Family and Education
b. 1626, 3rd but 1st surv. s. of William Cavendish†, 1st earl of Newcastle (d. 25 Dec. 1676), and 1st w. Elizabeth (d. 17 Apr. 1643), da. and h. of William Bassett of Blore, Staffs.Nottingham Univ. Lib. Pw 1/644; CP; CJ vii. 311b. educ. privately (Mark Anthony Benoist);The Life of William Cavendish. ed. C. H. Firth (1906), 46. G. Inn 18 Mar. 1641.G. Inn Admiss. 230. m. by Apr. 1654, Elizabeth (d. 21 Apr. 1661), da. of Richard Rogers of Bryanston, Dorset, 1da. d.v.p.Notts. RO, DD/P/6/1/19/29; CP; Life of Cavendish, ed. Firth, 116. d. 31 May 1659.The Corresp. of Bishop Brian Duppa and Sir Justinian Isham ed. G. Isham (Northants. Rec. Soc. xvii), 170.
Offices Held
Local: kpr. Roomwood and Osland walks, Sherwood Forest June 1641–?
Military: col. of horse and ft. (roy.) 1642 – 44; gen. of ordnance, 1642–4.
: Visct. Mansfield (c.1626-59), of Welbeck Abbey, Notts. 1626 – 59.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
CAVENDISH, Charles, Visct. Mansfield (c.1626-59), of Welbeck Abbey, Notts.
Will
4 Apr. 1654,Notts. RO, DD/P/6/1/19/29. admon. 11 July 1661.PROB6/37, f. 73.
Estates
by 1656, estate inc. lands and a house at Otterden, Kent, and lands in Bryanston, Dorset, worth at least £500 p.a..Nottingham Univ. Lib. Pw 1/189. By 1658, his estate inc. manors of Blore and Blore Park, Staffs.; a moiety of manors of Slingsby, Fryton and Hovingham, Yorks.; a house and lands in Wellingore, Lincs.; barony of Ogle, Northumb.; granges of Gleadthorpe, Hurst, Hardwick and Normanton, Notts.; and advowsons of Blore and Grindon, Staffs. of Bolsover, Chesterfield, Kirk Langley and Langley Meynell, Derbys. and of Clipston, Edwinstowe, Kirkby, Mansfield, Norton and Southam, Notts.Notts. RO, DD/P/6/1/12/3. Estate in reversion of lands in Derbys. Glos. Northumb. Notts., Som. and Staffs.SP23/101, p. 903; Nottingham Univ. Lib. Pw 1/629.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
presented Robert Seddon to rectory of Kirk Langley, Derbys. 1656.Add. 70499, f. 333; Nottingham Univ. Lib. Pw 1/10, 96; Calamy Revised, 431.
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