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b. c. 1610, 1st s. of Sir Richard Edgcumbe* of Mount Edgcumbe and his 2nd w. Mary, da. of Sir Thomas Coteel of London.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 142. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1626; Al. Cant. ?Leiden 1629; E. Peacock, Index to Eng. Speaking Students at Leyden Univ. (Index Soc. xiii), 32 (entered as Perseus Edsgaimb). Padua 1632-3; G. Andrich, Univ. Patavinae, 140. MD (hon.) Oxf. 1644. Cornw. RO, ME 3090; Ath. Ox. iv. (Fasti) 66 incorrectly assigns him a DCL. m. 6 June 1636 (with £3,000), Mary, da. of John Glanville* of Broad Hinton, Wilts., 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da. Coll. Top. et Gen. v. 218; C142/579/52; Cornw. RO, ME 3044; PROB 11/324, f. 26v. suc. fa. 1639, uncle Thomas Coteel* 1640. d. 6 Jan. 1667. Vivian, 142; PROB 11/184, f. 127v. sig. P[iers] Edgcumbe.
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Member, Mines Royal Co. 1639 – d., dep. gov. 1654 – 57, asst. 1657–64. BL, Loan 16 (iii), ff. 4, 8, 10, 16, 49.

Master of game on the Devon estates of the 4th earl of Bedford (Sir Francis Russell*) 1639; Cornw. RO, ME 3089. commr. assessment, Cornw. 1641 – 42, 1660 – 61, 1663–d., SR v. 82, 210, 329, 456, 529, 572, 619. col. militia by 1642, Cornw. RO, ME 2925; C181/7, pp. 313, 358. j.p. from 1642, 1660 – at least66, Devon 1660-at least 1666, C231/5, p. 529; C220/9/4, ff. 12v, 17; C66/3074. commr. array, Devon and Cornw. 1642, Northants. RO, FH 133. oyer and terminer, Cornw. c. 1642 – 46, Western circ. 1665 – d., sheriff, Cornw. 1660–1, List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 23. dep. lt. by 1662. SP29/60/66.

Col. horse and ft. (roy.) c.1642–6. P.R. Newman, Roy. Officers in Eng. and Wales, 119; Cornw. RO, ME 2925.

Parlimentarian
EDGCUMBE, Piers (c.1610-1667), of Mount Edgcumbe, Cornw.; later of Cotehele, Calstock, Cornw.
Main residences: Mount Edgcumbe, Cornw.; Cotehele, Calstock, Cornw.
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P.M.H.
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Commons 1604-1629
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EDGCUMBE, Piers (c.1610-1667)

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