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COOKE, Edward (d. 1684), of Highnam, Churcham, Glos.

Family and Education
2nd s. of Sir Robert Cooke* (d. June 1643) and 1st w. Dorothy, da. of Sir Miles Fleetwood* of Aldwinkle, Northants. and Cranford, Bucks. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 9 Feb. 1639;Al. Cant. M. Temple 30 Nov. 1639, called 8 June 1649.MTR ii. 888, 979. m. Margaret, da. of Lord John Paulet† (5th marquess of Winchester) of Hinton St George, Som. wid. of Robert Rolle* of Steventon, Devon and Sir Richard Cholmondleigh of Gromont, York, s.p.Vis. Glos. 1682-3 ed. Fenwick and Metcalfe, 47. d. 29 Jan. 1684.A Funeral Sermon upon the much lamented death of Col. Edward Cook (1684, BL 1508/589).
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Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), army of Henry Grey*, 1st earl of Stamford by 26 Dec. 1642.Glos. RO, D2510: Cooke to John Smyth of Nibley, 26 Dec. 1642. Col. of ft. army of Sir William Waller*, ?1643-aft. Apr. 1645.CSP Dom. 1644–5, pp. 397, 418, 476. Col. of horse, brigade of Edward Massie*, Aug. 1645–6.CSP Dom. 1645–7, p. 38; HMC Portland, i. 237. Col. militia horse, Glos. by 20 Apr. 1660.CCSP iv. 671.

Central: commr. relief on articles of war, 29 Sept. 1652.A. and O.

Local: commr. militia, Glos. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. 1662–?d.C193/12/3.

Irish: chief craner, Dublin May 1661.CSP Ire. 1660–2, p. 344. Commr. executing act of settlement, 18 July 1662, 11 May 1663;CCSP v. 210; CSP Ire. 1663–5, p. 87. fraudulent decrees for land, Connaught 24 Oct. 1662.CSP Ire. 1660–2, p. 610.

: Glos., Churcham.
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COOKE, Edward (d. 1684), of Highnam, Churcham, Glos.

Will
13 Feb. 1679, pr. 18 Feb. 1684.PROB11/375/230.
Estates
inherited Highnam, Glos, from fa.; held lease of Moor Park, Dublin, June 1667.HMC Ormonde, n.s. iii. 269.
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DUCKINFIELD, John (1626-78), of Duckenfield Hall, Cheshire, and Carrickfergus, co. Antrim.

Family and Education
b. 1626, s. of Robert Duckenfield of Duckenfield Hall, Cheshire, and Frances, da. of George Preston of Holker, Lancs; bro. of Robert Duckenfeild*. m. bef. 1669, Martha, da. of Edward Francklin of London, s.p.PROB 11/356/91. d. Jan. 1678.PROB 11/356/91.
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Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of Robert Venables*, army in Ireland, July 1649 – June 1651; maj. June 1651–1653; lt.-col. c.1653–9.SP28/78, f. 521; SP28/80, f. 164; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 668; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 184, 205. Lt.-col. regt. of John Hewson*, 14 June 1659-Jan. 1660.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist., ii. 412–5, 668; CJ vii. 682b, 684a.

Irish: town maj. Carrickfergus garrison, c.Apr. 1651;SP28/76, f. 380. acting gov. c.1657.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 664. Commr. assessment, co. Down 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655; co. Antrim 12 Jan. 1655.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). J.p. co. Antrim c.1657–9.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 623.

: of Duckenfield Hall, Cheshire and co. Antrim., Carrickfergus.
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DUCKINFIELD, John (1626-78), of Duckenfield Hall, Cheshire, and Carrickfergus, co. Antrim.

Will
1 Aug. 1677, pr. 23 Jan. 1678.PROB11/356/91.
Estates
at d. owned unspecified lands in Ireland, six houses in London, over £3,000 in money and investments, and a merchant ship: the Anne, of London.PROB11/356/91.
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HEWSON, John (d.1661), of Luttrellstown, co. Dublin.

Family and Education
s. of John Hewson of London and Elizabeth.C2/ChasI/H7/35; PROB11/187/183. m. Anne, at least 4da.J. Rogers, Ohel or Beth-shemesh (1653), 412 (E.717). educ. appr. to Thomas Stubbes, Cordwainer, c. 1618;GL, MS 7351/1, unfol. MA (hon.), Oxf. Univ. 19 May 1649;S.R. Gardiner, Commonwealth and Protectorate, i. 54. Kntd. bef. Dec. 1657.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 224. cr. Lord Hewson, Dec. 1657.TSP vi. 668. d. c.Sept. 1661.CCSP v. 138.
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Civic: freeman, Cordwainers’ Co. 1625–6.GL, MS 7351/1, unfol.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian) regt. of 3rd earl of Essex, 23 Nov. 1642 – 26 Mar. 1644; lt.-col. regt. of John Pickering, 26 Mar. 1644-c.June 1646;SP28/253A, f. 70. col. of ft. c.June 1646-July 1659.M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), i.59; ii. 240. Gov. Dublin late 1649–1659? Col. of ft. New English regt. Sept. 1656-Jan. 1660.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 405–15; CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 94; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 88, 104, 119.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 14 July 1653.CJ vii. 284b. Member, cttee. of safety, 26 Oct. 1659.Whitelocke, Mems. iv. 366.

Irish: commr. revenue, Dublin precinct Aug. 1650 – Dec. 1652; Dublin 15 Feb. 1653.SP28/70, f. 321; SP28/89, ff. 73–9; Eg. 1762, f. 65. J.p. Leinster 4 Nov. 1651–?TCD, MS 844, f. 110. Asst. to parliamentary commrs. 24 Mar. 1652.Eg. 1762, f. 202v. Commr. high ct. of justice, Dublin 30 Dec. 1652.TCD, MS 844, f. 136. High sheriff, Leinster by Jan. 1653.Eg. 1762, f. 60. Commr. tillage, 4 Jan. 1653.Eg. 1762, f. 58v. Agent to draw soldiers’ lots, Feb. 1654.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 404. Commr. ct. of articles, 7 Oct. 1654;Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 451. assessment, city of Dublin, cos. Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). Member, cttee. of transplantation, 26 Oct. 1654.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 454. Commr. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Local: j.p. Mdx., Westminster 6 Nov. 1656–?Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 351; C193/13/5, ff. 66, 135v. Surr. by Mar. 1657–?Mar. 1660.C193/13/5, f. 102; C193/13/6, ff. 85, 86v. Commr. assessment, Kent, Surr. 9 June 1657;A. and O. sewers, Kent and Surr. 14 Nov. 1657, 1 Sept. 1659;C181/6, pp. 263, 387. oyer and terminer, Surr. 21 Mar. 1659.C181/6, p. 348.

: co. Dublin.
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HEWSON, John (d.1661), of Luttrellstown, co. Dublin.

Will
attainted, 1660.
Estates
granted townland of Luttrellstown, co. Dublin, 22 Mar. 1652 (confirmed 18 July 1654);Eg. 1762, f. 206. held lands at Donsoghly, Hollywood Rath, Kilmacmonan and Blanchardstown, co. Dublin, by mid-1650s;HMC Egmont, i. 548, 550; CSP Ire. 1660-2, p. 282; 1663-5, pp. 482-3; 1666-9, p. 497. purchased lands in Kent, inc. 113 acres at St Margaret’s at the Cliff, Isle of Sheppey, June 1655.C54/3853/30. All estates forfeited, 1660.
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HAY, James (fl. 1630-1659), formerly of Forret, Fife.

Family and Education
yr. s. of Peter Hay of Naughton, Fife.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 325. m. Jean Home (d. 1661).Reg. Interments, Greyfriars Burying Ground ed. H. Paton (Edinburgh, 1902), 298.
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Military: ensign, green regt. Swedish army, 1630–?Swedish Krigsarchiv, Muster Roll 1630/29–31. ?Col. ?army of 1st mq. of Montrose by November 1645.Government of Scot. under the Covenanters ed. D. Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1982), 51–2.

Scottish: dep. Fife, tender of union, 1652. Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, 26n.

: formerly of Forret, Fife.
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HAY, James (fl. 1630-1659), formerly of Forret, Fife.

Will
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by grants of June 1648 and Oct. 1651, Hay received lands of Easter and Wester Forret and Nether Friartoun, Fife, also lands of Glendrooke in Drumduff barony, Perthshire, from his bro. Peter Hay of Blebo; these, and other lands in Forfarshire alienated in grants of July 1653 and February 1654, and Hay known as ‘sometime of Forret’ thereafter.Reg. Gt Seal Scot. 1652-9, pp. 74-5, 84, 119-21.
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DRAPER, William (d. 1672), of Nether Worton, Oxon. and Erith, Kent.

Family and Education
?1st s. of William Draper (d. 1614), Haberdasher, of London and Erith, Kent, and his w. Elizabeth.VCH Oxon. xi. 287; PROB11/338/407; PROB11/123/279; Hasted, Kent, ii. 258; Vis. of London 1634 ii (Harl. Soc. xc), 239. educ. ?appr. m. ?(1) 16 Dec. 1634, Anne Gouldwell of Bexley, Kent ?s.p.;St Mary the Virgin, Bexley, par. reg.; C8/39/94. (2) 13 Sept. 1636, Mary (d. Aug. 1639), da. and h. of Robert Parsons (d. 1636) of Nether Worton, Oxon. 1s.;St James, Nether Worton, par. reg.; VCH Oxon. xi. 287. (3) 2 June 1640, Elizabeth (d. aft. 1671), da. of Thomas Gataker (d. 1654), rector of Rotherhithe, Surr. 2s. 6da.St Mary, Rotherhithe, par. reg.; ‘Thomas Gataker’, Oxford DNB; PROB11/338/407; PROB11/241/56; Oxon. RO, Gen. XXXXVIII/i/1. d. ?10 Feb. 1672.Bodl. Top. Oxon. c.165.
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Local: member, Oxon co. cttee. 2 May 1646.LJ viii. 293b; CJ iv. 512a. J.p. 1 Sept. 1646-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 56; The Names of the Justices (1650, E.1238.4); A Perfect List (1660). Commr. assessment, Oxon. 23 June 1647, 7 Apr. and 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661;A. and O.; Act for an Assessment (1652, E.1062.28); An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. sequestration by 13 Sept. 1649–?June 1652;CCC 152, 578. securing peace of commonwealth by Mar. 1656.TSP iv. 595. Sheriff, 1657–8.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iv. 672. Commr. poll tax, 1660.SR.

Central: visitor, Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647.CSP Dom. 1645–7, p. 551.

Military: capt. militia horse, Oxon. 2 Apr. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 505. Gov. Oxford Castle 8 May-17 Sept. 1651.CSP Dom. 1651, pp. 188, 435.

: of Nether Worton, Oxon. and Erith, Kent.
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DRAPER, William (d. 1672), of Nether Worton, Oxon. and Erith, Kent.

Will
20 Oct. 1671, pr. 29 Mar. 1672.PROB 11/338/407.
Estates
inherited from fa. in 1614 lands in Herringhell, par. of Erith;PROB11/123/279; J. Philipot, Villare Cantianum (1659), 145. inherited £100 from uncle Robert Draper in 1635;PROB11/168/409. held over 300 acres of land in Nether Worton and Deddington, Oxon. Apr. 1637;Oxon. RO, E23/1/D/40. residence at North Cray, Kent, 1641;Oxon. RO, Gen. XXXXVIII/i/1; Bodl. MS ch. Oxon. 2011. land in Plumstead, from 1654;PROB11/241/56 (Thomas Gattaker). Erith and Bexley, 1671.PROB11/338/407.
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LUCKYN, Capel (1622-80), of Hutton, and later of Messing Hall, Messing, Essex.

Family and Education
bap. 8 May 1622, 1st s. of Sir William Luckyn, 1st bt. of Little Waltham, Essex, and his 1st w. Mildred, da. of Sir Gameliel Capel† of Rookwood Hall, Abbess Roding, Essex.CB. educ. Bishop’s Stortford c.1631-9; Caius, Camb. 1639;J. Venn, Biographical Hist. of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897 (Cambridge, 1897-1901), i. 335; Al. Cant. L. Inn, 17 June 1640, called 18 Nov. 1647.LI Admiss. i. 243; LI Black Bks. ii. 375. m. 20 Jan. 1648 (with £2,500), Mary (d. 1719), da. of Harbottle Grimston*, 6s. (3 d.v.p.) 7da. (3 d.v.p.).Herts. RO, IX.B.45a, unfol.; IX.B.4/1; IX.B.5; J.H. Round, ‘Some Essex fam. corresp.’, Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. n.s. vi. 209. Kntd. 2 June 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 227. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. Feb. 1661. d. 23 Jan. 1680.Herts. RO, IX.B.45a, unf.; IX.B.10; Round, ‘Some Essex fam. corresp.’, 209 and n.
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Local: commr. militia, Essex 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Mar. 1660–d.A Perfect List (1660), 16. Commr. assessment, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Harwich 1664, 1672, 1677; poll tax, Essex 1660; Harwich 1666; subsidy, Essex 1663;SR. sewers, River Stour, Essex and Suff. 4 July 1664;C181/7, p. 277. Essex 22 Mar. 1666, 21 Mar. 1672;C181/7, pp. 353, 620. gaol delivery, Colchester 3 Dec. 1667, 25 Nov. 1671;C181/7, pp. 418, 603. recusants, Essex 1675.CTB iv. 696, 750.

: of Hutton and later of Messing Hall, Essex., Messing.
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Likenesses: oils, unknown;Round, ‘Some Essex fam. corresp.’, pl. opp. 207. oils, attrib. ‘Van Diest’.N. King, The Grimstons of Gorhambury (Chichester, 1983), monochrome pl. 10.

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LUCKYN, Capel (1622-80), of Hutton, and later of Messing Hall, Messing, Essex.

Will
9 Aug. 1676, pr. 17 Feb. 1680.PROB11/362/264.
Estates
presented with manor of Hutton by his fa. in 1648;Essex RO, VI.D.38; Round, ‘Some Essex fam. corresp.’, 210-11 this land sold in 1650 for £6,500 and the manor of Messing bought by his father for him for £9,000.Essex RO, V.A.36; V.A.38; V.A.40-9; VI.D.38-9.
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LYTTELTON, Sir Thomas, 1st bt. (1595-1650), of Hagley and Frankley, Worcs.

Family and Education
bap. 20 Dec. 1595, 1st s. of John Lyttelton of Frankley and Meriel (bur. 15 Apr. 1630), da. of Sir Thomas Bromley of Rodd Castle and Hodnet, nr. Oswestry, Salop. Hagley par. reg.; PA, Lords Original Acts 1 James I, no. 58. suc. fa. 25 July 1601.CB i. 117. educ. Balliol, Oxf. 1610, BA Broadgates Hall, 1614;Al. Ox. I. Temple 27 Oct. 1613;I. Temple admissions database. travelled abroad (France, Low Countries, 1615-16).APC 1615-16, p. 313. m. by 22 Nov. 1617, Catherine (d. 24 June 1666), da. of Sir Thomas Crompton of Driffield, Yorks. and Hounslow, Mdx. 12s. (6 d.v.p.), 4da.HP Commons 1604-1629, ‘Sir Thomas Littleton’; CITR 144; Nash, Collections, i. 493. cr. bt. 25 July 1618; Kntd. 9 Nov. 1618.BRL, Hagley Hall mss, box 62, 352043; CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 558; CB i. 117; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 170. d. 22 Feb. 1650.CB i. 117.
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Military: vol. ?Low Countries 1621 – 22; capt. 1624; ?col. Mar. 1628. ?Col. Ile de Ré expedition, Oct.1627.Harl. 5814 f. 47; CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 390; 1628–9, p. 40. Col. militia horse and ft. (roy.) Worcs. 3 Sept. 1642; col. volunteers, 5 Sept. 1642.Northants RO, FH133, unfol.; BRL, Hagley Hall mss, box 29, 351505; box 31, 351506, 351507. Gov. Bewdley (roy.) 1642–4.J.R. Burton, Hist. Bewdley (1883), 39; J.W. Willis Bund, Civil War in Worcs. 1642–46 (1905), 35, 54.

Local: commr. arbitration, Ombersley, Worcs. 1622;CSP Dom. 1619–23, p. 441. subsidy, Worcs. 1624;C212/22/23. Bucks. 1641;SR. Forced Loan, Worcs. 1627;Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145; C193/12/2, f. 62v. levy crown debts, southern and midland cos. and Wales 1628;HMC Rutland, i. 485. commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 23 Jan. 1629-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/3, f. 260v; C181/4, ff. 12, 194v; C181/5, ff. 6v, 219. sewers, Staffs. 1630;C181/4, f. 65. further subsidy, Bucks. 1641; poll tax, 1641.SR. J.p. Salop, Worcs. 11 Mar. 1641–?July 1646.C231/5, p. 434. Commr. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Bucks. 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), Worcs. 14 June 1642; Worcester 14 Sept. 1642; accts. (roy.) Worcs. 1 June 1644; Staffs. 22 Mar. 1645.Bodl. Dugdale 19, ff. 87, 105.

Legal: marshal, Christmas feast, I. Temple 1626, 1628, 1637, 1640, 1641.CITR 157, 170, 236, 257, 263, 294.

Mercantile: adventurer, Guiana Co. 1629.Bodl. Tanner 71, f.161v.

: 1st bt. (1595-1650), of Hagley 1595 – 1650 and Worcs., Frankley.
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Likenesses: MI Worcester cathedral.

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LYTTELTON, Sir Thomas, 1st bt. (1595-1650), of Hagley and Frankley, Worcs.

Will
20 Dec. 1649, pr. 21 Mar. 1650.PROB11/211, f. 314.
Estates
Lands in Arley, Staffs.PROB11/211, f. 314. In 1632 manors of Old Swinford, Stourbridge, Hagley, Churchill and Clent, Worcs. In 1645 lands in Clent, Hagley, Old Swinford, Stourbridge, Bettecote, Churchill and Arley re-conveyed to him after destruction of deeds.BRL, Hagley Hall mss, box 43, 351758. In 1639 he bought the manor of Westbury, Bucks., valued at £300 in 1647.B. Willis, Hist. and Antiquities of Bucks. (1755), 352; CCC 67.
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St Martin’s Lane, London, Nov. 1618;Herefs. RO, W15/2. Newcastle House, Clerkenwell, Mdx. Feb. 1650.CB i. 117.
Religion
Edmund Kettle to Churchill rectory, Hagley 24 Mar. 1618; Thomas Lyttelton to Halesowen vicarage, 5 Dec. 1620; Bartholomew Kettle to Hagley rectory, 16 June 1634; John Neale to Churchill rectory, 27 Jan. 1641.Worcs. Archives, 732.4/BA 2337/551, pp. 18, 22, 23.
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GOLLOP, Roger (1613-81), of Southampton and Stanbridge, Hants.

Family and Education
bap. 14 Mar. 1613, 1st s. of Roger Gollop of North Bowood, Dorset, and Mary Davies of Devon (wid. of Richard Gollop of Stoke Abbott).Stoke Abbott par. reg.; Vis. Dorset 1623 (Harl. Soc. xx), 44. educ. Trinity, Oxf. 18 Nov. 1631, ‘aged 17’; BA 11 Feb. 1634, MA 14 Nov. 1636; I. Temple, 18 Nov. 1637, called 30 Jan. 1646.Al. Ox.; I. Temple database. m. bef. 1651, Elizabeth (d. aft. 9 June 1685), 1s.Procs. Hants. Field Club and Arch. Soc. Supp. (1913), 26-7; PROB11/391/275. suc. fa. Feb. 1640.PROB11/184/316; Stoke Abbott par. reg. d. bef. 6 May 1681.Davies, Hist. Southampton, 185.
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Local: j.p. Hants Mar. 1655-aft. Apr. 1664;C231/6, pp. 307, 443; C231/7, p. 480; C220/9/4, f. 77v; C193/12/3, f. 92. Southampton Mar. 1660–d.;A Perfect List (1660), 50; Southampton RO, SC3/7/38–9. Andover July 1674–75.Hants RO, 37M85/2/QS/4. Commr. assessment, Hants 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; Ordinance for an Assessment (1660), 51 (E.1075.6); SR. ejecting scandalous ministers, 3 June 1658;CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 42. gaol delivery, Southampton 14 Sept. 1658;C181/6, p. 313. militia, Hants, Southampton 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Hants 1660;SR. corporations, 1662;HMC 11th Rep. III, 55. subsidy, 1663;SR. sewers, 25 July 1671;C181/7, p. 584. wastes and spoils, New Forest 1672, 1673, 1676;CTB iii. 1204; iv. 124; v. 303. recusants, Hants 1675.CTB iv. 791.

Civic: burgess, Southampton 10 Dec. 1658;Southampton RO, SC3/1/1, f. 222v. recorder, 29 Sept. 1662–d.;Southampton RO, SC2/1/8, f. 185; Davies, Hist. Southampton, 185. juror, 1665–d.Southampton RO, SC3/7/39. Recorder, Romsey 1668–d.Procs. Hants. Field Club and Arch. Soc. Supp. (1913), 24.

: Hants.
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GOLLOP, Roger (1613-81), of Southampton and Stanbridge, Hants.

Will
not found.
Estates
inherited estate at Stanbridge and property in Southampton from uncle, George Gollop*, 1650.PROB11/213/34. Bef. 1653 purchased Stanbridge manor for £700.C54/3650/28; VHC Hants, iv. 458.
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PRICE, Sir John, 1st bt. (by 1600-57), of Newtown Hall, Mont.

Family and Education
b. by 1600, 1st s. of Edward Price of Newtown Hall and 1st w. Juliana, da. of John Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth, Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, Mont.CB. educ. I. Temple 25 May 1615;I. Temple admissions database. travelled abroad c.1616.APC 1615-16, p. 539. m. aft.1617, Catherine (d.1657), da. of Sir Richard Pryse† of Gogerddan, Card., wid. of James Stedman (d.1617) of Strata Florida, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.Mont. Colls. x. 6-11, 147; xxxi. 66-7. cr. bt. 15 Aug. 1628.CB. d. 18 June 1657.Mont. Colls. xxxi. 318.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Mont. 1627 – 29, 4 Dec. 1640-bef. Mar. 1648.Justices of the Peace, ed. Phillips, 140, 143. Dep. lt. by 1642–?Phillips, Civil War in Wales, i. 264. Commr. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; assessment, 1642, 9 June 1657.SR; A. and O. Member, Pemb. co. cttee. 23 Aug. 1645.CJ iv. 252a.

Military: gov. (parlian.) Montgomery Castle Sept. 1644–5.Phillips, Civil War in Wales, i. 264; CB.

: 1st bt. (by 1600-57), of Newtown Hall, Mont. 1600 – 57.
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PRICE, Sir John, 1st bt. (by 1600-57), of Newtown Hall, Mont.

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KNIGHTLEY, Richard (c.1610-61), of Fawsley and Preston, Northants., and King Street, Covent Garden, London.

Family and Education
b. c. 1610, 1st s. of Richard Knightley of Burgh Hall, Gnosall, Staffs. and Fawsley, and Jane, da. of Sir Edward Littleton† of Pillaton, Staffs.Vis. Northants. (Harl. Soc. lxxxvii), 108. educ. Lincoln Coll. Oxf. 24 Oct. 1628, ‘aged 18’, BA 1 Feb. 1631, MA 8 Dec. 1633;Al. Ox. G. Inn 17 May 1633.G. Inn Admiss. m. (1) 1640, Elizabeth (bur. 1 June 1643), with £2,500, da. of John Hampden* of Great Hampden, Bucks., 1s. 1da. d.v.p.; (2) 22 July 1647 (with £7,000), Anne (d. 28 Jan. 1703), da. of Sir William Courteen, merchant, of London, wid. of Essex Devereux of Leigh Court, Worcs., 1s. 2da.PROB11/200, f. 357v; Cheshire RO, DAR/F/17; Vis. Northants. 108-9; VCH Northants. Fams. 189; Mems. St Margaret’s Church Westminster ed. A. M. Burke, 172, 604. suc. fa. Sept. 1650;Vis. Northants. 108. KB 23 Apr. 1661;Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 165. d. 29 June 1661.Vis. Northants. 108.
Offices Held

Local: commr. perambulation, Rockingham Forest, Northants. 8 Aug. 1641; Whittlewood Forest 26 Aug. 1641.C181/5, f. 209. Dep. lt. Northants. by June 1642–?CJ ii. 614a. Commr. defence of Northants. 19 July 1643;LJ vi. 137b, 496b. assessment, 12 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Rad. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; militia, Northants. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; Westminster 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–d.C181/6, pp. 15, 370; C181/7, pp. 16, 92. J.p. Mdx., Westminster 18 Aug. 1655-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 316. Northants. by c.Sept. 1656–d.C193/13/6. Commr. sewers, Mdx. 7 July 1657;C181/6, p. 244. Westminster Oct. 1658;C181/6, p. 319. poll tax, Northants., Westminster 1660.SR.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 18 Feb., 30 Sept. 1642, 1 Aug. 1643, 16 Oct. 1644;Supra, ‘Committee for Examinations’; CJ ii. 396a, 439b, 789b; iii. 189b, 666b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 31 Dec. 1642;CJ ii. 909a. cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645; Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 1 July 1645;A. and O. cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647.A. and O. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 19 Jan. 1648;CJ v. 327b; LJ ix. 669a. Derby House cttee. 25 May 1648.CJ v. 445b; LJ x. 283a. Cllr. of state, 25 Feb. 1660. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649;A. and O. maimed soldiers, 17 Dec. 1660–1.CJ viii. 213b.

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), i. 590.

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Commons 1640-1660
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KNIGHTLEY, Richard (c.1610-61), of Fawsley and Preston, Northants., and King Street, Covent Garden, London.

Will
admon. 17 Sept. 1661.VCH Northants. Fams. 189.
Estates
at his second marriage, in 1647, his fa. settled on him manor and advowson of Oldborough, Worcs.; capital messuage of Burgh Hall, Gnosnall, manor of Cowley and lands in Coton, Staffs.; manor, rectory impropriate and advowson of Preston Capes, manor of Badby and lands in Charlton and Fawsley, Northants.; and lands in Chetwode, Bucks. – in all, worth £1,000 p.a. Knightley’s estate in 1647 included lands in Great Vaynor, Nantmel, Rad.Cheshire RO, DAR/F/17. In 1650, he purchased, for £1,796, manor of Pyrton, Oxon., from the trustees for the sale of church lands.C54/3559/24. In his will, proved in 1651, Knightley’s fa. charged his estate – which Knightley inherited – with legacies worth approximately £5,000 and annuities of £550.PROB11/215, ff. 42v-43. After his d. Knightley’s estate, which inc. advowsons of Byfield, Fawsley and Preston Capes, Northants., reckoned to be worth about £2,000 p.a.Pepys’s Diary, iii. 84; J. T. Cliffe, The Puritan Gentry Besieged 1650-1700, 43-4.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
King Street, Covent Garden, London (c.1647-d.).Survey of London, xxxvi. 152.
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