MONTAGU (MOUNTAGU), Edward II (1625-72), of Hinchingbrooke, Hunts.

Local: commr. assessment, Hunts. 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660;CJ vii. 284b, 285a; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); CSP Dom. 1653–4, p. 25; A. and O.; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643.A. and O. Dep. lt. 16 June 1643–?CJ iii. 131b. Commr. levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, 24 Feb. 1644; Cambs. and Hunts. 28 Aug. 1654;‘The royalist clergy of Lincs.’ ed. J.W.F. Hill, Lincs. Archit. and Arch. Soc. ii. 120; A. and O. New Model ordinance, Hunts. 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. by Feb. 1650–59, Mar. 1660 – d.; Essex 1655–8;C193/13/3, f. 31v; A Perfect List (1660); Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxviii. Wallingford, Abingdon, Woodstock, liberty of Peterborough Nov. 1658.C181/6, pp. 329, 330, 331, 336. Commr. almshouses of Windsor, 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O. Kpr. Leighton Walk, Waltham Forest, Wallwood and Homfirth, Essex, Sept. 1655.Bodl. Carte 74, f. 62. Custos rot. Hunts. by c.Sept. 1656–59, 8 Aug. 1660–d.C231/7, p. 24; J.C. Sainty Custodes Rotulorum1660–1828 (2002). Commr. oyer and terminer, all circs. Feb. 1658-June 1659;C181/6, pp. 273, 310 St Albans borough 6 Oct. 1658;C181/6, p. 318. Mdx. 11 Oct. 1658;C181/6, p. 327. liberty of Peterborough Nov. 1658;C181/6, p. 336. Surr. 21. Mar. 1659;C181/6, p. 348. Norf. circ. 10 July 1660–d.C181/7, pp. 12, 610. Jt. supervisor, Savoy and Ely House hosps. Apr. 1658.CSP Dom. 1657–8, p. 364. Commr. gaol delivery, Southampton 14 Sept. 1658;C181/6, p. 313. liberty of Peterborough Nov. 1658;C181/6, p. 336. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster Oct. 1658;C181/6, p. 318. Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 11 Oct. 1658–d.;C181/6, pp. 322, 388; C181/7, pp. 75, 543. Deeping and Gt. Level 26 May 1662;C181/7, p. 147. Hunts. 19 Dec. 1664.C181/7, p. 302. Jt. ld. lt. by Dec. 1660–d.Bodl. Carte 223, f. 337. Bailiff, Whittlesea Mere, Hunts. 1661.CSP Dom. 1660–1, pp. 586, 603. Commr. swans, Beds., Camb., Hunts. and I. of Ely 26 Aug. 1661.C181/6, p. 117.

Military: col. of ft. (parlian.) Aug. 1643 – Oct. 1645; horse, Sept. 1658 – May 1659, Apr.-Nov. 1660. Jan. 1656 – Sept. 1659L. Spring, Regts. of the Eastern Assoc. (Bristol, 1998), 68; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), i. 48, 58, 59n; ii. 111, 145, 169; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 192–3, 195; ii. 398; CJ vii. 749b; Pepys’s Diary, i. 294. Gov. Henley-on-Thames, Oxon. Jan.-Mar. 1645. Jan. 1656 – Sept. 1659Bodl. Carte 74, f. 151. Jt. gen.-at-sea,, 2 Mar.-May 1660;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 92; CJ vii. 858a, 860a; Bodl. Carte 73, ff. 223, 229. lt.-adm. and capt.-gen. of the Narrow Seas, 1660; adm. 1661–d.;J.R. Tanner, Descriptive Cat. of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library (Navy Rec. Soc. xxvi), 315. c.-in-c. of fleet, July-Sept. 1665.HP Lords, 1660–1715.

Central: member, cttee. for the army, 22 Oct. 1645, 23 Sept. 1647;CJ iii. 307a, 311b; LJ vii. 656a; A. and O. cttee. of navy and customs by 17 Feb. 1648.SP16/518, f. 15. Cllr. of state, 14 July, 1 Nov., 16 Dec. 1653, 25 Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 285a, 344a; A. and O.; TSP i. 642; Woolrych, Commonwealth to Protectorate, 379. Commr. to inspect treasuries, 31 Dec. 1653.CSP Dom. 1653–4, p. 317. Member, cttee. for Barbados, 29 Dec. 1653.CSP Col. 1574–1660, p. 412. Commr. treaty with Utd. Provinces, 14 Mar. 1654;Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 213. treasury, 2 Aug. 1654 – ?June 1659, 19 June-8 Sept. 1660;Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 393; CJ vii. 378a; CSP Dom. 1654, p. 284; 1658–9, p. 382; J.C. Sainty, Treasury Officials 1660–1870 (1972), 18, 140. visitation Camb. Univ. 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O. Member, cttee. for trade, 12 July 1655.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 240. Commr. admlty. and navy, 8 Nov. 1655, 3 Mar.1660.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 10; CJ vii. 861a. Co-patentee of ballastage, Dec. 1657-July 1659.CSP Dom. 1657–8, p. 234; CJ vii. 740a. Commr. tendering oath to members of Other House, 27 Jan. 1659.HMC Lords, n.s. iv. 524. PC, 14 June 1660–d.PC2/54, f. 38. Master gt. wardrobe, 30 June 1660-bef. Aug. 1670.Sainty and Bucholz, Royal Household, i. 63, 143. Clerk of privy seal, July 1660–d. Register, ct. of requests, July 1660–d.Pepys’s Diary, i. 128, 206. Master of the swans, 1661–d.CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 586, 603. Commr. appeal for prizes, 1666.CSP Dom. 1666–7, p. 355. Pres. cttee. for plantations, 1670–d.HP Common, 1660–1690, iii. 83.

Diplomatic: plenip. at the Sound, Mar.-Sept. 1659. June 1661 – May 1662G.M. Bell, A Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives 1509–1688 (1990), 23, 36, 276. Amb. extraordinary, Portugal, Apr. – May 1666, Jan. – Mar. 1668; Spain Feb. 1666-Oct. 1668.Bell, Handlist, 218, 219, 262.

Civic: freeman, Dover Apr. 1660; Portsmouth 1661.Kent Hist. and Lib. Centre, Do/Aam2, reverse f. 203; Bodl. Carte 73, ff. 386, 397; Pepys’s Diary, i. 108. Recorder, Huntingdon 1663–d.HP Commons, 1660–1690.

Mercantile: elder bro. Trinity House, Nov. 1660 – d.; warden, Nov. 1660–1; master, 1661–2.W.R. Chaplin, The Corp. of Trinity House [1952], 12, 50–1, 110–11. Member, Royal Adventurers into Africa, 1660; asst. 1664 – 66, 1669–71.HP Commons, 1660–1690. Member, Royal Fishing Co. 1664.HP Commons, 1660–1690.

Academic: FRS, 1663; council member, 1668.M. Hunter, The Royal Soc. and its Fellows 1660–1700 (1982), 168–9.