SANDERS, Thomas (1610-95), of Little Ireton, Mugginton, Derbys.

Family and Education

bap. 19 Aug. 1610, 1st s. of Collingwood Sanders of Caldwell, Stapenhill, Derbys. and Elizabeth, da. of Edmund Sleigh of Little Ireton.All Saints, Derby par. reg.; Vis. Derbys. (Harl. Soc. n.s. viii), 1. educ. Derby sch. c.1620;Derby Sch. Reg. 1570-1901 ed. B. Tacchella, 2. Repton sch.;Repton Sch. Reg. 1557-1910 ed. M. Messiter, 3. I. Temple 12 July 1633.I. Temple database. m. (settlement 20 Oct. 1640, with £1,000) Elizabeth, da. of Henry Goring of Booth, Staffs. 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, nos. 2020, 2275; J.L. Hobbs, ‘The Sanders fam. and the descent of the manors of Caldwell, Coton-in-the-Elms and Little Ireton’, Jnl. of the Derbys. Arch. and Natural Hist. Soc. lxviii. 13, 17. suc. fa. 6 May 1653;Vis. Derbys. 1. bur. 15 Aug. 1695 15 Aug. 1695.Mugginton par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: commr. assessment, Derbys. 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 26 May 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Staffs. 26 Jan. 1660.SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance ... for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Member, Derbys. co. cttee. 16 Oct. 1643–?;CJ iii. 276a; LJ vi. 256b. cttee. for sequestrations, 7 May 1644–?CJ iii. 482b; LJ vi. 543a. Commr. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645;A. and O. charitable uses, 30 July 1647, 19 Dec. 1650.C93/19/29; C93/21/2. J.p. 14 Aug. 1647-bef. Oct. 1660;C231/6, p. 95. Staffs. 30 Sept. 1653-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 269. Commr. militia, Derbys. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Staffs. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Barmaster, Derbys. 4 Oct. 1649.CJ vi. 303a. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Derbys. and Notts., Staffs. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, Derbys. by Nov. 1655;TSP iv. 241. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35).

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), Nov. 1642-May 1643;E121/4/6/8; Derbys. RO, D1232/O/28; England’s Memorable Accidents (14–21 Nov. 1642), 83 (E.242.19); Glover, Derbys. i. app. pp. 58, 60. maj. c.July 1643-c.Aug. 1648;Glover, Derbys. i. app. p. 71; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 282. col. c. Aug. 1648 – Dec. 1654, 29 Apr.-c.20 Oct. 1659, Jan.-June 1660.The Declaration of the Officers of the Army Opened (1659), 29 (E.1010.16); Clarke Pprs. iii. 12, 195; CJ vii. 815a, 836b, 839a; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 229–30, 285. Lt.-col. of ft. May-July 1643.E121/5/1/8; Certaine Informations no. 27 (17–24 July 1643), 212 (E.61.19); Glover, Derbys. i. app. p. 60.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 3 Feb. 1649, 26 Mar. 1650.A List of the Names of the Judges of the High Court of Justice (1649, 669 f.13.83); A. and O.

: of Little Ireton, Mugginton, Derbys.

Likenesses

Likenesses: line engraving, D. Loggan aft. B. Flessiers, 1658-92.BM.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SANDERS, Thomas (1610-95), of Little Ireton, Mugginton, Derbys.

Will

23 Jan. 1691, pr. 17 Apr. 1696.Staffs. RO, B/C/11.

Estates

in the early 1630s, Sanders’s fa. paid £12 10s for distraint of knighthood.E407/35, f. 33. In 1640, Sanders purchased a mansion house in Windley and lands in Osmaston, Sutton and Thurvaston, Derbys.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, no. 2542. In 1640, his fa. settled manors of Caldwell and Little Ireton on him and his wife.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, nos. 2020, 2275. During the 1650s, Sanders and a group of fellow army officers purchased (with indentures) from the treason trustees or trustees for the sale of crown lands, honour, manor and castle of Kenilworth and adjoining lands and mills, Warws. and Castle Hay Park, Tutbury, Staffs.E113/11, unfol.; E121/4/6/8. In 1659, Sanders’s estate at Caldwell was valued at £212 16s p.a. and his personal estate at £227 12s.Derbys. RO, D1232/O/97-100. During the 1660s, his estate inc. manor of Caldwell, manor and capital messuage of Little Ireton and lands in Caldwell, Coton-in-the-Elms, Gresley, Linton, Little Ireton, Lullington, Mercaston, Mugginton, Stapenhill and Weston Underwood and a messuage in the parish of All Saints, Derby, Derbys.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, nos. 2030, 2057, 2337, 2382, 2505, 2547. In 1664, his house at Little Ireton was taxed at 9 hearths.Derbys. Hearth Tax Assessments 1662-70 ed. D. G. Edwards (Derbys. Rec. Soc. vii), 9.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

the Inner Temple, London (1640);Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, no. 2542. house of Sanders’ uncle, Henry Sanders, in Cheapside, London (1645-6);Derbys. RO, D1232/O/34, 65, 71. the Mews, London (1650);Original Letters ed. Nickolls, 22. Mrs Grimsel’s house, at the sign of the Sugar Loaf, King Street, near St Margaret’s church, Westminster (1659-60).Derbys. RO, D1232/O/93, 104, 105.

Religion

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