CRANFIELD, James, Lord Cranfield (1621-51), of Copthall, Essex.

Family and Education

bap. 27 Dec. 1621, 1st s. of Lionel Cranfield†, 1st earl of Middlesex, and 2nd w. Anne (d. 3 Feb. 1670), da. of James Brett of Hoby, Leics. m. 3 Mar. 1646, Anne (bur. 9 Sept. 1662), da. and coh. of Edward Bourchier, 4th earl of Bath, 2da.CP. Styled Lord Cranfield; suc. fa. as 2nd earl of Middlesex 5 Aug. 1645.‘Lionel Cranfield, 1st earl of Middlesex’, Oxford DNB. bur. 13 Sept. 1651 13 Sept. 1651.CP.

Offices Held

Central: member, cttee. for excise, 28 Apr. 1646. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for the sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. for compounding, 8 Feb. 1647.A. and O. Member, Derby House cttee. of Irish affairs, 9 Apr. 1647.LJ ix. 127b, 131b. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647.A. and O. Commr. treaty with king at Newport, 6 Sept. 1648.LJ x. 492b.

Parlimentarian

CRANFIELD, James, Lord Cranfield (1621-51), of Copthall, Essex.

: Lord Cranfield (1621-51), of Copthall, Essex. 1621 – 51.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, attrib. J. Weesop, 1641-1651.NT, Knole.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CRANFIELD, James, Lord Cranfield (1621-51), of Copthall, Essex.

Will

7 Sept. 1651, pr. 16 Sept. 1651.PROB11/218, f. 113.

Estates

in 1645, inherited mansion house and park of Copthall, Essex; manor of Cranfield, Beds.; manors of Forthampton and Sezincote and property in Siston, Glos.; manor of Milcote, Warws.; the manor of Caldecott, Worcs.; and houses in St Sepulchre, London, and St John, Clerkenwell, Mdx. – in all, worth about £4,600 a year.PROB11/194, f. 126v-128v; M. Prestwich, Cranfield: Politics and Profits under the Early Stuarts (Oxford, 1966), 587-8.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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