Peter Fisher (fl. 1626–1657) was a puritan politician active in Ipswich, Suffolk in the seventeenth century.[1]
Civic roles in Ipswich
editFisher was a mercer whose civic career in Ipswich started in the 1620's, when he shared the role of Ipswich Corporation Chamberlain with Barnaby Burroughe for 1626/7.[2]
In 1630 he compiled with others a surveyors account detailing payments from residents, the names of those who performed statute labour, (i.e. unpaid mandatory labour required for upkeep of the roads) and any payment made to labourers.[2]: 132 From 1639 until 1644 he was Town Treasurer.[2]: 244
Fisher was one of a number of committeemen in Ipswich who participated in the second commission of the Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers.[3]
Family life
editPeter married a daughter of Robert Snelling, Portman of Ipswich. Snelling had two other daughters who married Edmund Calamy the Elder and Matthew Newcomen[3]: 112
References
edit- ^ Grace, Frank (2005). "The Path to Dissent: Ipswich Puritans during the English Revolution" (PDF). Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society. 7 (6): 353–358.
- ^ a b c Allen, David H. (2000). Ipswich Borough Archives, 1255-1835: a catalogue (PDF). Woodbridge (GB) Ipswich: Boydell press Suffolk Records Society. ISBN 0-85115-772-6.
- ^ a b Holmes, Clive (1970). The Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers, 1644-1646. Ipswich: Suffolk Records Society.
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