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MYDDELTON, Sir Thomas (1586-1666), of Chirk Castle, Denb.

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bap. 10 July 1586, 1st surv. s. of Sir Thomas Myddelton† Grocer and alderman of Tower Street, London and Stansted Mountfichet, Essex and 1st w. Hester, da. of Sir Richard Saltonstall†, Skinner and alderman of London and South Ockendon, Essex.Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams. 285; NLW, Chirk F12540, pp. 18, 26, 31; St. Dunstan in the East (Harl. Soc. reg. lxix), 25. educ. Queen’s Oxf. 1605; G. Inn 1607.Al. Ox.; GI Admiss. m. (1) 29 July 1612, Margaret (d. by 5 Feb. 1614), da. and h. of George Savile of Wakefield, Yorks., 1s. d.v.p.; (2) 18 Feb. 1617 (with £2,000), Mary, da. of Sir Robert Napier, 1st bt., of Luton Hoo, Beds., 7s. (3 d.v.p.) 6da.Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams. 285; NLW, Clenennau 293; Vis. Yorks. ed. J. Foster, 324; Chirk Castle Accts. 1605-66, 8; NLW, Chirk F1958; Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 184. Kntd. 10 Feb. 1617;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 160. suc. fa. 12 Aug. 1631.C142/501/48. d. 11 Dec. 1666. Chirk Castle Accts. 1605-66, x, 132.
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Local: j.p. Denb. 1618 – bef.44, 1 Sept. 1646 – 27 July 1653, by Sept. 1655 – 5 Oct. 1659, 4 Sept. 1660 – d.; Salop 7 Oct. 1645 – bef.Jan. 1650; Flint by Mar. 1648 – 25 July 1650, by Sept. 1660–?d.; Merion. by July 1649-c.Oct. 1653, 31 Aug. 1660–?d.; Mont. by Mar. 1648 – bef.July 1650, 12 Sept. 1660–d.Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 49–51, 64–80, 111–15, 143–8; C231/6, pp. 25, 196. Commr. subsidy, Denb. 1621–2, 1624 – 25, 1628, 1641, 1663; Mont. 1663. by 1623 – 42C212/20/21–3; E179/220/198, E179/221/203; SR. Dep. lt. Denb., 1 July 1646 – ?49, c.1661–d.Chester Archives, DNE16; CJ iv. 598b; Chirk Castle Accts. 1605–66, 100; G.R. Thomas, ‘Sir Thomas Myddelton II, 1586–1666’ (Univ. of N. Wales MA thesis, 1968), 59. Collector, subsidy, 1624.Thomas, thesis, 18. Commr. mines royal, Card. 1625.C193/8/51. Collector, privy seal loan, Denb. 1625–6.E401/2586, pp. 365–7. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627.Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145; C193/12/2, f. 69. Dep. steward, crown lordship of Bromfield and Yale by 1630.Chirk Castle Accts. 1605–66, p. iv. Member, council in the marches of Wales, 1633–41.Eg. 2882, f. 162v. Commr. oyer and terminer, Wales 22 Jan. 1634, 31 July 1640;C181/4, f. 162; C181/5, f. 185. repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Denb. 1637;Chirk Castle Accts. 1605–66, 20. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; Flint, Mont. 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Denb. 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664; Anglesey, Caern., Mdx. and Westminster, Salop 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Flint 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660; Merion., Mont. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 1 June 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance ... for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, N. Wales 12 June 1643; commr. for Salop, 13 June 1644;A. and O. for reducing cos. of N. Wales, 28 Mar. 1646.CJ iv. 493b. Custos rot. Denb. 1 Sept. 1646 – 27 July 1653, 25 June 1656 – 5 Oct. 1659, 8 Nov. 1661 – d.; Merion 31 Aug. 1660–22 July 1663.Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 51, 75, 77, 79. Commr. associated cos. of N. Wales, Denb., Flint, Merion., Mont. 21 Aug. 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. sewers, Denb. and Flint 4 Mar. 1654.C181/6, p.21.

Central: member, cttee. for advance of money, 26 Nov. 1642;CJ ii. 866a. cttee. for sequestrations, 27 Mar. 1643;CJ iii. 21b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 15 May 1646.CJ iv. 545b. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647.A. and O.

Military: sgt.-maj.-gen. and v.-adm. N. Wales (parlian.) 12 June 1643-June 1645.CJ iii. 127a; LJ vi. 90b; Thomas, thesis,127.

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Likenesses: oil on canvas, manner of R. Walker, c.1650;NT, Chirk Castle. oil on canvas, unknown, c.1670.NT, Chirk Castle. line engraving, unknown, 1647;J. Vicars, England’s Worthies (1647), 94. line engraving, unknown;NPG. fun. monument, J. Bushnell, Chirk church, Wrexham.

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MYDDELTON, Sir Thomas (1586-1666), of Chirk Castle, Denb.

Will
6 Aug. 1666, pr. 9 Mar. 1667.PROB11/323, f. 308v.
Estates
lordship of Chirk and Chirkland, manors of Isclawdd, Glynn, Llangollen, Mochnant, ‘Kynlleth yr Iarll’ and ‘Carreghova’.NLW, Chirk D250. Inherited over 30,000 acres from fa. in 1631.Thomas, thesis, 23.
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BRADDON, William (d. 1694), of Treworgey, St Gennys, Cornw.

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b. c. 1620, s. of William Braddon of Treworgey and Edith Crocker. m. ?, at least 2s. and 1da. d. 1694.Devon RO, J R Powell MS Notes, vol. 25, p. 343; HP Commons, 1558-1603; Cornw. RO, AP/B/2405; MT Admiss. i. 196; Magna Britannia, iii. 112.
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Military: capt. of ?ft. (parlian.) Plymouth; army of Sir William Waller* bef. Apr. 1645;SP28/266, ff. 159–62. capt. of horse, regt. of Sir Francis Drake*, brigade of Edward Massie*, c.1645–6.SP28/144/10, p. 21. Capt. militia horse, Cornw. by July 1655–?Jan. 1660.SP25/77, pp. 867, 890; SP46/98, ff. 3, 24, 27; Cornw. RO, ME/3022; B/LIS/296; FSL, X.d.438 (127).

Local: commr. assessment, Cornw. 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); A. and O.; An Ordinance… for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). securing peace of commonwealth, 1655.TSP iv. 451, 497. J.p. Devon 20 Mar. 1656 – 4 Mar. 1657; Cornw. 25 July 1656 – ?Mar. 1660, ?-1693.C231/6, pp. 329, 345, 360; C231/8, p. 303.

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BRADDON, William (d. 1694), of Treworgey, St Gennys, Cornw.

Will
18 June 1685, pr. 5 Jan. 1696.Cornw. RO, AP/B/2405.
Estates
bef. 1650 recorded as ‘of Stoke Clymesland’ in Cornw.; purchased (for himself and others?) duchy of Cornw. lands: Calstock manor, Cornw. July 1650, for £1,044; Lydford Castle, Devon, Sept. 1650, for £97; Treworgey, St Gennys, Cornw. Dec. 1650, for £785; part share of Trematon Castle, St Stephen-by-Saltash, 20 Mar. 1651, for £1,499 (betw. three investors); South Teign, Devon, July 1651, for £250; Fentrigan, Cornw. Feb. 1658, for £73.E320/D10, D14, D32, D40, E13, E15; E121/2/2; E315/173, ff. 13v, 49, 52-4; Cornw. RO, ME/510. Relinquished all of these but Treworgey, c.1660?CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 330. Purchased fee-farm rents of Withiel Manor, Cornw. 25 June 1650, for £83.E315/140, f. 36v. Leased lands of Little Petherick, Cornw. bef. Nov. 1652.CCC 3059. Purchased land in Plympton manor, June 1656 (sold Sept. 1661).Plymouth and W. Devon RO, 69/M/2/670-1. Reputedly worth £150 p.a. aft. 1670.Add. 18448, f. 24v. In his will (1685) left lands in King’s Ash parish, Devon, to yr. s.Cornw. RO, AP/B/2405.
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WOGAN, John (1588/9-c.1644), of Wiston, Pemb.

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b. 1588 /9, 1st s. of Sir William Wogan of Wiston and Sybil, da. of Sir Hugh Owen of Bodeon, Anglesey, and Orielton, Pemb.F. Green, ‘Wogans of Pemb.’, W. Wales Historical Recs. vi. 205, 206. educ. Jesus, Oxf. 20 Nov. 1607, aged 19.Al. Ox. m. ?by 1608, Jane (d.1666), da. of Sir Thomas Colclough of Tintern, co. Wexford, 5s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da. suc. fa. 1625;Green, ‘Wogans of Pemb.’, 208, 212, 214, 215; HP Commons 1604-29, ‘John Wogan’. d. c. 1644.
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Local: capt. militia ft. Pemb. 1621-at least 1623.STAC8/239/20; HEHL, EL7443. Dep. lt. by 1625-at least 1642.Procs. 1625, p. 335; SP16/75/37, f. 66; CSP Dom. 1634–5, pp. 169–70; HEHL, EL7443. J.p. 26 Feb. 1625–d.Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 215. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 73. wreck inquiry, 1631;SP16/182/82, f. 120. exacted fees, Pemb., Carm., Card. 27 June 1635.C181/5, f. 31. Sheriff, Pemb. 19 Jan.-3 Oct. 1636.Coventry Docquets, 367, 368. Commr. militia, Pemb. and Haverfordwest 18 Aug. 1642.LJ v. 304

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WOGAN, John (1588/9-c.1644), of Wiston, Pemb.

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in c.1588, his fa. owned Wiston and four other nearby manors, a moiety of lordship of Daugleddau, and advowsons of the rectories of Begelly, Lawrenny and Yerbeston, Pemb.G. Owen, The Taylors Cussion ed. E. M. Pritchard, pt. i. ff. 96v, 97v, 104v.
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BLAKE, Alexander (1619-93), of Peterborough, Northants.

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bap. 13 Apr. 1619, 11th but 8th surv. s. of Humphrey Blake (bur. 19 Nov. 1625) of St Mary, Bridgwater, Som., and Sarah (bur. 24 Dec. 1638), da. and coh. of John Williams of Pawlett, wid. of one Smithers; bro. of Robert Blake*. m. Alice, da. of ?; ?bur. 4 Sept. 1693 4 Sept. 1693.PROB11/418, f. 11; Vis. Som. (Harl. Soc. n.s. xi), 85; C.L. Stott, ‘Humphrey Blake...and his descendants in New Eng. and S. Carolina’, New Eng. Historical and Genealogical Reg. clxiii. 203-11.
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Military: lt. of ft. (parlian.) ?by 1643 – ?; capt. by Oct. 1644–?;SP28/128, pt. 6, f. 4v; L. Spring, The Regts. of the Eastern Assoc. (Bristol, 1998), i. 27–8; T. Crawshaw, ‘Military Finance and the Earl of Essex’s Regular Army: 1642–4’ (York Univ. Toronto PhD thesis, 2013), 495. maj. by May 1650-bef. Jan. 1653.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 141; 1652–3, p. 132. Gov. Gt. Yarmouth by May 1650-Aug. 1651.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 141; 1651, pp. 342, 582. Capt. militia horse, Northants. by July 1655 – aft.June 1656; maj. by July – Sept. 1659; col. Sept.-aft. Dec. 1659.SP25/77, pp. 878, 900; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 140; 1659–60, pp. 16, 283; CJ vii. 753a, 772b.

Local: commr. militia, Gt. Yarmouth Feb. 1651;CSP Dom. 1651, p. 40. Northants. and Rutland 14 Mar. 1655;SP25/76A, f. 16. Northants. 2 July 1659.A. and O. J.p. liberty of Peterborough 14 May 1651–10 Oct. 1660;C231/6, p. 215; C181/6, pp. 36, 368. Northants. 26 Feb. 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 359. Commr. oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, liberty of Peterborough by June 1654–29 Oct. 1660;C181/6, pp. 36, 368. ejecting scandalous ministers, Northants. 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O. Recvr.-gen. Notts., Derbys. and Lincs. Aug. 1655-c.1660.SP46/97, f. 173; SP46/99, f. 83; Add. 32471, f. 9; Lincs. RO, HILL 23/741. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth, Northants. by Nov. 1655;TSP iv. 235. assessment, Northants. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O. sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 21 July 1659.C181/6, p. 382.

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

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BLAKE, Alexander (1619-93), of Peterborough, Northants.

Will
16 Oct. 1684, pr. 8 Jan. 1694.PROB11/418, f. 11.
Estates
1649, purchased 1,000 acres of fenland in the Gt. Level for £75.Cambs. RO, R59/31/9/2, unfol. (entry for 19 Nov. 1649).
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BERESFORD, Tristram (c.1600-73), of Coleraine, co. Londonderry.

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b. c. 1600, 1st s. of Tristram Beresford of Coleraine and Susanna, da. of --- Brooke of London. m. (1) by 1636, Anne, da. of John Rowley of Castleroe, co. Londonderry, 1s. 2da.; (2) Sarah, da. of --- Sackville, 4s. 3da.CB; DIB; C.E. de la Poer Beresford, ‘An Historical account of the Beresford Fam.’ Gen. Mag. i. 663. suc. fa. Sept. 1649.T.W. Moody, The Londonderry Plantation (Belfast, 1939), 282; Acts of Corporation of Coleraine ed. B. McGrath (Dublin, 2017), 204. Kntd. 1664. cr. Bt 5 May 1665. d. 15 Jan. 1673.CB.
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Military: gov. Culmore Fort, co. Londonderry c.1627-May 1635.CSP Ire. 1625–32, p. 274; 1647–60, p. 192. Capt. of ft. Londonderry garrison, 1642–4.HMC Ormonde, o.s. i. 126, 135. Capt. regt. of Ld. Folliot, British army in Ulster, Aug. 1645-Oct. 1648.CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 416, 616; 1647–60, p. 30. Lt-col. reg. of Thomas Coote* by Sept. 1650-Aug. 1653.SP28/93, f. 100; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 209. Capt. army in Ireland, Oct. 1658-Dec. 1660.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 289; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 268.

Irish: surveyor, cos. Londonderry, Donegal and Tyrone Mar. 1654.Civil Survey, iii. 19, 70, 85, 141, 165, 196, 218, 246, 308, 412. Commr. assessment, co. Londonderry 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655, 24 June 1657;An Assessment for Ire. (1654, 1655, 1657). security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Member for co. Londonderry, gen. convention, Feb. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 178. Commr. poll money, cos. Londonderry, Antrim, Cavan 24 Apr. 1660–1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 626–7, 645–6. MP, co. Londonderry 1661–6.CJI, i. 592.

Civic: freeman, Coleraine 5 Dec. 1625; ald. 6 May 1650; mayor bef. July 1655-Nov. 1656;Coleraine ed. McGrath, 10, 212, 249, 251, 256. chief burgess, Londonderry 24 Mar. 1657.Bishopric of Derry, ed. T.W. Moody and J.G. Simms (2 vols. Dublin, 1968), i. 281.

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at least 7,000 acres in co. Londonderry by 1654;Civil Survey, iii. 151-231. acquired landed interests in cos. Sligo, Galway and Antrim, late 1650s;NAI, Ferguson MS 10, p. 26; C6/135/13; C6/135/15; CSP Ire. 1660-2, p. 534. granted lands in 40 townlands in co. Cavan, 1670.CSP Ire. 1669-70, pp. 177, 260-1; Down Survey website.
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DOUGLAS, Dr Alexander (b. c.1592), of Downies, Banffshire.

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b. c. 1592,English-Speaking Students of Medicine at Leyden, ed. R.W. Innes Smith (Edinburgh, 1932), 70. ?s. of Rev. Alexander Douglas, bishop of Moray (d. 1623) and [Mary], da. of Robert Innes of that ilk.Annals of Banff ed. W. Cramond (2 vols. Aberdeen, 1891-3), i. 39; J. Dowden, Bishops of Scotland (Glasgow, 1912), 415-6. educ. Aberdeen Univ. AM 1608-9;Alumni of Aberdeen, 1596-1860, 3, 4; Fasti Aberdonenses, 452. Leiden Univ. 18 May 1622.Students at Leyden, 70. m. bef. 1626, Isobel Chisholm, wid. of Alexander Craig of Rosecraig, Banffshire, 3da. (1 d.v.p.).Annals of Banff ed. Cramond, i. 48; ii. 285; Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 192. d. aft. 1666.Students at Leyden, 70.
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Religious: kirk elder, Banff burgh 31 Aug. 1625. Commr. gen. assembly at St Andrews, 12 July 1642.Annals of Banff, i. 66, 69, 79, 87; ii. 25, 267, 270.

Civic: burgess, Banff burgh bef. 1631; bailiff, 1637; provost, 1639 – 45, 1648 – 50, 1653, 1656 – 59; commr. convention of burghs, 1649.Annals of Banff, i. 66, 69, 79, 87; ii. 25, 267, 270.

Scottish: commr. Banff, Scottish Parl. 1641, 1643, 1644 – 45, 1649 – 51; plantation of kirks, 1641; articles of treaty of Ripon, 1641. Member, cttee. of war, 1643; cttee. of estates, 1644 – 46, 1651; cttee. for the north, 1644; cttee. of war for Banffshire, 1648–9.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 191. Jt. sheriff, Banffshire 18 May 1652-bef. 1656.L.M. Smith, ‘Scotland and Cromwell’ (DPhil thesis, Oxford, 1979), 196; C219/45, unfol. Commr. assessment, Banff, Banffshire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Aberdeenshire 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi, pt 2, 838; A. and O. J.p. Banffshire bef. Aug. 1656.Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 310; NRS, JC26/19, ‘Bundle 6’. Commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

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DOUGLAS, Dr Alexander (b. c.1592), of Downies, Banffshire.

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VENN, John (1586-1650), of Bread Street, London and Windsor Castle, Berks.

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bap. 8 Apr. 1586,J. Venn, Annals of a Clerical Family (1904), 53, 140. 2nd s. of Simon Venn, yeoman, of Lydiard St Lawrence, Som. and Maud Lawrence. educ. appr. Merchant Taylor 28 June 1602.GL, Merchant Taylor’s Co. Apprenticeship binding bks. iii. 94. m. (1) 1619, Mary (bur. 1 Aug. 1625), da. of Henry Wood, merchant of London, 3s. (2 d.v.p.). (2) lic. 13 Feb. 1626, Margaret, da. of Geoffrey Langley of Colchester, Essex, wid. of John Elliot, Salter, and John Scarborough, Haberdasher of London, 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 1da.Guildhall Misc. iii. 104n; Vis. Essex 1634 (Harl. Soc. xiii), 433; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 308; London Mar. Lics. (Harl. Soc. xxvi), 126, 161; Venn, Annals, 52, 79. d. 28 June 1650.Smyth's Obit., 29; cf. SP28/68/1.
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Civic: freeman, Merchant Taylors’ Co. 27 Aug. 1610; liveryman, 2 July 1621–38; asst. 13 Nov. 1638 – d.; warden, 13 July 1641–3;GL, index of freemen, Merchant Taylors’ Co.; Merchant Taylors’ Co. ct. min. bks. xi, ff. 125, 153v. common councilman, London 1638 – d.; auditor, 1639–41.CLRO, Jnl. 39, ff. 65, 68, 99; Beaven, Aldermen of London i. 290.

Local: member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 19 Apr. 1614;Ancient Vellum Bk., 20. asst. 1632;CLRO, Rep. 47, f. 154. serj. maj. 1636; dep. pres 1639.Pearl, London, 172, 187. Capt. London trained bands, 1616;G. Emberton, Skippon’s Brave Boys (1984), 50. lt.-col. yellow regt. Apr. 1642.Names, Dignities and Places of all Cols. ... of City of London (1642, 669.f.6.10). Commr. disarming recusants, London 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b. assessment, 1642, 21 Feb. 1645, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Som. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Mdx. 7 Dec. 1649; levying of money, Berks. 3 Aug. 1643; New Model ordinance, Mdx. 17 Feb. 1645; London militia, 2 Sept. 1647, 17 Jan. 1649.A. and O.

Mercantile: asst. Massachusetts Bay Co. 20 Oct. 1629.Winthrop Pprs. (Mass. Hist. Soc. 1931) ii. 160.

Religious: churchwarden, All Hallows’ Bread Street 1631.BDBR iii. 267.

Central: recvr. subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288b. cttee. for examinations, 13 Jan., 9 Feb. 1642;CJ ii. 375b; PJ i. 329. cttee for Irish affairs, 3 Sept. 1642.CJ ii. 750b. Commr. ct. martial, 16 Aug. 1644. Member, cttee. for the army, 31 Mar. 1645, 23 Sept. 1647, 17 Apr. 1649. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646;A. and O. cttee for plundered ministers, 27 Dec. 1647.CJ v. 407a. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648, 20 June 1649; high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee for indemnity, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 109a, 113b. cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 19 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 121b. cttee. of navy and customs by 29 Jan. 1649;Bodl. Rawl. A.224, f. 6v. cttee. for excise, 10 Feb. 1649.CJ vi. 137b. Treas. for petty emptions, 21 Aug. 1649.CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 285. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Commr. for compounding, 2 Nov. 1649.CJ vi. 318a.

Military: col. ft. (parlian.) by Sept. 1642-May 1645.CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 391. Gov. Windsor Castle 28 Oct. 1642–13 May 1645.CJ v. 484a.

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VENN, John (1586-1650), of Bread Street, London and Windsor Castle, Berks.

Will
pr. 1 July 1650.PROB11/213/13.
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at d. owned tenement in Walbrook and messuages in Candlewick Street and Nicholas Lane, London; lands in Lincs. and Northants., a house at Lydiard St Lawrence, Som., a tenement and other land in Colchester, Essex.PROB11/213/13.
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LOCKHART, Sir William (1620-75), of Lee, Lanarkshire.

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b. 1620, 1st s. of Sir James Lockhart of Lee and Martha, da. of Sir George Douglas of Mordington, Berwickshire; bro. of George II* and John*. educ. Lanark sch.;S.M. Lockhart, Seven Centuries: a Hist. of the Lockharts of Lee and Carnwath (privately published, 1976), 32, 37. travelled abroad (Low Countries, Germany) c.1634-6.Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 37. m. (1) Oct. 1646, Anna, da. of Sir John Hamilton of Orbiston, Lanarkshire, 1s.;NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 2, no. 4. (2) 22 Feb. 1655, Robina (b. 1634) da. of John Sewster of Wistow, Hunts. 5s. 2da.Hunts. RO, 2789/1/1, p. 3; NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 2, no. 4; CSP Ven. 1655-6, p. 33n; Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 40, 50. kntd. May 1646, 10 Dec. 1656.Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 38; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 223. suc. fa. 1674. d. 20 May 1675.Young, Parliaments of Scot. 436.
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Military: vol. Dutch army, c.1634. Capt. regt. of Capt. Hepburn, French army, c.1639–44.NLS, MS 2999, ff. 27–30; Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 37–8. Quartermaster of horse, regt. of William Hamilton*, earl of Lanark, Covenanter army bef. May 1645.Papers Rel. Army of the Covenant, 1643–7 ed. C.S. Terry (2 vols. Edinburgh, 1917), i. pp. lxv, 139. Col. of horse, Lanarkshire regt. 13 June 1646–8, 1650–2.NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 2, no. 2; Seven Centuries, 38–9. Gov. Dunkirk 1658–60.Firth and Davis, Regimental Hist. ii. 671.

Scottish: dep. Lanarkshire, tender of union, 1652. 18 May 1652Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, 57. Commr. admin. justice,, July 1654, 13 Aug. 1657.Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, 174–5; Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 214n; NLS, MS 7032, f. 106v. Cllr. of state, Apr. 1655–9.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XXVII, f. 70v. Kpr. signet, 1656, 13 Apr. 1660.NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 2, nos. 6, 9. Judge of exch. and ld. of session, 16 May 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 326. Commr. and bar. of exch. 13 Aug. 1657.NLS, MS 7032, f. 100v. PC, 1670–d.Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 46. Commr. Lanarkshire, Scottish Parl. 1672. Ld. of articles, 1672. Ld. justice-clerk, 1674–d.Young, Parliaments of Scot. 436.

Central: member, cttee. for the army, 27 July 1653.A. and O.

Local: commr. assessment, Fife and Kinross 31 Dec. 1655; Lanarkshire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657.Acts Parl. Scot. vi, part 2, 839–40; A. and O. J.p. Fife and Kinross, Lanarkshire 1656–?Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 312–3.

Diplomatic: amb. France c.Feb. 1656–60, 1673.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 204.

: Lanarkshire.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, attrib. J.B. de Medina;Scottish NPG. oil on canvas, unknown;NT Scotland, Haddo House. oil on canvas, unknown;Scottish NPG. miniature, unknown, c.1655-65.NPG.

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LOCKHART, Sir William (1620-75), of Lee, Lanarkshire.

Will
not found.
Estates
granted keepership of Falkland Palace and Stirling Castle, and lordship of Kelso, Selkirk Forest, c. July 1655;Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLVII, unfol.: 23 July 1655; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 265; Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 40. granted sasine of lands of Douglas of Morton, 18 Oct. 1658.NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 2, no. 7.
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MINORS, Thomas (1609-77), of Sadler Street, Lichfield, Staffs.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 27 Oct. 1609, o.s. of Robert Minors of Uttoxeter, Staffs. and Gertrude, da. of Edmund Hurt of Marchington, Staffs.St Mary, Uttoxeter par. reg.; Vis. Staffs. ed. H.S. Grazebrook (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 214; Wedgwood, Staffs. Parlty Hist. ii. 99. m. (1) 7 Aug. 1635, Sarah (bur. 29 July 1667), da. of John Burnes, mercer, of Lichfield, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) Dorothy, da. of William Jesson of Lichfield, s.p.St Mary, Lichfield par. reg.; PROB11/355, f. 38; Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 214; Vis. Staffs. (Harl. Soc. lxiii), 168; Wedgwood, Staffs. Parlty Hist. ii. 99-100. suc. fa. Dec. 1633;St Leonard, Shoreditch par. reg.; Staffs. RO, D786/20/16. d. 7 Sept. 1677.Staffs. RO, LD126/3/2, unfol.
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Civic: sheriff, Lichfield 1642 – 43; common cllr. by ? 1642 – ?62; jnr. bailiff, 1648 – 49; snr. bailiff, 1657–8.Harwood, Lichfield, 426, 427; A.G. Matthews, The Congregational Churches of Staffs. (?1924), 72. Feoffee, Lichfield Conduit Lands trust by Apr. 1657–d.P. Laithwaite, Hist. of the Lichfield Conduit Lands Trust (1947), 79.

Local: commr. assessment, Lichfield 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660,An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). 1664, 1672, 1677; Staffs. 24 Nov. 1653, 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. maintenance of ministry, 4 Apr. 1648.LJ x. 178b. J.p. Staffs. 30 Sept. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 269. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Staffs. and Lichfield 5 Oct. 1653; militia, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Lichfield 1660.SR.

: Staffs., of Sadler Street, Lichfield.
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MINORS, Thomas (1609-77), of Sadler Street, Lichfield, Staffs.

Will
3 July 1677, pr. 12 Oct. 1677.PROB11/355, f. 35.
Estates
in 1666, his house on Sadler Street, Lichfield, assessed at 9 hearths.‘Hearth tax for Lichfield’ ed. P. Laithwaite (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 3, 1936, pt. ii), 152. At his d. estate inc. mansion house of Hollingbury Hall, Uttoxeter; a new messuage ‘lately builded’ and another messuage and numerous closes in Stramshall, Uttoxeter; lands in lordship of Uttoxeter and a sixth part of that lordship; a messuage on Uttoxeter high street; a house on Sadler Street, Lichfield; messuages, lands and closes in and near Lichfield; and a messuage in Hadley, Salop.PROB11/355, ff. 35-40. His personal estate was inventoried at £2,331.PROB4/5879. His mansion house of Hollingbury Hall and adjoining estate were sold aft. his d. for £1,071.Staffs. RO, D786/18/2i.
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ROSS, William (d.1674), of Drumgarland, Fife, and Ross Isle, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.

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Family and Education
m. Mary Sinclair, s.p. d. 1 May 1674.Bodl. Tanner 39, ff. 164, 166; Tanner 39*, f. 161.
Offices Held

Local: dep. sheriff, Berwickshire by Nov. 1653-bef. Sept. 1656.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLV, unfol.: 21 Nov. 1653; XLVIII, unfol.: 8 Sept. 1656. Commr. assessment, Berwickshire 31 Dec. 1655.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. part 2, p. 838. J.p. Berwickshire, Dumfriesshire 1656–?Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 310–1. Commry. Dumfriesshire and stewartry of Kirkcudbright c.Sept. 1656, confirmed 22 Sept. 1657.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLVIII, unfol.: 8 Sept. 1656; Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 365–6.

: Fife and Ross Isle, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
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ROSS, William (d.1674), of Drumgarland, Fife, and Ross Isle, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.

Will
25 Jan. 1659, 24 Apr. 1674.Bodl. Tanner 39*, ff. 161, 168; PROB20/2228.
Estates
creditor of earl of Home by 1652-3;NRAS 832 (earl of Home pprs.), box 18, folder 1. leased 2 parks in Berwickshire from marquess of Douglas, by May 1655;Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLVII, unfol.: 19 May 1655. purchased lands of Mid Glen, Dumfriesshire, from Archibald Stewart, Feb. 1658;P.H. McKerlie, Hist. of Lands and Owners in Galloway (5 vols. Edinburgh, 1877-9), v. 22. owned Easter Howlaws and Rowchester, Berwickshire, by Jan. 1659;Bodl. Tanner 39*, f. 161. by 1671 had purchased Ross Isle, stewartry of Kirkcudbright;Index Reg. Sasines, Dumfries and Kirkcudbright, 1617-71 (Edinburgh, 1931), 339. also held Dumfries Castle, Dumfriesshire, and Fosterland, Berwickshire by d.Bodl. Tanner 39, f. 164.
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lodged in house of George Roome, Dumfries, Mar. 1657.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLVIII, unfol.: 8 Mar. 1657.
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