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b. by 1584, 1st s. of Robert Annesley of Rathverd, co. Limerick, Ire. and Newport Pagnell, Bucks. and Beatrice, da. of John Cornwall of Moor Park, Herts.Oxon. RO, E/6/7/4D/1; Irish Fiants of Tudor Sovereigns ed. K. Nicholls, iii. 89-90; J. Lodge, Peerage of Ire. (1754), ii. 273. educ. L. Inn 1628.LI Admiss. i. 206. m. (1) c.1608, Dorothy (d. 3 May 1624), da. of Sir John Philipps† of Picton, Pemb. 5s. (3 d.v.p.) 8da. (at least 2 d.v.p.);Lodge, ii. 281-3. (2) 16 Jan. 1628 (with c.£6,000), Jane (d. 12 Mar. 1684), da. of Sir John Stanhope of Elvaston, Derbys., wid. of Sir Peter Courteen (d.1624) of Aldington, Worcs. 7s. (at least 1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.).C2/Chas.I/P63/28, f. 2; SP63/250/1586; Lodge, ii. 283-4. suc. fa. aft. 1619;C3/299/13. Kntd. 18 July 1616;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 158. cr. bt. 7 Aug. 1620,CPR Ire. Jas. I, 474a, 499a. Bar. Mountnorris [I] 8 Feb. 1629,CPR and CCR Ire. 1625-33, p. 440. Visct. Valentia [I] 26 May 1642.Annesley was awarded the title in reversion in March 1622, and succeeded to the viscountcy after the death of Sir Henry Power: C66/2253/8; J. Nichols, Progs. of Jas. I, iv. 657. bur. 23 Nov. 1660 23 Nov. 1660. sig. Fra[ncis] Annesley.
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Comptroller of Works [I] 1606–36; CPR Ire. Jas. I, 90b. clerk of the Tallies and Pells [I] 1612–25;Ibid. 230a; Harl. 2138, ff. 60–1; CPR and CCR Ire. 1625–33, p. 45; CSP Ire. 1625–32, p. 11. clerk of the cheque of the army [I] 1612–18;CPR Ire. Jas. I, 237a, 249b, 366b; R. Lascelles, Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae, i. (pt. 2), p. 99; CSP Ire. 1615–25, p. 193. principal sec. of state [I] (jt.) 1616–34;CPR Ire. Jas. I, 368b; Sentence of the Councell of Warre ... Against the Lord Mountnorris (1641), p. 12. PC [I] 1616–36;Carew Letters ed. J. Maclean (Cam. Soc. lxxvi), 69; Lismore Pprs. (ser. 1) ed. A.B. Grosart, iv. 155. member, Ct. of Castle Chamber [I] by 1620;HMC Egmont, i. 59. commr. inquiry [I] 1622–3;Cent. Kent. Stud. U269/1/Hi212; Add. 4756, f. 100. v.-treas. and recvr.-gen. [I] 1625–36;C66/2359/3; CPR and CCR Ire. 1625–33, p. 34. treas. at wars [I] 1632–6.Lascelles, i. (pt. 2), p. 45.

Clerk, council of Munster [I] 1607–11 (jt.);CPR Ire. Jas. I, 101a; Lascelles, i. (pt. 2), p. 187. provost-marshal, Connaught [I], 1609–?36;CPR Ire. Jas. I, 153b; CSP Ire. 1608–10, p. 252. patentee, escheated lands, co. Wexford 1610;CSP Carew 1603–24, p. 54. constable, Mountnorris, co. Armagh 1612–26;CPR Ire. Jas. I, 238b. muster-master gen. [I] 1612–18;Ibid. 237a, 249a, 366b; Lascelles, i. (pt. 2), p. 99. freeman, Newburgh, co. Wexford 1619;Lodge, ii. 276. commr. plantation, co. Longford 1619, Ulster [I] 1622,Ibid.; CSP Ire. 1615–25, p. 353. native Irish on undertakers’ lands, cos. Tyrone and Armagh 1623,CSP Ire. 1615–25, pp. 439, 483; APC, 1623–5, p. 145. musters, [I] 1625,Lascelles, i. (pt. 2), p. 99; CSP Ire. 1625–32, p. 50. Irish affairs 1627;Oxon. RO, E/6/1/1L/2; Act Book of Christ Church, 155. steward, Newport Pagnell, Bucks. 1627;F.W. Bull, Hist. Newport Pagnell, 54. commr. sale of French prizes, Leinster 1628,CSP Ire. Addenda 1625–60, p. 131; APC, 1627, p. 460. royal arrears [I] 1629,CSP Ire. Addenda 1625–60, p. 138. accts. of auditor-gen., [I] 1630;CSP Ire. 1625–32, pp. 566, 571–2. farmer (jt.), customs [I] 1632–6;C54/2992/31; H.F. Kearney, Strafford in Ire. 37, 163–4. member, council of Cork, co. Cork 1634;Council Bk. of Corp. of City of Cork, 1609–43, 1690–1800 ed. R. Caulfield, 165. commr. militia, Yorks. 1648.A. and O. i. 1141, 1245.

Esq. of the body by 1613.Bodl. Clarendon 2, ff. 19, 64v.

MP [I], 1613–15.CJ [I], i. 5, 11.

Capt. of ft. [I] ?1627–35.SO1/1, f. 54v; Sentence of the Councell of Warr, 14.

Member, Fishery Soc. 1632.SP16/221/1; 16/231/15.

Parlimentarian
ANNESLEY, Sir Francis (by 1584-1660), of Fishamble Street, Dublin; later of Thorganby, Yorks.
Main residences: Fishamble Street, Dublin, [I]; Thorganby, Yorks.
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Commons 1604-1629
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ANNESLEY, Sir Francis (by 1584-1660)

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