Michael Molyns Explained

Michael Molyns (born 1602) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625.

Molyns was the son of Sir Barentyne Molyns of Clapcot (now in the parish of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire) and Elizabeth Southwell daughter of Thomas Southwell of Woodrising, Norfolk and Nazareth Newton. He was the grandson of the earlier Michael Molyns MP, and the half-brother of Walter Devereux.^[1]

He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford on 15 November 1616 at the age of 15. In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament for Wallingford.^[2]

Notes and References

1. https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/molyns-michael-1601-1662 'MOLYNS, Michael (c.1601-at least 1662), of Clapcot, near Wallingford, Berks', Alan Davidson, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604–1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010.
2. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119372 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Michaelson-Morcombe', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1007–1026. Date accessed: 8 May 2012