MRP: Trapham

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)

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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

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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

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