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CLEMENT, Gregory (1594-1660), of St George’s Botolph Lane, London.

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bap. 21 Nov. 1594,Plymouth St Andrew’s Par. Reg. (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. 1954), 57. 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John Clement of Plymouth and Judith. da. of John Sparke of Up Plymouth, Devon.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 193. m. (1) 25 June 1630, Christian Barter of Stepney, Mdx. ?s.p.;LMA, St Dunstan, Stepney par regs. (2) 19 Sept. 1659, Frances, da. of Sir John Sedley of St Clere, Kent, s.p.LMA, St Peter, Paul’s Wharf par. regs.; CTB i. 217. exec. 17 Oct. 1660.
Offices Held

Mercantile: factor, E.I. Co. 10 Dec. 1627-Mar. 1630.CSP Col. E.I. 1622–4, p. 190; W. Foster, The English Factories in India, 1624–9 (Oxford, 1909), 10.

Local: commr. militia, Kent 2 Dec. 1648; London militia, 17 Jan. 1649; assessment, London 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Kent 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Mdx. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Devon 26 Nov. 1650. 1650 – 18 Dec. 1652A. and O. J.p. Kent by Feb.; Cornw., Wilts. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C231/6, p. 248; C193/13/3, ff. 10, 33v, 69v; C193/13/4, ff. 13v, 110.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112b. cttee. for the army, 6 Jan., 17 Apr. 1649, 2 Jan. 1652;CJ vi. 113b; A. and O. cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649. Commr. for compounding, 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 113b. Member, cttee. of navy and customs by 15 Jan. 1649;Bodl. Rawl. A.224, f. 1. cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650.CJ vi. 388b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 10 Apr. 1651.CJ vi. 558a.

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CLEMENT, Gregory (1594-1660), of St George’s Botolph Lane, London.

Will
attainted.
Estates
said to have had a ‘very considerable estate, supposed to the value of forty thousand pounds sterling’;Ludlow, Voyce, 245. purchased lordship of Gt. Potterne, Wilts. 12 July 1648, for £8,226;Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 14. by 1650 was one of 26 ‘proprietors’ of the Bahamas plantation;J.T. Hassam, ‘The Bahama Islands: Notes on an early attempt at Colonization’, Procs. Mass. Hist. Soc. ser. 2, xiii. 5. 7-year lease of Sir Andrew Coggan’s house, Greenwich, 19 July 1650 (purchased after July 1651);CCC 2378; CJ vi. 597b. allocated 8,332 Irish acres, King’s Co., and £50-worth of houses in Waterford City, 1653-4;Bottigheimer, Eng. Money and Irish Land, 156. purchase of Chingham’s Farm, Farmingham, Kent, Nov. 1654 (leased by July 1651).CCC 2141; CJ vi. 597b.
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DUNCUMB, George (c.1607-74), of Shalford, Surr.

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b. c.1607, 2nd s. of George Duncombe (d. 21 Mar. ?1647) of Weston in Albury, Surr. and Judith, da. of Thomas Carill of Tangley.Vis. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 201; (Harl. Soc. lx), 40; Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Surr. iv, 72, 75. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. 16 Mar. 1621, aged 14;Al. Ox. I. Temple, Nov. 1623.I. Temple Admissions database. m. 29 Nov. 1627 (with £1,000), Charity (bap. 17 May 1610), da. of John Muscott, vintner, of St Clement Danes, The Strand, Mdx. 7s (4 d.v.p.), 2da.St Andrew, Holborn, and St Clement Danes, London par. regs.; Vis. of Surr. (Harl. Soc. lx), 40; PROB11/155/315 (John Muscott). bur. 4 Nov. 1674 4 Nov. 1674.St Mary the Virgin, Shalford, par.reg.
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Local: j.p. Surr. 26 Mar. 1646 – bef.Oct. 1653, by Mar. 1657 – bef.Oct. 1660, Mar. 1674–d.C231/6, p. 41; C231/7, p. 475; C193/13/4, f. 98; C193/13/5, f. 103v. Commr. sequestration, 18 Oct. 1648; militia, 2 Dec 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; assessment, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663.SR.

Religious: elder, Godalming classis, 16 Feb. 1648.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 433.

Military: lt.-col. militia, Surr. 20 Aug. 1651, 26 July 1659.CSP Dom. 1651, p. 531; A. and O.

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DUNCUMB, George (c.1607-74), of Shalford, Surr.

Will
30 Apr. 1672, pr. 6 Nov. 1674.PROB11/344/547.
Estates
extensive lands accumulated in Shalford;PROB11/344/547. from ?1641, manor of Wenham and land in Rogate and Harting, Suss.;VCH Suss. iv. 24. from 1644, in right of his wife, Theydon Hall and other property in Theydon Bois, Essex;VCH Essex, iv. 252. from 1649, manor of Bramley, Surr., lease for life at peppercorn rent; advowsons of Wonersh (bef. 1650) and Ashtead (bef. 30 Apr. 1672), Surr.;VCH Surr. iii. 127; PROB11/344/547. moiety of the Rose tavern, St Clement Danes; life interest in land in Beds. conveyed by Sir Richard Conquest;PROB11/344/547. share in the iron-works at Chilworth, near Guildford, in 1655.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 29.
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BARKER, Abel (1616-1679), of Hambleton, Rutland.

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bap. 14 May 1616, 2nd s. of Abel Barker (d. c.Mar. 1637) of Hambleton, and Elizabeth (d. 1666), da. of one Wright.Hambleton par. reg.; J. Wright, Rutland, 84; Vis. Rutland (Harl. Soc. lxxiii), 32; CB; Leics. RO, DG11/788, 995, 1000; PROB11/173, f. 438. m. (1) c.July 1646 (with £1,500), Anne (d. Jan. 1648), da. of Sir Thomas Burton, 1st bt. of Stockerston, Leics. 1s.; (2) 6 Sept. 1655 (with £600), Mary, da. of Alexander Noel of Whitwell, Rutland, 3da.Leics. RO, DG11/957, 960; Vis. Rutland (Harl. Soc. lxxiii), 32; CB; HMC 5th Rep. 391, 397. suc. bro. 1648.J. Wright, Rutland, 84. cr. bt. 9 Sept. 1665.CB. bur. 2 Sept. 1679 2 Sept. 1679.The Gen. iii. 332.
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Local: commr. defence of Rutland, 21 June 1645. 1 Dec. 1646 – 29 Nov. 1647A. and O. Sheriff,; Leics. 16 Nov.-26 Nov. 1652. 15 Jan. 1647 – 29 July 1652List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 75, 114. J.p. Rutland, 30 Sept. 1653–d.C231/6, pp. 74, 244, 269. Commr. inquiry, Leighfield Forest, Rutland 4 Mar. 1657;C181/6, p. 220. assessment, Rutland 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 22 Sept. 1659–?d.;C181/6, p. 394; C181/7, pp. 78, 543; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/12. River Welland 18 July 1664.C181/7, p. 282. Dep. lt. Rutland 1 Sept. 1660–?d.Leics. RO, DG11/1136–8. Commr. poll tax, 1660; loyal and indigent officers, 1662; subsidy, 1663; enclosures, Deeping fen 1665.SR.

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BARKER, Abel (1616-1679), of Hambleton, Rutland.

Will
16 Sept. 1670, cod. 8 Dec. 1670.Leics. RO, DE730/1/111-12; DG11/1005.
Estates
1637, bequeathed £1,200 in his fa.’s will; lease of house and lands in Hambleton; lease of land in Gunthorpe, Rutland.PROB11/173, f. 437v; Leics. RO, DG11/995. 1641 subsidy, assessed at £1 4s in lands in Hambleton.Eg. 2986, f. 113. 1645, estate at Hambleton valued at £200 p.a. and personal estate at £3,000.Leics. RO, DE730/1/25. 1646, estate inc. cap. messuage of Hambleton; lands in Hambleton; lands in Counthorpe, Creeton, Swafield, and Castle Bytham, Lincs.Leics. RO, DG11/957. c.1648, Barker and his bro. purchased moiety of manor of Keythorpe, Rutland, for £4,500.Leics. RO, DG11/1065-6. 1660, estate reckoned to be worth c. £1,000 p.a.Burke, Commoners, i. 691. 1662, sold moiety of manor of Keythorpe to Geoffrey Palmer* for £6,300.Leics. RO, DG11/727. 1662, Barker and his bro. purchased manor and advowson of Lyndon, Rutland, for £9,200.VCH Rutland, ii. 67, 75; Leics. RO, DG11/729, 731. 1665, owned house in Hambleton of 10 hearths.Rutland Hearth Tax 1665 ed. J. Bourne, A. Goode (Rutland Rec. Soc. 1991), 38. 1670, estate inc. copyhold messuage in Uppingham; and lands in Gunthorpe, Lyndon, and Manton, Rutland.Leics. RO, DE730/1/111. At d. personal estate was inventoried at £3,110.Leics. RO, DE730/1/131.
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West Smithfield, London (1645).HMC 5th Rep. 388.
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FARMERIE, Dr John (1591-1647), of St Peter in Eastgate, Lincoln, and Heapham, Lincs.

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bap. 24 Feb. 1591, 1st s. of William Farmery of Heapham, and Cassandra (bur. 2 Oct. 1620), da. of John Newland of Hackney, Mdx.Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. l), 346. educ. St John’s, Camb. Easter 1607,Al. Cant. foundress scholar 6 Apr. 1609,St John’s Coll. Archives, Camb. Reg. of fellows and scholars 1545-1612. BA 1611, MA 1614, LLD 1620; incorp. Oxf. MA 11 July 1618, LLD 13 July 1624.Al. Cant.; Al. Ox. m. by Dec. 1625, Bridget (d. aft. June 1649), da. of William Naylor of Flamborough, Yorks., 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. d.v.p. suc. fa. Nov. 1633.Lincs. Peds. 346; Lincs. RO, FRISWELL/1/1. bur. 6 June 1647.St George the Martyr par. reg.
Offices Held

Legal: chan. dioc. of Lincoln, 17 May 1621–d.Lincs. RO, Red Bk. (Episcopal act bk. 1611–93), ff. 142v-144v; PROB11/203, f. 234. Adv. Doctors’ Commons, 6 May 1637–42.LPL, Reg. of Doctors’ Commons, ff. 50, 110; Al. Cant.; B.P. Levack, Civil Lawyers in Eng. 1603–41 (Oxford, 1973), 229. Judge, Lincs. admlty. ct. Nov. 1638–?HCA25/215, Misc. warrants 1619–44.

Local: commr. charitable uses, Herts. 21 June 1621 – 27 June 1627, 30 Feb. 1630-aft. May 1637;C93/9/10; C192/1, unfol. Bucks. 29 Aug. 1621 – 3 May 1631, 20 Feb. 1633-aft. July 1640;C93/9/16, 21; C93/10/7; C93/11/8; C93/12/6; C192/1. Lincoln 29 June 1622-aft. Dec. 1633;C93/9/15; C192/1. Lincs. 12 Dec. 1622-aft. Jan. 1642;C93/9/18; C93/11/9; C192/1 Leics. 30 May 1625-aft. Nov. 1639;C93/10/14; C192/1. Beds. 11 June 1629 – aft.July 1641; Caistor, Lincs. 25 Nov. 1634; Stamford 8 July 1635; Rutland 3 June 1636, 15 May 1637;C192/1. Stamford g.s. 10 July 1639.C93/17/14. J.p. Lincs. (Lindsey) 15 Jan. 1622–?d.;C231/4, f. 133. Kesteven 23 Feb. 1631–?d.C231/5, p. 49. Commr. recusants, Lincs. Lindsey 1624;HMC Rutland, i. 471. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 19 May 1625-aft. Feb. 1642;C181/3, ff. 169, 229; C181/4, ff. 40, 155; C181/5, ff. 149v, 223v. Ancholme Level 6 May, 14 Dec. 1637;C181/5, ff. 67, 88v. East, West and Wildmore Fens, Lincs. 23 June 1638;C181/5, f. 111v. swans, Northants., Lincs., Rutland and Notts. 28 May 1625;C181/3, f. 165. Lincs. 26 June 1635;C181/5, f. 14v. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1633;LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/001, p. 31; LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/005, p. 20; CLC/313/I/B/005/MS25474/002, ff. 7v, 8v. Forced Loan, Lindsey 1627.C193/12/2, f. 33.

Civic: freeman, Lincoln 16 Jan. 1637–d.Lincs. RO, L1/1/1/4 (Lincoln council min. bk. 1599–1638), f. 276v.

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FARMERIE, Dr John (1591-1647), of St Peter in Eastgate, Lincoln, and Heapham, Lincs.

Will
5 June 1647, pr. 5 Feb. 1648.PROB11/203, f. 234.
Estates
purchased property at Heapham, Lincs., land in Isle of Axholme (possibly reclaimed fenland) and the ‘site’ of his house in Lincoln – this was his ‘mansion or dwelling house...now demolished’ in par. of St Peter in Eastgate.PROB11/203, f. 234; Lincs. RO, FRISWELL/1/1.
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The Bell, Carter Lane, London (1635).CSP Dom. 1634-5, p. 523.
Religion
presented Thomas Durant to rectory of West Rasen, Lincs., 1624; John Smith to rectory of Heapham, Lincs., 1632; Daniel Chandler, 1634, 1637.Lincs. RO, P.D./1624/10; P.D./1634/26; IND1/17002, p. 139; Clergy of the C of E database, ID 130421, 189145, 201029.
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WRAY, William (1625-69), of Ashby cum Fenby, nr. Grimsby, Lincs., and The Strand, Westminster.

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bap. 10 Nov. 1625, 1st s. of Sir Christopher Wray*.Ashby cum Fenby par. reg. educ. travelled abroad (Italy, Switzerland, France) bef. Nov. 1645-July 1646.Add. 28716, ff. 30-1; Evelyn Diary ed. de Beer, ii. 480, 534; CJ iv. 625b. m. c.1652, Olympia (d. Sept. 1680), da. of Sir Humphrey Tufton, 1st bt.*, of The Mote, Maidstone, Kent, 3s. 5da.PROB11/332, ff. 240r-v; C33/284, f. 376; C. Dalton, The Wrays of Glentworth, ii. 82, 86. suc. fa. 6 Feb. 1646;Supra, ‘Sir Christopher Wray’. Kntd. 6 June 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 227. cr. bt. 27 June 1660;CB. d. 14 Oct. 1669.Dalton, Wrays of Glentworth, ii. 83.
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Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), ?Feb. 1644–?CJ iii. 387b; Evelyn Diary ed. de Beer, ii. 480.

Civic: freeman, Gt. Grimsby 17 Nov. 1646–d.N. East Lincs. Archives, Gt. Grimsby Mayor’s Ct. Bks., 1/102/8, f. 180.

Local: sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 26 June 1646–d.;C181/6, ff. 38, 390; C181/7, pp. 76, 259; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/7–14. Hatfield Chase Level 11 Aug. 1660 – 16 May 1664, 14 July 1664–d.;C181/7, pp. 20, 279. Ancholme Level 23 June 1662. 17 Mar. 1647 – 16 July 1650C181/7, p. 152. J.p. Lincs. (Lindsey), 16 July 1651–?26 Sept. 1653, 25 July 1656–d.C231/6, pp. 81, 191, 223, 232, 267, 345; C193/13/4, f. 57v. Commr. assessment, Lindsey 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Lincs. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Lincs. militia, 3 July 1648;LJ x. 359a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. charitable uses, Holland 15 July 1652;C93/21/24. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 13 Feb. 1655–22 June 1659;C181/6, ff. 88, 311. securing peace of commonwealth, Lincs. by Nov. 1655;TSP iv. 185. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35). Col. militia ft. 17 Apr. 1660–?;Mercurius Publicus no. 16 (22–9 Apr. 1660), 255 (E.183.8). capt. vol. horse, Feb. 1661–?SP29/26/73, f. 107; The Kingdomes Intelligencer no. 10 (4–11 Mar. 1661), 147 (E.194.4). Commr. poll tax, Lindsey 1660.SR. Dep. lt. Lincs. by c.Sept. 1662–d.SP29/60/66, f. 142v; Lincs. RO, MON/3/28/53. Commr. subsidy, Lindsey 1663;SR. swans, Lincs. 19 Dec. 1664.C181/7, p. 299.

: of Ashby cum Fenby, Lincs., nr. Grimsby and Westminster., The Strand.
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WRAY, William (1625-69), of Ashby cum Fenby, nr. Grimsby, Lincs., and The Strand, Westminster.

Will
15 Oct. 1669, pr. 1 Feb. 1670.PROB11/332, f. 240.
Estates
in 1656, sold manor of Hawstead cum Buckenham, Suff., for £17,787.Dalton, Wrays of Glentworth, i. 76. At his d. estate inc. a house on The Strand, Mdx., and manors and lands in Ashby cum Fenby, Barnoldby le Beck, Benniworth, Bradley, Gayton le Marsh, Orford, Newball, Northolme, ‘Stanton’ [?Market Stainton; Stainton by Langworth], Theddlethorpe, Wainfleet and Waithe, Lincs.C33/284, f. 376; CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 328. Estate worth betw. £2,200 and £3,000 p.a.C33/284, f. 376v; ‘Lincs. fams. temp. Charles II’ ed. C. H., Her. and Gen. ii. 126.
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Religion
presented William Jackson to rectory of Grainsby, Lincs., 1661.Lincs. RO, DIOC/PD/1661/114.
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INGOLDSBY, Henry (1623-1701), of Clenagh, Bunratty Barony, co. Clare.

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bap. 16 Jan. 1623, 5th s. of Sir Richard Ingoldsby of Lenborough, Buckingham, Bucks. (d. 1656) and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Oliver Cromwell of Hinchingbrooke, Hunts.; bro. of Francis*, George* and Richard*. m. 6 Aug. 1653, Anne (d. 1709), da. of Sir Hardress Waller* of Kilfinny, co. Limerick, at least 2s. cr. bt. 10 Apr. 1658-1660, 30 Aug. 1661. d. Mar. 1701.CB; ‘Pedigree of Ingoldsby’, The Gen. n.s. iii. 138.
Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of Richard Ingoldsby*, army of 3rd earl of Essex and New Model army, c.1644-c.June 1647;SP28/253B, f. 31; Abbott, Writings and Speeches, i. 376; CSP Ire. 1647–60, pp. 748–50; Wanklyn, New Model Army, 46, 78. lt.-col. of ft. regt. of Peter Stubbers by Oct. 1649- June 1650;SP28/63, f. 10. col. of dragoons, army in Ireland, June 1650-Aug. 1655;Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 623–4; TSP, iii. 710. col. of ft. Aug. 1655–59.TSP, iii. 710. Gov. Limerick ?Aug. 1652–1659.Ire. under the Commonwealth, i. 250–1; HMC Egmont, i. 515. Capt. of horse, royal army in Ireland, c. 1662; lt.-col. of horse, regt. of ld. lt. by 1670-Sept. 1672.HMC Ormonde, o.s. ii. 197, 201, 204.

Irish: commr. assessment, co. Limerick 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655, 24 June 1657; co. Clare 24 June 1657;An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655, 1657). for setting the 3-mile line, Connaught and Clare 8 Apr. 1656;Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 590. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656;A. and O. poll money, Kells, co. Meath 24 Apr. 1660; Limerick City, cos. Limerick, Clare 24 Apr. 1660, 1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 623–4, 643. Member for Kells, co. Meath, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 188. MP, co. Clare. 1661–6, 1695–9.CJI, i. 589; CB. Commr. to regulate civil officers’ fees, 7 Nov. 1673.NAI, Lodge’s MSS 1.A.53.55, f. 138. PC by Apr. 1674-c.Oct. 1679, by 1695–d.HMC Ormonde, o.s. ii. 258, 355–7, 342, 454; n.s. v. 218.

Civic: mayor, Limerick 1656–7.Barnard, Cromwellian Ireland, 65.

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INGOLDSBY, Henry (1623-1701), of Clenagh, Bunratty Barony, co. Clare.

Will
19 Mar. 1701, pr. 13 June 1701.PROB11/460/349.
Estates
awarded 3,500 acres centred on Clenagh and Cratloe, Bunratty Barony, co. Clare (to satisfy arrears of £2,544), Feb. 1655 (confirmed, 1662);NLI, MS 839, p. 214; Civil Survey, iv. 100-361; Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 630-1; CSP Ire. 1660-2, pp. 514-5. held lands in Ballybeg, Co. Meath, 1655-6.CB; J.P. Prendergast, Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland (1865), 90. In 1670 held 79 townlands in co. Clare (Bunratty and Cloundrelan baronies) and 4 townlands in co. Westmeath (Ferbill barony).Down Survey website.
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occupied house in High Street, St John’s Parish, Limerick, c.1655.Civil Survey, iv. 428.
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SCROPE, Adrian (1601-60), of Wormsley, Oxon.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 12 Jan. 1601, 1st s. of Robert Scrope of Wormsley and Margaret, da. of Richard Cornwall of London.Al. Ox.; Vis. Oxon. (Harl. Soc. v.), 327-8. educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. 7 Nov. 1617; M. Temple, 8 Feb. 1620.Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss. i. 110. m. 27 Nov. 1624, Mary (b. 1608), da. of Robert Waller of Beaconsfield, Bucks, 4s. (2 d.s.p.) 6da. (?2 d.s.p.).London Mar. Lics. ed. Chester, 1198. suc. fa. betw. June 1649-1653.PROB11/208/319 (Robert Scrope jnr.); C193/13/5, f. 84v. exec. 17 Oct. 1660.State Trials, 1298.
Offices Held

Local: commr. perambulation, Wychwood, Shotover and Stowood forests, Oxon. 28 Aug. 1641;C181/5, f. 210. militia, Oxon. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659;A. and O. Bristol 14 Mar. 1655;CSP Dom. 1655, p. 79. assessment, Oxon. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). J.p. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1660;C193/13/3, f. 51v; C193/13/4, f. 78v; C193/13/5, f. 84v; A Perfect List (1660). Glos. 13 Sept. 1653–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 267; C193/13/5, f. 43v. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Som., Bristol and Bath 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 12, 375. ejecting scandalous ministers, Glos., Oxon. 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), army of 3rd earl of Essex, 30 July 1642–44;SP28/3b, f. 343. regt. of Sir Robert Pye I* bef. summer 1644.BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (2015–16), i. 53. Maj. of horse, regt. of Richard Graves, New Model army, Apr. 1645 – June 1647; col. May 1647-June 1649.Firth and Davis, Regimental Hist. i. 102–114. Gov. Bristol 4 Oct. 1649-May 1655.Whitelocke, Mems. iii. 113. Col. and capt. militia horse, Glos. 3 Jan. 1651–?1655.CSP Dom. 1651, p. 513.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Visitor, Oxf. Univ. 23 May 1649.CJ vi. 215b.

Civic: freeman, Bristol 9 Mar. 1652.Bristol RO, 04264/5, p. 31. Burgess and guildbrother, Edinburgh 22 Apr. 1657.Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1655–65, 55.

Scottish: cllr. of state, May 1655–59.CSP Dom. 1655, pp. 108, 152. Commr. assessment, Edinburgh Shire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. Part 2, 839; A. and O. J.p. 1656–?Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 311. Commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

: Oxon.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, by or aft. R. Walker;NPG. oil on canvas, copy of the former.Red Lodge Museum, Bristol.

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SCROPE, Adrian (1601-60), of Wormsley, Oxon.

Will
attainted.
Estates
inherited manor of Wormsley, Keldridge Woods and other lands, parish of Lewknor, Oxon.;CSP Dom. 1661-2, p. 52; E178/6414. lessee of Cockrington St Leonard rectory, Lincs. 1656.LPL, Comm. X I a/3, f. 115.
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JAFFRAY, Alexander (1614-73), of Kingswells, Aberdeenshire.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. July 1614, 1st s. of Alexander Jaffray of Kingswells and Magdalene Erskine of Pittodrie. educ. g.s. Aberdeen, Gorioch, Buchan and Banchory; Marischal Coll. Aberdeen Univ. 1631. m. (1) 30 Apr. 1632, Jane (d. 19 Mar. 1644), da. of Patrick Dun of Ferryhill, 10 ch. (9 d.v.p.), inc. 1s.; (2) 4 May 1647, Sarah, da. of Rev. Andrew Cant of Aberdeen, 5s. (3 d.v.p.) 3da. (2 d.v.p.). d. 7 May 1673.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 375-6; Diary of Alexander Jaffray, ed. J. Barclay (1833), 13-15, 21, 29.
Offices Held

Civic: bailie, Aberdeen 1641, 1643, 1645, 1648; provost, 1649 – 50, 1651–17 Mar. 1652.Jaffray Diary ed. Barclay, 182; Mems. of Aldermen, Provosts and Lord Provosts of Aberdeen ed. A.M. Munro (Aberdeen, 1897), 157–63, 164–5.

Scottish: member, cttee. of war, 1646, 1648, 1649; cttee. of estates, 1649. Commr. Aberdeen burgh, Scottish Parl. 1649 – 50; to attend Charles Stuart in Holland, 1649, 1650; plantation of kirks, 1649; visitation of Aberdeen Univ. 1649; exch. 1649; purging army, June 1650.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 275–6. Director, chancellery, June 1652–1660.Jaffray Diary, 32, 51; Scot. and Protectorate, ed. Firth, 386, 390; Nicoll, Diary, 301. Kpr. gt. seal, June 1652–55.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 376. Commr. approbation of ministers, Aberdeenshire and Moray provinces 8 Aug. 1654;Nicoll, Diary, 167. security of protector, Scotland 26 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Local: commr. assessment, Aberdeen burgh and shire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 838; A. and O. J.p. Aberdeenshire 1656–9.Scot. and Protectorate, ed. Firth, 308.

: Aberdeenshire.
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JAFFRAY, Alexander (1614-73), of Kingswells, Aberdeenshire.

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Kingswells, Aberdeenshire, inherited from his fa. in 1645; received £200 p.a. salary and £500 p.a. from profits of Scottish chancery, 1652-60.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS LI, f. 30v; XLIII, f. 9v.
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RIGBY, Alexander I (1594-1650), of Middleton Hall in Goosnargh, Kirkham, Lancs.

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Family and Education
bap. 9 July 1594, 1st surv. s. of Alexander Rigby of Wigan, Lancs. and 1st w. Alice, da. of Leonard Ashawe of Shaw Hall, Flixton, Lancs.Flixton par. reg.; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxviii), 245. educ. St John’s, Camb. Easter 1610, BA 1614, MA 1615.Al. Cant. G. Inn 1 Nov. 1610.G. Inn Admiss. 124. m. (1) by 1620, Lucy (bur. 5 Mar. 1644), da. of Sir Urian Legh of Adlington, Cheshire, 3s. (inc. Alexander*, Edward†) 1da.; (2) Anne (bur. 12 Feb. 1676), da. and coh. of John Gobert of Market Bosworth, Leics. and Coventry, Warws. and wid. of Colonel Thomas Legh of Adlington, s.p.Preston, Lancs. par. reg.; Vis. Lancs. ed. Raines, 245-6; Prestbury Reg. Bk. ed. J. Croston (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. v), 186, 226; Earwaker, E. Cheshire, ii. 213, 243, 252. suc. fa. 20 Apr. 1621.Lancs. IPM ed. J. P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xvii), 460. d. 18 Aug. 1650.Desiderata Curiosa ed. F. Peck (1735), ii. lib. xiv, p. 23.
Offices Held

Legal: called, G. Inn 19 Nov. 1617; ancient, 4 May 1638; Lent reader, 1643.PBG Inn, i. 229, 330, 350. Sjt.-at-law, 9 June 1649–d.C231/6, p. 151; Baker, Serjeants at Law, 189, 400. Bar. exch. 12 June 1649–d.CJ vi. 222a; C231/6, p. 152.

Local: clerk of peace, Lancs. 1621–7.Lancs. RO, DDKE/1/14, 16, 17, 19, 26; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 107. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649.SR; A. and O. Dep. lt. by 9 June 1642–?d.CJ ii. 615a. Member, Lancs. co. cttee. June 1642–?d.CJ ii. 625b; LJ v. 137a; Gratton, Lancs. 79. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; defence of Lancs. 29 Aug. 1645.A. and O. J.p. by Aug. 1646–d.Lancs. RO, QSC/42–52. Commr. Westminster militia, 15 Jan. 1648;CJ v. 433a; LJ ix. 663a. militia, Lancs. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O. Custos rot. 10 May 1649–d.C231/6, p. 150.

Civic: freeman, Preston by 1622–d.;Preston Guild Rolls ed. W. A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 86, 102. Wigan by 1628–d.Sinclair, Wigan, i. 197, 215; ii. 3, 53.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642;‘Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 393a. cttee. for examinations, 10 Sept., 18 Oct. 1642.CJ ii. 762a, 825b. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647;LJ vi. 55b; CJ iv. 606a; LJ viii. 411a; ix. 500a. court martial, 16 Aug. 1644. Member, cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645; Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 1 July 1645; cttee. for foreign plantations, 21 Mar. 1646; cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647;A. and O. cttee. for plundered ministers, 27 Dec. 1647;CJ v. 407a. cttee. for the army, 15 Dec. 1648,LJ x. 631b. 17 Apr. 1649. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649,A. and O. 2 Apr. 1650;CJ vi. 392a. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649.A. and O.

Military: col. of ft. (parlian.) c.June 1643-c.Apr. 1645.SP28/10, f. 366; SP28/236, pt. 2, unfol. (accts. of George Pigott); Warr in Lancs. 40, 41; Gratton, Lancs. 194, 195, 292. Gov. Bolton by Sept.1648–?d.[C. Walker*], Hist. of Independency (1648), 171 (E.463.19).

Religious: elder, seventh Lancs. classis, 1646.LJ viii. 511.

: of Middleton Hall in Goosnargh, Lancs., Kirkham.
Likenesses

Likenesses: engaving, unknown, 1882.J. Croston, Nooks and Corners of Lancs. and Ches. (Manchester and London, 1882), 333.

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RIGBY, Alexander I (1594-1650), of Middleton Hall in Goosnargh, Kirkham, Lancs.

Will
admon. 26 Aug. 1650.PROB6/25, f. 135.
Estates
in 1618, fa. purchased an estate at Middleton for £1,000.Long, ‘Lancs.’, 54. In 1621, Rigby inherited capital messuages of Middleton Hall and Eyves Hall (Goosnargh), messuages and lands in Goosnargh, Ince-in-Makerfield and Poulton-le-Fylde and a moiety of a pension issuing out of vicarage of Preston, Lancs.Lancs. IPM ed. Rylands, 456-60; Lancs. RO, WCW, will of Alexander Rigby of Wigan, 1622; Earwaker, ‘Col. Alexander Rigby’, 137-8. In 1628-31, purchased property in Goosnargh for £595.Lancs. RO, QDD/36/1; QDD/39/1. In 1640, family estate worth c.£500-£600 p.a.Long, ‘Lancs.’, 155. By 1643, he owned a house in Preston.CSP Dom. 1644, p. 28. In 1643, purchased so-called Plough Patent, granting him the ‘province of Lygonia’, in Maine, New England.Jnl. of John Winthrop ed. R.S. Dunn, J. Savage, L. Yeandle (Cambridge, MA, 1996), 495-6, 619; H. Farber, ‘The rise and fall of the province of Lygonia, 1643-58’, New England Q. lxxxii. 503. By 1650, owned tithes of Barton (par. Preston), worth £40 p.a. and tithes of Poulton-le-Fylde, worth £90 p.a.Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. H. Fishwick (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. i), 145, 150. In 1650, purchased, for £126, a fee farm rents in Lancs. worth £14 p.a.SP28/288, f. 7.
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in or near Gray’s Inn, Mdx. (from 1629);SP28/131, pt. 3, f. 97; Lancs. RO, DDKE/9/8/13; HMC Kenyon, 52; Lancs. Lieutenancy under the Tudors and Stuarts ed. J. Harland (Chetham Soc. o.s. l), 277; Mercurius Politicus no. 11 (15-22 Aug. 1650), 163 (E.610.3). Sir Thomas Fanshawe’s house, Warwick Lane, London (from Oct. 1644);Bodl. Nalson XIV, f. 221v. the deanery, Westminster Abbey (by 1647);J.P. Earwaker, ‘Col. Alexander Rigby, MP for Wigan 1640-50’, Palatine Note-Bk. iii. 281. Serjeants’ Inn, London (1649).J. Lilburne, Strength out of Weaknesse (1649), 22 (E.575.18).
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WARWICK, Philip (1609-83), of Westminster, and Frognal, Chislehurst, Kent.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 24 Dec. 1609, o.s. of Thomas Warrick of St Margaret’s, Westminster, organist of the Chapel Royal, and Elizabeth, da. and coh. of John Somerville of Aston Somerville, Warws.Wood, Fasti, i. 505; Mems. St Margaret’s Westminster, 79; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. liv), 174; ‘Biographical acct. of Sir Philip Warwick, knt.’, Gent. Mag. xl. 781; The Old Cheque-Bk. or Book of Remembrance of the Chapel Royal ed. E.F. Rimbault (Cam. Soc. n.s. iii), 11. educ. Eton c.1623;Eton Coll. Reg. 1441-1698 ed. W. Sterry, 352; Wood, Fasti, i. 505. ?Pembroke, Camb. c.1630-1;Al. Cant. travelled abroad (Switzerland, France and Netherlands) 1633-4;SP16/248/82, f. 190v; CSP Dom. 1633-4, p. 578; 1634-5, pp. 35, 189. Acad. Geneva, 17 Dec. 1633;Le Livre du Recteur de l’Académie de Genève (1559-1878) ed. S. Stelling-Michaud (Geneva, 6 vols. 1959-80), i. 182.  G. Inn 12 February 1638;G. Inn Admiss. BCL (Oxon.) 11 Apr. 1638.Al. Ox. m. (1) settlement 2 Apr. 1634, Dorothy (d. 6 Aug. 1644), da. of Matthew Hutton of Marske, Yorks. 1s.; (2) 1647, Joan (bur. 16 May 1672), da. of Sir Henry Fanshawe† of Ware Park, Herts., wid. of Sir William Boteler, 1st bt. of Teston, Kent, s.p.SP23/192, p. 722; Certaine Serious Thoughts (1647), 21; D. Lysons, The Environs of London (1796), iv. 355; Fanshawe Mems. (1907 edn.), 45, 319; ‘Biographical acct. of Sir Philip Warwick’, 782. suc. fa. Jan. 1652;Mems. St Margaret’s Westminster, 629. Kntd. c. 7 June 1660.Eg. 2542, f. 365. d. 15 Jan. 1683.‘Biographical acct. of Sir Philip Warwick’, 782.
Offices Held

Central: sec. to Ld. Treas. William Juxon, Mar. 1636–41;CSP Dom. 1635–6, p. 301. to treasury commrs. June – Aug. 1660; to Ld. Treas. Southampton, Aug. 1660-May 1667.CTB i. 50–3; Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Treasury Officials 1660–1870 ed. J.C. Sainty, 30. Commr. to compound with maltsters, 31 Jan. 1637.CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 404. Clerk of the signet, 13 Nov. 1638-c.May 1646, c.May 1660–d.CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 103; Officials of the Secretaries of State 1660–1782 ed. J. C. Sainty, 114. Commr. inquiry (roy.), ct. of wards, 2 Feb. 1643.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 2. Clerk of the Parl. (in reversion) 3 Jan. 1644.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 372. Commr. dedimus potestatem, Parl. 31 Oct. 1666.C181/7, p. 378.

Local: kpr. manors of Chislehurst and ‘Bawdens’, Kent 24 Nov. 1638.CSP Dom. 1639–40, p. 119. Commr. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 3 Aug. 1639;C181/5, f. 149v. Deeping and Gt. Level 7 July 1640- aft. Dec. 1641;C181/5, ff. 181v, 197, 215. Kent 2 Apr. 1640, 11 Sept. 1660-aft. June 1671;C181/5, f. 168v; C181/7, pp. 46, 369, 579. Mdx. and Westminster 31 Aug. 1660-aft. Jan. 1673;C181/7, pp. 37, 254, 413, 586, 627, 632. tendering oath of loyalty (roy.), Oxf. 12 Apr. 1645;Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 268. surrender of Oxf. (roy.) May 1646;Rushworth, Hist. Collns. vi. 279. poll tax, Mdx. 1660, 1666; Westminster 1666.SR. J.p. Kent by Oct. 1660–d.C220/9/4. Commr. assessment, Mdx. 1661, 1664, 1666, 1672, 1677; Westminster 1661, 1664, 1666, 1672, 1677, 1679; Kent 1672, 1677, 1679;SR. for corporations, 1662;Eg. 2985, f. 66. loyal and indigent officers, London and Westminster, Kent 1662; subsidy, Kent, Mdx., liberty of duchy of Lancaster (Mdx.), Westminster 1663. 1665 – 77SR. Asst. Rochester Bridge; warden, 1665, 1672.HP Commons, 1660–90, ‘Sir Philip Warwick’. Commr. recusants, Mdx., Kent 1675.CTB iv. 696, 788.

: of Westminster and Kent., Frognal.
Likenesses

Likenesses: line engraving, R. White aft. P. Lely, 1701.Warwick, Mems. Charles I (1701), frontispiece.

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WARWICK, Philip (1609-83), of Westminster, and Frognal, Chislehurst, Kent.

Will
29 Nov. 1682, pr. 5 Apr. 1683.PROB11/372, f. 383.
Estates
in 1634, acquired, for £2,500, mortgage of manor of Frognal and other property in Kent, worth £200 p.a.SP23/192, pp. 721-2; Hasted, Kent, ii. 11. In 1636, the king granted George Goring†, Baron Goring, George Goring*, Warwick and another gentleman part of the covenant for licensing wine retailing in Oxford.Coventry Docquets, 281. In 1646, Warwick’s estate consisted of a franktenement for life in The Sanctuary, Westminster, worth £50 p.a.; estate for life in half of manor of Wick and Abson, Glos. and property and rents in nearby parishes worth £25 p.a.; and manor of Frognal – which estate was charged with rents of 53 a year and debts of £700.SP23/192, pp. 721-2. By the late 1640s, owned or leased a house in Clapham, Beds.J.W. Packer, The Transformation of Anglicanism, 1643-60 (Manchester, 1969), 35-6. In 1652, purchased lease of manor of Temple Chelsin, Herts. for £3,500.Herts. RO, DE/AS/210-14. In 1664-5, built Warwick House, St James’s, Westminster, which he sold in 1670.Survey of London, xxix. 427-8. At his d. in 1683, estate inc. manor and mansion house of Frognal and lands and tenements in parishes of Chislehurst, Paul’s Cray and Foots Cray, Kent.PROB11/372, f. 383v.
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