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Family and Education
bap. 1 Mar. 1579, 1st s. of Thomas Harley of Brampton Bryan and 1st w. Margaret, da. of Sir Andrew Corbet† of Moreton Corbet, Salop.Collins, Peerage, iv. 56. educ. privately (Richard Harley); Oriel, Oxf. 9 Apr. 1597, BA 21 July 1599; M. Temple 24 Oct. 1599.Add. 70107, misc. 23, draft incomplete life of Sir Robert Harley; Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss. i. 75. m. (1) 13 Feb. 1603 (with £2,300), Anne (d. 1 Dec. 1603), da. of Charles Barret of Belhus, Aveley, Essex, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) by 1607, Mary (bur. 5 Aug. 1622), da. of Sir Francis Newport† of High Ercall, Salop, 1s. 8 other ch. d.v.p.; (3) 22 July 1623, with £1,600, Brilliana (d. Oct. 1643), da. of Sir Edward Conway† of Ragley, Warws., sec. of state 1623-8, 3s. 4da. (1 d.v.p.). cr. KB 1603. suc. fa. 1631.Collins, Peerage, iv. 56-59; J. Thorpe, Registrum Roffense (1769), 770; Brampton Bryan MSS, 30/12, 50/2, 83/26; J. Eales, Puritans and Roundheads. The Harleys of Brampton Bryan (Cambridge, 1990), 19. d. 6 Nov. 1656.Add. 70007, f. 90; Collins, Peerage, iv. 60; Eales, Puritans and Roundheads, 24.
Offices Held

Local: j.p., Herefs. by 1604 – c.18, 4 July 1622 – July 1642, 15 Aug. 1644–49.C66/1662; Brampton Bryan MSS, 27/4; Add. 70004, Brilliana Harley to Harley, 8 July 1642. Ranger, Bringwood Forest 1604–?38.Brampton Bryan MSS, 88/2; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 133; Herefs. RO, F76/IV/7; Trans. Woolhope Naturalists Field Club (1923), 210, 212. Commr. sewers, Herefs. 18 May 1604; River Wye, Herefs. Mon. and Glos. 14 June 1621.C181/1, f. 91; C181/3, f. 33. Sheriff, Rad. 1606–7.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 269. Dep. justice in Eyre, Herefs. 1606–24. Commr. subsidy, 1608, 1624, 1626.SP14/31/1; Add. 11051, ff. 19, 141; C231/4 f. 140; C212/22/23; Eales, Puritans and Roundheads, 31. Dep. lt. 1618–45.Trans. Radnor Soc. xxviii. 31; HEHL, EL7443. Capt. militia ft. by 1619–42.Add. 70086; Add. 70109, view of trained bands, 1640; Add. 70004, Brilliana Harley to Harley, 14 July 1642. Commr. oyer and terminer, Wales and marches 22 Mar. 1621–40;C181/3, f. 26. Oxf. circ. 1634–24 Jan. 1642.C181/4, f. 168v; C181/5, ff. 6v, 200v. Member, council in the marches of Wales, 1623–41.HMC 13th Rep. IV, 220; Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 4, p. 7. Commr. exacted fees, Herefs. 1623;Add. 70001, unfol. (7 July 1623). Forced Loan, Herefs., Hereford 1627;Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145; C193/12/2, ff. 21v, 83v. knighthood fines, Rad. 1630–2;E178/7154, f. 134c; E178/5905, ff. 5,8,9. purveyance, Herefs. 1631–41;Add. 11051, f. 33v; C193/12/3 f. 83v; Add. 70109/63. charitable uses, Herefs. 21 May 1636, 6 Aug. 1640.C93/16/7; C93/18/19. Dep. steward, Kingsland manor, Herefs. by Apr. 1639–?49.Add. 70058, loose: paper of 20 Apr. 1639. Commr. further subsidy, Herefs. 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 27 Sept. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR; A. and O. Worcs. 18 Oct. 1644; Rad. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; sequestration, Herefs. and Hereford 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Herefs. 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Hereford 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Glos., Herefs. and S. E. Wales, 10 May 1644; for Worcester, 23 Sept. 1644;A. and O. Herefs. militia, 23 May 1648;LJ x. 276b. militia, Herefs., Rad. 2 Dec. 1648; ejecting scandalous ministers, Herefs. 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Central: master of the mint, 12 Sept. 1626 – 3 Aug. 1635, 6 May 1643–16 May 1649.J. Craig, Hist. Royal Mint (Cambridge, 1946), 143, 146, 151, 152. Commr. discovery of abuses, manufacture of gold and silver thread, London and Westminster 19 June 1627;Coventry Docquets, 212. for Irish affairs, 4 Apr. 1642.CJ ii. 302a, 453b; PJ ii. 403. Member, cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 393a. cttee. for examinations, 17 Aug. 1642;CJ ii. 725a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 9 Jan. 1643;Add. 15669, f. 1v. cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645; cttee. for Westminster Abbey and Coll. 18 Nov. 1645. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647; removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648.A. and O.

Civic: high steward, Hereford by Dec. 1646-aft. Nov. 1649.Add. 70005, f. 83 (3rd foliation); Add. 70006, f. 124.

Parlimentarian
HARLEY, Sir Robert (1579-1656), of Brampton Bryan, Herefs.; Stanage Lodge, Herefs. and Aldermanbury, London.
: of Brampton Bryan, Herefs., Westminster and Salop., Ludlow.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HARLEY, Sir Robert (1579-1656), of Brampton Bryan, Herefs., Westminster and Ludlow, Salop.

Will
28 Oct. 1652, rev. 9 Sept. 1656, ?never proved.Add. 70089, original will.
Estates
bought rectory, advowson and tithes of Presteigne, Rad. 8 Oct. 1619, later conveyed to feoffees for impropriations, thence to crown;Brampton Bryan MSS, 8/33, 34. inherited patrimony of Brampton Bryan, Buckton, Walford, Bredwardine, Boresford, Burrington, Wigmore, Byton, Eyton, Kingsland, Herefs.; Leintwardine, Kinton, Bucknell, Salop. producing rents of £1,211 in 1648.Brampton Bryan MSS, 22/47. Estimate of rents 1640: £1,669, tithes £69;Brampton Bryan MSS, 22/58. woods valued in Mar. 1647 at £3,499.Brampton Bryan MSS, 22/58 Advowsons of Clun, Clunbury, Llanfair Waterdine, Salop.; Brampton Bryan, Wigmore, Leintwardine, Aylton and Pixley, Herefs. Lands in Stannedge, Rad.; Lugwardine, Bodenham, Webton, Leinthall Starkes, Elton, Herefs.Brampton Bryan MSS, 30/12, 83/14, 84/21. Acquired lease of half rectory of Newport, lands in Christchurch, manor of Bassaleg, rectories of Bassaleg, Machen, Mynyddislwyn, Bedwellty, Henllys, Risca, St Brides Wentloog, Coedcernyw, Mon. for 40 years from 1610.Brampton Bryan MSS, 74/15. Brampton Bryan and Wigmore said to be worth £60,000 at time of royalist siege in 1643.Add. 70089, draft memoir of Edward Harley.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Tuttle St. Westminster by Dec. 1646-50.Add. 70005, f. 85 (3rd foliation); Add. 70113, Edward Cooke to Edward Harley, n.d. 1650.
Religion
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