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Family and Education

b. c.1574, 4th s. of Thomas Levinge of Baddesley Ensor, Warws. and Margaret, da. of Thomas Freeman of Bolehall, Warws.1educ. Balliol, Oxf. 1591, aged 17; Clement’s Inn; I. Temple 1596, called 1606.2m.

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by 1617,3 with £400, Elizabeth, da. and h. of William Fayrefax, Goldsmith, of Lombard Street, London, 4s. 1da.4d.

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10 June 1636.5

Offices Held

Recorder, Derby by 1620-?d.;6 steward of reader’s feast, I. Temple 1621, bencher 1622-d., reader 1624.7

J.p. Derbys. 1635-d.8

Biography

Levinge was described on matriculating at Oxford in 1591 as a plebeian, but his elder brother bought the Derbyshire manor of Parwich and was granted a coat of arms in 1611.9 Straitened circumstances probably explain Levinge’s relatively late call to the bar in 1606.

However, he subsequently married an heiress, and by 1618 was acting as legal adviser to the 5th earl of Hu Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland: Knockdrin Castle - Blogger, carousel DIP