WALLOP, Sir Henry (1568-1642), of Farleigh Wallop, Hants.

Family and Education

b. 18 Oct. 1568, 1st s. of Sir Henry Wallop† of Farleigh Wallop and Enniscorthy, co. Wexford, and Katherine (d. 1599), da. of Richard Gifford of King’s Somborne, Hants.Berry, Pedigrees of Hants, 41-2; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1939, i. 82. educ. St John’s, Oxf. 9 Oct 1584, BA (Hart Hall) 12 Feb. 1588;Al. Ox. L. Inn, 24 Mar. 1590.L Inn Admiss. i. 110. m. c.1596, Elizabeth (d. 5 Nov. 1623), da. of Robert Corbet† of Moreton Corbet, Salop, 1s. (Robert Wallop*), 5da.Berry, Pedigrees of Hants, 41-2; Chamberlain Letters, ii. 52. suc. fa. 1599; uncle, William Wallop†, aft. 15 Nov. 1617.Chamberlain Letters, i. 82; PROB11/130/731. Kntd. 6 Aug. 1599.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 97. d. 15 Nov. 1642.PROB6/29/352.

Offices Held

Local: steward, Lymington and Somerford manors 1594-aft. 1607. 1596 – 10 June 1642E315/310, f. 16v; E316/3/191; HMC Salisbury, xx. 283. J.p. Hants; Salop 1608–d.SP14/33, f. 51v, 55; C193/13/1, ff. 81v, 87; C66/1620, 1688; C231/5, p. 528. Sheriff, Hants 1603–4, 1629 – 30; Salop Feb.-Nov. 1606. 26 June 1606 – 26 June 1627List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 56, 119; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 231; Coventry Docquets, 362. Capt. militia ft. Hants by 1605–25. 26 June 1606 – 26 June 1627Whithed Letter Bk. (Hants Rec. ser. i), 27; Add. 21922, ff. 5, 38. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ., 17 June 1625-aft. Jan. 1642;APC 1627–8, p. 318; C181/2, ff. 7v, 269v; C181/3, ff. 178, 259v; C181/4, ff. 11v, 193v; C181/5, ff. 5v, 221. Wales and marches 8 Nov. 1606-aft. July 1640.C181/2, ff. 17v, 299; C181/3, ff. 26, 191v; C181/4, f. 162v; C181/5, f. 185. Gov. Basingstoke free sch. Hants 1607.Woodward et al. General Hist. Hants, iii. 228; Baigent, Millard, Hist. Basingstoke, 145n. Commr. subsidy, Hants 1608, 1610, 1624.E179/175/486; SP14/31/1; C212/22/20, 21, 23. Collector of aid, 1609.SP14/43, f. 107; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 552. Commr. aid, 1612;E403/2731, f. 168v; E403/2732, f. 100v; Harl. 354, f. 68. sewers, Winchester 16 Oct. 1617;C181/2, f. 296v. River Avon, Hants and Wilts. 25 June 1629-aft. May 1630;C181/4, ff. 17v, 49v. River Kennet, Berks. and Hants 16 July 1633.C181/4, f. 147v. Member, council in the marches of Wales, 1617.Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 21. Custos rot. Hants 1624–d.C231/4, f. 173v. Commr. disarming recusants, 1625;Add. 21922, f. 38. pressing seamen, 1625;APC 1623–5, p. 499. billeting, 1626;APC 1626, p. 224. martial law, 1626–8;CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 419; 1627–8, p. 440; APC 1626, p. 221; Add. 21922, f. 123; C181/3, f. 241. Forced Loan, Hants, Salop 1627;Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145; C193/12/2, ff. 48, 51. swans, Hants and western cos. 20 May 1629;C181/4, f. 2 oyer and terminer for piracy, Hants. and I.o.W. 26 Sept. 1635-aft. Oct. 1636;C181/5, ff. 24, 58. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, cttee. for Hants, 23 July 1642.LJ v. 233b-234a.

Civic: freeman, Southampton 1597.HMC 11th Rep. III, 22. High steward, Basingstoke 1629–d.Baigent, Millard, Hist. Basingstoke, 487.

Irish: dep. treas.-at-war, 1598–9.APC 1597–8, p. 619.

Central: commr. for trade, 1622, 1625.Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 2, p. 11; viii. pt. 1, p. 59.

Parlimentarian

WALLOP, Sir Henry (1568-1642), of Farleigh Wallop, Hants; Poynton, Salop and Little St. Bartholomew, London

: Hants.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WALLOP, Sir Henry (1568-1642), of Farleigh Wallop, Hants.

Will

admon. 8 Sept. 1654.PROB6/29/352.

Estates

inherited from fa. 1599 substantial lands in Hants, inc. manors of Farleigh Wallop, Over Wallop, Wallop’s in Soberton and (?leasehold) Ecchinswell.VCH Hants, iii. 225, 261, 365; iv. 105, 203-4, 210, 253, 289, 358, 367, 409, 516, 518, 532. Also inherited over 5,000 acres of land in co. Wexford, Ireland; grant confirmed 1 Mar. 1637.H. Goff, ‘English conquest of an Irish barony’, in Wexford: Hist. and Society ed. K. Whelan (1987), 131-2, 142, 146-7; Coventry Docquets, 402. Acquired aft. marriage lands in Salop and manor of Gladley, Beds. in the right of his wife, coh. in some estates of her fa. Robert Corbet† (d.1583) and h. of her uncle Richard Corbet† (d.1606), who had received the main family patrimony.VCH Beds. iii. 405; VCH Salop x. 30, 91; HP Commons 1558-1603. In Feb. 1617 Wallop owned lands in Farleigh Wallop, Over Wallop, Nether Wallop, Cliddesden, Hatch, Ellisfield, Soberton, Appleshaw, Redenham, Fyfield in Hants; Allington, Wilts; Hopton and Hopton Castle, Shelderton, Broadward, Abcott, ‘Oblages’, Clungunford and Clunbury, Salop.V.J. Watney, The Wallop Family (1928), i. p. xlvii. House in St Bartholomew the Less, London, bef. 1615-?, and at 6-7 Covent Piazza, Westminster, bef. 1640-d.HMC 7th Rep. 43; Survey of London, xxxvi. 96. In Nov. 1617 inherited from his uncle William Wallop† land at Wield, Hants, in reversion aft. d. of William’s wid. Marjorie.PROB11/130/731; HP Commons 1558-1603. In 1620 owned moiety of the manor of Ruan-Lanihorne, Cornw.D. Lysons and S. Lysons, Magna Britannia iii. Cornwall (1814), 279. Acquired manors of Appleshaw and Tytherley, Hants, 1626; further land in Over Wallop, 1631; manor of Hurstbourne Priors for £1,747 12s 4d, 1636 from Sir Robert Oxenbridge, with lands in Tufton and elsewhere, allegedly totalling £12,067 12s 4d.Coventry Docquets, 551, 616; VCH Hants, iv. 289, 409, 516; Wallop Fam. p. xlvii. Interest in woods and ironworks in Herefs. in dispute with earl of Lindsey, May 1635.PC2/44/557. Advowson of Dallington, Northants.A Certificate from Northamptonshire (1641), 8 (E.163.13).

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