Family and Education
b. 10 June 1604, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir George Manners† of Haddon Hall and Grace, da. of Sir Henry Pierrepont† of Holme Pierrepont, Notts.J. Nichols, Hist. and Antiqs. of County of Leicester, ii. 68; Oxford DNB. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1619, MA 1621; I. Temple 1621; travelled abroad 1622-3 (France); riding academy Angers 1623. Al. Cant.; I. Temple Admiss.; CSP Dom. 1619-23, p. 455; A. Joubert, ‘Les Gentilshommes Etrangers ... a l’academie d’equitation d’Angers au xviie siecle’, Revue d’Anjou, xxvi. 17. We are grateful to Roger Lockyer for this reference. m. 1628, Frances (d. 19 May 1671), da. of Sir Edward Montagu* of Boughton, Northants., 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 7da. (2 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1623, cos. Sir George Manners* as 8th earl of Rutland 29 Mar. 1641. d. 29 Sept. 1679. CP, xi. 263-4; Nichols, ii. 68.
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J.p. Derbys. 1626 – at least41, by 1657-at least c.1665, C231/4, f. 196; C66/2859; C193/12/3, f. 18; C193/13/5, f. 16v; C66/3074. (custos rot. by Mar.-c.Oct. 1660), Perfect List of all such Persons as by Commission under the Great Seal of Eng. are now Confirmed to be Custos Rotulorum, Justices of Oyer and Terminer, Justices of the Peace and Quorum (1660), p. 10. Notts. 1647 – ?49, 1660-at least c.1665, Yorks. (W. Riding) 1647–?49, C231/6, ff. 79, 81; C220/9/4, f. 65v; C66/3074. Lincs. (Holland, Kesteven, Lindsey) by 1660-at least c.1665, Leics. by 1660-at least c.1665; Perfect List, 27–9; C66/3074. commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 1626 – 42, 1659-at least 1674, C181/3, f. 206; 181/5, f. 219v; C181/6, p. 370; C181/7, p. 642. Mdx. 1644–5, C181/5, ff. 231, 246. Lincs. 1645, Ibid. f. 251v. Forced Loan, Derbys. 1626 – 27, Derby, Derbys. 1627, E179/93/355, f. 1; C192/12/2, ff. 9v, 82. charitable uses, Derbys. 1629, 1632, 1635; C192/1, unfol. sheriff, Derbys. 1632–3, List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 31. dep. lt. by 1634-at least 1640; J.C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbs. Annals, 156; HMC Cowper, ii. 259. commr. subsidy, Derbys. 1641, SR, v. 61. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln, and Newark hundred, Notts. 1642, 1660–70, C181/5, f. 222v; C181/7, pp. 75, 518. Gt. Fens 1646, 1654–9, C181/5, f. 268v; C181/6, pp. 26, 246, 332. Notts. 1669, C181/7, p. 487. array, Derbys. 1642; Northants. RO, FH133. ld. lt. Derbys. 1642, Pvte. Jnls. Jan.-Mar. 1642, p. 334. Leics. 1667–77; CSP Dom. 1666–7, p. 453; 1677–8, p. 200. commr. gaol delivery, Derby 1645; C181/5, f. 248. c.j. in eyre (north) 1646–61; CJ, iv. 730a; Oxford DNB. commr. visitation, Oxf. Univ. 1647, militia, Derbys. and Lincs. 1648, Lincs. 1660; A. and O. i. 927, 1235, 1239; ii. 1435. recorder Grantham, Lincs. 1662–77; Lincs. AO, Grantham bor. min. bk. 1, f. 361; CSP Dom. 1677–8, p. 534. commr. swans, Lincs. 1664. C181/7, p. 298.

Commr. to conserve peace betw. Eng. and Scotland, 1643, 1646–7, LJ, vi. 55; LJ, viii. 411; LJ, ix. 500. to the Scottish Parl. 1643, great seal 1643, New Model Army 1645, 1647, excise 1645, treaty with Scots 1645, exclusion from sacrament 1646, 1648, sale of bps.’ lands 1646, indemnity 1647, navy and customs 1647. A. and O. i. 197, 341, 658, 691, 738, 852, 905, 937, 1016, 1047, 1208.

Main residence: Haddon Hall, Derbys.
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Commons 1604-1629
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MANNERS, John (1604-1679)

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Oxford 1644
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