John Fowke

[2] In October 1629, on Fowke again refusing to pay the impost, an information was laid against him at the council, and 'great endeavours used to take away his life and estate upon false pretences of clipping of money and piracies.'

In the ordinance of 29 March 1643 of parliament for raising money, Fowke was one of the persons empowered to nominate collectors in each ward.

[2] Having been appointed a commissioner of the customs, and refusing to deliver up an account on oath of what money he had received, he was fined by the committee of accompts, 18 April 1645, and in the end sent to the Fleet Prison.

After a long debate on 4 August it was resolved that Fowke ought to 'accompt jointly with the rest of the late commissioners and collectors of the customs.

Under two decrees made by Lord Keeper Coventry, on 21 November 1631 and 9 June 1635, the East India Company had retained money of Fowke's.

[2] At a meeting of the common council for nominating a new committee for the militia of London, 27 April 1647, Fowke's name was ordered to be omitted from the list to be presented to parliament.

However, on the following 12 June, upon a rumour of the army's near approach to London, he was asked to head a deputation to parliament to desire its approbation of the city's answer to Thomas Fairfax, and early next morning he set out with his fellow-commissioners to carry it to the general at St. Albans.

[2] At the sale of bishops' lands Fowke acquired, on 28 September 1648, the Gloucestershire manors of Maysmore, Preston, Longford, and Ashleworth, the property of the sees of Gloucester and Bristol.

When the city corporation agreed to send their thanks to George Monck for his services, Fowke was one of the three commissioners appointed for that purpose, 19 January 1660.

[2] When the Restoration seemed inevitable, Fowke issued an advertisement denying that he was 'one of those persons that did actually sit as judges upon the tryal,' to which he appended a certificate from Henry Scobell, clerk of the parliament, dated 28 March 1660.

For a while he appears to have lived in retirement at his country seat at Clayberry, situated to the north-east of Barking, near Woodford Bridge, Essex.