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Of a family settled at Muncaster from the twelfth century, Pennington succeeded as well to other substantial estates in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire. Elected for Cumberland in 1597, he could have attended committees on enclosures (5 Nov.), the poor law (5, 22 Nov.), armour and weapons (8 Nov.), penal laws (8 Nov.), monopolies (10 Nov.), the subsidy (15 Nov.) and horse theft (16 Nov.). He died about 1640.1C142/168/16; Vis. Cumb. (Harl. Soc. vii), 22-4; E315/309, f. 69; HMC 10th Rep. IV, 229, 236-72; VCH Lancs. viii. 338-40, 355; Border Pprs. i. 106; D’Ewes, 552, 553, 555, 557, 558, 561; Townshend, Hist. Colls. 106; CSP Dom. 1603-10, p. 193.