TEMPLE, James (1606-aft. 1673), of Chadwell, Essex, and later of Etchingham and Michelgrove, Suss.

Family and Education

b. 1606, 2nd, but only surv. s. of Sir Alexander Temple† of Longhouse, Chadwell and Haremere, Etchingham and Mary (d. 1607), da. of John Somer of Kent, wid. of Thomas Penyston of Dean, Oxon. and Rochester, Kent; half-bro. of Sir Thomas Penyston*, step-bro. of John Busbridge*.Add. 39484, f. 4; T. Prime, Some Account of the Temple Family (New York, 1899), 37. educ. L. Inn, 3 Nov. 1622.LI Admiss. i. 191. m. (1) bef. 1629, Mary, da. of John Busbridge of Etchingham, 5s. 1da.; ?(2) Johanna (-Maria), da. of Admiral Maarten Tromp of the Dutch navy.Add. 39484, f. 4; Vis. Sussex (Harl. Soc. liii), 149; Add. 6356, ff. 46v-47; J. A. Temple and H. M. Temple, The Temple Memoirs (1925), 48; Prime, Temple Family, 37; IGI. suc. fa. betw. 21 Nov.-19 Dec. 1629.PROB11/156/604. d. aft. 27 July 1674.SP44/40, f. 227.

Offices Held

capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, 1642.A Catalogue of the Names (1642), 8, 13 (E.83.9). Capt. Tilbury Fort c.Oct. 1642;Add. 18777, f. 21a; CJ iii. 242a. col. by 2 Apr. 1647;CJ v. 132b. gov. 23 May 1648–?, May 1649-Sept. 1650.CSP Dom. 1648–9, p. 74; CJ vi. 474a; E101/67/11b, m. 103; CSP Dom. 1650, pp. 351, 389. Gov. Bramber Castle by Dec. 1643.Blaauw, 'Passages of the Civil War in Suss.', 57–8; Fletcher, Suss., 268. Cdr. Arundel Castle 10 May 1645.LJ vii. 364a.

commr. sequestration, Suss. 27 Mar. 1643.A. and O. Member, Suss. co. cttee. 18 July 1643.CJ iii. 173a. Commr. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; assessment, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660; Kent, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Suss. 21 Feb. 1646-bef. Oct. 1660;C231/6, p. 40; C193/13/3; C193/13/4; C193/13/5; C193/13/6; Stowe 577; CUL, Dd.VIII.1; A Perfect List (1660), 52–3. Essex, Kent, Mdx., Surr. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C193/13/3; C193/13/4. Commr. sewers, Suss. 30 Apr. 1646;E. Suss. RO, DAP1/2. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Kent 26 July 1659;A.and O. oyer and terminer, Home circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660.C181/6, pp. 14, 373.

commr. to Munster, 22 Sept. 1647.LJ ix. 440b, 444b, 448a. Member, Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 2 Nov. 1647.CJ v. 347b; LJ ix. 506a. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. of navy and customs by 15 Jan. 1649;Bodl. Rawl. A.224, f. 1v. cttee. for plundered ministers, 4 July 1650.CJ vi. 437a.

Parlimentarian

TEMPLE, James (1606-aft. 1673), of Chadwell, Essex, and later of Etchingham and Michelgrove, Suss.

Essex and later of Etchingham and Suss., Michelgrove.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

TEMPLE, James (1606-aft. 1673), of Chadwell, Essex, and later of Etchingham and Michelgrove, Suss.

Will

attainted.

Estates

land in Essex inherited from fa. sold 1637;CSP Dom. 1631-3, p. 204; Essex RO, D/DRU T1/225-35, 238. interest in land at Etchingham, from step-mo. and wife; ‘Sir Alexander Temple’, HP Commons 1604-1629; Etchingham par. reg., IGI. from Jan. 1646, possession of lands of Sir Charles Shelley, ward and recusant;CCAM 527; CCC 2370-1. in 1649, possession with Henry Darley* of sequestered rents and manors in Leics. of Mountjoy Blount, 1st earl of Newport.CCC 1245.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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