar. 1615 – 24 Feb. 1640, 29 Jan. 1641 – Mar. 1660, July 1660–d.Shakespeare Birthplace Trust RO, ER 1/1/67; C231/5, p. 425; C231/6, p. 160; C193/12/3; A Perfect List (1660), 58–9; Warwick County Records, i. pp. xxviii, 11; iii. p. xx. Sheriff, 1615–16.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 147. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 61. swans, midland cos. and Welsh borders 1627;C181/3, f. 227v. Staffs. and Warws. 1635, 1638;C181/4, f. 199v; C181/5, f. 91. subsidy, Warws. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 14 May, 7 Dec. 1649, 1 June 1660; Warws. and Coventry 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657.SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Member, sub.-cttee. of accts. Warws. by 12 Sept. 1645–?7.SP28/246. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648;SR; A. and O. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–22 June 1659.C181/6, pp. 15, 312.

: Old Stratford and Welcombe, Stratford-upon Avon, Warws.
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Likenesses: Memorial, Stratford-upon-Avon church.Wheler, Hist. and Antiquities of Stratford-upon-Avon ,79, 84.

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COMBE, William (1586-1667), of The College, Old Stratford and Welcombe, Stratford-upon Avon, Warws.

Will
not found.
Estates
Old Stratford (at least 120 acres), Stratford-upon-Avon; from 1614, principal owner, Welcombe estate, Stratford-upon-Avon.Mins. and Accts. of Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation v, 1593-98 ed. L. Fox (Dugdale Soc. xxxv), 69; Eccles, Shakespeare in Warws. 102; VCH Warws. iii. 264. Ashorne manor, Warws. by Michaelmas, 1639.Warwick County Records, ii. 49. Bought manors of Alvechurch, Blockley (for £1,394 12s 5d), Woodhall; Hallow Park and site of Hallow manor house (for £856 10s), Worcs. all in 1648 from trustees for sale of bishops’ lands.C54/3372/13; Bodl. Rawl. B239, p.18; VCH Worcs. iii. 267, 368, 370.
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STUDLEY, Nathaniel (1602-aft. 1667), of Mayfield, Suss.

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bap. 1 Oct. 1602, o. surv. s. of Nathaniel Studley of Sundridge, Kent, and Elizabeth, da. of John Gilbert (also Jelbarde, Iylbert) of Sevenoaks.St Martin, Brasted, Kent par. reg.; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 171; PROB11/160/130 (John Iylbert). educ. G. Inn, 1 Nov. 1622.GI Admiss. 168. m. (1) 1 Oct. 1629, Elizabeth Hill, at least 1s.;St Martin, Brasted par. reg.; marr. lic. Joseph Studley, 3 Jan. 1666 (IGI). (2) ?24 Oct. 1648, Elizabeth, da. of Henry Rogers (d. 1639), vicar of Selmeston, Suss., and wid. of Cony Crashfield (d. bef. 1 Oct 1638), of Robert Hammond (d. aft. 7 Mar. 1640) of Ripe, near Lewes, ?and of one Alchine.E. Suss. RO, SAS/PN/270; Clergy of the C. of E. database; PROB11/180/322 (Henry Rogers); Cal. Suss. Marr. Lics. (Suss. Rec. Soc. i), 263; IGI. suc. fa. ?July 1632; d. by 1672.C54/3349/46.
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Local: defence of Hants and southern cos., Suss. 4 Mar. 1644;LJ vi. 450a. commr. for Suss., assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644; assessment, Suss. 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1649.A. and O. J.p. by 12 Mar. 1649-bef. 25 July 1661.  ASSI35/90/2; ASSI35/102/7; C193/13/3–6; Stowe 577; CUL, Dd.VIII.1; Bodl. Rawl. A.32, p. 173. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, Nov. 1655;TSP iv. 161. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62–3 (E.505.35). sewers, 6 July 1659.C181/6, p. 368.

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STUDLEY, Nathaniel (1602-aft. 1667), of Mayfield, Suss.

Will
not found.
Estates
inherited property at Sundridge, and manors of Ranesley and East and West Ewehurst, Kent (sold 1646), and other land in Suss.Hasted, Kent, iii. 224, 286; C54/3572/83; C54/3349/46; E. Suss. RO, Dyke MS 738. From 1646 bought further land in Suss., inc. at Mayfield, manor of Dixter and tenements in Northiam (1655–6).C54/3773/20; Suss. Manors, i. 131; E. Suss. RO, DYK/738. ‘Of Mayfield’ in July 1654, but by late 1655, residence in Lewes; described as ‘of West Meston’, May 1658.E. Suss. RO, PAR422/33/97; SAS-RF/2/208; HOOK/1/18; TSP, iv. 161. Held mortgages on land of Thomas Relfe called Sumners in Waldron, 3 July 1654, 3 July 1658, 22 Oct. and 1 Nov. 1660 ; and of John Godley, 11 May 1658.E. Suss. RO, SAS-RF/2/208, 209, 211, 213, 214; HOOK/1/18; On 1 May 1665, life interest with his w. Elizabeth in lands in Eastbourne late held by heirs male of her fa.17 E. Suss. RO, SAS/PN/270.
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JENINGS, Jonathan (1633-1707), of Ripon, Yorks.

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bap. 25 Apr. 1633, 2nd s. of Jonathan Jennings (d. 24 Aug. 1649) of Ripon and Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Giles Parker of Newby, Ripon; bro. of Edmund Jenings*.Ripon par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 201. educ. Ripon g.s.;Al. Cant. G. Inn 28 Dec. 1649;G. Inn Admiss. Christ’s, Camb. 28 June 1650.Al. Cant. m. 15 Oct. 1663, Anne, da. of Sir Edward Barkham, 1st bt.† of Tottenham High Cross, Mdx. and Southacre, Norf. 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.Ripon par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 201. Kntd. 18 Mar. 1678;Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 252. bur. 27 Jan. 1707 27 Jan. 1707.Ripon Millenary ed. W. Harrison, ii. 68.
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Civic: freeman, Ripon 5 Jan. 1659–?d.; alderman, 10 Nov. 1662 – 29 Apr. 1687; mayor, Jan. 1664-Jan. 1665.N. Yorks. RO, DC/RIC II 1/1/2, pp. 506, 548, 578; DC/RIC II 1/1/3, p. 166; Ripon Millenary ed. Harrison, ii. 66–7.

Local: capt.-lt. militia ft. Yorks. 27 Mar.-c.July 1660; capt. by 1678–?d.Notts. RO, DDSR 216/1; DDSR 216/16; Beinecke Lib. Osborn Shelves, Danby boxes [OSB.MSS 6], box 2, folder 36 (W. Riding militia pprs.). Gov. Ripon g. s. by 1661–d.A.F. Leach, Early Yorks. Schools (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xxvii), 230–2. Commr. militia, Yorks. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. assessment, 1 June 1660;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660), 21 (E.1075.6). Yorks. (W.Riding) 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689 – d.; subsidy, 1663. 16 Mar. 1674 – 25 Aug. 1688SR. J.p., 21 Nov. 1688–?d.C231/7, p. 474; C231/8, pp. 198, 203; PC2/71, p. 366; Add. 29674, f. 160. N. Riding ?Nov. 1688–?d.C231/8, p. 204; Add. 29674, f. 161. Sheriff, Yorks. 18 Nov. 1689–27 Nov. 1690.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 164; CJ x. 325b, 335b. Dep lt. W. Riding by 1700–d.CSP Dom. 1700–02, p. 31.

Military: capt. of ft. regt. of Sir Henry Goodricke†, 1678–9.CTB vi. 336; HP Commons 1660–1690, ‘Sir Jonathan Jennings’.

Central: commr. for prizes, 11 Nov. 1691-c.Mar. 1699.CTB ix. 1371; xiv. 67, 301, 401.

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JENINGS, Jonathan (1633-1707), of Ripon, Yorks.

Will
6 May 1702, cod. 17 Nov. 1705, pr. 11 Aug. 1707.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 64, f. 122.
Estates
in 1662, house in Ripon assessed at 8 hearths.E179/210/386. At d. estate inc. lands and tenements in parishes of Addingham and Ripon and a house, stables and garden in St Agnesgate, Ripon, Yorks.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 64, f. 122.
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ASTON, Sir Thomas, 1st bt. (1600-46), of Aston, Cheshire.

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b. 29 Sept. 1600, 1st s. of John Aston of Aston, and Maud, da. of Robert Needham of Shavington Hall, Adderley, Salop.Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 2, pp. 724, 727; CB. educ. Macclesfield g.s.;VCH Cheshire, iii. 237. Brasenose, Oxf. 28 Mar. 1617, BA 8 July 1619;Al. Ox. L. Inn 12 Feb. 1620.LI Admiss. i. 184. m. (1) 4 July 1627, Magdalene (d. 2 June 1635), da. and coh. of Sir John Poulteney of Misterton, Leics. 2s. 2da. d.v.p.; (2) 1639, Anne (d. 2 June 1688), da. and coh. of Sir Henry Willoughby, 1st bt. of Risley, Derbys., wid. of Anchitel Grey, 1s. 2da.Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 2, p. 724; CB; Mems. St Margaret’s Westminster, 335. suc. fa. 13 May 1615;Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 2, p. 724. cr. bt. 25 July 1628.CB. d. 24 Mar. 1646.Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 2, p. 725.
Offices Held

Local: commr. Forced Loan, Cheshire 1627.C193/12/2, f. 6v. Sheriff, 5 Nov. 1634–5.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 18. J.p. 12 July 1637–11 Nov. 1644.C231/5, p. 255; Cheshire RO, DAR/I/29. Commr. array (roy.), 16 June, 10 Oct. 1642.Northants. RO, FH133; Cheshire RO, DLT/B11, pp. 76, 83.

Central: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 26 Apr. 1637–?d.LC3/1, f. 25; LC5/134, p. 170.

Military: col. of horse (royalist) by Oct. 1642–5;Mems. of Prince Rupert, 69; R. Hutton, Royalist War Effort (1982), 23, 28; P. Young, Edgehill (1995 edn.), 206. col. of dragoons, 16 Jan. 1643–?Harl. 6852, f. 2. Sjt.-maj. gen. of horse, Nov. 1642–?Add. 36913, ff. 84v-85; Cheshire RO, ZCR 67/12/1.

Civic: freeman, Liverpool ?-d. Chandler, Liverpool, 329.

: 1st bt. (1600-46), of Aston, Cheshire. 1600 – 46.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, family group at his wife’s deathbed, J. Souch, 1635;Manchester Art Gallery. ?oil on panel, G. van Honthorst.Sold Sotheby’s, London, 8 Dec. 2011.

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ASTON, Sir Thomas, 1st bt. (1600-46), of Aston, Cheshire.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1615, inherited manors of Aston, Middle Aston and Keckwick; capital messuage of Aston Hall; property in Aston, Middle Aston, Frodsham, Keckwick, Kingsley, Newton and Sutton; and in reversion (after d. of his grandmo.) capital messuage of Hulgrave Hall, and lands in Church Minshull, Leighton and Minshull Vernon, Cheshire.Cheshire IPM ed. R. Stewart-Brown (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lxxxiv), 13-15. In 1625, assessed at £10 for the privy seal loan.Cheshire RO, DLT/B/11, p. 12. In 1628, estate estimated to be worth no more than £500 p.a.M.D.G. Wanklyn, ‘Landed Society and Allegiance in Cheshire and Shropshire in the First Civil War’ (Manchester Univ. PhD thesis, 1976), 95. In 1636, estate inc. demesne lands and tenements in Aston; manors and demesne lands of Keckwick and Hulgrave; and demesne lands in Ferny Lees, nr. Hulgrave, Cheshire.Liverpool RO, 920 MD 171. At his d. estate was reckoned to be worth about £600 p.a. and inc. manors of Aston, Middle Aston and Keckwick, Hulgrave Hall and property in Church Minshall, Kingsley, Leighton, Minshall Vernon, Newton and Sutton, Cheshire.C8/267/122; Wanklyn, ‘Landed Society’, 390.
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Falcon court ‘over against St Dunstan’s in Fleet Street’ (1641) ‘Mr Garland’s house in Holborn’ (1641) ‘Mr Brownlow’s house in Holborn over against the White Cross’ (1641).Add. 36914, ff. 198v, 200v, 207v, 209v, 217v, 221v.
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THOMAS, Edmund (1633-77), of Wenvoe, Glam.

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bap. 1633,Clark, Limbus Patrum, 538. o.s. of William Thomas (d. ?June 1636) of Wenvoe and Jane (bur. 14 Apr. 1668), da. of Sir John Stradling†, 1st bt. of St Donats (m. bef. 30 July 1641, Michael Oldisworth*).Arch. Cambr. (1883), 120; PROB11/173/644 (William Thomas); Clark, Limbus Patrum, 538; Bodl. Add. B.109, f. 18; P. Jenkins, The Making of a Ruling Class (1983), 296. educ. Llantrithyd sch. c. 1641;Aubrey’s Brief Lives, ed. Clark, ii. 7. ? travel (Netherlands); tutor, Georg Horn, bef. Feb. 1652.Lodewijck Huygens: the English Journal ed. A.G.H. Bachrach and R.G. Collmer (1982), 63. m. (1) 3 Feb. 1652, Elizabeth (d. 1670), da. of Sir Lewis Morgan† of Rhiwperra, Mon., sis. and h. of Thomas Morgan, 1s. (d.v.p.), 2da.St Margaret, Westminster, par. reg.; Cardiff Recs. iii. 413; Clark, Limbus Patrum, 538. (2) 1 Aug 1671, Mary (d. 1721), da. of Sir Thomas Lewis of Penmark Place, Glam., s.p.Clark, Limbus Patrum, 445, 538. suc. gdfa. Edmund Thomas, betw. 23 Sept-23 Oct. 1638.PROB11/178/165 (Edmund Thomas, 1638). d. 1677.Limbus Patrum, 445.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Glam. 28 July 1653 – d.; Mon. 8 July 1656–?Mar. 1660.Justices of the Peace, ed. Phillips, 302–6, 361; C231/6, pp. 265, 381. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, S. Wales 28 Aug. 1654; taking accts. of money for propagation of the gospel in Wales, 30 Aug. 1654; assessment, Glam. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677; Mon. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1672, 1677;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, Glam., Mon. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Glam. 1660; subsidy, 1663.SR. Sheriff, 1664–5.High Sheriffs of Glam, 22. Commr. sewers, 11 Oct. 1664.C181/7, p. 290.

Mercantile: member, Soc. of Mineral and Battery Works, 1 Feb. 1654.BL Loan 16, pt. 2, f. 110.

Central: member, cttee. for trade, 20 May 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–1656, p. 327.

Military: capt. militia, Glam., Brec. and Rad. 30 July 1659; S. Wales 1 Sept. 1659.CSP Dom. 1659–1660, p. 24; CJ. vii. 772b.

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THOMAS, Edmund (1633-77), of Wenvoe, Glam.

Will
admon., 4 July 1677 and 16 Feb. 1691.Clark, Limbus Patrum, 538.
Estates
lands in Glam. said 1645 to be worth £2,500 p.a. (attrib. to ‘William’ Thomas) and Jan. 1652 to be worth about £2,000 p.a., part in possession following freedom from wardship at marriage, 3 Feb., part in reversion aft. d. of his grandmo. Frances Thomas;Cam. Soc. lxxiv. 216; Huygens: English Journal, 63, 126; St Margaret, Westminster, par. reg. these inc. lands in parish of Llanedeyrn.Arch. Cambr. (1885), 115. In 1666 owned burgages in West Ward and West Gate, Cardiff; part of parish of Radyr; part of 'Keven y Gwyndon', parish of St Fagans; 1670 owned tenement of Baldam Bach, St Fagans.Cardiff Recs. ii. 79, 80, 91–2, 96
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KENDALL, Nicholas (d. 1641), of Pelyn, Lanlivery, Cornw.

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o.s. of Walter Kendall (d. ?1653-4) of Pelyn, and Katherine, da. and h. of John Hellyer alias Mayo of Lostwithiel, Cornw. m. 15 Nov. 1623, Emblyn (bur. 5 Mar. 1684), da. and coh. of Thomas Treffry of Lostwithiel, 5s. 1da.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 260; Index to PCC Admons. 1649-54 ed. J. Ainsworth, 208; Cornw. RO, FP 111/1/1. d. bef. Feb. 1641.
Offices Held

Local: ?stannator, Blackmore, Cornw. 1624, 1636.Bodl. Add. C.85, pp. 2, 19.

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KENDALL, Nicholas (d. 1641), of Pelyn, Lanlivery, Cornw.

Will
17 May 1638, pr. 16 Feb. 1641.PROB11/185/271.
Estates
no independent landed estate; on d. left money bequests amounting to £1,300.PROB11/185/271.
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MONTAGU (MOUNTAGU), Edward II (1625-72), of Hinchingbrooke, Hunts.

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b. 27 July 1625, 2nd but o. surv. s. of Sir Sidney Montagu* and his 1st w. Pauline, da. of John Pepys of Cottenham, Cambs.NMM, SAN/A/3, f. 120; Vis. Northants. 1681 (Harl. Soc. lxxxvii), 141; F.R. Harris, The Life of Edward Montagu, K.G. First Earl of Sandwich (1912); R. Ollard, Cromwell’s Earl (1994). educ. M. Temple, 4 May 1635.MT Admiss. i. 131. m. 7 Nov. 1642, Jemima (d.1674), da. of John Crewe I* of Stene, Northants., 6s. 4da.Mems. of St Margaret’s Church Westminster ed. A.M. Burke (1914), 353; NMM, SAN/A/3, f. 120; Vis. Northants. 1681, 141. suc. fa. 25 Sept. 1644. KG 26 May 1660;CSP Dom. 1659-60, p. 447; Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 35. cr. earl of Sandwich, 12 July 1660.CP. d. 28 May 1672.CSP Dom. 1672, pp. 95, 103, 104, 106, 112, 135, 164, 224.
Offices Held

Local: commr. assessment, Hunts. 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660;CJ vii. 284b, 285a; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); CSP Dom. 1653–4, p. 25; A. and O.; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643.A. and O. Dep. lt. 16 June 1643–?CJ iii. 131b. Commr. levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, 24 Feb. 1644; Cambs. and Hunts. 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, Hunts. 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. by Feb. 1650–59, Mar. 1660 – d.; Essex 1655–8;C193/13/3, f. 31v; A Perfect List (1660); Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxviii. Wallingford, Abingdon, Woodstock, liberty of Peterborough Nov. 1658.C181/6, pp. 329, 330, 331, 336. Commr. almshouses of Windsor, 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O. Kpr. Leighton Walk, Waltham Forest, Wallwood and Homfirth, Essex, Sept. 1655.Bodl. Carte 74, f. 62. Custos rot. Hunts. by c.Sept. 1656–59, 8 Aug. 1660–d.C231/7, p. 24; J.C. Sainty Custodes Rotulorum1660–1828 (2002). Commr. oyer and terminer, all circs. Feb. 1658-June 1659;C181/6, pp. 273, 310 St Albans borough 6 Oct. 1658;C181/6, p. 318. Mdx. 11 Oct. 1658;C181/6, p. 327. liberty of Peterborough Nov. 1658;C181/6, p. 336. Surr. 21. Mar. 1659;C181/6, p. 348. Norf. circ. 10 July 1660–d.C181/7, pp. 12, 610. Jt. supervisor, Savoy and Ely House hosps. Apr. 1658.CSP Dom. 1657–8, p. 364. Commr. gaol delivery, Southampton 14 Sept. 1658;C181/6, p. 313. liberty of Peterborough Nov. 1658;C181/6, p. 336. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster Oct. 1658;C181/6, p. 318. Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 11 Oct. 1658–d.;C181/6, pp. 322, 388; C181/7, pp. 75, 543. Deeping and Gt. Level 26 May 1662;C181/7, p. 147. Hunts. 19 Dec. 1664.C181/7, p. 302. Jt. ld. lt. by Dec. 1660–d.Bodl. Carte 223, f. 337. Bailiff, Whittlesea Mere, Hunts. 1661.CSP Dom. 1660–1, pp. 586, 603. Commr. swans, Beds., Camb., Hunts. and I. of Ely 26 Aug. 1661.C181/6, p. 117.

Military: col. of ft. (parlian.) Aug. 1643 – Oct. 1645; horse, Sept. 1658 – May 1659, Apr.-Nov. 1660. Jan. 1656 – Sept. 1659L. Spring, Regts. of the Eastern Assoc. (Bristol, 1998), 68; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), i. 48, 58, 59n; ii. 111, 145, 169; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 192–3, 195; ii. 398; CJ vii. 749b; Pepys’s Diary, i. 294. Gov. Henley-on-Thames, Oxon. Jan.-Mar. 1645. Jan. 1656 – Sept. 1659Bodl. Carte 74, f. 151. Jt. gen.-at-sea,, 2 Mar.-May 1660;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 92; CJ vii. 858a, 860a; Bodl. Carte 73, ff. 223, 229. lt.-adm. and capt.-gen. of the Narrow Seas, 1660; adm. 1661–d.;J.R. Tanner, Descriptive Cat. of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library (Navy Rec. Soc. xxvi), 315. c.-in-c. of fleet, July-Sept. 1665.HP Lords, 1660–1715.

Central: member, cttee. for the army, 22 Oct. 1645, 23 Sept. 1647;CJ iii. 307a, 311b; LJ vii. 656a; A. and O. cttee. of navy and customs by 17 Feb. 1648.SP16/518, f. 15. Cllr. of state, 14 July, 1 Nov., 16 Dec. 1653, 25 Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 285a, 344a; A. and O.; TSP i. 642; Woolrych, Commonwealth to Protectorate, 379. Commr. to inspect treasuries, 31 Dec. 1653.CSP Dom. 1653–4, p. 317. Member, cttee. for Barbados, 29 Dec. 1653.CSP Col. 1574–1660, p. 412. Commr. treaty with Utd. Provinces, 14 Mar. 1654;Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 213. treasury, 2 Aug. 1654 – ?June 1659, 19 June-8 Sept. 1660;Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 393; CJ vii. 378a; CSP Dom. 1654, p. 284; 1658–9, p. 382; J.C. Sainty, Treasury Officials 1660–1870 (1972), 18, 140. visitation Camb. Univ. 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O. Member, cttee. for trade, 12 July 1655.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 240. Commr. admlty. and navy, 8 Nov. 1655, 3 Mar.1660.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 10; CJ vii. 861a. Co-patentee of ballastage, Dec. 1657-July 1659.CSP Dom. 1657–8, p. 234; CJ vii. 740a. Commr. tendering oath to members of Other House, 27 Jan. 1659.HMC Lords, n.s. iv. 524. PC, 14 June 1660–d.PC2/54, f. 38. Master gt. wardrobe, 30 June 1660-bef. Aug. 1670.Sainty and Bucholz, Royal Household, i. 63, 143. Clerk of privy seal, July 1660–d. Register, ct. of requests, July 1660–d.Pepys’s Diary, i. 128, 206. Master of the swans, 1661–d.CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 586, 603. Commr. appeal for prizes, 1666.CSP Dom. 1666–7, p. 355. Pres. cttee. for plantations, 1670–d.HP Common, 1660–1690, iii. 83.

Diplomatic: plenip. at the Sound, Mar.-Sept. 1659. June 1661 – May 1662G.M. Bell, A Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives 1509–1688 (1990), 23, 36, 276. Amb. extraordinary, Portugal, Apr. – May 1666, Jan. – Mar. 1668; Spain Feb. 1666-Oct. 1668.Bell, Handlist, 218, 219, 262.

Civic: freeman, Dover Apr. 1660; Portsmouth 1661.Kent Hist. and Lib. Centre, Do/Aam2, reverse f. 203; Bodl. Carte 73, ff. 386, 397; Pepys’s Diary, i. 108. Recorder, Huntingdon 1663–d.HP Commons, 1660–1690.

Mercantile: elder bro. Trinity House, Nov. 1660 – d.; warden, Nov. 1660–1; master, 1661–2.W.R. Chaplin, The Corp. of Trinity House [1952], 12, 50–1, 110–11. Member, Royal Adventurers into Africa, 1660; asst. 1664 – 66, 1669–71.HP Commons, 1660–1690. Member, Royal Fishing Co. 1664.HP Commons, 1660–1690.

Academic: FRS, 1663; council member, 1668.M. Hunter, The Royal Soc. and its Fellows 1660–1700 (1982), 168–9.

: of Hinchingbrooke, Hunts.
MOUNTAGU
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, P. Lely, c.1650;NMM. oil on canvas, P. Lely, c.1655-9;NPG. oil on canvas, P. Lely, 1660-5;Yale Center for British Art. oil on canvas, P. Lely, c.1666;NMM. oil on canvas, aft. P. Lely, 1660-70;NT, Cotehele. oil on canvas, follower of P. Lely, 1670-80;Government Art Colln. oil on canvas, unknown, c.1670;Guildhall, Sandwich, Kent. oil on canvas, aft. P. Lely;Royal Colln. oil on canvas, aft. P. Lely;NT, Plas Newydd. oil on canvas, school of P. Lely;Hinchingbrooke House. line engraving, A. Haelwegh aft. A. Wuchters, bef. 1660;BM. line engraving, A. Blooteling aft. P. Lely, 1660s;BM; NPG. line engraving, M. Lang, aft. 1660.NPG.

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Commons 1640-1660
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MONTAGU (MOUNTAGU), Edward II (1625-72), of Hinchingbrooke, Hunts.

Will
21 Nov. 1669, pr. 7 Sept. 1672.PROB11/340/28.
Estates
owned land around Huntingdon, Hunts.
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DEWY, James I (c.1606-76), of Bloxworth and Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1606, 1st s. of James Dewy of Bloxworth;Hutchins, Dorset, i. 182; Regs. of Almer ed. E.A. Fry (1907), 9. m. (1) 22 Jan. 1633, Mary, da. of Thomas Strangways of Winterborne Muston (d. 1638), (2) aft. 9 Oct. 1653, ?;Dorset RO, Winterborne Kingston par. regs.; Hutchins, Dorset, i. 132, 149, 182. at least 2s. d. 28 Feb. 1676.Hutchins, Dorset, i. 182.
Offices Held

Military: soldier (parlian.), tp. of Sir Walter Erle*, Sept. 1642-July 1643.SP28/128/30. Capt. of horse, regt. of John Brune, June 1644-Jan. 1645.Dorset Standing Cttee. ed. Mayo, 240–1. Capt. of horse, Dorset Jan. 1645-Dec. 1648.Bodl. Gough Dorset 14, ff. 21v, 22, 30v, 51v-56v. Capt. militia horse, Dorset 8 Mar. 1650-aft. 13 Sept. 1659.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 505; 1659–60, pp. 38, 194; SP25/77, pp. 868, 891; CJ vii. 772a.

Local: collector, assessment, Shaftesbury division 1647–8.E113/13, unfol. Commr. tendering Engagement, Blandford division 1649;Bayley, Dorset, 359. assessment, Dorset 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653), 275 (E.1062.28). sequestration, Jan. 1650-Mar. 1655;CCC 171; Dorset Standing Committee ed. Mayo, pp. xxii-xxiv; E113/13, unfol. militia, c. 1650, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659;R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. PhD thesis, 1981), 169; SP25/76A, f. 14; A. and O. piracy, 22 May 1654;C181/6, p. 33. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O. J.p. c.Mar. 1655-Mar. 1660.Som. and Dorset N. and Q ii. 20; C193/13/5. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 27 Mar. 1655;C181/6, p. 98. securing peace of commonwealth, Dorset c.Dec. 1655;TSP iv. 305. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35).

Central: commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

: of Bloxworth and Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset.
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Commons 1640-1660
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DEWY, James I (c.1606-76), of Bloxworth and Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset.

Will
24 Jan. 1674, pr. 8 Apr. 1676.PROB11/350/513.
Estates
lands in Spetisbury and Tarrant Crawford, 1641;E179/105/335, m. 5. rented Keynston farm, year from Sept. 1647, valued at £300 p.a.;Add. 8845, f. 2. owned 5-hearth house at Okeford Fitzpaine by 1662;Dorset Hearth Tax, 59. by d. held lands in Kington Magna and quarter share of impropriated rectory of Tarrant Monkton.PROB11/350/513.
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KNOLLYS, Thomas (c.1612-79), of Grove Place, Nursling, Hants

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1612, 2nd s. of Sir Henry Knollys (d. 1638) of Grove Place, clerk-comptroller of the green cloth, and Katherine, da. of Sir Thomas Cornwallis of Portchester, groom-porter.Misc. Gen. et Herald. ii. 19-20; Vis. Hants and I.o.W. (Harl. Soc. n.s. x), 46-7. educ. Peterhouse, Camb. 7 Aug. 1628, BA 1632, MA 1635;Al. Cant.; Admiss. to Peterhouse ed. T.A. Walker (c.1912), 37. I. Temple, 17 Mar. 1636.I. Temple database. m. bef. 1654, Anne (bap. 5 Mar. 1616), da. of William Duncombe of Battlesden, Beds., wid. of Sir William Crayford (bur. 29 Jan. 1636) of Beckerings Park, Ridgmont, Beds. 1s. 4da.PROB11/360/185; Vis. Hants and I.o.W. 47; Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 178-9, 204, 408. suc. bro. betw. 22 May-29 July 1648.PROB11/205/192. bur. 3 June 1679.Westminster Abbey Reg. (Harl. Soc. x), 197.
Offices Held

Academic: fell. Peterhouse, Camb. 1634–6.Al. Cant.

Local: j.p. Hants July 1652 – bef.Mar. 1657, 23 Apr. 1659 – d.; Dorset, Wilts. Apr. 1675–d.C231/6, p. 431; C231/7, p. 494; C193/13/4, f. 87; A Perfect List (1660), 49. Commr. assessment, Hants 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Southampton 1677;SR. militia, Hants 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. corporations, 1662–3;HMC 11th Rep. III, 55. subsidy, 1663.SR. Verderer, New Forest by 1667–d.CTB ii. 91. Commr. sewers, Hants 25 July 1671.C181/7, p. 584. Sub-commr. prizes, Portsmouth 1672–4.CSP Dom. 1673, pp. 344–5. Commr. wastes and spoils, New Forest 1673, 1676;CTB iv. 124; v. 303. recusants, Hants 1675.CTB iv. 697.

Civic: burgess, Southampton 24 Dec. 1658;Southampton RO, SC3/1/1, f. 222v. Portsmouth 1672.Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 360.

Central: commr. sick and wounded seamen, 1673–4.Add 5752, f. 75; CTB v. 733; CSP Dom. 1672–3, p. 530.

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Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

KNOLLYS, Thomas (c.1612-79), of Grove Place, Nursling, Hants

Will
5 Nov. 1678, pr. 1 July 1679.PROB11/360/185; Hants. RO, 23M58/157.
Estates
notionally received £1,200 by his fa.’s will, 1638. Manor of Bowcombe, I.o.W. following death of his bro. 1648. Grove Place and manors of Nutshelling, Milbrooke, Swathling, Eling, Romsey, Southwells, following d. of his mo. 1674.PROB11/178/419; PROB11/205/192; CCAM 758-9; CCC 1065. Leases from New College, Oxford, of Woodperry farm, Woodperry tither and meadows and woods in Stanton St John, Oxon.PROB11/360/185.
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HELE, John (1626-61), of Easton in Gordano, Som. and Flanchford, Reigate, Surr.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 3 Mar. 1626, only surv. s. of Nicholas Hele† of Wembury, Devon, and Easton in Gordano, and Dorothy, da. and h. of Edmund Stradling of Easton in Gordano.Sales of Wards ed. Hawkins, 176-7; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 464; Brown, Abstracts of Som. Wills, vi. 50-1. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. 21 Oct. 1642;Al. Ox. L. Inn, 23 Oct. 1644; called 23 June 1652.LI Admiss. i. 250; LI Black Bks. ii. 395. m. ?bef. 8 Mar. 1654, Dorothy (d. 1662), da. and coh. of Sir John Hobart*, 2nd bt. of Blickling, Norf., wid. of Sir John Hele of Clifton Maybank, Dorset and of Hugh Rogers* of Cannington, Som. s.p.HMC Lothian, 85; C6/123/84. suc. fa. 27 Dec. 1640.Sales of Wards, 177. d. 25 Jan. 1661.BL, M636/17.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. ?Som. 6 Mar. 1647 – bef.Jan. 1650; Surr. Apr. 1659–d.C231/6, pp. 78, 429; HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. militia, 26 July 1659, 13 Mar. 1660; assessment, 26 Jan., 17 Feb., 1 June 1660.A. and O.; CJ vii. 845b; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Col. militia ft. Apr. 1660.Parliamentary Intelligencer no. 17 (16–23 Apr. 1660), 270 (E.185.3). Commr. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 10 July 1660–23 Jan. 1661;C181/7, p. 8. poll tax, Surr. 1660.SR.

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Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HELE, John (1626-61), of Easton in Gordano, Som. and Flanchford, Reigate, Surr.

Will
admon. 18 Feb. 1661.PROB 6/37/15.
Estates
at majority, c. Mar. 1647, manor of Easton and land at Portishead, Som., in Mon. and in Cornw., and reversion of land in Warws. after d. of step-mother (who survived him, but perhaps rectory of Nuneaton acquired by purchase bef. 1657);Sales of Wards, 177; W. Dugdale, Antiquities of Warws. (1656), 36. May 1656, purchased for £8,100, manor of Flanchford and other lands in Surrey.13 C6/139/96; Manning, Bray, Surr. i. 306.
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