HASTINGS, Sir Henry (c.1577-c.1641), of Long Clawson; later of Humberstone, Leics.

Family and Education

b. c. 1577,Date of birth calculated from date of admiss. to Emmanuel, Camb. 1st s. of Sir Edward Hastings† of Leicester Abbey, Leics. and Barbara, da. and coh. of Sir William Devereux† of Merevale, Warws., wid. of Edward Cave of Ingarsby, Leics. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 1592. m. Mabel (bur. 6 Oct. 1618), da. of Anthony Faunt of Foston, Leics., 4s. 5da. suc. fa. 1603; Nichols, County of Leicester, iii. 218; H.N. Bell, Huntingdon Peerage, 173-5, 350; Al. Cant. Kntd. or 11 May 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 102, 105. d. by 29 Mar. 1641. Leics. RO, 1641/no. 2

Offices Held

J.p. Leics. 1604–d.; Add. 38139, f. 137v; C66/2859. commr. inquiry, lands of Gunpowder plotters, Leics. 1606, C181/1, f. 130v. oyer and terminer, Midland rising 1607; C181/2, f. 35. collector fifteenths (jt.), Leics. 1607, SP46/62, f. 1. sheriff 1607–8; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 75. commr. subsidy, Leics. 1608, 1621 – 22, 1624, Leicester, 1621 – 22, 1624, SP14/31/1; C212/22/20–1; 23. aid, Leics. 1609; SP14/43/107. dep. lt. Leics. 1609–?1625; R. Cust, ‘Honour, Rhetoric and Political culture: the Earl of Huntingdon and his enemies’, Political Culture and Cultural Pols. in Early Modern Eng. ed. S.D. Amussen and M.A. Kishlansky, 88; HEHL, HAM53/6, ff. 75, 90v; T. Cogswell, Home Divisions, 43. commr. inquiry, estate of Newark hospital, Leics. 1616, HMC 8th Rep. pt. 1 (1881), p. 418. sewers, Lincs. 1618, Lincs., Rutland, Northants. 1623, Leics. and Notts. 1625, 1629, C181/2, f. 330; 181/3, ff. 99, 162; 181/4, f. 23v. survey Leicester forest, Leics. 1626, Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv-vii), 29. Forced Loan, Leics. and Leicester 1627, C193/12/2, ff. 28v, 86v. knighthood fines, Leics. 1630–2. E178/7154, f. 147; E178/5404, f. 12.

Parlimentarian

HASTINGS, Sir Henry (c.1577-c.1641), of Long Clawson; later of Humberstone, Leics.

Main residences: Long Clawson; Humberstone, Leics.

Author

P.W.

B.C.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

HASTINGS, Sir Henry (c.1577-c.1641)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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