RAINSFORDE, Sir Henry (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, Glos. and Combe, Hants.

Family and Education

bap. 24 Dec. 1599, 2nd, but 1st. surv. s. of Sir Henry Rainsforde of Clifford Chambers and Anne, da. of Sir Henry Goodere† of Polesworth, Warws.Sir J. Maclean, ‘History of the manor and advowson of Clifford Chambers’, Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch Soc. xiv. 64-9, 98; The Gen. ii. 105-7. educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. 18 June 1613;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 8 Nov. 1616.MTR ii. 611. m. settlement 1 Feb. 1620, Eleanor (d. 1640), da. of Robert Boswell of Eastwicke, Combe, Hants, 9s. (1 d.v.p.) 6da. (1 d.v.p.).The Gen. ii. 107; Maclean, ‘Clifford Chambers’, 69-70; PROB6/18, f. 33v; PROB6/22, f. 138; Abstracts of Glos. IPM, ed. W.P.W. Phillimore and G.S. Fry (2 vols., 1893-5), ii. 163-4. suc. fa. 27 Jan. 1622.C142/402/145; Maclean, ‘Clifford Chambers’, 69. Kntd. 17 Aug. 1624.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 186. d. betw. 8–31 Mar. 1641.CJ ii. 114b; Procs. LP iii. 278, 280.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Glos. 1625-bef. 1636.Rymer, Foedera, viii (2), 8; APC 1627–8, p. 288; C193/13/2, f. 29. Commr. Forced Loan, 1626, 1627;SP16/44, f. 8; SP16/54, f. 54; Rymer, Foedera viii (2), 145. martial law, 10 Feb. 1628;APC 1627–8, p. 288. oyer and terminer, 9 Apr. 1628.C181/3, f. 240v.

Parlimentarian

RAINSFORDE, Sir Henry (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, Glos. and Combe, Hants.

: Glos. and Combe, Hants.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

RAINSFORDE, Sir Henry (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, Glos. and Combe, Hants.

Will

admon. to Frances Boswell, 7 May 1641, to John Kingston, 8 Nov. 1647.PROB6/18, f. 33v; PROB6/22, f. 138.

Estates

manor of Clifford Chambers; other lands in that parish, inc. Wincott and Brooke meadow, and advowson of church; land in Alveston, Warws.; reversionary interest in leasehold land in Faccombe, Hants, aft. d. of mo.-in-law Frances Boswell (who outlived him).Abstracts of Glos. IPM, ii. 163-4.

Oxford 1644

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