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PYE, Sir Robert II (c.1622-1701), of Gt. Faringdon, Berks.

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b. c. 1622, 1st s. of Sir Robert Pye I* and Mary, da. and coh. of John Croker of Batsford, Glos.Vis. Glos. 1623 (Harl. Soc. xxi), 48; Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi-lvii), i. 270. educ. M. Temple, 23 Aug. 1639.M. Temple Admiss. i. 136. m. c.1641 (with £2,000), Anne (d. Nov. 1701), da. of John Hampden*, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.) (1 other child d.v.p.).Vis. Berks. i. 270; Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, ii. 105-6; Mercurius Aulicus (9-16 Apr. 1643), 192 (E.99.2). Kntd. betw. 1639 and 1642.SP28/1a, f. 91. suc. fa. 1662. bur. 28 Dec. 1701 28 Dec. 1701.HP Commons, 1660-1690.
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Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of John Hampden* by Aug. 1642 – June 1643; regt. of Arthur Goodwin*, June-Aug. 1643;Peacock, Army Lists, 52; SP28/1a, f. 91; SP28/7, f. 438. col. 1644-Aug. 1647.BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; CJ iv. 66b; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), i. 53, 83, 151.

Local: dep. lt. Berks. June 1643–?, c.Aug. 1660–83, 1689–d.CJ iii. 129b. Commr. sewers, Mdx. 15 Oct. 1645;C181/5, f. 262v. militia, Berks. 2 Dec. 1648, ?12 Mar. 1660. Nov. 1651 – May 1683A. and O. J.p., 1689–d.C231/6, pp. 226, 274; C231/8, p. 83; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. assessment, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689 – d.; Westminster 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689–d.A. and O.; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Capt. militia horse, Berks. Apr. 1660.Parliamentary Intelligencer no. 14 (26 Mar.-2 Apr. 1660), 222 (E.183.1). Commr. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, Berks., Westminster 1663;SR. recusants, Berks. 1675.CTB iv. 695.

Court: equerry, June 1660–85.Sainty and Bucholz, Royal Household, ii. 140.

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PYE, Sir Robert II (c.1622-1701), of Gt. Faringdon, Berks.

Will
21 Dec. 1700, pr. 20 Jan. 1702.PROB11/463/88.
Estates
owned property at Great Faringdon, Berks.Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, ii. 102.
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GRENVILLE (GRANVILLE), Richard (1612-66), of Wotton Underwood, Bucks.

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b. 8 Aug. 1612, 1st s. of Richard Grenville of Wotton Underwood and Frances, da. of Thomas Saunders of Long Marston, Herts.Vis. Bucks. 1634 (Harl. Soc. lviii), 67; Collins’ Peerage of Eng. (1812), ii. 408-9; J. Foster, The Peerage of the British Empire (1882), 100. educ. I. Temple 19 Apr. 1627.I. Temple database. m. (1) 9 Feb. 1635, Anne (d. 14 Jan. 1647), da. of Sir William Borlase† of Great Marlow, Bucks. 1s. 2da. d.v.p.;Collins’ Peerage, ii. 409; Foster, Peerage, 100; Lipscombe, Buckingham. iii. 595. (2) Eleanor, da. of Sir Timothy Tyrrell of Oakley, Bucks. and wid. of Sir Peter Temple of Stanton Bury, Bucks. s.p.PROB11/320/115; Collins’ Peerage, ii. 409; Foster, Peerage, 100. suc. fa. 1628.VCH Bucks. iv. 131. d. 10 Jan. 1666.Lipscombe, Buckingham. i. 612.
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Legal: called, I. Temple 3 Nov. 1635; jt. steward, June 1662.CITR ii. 226; iii. 9.

Local: commr. subsidy, Bucks. 1641, 1663; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660.SR. Sheriff, 1641–2.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 9. Commr. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664.SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Member, Bucks. standing cttee. June 1642.G. Nugent-Grenville, Lord Nugent, Some Mems. of John Hampden (1832), ii. 458. Dep. lt. July 1642–?Whitelocke, Diary, 131n. Commr. loans on Propositions, 12 July 1642;LJ v. 207b. for associating midland cos. 15 Dec. 1642; sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660. 1650 – 12 July 1653A. and O. J.p. by Feb., by c.Sept. 1656–d.C193/13/3, f. 5; C193/13/6, f. 5v; C231/6, p. 259; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 379. sewers, Bucks. 6 June 1664.C181/7, p. 255.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of Arthur Goodwin* (later Richard Browne II*) by Aug. 1642-bef. May 1645.SP28/1a, f. 184; CSP Dom. 1644–5, p. 538; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database.

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GRENVILLE (GRANVILLE), Richard (1612-66), of Wotton Underwood, Bucks.

Will
30 Dec. 1665, pr. 5 Apr. 1666.PROB11/320/115.
Estates
owned land at Wotton Underwood, Bucks.;‘Wotton Underwood in 1657’, Recs. of Bucks. xiv. 133-48. bought manor of Ashendon, Bucks. 1632.VCH Bucks. iv. 4.
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WENTWORTH, Sir George I (1609-66), of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorks.

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bap. 20 July 1609, 8th s. of Sir William Wentworth (bur. 10 Sept. 1614), 1st bt., of Wentworth Woodhouse, and Anne (bur. 23 July 1611), da. of Sir Robert Atkins of Stowell, Glos.Foster, Yorks. Peds. educ. Univ. Coll. Oxf. 8 Dec. 1626, MA 1 Nov. 1642.Al. Ox. m. c. Jan. 1636, Frances (d. bef. 6 Sept. 1671), da. and coh. of Sir Francis Ruishe of Sarre, Kent, 3s. 3da. (2 d.v.p.).Foster, Yorks. Peds.; R. M. Milnes, ‘Wentworth Woodhouse and its owners’, YAJ vi. 377-8. Kntd. 25 July 1633;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 202. d. c. July 1666.NLI, GO 142, p. 108.
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Irish: MP, Bandonbridge, co. Cork 1634; Kildare, co. Kildare 1640 – Mar. 1641, 21 June 1642–?CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 63 CJ Ire. i. 199, 297. PC, 22 Mar. 1640-c.Aug. 1647, 19 Dec. 1660–d.CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 236; 1660–2, p. 142; Strafforde Letters, ii. 395–6. Commr. assessment, co. Meath 1 Mar. 1661.A Census of Ireland c.1659 ed. S. Pender, 641.

Military: capt. of horse, royal army in Ireland, c.1638-June 1647;Strafforde Letters, ii. 204; HMC Ormonde, i. 125–6, 178; CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 643; 1660–2, pp. 44, 158. maj. by 23 Apr. 1640-c.Aug. 1641.Bodl. Carte 1, f. 184v. Provost marshal, Leinster by 1640 – June 1647, by 1661–d.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 643; 1661–2, pp. 44, 158; HMC Ormonde, n.s. iii. 409. V.-adm. Leinster by June 1665–?d.Bodl. Carte 34, f. 249.

Local: recvr. recusant fines, northern cos. Apr. 1641-c.1644, by Nov. 1660–d.SO3/12, f. 142v; E351/433; CSP Dom. 1645–7, p. 497; 1660–1, p. 367.

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WENTWORTH, Sir George I (1609-66), of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorks.

Will
6 July 1655, cod. 3 July 1666, pr. 10 Sept. 1666.NLI, GO 142, p. 108.
Estates
in 1635, Visct. Wentworth settled lands at Maynooth and Naas near Dublin on Wentworth, worth £500 p.a.Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P8/159-61, 192-3. By his marriage, acquired manor of Sarre and Cleve-Court, Monkton, Kent.Hasted, Kent, x. 251, 257. In 1638, acquired a third part of a farm near Sarre in reversion.C54/3778/27. By December 1649, he was reportedly ‘very much in debt’.CCAM, 435.
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Dame Street and St George’s Lane, Dublin (1644-6).HMC Ormonde, i. 153.
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BURY, William (1605-69), of the Priory, Grantham, and Linwood Grange, Blankney, Lincs.

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bap. 3 June 1605, 1st s. of William Bury of Grantham, and Emma, da. of John Dryden of Canons Ashby, Northants.St Wulfrum, Grantham par. reg.; Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. l), 213. educ. G. Inn 18 May 1631.G. Inn Admiss. m. (1) 13 Apr. 1629, Jane (bur. 19 May 1643), da. of Sir William Plomer of Radwell, Herts. and Hill, Beds. 6s. (4 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.);St. Wulfrum, Grantham par. reg.; Lincs. Peds. 213-14. (2) by 1651, Jane, da. and coh. of George Ellis of Wyham cum Cadeby, Lincs., 2s. 1da.PROB11/331, f. 216v; Lincs. Peds. 213-14. Kntd. 21 July 1658, 26 Jan. 1661.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 224, 232. suc. fa. Mar. 1617.St Wulfrum, Grantham par. reg. bur. 20 July 1669.Blankney par. reg.
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Local: commr. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 10 Feb. 1642 – 14 Aug. 1660, 16 June 1664–d.C181/5, f. 224v; C181/6, pp. 39, 205, 323, 389; C181/7, p. 260; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/7–11. Recvr. loans on Propositions, Lincs. Jan. 1643–?E113/9, unfol. Commr. levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. Lincs. 20 Sept. 1643;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, 24 Feb. 1644.‘The royalist clergy of Lincs.’ ed. J.W.F. Hill, Lincs. Archit. and Arch. Soc. ii. 37–8, 116–17. Treas. sequestrations, 9 June 1644-aft. 26 Oct. 1649;E113/9; SP28/211, f. 526. assessment, 13 June 1644–3 Jan. 1649.E113/9; A. and O. i. 663, 741. Commr. sequestration, 3 July 1644;CJ iii. 548b; LJ vi. 613b. assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Lincs. (Kesteven) 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648.A. and O. Recvr.-gen. Lincs. and Lincoln 1 Feb. 1645–25 Mar. 1649.SP28/332, pt. 1, unfol. Commr. New Model ordinance, Lincs. 17 Feb. 1645;A. and O. Lincs. militia, 3 July 1648;LJ x. 359a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Kesteven by Feb.-9 July 1650, 11 Mar. 1656-Mar. 1660;C193/13/3; C231/6, pp. 190, 328. Lindsey, Holland 11 Mar. 1656-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 328.

Military: lt.-col. of horse (parlian.), c.Oct. 1643-bef. Sept. 1644.SP28/25, f. 188; J. Lilburne, Innocency and Truth Justified (1645), 41 (E.314.21); The Just Mans Justification (1646), 5 (E.340.12).

Civic: freeman, Grantham ?-d.; comburgess, 21 Oct. 1647–28 Mar. 1651.Grantham during the Interregnum: the Hall Bk. of Grantham 1641–9 ed. B. Couth (Lincoln Rec. Soc. lxxxiii), 103; Borough Government in Newton’s Grantham: the Hall Bk. of Grantham, 1649–62 ed. J. B. Manterfield (Lincoln Rec. Soc. cvi), 58.

Central: member, cttee. for trade, 1 Nov. 1655;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 1. cttee. for statutes, Durham Univ. 10 Mar. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 218.

Irish: PC, 4 Aug. 1656–7 June 1659.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iv. 223; CJ vii. 674a. Commr. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656;A. and O. managing affairs of Ireland, 8 Mar. 1660.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 862; An Account of the Chief Occurrences of Ireland, 12–19 March 1660 (1660), 40. Member for Lismore, Co. Cork, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Bodl. Carte 31, f. 3.

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BURY, William (1605-69), of the Priory, Grantham, and Linwood Grange, Blankney, Lincs.

Will
8 Feb. 1669, pr. 10 Nov. 1669.PROB11/331, f. 216v.
Estates
in 1647, purchased a moiety of manor and advowson of Bloxholm, Lincs. from Sir Edward Hussey*.C54/3386/1. At his d. estate inc. Priory, or Friars, at Grantham, lands in several nearby townships, capital messuage of Blankney, near Lincoln, and lands and tenements in surrounding parishes.PROB11/331, f. 216v; Lincs. RO, FL/Deeds/1110-1111, 1114.
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WYNN, Henry (1601/2-1671), of Rhiwgoch, Trawsfynydd, Merion. and Figtree Court, the Inner Temple, London.

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b. 1601/2,He was aged 69 at his death. 8th but 5th surv. s. of Sir John Wynn†, 1st bt. (d. 1 Mar. 1627), of Gwydir, Llanrwst, Caern. and Sidney (d. 8 June 1632), da. of Sir William Gerard† of Ince, Lancs., ld. chan. [I] 1576-81;J. E. Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams. 281; D. Barrington, Miscellanies (1781), 345; CB. bro. of Sir Richard Wynn*, 2nd bt. educ. privately at Gwydir (William Holmes); Hawarden sch. Flint. 1614; St Albans sch. Herts. 1615-18;HP Commons 1604-29, ‘Henry Wynn’. I. Temple 9 Dec. 1618.I. Temple Admiss. Database. m. settlement 15 Sept. 1620, Katherine, da. and h. of Ellis Lloyd† of Rhiwgoch, 1s.Denb. RO, DD/WY/6555. d. 27 July 1671.J. Gwynfor Jones, Wynn Fam. of Gwydir, 212, n. 181.
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Local: commr. subsidy, Merion. 1624,C212/22/23. 1663;SR. oyer and terminer, the Verge 26 Dec. 1637 – aft.Nov. 1639, 10 Apr. 1662–d.C181/5, ff. 89v, 122, 154v; C181/7, pp. 142, 457. Collector, clerical tenths, Exeter dioc. 1640.E401/2462. J.p. Merion. 25 July 1650–28 July 1653, 1 July 1670–d.Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 50, 52. Commr. assessment, 1661, 1664, 1666; Westminster, 1666; poll tax, Merion., Westminster 1666.SR. Sec. (jt.) council in the marches of Wales by Mar. 1662–d.CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 303; 1670, pp. 297, 339–40.

Legal: called, I. Temple 21 June 1629; bencher, 3 Nov. 1647, 30 May 1660–d.CITR ii. 179, 277, 334. Dep. steward, manor of West Ham, Essex 1631–?NLW, Wynnstay mss, K1/2. Steward, palace ct. Westminster 21 May 1637-c.1642, c.1660–d.;Coventry Docquets, 201; CSP Dom. 1668–9, p. 430; HMC Ormonde, i. 71. Marshalsea ct. 21 May 1637-c.1642, by c.Sept. 1660–d.;Coventry Docquets, 201; CSP Dom. Add. 1625–49, p. 575; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 295. Westminster Abbey manorial cts. Jan. 1641-Aug. 1660;Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster ed. C.S. Knighton (Westminster Abbey rec. ser. v), 178 and n. 200. manors of Denbigh, Bromfield and Yale, Denb. c.July 1660–d;Denb. RO, DD/WY/6353; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 137; 1668–9, p. 430. manor of West Ham, Essex 1661–?d.NLW, Wynnstay mss, K1/2. Sol. gen. to Henrietta Maria, 28 Jan. 1640–6, by c.July 1660–9.NLW, Wynnstay mss, Ms 80; Les Reportes de Sir William Jones (1675), 454; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 137; R.J. Lloyd, ‘Welsh masters of the bench of the Inner Temple from early times until the end of the 18th century’, Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion (1938), 167. Prothonotary and clerk of the crown, Caern., Anglesey and Merion. by c.1664–d.CSP Dom. 1664–5, p. 158; 1671, p. 406.

Central: commr. exacted fees, 1636/7–40.G. E. Aylmer, ‘Chas. I’s commn. on fees, 1627–40’, BIHR xxxi. 61.

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WYNN, Henry (1601/2-1671), of Rhiwgoch, Trawsfynydd, Merion. and Figtree Court, the Inner Temple, London.

Will
not found.
Estates
through his marriage in 1620, acquired an estate in and around Rhiwgoch.NLW, Wynnstay mss, Rhiwgoch estate recs. 1669-1772. In 1631 he was admitted to chambers in Figtree Court, the Inner Temple.NLW, Wynnstay mss, FB1/1.
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MORE, Richard (c.1576-1643), of Linley Hall, More, Salop.

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b. c.1576, 1st s. of Robert More (bur. 20 Mar. 1604) of Linley and Susan Davenport of Weston-in-Arden, Bulkington, Warws.C142/284/71; Salop Par. Regs. More, 7; Oxford DNB. m. 22 May 1592 Sarah (bur. 10 Nov. 1643), da. of Roger Harris of Shrewsbury, 4s. (?1 d.v.p.), 1da.St Julian, Shrewsbury par. reg.; Salop Par. Regs. More, 23; PROB11/157/433; Salop Archives, 1037/12/19; H. Hardwick, The Saints Gain by Death (1644), Sig. A3 iii; PROB11/199/620. suc. fa. Mar. 1604.Salop Par. Regs. More, 7. d. 6 Dec. 1643.Frag. Gen. xiii. 134.
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Civic: burgess, Bishop’s Castle 13 Dec. 1610; rater by 16 Nov. 1630; head burgess, 3 July 1632 – d.; bailiff, 1637–8.Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, corporation order bk. ff. 4, 174, 185, 192v.

Local: treas. maimed soldiers, Salop 1619.Salop Archives, WB/B3/1/1 p. 482. Commr. subsidy, 1621, 1624;C212/22/21, 23. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 49. sewers, Worcs. and Glos. 1 Mar. 1631.C181/4 f. 79v. J.p. Salop c.1635–?d.C193/13/2. Commr. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b. loans on Propositions, 23 July 1642;LJ v. 233b. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; commr. west midlands cos. 10 Apr. 1643; levying of money, Salop 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643.Northants. RO, FH133, unfol.; A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 9 Jan. 1643.CJ ii. 920a; Add. 15669 f. 1v.

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MORE, Richard (c.1576-1643), of Linley Hall, More, Salop.

Will
6 Apr. 1643, pr. 4 Mar. 1647.PROB11/199/620.
Estates
held 10 shares in Somers Island Company, 1618.J. Smith, Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles (1644), 188-9.
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presented George Lawson to rectory of More, Apr. 1637.C. Condren, George Lawson’s Politica and the English Revolution (Cambridge, 1989), 12.
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CAVENDYSSHE (CAVENDISH), Sir Charles (d. 1654), of Welbeck Abbey, Notts.; later of Wellingore, Lincs.

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b. in or aft. 1594, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Sir Charles Cavendish† (d. 4 Apr. 1617) of Welbeck, and 2nd w. Catherine (d. 20 Apr. 1629), da. and coh. of Cuthbert, 7th Baron Ogle.CP, ‘William Cavendish, 1st of Newcastle’. educ. household of Gilbert Talbot†, 7th earl of Shrewsbury;The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, ed. C.H. Firth (1906), 1. embassy, Savoy 1612;Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure (1939), i. 339. Oxf. 30 Apr. 1613.Al. Ox. unm. Life of Cavendish, ed. Firth, 115. Kntd. 10 Aug. 1619.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 173. d. 4 Feb. 1654.A.S. Turberville, Welbeck Abbey and its Owners (1938-9), i. 135.
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Civic: freeman, Nottingham c.Jan. 1624–?d.Notts. RO, CA 4649, f. 10.

Local: commr. sewers, Yorks. (N. Riding) 30 June 1627, 28 Apr. 1632;C181/3, f. 223; C181/4, f. 114. Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 10 Feb. 1642;C181/5, f. 223. array (roy.), Lincs. 4 July, 27 Dec. 1642.Northants. RO, FH133; HMC Buccleuch, i. 528.

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Likenesses: oils, school of A. Van Dyck.Welbeck Abbey, Notts.

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CAVENDYSSHE (CAVENDISH), Sir Charles (d. 1654), of Welbeck Abbey, Notts.; later of Wellingore, Lincs.

Will
admon. 24 May 1654.PROB6/29, f. 98.
Estates
left 1,000 marks in his father’s will.PROB11/129, f. 500v. In 1649, his estate consisted of capital messuage of Wellingore, Lincs.; manor of Barlaston, Staffs.; manor of Slingsby and lands in Slingsby, Fryton, Hovingham, North Ings and Sheriff Hutton, Yorks.; manors and boroughs of Bearl, Bothal, Brunton, Hepple, Hexam, Moralee, Newton Hall and Ogle, Northumb. in all worth £1,671 p.a.SP23/217, pp. 29, 31, 34, 43. His debts amounted to £1,360, and his estate was charged with annuities of £300 p.a.SP23/217, pp. 43-4. Margaret, countess of Newcastle reckoned his estate to be worth £2,000 p.a.Life of Cavendish, ed. Firth, 77.
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HARINGTON, Sir James (1607-80), of Ridlington, Rutland; Merton, Oxon. and Swakeleys, Ickenham, Mdx.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
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.
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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.
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Likenesses: line engraving, W. Faithorne, 1682.NPG.

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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.
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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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JOHNSON, Abraham (d. 1676), of Hackney, Mdx.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 1st. s. of William Johnson, saymaker, of Colchester, and Ann Verake of Bailleul, Flanders.Vis. Mdx. ed. Foster, 74; PROB11/166/214. educ. appr. to Peter Sadler, Fishmonger, 18 May 1620.GL, ‘London apprenticeship abstracts 1442-1850’. m. bef. 1633, Jane, da. of John Southcote of Devon, 2s. d.v.p. 2da.Vis. Mdx. ed. Foster, 74; PROB11/351/402; PROB11/166/214. suc. fa. bef. 4 Sept. 1634.PROB11/166/214. d. 23 June 1676.St Mary Woolnoth, London par. reg.
Offices Held

Mercantile: liveryman, Fishmongers’ Co. bef. 1636; jt. warden of the co. yeomanry, 1637 – 39; asst. 29 Jan. 1649 – d.; fifth warden, 1652 – 54; jt. renter warden, 1652 – 54; second warden, 1656 – 58; prime warden, 1664–6.GL, MS 5570/3, p. 297; MS 5570/4, pp. 119, 339, 569, 1150.

Religious: vestryman, Hackney by May 1651-aft. Apr. 1657.R. Simpson, Some Account of the Monuments in Hackney Church (Guildford, 1884), 105, 106–7.

Local: commr. sewers, London 13 Aug. 1657;C181/6, p. 259. River Lea, Herts., Mdx. and Essex 14 Dec. 1663;C181/7, p. 224. militia, London, Tower Hamlets 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, London 1660; assessment, 1661.SR.

: of Hackney, Mdx.
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JOHNSON, Abraham (d. 1676), of Hackney, Mdx.

Will
16 Dec. 1674, pr. 24 July 1676.PROB11/351/402.
Estates
bought land at Mile End, Colchester for £3,340, Dec. 1653;Essex RO, D/DJ 20/2. owned land at Clapton, Hackney and at Croydon, Surr. by 1674.PROB11/351/402.
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ASTON, William (1615-71), of Ship Street, Dublin, and Richardstown, co. Louth.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. 1615, 1st s. of John Aston of Tixall, Staffs. and Margery, da. of James Walton of Fole, Staffs.CP, s.v. ‘Lord Aston of Forfar’; F. Elrington Ball, The Judges in Ireland, 1221-1921 (2 vols. New York, 1927), i. 346; NLI, GO MS 45, p. 67. educ. G. Inn, 15 Mar. 1639.GI Admiss. m. (1) --- Highgate (d. 1661); (2) bef. 1662, Ursula (d. 1720), da. of Thomas Stockton of Cuddington, Chesh. at least 1s.Elrington Ball, Judges in Ireland, i. 346; CP; Lodge, Peerage, i. 172. suc. fa. 1640.CP. Kntd. 28 Sept. 1660.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 231. d. 1671.CP; Elrington Ball, Judges in Ireland, i. 346; P.B. Eustace, ‘Index of Will Abstracts’, Analecta Hibernica xvii. 162.
Offices Held

Military: lt. (parlian.) Salop by Oct. 1645;Brereton Lttr. Bks. ii. 184–5, 204, 222. maj. of ft. regt. of Anthony Hungerford, army in Ireland, Apr. 1647;HMC Ormonde, o.s. i. 199; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 643; NLI, GO MS 45, p. 67. maj. of horse, regt. of Chidley Coote by May 1648-Oct. 1653.TCD MS 844, f. 52v; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 619; CSP Dom. 1649–50, pp. 179, 205, 577, 522; CSP Ire. 1647–60, pp. 37, 790; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 196, 226.

Irish: commr. assessment, co. Louth 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655;An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Member for co. Louth, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 195. Commr. poll money, co. Louth 24 Apr. 1660–1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 623, 641. 2nd justice k.b. 3 Nov. 1660–d.CSP Ire. 1660–2, p. 74. Treas. King’s Inns 1665–9.Judges in Ireland, i. 346. Assize judge, north-west circ. Ulster c.1667–d.CSP Ire. 1666–9, p. 709; 1670, p. 591.

Local: commr. assessment, Staffs. 6 June 1657.A. and O.

: Dublin and Richardstown, co. Louth.
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ASTON, William (1615-71), of Ship Street, Dublin, and Richardstown, co. Louth.

Will
pr. 1671.Eustace, ‘Index of Will Abstracts’, 162.
Estates
lands at Richardstown and elsewhere in Ardee Barony, co. Louth, (1,000 acres in all) mid-1650s;NLI, D.10484; Down Survey website. property in Ship Street, Dublin, by 1660.Judges in Ireland, i. 346. Held custodiam of lands of Lord Galmoy, Connaught and Clare, bef. Oct. 1663.HMC 8th Rep. 549. £300 salary as 2nd justice of KB, by 1666.Stowe 152, f. 98v.
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