1590) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1648 and in 1654.
He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War.
[2] In 1642 he was appointed by parliament as one of the Commissioners for the Affairs of (His Majesty's) Navy, the King having prevented all his principal officers of the navy from performing their duties.
[3] Bence was a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers in the City of London and became an Alderman for Walbrook ward in May, 1653.
[4] In 1654 he was elected MP for Suffolk in the First Protectorate Parliament.