Family and Education
2nd s. of Richard Whalley (d. c.1632), of Kirkton Hall, Screveton, Notts. and 2nd w. Frances, da. of Sir Henry Cromwell of Hinchingbrooke, Hunts.Vis. Notts. (Harl. Soc. iv), 118; Vis. Notts. (Harl. Soc. n.s. v), 5. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 2 July 1614, BA 1617-18;Al. Cant. appr. Merchant Taylors’ Co. 1 Dec. 1619.GL, MS 4038/8, p. 224. m. (1) 7 Feb. 1627, Judith, da. of John Duffell of Rochester, Kent, 1s. 3da.;Mar. Regs. of St Dunstan’s, Stepney ed. T.C. Ferguson (Canterbury, 1898), i. 166; Vis. Notts. (Harl. Soc. iv), 118. (2) by 1640, Katherine, da. of Richard Middleton of Rainham, Essex, 2s.PROB11/247, f. 399v; WCA, STM/F/1/367, p. 11. Whalley’s two sons by his second wife were army officers by 1657: G. Jaggar, ‘The Fortunes of the Whalley Fam. of Screveton, Notts.’ (Southampton Univ. MPhil. thesis, 1973), 205. d. c. 1675.‘Letters and pprs. relating to the regicides’ (Collns. of the Mass. Hist. Soc. ser. 4, viii), 155-6.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Merchant Taylors’ Co. 12 Feb. 1627–?GL, Ms 34017/3, p. 402. Freeman, Lincoln 7 July 1656–?Lincs. RO, L1/1/1/6, f. 57v.

Military: cornet of horse (parlian.) by Sept. 1642–18 Feb. 1643;SP28/267, f. 96; The List of the Army Raised under...Robert Earle of Essex (1642), sig. C3 (E.117.3). capt. 18 Feb. – 15 May 1643; maj. 15 May – 7 Oct. 1643; lt.-col. 7 Oct. 1643–2 Apr. 1645;SP28/267, ff. 96, 101. col. 2 Apr. 1645-June 1659;SP28/267, f. 96; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2016), ii. 113. commry.-gen. Oct. 1650-c.Feb. 1658;CSP Dom. 1650, p. 400. lt.-gen. c.Feb. 1658-c.Apr. 1659.Clarke Pprs. iii. 141; [A. Annesley*], England’s Confusion (1659), 9 (E.985.1). Maj.-gen. Derbys., Leics., Lincs., Notts. and Warws. 9 Aug. 1655-c.Feb. 1657.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 275.

Local: commr. sequestration, Cambs. and I. of Ely 2 May 1643.A. and O. J.p. Notts. 4 Mar. 1652-Mar. 1660;C231/6, pp. 230, 328. Mdx. 25 Jan. 1653-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 252. Westminster 18 Mar. 1653-Oct. 1660;C231/6, p. 255. Lincs. (Holland, Kesteven, Lindsey) 3 Mar. 1656-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 327. Derbys. 11 Mar. 1656-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 329. Leics., Warws. 20 Mar. 1656-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 329. Cambs., Norf. by c.Sept. 1656-Mar. 1660;C193/13/6. I. of Ely 12 Mar. 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 362. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Derbys., Notts., Mdx. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. Leics., Lincs., Warws. 24 Oct. 1657;SP25/78, p. 237. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 10 Jan. 1655–17 Aug. 1660;C181/6, pp. 68, 319. Hatfield Chase Level 27 Jan. 1657;C181/6, p. 197. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 10 Nov. 1655–5 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 129, 327. Midland circ. 12 Feb. 1656–22 June 1659.C181/6, pp. 148, 310. Custos. rot. Notts. by c.Sept. 1656-Mar. 1660.C193/13/6, f. 68. Gov. Wyggeston’s Hosp. Leicester 7 Feb. 1657–?CJ vii. 487a. Commr. gaol delivery, Ely 12 Mar. 1657, 24 Mar. 1658;C181/6, pp. 223, 284. assessment, Cambs., I. of Ely, Glos., Gloucester, Leics., Mdx., Notts., Nottingham, Norf., Westminster 9 June 1657; militia, Westminster 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649, 21 Nov. 1653; indemnity, 18 June 1649; relief on articles of war, 29 Sept. 1652.A. and O.

Scottish: assessment, Haddingtonshire 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.

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Commons 1640-1660
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WHALLEY, Edward (d. c.1675), of King Street, Westminster.

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Estates
fa.’s estate worth £1,600 p.a. bef. numerous land sales.Notts. RO, DD/P/8/122. In 1632, Whalley purchased, for £340, a ten year lease of a capital messuage and other property in Chadwell, Orsett and Little Thurrock, Essex.Essex RO, T/B 388/1; D/DRU T1/229. In 1648, Parliament granted him sequestered manor of Flawborough, Notts. worth £410 p.a. for £3,456 in arrears of army pay, and a further £1,000.CJ v. 454b, 484a; LJ x. 133. By Aug.1650, renting a house on King Street, Westminster, from Sir Roger Palmer*, with adjoining orchard.E317/Middx/48; Add. 70007, f. 106; Survey of London, xiii. pt. 2, pp. 230, 233. In 1650, purchased dean and chapter lands, Notts. for £547.C54/3570/19. In 1652, purchased from the treason trustees manor of Sibthorpe (worth £600 p.a.), for £4,183, and Welbeck Abbey, Notts. and manor of Tormarton, Glos.C54/3698/4; Notts. RO, DD/P/6/1/18/22; DD/P/8/122; CCC 1735, 1736. In the early 1650s, purchased the queen’s former properties of Terrington and West Walton, Norf.CJ viii. 73; G. Jaggar, ‘Col. Edward Whalley: his regimental officers and crown land, 1650 to the Restoration’, Norf. Archaeology, xxxvi. 157. In 1653, purchased fenland in Cambs. and Norf. for £2,280.C54/3764/41; F. Wilmoth, E. Stazicker, Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fens 1658 (Cambridge, 2016), 116. In 1654, he and William Wheler* purchased a capital messuage in Eagle, Lincs. for £800.C54/3825/30. In 1659, his estate was reckoned to be worth £2,000 p.a.C6/17/130.
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