PAST PRESIDENTS – 17TH CENTURY

Stewards and Presidents Of The Gloucestershire Society In The 17th Century

On 1st December 1657, this Society was established by fifty Gloucestershire Gentlemen, inhabitants of the City of Bristol, whose names are recorded in the minute book of the Society.

STEWARDS

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1658 Thomas Bubb Esq. 5 4 4
1659 Jonathan Blackwell Esq. 5 9 4
1660 John Lawford Esq. 3 6 4
1661 Thomas Wickham Esq. 4 7 0
1662 Henry Gouch Esq. 3 5 5
1663 John Hicks Esq.
did make provision for the Meeting of the Society of Glo'stershire Men in September, but Their Majesties King Charles II and Queen Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of York and Prince Rupert, being pleased to give the City of Bristol a visit at that time, the said provisions were taken for the entertainment of Their Majesties; and therefore the Meeting was deferred till the year ensuing.
1664 John Hicks Esq. 2 17 9
1665

Walter Tocknell Esq.
did make provision for keeping of the Gloucestershire Feast upon Thursday, the 19th day of August, but in regard of the infection of the plague it was ordered at the general Sessions of the Peace held for the County of the City of Bristol, that all public feasts be for this year forborne, as by a copy of the same order will appear:

"City of Bristol: At a general Sessions of the Peace holden for the County and City of Bristol, at the Guildhall of the said City, the 19th July, 1665, before John Lawford Esq., Mayor, and other Justices.
For the better preventing the plague in this City, in this time of infection in London and other places, it is ordered by this Court that the Gloucestershire, Bristol, Somersetshire and Wiltshire Feasts which are usually kept once in a year, and all other Monthly Feasts and Public Meetings in this City, be for this year forborne; and the several Stewards of the said Societies are to yake notice thereof according."
ROBERT ALDWORTH, Clericus Pacis.

In obedience to which order the said Steward did forbear to keep the said Gloucestershire Feast for this year; but resolve to keep the same (God willing) the next summer.
1668 Walter Tocknell Esq. 5 1 6
1669 Richard Crump Esq. 4 9 4
1670 Edward Hurne Esq., Sheriff of Bristol 6 7 5
1671 Samuel Wharton Esq. 4 1 0
1672 Edward Fielding Esq. 9 2 0
1673 John Robins Esq. 6 14 3
1674 William Brown Esq. 5 5 0
1675 John Erkly Esq. 6 16 3
1676 Samuel Hale Esq. 4 9 2
1677 John Lawford Esq., Alderman (a second time) 4 16 0
1678 Thomas Green Esq. 4 6 3
1679 Thomas Oldfield Esq. 3 6 11
1680 John England Esq. 3 10 0
1681 Robert Bound Esq. 3 18 10
1682 Thomas Wilcox Esq. 4 2 6

It is this day ordered, that all such persons as shall succeed in the Stewardship shall not be elected by the name of Steward, but of President of the said Society. 10th August 1682.

PRESIDENTS

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1683 Charles Wintour Esq. 2 14 0
1684 Sir Richard Crump, Knt. 2 19 0
1685 Nathaniel Driver Esq. 3 10 3
1686 Thomas Hicks Esq. 3 5 3
1687 John Chesshire Esq. 2 14 0
1688 John Sandford Esq. 4 7 9
1689 Abraham Elton Esq. 3 11 3
1690 William Clark Esq. 4 5 0
1691 Edward Millard Esq. 3 6 6
1692 Robert Round Esq. (a second time) 4 6 4
1693 Nathaniel Wade Esq. 4 15 0
1694 George Bryan Esq. 5 0 0
1695 Nicholas Standfast Esq. 5 14 9
1696 Robert Kirke Esq. 5 4 6
1697 Thomas Tyler Esq. 6 2 0
1698 Onesiphorus Tyndall Esq. 5 8 6
1699 Thomas Clements Esq. 7 1 6