LOVE, Nicholas (1608-82), of Winchester and London.

Family and Education

bap. 26 Oct. 1608, 1st s. of Dr Nicholas Love of Winchester and Froxfield, Hants, and Dowsabel, da. of Barnabas Colnette or Colenutt of I.o.W.Berry, Pedigrees of Hants, 266-7. educ. Wadham, Oxf. 3 Nov. 1626, MA 31 Aug. 1636;Al. Ox. L. Inn, 12 Nov. 1627, called 4 Feb. 1636.LI Admiss. i. 204; LI Black Bks. ii. 338. m. 6 Oct. 1655, Elizabeth, da. of John Buggs of Lambeth, s.p.Westminster Abbey Regs. 2. suc. fa. 10 Sept. 1630.Kirby, Winchester Scholars, 2. d. 5 Nov. 1682.MI, St Martin, Vevey, Switzerland.

Offices Held

Local: member, cttee. for Hants, 23 July 1642.LJ v. 233b-234a; CJ ii. 686b. Commr. assessment, 24 Feb. 1643, 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; Surr. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652,A. and O. 24 Nov. 1653;Act for an Assessment (1653), 296 (E.1062.28). Westminster 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660; Mdx. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; sequestration, Hants 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Hants 7 May 1643, 10 June 1645; defence of Hants and southern cos. 4 Nov. 1643; commr. for Hants, assoc. of Hants, Surr., Suss. and Kent, 15 June 1644.A. and O. J.p. Surr. 27 Mar. 1646-bef. Oct. 1653;C231/6, p. 41; C193/13/4, f. 97v. Mdx. 3 Apr. 1649-bef. Oct. 1653;C231/6, p. 148; C193/13/4, f. 61v. Hants by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/3, f. 57; A Perfect List (1660), 49. Commr. oyer and terminer, Jan. 1648;CJ v. 429a. Western circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 9, 378. Westminster militia, 15 Jan. 1648, 19 Mar. 1649, 7 June 1650, 28 June 1659.CJ v. 433a; LJ ix. 663a; A. and O.; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). Member, cttee. for safety of Hants, June 1648.A Declaration of the Committee for Southampton (1648, 669.f.12.50). Commr. militia, Hants 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 31 Jan. 1654;C181/6, p. 6. gaol delivery, Winchester 28 Nov. 1655;C181/6, p. 132. ejecting scandalous ministers, Hants 3 June 1658.CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 42. Warden, preservation of timber, New Forest 15 Aug. 1659.CJ vii. 759b.

Legal: clerk in chancery, 30 Jan. 1644–1654.T.D. Hardy, A Catalogue of the Lords Chancellors (1843), 108; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 343. Associate bencher, L. Inn, 26 Nov. 1644; bencher, 18 Nov. 1648.LI Black Bks. ii. 365, 379.

Civic: freeman, Winchester, Nov. 1645.Hants RO, W/B1/4, f. 156v; W/K5/8, p. 12. Recorder and steward, Basingstoke bef. July 1647.Baigent, Millard, Hist. Basingstoke, 492.

Religious: elder, third Hants classis, 29 Dec. 1645.King, Bor. and Par. Lymington, 262.

Central: commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 27 Dec. 1647, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ v. 407a; vi. 112b. cttee. for the revenue, 18 Dec. 1648. Commr. for compounding, 18 Dec. 1648.CJ vi. 99a; LJ x. 632b. Member, cttee. for sequestrations, 23 Dec. 1648.CJ vi. 103b; LJ x. 636a. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 6 Jan., 29 May 1649;CJ vi. 112b, 219b. cttee. for the army, 6 Jan., 17 Apr. 1649, 7 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652;CJ vi. 113b; A. and O. Derby House cttee. 6 Jan.1649; cttee for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649; cttee. for indemnity, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112a, 113b. cttee. regulating universities, 4 May 1649;CJ vi. 201a. cttee. for excise, 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 219b. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649; removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 23 Feb. 1651, 24 Nov., 24 Nov. 1652, 31 Dec. 1659.A. and O; CJ vi. 532b-33a; vii. 42a, 220a, 800b. Member, cttee. for excise, 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 219b.

: of Winchester and London.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, unknown.Winchester Coll. Winchester.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LOVE, Nicholas (1608-82), of Winchester and London.

Will

attainted.LR2/266, f. 1v.

Estates

from 1644 held one of the clerkships in chancery, supposedly worth £2,000 p.a.C. Walker, History of Independency (1648), 168 (E.463.19-21). Assessed at £200, May 1644;CCAM 386. owned a ‘great house’ called Trumpings Inn, Holy Trinity, London, by May 1648.Winchester Cathedral Muniments, 27389. Purchased from trustees for the sale of bishops’ lands Itchingswell Manor, Hants, for £1,756, 28 Sept. 1648;Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 18. and Milland Manor, for £2,949, 1 Aug. 1649.Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 33. Obtained lease of Tarthall, Mdx, bef. Oct. 1652.CCC 2463, 2479. Purchased Mythe Hook manor, Glos., part of Lord Craven’s estate, 5 Mar. 1653.CCC 1625. Acquired Crowndall or Crundall manor, Hants, from the trustees for the sale of dean and chapter lands; this was granted to Colonel Francis Windham, Sept. 1660.Add. 37934, f. 1; CSP Dom. 1660-1, pp. 340-1; 1675, p. 159. Possessed advowson of Bletchingly, Surr., bef. Oct. 1660;CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 330. lease of Longwood Warren, former bpric. of Winchester land, bef. Oct. 1660.CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 341. Estate valued at £846 p.a. 1660.LR2/266, f. 1v.

Oxford 1644

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