SALWEY, Richard (1615-85), of Stanford-on-Teme, Worcs., London, Wychwood Forest, Oxon. and Richard’s Castle, Salop.

Family and Education

bap. 22 Oct. 1615, 4th s. of Humphrey Salwey*.Stanford-on-Teme par. reg.; Vis. Worcs. 1634 (Harl. Soc. xc), 85. educ. appr. Grocers Co. 12 Sept. 1632;LMA, MS 11593/1 f. 30v. I Temple 22 Feb. 1650.CITR ii. 292. m. aft. 20 Sept. 1641 Anne (bur. 8 June 1688), da. of Richard Wareing of All Hallows, Lombard St., London, 4s.London Mar. Lics. 1180; Richard’s Castle par. reg.; HMC 10th Rep. IV, 411-5; PROB11/391 f. 185. d. Dec. 1685.PROB11/391 f. 185.

Offices Held

Local: member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 4 Sept. 1642.Ancient Vellum Bk. 55. Commr. for Worcester, 23 Sept. 1644; assessment, Worcs. 18 Oct. 1644; Westmld. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; London militia, 2 Sept. 1647, 17 Jan. 1649, 7 July 1659; militia, Westmld. 2 Dec. 1648; Cambs., Glos,. Herefs., Oxon., Salop, Worcs., Bristol 26 July 1659; sequestration, Surr. 18 Oct. 1648.A. and O. J.p. Oxon., Salop, Worcs. Sept./Oct. 1653-bef. Mar. 1660.C231/6 pp. 268, 271. Commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. June 1659–10 July 1660.C181/6, p. 374.

Military: maj. of horse (parlian.), regt. of Richard Turner, London 1643.SP28/132, pt.1, f. 2; CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 336.

Central: commr. ct. martial, 16 Aug. 1644. Member, cttee. to register royalists in London, 13 Nov. 1645; cttee. for foreign plantations, 21 Mar. 1646. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648;A. and O. to earl of Ormond in Ireland, 23 Oct. 1646;CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 741. for compounding, 8 Feb. 1647.A. and O. Member, Derby House cttee. of Irish affairs, 20 Feb., 7 Apr. 1647;CJ v. 91b, 135b; LJ ix. 127b. Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 20 Feb. 1647;CJ v. 91b. cttee. for indemnity, 20 Dec. 1647;CJ v. 388a, 390b; LJ ix. 599a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 27 Dec. 1647;CJ v. 407a. cttee. of navy and customs, 13 Dec. 1648, 29 May 1649;CJ vi. 96a, 219b. cttee. for sequestrations, 18 Dec. 1648.CJ vi. 99a; LJ x. 632b. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649;A. and O. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 29 May 1649. Member, cttee. for excise, 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 219b. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649. Commr. regulating trade, 1 Aug. 1650.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 19 Sept. 1650.CJ vi. 469b. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1651, 9 July 1653, 19 May 1659.A. and O.; CJ vii. 283a. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of forfeited estates, 16 July 1651; to Scotland, 23 Oct. 1651.CJ vii. 30b. Member, cttee. for the army, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652.A. and O. Commr. admlty. and navy, 10 Dec. 1652, 28 July 1653, 31 May 1659.CJ vii. 225b, 228a; A. and O. Member, cttee. of safety, 7 May, 26 Oct. 1659.CJ vii. 646a; A True Narrative of the Procs. in Parl. (1659), 41 (E.1010.24). Commr. management of revenue, 20 June 1659.CJ vii. 690a..

Civic: freeman, London 1649;LMA, COL/CA/01/01/063/461/b. common councilman, Bridge Ward Within 1649.BDBR iii. 139–40.

: of Stanford-on-Teme, Worcs., Wychwood Forest, Oxon., London and Salop., Richard’s Castle.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, G. Soest.Whereabouts unknown; Clapham Soc. website.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SALWEY, Richard (1615-85), of Stanford-on-Teme, Worcs., London, Wychwood Forest, Oxon. and Richard’s Castle, Salop.

Will

9 Dec. 1685, pr. 12 May 1688.PROB11/ 391, f. 85.

Estates

invested £1,000 in Irish lands, 20 Apr., 2 July 1642; sold his interest without receiving lands, 19 Apr. 1658.CSP Ire. Adv. p. 341. Co-purchaser of Whitborne manor, Herefs., property of bp. of Hereford, 1 Mar. 1648, for £1,348 10s 10d.;Bodl. Rawl. B.236, p. 9. bought manor of Catteris, Cambs., property of bishop of Ely, 22 Feb. 1650, for £149 17s;Bodl. Rawl. B.236, p. 44. lands of £300 settled on him by Parliament, 9 July 1652;CJ vii. 152b. bought manor of Crowle, Worcs., confiscated of dean and chapter of Worcester, May 1653, surrendered 1660;CSP Dom. 1652-3, p. 336. Shelsey lordship, Worcs., 25 July 1653 from Treason Trustees;CCC 2082. Wychwood Forest, Oxon. by Nov. 1656;CSP Dom. 1656-7, p. 151. leased manor of Richard’s Castle, Herefs. and Salop, from bp. of Worcester by 1662.Worcs. Archives, b009:1/BA 2636/40/3/43814.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

St Leonard Eastcheap, London, Sept. 1641;London Mar. Lics. 1180. Wychwood Forest, Oxon. by Nov. 1651;CCC 506; HMC 10th Rep. IV, 411. ‘near Daventry’, Nov. 1663.CSP Dom. 1663-4, p. 325.

Religion

Recommended Garnons Dauncer to Burgfield rectory, Berks. 14 Jan. 1650;Add. 36792, f. 4. John Whittington to Notgrove rectory, Glos. 20 Aug. 1650;Add. 36792, f. 15. presented Jonathan Jenner to Bishops’ Castle, Salop, 21 June 1658.CJ vii. 733b.

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