BOWYER, Sir Edmund (1552-1627), of Camberwell, Surr. and Lincoln’s Inn, London

Family and Education

b. 12 May 1552, 3rd but 1st surv. s. of John Bowyer, barrister of L. Inn and Camberwell, being 1st s. with his 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of Robert Draper of Camberwell. educ. L. Inn 1568, called 1577. m. 25 May 1573, Katherine (bur. 12 July 1609), da. of William Byne of Washington, Suss., s.p. suc. fa. 1570;Coll. Top. et Gen. iii. 151-2; LI Admiss.; Vis. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 32. Kntd. 11 May 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 107. d. 18 Feb. 1627. WARD 7/75/17.

Offices Held

J.p. Surr. by 1579–d.; Cal. Assize Recs. Surr. Indictments, Eliz. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 182; E163/18/12, f. 78. commr. suppression of Jesuits, 1592, Surr. Hist. Cent. LM/1380/2. subsidy 1594 – 95, 1608, 1622, Southwark, Surr. 1608, 1622, 1624, HMC 7th Rep. 652; Surr. Hist. Cent. LM/1510; SP14/31/1; C212/22/21, 23. sewers, Surr. 1598, 1613, Surr. and Kent 1603, 1624, 1625; APC, 1597–8, p. 491; C181/1, f. 46; 181/2, f. 191; 181/3, ff. 114v, 161v. sheriff, Surr. and Suss. 1600–1; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 137. commr. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 1602 – d., the Verge 1604 – d., Surr. 1608, the Marshalsea 1620, 1623, C181/1, ff. 31, 93v; 181/2, f. 73v; 181/3, ff. 1, 97, 198v, 208v. preservation of ditches on the Thames, Mdx., Surr., Berks., Kent, Essex, 1602, 1605, C181/1, ff. 5v, 113v. inquiry into lands of Henry Brooke alias Cobham†, 11th Lord Cobham, Surr. 1603, C181/1, f. 71v. audit the accounts of St. Saviour’s Southwark, 1606, C33/112, f. 21. inquiry into lands of John Deacon, Surr. 1608; C181/2, f. 70. commr. and collector aid, Surr. 1609, 1612; SP14/43/107; Harl. 354, f. 68v; E403/2732, f. 129v. commr. inquiry, Wandle River 1610, M.S. Giuseppi, ‘River Wandle in 1610’, Surr. Arch. Colls. xxi. 176. annoyances, 1611, Mdx. 1613; C181/2, ff. 142, 199. collector, Privy Seal loan, Surr. 1611–13; Add. 27877, f. 140. dep. lt. Surr. by 1615–d.; HMC 7th Rep. 670; C66/2384/3. gov. of Camberwell g.s. 1615; W.H. Blanch, Ye Par. of Camerwell, 251. commr. brewhouse survey, Surr. 1620, APC, 1619–21, p. 203. collector, Benevolence 1622, SP14/135/62. commr. inquiry into concealed lands, London and Mdx. 1623, C181/3, f. 98v. Forced Loan, Surr. 1626–7, T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 144; C193/12/2, f. 57v. martial law 1626. C66/2384/3.

Commr. poor prisoners by 1589 – at least1600, 1624, suppression of Jesuits 1593, Rymer, vii. pt. 1, p. 117, pt. 4, p. 136; APC, 1589–90, p. 91; 1599–1600, p. 644. starch manufacture 1620, CD 1621, vii. 442. trade 1625; Rymer, viii. pt. 1, p. 59. member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1625–d. R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 346.

Member, Virg. Co. by 1610. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iii. 45.

Parlimentarian

BOWYER, Sir Edmund (1552-1627), of Camberwell, Surr. and Lincoln’s Inn, London

Main residences: Camberwell, Surr.; Lincoln's Inn, London.

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Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

BOWYER, Sir Edmund (1552-1627)

Will

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Oxford 1644

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Religion

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