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Family and Education
b. 11 Dec. 1593, 1st s. of Sir William Armyne† and 1st w. Martha (d. 11 Mar. 1602), da. of William, 2nd Lord Eure of Ingleby, Yorks.Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. l), 40-1. educ. Oakham g.s., Rutland (James Wadeson) bef. 1608;J. T. Cliffe, The Puritan Gentry, 80. Sidney Sussex, Camb. 13 Mar. 1610.Al. Cant. m. (1) 14 Dec. 1619 (with £2,000), Elizabeth (bur. 27 Sept. 1626), da. of Sir Michael Hicks† of Austin Friars, London, and Ruckholt, Low Leyton, Essex, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.;Lincs. Peds. 41; A.G.R. Smith, Servant of the Cecils (1978), 176. (2) 28 Aug. 1628, Mary (d. 6 Mar. 1675), da. and coh. of Hon. Henry Talbot† of Orton Longueville, wid. of Sir Thomas Holcroft† of Vale Royal, Cheshire, 1s.Add. 6675, f. 14; Lincs. Peds. 41. cr. bt. 28 Nov. 1619.CB. suc. fa. 22 Jan. 1622.C142/394/73. Cliffe, Puritan Gentry, 80. Al. Cant. Lincs. Peds. 41; Smith, Servant of the Cecils, 176. d. c. 10 Apr. 1651.Lincs. Peds. 41.
Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 20 Nov. 1619–d.;C181/2, f. 353v; C181/3, ff. 168v, 228v; C181/4, ff. 39v, 154v; C181/5, ff. 149, 223; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/7. Holland 11 Apr. 1626;C181/3, f. 198v. Deeping and Gt. Level 26 Nov. 1629 – 30 Mar. 1638, 7 July 1640–d.C181/4, ff. 29v, 181, 269; C181/5, ff. 9v, 269. J.p. Lincs. (Kesteven), 12 Feb. 1622–28 Oct. 1626, 19 Dec. 1628-aft. 1636, c.June 1638–d.;C231/4, ff. 134v, 210v, 261v, 298. Northumb. 20 Jan. 1645–d.;C231/6, p. 8. Cumb., Hunts., Lincs. (Holland, Lindsey), Surr. by Feb. 1650–d.C193/13/3. Commr. navigation of River Welland, Lincs., Rutland and Northants. 19 Sept. 1623.C181/3, f. 99. Dep. lt. Lincs. 2 Apr. 1624–d.;C231/4, f. 163v; Lincs. RO, 3ANC/8/1/9a; YARB/8/2/3. Rutland 5 July 1642–?CJ ii. 652b; LJ v. 183. Commr. swans, Northants., Lincs., Rutland and Notts. 28 May 1625;C181/3, f. 165. England except south-western cos. c.1629;C181/3, f. 268v. Lincs. 26 June 1635.C181/5, f. 14. Collector (jt.), privy seal loan, 1626.E401/2586, p. 158; APC 1626, p. 168. Commr. Forced Loan, 1626–7.CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 81. Sheriff, 10 Nov. 1629 – 7 Nov. 1630; Hunts. 10 Nov. 1639–40.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 66, 80; Coventry Docquets, 362, 363, 369. Commr. charitable uses, Lincs. 29 July 1636, 10 Jan. 1642,C192/1, unfol. 14 May 1650;C93/20/19. Rutland 15 May 1637;C192/1. Stamford g.s. 10 July 1639;C93/17/14. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. 25 June 1641-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/5, ff. 199v, 218. Lincs. 26 Apr. 1645;C181/5, f. 251v. subsidy, Hunts., Kesteven 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, Hunts. 1642, 21 Feb. 1645, 28 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Kesteven 1642, 28 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Lindsey, 24 Feb. 1643, 28 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Lincs. 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Cumb., Mdx., Surr., Westminster 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650.SR; A. and O. Member, co. cttee. Lincs. 24 May 1642–?;CJ ii. 585b; LJ v. 82b. cttee. at Hull 24 May 1642.CJ ii. 577b; LJ v. 82b. Commr. for associating midland cos. 15 Dec. 1642; sequestration, Lindsey 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Kesteven 7 May 1643; Lincs. 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643; New Model ordinance, Lincs. 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O. Member, cttee. to command Northern Assoc. army, 12 May 1645.CJ iv. 138b; LJ vii. 367b. Commr. Northern Assoc. Lincs. 5 July 1645;CJ iv. 196b; LJ vii. 479a. Lincs. militia, 3 July 1648;LJ x. 359a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. Westminster militia, 7 June 1650.Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). Custos rot. Holland, Kesteven and Lindsey 19 Jan. 1651–d.C231/6, p. 204.

Civic: freeman, Boston 15 Feb. 1621–d.;Boston Corporation Minutes ed. J.F. Bailey, ii. 322. ?Grantham bef. 1626 – d.; Newcastle-upon-Tyne 14 Apr. 1645–d.;Extracts from the Newcastle upon Tyne Council Minute Bk. 1639–56 ed. M.H. Dodds (Publications of the Newcastle upon Tyne Recs. Cttee. i), 39. Berwick-upon-Tweed 2 Sept. 1645–d.Berwick RO, B1/10, Berwick Guild Bk., f. 28v.

Central: commr. to attend king in Scotland, 20 Aug. 1641;CJ ii. 265b. to treat with Scots commrs. 3 Dec. 1641.CJ ii. 331a; LJ iv. 461a. Member, cttee. for Irish affairs, 3 Sept. 1642, 23 Jan. 1643;CJ ii. 750b, 940a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 31 Dec. 1642.CJ ii. 909a. Commr. treaty with king at Oxf. 28 Feb. 1643;CJ ii. 985a. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647;LJ vi. 55b; viii. 411a; ix. 500a. to Scottish Parliament, 19 July 1643,A. and O. 3 Jan. 1645.CJ iv. 9b; LJ vii. 123b. Member, cttee. of both kingdoms, 16 Feb., 23 May 1644. Commr. treaty with Scots, 28 July 1645.A. and O. Member, cttee. for the revenue by Dec. 1645.Belvoir, PZ.1, f. 43. Commr. to reside with armies at Newark, 5 Dec. 1645;CJ iv. 366b. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O. Member, Derby House cttee. of Irish affairs, Nov. 1646;CJ iv. 690b; CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 725. Derby House cttee. 15 Jan. 1648.CJ v. 416a; LJ ix. 662b. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650, 13 Feb. 1651.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 4 May 1649. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 4 May 1649.CJ vi. 201a. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O.

: 1st bt. (1593-1651), of Osgodby, Lenton, Lincs. 1593 – 1651 and Hunts., Orton Longueville.
Likenesses

Likenesses: wash drawing, unknown.Ashmolean Museum, Oxf.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ARMYNE, Sir William, 1st bt. (1593-1651), of Osgodby, Lenton, Lincs., and Orton Longueville, Hunts.

Will
admon. 10 Dec. 1651.PROB6/26, f. 186.
Estates
in 1622, inherited substantial estate in Lincs.C142/394/73. Acquired manor of Orton Longueville, Hunts. through his second wife.VCH Hunts. iii. 192. In 1629, he and Sir Thomas Grantham† acquired lease of benefice and prebend of North Kelsey, Lincs., with tithes and ‘mansion house’, at a rent of £20 p.a.Lincs. RO, Bij/2/6, ff. 147-150v. Betw. 1632 and 1642, purchased lands in and around Orton Longueville.Eg. 3660D, ff. 30-4. His estate in 1641 inc. manor of Cromford, Derbys., lands in Ardsley, Carhouse, Darfield, Doncaster, Walden Stubbs and Wheatley and rectories of Rothwell and Cantley, Yorks.Eg. 3541, ff. 43-9; Eg. 3660D, f. 34. In July 1643, he was granted sequestered house of Sir John Bankes† in St Martin’s Lane, St Martin-in-the Fields, worth £40 p.a. plus household goods valued at £164; he leased this and other property on St Martin’s Lane from earl of Salisbury in 1649, paying £75 p.a. rent.CJ iii. 173a; PROB11/197, f. 89v; Bodl. Nalson XIV, f. 215; Hatfield House, Cecil mss, Accts. 162/1, lease bk. 1636-50, ff. 157r, 157v. At his d. estate inc. manor of Brushfield, Derbys.; manor and advowson of Orton Longueville and lands in the same and in Botolphbridge, Hunts.; manor of Osgodby and lands in and advowsons of Lenton, Pickworth and Silk Willoughby, Lincs.; lands in Monk Bretton, Yorks.; and houses in St Martin’s Lane, Osgodby and Orton Longueville.Eg. 3541, ff. 50-7; Eg. roll 8799. Personal estate valued at £4,495, and he was owed £2,238.Eg. roll 8799. Armyne estate valued at £4,000 p.a. aft. the Restoration.‘Lincs. fams. temp. Charles II’ ed. C. H., Her. and Gen. ii. 120.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
St Martin’s Lane, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx. (from July 1643).CJ iii. 173a; Bodl. Nalson XIV, f. 215.
Religion
presented John Weld to rectory of Pickworth, Lincs., 1624; Michael Drake, 1647; Matthew Lawrence to rectory of Silk Willoughby, Lincs., 1626; Lawrence Sarson, 1648; Eusebius Hunte to rectory of Orton Longueville, Hunts., 1637; Seth Wood to vicarage of Lenton, Lincs., 1639;IND1/17002, ff. 109v, 113, 113v, 125; Lincs. RO, DIOC/PD/1624/64; DIOC/PD/1626/66; DIOC/PD/1637/3. William Fawne to rectory of Huntspill, Som., 1650.Add. 36792, f. 20.
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