APPLETON, Isaac (1606-61), of Holbrook Hall, Little Waldingfield, Suff.

The Appletons had held land in the parish of Little Waldingfield since the early 15th century, acquiring Holbrook Hall, four miles from Sudbury, by 1437. Appleton was a Presbyterian and Parliamentarian, holding a number of local offices and serving on the Suffolk committee. He seems to have been less favourably inclined towards the Protectorates and took little part in local affairs after 1653. At the general election of 1661 he was involved in a double return at Sudbury, which his wife’s first husband had represented several times, but he was allowed to take his seat on the merits of the return, and thus became the only member of his family to enter Parliament. An inactive Member of the Cavalier Parliament, he was appointed only to the committees on the bill for repairing and enlarging highways and on a private estate bill (22 June). On 7 Feb. 1662 the House confirmed his election, but he had died intestate in December. His estates were divided between his three sisters.3Copinger, Suff. Manors, i. 103-4, 106-7, 247; ii. 363; Muskett, 322-9; A. M. Everitt, Suff. and the Gt. Rebellion (Suff. Rec. Soc. iii), 40, 52, 60, 61; Bodl. Tanner mss 69, ff. 160, 161; C6/182/54.