MAINWARING, Sir Philip (c.1589-1661), of London and Dublin.

Family and Education

b. c.1589, 7th but 4th surv. s. of Sir Randle Mainwaring (d. 26 May 1612) of Over Peover, Cheshire, and Margaret, da. of Sir Edward Fitton† of Gawsworth, Cheshire.WARD7/65/39; Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. lix), 157-8. educ. G. Inn 14 Mar. 1609;G. Inn Admiss. 121. Brasenose, Oxf. 29 Aug. 1610, aged 21, BA 8 Feb. 1613.Al. Ox. unm. Kntd. 13 July 1634.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 202. d. 2 Aug. 1661.Ormerod, Cheshire, i. 483.

Offices Held

Irish: surveyor and comptroller of victuals, army in Ireland, May 1609–?1634.SO3/4, unfol. (entry for May 1609); Strafforde Letters, i. 263. Sec. of state, 12 July 1634-June 1648, c.Dec. 1660–6 July 1661. PC, 12 July 1634 – June 1648, c.Dec. 1660–6 July 1661.Strafforde Letters, i. 263; CSP Ire. 1660–2, pp. 142, 250; H. Wood, ‘The offices of sec. of state for Ire. and keeper of the signet or privy seal’, Procs. of the Royal Irish Acad. xxxviii. 64. MP, Clonakilty, co. Cork 1634; Carysfort, co. Wicklow 1640.CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 63; CJ Ire. i. 221, 360. Commr. defective titles, 2 Apr. 1638.CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 185. Kpr. (jt.) gt. seal, 25 May 1638.C.J. Smyth, Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ire. (1839), 29, 221.

Diplomatic: sec. to amb. Sir George Chaworth†, Brussels 1621.SP77/14, p. 552; The Loseley Manuscripts ed. A.J. Kempe (1836), 424.

Local: farmer of wine licences, Devon and Cornw. 1629–40.E401/2459; Rymer, Feodera, viii. pt. 3, p. 26; APC 1630–1, p. 30.

Central: treas.-at-war (roy.), 1642–?HMC Var. iii. 215, 216, 220.

Parlimentarian

MAINWARING, Philip (c.1589-1661), of London

: of London and Dublin.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, double portrait with 1st earl of Strafford (Sir Thomas Wentworth†), A. Van Dyck, c.1639-40;Trustees of Olive, Countess Fitzwilliam’s Chattels Settlement. oil on canvas, H. Stone aft. A. Van Dyck, c.1653;Rotherham Heritage Services, Yorks. oil on canvas, aft. A. Van Dyck;Capt. Christie Crawfurd English Civil War Colln., Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos. oil on canvas, aft. A. Van Dyck;NT, Dunham Massey. oils, aft. A. Van Dyck.Weston Park, Staffs.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

MAINWARING, Sir Philip (c.1589-1661), of London and Dublin.

Will

admon. 29 Aug. 1661.PROB6/37, f. 68v.

Estates

in 1630, he and two other gentlemen purchased from the crown lease on Carisbrooke Park, I.of.W. for £1,400.Coventry Docquets, 251. His salary as secretary of state for Ireland was £200 p.a. to which Charles I added a further £100 p.a for ‘intelligence and such private service’.Strafforde Letters, i. 263; CSP Ire. 1633-47, p. 81; 1660-2, p. 330. Granted, or purchased, lands in Ireland betw. 1634 and 1641, but these were lost as a result of the Irish rebellion.HMC Var. iii. 220.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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