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bap. 30 Dec. 1607, 1st s. of Sir Edward Harington, 2nd bt. of Ridlington and Margery (d. 12 Dec. 1658), da. and coh. of John Doyley of Merton.CB. m. 2 Aug. 1632 (with £5,000), Katherine (d. 3 June 1675), da. and coh. of Sir Edmund Wright (d. 15 July 1643) of Swakeleys, ld. mayor of London 1640-1, 7s. (1 d.v.p.), 9da. (3 d.v.p.).PROB11/121, f. 191; J. Harington, A Holy Oyl (1669), 427; CB; Dunkin, Oxon. ii. 39; Oxford DNB, ‘Sir Edmund Wright’. Kntd. 23 Dec. 1628;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 195. suc. fa. as 3rd bt. Oct. 1652.W.H. Godfrey, Swakeleys, Ickenham (Survey of London monograph xiii), 12. d. Apr. 1680.CB.
Offices Held

Military: vol. horse, royal army by June 1639–?SP16/427/38, ff. 71v, 73v. Col. militia ft. (parlian.) Westminster by Sept. 1643-aft. Dec. 1644;Archaeologia, lii. 141; CSP Dom. 1644–5, p. 184. Mdx. 11 Aug. 1659–?;CJ vii. 756a. capt. of horse, 1 Sept. 1659–?CJ vii. 772b.

Civic: freeman, Stamford 21 Mar. 1640–?Stamford Town Hall, Hall Bk. 1, f. 402.

Local: commr. sequestration, Mdx. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Mdx. and Westminster 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. oyer and terminer, London 12 Jan. 1644 – aft.Nov. 1645, by Jan. 1654–13 Nov. 1660;C181/5, ff. 230, 244, 265; C181/6, pp. 2, 356; C181/7, pp. 1, 32. Mdx. 13 Jan. 1644 – aft.Jan. 1645, by Jan. 1654–10 Nov. 1655;C181/5, ff. 231, 246v; C181/6, pp. 3, 63. Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 15, 370. defence of London, 17 Feb. 1644.A. and O. Dep. lt. Mdx. 11 May 1644–?;CJ iii. 485b; LJ vi. 550b. Rutland 3 Sept. 1644–?CJ iii. 617a; LJ vi. 696a. Commr. for Oxon. 3 Sept. 1644;CJ iii. 615b; LJ vi. 695b. assessment, Mdx. 18 Oct. 1644, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 26 Jan. 1660; Mdx. and Westminster 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Rutland 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649, 26 Jan. 1660; Oxon. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Westminster 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660; Mdx. militia, 25 Oct. 1644, 2 Aug. 1648;A. and O. gaol delivery, Newgate gaol 16 Nov. 1644 – aft.Nov. 1645, by Jan. 1654–14 May 1661;C181/5, ff. 244, 265; C181/6, pp. 2, 356; C181/7, pp. 1, 32. New Model ordinance, Mdx. 17 Feb. 1645;A. and O. sewers, 7 Apr. – aft.Oct. 1645, 31 Jan. 1654;C181/5, ff. 261v, 262; C181/6, p. 4. London, 15 Dec. 1645;C181/5, f. 266. defence of Rutland, 21 June 1645; militia, Mdx. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659; Oxon., Rutland 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Northants. 26 July 1659;A. and O. Westminster militia, 19 Mar. 1649, 7 June 1650, 28 June 1659.A. and O.; Severall Procs. in Parl. (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). J.p. Mdx., Rutland by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1660;C193/13/3. Oxon. Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660.A Perfect List (1660), 43. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Mdx. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. for public faith, 16 Dec. 1657.SP25/77, p. 332.

Central: commr. for maintenance of army, 26 Mar. 1644; court martial, 16 Aug. 1644, 3 Apr. 1646.A. and O. Member, cttee. to receive king, 7 Jan. 1647;CJ v. 45a; LJ viii. 648b. cttee. for sequestrations, 23 Dec. 1648;CJ vi. 103a, 113b; LJ x. 636b. cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649; cttee. for plundered ministers, 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 112b. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649;A. and O. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 17 Jan., 20 June 1649.CJ vi. 120b; A. and O. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650, 13 Feb., 24 Nov. 1651, 24 Nov. 1652, 19 May, 31 Dec. 1659.A. and O.; CJ vii. 42a, 220b, 800b. Member, cttee. for excise, 1 May 1649.CJ vi. 199a. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650;CJ vi. 388b. cttee. for the army, 22 Aug. 1650;CJ vi. 458a. cttee. of safety, 9 Aug.,Bodl. Rawl. C.179, p. 402. 26 Oct. 1659.Whitelocke, Mems. iv. 366.

: of Ridlington, Rutland; Merton, Oxon. and Swakeleys, Mdx., Ickenham.
Likenesses

Likenesses: line engraving, W. Faithorne, 1682.NPG.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HARINGTON, Sir James (1607-80), of Ridlington, Rutland; Merton, Oxon. and Swakeleys, Ickenham, Mdx.

Will
not found.
Estates
by Harington’s own estimation, estate was worth £3,300 p.a. by the late 1640s.Harington, Holy Oyl, 431. In 1650, he purchased, for £12 16s, a fee farm rent in Mdx. worth £1 10s p.a.; in 1652, he purchased, for £459, two fee farm rents in co. Dur. worth £32 16s p.a.; in 1653, he purchased, for £6,863, 21 fee farms rents in Denb. worth £530 p.a.SP28/288, ff. 5, 55, 62. In 1652, he inherited Ridlington, the Rutland advowsons of Ridlington, Greetham, Horn and Market Overton and tithes of Merton (his fa. had already conveyed to him manor of Merton).PROB11/231, ff. 56v, 57; Northants. RO, Fermor Hesketh Baker ms 717, pp. 147, 148, 149. In 1653, he purchased former crown lands in Grafton Regis, Northants. for £8,120.E121/4/1/89; I. Gentles, ‘The purchasers of Northants. crown lands 1649-60’, MH iii. 209, 222. In 1661, he estimated that his estate, consisting of Merton, Ridlington and Swakeleys and a small house in Highgate was worth £1,240 p.a. but was charged with annuities and interest payments of £956 p.a., leaving him with an annual income of £284. His debts amounted to £8,113.Add. 23206, f. 30. In 1662, estate valued at £1,300 p.a.CCSP v. 192. Ridlington was conveyed to the duke of York in 1661-2; and in 1665, Harington’s wife sold Swakeleys.CSP Dom. 1661-2, pp. 301, 408; Godfrey, Swakeleys, 13.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Highgate, Mdx. (by Nov. 1643);SP28/167, pt. 5, unfol. the Stone Gallery, Palace of Whitehall (by 1650-June 1653, July 1659);T. Violet, Proposals Humbly Presented to His Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England (1656), 106; CSP Dom. 1652-3, p. 394; Bodl. Rawl. C.179, p. 155. chambers of John Fountaine, Boswell Court, Carey Street, St Clement Danes, London (May 1660).Bodl. Carte 73, f. 443.
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