SLANNING, Sir Nicholas (?1606-43), of Hele, Bickleigh, Devon.

Family and Education

b. ?1 Sept. 1606,Oxford DNB; W. Jones, ‘The Slannings of Leye, Bickleigh and Maristow’, Trans. Devonshire Assoc. xix. 459. 1st s. of Gamaliel Slanning (d. 1612) of Hele and Margaret, da. of Edward Marler of London and ?Crayford, Kent.Vivian, Vis Devon, 687-8; Jones, ‘The Slannings’, 454, 459. educ. ?Oxford Univ.; I. Temple 12 July 1628; travelled abroad (Low Countries).Prince, Worthies (1701), 567; I. Temple database. m. 23 Sept. 1625 (lic. 20 May 1621) Gertrude, da. of Sir James Bagge of Saltram, Devon, 2s. (1 d.v.p.), 2da.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 688; Jones, ‘The Slannings’, 459; St Andrew, Plymouth par. reg. Kntd. 24 Aug. 1632.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 200. d. aft. 26 July 1643.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 688; Jones, ‘The Slannings’, 462.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Devon, Cornw. 29 May 1635–d.C231/5, p. 171; Coventry Docquets, 71. Commr. piracy, Cornw. 4 Aug. 1637;C181/5, f. 83. Devon 4 Aug. 1637;C181/5, f. 84. Devon and Exeter 15 Mar. 1639.C181/5, f. 132v. V.-adm. S. Cornw. 14 Sept. 1638–d.Vice Admirals of the Coast, comp. Sainty and Thrush (L. and I. Soc. cccxxi), 6. Commr. oyer and terminer for piracy, Cornw. 11 Feb. 1641;C181/5, f. 187v. array (roy.), Devon 16 June 1642; Cornw. 29 June 1642.Northants. RO, FH133, unfol.

Military: capt. Pendennis Fort and col. of 100 men, 17 Apr. 1635.Coventry Docquets, 192. Capt. and sgt.-maj. of ft. royal bodyguard, May 1639.R. Granville, Hist. of the Granville Fam. (1895), 219. Col. royal army, Carlisle June 1640.CSP Dom. 1640, p. 372. Col. of ft. (roy.) Oct. 1642–d.Bellum Civile, 23. Gen. of ordnance, Apr. 1643.Bellum Civile, 38.

Civic: recorder, Plympton by Mar. 1640.C219/42/1A.

: Devon., Bickleigh.

Likenesses

Portrait: attrib. to Sir Anthony van Dyck.Private collection, see Oxford DNB.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SLANNING, Sir Nicholas (?1606-43), of Hele, Bickleigh, Devon.

Will

not found.

Estates

inherited manors of Bickleigh and Shaugh, Devon;Plymouth and W. Devon RO, 70/116. licensed to alienate manors of Bickleigh, Shaugh and ‘Martyulston’ and advowsons of Bickleigh and Walkhampton, Devon, 1633;Coventry Docquets, 630. bought Carne, in Grade parish and other properties in Constantine parish, Cornw. 1638;Cornw. RO, AD 301/1. leased Devon House, Penryn, 1638;Cornw. RO, B/PENR/279. mortgaged manor of Trerose, advowson of Mawnan and other properties in Cornw. 1639.Cornw. RO, AD 301/2.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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