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Family and Education
b. 14 Jan. 1602, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Henry Slingsby† of Scriven, Knaresborough and Frances (bur. 24 July 1611), da. of William Vavasour of Weston, Yorks.Slingsby Diary ed. D. Parsons (1836), 18; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 69. educ. Foston (Phatuel Otbie) 1608-17;Slingsby Diary ed. Parsons, 3. Queens’, Camb. Lent 1619;Al. Cant. travelled abroad 1621 (Netherlands), 1626.Slingsby Diary ed. Parsons, 318; APC 1625-6, p. 376; The Life of the Renowned Doctor Preston ed. E.W. Harcourt (Oxford, 1885), 73-5. m. 7 July 1631, Barbara (d. 31 Dec. 1641), da. of Sir Thomas Belasyse† of Newburgh Priory, Yorks., 2s. 1da.Slingsby Diary ed. Parsons, 75; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 69. suc. fa. 17 Dec. 1634;Slingsby Diary ed. Parsons, 6. cr. bt. 2 Mar. 1638.CB. exec. 8 June 1658.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 69.
Offices Held

Military: vol. cavalry tp. royal army, 1639.Slingsby Diary ed. Parsons, 32. Col. of ft. (roy.) 13 Dec. 1642-c.July 1644.Slingsby Diary ed. Parsons, 87; P.R. Newman, Royalist Officers (New York, 1981), 346. Gov. Stamford Bridge, E. Riding May-c.July 1643.Slingsby Diary ed. Parsons, 94–5.

Local: commr. further subsidy, Yorks. (W. Riding) 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, N. Riding 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a. assessment, W. Riding 1642.SR. Col. militia ft. York 11 May 1642-c.July 1644.Slingsby Diary ed. Parsons, 76, 82, 112. Commr. array (roy.), Yorks. 18 June 1642;Northants. RO, FH133. levying of money (roy.), c.Dec. 1642-aft. Mar. 1644.Add. 18981, f. 121v. Recvr. honor of Pontefract by 1643–?Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. Somerville, 151.

Parlimentarian
SLINGSBY, Henry (1602-1658), of Redhouse, Moor Monkton, Yorks.
: of Redhouse, Yorks., Moor Monkton.
Likenesses

Likenesses: medal, T. Rawlins, 1658;BM. line engraving, unknown, 1665.W. Winstanley, The Loyal Martyrology (1665), frontispiece.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

SLINGESBY, Sir Henry (1602-58), of Redhouse, Moor Monkton, Yorks.

Will
4 June 1658.G.R. Smith, Without Touch of Dishonour: the Life and Death of Sir Henry Slingsby 1602-58 (Kineton, 1968), 177.
Estates
in 1634, inherited estate that inc. property in and around Knaresborough and in York, several manors in W. Riding and properties in London, Middlesex and Essex – in all, worth c.£1,800 p.a.C142/530/153; Bodl. Top. Yorks. c.4, ff. 5v-15; Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 42, f. 567; Leeds Univ. Lib. DD56, Boxes A11, D5; DD149/76; Cliffe, Yorks. 20, 107, 363. In 1652, estate inc. Scriven Hall; manors of Harswell, Moor Monkton and Redhouse; rectory of Knaresborough and dissolved priory of St Robert, nr. Knaresborough; Howthorpe Grange, Hovingham; lands in the Marishes, Pickering, Yorks.; and ‘Woolhouse’ or ‘Woollowes, in par. of Bolton’.CCC 1387; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xx), 95-6; Slingsby Diary ed. Parsons, 349.
Oxford 1644
Yes
1640 Volume
oxford
Addresses
St Martin’s Lane, Covent Garden, London (1631) St Helen Bishopsgate, London (1639) ‘Mrs Sandwithy’s house ... by the Temple Court’, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London (1640) ‘Mr Clark’s house over against Ivy Bridge’, London (1640-1);Slingsby Diary ed. Parsons, 46, 51, 69, 75. 30 Bedford Street, Covent Garden (1641).Survey of London, xxxvi, 253.
Religion
presented Phatuel Fish to rectory of Staveley, Yorks. 1638.Slingsby Diary ed. Parsons, 3.
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