CAREY, John (c. 1608-77) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. c. 1608, 1st s. Henry Carey, later earl of Dover, and Judith, da. of Sir Thomas Pelham^‡, bt. of Laughton, Suss. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1624. m. (1) 9 May 1628, Dorothy (d. 28 June 1628), da. of Oliver St. John^†, earl of Bolingbroke, s.p. (2) 2 Dec. 1630 (with £5,000), Abigail (d. 10 Feb. 1688), da. of Sir William Cockayne, of Rushton, Northants. 2da. (1 d.v.p.). KB 1 Feb. 1626. d. 26 May 1677; admon. June 1681. TNA, PROB 12/56.

Offices Held

Speaker, House of Lords 1- 5 Aug. 1647, 23–30 June, 3–4 July, 2–8 Aug, 1–20 Sept, 10 Oct. 1648.

Commr. advance of money by Nov. 1643 – July 1644, exclusion from sacrament 1646, sale of bps. lands 1646, appeals, Oxf. Univ. 1647, indemnity complaints 1647, great seal 1- 5 Aug. 1647, scandalous offences 1648. A. and O. i. 853, 905, 927, 937, 995, 1208; CCAM, 247.

Commr. milita, Yorks. 1648. A. and O. i. 1245.

Col. regt. of horse (Parl.) 1642 – 43; maj. gen. 1642. E. Peacock, Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers, 30, 32; CSP Dom. 1641–2, p. 366; Clarendon, Rebellion, ii. 351.

Parlimentarian

CAREY, John, Visct. Rochford (c.1608-1677), of Hunsdon, Herts. and Coningsborough, Yorks.

Associated with: Hunsdon House, Herts. (to 1653); Cokayne House, London (to 1651); St. John’, Clerkenwell, Mdx.; Coningsborough, Yorks.VCH Herts. iii. 328; Her. and Gen. iv. 134.;

Author

Littleton, Charles

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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