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Trapham

The Boys family was a relatively large Kentish family in the early seventeenth century, having an estimated ten branches. John Boys, the M.P. for Betteshanger, a parish close to Wingham, knew Sir James Oxenden and appears in surviving Oxenden correspondence from the 1640s (Underwood (1966:XXX). John Boys owned property in Betteshanger and Trapham (in the parish of Wingham).

John Boys senior of Trapham, Sir James Oxinden of Deane, Sir Richard Hardres of Upper Hardres, and Sir Edward Monins of Waldershare are identified by Alan Everitt as the core of the Kent County Committee, under the leadership of Sir Edward Hales. (Everitt (1957:23)

Sources

Primary

Letter from Sir Thomas Peyton to Sir James Oxinden and John Boys, XXXX

Secondary

Everitt, Alan Milner, The county committee of Kent in the civil war (Leicester, 1957), p. 23
Underdown, David, 'The Parliamentary Diary of John Boys,1647–8' in Historical Research, vol. 39, Issue 100, pp.141–164, November 1966

Possible Sources

TNA

E 214/729 Parties: Edward Ewell of the precinct of the Blackfriars, London, gent. John Boys of Eythorne co. Kent, esq., and Edward Boys of Betteshanger co. Kent, esq. Place or Subject: Settlement of marshland in the Fleet valley in Ash next Sandwich co. Kent, sometime parcel of the manor of Fleet, messuages and lands in Herne co. 10 Feb 1642

PROB

Will of Edward Boys of Betshanger, Kent 04 February 1650 PROB 11/211 Pembroke 1 - 54
Will of Sir John Boys of Goodnestone, Kent 12 November 1664 PROB 11/315 Bruce 97 - 143
Will of Edward Boys, Gentleman of Goodnestone next Wingham, Kent 09 June 1665 PROB 11/317 Hyde 57 - 107

East Kent Archives Centre

EKAS: Brook Bridges Manuscripts Part 1: MAPS [no ref. or date]: Wingham, Trapham Farm by Simon Barow [extracted from T45] EK-U373/P1 1650
EKAS; Brook Bridges Manuscripts Part 1: DEEDS [no ref. or date]: Wingham [no ref. or date]: Trapham Farm EK-U373/T45 1647-1701: 20 docs, Contents: Original bundle; See also EK-U373/E10
EKAS: Map, 1650, removed from this bundle and listed below as U373 P1
EKAS; Sandwich Borough: Miscellaneous Sa/Z [n.d.], Bound portfolio of papers endorsed 'Sandwich MSS. 1295-1753' Sa/ZB/2 1295-1753: From Sir Edward Boys, governor of Dover Castle Sa/ZB/2/100 1645
EKAS: Sandwich Borough; Miscellaneous Sa/Z [n.d.], Bound portfolio of papers endorsed 'Sandwich MSS. 1295-1753' Sa/ZB/2 1295-1753: From John Boys, Lieutenant of Dover Castle Sa/ZB/2/111 1646
EKAS: Sandwich Borough; Miscellaneous Sa/Z [n.d.]: Burghal Sa/ZB [n.d.]: A portfolio of papers similar to Sa/ZB/2 Sa/ZB/3 1470-1702: From John Boys, Lieutenant of Dover Castle, from Betteshanger about bedding for relief of maimed soldiers Sa/ZB/3/6 1658

EKAS: Sandwich Borough: Miscellaneous Sa/Z [n.d.]: Burghal Sa/ZB [n.d.]: A portfolio of papers similar to Sa/ZB/2 Sa/ZB/3 1470-1702: From Richard Hardres and John Dixwell asking for 10 men to be impressed towards the 200 to be raised in the Lathe of St. Augustine for the county Sa/ZB/3/37 1646
EKAS: Sandwich Borough: MAPS AND PLANS Sa/P [n.d.]: Sa/P/10-18 are photostat copies: Map of mouth of the Thames (Salisbury MSS.) Sa/P/13 1580; also Map of mouth of the Thames to Winchelsea, the courses of the Medway and Stour, with enlarged map of Gravesend and district (Salisbury MSS.) Sa/P/14 1596; also The Downs and Sandwich, Robert Jager (PRO) Sa/P/16 1624; also Another version of Sa/P/16 (P.R.O) Sa/P/17 1624

Centre for Kentish Studies

CKS: Kent Quarter Sessions [Q/SO - Q/SP]: COURT IN SESSION Q/S [n.d.]: ORDER BOOKS Q/SO [n.d.]: East Kent Q/SO/E [n.d.]: Order Book Q/SO/E/1 [n.d.]: East Kent Order Book, Epiphany 1664/5 Q/SO/E1/f.93 [n.d.]: On a certificate of many of the inhabitants of Staple showing that the house where William Briggs lives in Staple has been for many years a licenced alehouse. The matter referred to Sir Thomas Peyton, Sir Edward Monins, Sir Richard Sandys, John Boys and Richard Masters, esquires, justices of the peace, or any three of them, to examine and licence William Briggs if they think fit.