MARTEN, Sir Henry (1562-1641), of Aldersgate, London, and Longworth, Berks.

Family and Education

bap. 2 Aug. 1562,St Michael Bassishaw Par. Reg. (Harl. Soc. lxxii), 72. 2nd s. of John Marten (d. 1563), baker of London and his w. Rose;St Michael Bassishaw, Par. Reg. 144; GL, MS 9051/3, f. 58. fa. of Henry Marten*. educ. Winchester Coll. Hants 1574;T.F. Kirby, Winchester Scholars (1888), 146. New Coll. Oxf. 24 Nov. 1581, BCL 15 June 1587, DCL 5 June 1592;Al. Ox. L. Inn, 21 May 1623;LI Admiss. i. 193. m. 1597, Elizabeth (d. 1618), sis. of John Harding, pres. of Magdalen Coll. Oxf. 2s. 3da.PROB11/118/1; Ashmole, Antiquities, i. 160-2. Kntd. 21 Dec. 1616.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 160. d. 26 Sept. 1641.Lansd. 985, f. 14; CSP Dom. 1641-3, p. 126.

Offices Held

Academic: fell. New Coll. Oxf. 1582 – 97.

Legal: official, archdeaconry of Berks. c.1593–1630.Wood, Ath. Ox. iii. 17. Member, Doctors’ Commons, 16 Oct. 1596–1612, 1615 – d.; treas. 1617–20.G.D. Squibb, Doctors’ Commons (Oxford, 1977), 48, 166; B. Levack, Civil Lawyers (Oxford, 1973), 252. Adv.-gen. 3 Mar. 1609–20.C66/1762; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 496; Add. 1580–1625, p. 621. Judge of admlty. 1617–d.HCA49/106, packet A, no. 13; HCA30/1035, pt. 1, f. 4. Chan. London dioc. 1619–27.Chamberlain Letters ed. McClure, ii. 205; Levack, Civil Lawyers, 252. Member, high commn. Canterbury prov. 1620–d.R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission (Oxford, 1913), 354; CSP Dom. 1633–4, p. 326. Judge, prerogative ct. of Canterbury, 1624–d.Chamberlain Letters, ii. 579; Levack, Civil Lawyers, 252. Dean, ct. of arches, 1624–33.Levack, Civil Lawyers, 252; Squibb, Doctors’ Commons, 166. Surrogate, ct. of chivalry by 1632.CSP Dom. 1631–3, p. 251.

Local: j.p. Berks. 1601–d.C231/1, f. 115v; C66/2858. Commr. recusants, Berks. 1602;C181/1, f. 34. piracy, Mdx., Kent, Surr. 1617; Southampton, Hants 1618 – 19, 1636; home cos. 1619 – 25; Devon 1619 – 30; Dorset 1622 – 31; Pemb., Carm. and Card. 1623; Norf. 1624 – 27; Suff. 1627, 1640; London 1630 – 39; Cumb. 1631; Cornw. 1634 – d.; Hants and I.o.W. 1635; Hull, Yorks. 1637; Suss. 1637; Exeter, Devon 1639;C181/2, ff. 299v, 309, 339, 340, 348; C181/3, ff. 1v, 72v, 79v, 97v, 113, 115v, 130, 176, 195v, 230v, 232, C181/4, ff. 37, 52v, 81, 95v, 104, 138v; C181/5, ff. 24, 26, 43v, 58, 68v, 80, 130v, 132v, 176, 187v. policies of assurances, London 1618–40;C181/2, f. 306v; C181/4, f. 129v; C181/5, f. 175. sewers, Suff. 1620; Deeping and Gt. Level 1621 – 38; Mdx. 1629 – 39; Oxon. and Berks. 1634; River Thames, Wilts. to Berks. 1635;C181/3, ff. 13, 35v, 214v; C181/4, ff. 93v, 23, 63v, 179; C181/5, ff. 10, 21v, 142v. subsidy, Berks. 1624;C212/22/23. admlty. causes, London, Mdx., Essex, Kent and Surr. 1625;HCA1/31/11, f. 13. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 1633–d.C181/4, ff. 144, 185v, 194v; C181/5, ff. 6v, 200v.

Central: commr. jointure of Princess Elizabeth, 1613;Chamberlain Letters, i. 433. negotiations with Dutch E. I. Co. 1619.Chamberlain Letters, ii. 197, 254. Gov. Charterhouse Hosp. 1624–d.G.S. Davies, Charterhouse in London (1921), 352; Strafforde Letters, i. 469; LMA, ACC71876/G/02/02, f. 32. Commr. trade, 1625;Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt i, p. 59. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1631.CSP Dom. 1631–3, p. 6. Commr. Oxf. Univ. statutes, June 1636.HMC Cowper, ii. 121.

Parlimentarian

MARTEN, Sir Henry (1562-1641), of Aldersgate, London and Longworth, Berks.

: London and Berks., Longworth.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on panel, unknown, c.1630.Trinity Hall, Camb.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

MARTEN, Sir Henry (1562-1641), of Aldersgate, London, and Longworth, Berks.

Will

23 Aug. 1641, pr. 15 Oct. 1641.PROB11/187/218.

Estates

purchased Berks. manors of Barcote (Buckload) 1618, Smewyns (White Waltham) 1622, Eaton Hastings 1628, Beckett and Stalpits 1633, Bouton 1635, Shrivenham 1635 and Canon Hill (Bray) by 1637; also Anville (Kintbury) 1641, Petwick (Latcombe) 1641; granted manor of Hinton Waldrist, Berks. by Charles I in 1627.Levack, Civil Lawyers, 252-3; Coventry Docquets, 631. Income at death said to be £3,000 p.a.C.H. Williams, ‘The Anatomy of a Radical Gentleman: Henry Marten’, in Puritans and Revolutionaries ed. D. Pennington and K. Thomas (Oxford, 1978), 119.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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