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b. 20 Mar. 1560,‘Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby’ ed. E. Powell, Cam. Misc. X. (Cam. Soc. ser. 3. iv), 128. 1st. s. of Sir Thomas Hoby†, amb. to France 1560-66, of Bisham Abbey, and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Anthony Cooke† of Gidea Hall, Romford, Essex; bro. of Sir Thomas Posthumous*.Misc. Gen. et Her. i. 143. educ. travelled abroad (France) ?bef. 1571, 1576-by 1580;Reg. Univ. Oxf. II ed. A. Clark (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), i. 69. Eton g.s. 1571-2; Trin., Oxf. 1574, BA 1576, MA 1576; M. Temple 1584.Eton Coll. Reg. comp. W. Sterry; Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss. m. (1) 21 May 1582 Margaret (d. 30 Nov. 1605), da. of Henry Carey†, 1st Bar. Hunsdon, lord chamberlain and kpr. of Somerset House, 1ch. d.v.p.;VCH Berks. iii. 151; E. Hoby, A Counter-snarle of Ishmael Rabshacheh, A Cecropidan Lycaonite (1613), p. 7. (2) 24 Feb. 1606, Elizabeth, (bur. 5 Jan. 1612), da. of Sir John Danvers† of Dauntsey, Wilts. 1s. d.v.p.;T. Birch, Ct. and Times of Jas. I, i. 61; P. Compton, Story of Bisham Abbey, 82; VCH Berks. iii. 150 (though Hoby’s 2nd wife is mis-identified on the preceding page); Reg. Bisham ed. E. Powell, 31. (3) 21 July 1614, Cicely, da. of Sir Edward Unton† of Wadley, Berks. and wid. of John Wentworth of Gosfield Hall, Essex. 1s. d.v.p.;GL, ms 4509/1, unfol.; Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvii), 222; Birch, i. 111; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 306. 1s. illegit. by Katherine Pinkney.Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi), 228. suc. fa. 1566; Kntd. 22 May 1582.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 81. d. 1 Mar. 1617.C142/370/59. sig. Edw[ard] Hoby.
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Bailiff, Blackenhurst Hundred, Worcs. 1567–?d.;CPR, 1566–9, p. 23. j.p. Kent by 1583 – at least1614, Berks. c. 1584 – d., Worcs. c. 1584 – 1603, Surr. 1599 – 1603, Bucks. by 1608-at least 1614;Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Eliz. ed. J.S. Cockburn, 198; E163/14/8, ff. 3, 40; C231/1, ff. 80v, 149v, 150v; SP14/33, f. 7; C66/1988. v.-adm. Milton hundred, Kent 1585-at least 1595,Add. 38823, ff. 45–7; HCA 13/31, f. 249. Kent 1607-at least 1613;HCA 49/106, pkt. A, no. 50; HCA 14/42, no. 42. commr. survey, Isle of Sheppey, Kent 1585,HMC Hatfield, iii. 117. oyer and terminer 1587,APC, 1587–8, pp. 110, 126. subsidy 1589, 1591, 1595, 1608 – 10, Berks. 1608;Staffs. RO, D593/S/4/38/16, D593/S/4/23/14; SP14/31/1; E115/198/40; 115/218/97. steward, manors of Charing, Gillingham and Teynham, Kent 1590–1606;E315/309, f. 74v; 315/310, ff. 31, 46. commr. inquiry into Catholic missionaries, Kent 1592, grain 1595;Staffs. RO, D593/S/3/6,7. constable, Queenborough castle 1597–d.;E112/87/158; CSP Dom. 1623–5, p. 550. commr. charitable uses, Berks. by 1607 – d., Kent 1616–d.C93/3/13, 17; 93/4/11, 19; 93/5/4; 93/7/1, 7.

Household servant (?page) to François, duke of Alençon, ?bef. 1571.E. Hoby, A Letter to Mr. T.H. Late Minister Now Fugitive (1609), pp. 104, 106.

Vol. Cadiz expedition 1596.R.B. Wernham, Return of the Armada, 108.

Sec. to ld. adm. Charles Howard†, Lord Howard of Effingham 1588;R.W. Kenny, Elizabeth’s Adm. 143. dep. (jt.) to commrs. for executing the office of earl marshal 1595;Add. 38823, ff. 84, 86v. commr. Union 1604–6;CJ, i. 208b, 319a. sub-commr. Navy inquiry, 1608;HMC Laing, 111; Jacobean Commissions of Enquiry ed. A.P. McGowan (Navy Rec. Soc. cxvi), 181. gent. privy chamber by 1612-at least 1615.C66/1970/3; PROB 11/129, f. 197.

Patentee, wool licences 1602–15.P.J. Bowden, Wool Trade in Tudor and Stuart Eng. 149, 166.

Member, earl of Hertford’s embassy to Spanish Neths. 1605.HMC 5th Rep. 407.

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HOBY, Sir Edward (1560-1617), of Shurland House, Eastchurch, Kent; Queenborough Castle, Isle of Sheppey, Kent; Bisham Abbey, Berks. and St. Anne Blackfriars, London
Main residences: Shurland House, Eastchurch, Kent and Queenborough Castle, Isle of Sheppey, Kent and and Bisham Abbey, Berks. and St. Anne Blackfriars, London.
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Commons 1604-1629
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HOBY, Sir Edward (1560-1617)

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