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Family and Education
b. c. 1602, 1st s. of Sir Henry Marten*.Infra, ‘Sir Henry Marten’; W.D. Macray, Reg. of Members of St Mary Magdalen Coll. Oxf. (Oxford, 1901), iii. 72, 79. educ. g.s. in Oxon.;Ath. Ox. iii. 1237. Univ. Coll. Oxf. 31 Oct. 1617, aged 15, BA 24 Jan. 1620;Al. Ox. I. Temple 9 Oct. 1620;I. Temple database. travelled abroad (France).Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 44; Ath. Ox. iii. 1238. m. (1) 25 Sept. 1627, Elizabeth (bur. 16 Apr. 1634), da. of Richard 1st Baron Lovelace of Hurley, Berks. 3da. (1 d.v.p.);Hurley par. reg.; Ashmole, Antiquities, ii. 477; C.M. Williams, ‘The Political Career of Henry Marten, with Special Reference to the Origins of Republicanism in the Long Parliament’ (Oxford Univ. DPhil. thesis, 1954), 482-4, 486; J.C. Cole, ‘Some notes on Henry Marten, the regicide, and his family’, Berks. Arch. Jnl. xlix. 34. (2) 11 Dec. 1634 (with at least £9,290), Margaret (bur. 6 Jan. 1681), da. of Francis West, grocer, of London, wid. of William Stanton, grocer, of London, 1s. 4da. (1 d.v.p.);St Bartholomew the Great, London par. reg.; Longworth par. reg.; PROB11/143, f. 25v; PROB11/148, f. 57v; Brotherton Lib. Marten Loder [ML] mss, box 40, item 72; box 58 (indenture 14 Mar. 1635); E. Gayton, Coll. Henry Marten’s Familiar Letters to his Lady of Delight (1662), 78; Cole, ‘Henry Marten’, 34, 41. (illeg.) by 1653, Mary Ward, da. of ?, 3da.HMC 5th Rep. 192; S. Barber, A Revolutionary Rogue: Henry Marten and the English Republic (Stroud, 2000), 45, 146-7; ‘Henry Marten’, Oxford DNB. suc. fa. 26 Sept. 1641;Infra, ‘Sir Henry Marten’. bur. 9 Sept. 1680 9 Sept. 1680.W. Coxe, An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire (1801), ii. 390.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Berks. 23 Feb. 1628 – 26 Oct. 1638, 3 Mar. 1640 – 10 June 1642, by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653, Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660;C231/4, f. 240; C231/5, pp. 312, 372, 527; C193/13/3; C193/13/4, f. 3v; A Perfect List (1660). Herefs. 5 Mar. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C231/6, p. 177; C193/13/4, f. 41v. Commr. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, Berks. 1633;LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/001, p. 22. charitable uses, 28 June 1634-aft. Aug. 1641;C192/1, unfol. sewers, Berks. and Oxon. 18 July 1634;C181/4, f. 179v. River Thames, Wilts. to Berks. 16 July 1635;C181/5, f. 21v. River Loddon, Berks. and Wilts. 18 May 1639;C181/5, f. 135v. River Kennet, Berks. and Hants 12 June 1654, 13 Oct. 1657;C181/6, pp. 44, 261. Berks. 7 Aug. 1657;C181/6, p. 255. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. perambulation, Windsor Forest, Berks. 10 Sept. 1641;C181/5, f. 211. assessment, Berks. 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Reading 24 Feb. 1643; Oxon., 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Herefs. 26 Jan. 1660;SR; A. and O. sequestration, Berks. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Reading 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Berks. 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Berks. 25 June 1644; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659;A. and O. Westminster militia, 7 June 1650;Severall Procs. in Parliament no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. June 1659–10 July 1660.C181/6, p. 374.

Central: commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642;SR. treaty payments to Scots, 22 June 1641.CJ ii. 182b; SR v. 123. Member, recess cttee., 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288b. cttee. for examinations, 17 Jan., 18 Feb. 1642.Supra, ‘Committee for Examinations’; CJ ii. 385a, 396a, 439b. Commr. for Irish affairs, 4 Apr. 1642.CJ ii. 536b; LJ v. 15b. Member, cttee. of safety, 4 July 1642;CJ ii. 651b; LJ v. 178b. cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 19 Oct. 1642, 9 Sept. 1647;CJ v. 297b; LJ v. 407b; ix. 430b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 31 Dec. 1642, 6 Jan. 1649, 4 July 1650;CJ ii. 909a; CJ vi. 112b, 437a. cttee. for advance of money, 15 Feb. 1643, 6 Jan. 1649.CJ ii. 965b; vi. 112a. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647;LJ vi. 55b; LJ viii. 411a; ix. 500a. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647.A. and O. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 9 Sept. 1647, 29 May 1649.CJ v. 297b; vi. 219b. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 109a, 113b. Derby House cttee. 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 113b. cttee. for excise, 10 Feb., 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 137b, 219b. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650, 25 Nov. 1651, 31 Dec. 1659.A. and O.; CJ vii. 43a, 800b. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Commr. for compounding, 27 Sept. 1649;CJ vi. 300a. removing obstructions, sale of forfeited estates, 16 July 1651.A. and O.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) 24 May 1642–?;Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 35, item 1110. col. by 6 Sept. 1642–?;SP28/2A, f. 135. col. of horse c.Apr. 1643-c.Aug. 1643.SP28/147, pt. 3, f. 546.

: of Beckett, Berks., Shrivenham.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, P. Lely, 1650s;NPG. ?oil on canvas, aft. R. Walker.Chepstow Museum, Chepstow, Mon.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MARTEN, Henry (c.1602-80), of Beckett, Shrivenham, Berks.

Will
attainted.
Estates
in 1627, the crown granted him manor of Hinton Waldrist, Berks.Coventry Docquets, 244; CSP Dom. 1627-8, p. 136. In 1628-32, he purchased property in Eaton Hastings, inc. manor for £4,000.Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 9 (indenture 12 May 1628); Coventry Docquets, 624; VCH Berks. iv. 530. In 1633, purchased lease of manor of Ashbury, Berks. for 27 years.C54/3759/19; Williams, ‘Political Career of Henry Marten’, 473. In 1634 and 1639, mortgaged or otherwise assigned all or part of manor of Eaton Hastings for £2,675 and £2,500.SP24/62, unfol. (petition of Marten to the Cttee. for Indemnity*); Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 11 (indenture 12 May 1634); box 22 (June 1651 estate valuation; list of statutes and judgements against Marten for debt); box 63 (indenture 16 Apr. 1639). In 1634-7, he and another gentleman purchased manors of Nether and Over Inglesham, rectory and advowson of Inglesham and property in Nether Inglesham and Over Inglesham, Berks. and Wilts.Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 3 (indentures 19 Sept., 28 Dec. 1637, 20 May 1638); box 10 (indenture 11 Apr. 1638); Coventry Docquets, 545, 655, 706, 728. In 1641, he inherited an estate that inc. manors of Barcote (Buckland), Beckett (Shrivenham), Canon Hill (Bray), Eaton Hastings, Hinton Waldrist, Longworth, Shrivenham Salop, Claycourt and Stalpits (Shrivenham); advowsons of Eaton Hastings, Hinton Waldrist and Longworth; a lease of rectory and advowson of Ashbury; and property in Anvilles (Kintbury), Berks; manor of South Leigh, Oxon.; manors of Nether and Over Inglesham and the rectory and advowson of Inglesham, Berks. and Wilts.; and a house on Aldersgate Street, London.C54/3759/19; PROB11/187, ff. 149v, 150; LJ viii. 467b; D’Ewes (C), 337; VCH Berks. iii. 107; iv. 457, 464, 466, 467, 470, 530, 533, 535, 538; The Life and Times of Anthony Wood ed. A. Clark (Oxf. Hist. Soc. xix), 253; Williams, ‘Political Career of Henry Marten’, 470-3; C.G. Durston, ‘Berks. and its County Gentry, 1625-49’ (Reading Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1977), ii. 106-7. In 1641, family estate worth betw. £3-4,000 p.a.Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 43; Williams, ‘Political Career of Henry Marten’, 10. Marten valued his estate in the early 1640s as ‘above £1,500’ p.a.Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 32 (1654 bill in chancery, Marten v. Hampson). By 1642, he was renting a house and garden in St Ann’s Street, Westminster.Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 40, item 19. In 1650, Parliament settled manor of Hartington, Derbys. and Leominster, Herefs. on him, worth approximately £1,000 p.a.CJ vi. 300a. In 1650-1, his estate (exclusive of Hartington and Leominster) valued at betw. £2,210 and £2,400 p.a.LR2/266, f. 1v; Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 6 (instructions for Edmonds and Wetton c.1650); box 22 (June 1651 estate valuation; list of statutes and judgements against Marten for debt). In 1652, purchased Derby House, Canon Row, Westminster.Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 4, item 156; box 78, items, 15, 51; Barber, Revolutionary Rogue, 37. In 1652-7, sold or mortgaged to John Wildman* manors of Beckett, Nether and Over Inglesham, Shrivenham Salop, Claycourt and Stalpits for at least £9,300.Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 9 (indenture 22 Dec. 1652); box 48 (indenture 13 Dec. 1652); Berks. RO, D/EZ7/59. In 1653, sold lease of rectory and advowson of Ashbury to Wildman for £1,700.Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 16 (Billingsley v. Poeton case ppr.). In 1660, estate inc. property in Broadwell, Coxwell, Eaton Hastings and Kelmscott, Oxon.; Barcote, Buckland, Faringdon, Hinton Waldrist, Inkpen, Kintbury, Lambourn and Longworth, Berks.; Over and Nether Inglesham, Berks. and Wilts.; and Highworth, Wilts., and was reckoned to be worth about £1,500 p.a.C5/56/41; Berks. RO, D/ELS/T2/5.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
lodgings over The George tavern, Canon Row, Westminster (1650);Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 4, items 130, 135. the ‘Hatchet and Tun’, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden (1651);Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 78, item 61. assigned lodgings in Palace of Whitehall (Aug. 1659).CSP Dom. 1659-60, p. 71.
Religion
presented Henry Beck to rectory of Eaton Hastings, Berks. 1646;LPL, COMM/1/133; LJ viii. 467b. John Peck to vicarage of West Shefford, Berks. 1650; Peter Dormer to rectory of Church Stretton, Salop, 1652; Robert Harpur to vicarage of Malmesbury, Wilts. 1652; Charles Hotham to rectory of Nunburnholme, Yorks. 1652;Add. 36792, ff. 14v, 37v, 44, 49. Richard Nixon to rectory of Ashbury, Berks. 1653.Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 16 (Billingsley v. Poeton case ppr.).
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