RALEGH (RALEIGH, RAWLEIGH), Carew (Carey) (1605-66), of Kempton Park, Mdx., Horsley, Surr., and St Martin’s Lane, Westminster.

Family and Education

bap. 15 Feb. 1605,A. Beer, Bess: the Life of Lady Ralegh (2004), 171-2. 3rd but only surv. s. of Sir Walter Ralegh† (exec. 29 Oct. 1618) of Durham House, Strand, London, and Sherborne, Dorset, and Elizabeth (d. ?1647), da. of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton† of Aldgate, London, and Paulerspury, Northants.HP Commons 1558-1603; ‘Sir Walter Ralegh’, Oxford DNB; A.L. Rowse, Ralegh and the Throckmortons (1962), 326; Beer, Bess, 256. educ. Wadham, Oxf. 23 Mar. 1621;Al. Ox. travel, France, bef. 15 May 1625.SP16/521, f. 59. m. Philippa, da. of Thomas Sheldon and wid. of Sir Anthony Ashley†, 1st bt. (d. 13 Jan. 1628), of Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, and Holborn, London, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. (2 d.v.p.).Manning and Bray, Surr. iii. 40; Chamberlain Letters, ed. McClure, ii. 419. d. betw. 28 and 31 Dec. 1666.Reg. of St Margaret Westminster (Harl. Soc. lxxxix), 5.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Surr. 10 Oct. 1629–?, 5 Mar. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653, Apr. 1659-bef. Oct. 1660;Coventry Docquets, 63; SP16/405, f. 65; C231/6, pp. 178, 429; C193/13/4, f. 97; The Names of the Justices (1650), 55 (E.1238.4); A Perfect List (1660), 54. Mdx. Apr. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C231/6, p. 184; C193/13/4, f. 61. Commr. array (roy.), Surr. 4 July 1642;Northants. RO, FH133. assessment, Mdx. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O. Surr. 25 July 1649, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;CJ vi. 269b; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Westminster militia, 7 June 1650;Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). oyer and terminer, Home circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 373. militia, Northants., Glos. 26 July 1659; Surr. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.; CJ vii. 719a. Gov. Jersey 29 Feb. 1660–?Whitelocke, Diary, 573.

Court: gent. of privy chamber by 1636–?LC5/134/50.

Military: trooper, royal army, 1639.SP16/427/71.

Central: member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 5 Sept 1649, 4 July 1650;CJ vi. 290a, 437a. cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650.CJ vi. 388b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of forfeited estates, 16 July 1651; admlty. and navy, 2 Feb. 1660.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

RALEGH (RALEIGH, RAWLEIGH), Carew (Carey) (1605-66), of Kempton Park, Mdx., Horsley, Surr., and St Martin’s Lane, Westminster.

: of Kempton Park, Mdx., Surr., Horsley and Westminster., St Martin’s Lane.

RALEIGH, RAWLEIGH

Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, double portrait with mother, unknown, c.1621.Beer, Bess, betw. pp. 136-7.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

RALEGH (RALEIGH, RAWLEIGH), Carew (Carey) (1605-66), of Kempton Park, Mdx., Horsley, Surr., and St Martin’s Lane, Westminster.

Will

28 Dec. 1666, pr. 10 Jan. 1667.PROB11/323/43.

Estates

Act 24 May 1628, restoring all lands of fa., except Sherborne Castle, Dorset, and associated property, with royal pension of £400 p.a.SP14/163, ff.8, 9; SP16/21, f. 9; LJ iii. 328-36; 821b. In 1629, bought from Thomas Wriothesley, 4th earl of Southampton, rectory of Effingham (sold bef. 1645), manor of East Horsley (?sold 1644), both in Surr.VCH Surr. iii. 326, 350. Aft. 1631-bef. 1651, bought manor of Sunbury and Kempton Park, Mdx., 400 acres in fee farm from crown.VCH Mdx. iii. 55, 57–8; SP16/460, f. 194. Claim in right of wife to royal pension of £316 p.a., £2,765 in arrears at Christmas 1633.SP16/260, ff. 136, 138. 1636-8, residence in St Martin in the Fields. 3 June 1636, adventure of £50 in fisheries of Britain and Ireland.SP16/325, f. 138. 6 Sept. 1639, adventure with Sir Edward Stradling, Sir Walter Roberts and William Newce to supply water to London in an aqueduct from Hoddesdon, Herts.CSP Dom. 1639, p. 481; Coventry Docquets, 235; CJ ii. 585b. 1644, inherited or bought from uncle Sir Nicholas Carew† manor of West Horsley and associated lands, sold for £9,750 in 1664.VCH Surr. iii. 354; Evelyn, Diary, ii. 545n.; JRL, NP/39, NP/43, NP/48. 16 July 1651, awarded £500 p.a. from the sequestered estates of John Digby, 1st earl of Bristol, and George Digby*, Baron Digby, part of which supplied purchase money for sequestered Clevedon manor, Som., 14 Mar. 1652.A. and O.; CCC 2170. 22 Jan. 1653, bought manors of Elmbridge and Pirton, Glos., sequestered from William Craven, 1st Baron Craven.CCC 1624. Bef. 31 Aug. 1653, lord of manor of Feltham, Mdx.HMC 7th Rep., 77.

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