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BINDLOS, Sir Robert, 1st bt. (1625-88), of Borwick Hall, Warton, Lancs.

Family and Education
bap. 8 May 1625, 1st s. of Sir Francis Bindloss† (d. 25 July 1629) of Borwick, and 2nd w. Cecilia (d. Feb. 1638), da. of Thomas West†, 3rd Baron de la Warr.C142/455/37; Warton ed. W.H. Chippindall (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. lxxiii), 42, 263; Whitaker, Richmondshire, ii. 311; CB; HP Commons, 1604-29, ‘John Byron’. educ. Trinity Coll. Camb. 1640.Al. Cant. m. (settlement c.May 1640, with £3,000) Rebecca (bur. 17 June 1708), da. and coh. of Hugh Perry, mercer, alderman of London, 1da.SP19/95, f. 267; CCAM i. 413; Whitaker, Richmondshire, ii. 311; CB. suc. gdfa. June 1630;Warton ed. Chippindall, 264. cr. bt. 16 Aug. 1641;CB. bur. 15 Nov. 1688 15 Nov. 1688.Warton ed. Chippindall, 307.
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Local: commr. array (roy.), Lancs. 11 June 1642;Farington Pprs. ed. S.M. Farington (Chetham Soc. o.s. xxxix), 76. Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; defence of Lancs. 29 Aug. 1645. by 4 Aug. 1646 – 16 Apr. 1650A. and O. J.p., Mar. 1660 – 12 Mar. 1673, 1 Aug. 1673 – 11 Apr. 1688, 20 Oct. 1688–d.Lancs. RO, QSC/42–51, 62–74, 76–99, 101. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Sheriff, 1657–8, 8 Nov. 1671–13 Nov. 1673.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 73. Commr. assessment, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. poll tax, 1660.SR. Dep. lt. c.Aug. 1660–d.SP29/11/166, f. 206; Manchester Central Lib. L1/48/6/1; Lancs. RO, DDX/363; DDCA/9/2, 8, 9; DDBR/8/4, 5; DDTA/174; CSP Dom. 1672–3, pp. 598–9; 1685, p. 165; HMC Le Fleming, 196. Steward, Warton manor, Lancs. Dec. 1660–d.;CTB i. 105. Slyne-with-Hest manor, Lancs. by Nov. 1680–?d.;Lancs. RO, DDT/98. Lonsdale hundred, Lancs. by Mar. 1682–?d.Cumb. RO (Barrow), BPR 1/M/9/25/7. Commr. corporations, Lancs. 1662–3;SP29/61/157, f. 278. subsidy, 1663.SR. Capt. vol. horse, July 1666.CSP Dom. 1665–6, p. 582.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, by June 1660-Feb. 1685.Carlisle, Privy Chamber, 164.

Civic: capital burgess, Lancaster by May 1664–?d.; bailiff, 1664–5;T. Pape, Charters of the City of Lancaster (Lancaster, 1952), 52, 58; Cal. Lancaster Charters ed. J. Brownbill, J.R. Nuttall (Lancaster, 1929), 18. mayor, 1665 – 66, 1672-Apr. 1673.Pape, Lancaster, 59; Lancaster Charters ed. Brownbill, Nuttall, 21.

: 1st bt. (1625-88), of Borwick Hall, Lancs., Warton 1625 – 88.
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BINDLOS, Sir Robert, 1st bt. (1625-88), of Borwick Hall, Warton, Lancs.

Will
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Estates
inherited lands in co. Dur. Lancs. Yorks. and Westmld. Inc. manor of Borwick and advowson of Garstang, Lancs., property in Nether Hesleden, Yorks. and manor of Trimdon, co. Dur.C142/455/37; WARD7/79/215; ‘Lancs. wills’ ed. A. Gibbons, Northern Genealogist (1896), 39-40; Recs. of the Cttees. for Compounding...in Durham and Northumb. ed. R. Welford (Surt. Soc. cxi), 359; VCH Lancs. vii, 296; VCH co. Dur. 328; B.G. Blackwood, ‘The economic state of the Lancs. gentry on the eve of the civil war’, NH xii. 58. In 1644, inc. manors of Borwick and Uphall (in Priest Hutton); rectories of Lancaster and Garstang; millstone quarries and lead mines in ‘Hawkshurst’; tithes and saltworks in Pilling; property in Barnacre and Byrewath, Lancs.; manors of Eshton and Little Newton; Cams House (in Aysgarth); property in Bolton-by-Bowland, Cleatop, Clifford (in Bentham), Giggleswick, Gisburn forest, Hey (alias Haigh) and Silverdale; Long Preston mill, Yorks.; manors of Fishburn and Trimdon, co. Dur.; and property in Kendal, Westmld. – in all, worth £3,240 p.a.SP19/95, f. 267; SP20/10, unfol. (petition of Bindlos to Cttee. for Sequestration*); CCAM i. 413. In 1648, sold manor of Eshton and property in Nether Hesleden for £2,700.Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/MD335/2/1/1/2/2-5. In 1650, purchased manor of Capernwray, Lancs.VCH Lancs. viii. 146. By 1650, estate inc. impropriate rectory and tithes of Lancaster church, worth £510 p.a. and tithes of Garstang, worth £30 p.a.Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. H. Fishwick (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. i), 125, 149. In 1652, sold property in Larbreck, Lancs. for £1,200.Lancs. RO, QDD/50/F26. In 1655, sold manor of Trimdon.Cttees. for Compounding...in Durham and Northumb. ed. Welford, 359. At d. estate inc. manors of Borwick, Nether Kellet and Priest Hutton, Borwick Hall, and property in Borwick, Priest Hutton and Warton, Lancs.VCH Lancs. viii. 139-40, 171-2, 183.
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YELVERTON, Sir Christopher (1602-54), of Easton Maudit, Northants. and Aldersgate Street, London.

Family and Education
b. 27 Mar. 1602,Cat. Ashmolean Mss. 122. 1st s. of Henry Yelverton† and Mary, da. of Robert Beale† of Barnes, Surr.Bridges, Northants. ii. 166. educ. G. Inn, 28 Feb. 1607;GI Admiss. i. 114. Queens’, Camb. 1619; travelled abroad (Low Countries, France, Italy), 1624-6.APC 1623-5, p. 416; CSP Dom. 1623-5, p. 138. m. 20 Apr. 1630,GL, MS 6419/2, unfol. Anne (d. 1670), da. of Sir William Twisden†, 1st bt. of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da.Add. 46185, f. 27. suc. fa. 1630.C142/467/68. Kntd. 6 May 1623.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 181. cr. bt. 30 June 1641.CB. d. 4 Dec. 1654.Bridges, Northants. ii. 167.
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Civic: freeman, Newport I.o.W. 13 Jan. 1626.I.o.W. RO, NBC 45/2, f. 197.

Court: servant to Henrietta Maria, 1628.SP16/100/93.

Local: j.p. Northants. 8 Feb. 1634-bef. Oct. 1653.Coventry Docquets, 69; C231/5, p. 122; C193/13/4, f. 71v; CUL, MS Dd.VIII.1, f. 76. Commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 1634-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/4, ff. 166, 196; C181/5, ff. 5, 220. inquiry, Grafton, Northants. 1635.C181/4, f. 199. Sheriff, Northants. 10 Nov. 1639–40.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 94; Coventry Docquets, 369. Commr. Salcey Forest, Northants. 1641.C181/5, f. 209v. Dep. lt. Northants. by 8 June 1642–?CJ ii. 614a. Commr. for associating midland cos. 15 Dec. 1642; sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Warws. 3 Aug. 1643; assessment, 12 Oct. 1644, 17 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; Northern Assoc. Yorks. (N. Riding) 20 June 1645.A. and O. Member, Warws. co. cttee. 24 Nov. 1645.CJ iv. 345b; HMC 6th Rep. 85. Commr. militia, Northants., Warws. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Central: commr. for disbursing further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, cttee. for foreign affairs, 24 July 1644;CJ iii. 568a; LJ vi. 640b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 9 Aug. 1644, 19 Apr. 1645.CJ iii. 585a; iv. 116b. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647.A. and O.

: of Easton Maudit, Northants. and London., Aldersgate Street.
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YELVERTON, Sir Christopher (1602-54), of Easton Maudit, Northants. and Aldersgate Street, London.

Will
28 Nov. 1654, pr. 23 Feb. 1655.PROB11/247/575.
Estates
lands in Northants. centred on manor of Easton Maudit; rent-charge in Reynsham, Norf.; and house in Aldersgate Street, London, inherited from his father.PROB11/157/647.
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GOODWIN, Ralph (d. 1658) of Ludlow.

Family and Education
s. of one Goodwin of ?Norf.Aubrey, Brief Lives, i. 269. educ. Trinity, Camb. Easter 1608, scholar 1611, BA 1612, MA 1615, incorp. MA Oxf. 11 July 1615.Al. Cant.; Al Ox. m. (1) Dorothy (bur. 9 Aug. 1643), da. of Walter Long† of Wraxhall, Wilts. s.p.; (2) 1646 (with £3,000?), Elizabeth, da. of Wallop Brabazon of Eaton, Leominster, Herefs. s.p. d. 1 May 1658.Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. ser. 2, vii. 24-5; Salop Par. Regs. Ludlow, 420; Vis. Herefs. 1634 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xv), 28.
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Civic: freeman, Ludlow 3 Feb. 1624; common cllr. 18 Dec. 1634–d.Salop Archives, LB2/1/1 ff. 142, 187v, LB2/1/2 p. 140.

Legal: jt. examiner, council in the marches of Wales, 1626 – 28; dep. sec. 1628–45.C66/2357/12; Egerton 2882 ff. 145, 151.

Local: commr. further subsidy, Ludlow 1641; poll tax, 1641; assessment, Salop 1642.SR.

Central: sec. to Prince Rupert (roy.), 1644–5.LJ vii. 305b.

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letters of administration granted to wife 1658.PROB6/34, f. 217.
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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.

: of London and Dublin.
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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.

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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.
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BOYNTON, Sir Matthew (1592-1647), of Barmston, Yorks.

Family and Education
bap. 26 Feb. 1592, o. surv. s. of Sir Francis Boynton of Barmston, and Dorothy (bur. 12 Feb. 1633), da. and coh. of Christopher Place of Halnaby, Yorks.Barmston par. reg.; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 147. educ. St John’s, Camb. 13 Dec. 1606;CUL, Univ. Archives, matriculation regs.; Al. Cant. L. Inn 3 May 1609.LI Admiss. m. (1) lic. 1613 (settlement 27 Sept. 1613, with £2,000) Frances (d. 3 July 1634), da. of Sir Henry Griffith of Burton Agnes, Yorks., 9s. (2 d.v.p.) 5da. (1 d.v.p.);St Mary Lowgate, Hull par. reg.; Hull Hist. Cent. U DDWB/24/7; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 147-8; CB; Foster, Yorks. Peds. (2) lic. 11 May 1636, Katherine (d. 23 Feb. 1666), da. of Sir Thomas Fairfax†, 1st Visct. Emley, wid. of Robert Stapleton† of Wighill, Yorks., 2s. (at least 1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.).Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 147-8; HP Commons 1604-1629, ‘Sir Matthew Boynton’. suc. fa. 9 Apr. 1617;C142/367/59. Kntd. 9 May 1618;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 168. cr. bt. 15 May 1618.CB. d. 5 Mar. 1647.Scarborough Recs. 1641-60 ed. M.Y. Ashcroft (N. Yorks. RO publications xlix), 94.
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Local: commr. sewers, Yorks. (E. Riding) 4 Dec. 1621–8 June 1641;C181/3, ff. 47v, 187; C181/4, f. 189v; C181/5, ff. 41, 166. N. Riding 26 July 1623, 28 Apr. 1632.C181/3, f. 96; C181/4, f. 114. J.p. E. Riding 1 June 1622-c.1638;C231/4, f. 139v. N. Riding 1 June 1622-c.Jan. 1626.C193/13/1, f. 35. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 23 Jan. 1624-aft. June 1641.C181/3, ff. 110, 262; C181/4, ff. 14, 197v; C181/5, ff. 7v, 203. Collector, privy seal loan, E. Riding 1625–6.E401/2586, p. 289; APC 1625–6, pp. 369–70. Col. militia ft. by 1626-c.Mar. 1639.Scarborough Recs. 1600–40 ed. M.Y. Ashcroft (N. Yorks. RO publications xlvii), 174–5; Add. 28082, f. 80v; Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P10a/273–8. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627.C193/12/2, f. 13v. Dep. lt. 1629-c.Mar. 1639.Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P10a/273–8, 12/50. Sheriff, Yorks. 1628–9, 30 Dec. 1643–5.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. Soc. ix), 163, 164. Commr. swans, England except south-western cos. c.1629.C181/3, f. 268. Commr. charitable uses, E. Riding 1633;C192/1, unfol. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, 31 Oct. 1633;Hull Hist. Cent. U DDHA/18/35. assessment, N. Riding 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645; E. Riding 21 Feb. 1645; sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643;A. and O. N. Riding 10 Apr. 1644;LJ vi. 510b. levying of money, E. Riding 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Member, cttee. to govern Hull, 4 July 1643;LJ vi. 119a. to command Northern Assoc. army, 12 May 1645.CJ iv. 138b; LJ vii. 367b. Commr. Northern Assoc. E., N., W. Ridings 20 June 1645.A. and O.

Military: col. of ft. (parlian.) c.Nov. 1642-aft. Jan. 1643.E113/7, pt. 2, unfol. (deposition of Francis Lascelles*); SP18/71/55, f. 140v; An Exact and True Relation of a Bloody Fight Performed Against the Earl of Newcastle (1642), 2; LJ v. 579b.

Central: commr. to reside with Scottish army, 14 Sept. 1644;LJ vi. 704b. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Scarborough 25 Oct. 1645–d.Scarborough Recs. 1641–60, ed. Ashcroft, 48.

: of Barmston, Yorks.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, family group, unknown, 1639.C.V. Collier, Acct. of the Boynton Fam. (Middlesbrough, 1914), 20, 103.

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BOYNTON, Sir Matthew (1592-1647), of Barmston, Yorks.

Will
1 Oct. 1645, pr. 7 Apr. 1647.PROB11/200, f. 97v.
Estates
in 1617, inherited estate inc. manors of Middleton Tyas, Rowsby, Rudston and Winton-cum-Barmston, lands in Acklam, Boynton, Greenhow, Linthorpe, Middlesborough, Rowsby, Scaling and Winton-cum-Barmston, the rectories of Bridlington and Rudston and the advowson of Barmston, Yorks.C142/367/59. By 1640, leasing manor of Romanby, Yorks. from queen at rent of £46 14s p.a.LR9/19, bdle. 5. Estate by 1640 consisted of manors of E. and W. Scaling, Halnaby, Middleton Tyas, Rowsby, Rudston, Skelton and Winton-cum-Barmston and impropriate rectories of Barmston (worth £106 p.a.) and Rudston (worth £140 p.a.), all of which lay in Cleveland and Holderness, Yorks.C94/3, ff. 60, 73; CP25/2/523/13CHASIMICH/3; Hull Hist. Cent. U DDWB/24/7; U DDWB/20/54; J.C. Cox, ‘Parlty. survey of the benefices of the E. Riding’, E. Riding Antiquarian Soc. Trans. ii. 56; iv. 59. Also owned or leased house in Highgate, Mdx.Scarborough Recs. 1641-60 ed. Ashcroft, 94.
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SKEFFINGTON, Sir John (1632-95), of Fisherwick, Staffs. and Antrim Castle, co. Antrim.

Family and Education
bap. 27 Dec. 1632, s. and h. of Sir Richard Skeffington* of Hawksyard, Staffs. and Anne, da. of Sir John Newdigate of Arbury, Warws.CB ii. 14-15; Al. Cant. educ. Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, Sept. 1649; fellow-commoner 1651.Al. Cant.; Pepys’s Diary, v. 276n. m. 20 July 1654, Mary, da. of Sir John Clotworthy* of Massereene, co. Antrim, 3s. 4da.CP; Lodge, Peerage, iii. 65. suc. fa. 1647; cousin (as 4th Bt) Apr. 1652;CB ii. 14-15. fa.-in-law (as 2nd Viscount Massereene and baron of Lough Neagh [I]) 23 Sept. 1665.CP. d. 21 June 1695.Lodge, Peerage, iii. 65; CB ii. 14-15.
Offices Held

Irish: j.p. co. Antrim by Jan. 1657–63.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 623; Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 670–2; DIB. Commr. assessment, 24 June 1657;An Assessment for Ire. (1657). poll money, 24 Apr. 1660–1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 626, 646. Capt. militia, Antrim c.1660.HMC Ormonde, o.s. ii. 249. MP, co. Antrim 1661–5.CJI, i. 588. Custos rot. co. Londonderry Apr. 1666.Lodge, Peerage, iii. 63. PC, Nov. 1667-Mar. 1689, Dec. 1690–d.CSP Ire. 1666–9, p. 482; HMC Ormonde, o.s. ii. 396, 450–1. Gov. Londonderry 1678; co. Antrim bef. 1683; Londonderry and Coleraine 1685.CP; DIB. Capt. Lough Neagh 1680.DIB.

: Staffs. and Antrim Castle, co. Antrim.
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Likenesses: oils, P. Lely.Arbury Hall, Warws.

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SKEFFINGTON, Sir John (1632-95), of Fisherwick, Staffs. and Antrim Castle, co. Antrim.

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in 1654 held lands in Staffs. and Warws.PRONI, D.207/16/1-2. In 1665 acquired extensive estates from his fa.-in-law, principally in cos. Antrim, Down, Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Tipperary: 42,429 acres (1670); worth (1689) £4,340 p.a.Down Survey website; J. Ohlmeyer, Making Ireland English (New Haven, 2012), 308; Lodge, Peerage, iii. 65.
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RUSSELL, Francis (c.1616-64), of Chippenham, Cambs.

Family and Education
b. c. 1616, 1st s. of Sir William Russell†, 1st bt. of Chippenham, Cambs. and his 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Gerard of Burwell, Cambs.;Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, ii. 382-3; CB; Burke Dorm. and Extinct Baronetcies. bro. of Gerard Russell†. educ. Wadham, Oxf. 28 Jan. 1631, ‘aged 14’;Reg. of Wadham Coll. Oxford ed. R. B. Gardiner (1889-95), i. 103-4; Al. Ox. G. Inn 15 Aug. 1633, I. Temple 6 Feb. 1635.G. Inn Admiss. 201; Inner Temple database. m. or Dec. 1631, Catherine, da. of John Wheatley of Catsfield, Sussex, 7s. (2 d.v.p.), 7 da. (2 d.v.p.).Chippenham par. reg. 1560-1646, ff. 15v-17, 19, 21v; Chippenham par. reg. 1669-1719, ff. 11v-12; Noble, Mems. of House of Cromwell, ii. 389-92. suc. fa. 1654.Chippenham par. reg. 1669-1719, f. 11. bur. 30 Apr. 1664 30 Apr. 1664.Chippenham par. reg. 1669-1719, f. 12v.
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Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, by 1641.LC3/1, f. 25.

Local: commr. subsidy, Cambs. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661.SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Dep. lt. 20 Aug. 1642–?CJ ii. 729a; LJ v. 307a. Commr. Cambs., Hunts. and I. of Ely militia, 6 Jan. 1643;SP28/5, ff. 74–5. sequestration, Cambs. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643; New Model ordinance, Cambs. 17 Feb. 1645; militia, Cambs. and I. of Ely 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. Cambs. 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; I. of Ely 14 Mar. 1655. by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1660SP25/76A, f. 16; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 78; A. and O. J.p. Cambs.; Bucks. Mar. 1652 – aft.July 1653; Suff. Feb. 1656-Mar. 1657.C231/6, p. 217, 259, 326; A Perfect List (1660). Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Cambs. 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 16, 378. sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 6 May 1654-aft. July 1659;C181/6, pp. 27, 380. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cambs., Hunts. and I. of Ely 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, Cambs. 21 Sept. 1655.Bodl. Rawl. C.948, p. 24. Custos rot. 1656-July. 1660.A Perfect List (1660); 231/7, p. 14. Commr. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35).

Military: col. of horse (parlian.), Eastern Assoc. army by Oct. 1643-aft. Mar. 1645.SP 28/10, f. 189; G. Davies, ‘The army of the Eastern Assoc.’, EHR xlvi. 93. Gov. Gt. Yarmouth Dec. 1643-Feb. 1644;HMC 9th Rep. 313, 320; Holmes, Eastern Assoc. 188–9. I. of Ely Aug. 1645-aft. Nov. 1647.LJ vii. 532b, 535b-536a; SP28/128/6, f. 5v. Capt. of dragoons, Ely by July 1647.SP28/251.

Central: commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649; security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Civic: chamberlain, Chester by 1657.A Narrative of the late Parliament (so called) (1657, E.935.5), 17; A Second Narrative of the late Parliament (1658), 27.

: Cambs.
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RUSSELL, Francis (c.1616-64), of Chippenham, Cambs.

Will
not found.
Estates
inherited substantial estates at Chippenham, Cambs.M. Spufford, Contrasting Communities (Cambridge, 1974), 58-92.
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WILMOT, Henry (1612-58), of Adderbury, Oxon.

Family and Education
b. 2 Dec. 1612, 3rd. s. of Charles Wilmot† of Scotland Yard, Westminster (d. betw. 29 June 1643-Apr. 1644) and 1st. w. Sarah, da. of Sir Henry Anderson of London, alderman and grocer. m. (1) 21 Aug. 1633, Frances, da. of Sir George Morton of Milborne St. Andrew and Clenston, Winterborne Clenston, Dorset, 1s. d.v.p. (2) aft. 23 July 1639, Anne (bur. 18 Mar. 1696), da. of Sir John St John of Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts., wid. of Sir Francis Henry Lee of Ditchley, Oxon, 1s. cr. 29 June 1643 Baron Wilmot of Adderbury. suc. fa. as Viscount Wilmot of Athlone [I], by Apr. 1644; cr. 13 Dec. 1652 1st earl of Rochester. d. 19 Feb. 1658.CP; O. Barron, ‘The Wild Wilmots’, The Ancestor xi. 22-3; CSP Dom. 1657-8, pp. 297, 300; Wood, Life and Times, ii. 492.
Offices Held

Military: capt. of horse, Holland 1635–7. 1 Apr. 1639CP. Commry.-gen. of horse, regt. of Henry Rich†, 1st earl of Holland, royal army by; rank of col. by Nov. 1640, confirmed Aug.1642. Aug. 1642E351/292, 293; CSP Dom. 1640, p. 16; Clarendon, Hist. ii. 253, 275. Col. of horse (roy.),; lt.-gen. by Nov. 1642;Clarendon, Hist. ii. 402. gen. by Apr. 1644;Clarendon, Hist. iii. 345. lt.-gen. under William Cavendish†, 1st marquess of Newcastle, 14 Aug. 1648.HMC Pepys, 283. Field marshal gen. army of Charles Stuart, 15 Sept. 1654;Underdown, Royalist Conspiracy, 132. col. of ft. army of Charles Stuart, Flanders 1656.Clarendon, Hist. vi. 44.

Central: member, council of war, 9 Apr. 1640.CSP Dom. 1640, p. 16. PC by 21 May 1649.HMC Portland, ii. 139.

Irish: jt. pres. Connaught 19 Apr. 1644.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 389–90.

Court: gent. of bedchamber to prince of Wales by 12 Nov. 1644; to Charles Stuart by Feb. 1649.Lttr. Bks. of Sir Samuel Luke, 77; HMC Pepys, 255.

Diplomatic: Royal envoy to Charles IV, duke of Lorraine by 13 May 1652;Nicholas Pprs. i. 300. to diet of Empire at Regensburg (Ratisbon), Dec. 1652-aft. Nov. 1653;HMC 5th Rep. 183; Syllabus of Rymer’s Foedera ed. T.D. Hardy ii. 907, 911. to elector of Brandenburg, 1654; to Denmark, 1655.CP.

: of Adderbury, Oxon.
Likenesses

Likenesses: wash drawing, W.N. Gardiner, late eighteenth or early nineteenth century;Ashmolean Museum, Oxf. pencil drawing, G.P. Harding, nineteenth century.NPG.

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WILMOT, Henry (1612-58), of Adderbury, Oxon.

Will
not found.
Estates
inherited from fa. £200 p.a. for life from lands in Oxon., share of lease in houses near Scotland Yard, and residue of estate of fa.PROB11/240, f. 313v. At d., estate at Adderbury, part freehold, part leased for lives from bishop of Winchester; Wilmot House, Scotland Yard, London;HMC Lords n.s. iv, 172. Long Marston manor, Tring, Herts.VCH Herts. ii. 287.
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held advowson of Puttenham, Herts., 1637.VCH Herts. ii. 264.
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REYNELL, Thomas (1625-98), of East Ogwell, Devon.

Family and Education
b. 13 Sept. 1625, 1st s. of Sir Richard Reynell of East Ogwell and Mary, da. and coh. of Richard Reynell† of Creedy Widger, Upton Hellions.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 644. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 4 Dec. 1640; M. Temple 22 May 1641, called 8 June 1649.Al. Ox.; MTR ii. 907, 979. m. (1) 30 June 1648, Mary (d. 17 Sept. 1671), da. of John Bennet of London, 1s. d.v.p. 4da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 25 July 1673, Elizabeth (bur. 17 Mar. 1702), da. of James Gould, merchant, of London, wid. of William Vincent, merchant, of Exeter, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. suc. fa. 12 Feb. 1648. bur. 1 Mar. 1698 1 Mar. 1698.Holy Trinity Minories, London par. reg.; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 644; Devon RO, 4625M-O/F/1/1.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Devon by 6 Mar. 1647 – aft.May 1652, 26 Sept. 1653 – June 1660, 13 Aug. 1660–76, 1687–d.Devon RO, DQS 28/3; C231/6, p. 267; C231/7, p. 26; C193/13/4, ff. 19, 20v. Commr. assessment, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689–d.;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance… for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. ejecting scandalous ministers, Devon and Exeter 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 27 Mar. 1655, June 1659–10 Aug. 1660;C181/6, pp. 100, 378. militia, Devon 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, 1660.SR. Dep. lt. 1660 – 61, May-Oct. 1688;SP29/11/157; HP Commons 1660–90. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 695. Sheriff, 1677–8.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 37. Commr. inquiry into recusancy fines, Devon, Dorset and Cornw. Mar. 1688.HP Commons 1660–90.

Central: commr. inquiry into Newfoundland government, 1667.APC Col. i. 433.

Civic: alderman, Totnes Apr.-Oct. 1688.HP Commons 1660–90.

: of East Ogwell, Devon.
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REYNELL, Thomas (1625-98), of East Ogwell, Devon.

Will
5 Mar. 1694, pr. 15 Mar. 1699.PROB11/450/37.
Estates
bought fee farm rents in 1650 of West and East Ogwell, West Teignmouth, ‘Ingeston’ (perhaps Ingsdon, in Ilsington), Newton Bushel, Devon.E315/144, unpag. At death, held manors of East and West Ogwell, Malston, Ogwell Pettivin, Holbeam; advowsons of East and West Ogwell; mills of Holbeam and East Ogwell; lands and messuages in Ashburton, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, St Marychurch, East and West Teignmouth, Highweek, Teigngrace, Torbryan, Devon.PROB11/450/37.
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HALES, Sir Robert, 1st bt. (c.1610-93), of Howletts, Bekesbourne, Kent.

Family and Education
b. c.1610, 1st s. of Thomas Hales of Bekesbourne and Anne (bap. 2 July 1581), da. of Sir Thomas Peyton.St Peter le Poer, London, par. reg.; Baronetage of Eng. rev. W. Betham (1901-5), ii. 112. educ. Corpus Christi, Camb. 1626, matric. Easter 1627;Al. Cant. I. Temple, 19 Oct. 1629.I. Temple database. m. ?(1) 21 May 1632, Elizabeth Pollen;Bekesbourne par. reg. (2) (settlement 16 Nov. 1635), Catherine (bur. 11 June 1675), da. of Sir William Ashcomb of Alvescot, Oxon. at least 4s. (d.v.p.), 1da. (d.v.p.).Cent. Kent. Stud. U1255/T19; Bekesbourne par. reg.; CB; Vis. Oxon. (Harl. Soc. v), 318. suc. fa. aft. July 1662.Cent. Kent Stud. U1255/T83. cr. bt. 17 Dec. 1658, 12 July 1660.C231/6, p. 418; CB. bur. 27 Dec. 1693 27 Dec. 1693.Bekesbourne par. reg.
Offices Held

Legal: called, I. Temple 21 May 1637.I. Temple database. Clerk in chancery, 21 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Local: j.p. Kent 7 June 1644 – aft.Mar. 1660, 9 Sept. 1660-Aug. 1670;C231/6, p. 3; C231/7, pp. 37, 376; Names of the Justices (1650), 28 (E.1238.4); A Perfect List (1660), 23. Oxon. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C193/13/3, f. 51v; C193/13/4, f. 78v. Commr. oyer and terminer, Kent 4 July 1644; gaol delivery, 4 July 1644;C181/5, ff. 236v, 237. New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; assessment, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689–d.;A. and O; Act for an Assessment (1653), 282 (E.1062.28); SR. Oxon. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Mdx. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; military rule, Kent 23 Apr. 1645; rising in Kent, 7 June 1645; indemnity, 20 Jan., 4 Apr. 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, 23 Mar. 1658;SP25/78, p. 500. sewers, 1 July 1659, 21 Sept. 1660;C181/6, p. 367; C181/7, p. 56. E. Kent 13 Nov. 1669.C181/7, p. 509. Dep. lt. Kent Jan. 1688–?d.CSP Dom. 1687–9, p. 141.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), Kent by Aug. 1648.HMC 10th Rep. VI, 95–6.

Civic: freeman, Sandwich 3 Jan. 1659;E. Kent RO, Sa/AC8, f. 142. Canterbury 3 Apr. 1660.Canterbury Cathedral Lib. CC/Ac5, f. 23v.

: 1st bt. (c.1610-93) of Howletts, Kent., Bekesbourne 1610 – 93.
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Web Title

HALES, Sir Robert, 1st bt. (c.1610-93), of Howletts, Bekesbourne, Kent.

Will
20 Dec. 1693, pr. 27 Feb. 1696.PROB11/430/252.
Estates
residence at Alvescot, Oxon. presumably in the right of his wife.Som. RO, DD/BR/ely/3/7. Manor of Bekesbourne purchased from trustees for sale of dean and chapter lands, 23 Mar. 1649, for £2,104;Cent. Kent. Stud. U1255/T3; Bodl. MS Rawl. B.239, p. 26. Adisham manor purchased from the same, 28 May 1650, for £4,205;Cent. Kent Stud. U1255/T1. small portions of land purchased from dean and chapter property in Canterbury, 26 July 1650, for £100.Cent. Kent Stud. U1255/T11. During the 1650s, Hales administered the Pym family estates in Ireland.Som. RO, DD/BR/ely/3/2, 7-8.
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