William Ive (Leicester MP) explained

William Ive (159731 August 1641) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1624.

Ive was of Leicestershire and matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford on 26 April 1616, aged 18.^[1]

He was made Mayor of Leicester for 1615–16, 1625–6 and 1634–5.^[2] In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Leicester in the Happy Parliament.^[3]

Notes and References

1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117068 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Ibbetson-Izod', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 785–792. Date accessed: 15 March 2012
2. Web site: IVE, William (c.1573-1641), of Leicester, Leics. History of Parliament Online. 1 August 2014.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=5V09AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Browne+Willis%22 Browne Willis Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences 1750 pp. 186–239