RICH, Charles (1616-73), of Leighs Priory, Essex and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. 1616, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Robert, 2nd earl of Warwick (Sir Robert Rich†) and Frances, da. of Sir William Hatton alias Newport† of Holdenby, Northants;Vis. Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. xiii-xiv), i. 278. bro. of Robert, Lord Rich*. educ. Univ. Basel 1633; Acad. Geneva 10 Jan. 1634.Die Matrikel der Universität Basel (Basel, 1962), iii. 350-1; Le Livre du Recteur de l’Académie de Genève (1559-1878) ed. S. Stelling-Michaud (Geneva, 6 vols. 1959-80),i. 183. m. 21 July 1641 (with £7,000), Mary (d.1678), da. of Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork, 1s. d.v.p. 1da. d.v.p.C54/3267; Autobiog. of Mary Countess of Warwick, ed. T.C. Croker (1848), 17, 45; F. Chancellor, ‘Essex churches XIX – Holy Cross, Felsted’, Essex Review, vi. 42. suc. bro. as 4th earl of Warwick 29 May 1659. d. 24 Aug. 1673.Chancellor, ‘Holy Cross, Felsted’, 42; Warwick, Autobiog. 33.

Offices Held

Local: commr. militia, Essex 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 10 July 1656;C181/6, p. 177. Essex 21 Mar. 1672;C181/7, p. 620. oyer and terminer, Home circ. June 1659–d.;C181/6, p. 372; C181/7, pp. 7, 638. Mdx. 5 July 1660–d.C181/7, pp. 3, 588. J.p. Essex 1659–d. Custos rot. 24 Nov. 1660–d.Essex QSOB ed. Allen, pp. xxix, 170, 192, 201; C231/7, p. 55. Gov. Landguard Fort, Suff. 1660–2.HP Lords 1660–1715. Commr. gaol delivery, Colchester 10 Sept. 1662–d.C181/7, pp. 169, 603.

Parlimentarian

RICH, Charles (1616-73), of Leighs Priory, Essex and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx.

: Essex and Mdx., Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

RICH, Charles (1616-73), of Leighs Priory, Essex and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx.

Will

sentence 13 May 1674.PROB11/346/20.

Estates

he and his fa. sold manor of Duston, Northants. to Arthur Wilson and William Jessop*, 1638;Coventry Docquets, 716. lived Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, 1659;Warwick, Autobiog. 28. inherited extensive Rich estates in Essex and elsewhere on the death of his bro. 1659.

Oxford 1644

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