VERNEY, Sir Edmund (1590-1642), of Drury Lane, Westminster and Hillesden, Bucks.; later of Middle Claydon, Bucks. and the Piazza, Covent Garden, Westminster.

Family and Education

b. 1 Jan. 1590, 2nd s. of Sir Edmund Verney (d.1600) of Pendley, Herts., being his 1st s. by his 3rd w. Mary, da. of John Blakney of Sparham, Norf. and wid. of Geoffrey Turville, of All Hallows, Barking, London, and William St. Barbe, of All Hallows, Barking, London; half bro. of Sir Ambrose Turvile*. C142/262/126; Vis. Bucks. (Harl. lviii), 123; PROB 6/3, f. 99; St. Olave, Hart Street (Harl. Soc. Reg. xlvi), 121. educ. St. Alban Hall, Oxf. 1604; travelled abroad 1606. Al. Ox.; HMC 10th Rep. IV, 4. m. 14 Dec. 1612 (with £2,300), Margaret (d. 5 Apr. 1641), da. of Sir Thomas Denton* of Hillesden, Bucks. 6s. (2 d.v.p.) 6da. Kntd. 7 Jan. 1611; suc. half-bro. Sir Francis Verney 1615. d. 23 Oct. 1641. Letters and Pprs. of Verney Fam. 101, 104-5; L. Stone, ‘Verney Tomb at Middle Claydon’, in Bucks. Recs. xvi. 81; M. Slater, Fam. Life in Seventeenth Cent. 202-3. sig. Ed[mund] Verney.

Offices Held

Sewer, Prince Henry’s Household 1610–12; Coll. of Ordinances and Regulations for Government of Royal Household (Soc. of Antiqs., 1790), p. 323; LC2/4/6, f. 38v. gentleman of the privy chamber, Prince Charles’s Household 1613–25, T. Birch, Ct. and Times of Jas. I, i. 252; LC2/6, f. 69v. Charles I 1625–d.; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 159; LC3/1, unfol. knight marshal, 1626–d.; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 561; Clarendon, Hist. of the Rebellion ed. W.D. Macray, ii. 366. commr. oyer and terminer, Verge 1629–39; C181/4, f. 5v; 181/5, f. 154v. judge, Palace Ct. 1630 – at least41; commr. Exch. fines, 1640. CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 281; 1640, p. 135; PALA 6/9, rot. 103.

Lt., Whaddon Chase, Bucks. 1622; Letters and Pprs. of Verney Fam. 105. freeman, New Romney, Kent 1625; E. Kent Archives Cent., NR/AC/2, p. 41. dep. lt. Bucks. by 1626-at least 1640; SP16/24/25; CSP Dom. 1640, p. 537. commr. Forced Loan, Bucks. 1626 – 27, Buckingham, Bucks. 1627; T. Rymer, Feodera, viii. pt. 2, p. 144; C193/12/2, ff. 3v, 82v. j.p. Bucks., Mdx. and Westminster 1627-at least 1641; C231/4, ff. 197v. 200; C66/2859. commr. martial law, Mdx. and Westminster 1627, Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry, 1625–40 ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv-vii), 31. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 1627, Norf. circ. 1635 – 42, Bucks. 1640, swans, Midlands 1627, sewers, Westminster 1634, C181/3, ff. 219, 227; 181/4, ff. 191, 196v; 181/5, ff. 176v, 218. subsidy, Bucks. and Westminster 1641–2, SR, v. 60, 64, 149, 153. array, Bucks. 1642. Northants RO, FH133.

Parlimentarian

VERNEY, Sir Edmund (1590-1642), of Drury Lane, Westminster and Hillesden, Bucks.; later of Middle Claydon, Bucks. and the Piazza, Covent Garden, Westminster.

Main residences: Drury Lane, Westminster; Hillesden, Bucks.; Middle Claydon, Bucks.; the Piazza, Covent Garden, Westminster.

Author

B.C.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

VERNEY, Sir Edmund (1590-1642)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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