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Family and Education
b. 10 June 1604, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir George Manners† of Haddon Hall, and Grace, da. of Sir Henry Pierrepont† of Holme Pierrepont, Notts.CP; Nichols, Leics. ii. 68. educ. Queens’ Camb. Lent 1619, MA 1621;Al. Cant. I. Temple 28 May 1622;I. Temple database. travelled abroad 1622-3 (France);CSP Dom. 1619-23, p. 455. Acad. d’Equitation d’Angers 1623.A. Joubert, ‘Les gentilshommes étrangers ... à l’Académie d’Equitation d’Angers au XVIIe siècle’, Revue d’Anjou, i. 17. m. 1628, Frances (d. 19 May 1671), da. of Sir Edward Mountagu† of Boughton, Northants. 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 7da. (2 d.v.p.).CP; Nichols, Leics. ii. 68. suc. fa. 23 Apr. 1623, cos. Sir George Manners† as 8th earl of Rutland 29 Mar. 1641; d. 29 Sept. 1679.CP.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Derbys. 23 Feb. 1626-aft. 1640, by Apr. 1657–?d.;C231/4, f. 196. Yorks. (W. Riding) 11 Mar. 1647-bef. Jan. 1650;C231/6, p. 79. Notts. 17 Mar. 1647 – bef.Jan. 1650, by Oct. 1660–?d.;C231/6, p. 81; C220/9/4. Leics., Lincs. (Holland, Kesteven, Lindsey) Mar. 1660–?d.C231/7, p. 89; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 9 June 1626-aft. Jan. 1642, 22 June 1659–?d.;C181/3, ff. 206, 258v; C181/4, ff. 11, 196; C181/5, ff. 5, 219v; C181/6, p. 370; C181/7, pp. 14, 641. Mdx. 23 Jan. 1644-aft. Jan. 1645;C181/5, ff. 231, 246. Lincs. 26 Apr. 1645;C181/5, f. 251v. Forced Loan, Derbys., Derby 1627;C193/12/2, ff. 9v, 82; E179/93/355, f. 1. charitable uses, Derbys. 3 July 1629, 17 Feb. 1632, 16 June 1635.C192/1, unfol. Sheriff, 7 Nov. 1632–10 Nov. 1633.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 31; Coventry Docquets, 365, 366. Dep. lt. by June 1634-aft. July 1640.J.C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbys. Annals (1890), 156; HMC Cowper, ii. 259. Kpr. king’s game, Haddon Oct. 1638–?SO3/11, unfol. Commr. subsidy, Derbys. 1641;SR. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 10 Feb. 1642 – 11 Feb. 1651, 14 Aug. 1660–1 May 1670;C181/5, f. 222v; C181/7, pp. 75, 518; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/7–8, 12. Deeping and Gt. Level 31 Jan. 1646–?, by May 1654–21 July 1659;C181/5, f. 268v; C181/6, pp. 26, 246, 332. Notts. 22 May 1669;C181/7, p. 487. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Derbys. 1642.SR. Ld. lt. 5 Mar. 1642–?;A. and O. Leics. 14 Jan. 1667-June 1677.CSP Dom. 1666–7, p. 452; 1677–8, p. 200. Commr. array (roy.), Derbys. 27 June 1642;Northants RO, FH133. gaol delivery, Derby 8 Feb. 1645.C181/5, f. 248. C.j. in eyre, north of River Trent 28 Nov. 1646-July 1661.CJ iv. 730a; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 16; 1661–2, p. 35. Commr. Lincs. militia, 3 July 1648;LJ x. 359a. militia, Derbys. 2 Dec. 1648; Lincs. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Custos rot. Derbys. Mar.-30 July 1660.A Perfect List (1660); C231/7, p. 21. Commr. swans, Lincs. 19 Dec. 1664.C181/7, p. 298.

Central: commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647;LJ vi. 55b; LJ viii. 411a; LJ ix. 500a. to Scottish Parliament, 19 July 1643.A. and O. Member, cttee. for sequestrations, 24 Aug. 1643.LJ vi. 195a. Commr. gt. seal, 10 Nov. 1643. Member, cttee. for the army, 31 Mar. 1645, 23 Sept. 1647; cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645. Commr. treaty with Scots, 28 July 1645;A. and O. to reside with armies at Newark, 5 Dec. 1645;LJ viii. 28b. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. 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; cttee. of navy and customs, 17 Dec. 1647.A. and O.

Civic: recorder, Grantham 31 Jan. 1662-Dec. 1677.Borough Government in Newton’s Grantham ed. J.B. Manterfield (Lincoln Rec. Soc. cvi), 334; CSP Dom. 1677–8, pp. 520, 534.

Parlimentarian
MANNERS, John (1604-1679), of Haddon Hall, Derbys.
: of Haddon Hall, Derbys.
Likenesses

Likenesses: miniature, S. Cooper, 1656;Belvoir Castle. oil on canvas, J. van der Eyden, c.1675;Belvoir Castle. fun. monument, G. Gibbons, Bottesford church, Leics.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MANNERS, John (1604-79), of Haddon Hall, Derbys.

Will
29 Apr. 1679, pr. 1 Dec. 1679.PROB11/361, f. 304v.
Estates
in the early 1630s, Manners paid £50 for distraint of knighthood.E407/35, f. 34v. In 1634, the 7th earl of Rutland settled Belvoir Castle and an income of £2,000 p.a. on him.Strafforde Letters, i. 261; ‘Sir George Manners’, HP Commons 1604-1629. In 1655, he bought houses and lands in Eastwell and Hose, Leics., from the treason trustees.CCC 2321. In 1656, the rents and demesne profits of the Manners estate were about £7,000 a year; those of the Haddon estate about £4,500 p.a.L. Stone, Family and Fortune (1973), 201. In 1662, his estate in Leics. was valued at £1,800 p.a.SP29/60/24, f. 44. After 1660, his estate was reckoned to be worth at least £8,000 p.a.‘Lincs. fams. temp. Charles II’ ed. C. H. Her. and Gen. ii. 117.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Exeter House, the Strand, London (1642-c.1657);HMC Rutland, iv. 539, 540. Wallingford House, London (by 1649-?).CCAM 530.
Religion
presented Edmund Frank to rectory of Bonsall, Derbys. 1628;IND1/17003, p. 43. Joseph Swetnam to rectory of Whitwell, Derbys. 1659.LPL, COMM II/716.
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