HORSEY, Sir John (1510-65), of Clifton Maybank, Dorset.

Family and Education

b. 25 July 1510, 1st s. of (Sir) John Horsey of Clifton Maybank by Joan, da. of one Mawdley of Croscombe, Som. m. 14 Dec. 1539, Edith, da. of Richard Phelips of Charborough, Dorset, wid. of John Stocker of Poole, Dorset, 1s. John 2da. suc. fa. 23 Dec. 1546. Kntd. 22 Feb. 1547.Date of birth given at fa.’s i.p.m., C142/84/37. Hutchins, Dorset, iv. 427, 429 n.

Offices Held

Servant, household of Cromwell by 1538; j.p. Dorset 1540 – d.; commr. relief 1550, goods of churches and fraternities 1553, subsidy 1563; sheriff, Som. and Dorset 1558–9.M. L. Robertson, ‘Cromwell’s servants’ (Univ. California Los Angeles Ph.D. thesis, 1975), 502–3; LP Hen. VIII, xiii, xv; CPR, 1550–3, p. 142; 1553, pp. 352, 414.

Parlimentarian

HORSEY, Sir John (1510-65), of Clifton Maybank, Dorset.

Main residence: Clifton Maybank, Dorset.

Author

H.M.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

HORSEY, Sir John (1510-65)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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