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JEPHSON, William (c.1610-58), of Froyle, Hants and Mallow Castle, co. Cork, Ire.

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b. c. 1610, 1st s. of Sir John Jephson† of Froyle and Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Thomas Norreys of Mallow Castle.M. D. Jephson, An Anglo-Irish Miscellany (Dublin, 1964), 16. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 1624, BA 29 Jan. 1627.Al. Ox. m. 25 Aug. 1636, Alice, da. of Sir John Denham of Borestall, Bucks, 4s. 4da. suc. fa. May 1638. d. 11 Dec. 1658.Jephson, Anglo-Irish Miscellany, 32, 49, 72.
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Military: sgt.-maj. of horse, regt. of Sir William St Leger, Prot. forces in Munster, 29 Dec. 1641.CJ ii. 361b. Gov. (parlian.) Portsmouth May 1644–3 Apr. 1645.CJ iii. 492b. Col. of horse, Munster Sept. 1645;CJ iv. 251b. maj.-gen. by Mar. 1647.HMC Egmont, i. 373.

Central: member, cttee. for Irish affairs, 7 Apr. 1643.Add. 4782, f. 138. Commr. ct. martial, 16 Aug. 1644. Member, Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 1 July 1645;A. and O. Derby House cttee. of Irish affairs, 7 Apr. 1647.CJ v. 135a; LJ ix. 127b.

Local: commr. for timber for navy, Kent and Essex 16 Apr. 1644; commr. for Hants, assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644; levying of money, Hants 10 June 1645; assessment, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 10 Dec. 1652; militia, 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 27 Mar. 1655;C181/6, p. 99. securing peace of commonwealth, Hants. c.Dec. 1655.TSP iv. 363.

Irish: commr. assessment, Munster, 28 Mar. 1648; co. Cork 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655, 24 June 1657.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 776; An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655, 1656). Capt. militia ft. July 1655.Jephson, Anglo-Irish Miscellany, 46–7. Commr. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Diplomatic: Amb. to king of Sweden and elector of Brandenburg, Aug. 1657-Aug. 1658.TSP vi. 478–9.

: of Froyle, Hants. and Ire., Mallow Castle, co. Cork.
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Likenesses: oils, unknown.Jephson, Anglo-Irish Miscellany, opp. 48

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JEPHSON, William (c.1610-58), of Froyle, Hants and Mallow Castle, co. Cork, Ire.

Will
6 Dec. 1658, pr. 23 Dec. 1658.PROB11/285/464.
Estates
c.6,000 acres in co. Cork, worth c.£14,000 in 1637;Lismore Pprs. ser. 1, iv. 221-3. estate in parishes of Froyle, Bentley and Binstead, Hants, sold April 1653.C54/3735/11.
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The Boot, Henrietta St, Covent Garden 24 Sept. 1647.HMC Egmont, i. 468.
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BARBON, Praise or Praise-God (c.1599-1679), of Fleet Street, London.

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Family and Education
b. c. 1599. educ. appr. Leatherseller, London, c.1615.N. and Q. ser. 3, i. 211; Oxford DNB. m. bef. 1635, Sarah, 1s. 1 da. d.v.p.J.T. Squire, Regs. Par. of Wandsworth, Surr. 306. d. c. Dec. 1679, bur. 5 Jan. 1680 5 Jan. 1680.GL, St Andrew Holborn, par. reg.; N. and Q. ser. 4, iii. 215.
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Civic: freeman, Leathersellers’ Co. 20 Jan. 1623; warden of yeomanry, 6 July 1630; liveryman, 13 Oct. 1634; third warden, 16 June 1648. 21 Dec. 1649 – Dec. 1651N. and Q. ser. 3, i. 211. Common councilman, London, 21 Dec. 1657–60.GL, MS 3016/1, pp. 353, 390, 494, 499, 526–7, 553–4.

Local: member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 27 Nov. 1627.Ancient Vellum Bk., ed. Raikes, 42. Commr. London militia, 7 July 1659; assessment, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.

Central: comptroller for sequestrations, 8 Oct. 1659-Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 794a; CCC, 776.

: London., of Fleet Street.
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Likenesses: etching, G.P. Harding, late eighteenth century.NPG.

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BARBON, Praise or Praise-God (c.1599-1679), of Fleet Street, London.

Will
not found.
Estates
lease of ‘Lock and Key’ (house and warehouse) in Fleet St.; renewed 1656 for 14 years at £40 p.a., until burned down in 1666, when renewed for 40 years at £15 p.a.; sold to son in 1669. Also lease of house in Fetter Lane; and house in Shoe Lane for £25 p.a. by 1676. A.B. Suter, The Worthies of St Dunstan’s (1856), 23; N.G. Brett James, ‘A Speculative London Builder of the seventeenth century’, Trans. London and Mdx. Arch. Soc. n.s. vi. 112; N and Q. ser. 3, i. 253; Oxford DNB.
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NORTON, Major (1593-1673), of St Nicholas, Richmond, Yorks.

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bap. 25 Mar. 1593, 1st s. of Robert Norton of Swinton, Masham, Yorks., and Catherine, da. and h. of John Staveley of Swinton. m. 4 Mar. 1622, Anne (bur. 23 Dec. 1683), da. of Sir George Wandesford of Kirklington, 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. Feb. 1638; bur. 12 Dec. 1673 12 Dec. 1673.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 92-3.
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Local: commr. sewers, Yorks. (N. Riding) 28 Apr. 1632, 9 May 1664.C181/4, f. 114v; C181/7, p. 248. Paymaster, dissolved garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 16 May 1633-Dec. 1640.E351/3513–19; Coventry Docquets, 186. Recvr. crown revenues, archdeaconry of Richmond (Yorks.), co. Dur. and Northumb. 1 July 1640-c.June 1644, by Nov. 1660–17 Aug. 1669.E126/5, f. 320; SC6/CHAS1/1660, 1682–3; SP19/121, ff. 58, 60; E113/7, pt. 1; E134/15CHAS2/MICH29; CTB iii. 278, 667; CSP Dom. 1670, p. 133. Commr. array (roy.), Yorks. 4 July 1642.Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. J.p. N. Riding by 1643–?44.N. Riding QS Recs. ed. J. C. Atkinson (N. Riding Rec. Soc. iv), 234. Commr. assessment, Yorks. 1 June 1660;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). N. Riding 1661, 1664, 1672; loyal and indigent officers, Yorks. 1662; subsidy, N. Riding 1663.SR. Recvr. hearth tax, archdeaconry of Richmond, co. Dur. and Northumb. by 1667–?CTB ii. 49.

: of St Nicholas, Yorks., Richmond.
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NORTON, Major (1593-1673), of St Nicholas, Richmond, Yorks.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1632, purchased mills at Richmond for £420. In 1635, purchased Castle Mill and Church Mill, Richmond, for £600, at a rent to the crown of £50 p.a.Clarkson, Richmond, 249, 329. In 1646, estate consisted of closes and mills in Richmond and lands and tenements in Exelby, Newton Morrell, Richmond, Swinton and Warthermarske, Yorks. worth £240 p.a. bef. the war. He was also possessed of two annuities worth £55. His eldest s. Edmund was in possession of the family’s principal residence, the dissolved hospital of St Nicholas, in Richmond, worth £100 p.a. bef. the war, and lands in Clow Beck, Yorks., worth £40 p.a. The Nortons’ estate was charged with annuities of £80 p.a.SP23/187, pp. 175, 185; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J. W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 53-4; Clarkson, Richmond, 255. In 1651, Norton’s estate inc. a messuage in Bargate, Richmond, several closes in the town and town fields and a ‘decayed castelet’ at nearby Hudswell.Clarkson, Richmond, 330.
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the house of Alderman Henry Thompson, York (1642-3);SP19/121, f. 63. The King’s Head, Gray’s Inn Lane, St Andrew Holborn, London (1656).Add. 34014, f. 43.
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BAYLES, Thomas (d.?1685), of the Middle Temple, London.

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Family and Education
2nd s. of Thomas Bayles (d. 21 May 1639) of Wilby, Suff. and Joan (d. 22 Sept. 1620), da. of William Walsh of Worcs.Vis. Suff. (Harl. Soc. xiv), 638; Vis. Suff. (Harl. Soc. lxi), 53; Add. 32483, ff. 19-20. educ. M. Temple, 7 Feb. 1623.M. Temple Admiss. i. 114. m. 8 Dec. 1651, Hannah (bap. 6 Jan. 1633), da. of William Wiffin (d.1636/7), citizen and Brewer, of All Hallows the Less, London, 1s. (d.v.p.).All Hallows the Less, St Bride’s, Fleet Street, London, par. regs.; W. Suss. RO, Wiston 4860-1; CSP Dom. 1665-6, p. 175; 1671-2, p. 58. d. bef. 25 Feb. 1685.PROB11/379/342.
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Legal: called. M. Temple, 24 June 1631; bencher, 5 Nov. 1652.MTR ii. 781; iii. 1040.

Local: j.p. Essex 9 Mar. 1641–?Oct. 1642;C231/5, p. 433; ASSI35/83/9/83. ?Berks. by 27 Nov. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653;Names of the Justices (1650), 5 (E.1238.4); C193/13/4, f. 4. Mdx. by Dec. 1662-aft. Apr. 1664;C220/9/4, f. 115v; C231/8, p. 5. Westminster by Dec. 1662-Apr. 1679.C220/9/4, f. 55; C193/12/3, f. 67. Commr. sewers, Essex and Kent 14 Mar. 1642, 11 Sept. 1660, 1 Mar. 1667;C181/5, f. 227v; C181/7, pp. 48, 391. River Kennet, Berks. and Hants 13 Oct. 1657;C181/6, p. 261. militia, Kent, Westminster 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 5 July-13 Nov. 1660;C181/7, pp. 4, 67. poll tax, Westminster 1660; assessment, Mdx. 1661, 1672; Westminster 1664, 1677, 1679.SR.

Civic: freeman, Queenborough 12 Jan. 1659.Cent. Kent. Stud. QB/JMS4, f. 208v.

: London.
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BAYLES, Thomas (d.?1685), of the Middle Temple, London.

Will
12 Sept. 1683, pr. 5 Mar. 1685.PROB11/379/342.
Estates
?inherited property at Witham, Essex, and in Worcs.Add. 32483, ff. 19-20; J. Walter, Understanding Popular Violence (1999), 215; C5/398/11. Purchased Withycombe Manor, Som., from Edward Southcott, a recusant, for £2,320, for which he sought to compound in Mar. 1649.CCC 1935; SP23/66, p. 733. He also compounded for Southcott’s estate in Surr. in July 1651, paying £126 p.a.CCC 463, 1936. Sometime bef. Oct. 1654, Bayles acquired a mortgage on Southcott’s manor of Petworth, Essex.SP23/118, p. 612. Upon his marriage, Bayles acquired property in North Cray and Bishops’ Wood, in Ruckinge, and in Hadlow, Kent, as well as property in Allhallows the Less, London.Canterbury Cathedral Lib. U101/II/R2/8; W. Suss. RO, Wiston 4864, 4879. At his d. London estate was valued at £126 p.a. and he also held property at Hernden on the Hill, Essex, Drayton, Berks., and Tonbridge, Kent.PROB11/379/342.
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ROUS, Anthony (c.1605-77), of Wotton, Landrake, Cornw.

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b. c. 1605, 1st s. of Robert Rous of Wotton and Jane, da. of Alexander Pym of Brymore, Som.;Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 413. bro. of Robert Rous*. educ. M. Temple, 10 Nov. 1621.M. Temple Admiss. i. 112. m. Mary, da. of William Bradshaw of Lancs. 1s. 2da.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 413. suc. uncle, Francis Rous* 7 Jan. 1659. bur. 1 May 1677.HP Commons 1660-90.
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Military: capt. of horse (parlian.) bef. 1643;Supra, ‘George Kekewich’; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. col. by July 1644.CJ iii. 529b; BHO, Cromw. Assoc. database. Gov. Dartmouth bef. Sept. 1646;Add. 31116, p. 567. Scilly Isles 22 Sept. 1646–12 Mar. 1647;Add. 31116, pp. 567, 608. Pendennis Castle 13 Feb.-bef. 6 Mar. 1660.Coate, Cornw. 311. Capt. militia ft. Cornw. 14 Feb. 1650;CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 521. militia horse, 29 Apr. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, pp. 506, 512.

Local: commr. for Cornw. 1 July 1644; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance … for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration by Oct. 1648.Add. 5494, f. 88. V.-adm. S. Cornw. 3 July 1649–16 Mar. 1660.Vice-Admirals of the Coast ed. Sainty and Thrush, 6. tendering Engagement, Cornw. 28 Jan. 1650.FSL, X.d.483 (47). J.p. by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1660; Devon 29 July 1652–4 Mar. 1657.C193/13/3, f. 10v; C231/6, pp. 243, 358, 360. Commr. militia Cornw. bef. Nov. 1651, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.; FSL, X.d.483 (101). Farmer of excise, c.1653–25 Mar. 1658.CTB i. 478. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 8–378. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cornw. 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O. Custos rot. by c.Sept. 1656–?Mar. 1660.C193/13/5, f. 13; C193/13/6, f. 11v. Commr. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35).

Central: judge, probate of wills, 24 Dec. 1653. Commr. arrears of excise, 29 Dec. 1653.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 1 Nov. 1653.CJ vii. 344a-b. Commr. admlty. and navy, 31 Mar. 1654;CSP Dom. 1654, p. 67. high ct. of justice, 13 June 1654; security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

: Cornw., Landrake.
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ROUS, Anthony (c.1605-77), of Wotton, Landrake, Cornw.

Will
not found.
Estates
lands in Cornwall centred on 12-hearth house at Wotton, Landrake par.;Cornw. Hearth Tax, 6. purchased toll of tin in manors of Helston and Tywarnhaile, Cornw. c.1650;Coate, Cornw. 272. manor of Helston, 1649;Parochial Hist. Cornw. ii. 181. fee-farm of Helston and fishing rights for River Fowey, bef. 1654;SP28/330, large vol. f. 75; SP28/286/1, f. 156. 20-year lease of honours of Okehampton and Plympton, Devon, purchased Feb. 1656;SP28/289, f. 158. inherited substantial estate from Francis Rous, Jan. 1659.PROB11/287/260.
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HOPE, Sir James (1614-61), of Hopetoun, Linlithgowshire.

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b. 4 July 1614, 6th s. of Sir Thomas Hope bt. of Craighall, Fife, and Elizabeth, da. of John Bennet of Wallyford, Haddingtonshire. educ. Edinburgh Univ. 1632, graduated 25 July 1635; Orleans Univ. Feb. 1636-Oct. 1637. m. (1) 14 Jan. 1638, Anna (d. 1656), da. of Robert Foulis of Edinburgh and Leadhills, Lanarkshire, 8s. (7 d.v.p.) 4 da. (3 d.v.p.); (2) 29 Oct. 1657, Mary, da. and coh. of William Keith, 6th Earl Marischal, 2s. (1 d.v.p.), 1 da. (d.v.p.). Kntd. 1641. d. 23 Nov. 1661.Scot. Hist. Soc. Misc. iii. 99-101, 104-6; ix, 129, 141; Oxford DNB.
Offices Held

Scottish: gov. of mint, 1641–60.Scot. Hist. Soc. Misc. ix. 129. Member, cttee. of war, 1644, 1647 – 49; cttee. estates, 1649. Commr. Stirlingshire, Scottish Parl. 1649 – 50; Lanarkshire 1650.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 359. Ordinary ld. of session, 1 June 1649–1651, Feb.-?May 1660.Scots Peerage, iv. 491; HMC Leyborne-Popham, 146; Clarke Pprs. v. 190. Commr. admin. justice, 7 May 1653-June 1654;Cf. L.M. Smith, ‘Scotland and Cromwell’ (DPhil. thesis, Oxford Univ. 1979), 72, 75; CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 312; Nicoll, Diary, 132. assessment, Edinburgh Shire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 839; A. and O.

Civic: burgess and guildbrother, Edinburgh 14 May 1652.Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1642–55, 281.

Central: cllr. of state, 14 July 1653.CJ vii. 284b.

: Linlithgowshire.
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Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown;Hopetoun House, Edinburgh. oil on canvas, unknown.Scottish NPG.

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HOPE, Sir James (1614-61), of Hopetoun, Linlithgowshire.

Will
testament dated 2 May 1662.NRS, CC8/8/70.
Estates
on first marriage (1638) acquired 5 merklands at Waterhead or Overglengonnar in Crawfordmuir, known as Leadhills, Lanarkshire, and the gold and lead mines there; estate granted de novo to Hope and his wife in 1641.Scot. Hist. Soc. Misc. ix. 129. Extensive business interests in ore trade to United Provinces, 1645-d.Scot. Hist. Soc. Misc. ix. 129, 140. Salary as commr. admin. justice, 1652-4, £300 p.a.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLIV, unfol.: 26 Jan., 18 June 1654; xlv, unfol.: 19 Apr. 1654. Purchased dwelling house in Brown’s Close, north side of High Street, Edinburgh, 12 Oct. 1652.Edinburgh City Archives, Moses’ Bundle 32, no. 1340. ?Inherited from fa. (d. 1646) estate at Hopetoun, Linlithgowshire.
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JESSOP, William (1603-75), of St Andrew, Holborn, Mdx.

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bap. 22 Sept. 1603, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Thomas Jessoppe (bur. 18 May 1617) of St Mary, Stafford, and Margery (bur. 25 June 1615), ?da. of one Bache of Aston juxta Birmingham, Warws.St Mary Stafford Par. Reg. ed. H.R. Thomas (Staffs. Par. Reg. Soc. 1935-6), 124, 132, 136, 172, 179; Aston juxta Birmingham Par. Regs. ed. W.F. Carter (Birmingham, 1900), 35A. educ. G. Inn, 25 Aug. 1662.G. Inn Admiss. 294. m. (1) lic. 8 July 1634, Margaret (d. 1 Nov. 1651), da. of Philip Edwin, Fishmonger, of St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, London, at least 1s. d.v.p. 1da.; (2) 18 Feb. 1656, Mary, da. of Abel Ewer of Shenley, Herts., wid. of Alban Coxe of Beaumonts, nr. St Albans, Herts., s.p.Add. 63854B, f. 210; Add. Ch. 71765; PROB11/244, f. 276; Lancs. RO, Hulton of Hulton mss, DDHU/53/26; DDHU/55/13; DDHU/56/3; London Mar. Lics. ed Foster, 762; T. Jordan, Divinity and Morality in Robes of Poetry (1660), unpag. bur. 8 Mar. 1675 8 Mar. 1675.Lancs. RO, DDHU/53/31.
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Colonial: sec. Providence Is. Co. Nov. 1630-Feb. 1650.CO124/2, ff. 1v, 198. Clerk, Saybrook patentees, c.1632-c.1644.Winthrop Pprs. (Collns. of the Mass. Hist. Soc. ser. 5, i), 394; A.P. Newton, Colonising Activities of the English Puritans (New Haven, CT, 1912), 177; K.A. Kupperman, Providence Is. 1630–41 (Cambridge, 1993), 325, 333. Member, Somers Is. [Bermuda] Co. by Oct. 1644-aft. June 1653.Mems. of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas ed. J.H. Lefroy (1877–9), i. 590; ii. 42.

Central: dep. treas.-at-war (parlian.) by Sept. 1642-c.Mar. 1645.Add. 46190, f. 49v; CSP Dom. 1641–3, pp. 395, 446, 449, 457, 497; 1644–5, p. 178; 1625–49, p. 644; LJ vi. 397b, 398a; CJ vi. 11a, 12b. Sec. cttee. for foreign plantations, Nov. 1643-aft. Aug. 1648;Supra, ‘Committee for Foreign Plantations’. cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, Apr. 1645-May 1648.Supra, ‘Committee for the Admiralty and Cinque Ports’. Member, cttee. for taking artillery officers’ accts. 1 July 1646;CJ iv. 596a; SP28/256, unfol. (Jessop et al. to Cttee. of Accts. 23 Sept. 1646). cttee. of accts. 23 Nov. 1649,A. and O. 16 June 1653,CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 415. 24 Nov. 1655.C231/6, p. 320. Asst. sec. council of state, 3 Nov. 1653-c.Jan. 1654; under clerk, 16 Jan.-May 1660.CSP Dom. 1653–4, pp. 229, 458; 1659–60, p. 310; Aylmer, State’s Servants, 237. Clerk, protectoral council by 23 Mar. 1654-May 1659;TSP ii. 189; Aylmer, State’s Servants, 237. House of Commons, 1660 Convention, 25 Apr.-29 Dec. 1660;CJ viii. 1a. cttee. of public accts. c.Jan. 1668–9.Lancs. RO, DDHU/47/27; ‘William Jessop’, Oxford DNB. Treas. ld. protector’s contingencies, 17 Aug. 1655-bef. May 1659.Add. 46190, f. 51; Aylmer, State’s Servants, 236. Commr. for accts. 24 Nov. 1655.C231/6, p. 320; CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 14. Commr. tendering oath to MPs, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 593a. Auditor, act for disbanding army and garrisons, 1660; assessment, 1660.SR.

Local: ballaster, River Thames c.Dec. 1648-c.July 1657.Lancs. RO, DDHU/53/29; New Coll. Oxf. Ms 9483; CSP Dom. 1657–8, pp. 37–8; Aylmer, State’s Servants, 237. Dep. clerk, duchy of Lancaster council by Nov. 1649–d. Register, duchy of Lancaster ct. by 1653–d.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. Somerville, 34, 37. J.p. Mdx. 15 Sept. 1655-Oct. 1660;C231/6, pp. 317, 376. Westminster 15 Sept. 1655-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 317. St Albans 15 July 1656-aft. 4 Oct. 1658.C181/6, pp. 180, 317. Warden, Chatham Hosp. May 1656-aft. June 1659.Add. 4184, f. 187; CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 366. Commr. oyer and terminer, St Albans 15 July 1656-aft. 4 Oct. 1658;C181/6, pp. 179, 316. Mdx. 11 Oct. 1658–?;C181/6, p. 328. assessment, Herts. 9 June 1657;A. and O. Mdx. 1 June 1660;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). ejecting scandalous ministers, 24 Oct. 1657;SP25/78, p. 238. poll tax, 1660.SR.

Religious: tryer, twelfth London classis, 20 Oct. 1645, 26 Sept. 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O.

: of St Andrew, Mdx., Holborn.
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JESSOP, William (1603-75), of St Andrew, Holborn, Mdx.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1636, Sir Nathaniel Rich† bequeathed Jessop £50, a suit of wearing apparel, all his East India shares, and lease of a tenement at Stondon Massey, Essex.PROB11/172, ff. 254, 254v. By 1648, Jessop owned a 16th part of the privateer Constant Warwick.CSP Dom. 1651-2, p. 188. By 1649, he owned or rented a house in Holborn, next to ‘the White Cross ... over against Warwick House’.PRO30/26/21, p. 38; Add. 46190, f. 42. By 1653, he was receiving an annuity from the earl of Warwick of £100 p.a.PROB11/276, f. 245. In 1653-4, he acquired £310 of lands in Westmeath as an Irish Adventurer.Bodl. Carte 63, ff. 630-1, 636; Lancs. RO, DDHU/45/1; DDHU/46/12; Bottigheimer, Eng. Money and Irish Land, 205; CSP Ire. Advs. 1642-59, pp. 193, 345, 349. In 1656, acquired through his second wife a messuage and lands in Shenley, Herts.PROB11/244, f. 276; Add. Ch. 71765. In 1667, acquired lease of a chamber in Jones Buildings, Holborn Court, Gray’s Inn, for £160.Add. 46190, f. 160; Add. Ch. 71770. In 1667, acquired lease of crown lands in Westmeath, Ireland.Lancs. RO, DDHU/22/1. In 1673, purchased a share of lands called Pagetts Tribe in Bermuda.Som. RO, DD/BR/ely/2/2.
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chamber in Warwick House, Holborn (?-1675);Lancs. RO, DDHU/53/32. the south side of High Holborn (by Nov. 1643);SP28/167, pt. 5, unfol. lodgings at Whitehall (Jan. 1659).Lancs. RO, DDHU/46/4.
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ARMYNE, William (1622-58), of Osgodby, Lenton, Lincs.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 14 July 1622, 1st s. of Sir William Armyne, 1st bt.* and 1st w. Elizabeth.Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. l), 41-2. educ. G. Inn 18 Nov. 1639.G. Inn Admiss. 224. m. 28 Aug. 1649, Anne (d. 11 Aug. 1662), da. and coh. of Sir Robert Crane, 1st bt.* of Chilton, Suff., 3da. (1 d.v.p.).Lincs. Peds. 42. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 10 Apr. 1651.CB. d. 2 Jan. 1658.Lincs. Peds. 42.
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Central: commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O.

Local: commr. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 25 June 1646–d.;C181/6, pp. 38, 203; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/7–10. Deeping and Gt. Level by May 1654–d.C181/6, pp. 26, 247. J.p. Lincs. (Kesteven) 11 Mar. 1647–d.;C231/6, pp. 79, 81, 230. Cumb. by Feb. 1650-bef. c.Sept. 1656;C193/13/3. Holland 4 Mar. 1652 – d.; Lindsey 4 Mar. 1652–d.C231/6, pp. 230, 232. Commr. assessment, Cumb. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Kesteven 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Lincs. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Hunts. 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Surr. 10 Dec. 1652;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Lincs. militia, 3 July 1648;LJ x. 359a. militia, Cumb., Lincs. 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. propagating gospel northern cos. 1 Mar. 1650;CJ vi. 374a; Several Procs. in Parl. no. 23 (28 Feb.-7 Mar. 1650), 312 (E.534.15). oyer and terminer, Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–d.C181/6, pp. 15, 214.

: of Osgodby, Lenton, Lincs.
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ARMYNE, William (1622-58), of Osgodby, Lenton, Lincs.

Will
19 Dec. 1657, pr. 16 Feb. 1658.PROB11/273, f. 9.
Estates
in 1654, purchased manor of Corby, Lincs. from trustees for the sale of forfeited estates.Lincs. RO, FL/IRNHAM/1/3. Estate also inc. jointure lands at Ingoldsby worth £680 p.a., manor and advowson of Pickworth and manor of Silk Willoughby, Lincs.PROB11/273, f. 9; Lincs. RO, RED/1/2/1-2. Armyne estate valued at £4,000 p.a. in 1661.‘Lincs. fams. temp. Charles II’ ed. C. H. Her. and Gen. ii. 120.
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Addresses
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx. (1657).PROB11/273, f. 9.
Religion
presented Richard Northam to rectory of Harlaxton, Lincs. 1651; Robert Breton to rectory of Pembridge, Herefs. 1653; Stephen Browne to rectory of Raithby, Lincs. 1653; Lawrence Landon to rectory of South Hykeham, Lincs. 1654.Add. 36792, ff. 33, 61, 64, 82v.
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CHETTELL, Francis (1613-56), of Blandford St Mary, Dorset.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1613, 1st s. of Henry Chettle, of Blandford St Mary, Dorset.M. Temple Admiss. i. 124. educ. M. Temple 5 Feb. 1631.M. Temple Admiss. i, 124. m. (1651) Dorothy, da. of Thomas Tregonwell of Anderson, Dorset, 1s. 1da. suc. fa. 1616.Hutchins, Dorset, i. 161; Cornw. RO, F/4/177/3; Dorset RO, PE/BLM:RE1 (Blandford St Mary par. regs.). d. Nov. 1656.PROB 11/260/240; Hutchins, Dorset, i. 169; Dorset RO, PE/BLM:RE1.
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Local: commr levying of money, Dorset 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Member, co. cttee. Jan. 1644–8.Dorset Standing Cttee. ed. Mayo, p. xii. Commr. assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648.A. and O. J.p. by Mar. 1648-c.Jan. 1649.Western Circuit Assize Orders ed. Cockburn, 274; Christie, Shaftesbury, i. appx I, p. li. Commr. Dorset militia, 24 July 1648;LJ x. 393a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. gaol delivery, Poole 1655.C181/6, p. 95.

: of Blandford St Mary, Dorset.
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Web Title

CHETTELL, Francis (1613-56), of Blandford St Mary, Dorset.

Will
25 Nov. 1656, pr. 30 Dec. 1656.PROB11/260/592.
Estates
lands at Blandford St Mary valued at £100 in 1641 subsidy.E179/105/334, m. 7. Two farms mentioned in will.PROB11/260/592.
Oxford 1644
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TULSE, Henry I (c.1590-1642), of Hinton, Christchurch, Hants.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1590, ?2nd s. of William Tulse (d. aft. 1608) of Sopley, Hants. m. 7 July 1634, Margaret (d. 14 Aug. 1679), da. of Thomas Lambert (d. 1625) of Laverstock, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 2da. (d.v.p.).Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. n.s. x), 49-50; St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, par. reg.; The Gen. n.s. x. 225. d. betw. 13 June-14 Sept. 1642.PROB6/18, f. 159.
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Civic: freeman, Lymington by 1623;Hants RO, 27M74/DBC2, f. 11. Christchurch by 1635.Dorset RO, DC/CC: B2/2/1, B4/10. Member of the sixteen, Christchurch Priory c.1633–8.The Diary of John Young ed. F. R. Goodman (1928), 173; Christchurch Priory, Vestry Minute Book 1640–1827, p. 739.

Local: ?collector of subsidy, June 1628.Hants RO, 44M69/G4/1/99. Commr. sewers, River Avon, Hants and Wilts. 25 June 1629; Hants and Suss. 10 July 1638.C181/4, f. 17v; C181/5, f. 115v. J.p. Hants 1636–d.C231/5, p. 213; C13/13/2; C66/2858. ?Capt. militia, 1637.Dorset RO, 44M69/G5/42/17. Commr. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, assessment, 1642.SR.

: of Hinton, Hants., Christchurch.
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TULSE, Henry I (c.1590-1642), of Hinton, Christchurch, Hants.

Will
admon. granted to wife, Margaret, 14 Sept. 1642.PROB6/18, f. 159.
Estates
although he claimed not to have a freehold estate worth £40 p.a., he compounded for knighthood in 1631 at £17 10s.Add. 21922, ff. 178v, 182v. By 1634 he held a lease of Christchurch rectory, renewed c.1641. At an unknown date acquired an estate at Hinton Admiral, four miles east of the centre of Christchurch. Personal estate at death valued at £551 6s 8d.C7/175/37, 39.
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Addresses
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