Family and Education
3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Nicholas Payne (d. by 1597) of Wallingford, clerk-comptroller of the Green Cloth by 1588, and Anne, da. of Thomas Read of Dorton, Bucks. m. (1) Margaret, da. of Peter Cotterell of Wallingford, 2da.; (2) by 1612, Elizabeth, da. of Richard Lybbe of Hardwick, Oxon., 2s.Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lv), 118; Index to Wills Proved and Admons. Granted in the Ct. of the Adn. of Berks. ed. W.P.W. Phillimore (Brit. Rec. Soc. viii), 129; CSP Dom. Addenda, 1580-1625, p. 250. d. aft. 28 Apr. 1641. Berks. RO, W/AC1/1/1, f. 133.
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Escheator, Berks and Oxon. 1593–4; List of Escheators comp. A.C. Wood (L. and I. Soc. lxxii), 124. freeman and alderman, Wallingford 1599, mayor 1599 – 1601, 1602 – 04, 1609 – 11, 1614 – 15, 1616 – 17, 1624 – 25, 1634–5. Berks. RO, W/AC1/1/1, ff. 86v, 90, 91, 91v, 94v, 95, 98, 100, 108, 121.

Yeoman purveyor of the bakehouse by 1599-at least 1603. C231/1, ff. 74v, 94; LC2/4/4, f. 37.

Main residence: Wallingford, Berks.
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Commons 1604-1629
Web Title

PAYNE, Griffith (-d. aft.1641)

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Oxford 1644
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