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Members Carey – Fettiplace
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 May 2023
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Carey, Edward (c.1618-57), of Westminster and Marylebone, Mdx.
Westminster 1656
b c. 1618, 2nd s. of Roland Carey of Everton, Hunts. educ. Clare, Camb. 8 Apr. 1636; M. Temple 9 June 1641, called 16 June 1648. m., at least 2 children. d. betw. 13 July 1657-17 Sept. 1657.
Central: member, cttee. of accts. 23 Nov. 1649. Counsellor, cttee. for advance of money, 22 Feb. 1650. Examiner to commrs. for compounding, Sept. 1650-at least April 1652. Commr. relief on articles of war, 29 Sept. 1652; for compounding, advance of money, indemnity, 1 July, 31 Dec. 1653; managing delinquents’ estates, 10 Feb. 1654; commr. discoveries, Apr. 1656.
Local: j.p. Mdx. by Oct. 1653-bef. Mar. 1657; Westminster by Oct. 1653-d. Commr. assessment, Mdx. 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657; Westminster 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657; sewers, Mdx and Westminster 10 Jan. 1655-d. Dep. high steward, Westminster 12 Aug. 1656-d.
Estate: on d. owned house in Marylebone, Mdx., and lands worth £100 p.a. in Everton, Hunts., and a farm and parsonage of ‘Noyle’ (?Hail) Weston, Hunts.
Will: 13 July 1657, pr. 17 Sept. 1657.
The younger son of an obscure Huntingdonshire family, Edward Carey followed his elder brother, Walter, to Clare College, Cambridge, and thence to the Middle Temple, which he entered in 1641. Called to the bar in June 1648, he went on to serve the common-wealth in various capacities. He was appointed commissioner to take the accounts of the army in November 1649, legal counsellor for the Committee for Advance of Money in February 1650 (with a salary of £150 a year), and examiner to the Commissioners for Compounding (at £160 a year) from September 1650. On 29 September 1652 he was made a commissioner for relief upon articles, and in July 1653 he was added to the commissions for compounding, advance of money and indemnity, with a salary of £300. On 10 February 1654 he became a commissioner for managing the estates of delinquents. He was proposed by the protectoral council for the post of baron of the Irish Exchequer when the Four Courts were revived in June 1655, but he declined the post, much to the disappointment of Henry Cromwell*.
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- The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1640-1660 [Volume IV]Members, Carey – Fettiplace, pp. 1 - 1057Publisher: Boydell & BrewerFirst published in: 2023