SPELMAN, Sir Henry (c.1564-1641), of the Barbican, London and Congham, Norf.

Family and Education

b. c.1564, In 1591 he gave his age as 27. E133/7/1008. 1st s. of Henry Spelman of Congham, and Frances (d. 15 Oct. 1622), da. of William Saunders† of Ewell, Surr. Vis. Norf. (Norf. Arch.), i. 253. educ. Walsingham ?g.s.; H. Spelman, Hist. and Fate of Sacrilege (1698), p. 259. Trin. Coll. Camb. 1580, F. Blomefield, Essay Towards a Top. Hist. of Co. of Norf. vi. 152 n. 4. BA Trin. Hall, Camb. 1583; Al. Cant. Furnival’s Inn c. 1584; L. Inn 1586. LI Admiss.; H. Spelman, ‘Authoris de se est opere suo, Præfatio’, in Archaeologus (1626), unpag m. 28 Apr. 1590, Norf. Par. Regs. ed. T.M. Blagg and M.A. Farrow, xii. 52. Eleanor (d. 24 July 1620), Regs. Westminster Abbey ed. J.L. Chester, 116. da. and coh. of John L’Estrange of Sedgeford, Norf., Vis. Norf. (Norf. Arch.), i. 256. 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 5da. (1 d.v.p.) Blomfield, viii. 387; Soc. Gen. transcript, Hunstanton Par. Reg. Norf. (extracts), 1, 10. suc. fa. 7 Oct. 1581; Blomfield, viii. 387. Kntd. 14 Mar. 1604. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 130. d. 1 Oct. 1641. Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men ed. H. Ellis (Cam. Soc. xxiii), 170-1. sig. Henry Spelman.

Offices Held

Member, Soc. Antiq. c.1586-c.1608. H. Spelman, ‘Original of the Four Terms of the Year’, in Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ (1698) ed. E. Gibson, 69–70.

J.p. Norf. 1598–d.; C231/1, f. 60; C66/2859, m. 24d. commr. sewers, Oxon. and Cambs. 1601-at least 1604, C181/1, ff. 14, 78. fens 1605–35, Ibid. f. 112; C181/2, ff. 62, 83, 282, 320, 326; C181/5, f. 10. Norf. and Suff. 1611, C181/2, f. 263. Norf. 1626-at least 1629; C181/3, ff. 189, 250; Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry 1625–40 ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv-vii), 78. dep. v.-adm. Norf. by 1602 – at least04; commr. piracy, Norf. 1602–4; C181/1, ff. 21, 76v. sheriff, Norf. 1604–6; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 88. commr. subsidy, Norf. 1602, 1624, 1626, Pprs. of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey iv. 1596–1602 ed. V. Morgan, J. Key and B. Taylor (Norf. Rec. Soc. lxiv) 223; C212/22/23; Official Pprs. of Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Norf. as JP 1580–1620 ed. H.W. Saunders (Cam. Soc. ser. 3 xxvi), 84. illegal export of wool and leather, Norf. 1608, Official Pprs. 163–4. aid 1609, SP14/43/107. swans 1614, 1619, C181/2, ff. 212, 342. sea breaches, Norf. and Suff. 1616, C181/2, f. 263v. Forced Loan, Norf. 1626–7, Norf. State Pprs. ed. W. Rye, 48; C192/12/2, f. 41. recusants, Northern parts 1628, CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 205. money forfeited to Crown for non-payment of reserved rent, S. Wales 1635. Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry, 306.

Member, Council for New Eng. by 1622-at least 1635, CSP Col. 1574–1660, pp. 31, 204–5. Guiana Co. 1627 – at least34, treas. 1627-at least 1634. English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon ed. J. Lorimer (Hakluyt Soc. ser. 2 clxxi), 292, 299, 388–9.

Sub-commr. exacted fees 1623 – c.25, commr. 1627-c.1640, Bodl., Tanner 101, no. 67; CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 232; 1629–31, p. 236; E215/173A; G.E. Aylmer, ‘Charles I’s Commission on Fees, 1627–40’, BIHR, xxxi. 58–67. conduct of Sir Robert Naunton* as master of the Ct. of Wards 1635. Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry, 42.

Parlimentarian

SPELMAN, Sir Henry (c.1564-1641), of the Barbican, London and Congham, Norf.

Main residences: the Barbican, London; Congham, Norf.

Author

B.C.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

SPELMAN, Sir Henry (c.1564-1641)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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