MAYNARD, Henry (aft.1547-1610), of St. Albans, Herts.; later of Little Easton, Essex.

Family and Education

b. aft. 1547, 2nd s. of John Maynard of St. Albans, being 1st s. by his 2nd w. Dorothy, da. of Robert Parrott of Oxford, wid. of John Bridges. m. Susan, 2nd da. of William or Thomas Pierson, 8s. 2da. Kntd. 1603.Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 76; (xiv), 595; F. Chancellor, Ancient Sep. Mons. of Essex, 83; Essex Rev. xliv. 76-8. On Maynard generally, see A. G. R. Smith, ‘Sir Michael Hickes and the Secretariat of the Cecils, circa 1580-1612’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1962) chs. 2, 3, 10.

Offices Held

Sec. to Sir Nicholas Bacon; to Lord Burghley by 1582; j.p. Essex from c. 1592, commr. musters from 1599, sheriff 1603 – 04, dep. lt. 1603, surveyor crown lands by 1606, custos rot. from 1608; surveyor musters, Ireland Oct. 1598, muster master gen. for life Dec. 1604.Essex RO, Q/SR passim; CSP Ire. 1600–1, p. 249; APC, xxix. 701; xxxii. 501; SP14/60; Lansd. 171, f. 397; Colvin, Lieutenants and Keepers of Rolls of Essex, 80.

Parlimentarian

MAYNARD, Henry (aft.1547-1610), of St. Albans, Herts.; later of Little Easton, Essex.

Main residences: St. Albans, Herts.; Little Easton, Essex.

Author

A.G.R.S.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

MAYNARD, Henry (aft. 1547-1610)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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