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MONCK, George (1608-70)

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b. 6 Dec. 1608, 4th but 2nd surv. s. of Sir Thomas Monck‡ (d. 1629) of Potheridge, Devon, and Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Smith‡ of Madworth House, Exeter; bro. Nicholas Monck, bp of Hereford from 1660. educ. unknown. m. 23 Jan. 1653, Anne (d. 29 Jan. 1670), da. of John Clarges, farrier, of Drury Lane, Westminster, presumed wid. of Thomas Radford, of New Exchange, Strand, Westminster, 2s. (1 d.v.p.). KG 26 May 1660; suc. bro. May 1647. d. 3 Jan. 1670; will 8 June 1665, pr. 4 Jan 1670. TNA, PROB 11/332.
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Commr. for settlement [S] 1651 – 52, admiralty 1652 – 59, Feb. – July 1660; councillor of state [S] 1655 – May 1660; commr. for security [S] 1656, army Oct. 1659; councillor of state 2 Jan. – 28 May 1660; PC 27 May 1660 – d.; master of the horse May 1660–8; ld. of treasury June – Sept. 1660, first ld. 1667 – d.; ld. lt. [I] June 1660–1; master, Trinity House June 1660–1, commr. for trade Nov. 1660 – d.; gent. of the bedchamber Nov. 1660 – d.; commr. for coronation claims Dec. 1660–1, loyal and indigent officers 1662, Tangier 1662 – d., sale of Dunkirk 1662, prize appeals 1665 – 67; assessment of peers 1663; LJ, xi. 564. dep. ld. high adm. 1665; commr. for public accounts 1668. CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 427; 1661–2, pp. 416, 475; 1664–5, pp. 226, 289; 1667–8, pp. 90, 564.

Commr. for assessment, Devon 1652, 1657, Jan. 1660; freeman, Portsmouth 1653; commr. for militia, Devon 1659, Devon and Mdx. Mar. 1660; kpr. St. James’s Park Feb. 1660 – d.; custos rot. Devon Mar. 1660 – d.; ld. lt. Devon July 1660 – d., Mdx. 1662 – d.; commr. for sewers, Lincs. Aug. 1660, Yorks. (E. Riding) 1664; Add. 40134, f. 1. kpr. Hampton Court Aug. 1660 – d.; bailiff, Teddington, Byfleet, and Ashtead Aug. 1660 – d.; warden, Finkley forest by Dec. 1660 – d.; member, corp. for propagation of the Gospel in New England 1661; high steward, Kingston-upon-Hull 1661 – d., Exeter 1662 – d., Barnstaple 1664 – d.; commr. for oyer and terminer, Home, Midland, Norfolk, Northern, and Oxford circuits 1662; commr. York 1662; HMC 8th Rep. i. 275. ld. proprietor Carolina 1663, palatine 1669 – d.; asst. Royal Adventurers into Africa 1664 – d.

Ensign 1627 – 28, 1629 (Dutch army); capt. of ft. c. 1631 – 38; lt. col. of ft. (roy.) 1639 – 44; adj. gen. of ft. [I] (parl.) 1646 – 49; gov. of Carrickfergus 1648 – 49, Wexford 1661–d.; Bodl. Carte 42, f. 206. col. of ft. 1650 – d., Coldstream Gds. 1661; lt. gen. 1651; c.-in-c. [S] 1651 – 52, 1654 – Jan. 1660; gen. at sea 1652 – 53, 1666; col. of horse 1654 – 61; ld. gen. Nov. 1659; capt. gen. Aug. 1660 – d.

FRS 1665.

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MONCK, George (1608-70), of Potheridge, Merton, Devon.
Associated with: New Hall, Potheridge, Essex; Westminster.
MONK
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watercolour miniature, by S. Cooper, c. 1658, Royal Collection); oil on canvas by Sir P. Lely, c. 1660, NPG 423, version in NMM; oil on canvas by Sir P. Lely (Garter Robes), National Galleries of Scotland, PG 900; engraving, by D. Loggan, 1661, NPG 833.

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Paley, Ruth
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BRUCE, Thomas (1656-1741)

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b. 26 Sept. 1656, 5th but 1st surv. s. Robert Bruce, styled. Ld. Bruce (later earl of Ailesbury) and Diana (d. 8 Apr. 1689), da. Henry Grey earl of Stamford; bro. of Robert‡ and James Bruce‡. educ. private (tutor, Joseph Arrowsmith) c.1670; travelled abroad (France) 1673-4. Ailesbury Mems. 1; Life and Loyalties, 19, 23. m. (1) 24 Aug. 1676 (with £20,000?), WSHC, Ailesbury mss 1300/277. Elizabeth (d. 12 Jan. 1697), da. of Henry Seymour, styled. Ld. Beauchamp, 4s. (3 d.v.p.), 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 27 Apr. 1700 Charlotte Jacqueline, suo jure comtesse d’Esneux [Brabant] (d. 13 July 1710), da. and h. of Louis Conrad d’Argenteau, comte d’Esneux [Brabant], 1da. d.v.p. d. 16 Dec. 1741; will 2 Mar. 1730 – 29 Dec. 1739, pr. 29 Jan. 1742. TNA, PROB 11/715.
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Gent. of bedchamber 23 Jan. – 6 Feb. 1685, 23 Oct. 1685 – 23 Dec. 1688.

Dep. lt., Beds. 1679 – 85, Hunts. Apr. – Oct. 1685, Cambs. Apr.-Oct. 1685; CSP Dom. 1685, p. 119. ld. lt. and custos rot., Beds. 1685 – 89, Hunts. 1685 – 89; steward, honour of Ampthill 1685–1730, CSP Dom. 1671, pp. 131–2; VCH Beds. iii. 271–2. Bedford 1685 – 89, Huntingdon 1686 – 88; recorder and town clerk, Bedford 1685–9. Pearse, Schedule of the Recs. of the Corp. of Bedford (1883), 98.

Capt., ind. tp. of horse June-July 1685, Dalton, Army Lists, ii. 14. tp. of horse, Henry Mordaunt 2nd earl of Peterborough’s Regt. of Horse 1685 – 86.

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BRUCE, Thomas, Lord Bruce (1656-1741), of Tottenham House, Wilts.
Associated with: Houghton House, Ampthill, Beds. (to 1698);VCH Beds. iii. 290.; Ailesbury House, St John’, Mdx. (to 1698);LCC Survey of London, xlvi. 118-20; Edward Wood, History of Clerkenwell (1865), 224.; Tottenham House, Wilts. (from 1676 to 1698);VCH Wilts., xvi. 28.; Ailesbury House, Westminster (from c. 1684 to 1698);LCC Survey of London, xxxiv. 459-60.; Place du Grand Sablon, Hôtel Ailesbury (from 1700).Cardigan, Life and Loyalties of Thomas Bruce (1951), 230-31, 298.;
Likenesses

oil on canvas by F. Harrewijn, 1738, sold at Sotheby’s 14 Apr. 2011; line engraving aft. Harrewijn, NPG D7182.

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Littleton, Charles
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HERVEY, John (1665-1751)

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b. 27 Aug. 1665, s. of Sir Thomas Hervey‡ of Ickworth and Isabella, da. of Sir Humphrey May‡. educ. Bury St. Edmunds g.s.; Clare, Camb. matric. 5 July 1684, LLD 16 Apr. 1705. m. (1) 1 Nov. 1688, Isabella (d. 1693), da. of Sir Robert Carr‡, bt., sis. and coh. of Sir Edward Carr, bt., of Sleaford, Lincs. 1s. (d.v.p.), 2da.; (2) 25 July 1695, Elizabeth (d.1741), da. and h. of Sir Thomas Felton‡, bt., of Playford Hall, Suff., 11s. Hervey diary, 57. (at least 2 d.v.p.), 6da. suc. fa. 1694. d. 20 Jan. 1751; will 1 Dec. 1750, pr. 23 Feb. 1751. TNA, PROB 11/785.
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Freeman, Bury St Edmunds 1694; high steward, 1694.

Parlimentarian
HERVEY, John (1665-1751), of Aswarby, Lincs.; St. James’s Square, Westminster; and Ickworth, Suff.
Associated with: Ickworth (Ixworth), Suff. and St James’ Square, Westminster.Dasent, History of St James' Sq., App. A; Add. 22267, ff. 164-71.;
HARVEY
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Eagles, Robin
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VENABLES BERTIE, Montagu (1673-1743)

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b. 4 Feb. 1673, 1st s. James Bertie, earl of Abingdon, and Eleanora, da. and coh. of Sir Henry Lee‡, 3rd bt. of Quarrendon, Bucks. and Ditchley, Oxon.; bro. of Henry‡, James‡, and Robert Bertie‡. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. 1685. m. (1) 22 Sept. 1687 (with £4,000), Anne; styled. Baroness Kinderton, (d.1715), da. and coh. of Peter Venables (d.1679), styled. Bar. Kinderton, of Kinderton, Cheshire, s.p.; (2) 13 Feb. 1717, Mary (d.1757), da. and h. of James Gould‡ of Dorchester, Dorset, wid. of Charles Churchill‡ of Minterne Magna, Dorset, 1s. (d.v.p.). d. 16 June 1743; will 3 Apr. 1736, pr. 1 July 1743. TNA, PROB 11/727.
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Constable of the Tower 1702 – 05; c.j. in eyre south of Trent 1702 – 06, 1711 – 15; PC 21 Apr. 1702 – 20 May 1707, 9 Feb. 1711–14, 29 Sept. 1714–15, 20 Sept. 1727, 2 Oct. 1727; ld. justice 1 Aug. – 18 Sept. 1714.

Freeman, Woodstock 1686, Oxford 1687, Chester 1712; commr. for assessment, Berks., Cheshire, Oxon., and Wilts. 1689 – 90; dep. lt. Berks. 1689 – 1701; high steward, Malmesbury 1699–1701, HP Commons, 1690–1715, ii. 682; Wilts. Arch. Magazine, xlvii. 324–5. Oxford 1699–d., Bodl. Tanner 21, f. 69; Luttrell, Brief Relation, iv. 541; London Gazette, 3–7 Dec. 1702; General Evening Post, 12–14 July 1743. Wallingford 1699–d., HP Commons, 1690–1715, ii. 22; Post Boy, 22–24 June 1710. Abingdon by 1713; London Gazette, 16–20 June 1713. custos rot. Berks. 1701 – 02; ld. lt., Berks. 1701 – 02, Oxon. 1702 – 06, 1712 – 15, Tower Hamlets 1702 – 05; j.p. Berks. 1701–?d.

Capt. of horse, Oxf. Univ. militia 1685.

Parlimentarian
VENABLES-BERTIE (formerly BERTIE), Montagu, Lord Norreys of Rycote (1673-1743).
Associated with: Rycote, Oxon.; Lincoln’ Inn Fields, Mdx. and Bond Street, Westminster.London Top. Rec., clxv, 55.;
BERTIE
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Eagles, Robin
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SEYMOUR, William (1587-1660)

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b. 1 Sept. 1587, 2nd s. of Edward Seymour (d.v.p. 1618), later; styled. Ld. Beauchamp, and Honora, da. of Sir Richard Rogers‡ of Bryanston, Dorset; bro. Francis Seymour, later Bar. Seymour of Trowbridge. educ. Trowbridge g.s. c.1598-1604; Magdalen Oxf. 1605, BA 1607, MA 1636, MD 1645; M. Temple 1618. m. (1) 22 June 1610, Arbella (d. 25 Sept. 1615), da. of Charles Stuart, earl of Lennox [S] s.p.; (2) 3 Mar. 1617 (with £3,614), Frances (d.1674), da. of Robert Devereux†, 2nd earl of Essex, 5s. (4 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.); KB 4 Nov. 1616; KG 27 May 1660. d. 24 Oct. 1660; will 15 Aug. 1657 – 4 Oct. 1660, pr. 20 Nov. 1660. TNA, PROB 11/302.
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PC Feb. 1641 – ?48, May 1660 – d.; commr. treaty of Ripon 1640, treaty of Uxbridge 1645, treaty of Newport 1648; gov. to Prince Charles 1641 – 44; prince’s council 1645; gent. of the bedchamber 1644–?8; groom of the stole 1644–?8, June 1660 – d.

Commr. oyer and terminer, W. Circ. 1626 – 42, 1660, Som., 1624, Mdx. 1641, 1660, London 1641, Wilts., Hants 1643 – 44; commr. array, Bristol, Som., Wilts. 1642; mbr. council of war 1643 – 46.

Warden, Savernake Forest, Wilts. 1621 – d.; custos rot. Wilts. 1626 – ?36, July 1660 – d., Som. 1641, July 1660 – d.; ld. lt. (jt.) Som. 1639 – 42, ld. lt. Wilts., Som. July 1660 – d.

Lt. gen. (roy.) W. Counties 1642 – 44.

Recorder Lichfield Jan.-1648–d. Longleat, Bath mss, Seymour pprs. box 16/65; VCH Staffs. xiv. 81.; chan. Oxf. Univ. 1643 – 47, May 1660 – d.

Parlimentarian
SEYMOUR, William, Lord Beauchamp (1587-1660), of Amesbury House, Amesbury, Wilts. and Tottenham Court, Great Bedwyn, Wilts.; later of Essex House, London.
Associated with: Amesbury House, Wilts.; Tottenham Court, Great Bedwyn, Wilts.; Essex House, London.
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Creighton, Anne
Handley, Stuart
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NEVILL, George (c. 1658-1721)

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b. c. 1658, 1st s. of George Nevill (d. 1665) of Newton St Loe, Som. and Sheffield Park, Suss. and Mary, da. of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke‡. educ. Eton, c. 1669–73; Whitelocke Diary, 741. M. Temple, 1673; M. Temple Admiss. St John’s, Oxf. matric. 1676. m. 10 Apr. 1697 (conf. 22 Oct. 1698), Anne (d. 1748), da. of Nehemiah Walker of Mdx., sea captain; 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 2da. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 25 Mar. 1721. d. 11 Mar. 1721; will 16 Dec. 1708–24 Nov. 1720, pr. 17 Aug. 1723. TNA, PROB 11/592.
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Gent. of the bedchamber to Prince George, of Denmark, duke of Cumberland.

Parlimentarian
NEVILL, George (c. 1658-1721)
Associated with: Sheffield Park, Suss.;R. Spalding, Contemporaries of Bulstrode Whitelocke 1605-75: an appendix to the Diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke, (1990), 218-19.; Birling, Kent and Leicester Square, Westminster.Bodl. Tanner 305, f. 22.;
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