RIVERS, George (1554-1630), of St. Saviour’s Southwark, Surr. and Chafford Place, Penshurst, Kent

Family and Education

b. 28 Feb. 1554, 1st s. of Sir John Rivers, Grocer, of Bartholomew Lane, London and Chafford Place, ld. mayor 1573-4, and Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Barne, Haberdasher, of Bartholomew Lane London, ld. mayor 1552-3.Vis. London (Harl. Soc. cix), 13. educ. Trin. Camb. 1571; M. Temple 1574. Al. Cant.; M. Temple Admiss. m. (1) c.1579, Frances, da. and coh. of William Bowyer of Hambledon, Hants, 4s. 2da.; (2) by 1626, Judith (d. 6 May 1656), da. of Laurence Humphrey, Pres. of Magdalen Coll. Oxf., wid. of Thomas Bury of Culham, Oxon., s.p. suc. fa. 1584; Suss. Gens.: Lewes Centre comp. J. Comber, 227; Suss. Gens.: Ardingly Centre comp. J. Comber, 25; J.H. Cooper, ‘Cuckfield fams. (pt. 2)’ Suss. Arch. Colls. xlii. 42; C.J. Robinson, ‘Recs. of the fam. of Carey’, Her. and Gen. iv. 42. Kntd. 30 July 1605. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 139. d. 20 Feb. 1630. C142/468/89.

Offices Held

J.p. Kent 1586–d., Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Eliz. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 243; C66/2527. Suss. 1592 – at least1625, 1627–d., Cal. Assize Recs. Suss. Indictments, Eliz. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 256; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 16; C231/4, f. 228; C66/2527. Surr. 1602–25; C231/1, f. 147; Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 16; Cal. Assize Recs. Surr. Indictments, Eliz. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 519. capt. militia ft. Kent by 1588-at least 1621; J.N. McGurk, ‘Armada preparations in Kent and Arrangements made after the Defeat (1587–1589)’ Arch Cant. lxxxv. 83; CSP Dom. 1595–7, p. 306; HMC Finch, i. 42. commr. subsidy, Kent 1591, 1608, 1621 – 22, 1624, Southwark 1608, Staffs. RO, D593/S/4/23/14; SP14/31/1; C212/22/20, 21, 23. steward, Southwark 1602–d.; CLRO, Reps. 26/1, f. 18v; D.J. Johnson, Southwark and the City, 411. commr. inquiry into lands of Henry Brooke alias Cobham†, 11th Lord Cobham, and George Brooke, Kent 1603, C181/1, ff. 72, 73. sewers, Kent and Suss. 1604, Kent 1610, 1622, 1628, Suss. 1610, 1617, 1624 – 25, provision, Ashdown forest, Suss. 1605, C181/1, ff. 95, 109v; 181/2, ff. 106, 134v, 292; 181/3, ff. 42, 133v, 166v, 252v. audit the accounts of St. Saviour’s Southwark, 1606, C33/112, f. 21. aid, Surr. 1609, 1612, SP14/43/107; Harl. 354, f. 68v. oyer and terminer, Kent 1615, C181/2, f. 228. brewhouse survey, Surr. 1620, APC, 1619–21, p. 203. recusants’ lands 1622/3, CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 449 (misdated). Forced Loan, Kent 1626. Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 144.

Commr. alienations 1601–19, Sidney Letters ed. A. Collins, ii. 231; E101/604/1–11. piracy 1608. Harl. 703, f. 139v.

Parlimentarian

RIVERS, George (1554-1630), of St. Saviour’s Southwark, Surr. and Chafford Place, Penshurst, Kent

Main residences: St. Saviour's Southwark, Surr.; Chafford Place, Penshurst, Kent.

Author

A.D.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

RIVERS, George (1554-1630)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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