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bap. 13 Apr. 1608, 1st s. of Walter Stanhope of Low Hall, Horsforth, and Mary (bur. 8 Apr. 1618), da. and coh. of John Hanson of Woodhouse, Halifax.Transcript of the Early Par. Regs. of Guiseley ed. W.E. Preston, J. H. Rowe, 83, 105, 340-2; Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis, 168; H. Owen, Stanhope, Atkinson, Haddon and Shaw: Four N. Country Fams. app. I. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 26 Nov. 1624;Al. Ox. G. Inn 21 June 1626.G. Inn Admiss. m. (1) 29 Nov. 1627, Anne (bur. 24 May 1637), da. of Francis Rawdon of Rawdon, Guiseley, 3s. (2 d.v p.) 3da. (2 d.v.p.);St Martin, Ludgate par. reg.; Par. Regs. of Guiseley ed. Preston, Rowe, 24, 25, 37, 38, 47, 131, 134, 342. (2) Elizabeth (d. c.Oct. 1641), da. of Robert Tinley DD, prebend of Ely, 1da. d.v.p.;Par. Regs. of Guiseley ed. Preston, Rowe, 342; W. Yorks. Archives (Bradford), SpSt/6/1/8. (3); 17 June 1645, Alice (bur. 9 Jan. 1669), da. of Robert Mitchell of Arthington Grange, Adel, Yorks., 4s. (3 d.v.p.).Par. Regs. of Guiseley ed. Preston, Rowe, 28, 29, 30, 31, 171; W. Yorks. Archives (Bradford), SpSt/6/5/11; Owen, Four N. Country Fams. 33, 35, app. I. suc. fa. Nov. 1660;Owen, Four N. Country Fams. 19. d. 8 June 1675.W. Yorks. Archives (Bradford), SpSt/6/6/3/41.
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Local: recvr. contributions (parlian.), northern army, Yorks. (W. Riding) 1644.E113/7, pt. 1, unfol. Member, sub-cttee. of accts. W. Riding 10 June-aft. Dec. 1647.W. Yorks. Archives (Calderdale), SH:3/L/17; ‘A dyurnall [sic]...Adam Eyre’ ed. H. J. Morehouse, in Yorks. Diaries ed. C. Jackson (Surt. Soc. lxv), 96. Commr. charitable uses, 2 Mar. 1647, 25 Feb. 1657, 11 Oct. 1658;C93/19/27; C93/24/10; C93/25/2. town and par. of Halifax 16 May 1651;C93/21/29; W. Yorks. Archives (Calderdale), HAS/B:22/27, ff. 2, 4–6. Yorks. 22 Apr. 1651;C93/21/13. Ripon 5 May 1653;C93/22/14. Skipton g.s. 23 Nov. 1654.C93/23/2; W. Yorks. Archives (Bradford), SpSt/4/11/109/1/3. J.p. W. Riding 28 Nov. 1648–d.;C231/6, p. 128. liberties of Ripon by Oct. 1654–10 May 1662.C181/6, pp. 67, 283. Commr. assessment, W. Riding 7 Dec. 1649, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672; Yorks. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 1 June 1660;A. and O.; SR; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). inquiry concerning church livings, W. Riding c.May 1650.W. Yorks. Archives (Wakefield), C413. Treas. lame soldiers, ?- 8 Apr. 1651.W. Yorks. Archives (Bradford), SpSt/10/8/1. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, W. Riding and York 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. gaol delivery, liberties of Ripon 24 Mar. 1658;C181/6, p. 283. militia, Yorks. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, W. Riding 1660;SR. sewers, 13 Oct. 1662, 8 Dec. 1671.C181/7, pp. 171, 606. Sub-commr. of excise, c.1662–3.CTB i. 471. Commr. subsidy, 1663.SR.

Parlimentarian
STANHOPE, John (1608-75), of Low Hall, Horsforth, Guiseley, Yorks.
: of Low Hall, Horsforth, Guiseley, Yorks.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, unknown, c.1665.Owen, Four N. Country Fams. 27.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

STANHOPE, John (1608-75), of Low Hall, Horsforth, Guiseley, Yorks.

Will
July 1674, pr. 30 July 1675.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 51, f. 106.
Estates
in 1628, fa. assessed £5 for lands in Horsforth by subsidy commrs. (suggesting an estate of between £200 and £250 p.a.).E179/209/361A. In 1630, fa. fined £16 for distraint of knighthood.W. Yorks. Archives (Bradford), SpSt/11/6/2; ‘Compositions for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I’ ed. W. P. Baildon, in Misc. 1 (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lxi), 92. By 1630s, the Stanhopes owned manor house at Horsforth (Low Hall), at least a fifth of manor of Horsforth, manor of Eccleshill and numerous messuages and closes in neighbouring townships.C142/278/77; W. Yorks. Archives (Bradford), SpSt/4/11/66/56, 57, 60-1, 94; SpSt/4/11/13/1-5; SpSt/4/11/41/10, 14-27; SpSt/4/11/45/2; SpSt/4/11/66/263-4, 375. In 1672, his houses at Horsforth and Eccleshill were assessed at 10 and 8 hearths respectively.Yorks. W. Riding Hearth Tax Assessment Lady Day 1672 ed. D. Hay et al. (BRS cxxi), 205, 244. At his d. personal estate valued at £747.W. Yorks. Archives (Bradford), SpSt/6/4/18-19.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Gray’s Inn, Mdx. (1630).W. Yorks. Archives (Bradford), SpSt/4/11/66/263.
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