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Family and Education
b. aft. 1608, 3rd s. of William Fiennes, 8th Baron (later 1st Viscount) Saye and Sele (d. 14 Apr. 1662) of Broughton Castle, and Elizabeth (d. 1648), da. of John Temple of Burton Dassett, Warws. and Stowe, Bucks.;Infra, ‘Nathaniel Fiennes I’; CP xi. 488, 490-1. bro. of James* and Nathaniel Fiennes I*. educ. Franeker Univ. 4 May 1630; Basel, Feb. 1633;K.L. Sprunger, The Learned Doctor William Ames, 80; Album Studiosorum Academiae Franekerensis, 88; Die Matrikel der Universität Basel, iii. 351; English-Speaking Medical Students Attending the European Universities in the 17th Century ed. H.T. Swan (Royal Coll. of Physicians of Edinburgh database). travelled abroad (Italy) 1633.H.F. Brown, ‘Inglesi e Scozzesi all’Università di Padova’, Monografie Storiche sullo Studio di Padova, 147. m. by 1649, Susan (bur. 4 Sept. 1661), da. and h. of Thomas Hobbes of Gray’s Inn, Mdx. and Tooting Bec, Streatham, Surr. 6s. (4 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.).PROB11/162, ff. 86-7; Richmond, Surr. par. reg. (bap. 10 May 1649); St Helen Bishopgate, London par. reg. (bap. 6 Mar. 1652); St Leonard, Streatham, Surr. par. reg.; Warws. RO, CR162/446; CP xi. 489, 490-1; The Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland (1790), i. 398; Chauncy, Herts. i. 554-5; VCH Surr. iv. 99. d. c. 1692.E134/3and4Anne/Hil4.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Oxon. 9 Apr.-10 June 1642;C231/5, pp. 517, 528. Herts. 7 July 1654-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 293. Hants 21 July 1655-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 314. Dep. lt. Oxon. 26 May 1642–?CJ ii. 587a; LJ v. 84b. Commr. levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Oxon. 25 June 1644; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; ejecting scandalous ministers, Herts., Oxon. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. militia, Herts. 14 Mar. 1655;CSP Dom. 1655, p. 78. securing peace of commonwealth, Hants c.Dec. 1655;TSP iv. 363. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35). oyer and terminer, Western circ. 9 Feb. 1658-July 1659.C181/6, pp. 274, 307.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), 30 July 1642 – 3 Aug. 1643; col. 20 June 1644 – 20 Aug. 1645; col. of ft. 10 June-3 Aug. 1643.SP28/139, pt. 19, f. 204; SP28/147, f. 242.

Central: master in chancery, extraordinary, July 1655–?C202/39/5. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
FIENNES, Hon. James (c.1602-74), of Broughton Castle, Oxon.
: of Broughton Castle, Oxon., Broughton.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

FIENNES, John (aft. 1608-c.1692), of Broughton Castle, Broughton, Oxon.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1649, purchased from trustees for the sale of church lands manor of Waldersey, Cambs. for £479 19s, and manor and capital messuage of Beauchamp Roding, Essex, for £686. C54/3446/34; Col. Top. et Gen. i. 287. In 1653, purchased from William Jephson* manor and rectory of Froyle, Hants, for £15,600.C54/3735/11; C6/119/62. In 1653, his fa. settled property in manor of Drayton, Oxon. on Fiennes and his wife.VCH Oxon. ix. 106. Through marriage, acquired manor of Great Amwell, Herts. which he sold to his son-in-law Thomas Filmer† in the early 1690s.VCH Herts. iii. 417; HP Commons 1690-1715, ‘Thomas Filmer’. In 1662, received a third share of £1,000 in his fa.’s will.PROB11/309, f. 314v.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Arundel House, London (1643);Bodl. Clarendon 22, f. 83. Richmond, Surr. (1649-50).Richmond, Surr. par. reg.; C54/3446/34.
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