DIXIE, Sir Wolstan (c.1576-1650), of Market Bosworth, Leics.

Family and Education

b. c. 1576, 1st s. of John Dixie, yeoman of Catworth, Hunts. and Charity, da. of Thomas Henson of Oundle, Northants.Nichols, County of Leicester, iv. 506. educ. G. Inn 1595. GI Admiss. m. 31 Aug. 1598, St. James Clerkenwell (Harl. Soc. Regs. xiii), 22. Frances, da. of Sir Thomas Beaumont I* of Stoughton Grange, Leics., 4s. 4da. (2 d.v.p.) Nichols, iv. 506; PROB 11/213, f. 264. suc. gt.-uncle Sir Wolstan Dixie 1594; PROB 11/83, ff. 1-5v; Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the City of London ed. E.A. Fry (Brit. Rec. Soc. xxxvi), 181-6. Kntd. 12 May 1604. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 132. d. 25 July 1650. CB, iii. 85.

Offices Held

J.p. Leics. 1604-at least 1641; Add. 38139, f. 137v; C66/2859. commr. subsidy, Leics. 1605 – 08, 1621 – 22, 1624 – 25, 1641–2, STAC 8/55/26; SP14/31/1; C212/22/20–1, 23; Cal. of Herrick Fam. Pprs. ed. P.M. Pugh (NRA 17342), p. 102; SR, v. 85, 153. aid 1609; SP14/43/107. collector, fifteenth, Leics. 1608, 1625, aid 1613; E179/283/6, 17; E403/2732, f. 87v. sheriff, Leics. 1614–15; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 75. commr. to inquire into the estate of Newark hospital, Leics. 1616, HMC 8th Rep. pt. 1 (1881), p. 418. lands of Sir Griffith Markham, Leics. 1619, lands of Sir Henry Beaumont, Leics. 1622; C181/2, f. 341; 181/3, f. 58. dep. lt., Leics. 1625-at least 1635; HEHL, HAM Box 53(6), f. 133v; HEHL, HA2296. commr. Forced Loan, Leics. 1627, C193/12/2, f. 28v. swans, Midlands counties 1627, C181/3, f. 227. Crown debts, various counties 1628; HMC Rutland, i. 485. commr. and collector, knighthood fines, Leics. 1630–4; E178/7154, f. 147; 178/5404, f. 12; E198/4/32, f. 4v. commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 1639–42, C181/5, f. 141v, 220v. array, Leics. 1642. LJ, v. 147a.

Parlimentarian

DIXIE, Sir Wolstan (c.1576-1650), of Market Bosworth, Leics.

Main residence: Market Bosworth, Leics.

Author

P.W.

B.C.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

DIXIE, Sir Wolstan (c.1576-1650)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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