BUTLER, James (1610-88)

PC [I] 1635 – 47, 1661 – d., PC 1651 – d., PC [S] 1661 – d., 1661; ld. steward 1660 – d.; gent. of bedchamber 1660 – 66; ld. lt. [I] 1643 – 47, 1649 – 50, 1662 – 69, 1677 – 85; commr., prizes 1665, CSP Dom. 1664–5, p. 243. 1672, CSP Dom. 1671–2, p. 419. trade 1668 – 72, plantations 1671 – 72, trade and plantations 1672 – 74, 1675 – d.; admiralty 19 July 1673 – 14 May 1679, Tangier 1673–84. Williamson Letters (Cam. Soc. n.s. viii), 149; CTB, vii. 1253.

Cllr. New England 1632; ld. lt. Som. and Bristol 1660 – 72; kpr. Exmoor forest 1661; gov. Duncannon 1661, Bodl. Carte 158, p. 216. Passage, co. Waterford 1664; Ibid. 43, f. 320. high steward, Bristol 1661, Merchants and Merchandize in Seventeenth-Century Bristol ed. P. McGrath (Bristol Rec. Soc. xix), 157. Westminster 1671, CSP Dom. 1671, p. 224; Add. 36916, f. 224. Winchester by 1672 Bodl. Tanner, 43, f. 17. -?d.; freeman, Dublin 1662, Cal. Ancient Recs. of Dublin, iv. 243. Preston 1682; Preston Guild Rolls 1397–1682 ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc.) ix. 180. steward honour of Tutbury, 1674–83, R. Somerville, Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders, 161–2; Bodl. Carte 40, f. 480. Needwood Forest 1674–1686; Bodl. Carte 40, f. 480; Carte 220, f. 134; CTB, 1685–9, p. 990. chief butler of Ire.; ld. of the regalities and liberties of the county palatine of Tipperary 1662–d. Bodl. Carte 143, ff. 23–24.

Capt. of horse 1631; lt. gen. of horse 1638; col. of horse 1640; lt. gen. of army [I] Mar. 1640 – May 1641; c.-in-c. Oct. 1641; royal commr. 1643; col. of ft. (Spain) 1656; capt. and col. of foot [I] 1660–85; Bodl. Carte 41, f. 388; Dalton, Irish Army Lists, 1660–85, pp. 4, 149; HMC Ormonde i. 411. capt. of horse 1660 – d.; col. of horse [I] 1660–85. Dalton, Irish Army Lists, 3, 147; Carte, Ormond, iv. 676, 679.

Chan. Univ. of Dublin 1645 – 53, 1660 – 88, Oxf. 1669 – d.; DCL Oxf. 1669, LLD Camb. 1670; gov. Charterhouse by 1674–d., Al. Carth. 35, 50. Dublin Hosp. 1683. CTB, 1681–5, p. 943.