YAXLEY, Sir Robert (c.1560-1628/9), of London and Flushing; later of Skerne, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. c. 1560,Age given as 38 in 1598: CBP, ii. 540. 2nd s. of William Yaxley of Boston, Lincs. and Rose, da. of John Langton of Langton, Lincs., wid. of Nicholas Upton of Northolme, Lincs. Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lii), 1124. educ. L. Inn 1614. LI Admiss. unm. Kntd. 6 Sept. 1599. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 97. d. bet. May 1628 and Jan. 1629. sig. Rob[er]t Yaxley.

Offices Held

Pensioner, Berwick-upon-Tweed by 1587; CBP, i. 274. capt. of ft., ?Normandy 1591, T. Coningsby, ‘Jnl. of the siege of Rouen’ ed. J.G. Nichols, Cam. Misc. i. 33. Berwick 1591–1604, Ibid. i. 444; ii. 767, 792; CSP Dom. 1591–4, p. 200; APC, 1591–2, p. 277; HMC Hatfield, ix. 37–38, 145, 330; xii. 702. ?vol., Flushing ?1606 – 10, capt. of ft. 1610–16, HMC Hatfield, xviii. 155; HMC De L’Isle and Dudley, iv. 246; HMC Downshire, v. 239. [I] 1625–7.CSP Ire. 1615–25, p. 556; 1625–32, p. 241.

Gent. Privy Chamber (extraordinary), Prince Henry’s Household 1610–12, Govt. Royal Household (1790), p. 324; SP14/67/147. Prince Charles’s Household by 1624–5. APC, 1623–5, p. 211.

J.p. Yorks. (N. Riding) 1625 – d.; high steward and custos rot. Beverley 1625–d. C231/4, p. 176; C181/3, f. 140.

Parlimentarian

YAXLEY, Sir Robert (c.1560-1628/9), of London and Flushing; later of Skerne, Yorks.

Main residences: London; Flushing; Skerne, Yorks.

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

YAXLEY, Sir Robert (c.1560-1628/9)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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