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- The Militia Assessments
- Information
- Camden Fourth Series , Volume 10: Herefordshire Militia Assessments of 1663 , July 1972 , pp. 117 - 130
- Copyright
- Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1972
Footnotes
The proportions of the parish charges are not the same as those under the 1677 assessment.
References
* Actual charge in brackets.
2. HT 1664 (6). Elenor Greene widow was also charged on 6 hearths.
3. The largest HT charge in 1664 was on William Garston (? Barston) (8).
4. HT 1664 (9).
5. JP 1660; in 1660 he was considered as a deputy lieutenant but marked as being under age (S.P. 29/11, fo. 162); MP for Hereford 1662; captain of a militia troop in the mid-1660s; Loan 29/49, pf. 4, no. 69/15. He married Ann daughter of Sir Thomas Tomkins.
6. Included Twyford.
7. HT 1664(3).
8. HT 1664(3).
9. In 1646 his estate in the county was valued at £266 a year (Loan 29/15, pf. 2); FP1661 (£10); HT 1664 (13).
10. His estate in the county in 1646 was valued at £53 a year; FP 1661 (£10); JP q 1660.
11. The parish of St Devereux. The largest HT charge in 1664 was on William Westfaling (5).
12. Rector of St Devereux, FP 1661 (£3 paid).
13. Roger Bodenham's estates in Rotheras, Little Marcie, Weston Beggard, Holmer and Pipe were valued at £177 a year in 1646; Add. 19678. The same year his entire real estate in the county was put at £264 a year and his personal estate at £98; Loan 29/15, pf. 2. His whole fortune before the Civil War was estimated in 1684 at near £3,000 a year, but it was said that he had spent his estate on the king and so had to live obscurely; Add. 36452, fo. 190. HT 1664 (14).
14. The largest HT charge in 1664 was on Thomas Jenings (9).
15. JP q 1660; MP for the county 1661; DL 1663 (S.P. 29/87); died 1668.
16. JP 1655; JP q 1660.
17. Rector, FP 1661 (40s).
18. Vicar, FP 1661 (20s paid).
19. Gent., HT 1664 (6).
20. The largest HT charge in 1664 was on David Grundy (8).
21. HT 1664 (4).
22. HT 1664 (4).
23. Chief constable of Webtree, 1663; Loan 29/49, pf. 4, no. 69/15.
24. HT 1664 (4).
25. HT 1664 (6).
26. John Scudamore, Baron Dromore and Viscount Sligo (1601–1671); his income in 1645 was thought to be about £4,000 a year: Harl. 911. More exact evidence suggests that his receipts from his Herefordshire estates in 1641/2 were no more than £3,233; Reade, H., ‘Account Books of the First Lord Scudamore’, TWC, xxv (1925), p. 119Google Scholar. JP, castos rotulorum, 1660Google Scholar. FP 1661 (£100 paid); HT 1664 (48, the largest charge in the county, equalled only by the charge on the college of vicars choral).
27. Vicar, FP 1661 (£5).
28. Considered for appointment as a deputy lieutenant in 1660, but may not have been appointed; S.P. 29/11, fo. 162. HT 1664 (7).
29. Probably Denzil Holies, 1599-1680, created Baron Holies, of Ifield, Sussex, 20 April 1661; Complete Peerage, ed. Cokayne, , vi, p. 545.Google Scholar
30. HT 1664 (12); will proved 1670 (FCC).
31. JP 1660: sheriff 1669. HT 1664 (8).
32. Pontrilas Forge.
33. Rector, FP 1661 (40s).
34. HT 1664 (7).
35. Probably vicar of Kingston.
36. George Sawyer, will proved 31 Oct. 1665 (FCC). He also owned land in Berk shire.
37. The largest HT charge in 1664 was on Thomas Rogers, gent. (5).
38. An analysis of a survey of the parish made in 1813 (Morgan, P., ‘An early 19th century survey of Madley’, TWC, xxxiii (1950), p. 118Google Scholar), although based on acreage rather than value, suggests, when compared with this assessment, that between 1663 and 1813 there was a considerable increase in the interest of absentee landowners and a substantial diminution in the total and mean size of the interests of all classes of landowner and occupier except the largest.
39. Herbert Bowton, vicar, FP 1661 (£5 paid).
40. Mary Moore, HT 1664 (11).
41. JP 1660: HT 1664 (7).
42. FP 1661 (£2 15s paid); HT 1664 (8).
43. Tanner, will proved 1666 (PCC).
44. Gent., HT 1664 (6). Walter Probert was also charged on 6 hearths.
45. Chief constable of Webtree, 1663; Loan 29/49, pf. 4, no. 69/15.
46. Of Gwendor. He had been fined £50, at , for his Herefordshire estates as a delinquent and papist: CCC, iv, p. 3002Google Scholar. HT 1664 (7).
47. Will proved 1668 (PCC). He held lands at Madley, Yazor, Weobley, Burton, Lyonshall, Mansell Lacy, Mansell Gamage, Bishops Frome, Preston on Wye, Bosbury, Munsley and Tyberton at the time of his death; HT 1664 (9).
48. HT 1664 (5).
49. Created baronet 1 Feb. 1660/1. A former parliamentary commander, he was prominent in organising the militia after the Restoration; DNB. HT 1664 (9).
50. In 1646 the real estate in the county of Robert Kempe of Chenston was put at £20 a year and his personal estate at £72; Loan 29/15, pf. 2.
51. Vicar, FP 1661 (20s paid).
52. Doctor of Laws, HT 1664 (8).
53. HT 1664 (15).