ASTLEY (ASHLEY), Sir John (c.1569-1640), of Old Palace, Maidstone, Kent

Family and Education

b. c. 1569, 1st s. of John Astley† of Maidstone and Margaret Lenton alias Grey, illegit. da. of Lord Thomas Grey.R.H. Goodsall, ‘The Astleys of Maidstone’, Arch. Cant. lxxii. 1-7. educ. Court; G. Inn 1598. GI Admiss. m. 18 Sept. 1609, Catherine (d.1648), Goodsall, ‘The Astleys of Maidstone, pt. 2’, Arch. Cant. lxxiii. 125. da. of Anthony Brydges of Sudeley Castle, Glos. 3s. d.v.p. 1da. d.v.p. The Gen. n.s. vi. 232. suc. fa. 1596; C142/248/44. Kntd. 11 May 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 106. d. 26 Jan. 1640. J.M. Russell, Hist. Maidstone, 347.

Offices Held

Gent. pens. by 1598-at least 1612; GI Admiss. i. 93; E407/1/37; HMC Hatfield, xxi. 350. dep. master of the revels 1622, master 1623–d.; CSP Dom. 1619–23, p. 432. gent. of the privy chamber 1625. LC2/6, f. 37; SP16/2/118.

Commr. sewers, Gravesend to Penshurst, Kent 1622-at least 1628, C181/3, f. 42; C181/3, f. 252v (described as John Ashley in both cases). ?Forced Loan 1626. Harl. 6846, f. 37 (Sir John Aspley).

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ASTLEY (ASHLEY), Sir John (c.1569-1640), of Old Palace, Maidstone, Kent

Main residence: Old Palace, Maidstone, Kent.

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Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

ASTLEY (ASHLEY), Sir John (c.1569-1640)

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Oxford 1644

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