NORTH, Sir Dudley (1602-77), of Kirtling, Cambs. and Tostock, Suff.

Family and Education

b. c. Nov. 1602, 1st s. of Dudley, 3rd Lord North and Frances, da. and coh. of Sir John Brocket† of Brocket Hall, Wheathampstead, Herts.The Letters of John Chamberlain ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1939), i. 169-70. educ. St John’s, Camb. c.1619;‘D’Ewes diary’, The Eagle, ix. 375; Al. Cant. G. Inn, 10 Aug. 1619;G. Inn Admiss. 156. I. Temple, 12 May 1622;I. Temple database. travelled abroad (Italy, France, Spain), aft. Dec. 1622;APC 1621-3, pp. 376-7. Académie de Genève 1623;Le Livre du Recteur de l’Académie de Genève (1559-1878) ed. S. Stelling-Michaud (Geneva, 1959-80), i. 169. Padua 1624.H.F. Brown, Inglese e Scozzesi all’ Università di Padova (Venice, 1922), 145. m. 24 Apr. 1632 (with £4,000), Anne (bur. 15 Feb. 1681), da. and coh. of Sir Charles Montagu† of Cranbrook, Barking, Essex, 7s. (1 d.v.p.) 7da. (4 d.v.p.).D.B.J. Randall, Gentle Flame: The Life and Verse of Dudley, Fourth Lord North (Durham, North Carolina, 1983), 47-8; W. Robinson, The Hist. and Antiquities of the Par. of Hackney (1842-3), ii. 66; HMC 7th Rep. i. 548. KB 3 Nov. 1616;Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 160. suc. fa. as 4th Baron North 16 Jan. 1666. d. 24 June 1677.HP Lords, 1660-1715.

Offices Held

Military: ?lt. Palatinate expedition, c.1620–2.CSP Ire. Add. 1625–60, pp. 47–8. Capt. of ft. Utd. Provinces 1624–7.Bodl. North a.2, f. 272; Dudley, 4th Ld. North, Observations and Advices Oeconomical (1669), sig. A4.

Local: commr. new buildings, London 1630. by 1635 – d.Rymer, Foedera, viii (3), 114. J.p. Cambs.; I. of Ely by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1660; Suff. by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653, Mar. 1660–?, 6 Sept. 1660–d.Coventry Docquets, 74; C193/13/3, ff. 23, 60; C231/7, p. 36; A Perfect List (1660), 5, 50. Commr. sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level June 1635-aft. Jan. 1646, 6 May 1654-aft. July 1659;C181/5, ff. 9v, 269; C181/6, pp. 26, 380. I. of Ely 13 Sept. 1644;C181/5, f. 242. Cambs. 24 July 1645, 26 May 1669;C181/5, f. 256; C181/7, p. 462. Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 26 Apr. 1649–15 Dec. 1669;C181/6, pp. 37, 389; C181/7, pp. 76, 260; Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/8–12. Norf. and Suff. 20 Dec. 1669.C181/7, p. 522. Dep. lt. Cambs. by Mar. 1639-aft. 1642.Harl. 4014, ff. 31v-47v. Commr. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. June 1639 – aft.Jan. 1642, by Feb. 1654 – 10 July 1660, 23 Jan. 1666-aft. Feb. 1673;C181/5, ff. 142, 218; C181/6, pp. 16, 378; C181/7, pp. 348, 634. Cambs. 23 June, 25 July 1640;C181/5, ff. 177, 184. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664; Suff. 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, Cambs. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug. 1643; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; gaol delivery, I. of Ely 12 Aug. 1645, 4 Mar. 1654-aft. Sept. 1658;C181/5, f. 258; C181/6, pp. 20, 314. militia, Cambs., I. of Ely, Suff. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Cambs., Suff. 1660;SR. pontage, Camb. 1663;Cooper, Annals Camb. iii. 513. subsidy, Cambs., I. of Ely, Suff. 1663; complaints, Bedford Level 1663.SR.

Central: commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, cttee. for examinations, 20 Aug., 28 Oct. 1642;CJ ii. 728b, 825b. cttee. for foreign affairs, 24 July 1644;CJ iii. 568a; LJ vi. 640b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 19 Nov. 1644;CJ iii. 699b. cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645;A. and O. cttee. for sequestrations by 18 Mar. 1646.SP20/2, f. 121v. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648; Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Camb. 1660–d.Cambs. RO, Camb. corp. archive, common day bk. 1647–81, f. 125; Downing College, Camb. Bowtell MS 6, unfol.: Camb. borough treasurers’ acct. 1659–60.

Parlimentarian

NORTH, Sir Dudley (1602-1677), of Kirtling, Cambs.

: of Kirtling, Cambs. and Tostock, Suff.

Likenesses

Likenesses: miniature, J. Hoskins, c.1628;NPG. oil on canvas, C. Johnson, c.1630.Waldershare Park, Kent; Randall, Gentle Flame, frontispiece.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

NORTH, Sir Dudley (1602-77), of Kirtling, Cambs. and Tostock, Suff.

Will

8 May 1675, codicil 22 Sept. 1676, pr. 30 Oct. 1677.PROB11/354/602; Bodl. North c.32, no. 8.

Estates

bought land at Saxham, Suff. for £4,300, 1635; at Ashley, Cambs. for £200, 1636; at Tostock, Suff. for over £6,000, 1638; at Ashley for £300, 1640, and for £714 10s 3d, 1648; at Drinkstone, Suff. for £3,852 16s, 1649;Coventry Docquets, 679; R. North, The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford ed. A. Jessop (1890), iii. 311-12. bought 200 acres of fenland in the Lindsey Level, Lincs. 1637;CSP Dom. 1637, p. 184; 1637-8, p. 151. lands in Cambs. which he inherited from his father in 1666 had been worth £1,160-£1,375 p.a. between 1651 and 1663.Add. 61873, ff. 87-100.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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