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Family and Education
b. 1587, 1st. s. of Edmund Porter of Mickleton and Angela, da. of Giles Porter of Madrid, Spain and Mickleton.G. Huxley, Endymion Porter: The Life of a Courtier 1587-1649 (London, 1959), 17, 314. educ. Madrid;Clarendon, Hist, i. 20. G. Inn 1619.G. Inn Admiss. i. 158. m. Olivia (d. 1663), da. of Sir John Boteler of Woodhall, nr. Hatfield, Herts., 10s. (6 d.v.p.), 2da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. Apr. 1623.Huxley, Endymion Porter, 48, 76, 121, 124, 146, 158, 227, 250, 283-4; Chipping Campden, Glos. par. reg. bur. 20 Aug. 1649 20 Aug. 1649.St Martin-in-the-Fields par. reg.
Offices Held

Household: servant, chamber of Don Gaspar de Guzmán, Madrid 1605 – 07; household of William Calley, Madrid, 1607 – c.12; of Edward Villiers†, master of horse, 1613–17. Spanish sec. to George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, 1617–21.Oxford DNB.

Court: Spanish sec. to Charles, prince of Wales, 1621–5. Gent of bedchamber to Charles, prince of Wales, 1621–5. Groom of bedchamber to Charles I, 1625–?49.Oxford DNB; CSP Dom. 1625–6, pp. 23, 528; Foedera viii. pt 2, 23.

Central: recvr. fines for non-payment of customs, 1618.CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 605. Farmer of customs, duchy of Cornwall, 1625.CSP Dom. 1625–6, pp. 210, 255. Collector and recvr. fines, star chamber, 1628.C66/2453/6; Add. Ch. 6223. Recvr. customs on French wines, Lancs., Cheshire, N. Wales 1631–?42.C66/2546/7; CSP Dom. 1630–1, p. 554; Coventry Docquets, 221. Commr. abuses of goldsmiths, 1635;Rymer, Foedera viii. pt. 4, 123. examination of accts. to king, 1639.CSP Dom. 1639, p. 2. Dep. postmaster-gen. Sept. 1635-Mar. 1642.CSP Dom. 1636–37, p. 530. Surveyor, petty customs, port of London (in reversion), 1638.CSP Dom. 1637–38, p. 191; Foedera ix. pt. 2, 206; Coventry Docquets, 207. Recvr. duties on wines, western ports, 1643–4.CSP Dom. 1652–53, p. 167.

Diplomatic: amb. Brussels 1634.J. Howell, Epistolae ed. Jacobs (1890), i. 324; CCSP i. 53.

Irish: recvr. tenths of profits of customs, 1621.CSP Ire. 1625–32, pp. 255, 377, 439. Commr. Irish livings, 1632.CSP Ire. 1625–32, p. 650; 1633–47, p. 67.

Local: trustee, Chipping Campden g.s. Glos. 1627–?d.Glos. RO, D213/9/3. Kpr. Hartwell Park, Northants. 1629–33.Huxley, Endymion Porter, 39; C66/2384/5, 2442/12, 2498/4; Coventry Docquets, 257. Commr. regulation of archery grounds, London Dec. 1632.Foedera viii. pt. 3, 252. J.p. Mdx. 1636–40.C193/13/2. Capt. Westminster trained bands, ?-24 Jan. 1642.L.C. Nagel, ‘The militia of London, 1641–1649’ (London PhD thesis, 1982), 102; CJ ii. 390b; HMC Cowper ii. 305.

Mercantile: grant from proceeds of Irish accts. due to the king, 1628.CSP Dom. 1628–29, p. 125. Asst. society of soapers, Westminster, 1631.Foedera viii. pt. 3, 206. Adventurer, assoc. for fishery, 1632;CSP Dom. 1631–33, p. 511. North and South Somercotes marshlands, Lincs. (drainage scheme) 1632.CSP Dom. 1631–33, p. 411. Grant of 15 per cent of rent paid for collecting Irish customs, 1632;Coventry Docquets, 222.of metalliferous mining rights, all Ireland except Munster, 1635.CSP Ire. 1647–60, Add. 1616–60, p. 90. Partner, Courten assoc. to discover north west passage, 1635–9.Foedera ix. pt. 2, 96; Coventry Docquets, 45. 405. Patentee, gold and silver thread, 1635.CSP Dom. 1635–36, p. 182. Asst. corporation of salt makers of Great Yarmouth, 1636.CSP Dom. 1637–38, p. 147. Licence to trade in parts of E. Indies not under control of E. I. Co. 1638.C66/2765/2. Patentee, manufacture of white writing paper, 1640.CSP Dom. 1640, p. 226; A Companion to Arber ed.W.W. Greg (Oxford, 1967), 355.

Civic: freeman, Bristol 6 June 1637–d.Bristol RO, 04264/3, f. 76v.

Military: col. of ft. (roy.), 1642.Peacock, Army Lists, 14.

Parlimentarian
PORTER, Endymion (1587-1649), of Mickleton and Aston-sub-Edge, Glos.
: of Mickleton and Aston-sub-Edge, Glos.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, D. Mytens, 1627;NPG. oil on canvas, family group, A. Van Dyck, 1632-3;Private colln. oil on canvas, double portrait with the artist, A. Van Dyck, c.1633;Prado, Madrid. oil on canvas, A. Van Dyck, 1638-40;Pennington-Mellor-Munthe Charity Trust. oil on canvas, W. Dobson, c.1642-5;Tate. oil on canvas, family group, aft. A. Van Dyck;NT, Dunham Massey. oil on canvas, family group, aft. A. Van Dyck;Mount Hollyoake Coll. Art Museum, South Hadley, Mass. line engraving, W. Faithorne aft. W. Dobson, c.1646;BM; NPG. medal, attrib. J. Warin, c.1635.NT, Kingston Lacy.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

PORTER, Endymion (1587-1649), of Mickleton and Aston-sub-Edge, Glos.

Will
not found.
Estates
leased Exminster rectory, Devon 1619.CSP Dom. 1619-23, p. 95. Manor of Aston, Glos. (650 acres freehold), 1619;CSP Dom. 1648-49, p. 432. pension of £500 p.a. 1625, extended to wife’s life, 1628;C66/2358/22, 2468/21; CSP Dom. 1628-29, p. 219. manor of Alfarthing, Surr. 1626;C66/2384/5. grant of former monastic lands, Co. Louth, Ire. 1627;CSP Ire. 1625-32, p. 257. Montgomery coppice, 1628;C66/2442/12. Hynd Castle, Forfarshire, Scotland 1633;Add. Ch. 6224. £2,000 payment from king, 1635;CSP Dom. 1635, p. 571. River Shannon marshlands, Ire. 1637;CSP Ire. 1647-60, Add. 1616-60, p. 226. former lands of Dundalk abbey, Ire. 1637;CSP Ire. 1647-60, Add. 1616-60, p. 290. Pemb., Carm., Glam. marshlands 1638;CSP Dom. 1637-38, p. 292. Flint Wood, Flint. 1638;Coventry Docquets, 358; T56/8 p. 27. £50 p.a. from Trinity House ballasting monopoly, 1638;CSP Dom. 1638-39, p. 262. reversions of leases of Marsly Park, Denb., Raby Park, Durham.CSP Dom. 1628-29, p. 422.
Oxford 1644
Yes
1640 Volume
oxford
Addresses
The Strand, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, 1622-d.LMA, BRA 723/8, 9, 10.
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