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bap. 6 July 1568, o.s. of John Kay of Hackney, clerk of the Green Cloth, and Bridget Edmondes of Westminster.LMA, Hackney par. reg.; St. Martin-in-the-Fields ed. T. Mason (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxv), 61; CSP Dom. Addenda, 1580-1625, p. 250. educ. Clare, Camb. 1583. Al. Cant. m. (1) 28 Apr. 1588, Elizabeth Hitchcock of Westminster, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 13 Aug. 1612, Joan Newce (bur. 13 Apr. 1632), 1s. suc. fa. 1589; LMA, Hackney par. reg.; Memorials of St. Margaret’s, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke, 301; PROB 11/73, f. 382. Kntd. 27 May 1607. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 142. d. 1 May 1624. E403/1735, unfol., 3 Mar. 1625.
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Gent. of privy chamber by 1608-at least 1615; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 397; SP15/40/28. surveyor of the Ordnance 1609–d.; E403/1708, unfol. 2 Mar. 1610; 403/1735, unfol. 3 Mar. 1625. commr. provisions for the officers of the Ordnance, C181/2, f. 180v. gold and silver thread 1618, S.R. Gardiner, ‘On four letters from Lord Bacon to Christian IV’, Archaeologia, xli. 256. wine casks 1619–21, CD 1621, vii. 417. survey of castles 1623. HMC 10th Rep. VI, 110.

J.p. Mdx. by 1609–d.; Mdx. Co. Recs. ed. J.C. Jeaffreson, ii. 56; C66/2310. ?freeman, Eye, Suff. 1610; SP14/48/109. commr. sewers, Mdx. 1610 – 20, annoyances, Surr. 1611, Mdx. 1613, oyer and terminer, the Verge 1612–17, C181/2, ff. 128v, 142v, 179v, 199v, 287v; 181/3, f. 18v. new buildings, London and Westminster 1616, APC, 1615–16, p. 485. musters, Tower Hamlets, Mdx. 1616, APC, 1616–17, p. 14. ltcy. Mdx. 1617–20, C66/2137. subsidy 1621–2, C212/22/20–1. nuisances 1624. T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 4, p. 98.

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KAY (KEYES), Sir John (1568-1624), of Hackney, Mdx. and the Tower of London
Main residences: Hackney, Mdx.; the Tower of London.
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J.P.F.
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Commons 1604-1629
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KAY (KEYES), Sir John (1568-1624)

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Oxford 1644
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