CROMWELL alias WILLIAMS, Henry (1625-73), of Bodsey House and later of Ramsey Abbey, Ramsey, Hunts.

Family and Education

bap. 22 June 1625, 3rd but o. surv. s. of Henry Cromwell of Ramsey Abbey, Hunts. and his 2nd w. Anne, da. of Sir Richard Dyer of Place House, Gt. Staughton, wid. of Sir Edward Carr, 1st bt., of Sleaford, Lincs.Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, i. 72-3; Familiae Minorum Gentium (Harl. Soc. xxxviii), 436. educ. travelled abroad (Venice) 1640.Add. 33464, f. 9. m. his cos. Anna, da. and h. of Richard Cromwell of Upwood, Hunts. s.p.Familiae Minorum Gentium, 435; VCH Hunts. ii. 68, 71. suc. fa. 18 Sept. 1657.Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, i. 70; PROB6/353, f. 150. d. 3 Aug. 1673.Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, i. 79.

Offices Held

Military: col. militia ft. Hunts. ?by Nov. 1656–?72.CJ vii. 438a; Clarendon SP, iii. 469. Capt. Grenadier Gds. 1672–d.CSP Dom. 1671–2, p. 249; 1673, p. 483.

Local: commr. assessment, Hunts. 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672;A. and O.; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Huntingdon 1664;SR militia, Hunts. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, 1660.SR J.p. July 1660–d. Dep. lt. Nov. 1660–d.Bodl. Carte 337, f. 337; Carte 74, f. 204. Commr. loyal and indigent officers, 1662; subsidy, Hunts., Huntingdon 1663;SR appeals, Bedford Level 1668.HP Commons 1660–1690.

Central: commr. tendering oath to MPs, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 593a. Gent. of privy chamber, 1671–d.N. Carlisle, An inquiry into the place and quality of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Privy Chamber (1829), 188.

Parlimentarian

CROMWELL (afterwards WILLIAMS), Henry (1625-73), of Bodsey House, Ramsey, Hunts.

: of Bodsey House and later of Ramsey Abbey, Hunts., Ramsey.

WILLIAMS

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CROMWELL alias WILLIAMS, Henry (1625-73), of Bodsey House and later of Ramsey Abbey, Ramsey, Hunts.

Will

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Estates

the rents from his grandfa.’s lands at Ramsey, Bodsey, Garnesey, Broughton and Upwood, Hunts. had been worth £688 2s 8d p.a. in 1632;Add. 34485, f. 30. most of these lands had been sold before he succeeded his fa. in 1657; his remaining lands were overvalued at £2,000 on his nomination as knight of the Royal Oak, 1660.Burke Commoners, i. 689.

Oxford 1644

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