STAPILTON, Sir Philip (1603-47), of Warter Priory, Warter, Yorks.

Family and Education

bap. 26 Apr. 1603, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Henry Stapleton (d. 16 Feb. 1631) of Wighill, Yorks. and Mary, da. of Sir John Foster of Alnwick, Northumb.Wighill par. reg.; Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 41, f. 362; J. Foster, Yorks. Peds.; H. E. Chetwynd-Stapylton, ‘The Stapletons of Yorks.’, Yorks. Arch. Jnl. viii. 427, 428. educ. Queens’ Camb. 16 May 1617;Al. Cant.; N and Q ser. 2, ii. 468. I. Temple 30 Jan. 1621;I. Temple database. Acad. d’Equitation d’Angers 1625.A Joubert, ‘Les gentilshommes étrangers...à l’Académie d’Equitation d’Angers au XVIIe siécle’, Revue d’Anjou, i. 18 m. (1) 8 Oct. 1629, Frances, da. of Sir John Hotham* of Scorborough, Yorks. and wid. of John Gee of Beverley, Yorks. 2s. 3da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 5 Feb. 1638, Barbara, da. of Henry Lennard†, 12th Baron Dacre of Hurstmonceaux Castle, Suss. 2s. 3da. (2 d.v.p.).Scorborough bishop’s transcript; Foster, Yorks. Peds.; Chetwynd-Stapylton, ‘The Stapletons’, 458-9. Kntd. 25 May 1630.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 197. d. 18 Aug. 1647.A Short and True Narrative of the ... Sicknesse and Death of ... Sir Philip Stapleton (1647), 11 (E.409.3).

Offices Held

Local: commr. charitable uses, Yorks. (E. Riding) 1633;C192/1, unfol. sewers, 5 Dec. 1634-aft. June 1641.C181/4, f. 189v; C181/5, ff. 41v, 198. J.p. 23 Mar. 1636–d.C231/5, p. 198; Add. 29674, f. 148. Commr. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. embezzlement inquiry, York 9 Aug. 1641;Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 3, p. 65. assessment, E. Riding 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647;SR; A. and O. W. Riding 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647; sequestration, E. Riding 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Northern Assoc. E., W. Riding 20 June 1645.A. and O.

Central: commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642;SR. to attend king in Scotland, 20 Aug. 1641;CJ ii. 265b. to treat with Scots commrs. 3 Dec. 1641.CJ ii. 331a; LJ iv. 461a. Member, cttee. of safety, 4 July 1642;CJ ii. 651b. cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642.Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 393a. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646.LJ vi. 55b; LJ viii. 411a. Member, cttee. of both kingdoms, 16 Feb., 23 May 1644;A. and O. cttee. for examinations, 16 Oct. 1644;CJ iii. 666b. cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 19 Apr. 1645;A. and O. Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 24 July 1645.CJ iv. 217b. Commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646. Member, cttee. for foreign plantations, 21 Mar. 1646. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647.A. and O.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.) by 4 Aug. 1642-c.Apr. 1645;SP28/1A, f. 155; SP28/2B, f. 522. col. by Nov. 1642-c.Apr. 1645;SP28/2A, f. 251; R. Codrington, The Life and Death of the Illustrious Robert Earle of Essex (1646) 19 (E.358.7); Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 43, 44 lt.-gen. c.Nov. 1644-c.Apr. 1645.CJ v. 62a; ‘Sir William Balfour’, Oxford DNB.

Parlimentarian

STAPILTON, Sir Philip (1603-47), of Warter Priory, Warter, Yorks.

: of Warter Priory, Warter, Yorks.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

STAPILTON, Sir Philip (1603-47), of Warter Priory, Warter, Yorks.

Will

5 June 1647, pr. 2 Oct. 1647.PROB11/202, f. 24v.

Estates

by 1632, lord of the manor of Warter.E. Riding RO, zDDX152/1/7. In 1636, purchased property at Blanch, near Warter.Chetwynd-Stapylton, ‘The Stapletons’, 445. In 1638, he and another gentleman sold manor of Nuthills, Burstwick, Yorks. for £1,570.C54/3159/22. By 1640, Stapilton was leasing Warter Priory from the queen at a rent of £120 19s p.a.LR9/19, bdle. 5. His estate was estimated to be worth about £500 p.a. bef. civil war.Clarendon, Hist. i. 393. In 1646, he leased a messuage in St Martin’s Lane, Westminster, from the earl of Salisbury at a rent of £30 p.a.Hatfield House, Cecil mss, Accts. 162/1, f. 157. His will referred to his manor of Warter and property in Blanch, Warter and tithes of Warter, Yorks.PROB11/202, ff. 24v, 25. At his d. personal estate reportedly worth at least £2,000 in cash and £6,600 in recognizances, statutes and goods and chattels.C10/72/136.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Blackfriars, London (1638);Chetwynd-Stapylton, ‘The Stapletons’, 445. St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster (by Dec. 1646).Hatfield House, Cecil mss, Accts. 162/1, lease bk. 1636-50, f. 157.

Religion

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