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Hamon Le Strange
Sir Hamon le Strange (1583 – 31 May 1654) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1626. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. His family were Norfolk gentry long based at their manor of Hunstanton. Life and career Le Strange was the son of Sir Nicholas le Strange of Hunstanton and his wife Mary Bell, and a great-grandson of the MP Sir Nicholas L'Estrange. He was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge on 26 July 1601 and knighted on 13 March 1604. From 1608 to 1609 he was the High Sheriff of Norfolk. In 1614 and again in 1625 Le Strange was elected MP for Norfolk. In 1625 and 1626 he was also elected MP for Castle Rising. In 1616 a priest, Thomas Tunstal, escaped from Wisbech Castle to Norfolk. L'Estrange had him pursued and apprehended. He was tried at Norwich and condemned and executed. During the English Civil War, Le Strange served as the Royalist Governor of King's Lynn in 1643. The honour was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of England
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales) from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain after the 1707 Act of Union was passed in both the English and Scottish parliaments at the time. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Republic of Ireland, Ireland, that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Origins The Parliament of England developed from the Magnum Concilium that advised the English monarch in medieval times. This royal council, meeting for short periods, included ecclesiastics, noblemen, and representatives of the county, counties (known as "knights of the shire"). The chief duty of the council was to approve taxes proposed by the Crown. In many cases, however, the council demanded the redress of the people's grievances before proceeding to vote on taxation. Thus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roundheads
Roundheads were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against King Charles I of England and his supporters, known as the Cavaliers or Royalists, who claimed rule by absolute monarchy and the principle of the divine right of kings. The goal of the Roundheads was to give to Parliament the supreme control over executive administration of the country/kingdom. Beliefs Most Roundheads sought constitutional monarchy in place of the absolute monarchy sought by Charles; however, at the end of the English Civil War in 1649, public antipathy towards the king was high enough to allow republican leaders such as Oliver Cromwell to abolish the monarchy completely and establish the Commonwealth of England. The Roundhead commander-in-chief of the first Civil War, Thomas Fairfax, remained a supporter of constitutional monarchy, as did many other Roundhead leaders such as Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Holland (MP For Norfolk)
Thomas Holland may refer to: * Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent (c. 1314–1360), English nobleman and military commander * Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (1350–1397), English nobleman and councillor to Richard II * Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey (1374–1400), also 3rd Earl of Kent * Thomas Holland (translator) (1549–1612), English Calvinist scholar and theologian * Thomas Holland (Jesuit) (1600–1642), Catholic priest, Jesuit and martyr * Thomas Holland (bishop) (1908–1999), Catholic bishop of Salford * Thomas Holland (1633–1690), namesake of Holland Brook, New Jersey * Thomas Holland (MP) (died 1618), English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1593 and 1614 * Thomas Holland (MP for Anglesey) (1577–1643), of Berw, MP for Anglesey, 1601 * Thomas Erskine Holland, British jurist * Thomas Henry Holland Sir Thomas Henry Holland (22 November 1868 – 15 May 1947) was a British geologist who worked in India with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Drue Drury, 1st Baronet
Sir Drue Drury, 1st Baronet (7 October 1588 – 23 April 1632) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1624. Drury was the son of Sir Drue Drury of Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire and of Linstead, Kent and his second wife Catharine Finch, daughter of William Finch, of Linstead. His father was a gentlemen usher to Queen Elizabeth. He was admitted at Peterhouse, Cambridge Peterhouse is the oldest constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Today, Peterhouse has 254 undergraduates, 116 full-time graduate students and 54 fellows. It is quite ... in 1607. In 1617 he succeeded to the estates of his father. He also possessed an estate at Riddlesworth, Norfolk. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency), Norfolk. He was elected MP for Thetford (UK Parliament constituency), Thetford in 1624. He was created a Drury baronets, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bedingfield (MP Died 1657)
Sir Henry Bedingfield (21 May 1586 – 22 November 1657), of Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, was an English Member of Parliament. Life He was the eldest son of Thomas Bedingfield of Oxburgh, who he succeeded in 1590, and the great-grandson of Sir Henry Bedingfield. His mother was Frances, daughter and coheiress of John Jernegan of Somerleyton. After his father's death she married secondly as his second wife Sir Henry Jerningham (d. 15 June 1619) of Cossey, the father of the first Jerningham baronet. Henry Bedingfield was knighted some time after 21 July 1604. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Norfolk in 1614. He was the Sheriff of Norfolk in 1620–1621. He was accused, with some justification, of being a Catholic recusant and led a Royalist contingent of East Anglian Catholics during the Civil War. He escaped to Holland shortly after Henrietta Maria left England in early 1642. Returning from exile under pressure in 1646 he was committed to the Tower of London in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cornwallis (died 1629)
Sir Charles Cornwallis (died 1629) was an English courtier and diplomat. Life He was the second son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, controller of Queen Mary's household, who had been imprisoned by Elizabeth in 1570. He was probably born at his father's house of Brome Hall, Suffolk. Nothing is known of Cornwallis till 11 July 1603, when he was knighted. In 1604 he was Member of Parliament for Norfolk. Early in 1605 he was sent as resident ambassador to Spain. He was active in attempting to protect English merchants from the Spanish Inquisition, and lobbied the home government for English commercial interests. He was recalled in September 1609, and his secretary, Francis Cottington, took his place at Madrid. In 1610 he became treasurer of the household of Henry, Prince of Wales, resisted the proposal to marry the prince to a daughter of the Duke of Savoy, and attended his master through his fatal illness of 1612. He was a candidate for the post of master of the wards in the same y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Bacon (died 1622)
Sir Nathaniel Bacon (died 7 November 1622), of Stiffkey in Norfolk, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament (MP). Life Nathaniel Bacon was the second son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, full brother of Elizabeth Bacon, and half-brother of Sir Francis Bacon and Anthony Bacon. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1562, and became an "ancient" of the Inn in 1576. He was MP for Tavistock (1571–1583), Norfolk (1584–1585, 1593 and 1604–1611, and defeated there in 1601) and King's Lynn (1597–1598); a Puritan, he was an occasionally vocal member of their parliamentary faction during Elizabeth's reign. He also served as High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1586 and 1599, and was knighted in 1604. Bacon's will, written in 1614, mentions the construction of his tomb at Stiffkey, and a jewel with a unicorn horn, which his three daughters were to use as a medicinal charm. Bacon was married twice. He had three daughters by his first wife, Anne Gresham, da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Spring, 1st Baronet
Sir William Spring, 1st Baronet (1613 – 17 December 1654) was an English Parliamentarian politician and a member of the Spring family of Pakenham, Suffolk. Life William was the son of Sir William Spring (died 1637) and his wife Elizabeth Smith. Like his father, he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The only surviving son, he inherited the family lands from his father, including Pakenham Hall and Cockfield Hall. He lived for many years at Newe House, Pakenham, which he purchased from Sir Robert Bright. Spring was knighted by Charles I and served as High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1641. During the Stour Valley anti-popery riots of August 1642, Sir William was ordered by Parliament to search Hengrave Hall, the house of his cousin, Lady Penelope Darcy, where it was thought arms for a Catholic insurrection were being stored. He was created a baronet, of Pakenham in the Baronetage of England, on 11 August 1642 by Charles I. This was despite Spring being widely known as a com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roundhead
Roundheads were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against King Charles I of England and his supporters, known as the Cavaliers or Royalists, who claimed rule by absolute monarchy and the principle of the divine right of kings. The goal of the Roundheads was to give to Parliament the supreme control over executive administration of the country/kingdom. Beliefs Most Roundheads sought constitutional monarchy in place of the absolute monarchy sought by Charles; however, at the end of the English Civil War in 1649, public antipathy towards the king was high enough to allow republican leaders such as Oliver Cromwell to abolish the monarchy completely and establish the Commonwealth of England. The Roundhead commander-in-chief of the first Civil War, Thomas Fairfax, remained a supporter of constitutional monarchy, as did many other Roundhead leaders such as Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Estrange Baronets
The L'Estrange Baronetcy, of Hunstanton in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 1 June 1629 for Nicholas L'Estrange, son of Hamon le Strange. The fourth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Castle Rising. The title became extinct on the death of the seventh Baronet in 1762. Hamon L'Estrange and Roger L'Estrange Sir Roger L'Estrange (17 December 1616 – 11 December 1704) was an English pamphleteer, author, courtier, and press censor. Throughout his life L'Estrange was frequently mired in controversy and acted as a staunch ideological defender of Kin ... were the younger brothers of the first Baronet. L'Estrange baronets, of Hunstanton (1629) *Sir Nicholas L'Estrange, 1st Baronet (1604–1655) *Sir Hamon L'Estrange, 2nd Baronet (1631–1656) *Sir Nicholas L'Estrange, 3rd Baronet (1632–1669) * Sir Nicholas L'Estrange, 4th Baronet (1661–1724) *Sir Thomas L'Estrange, 5th Baronet (1689–1751) *Sir Henry L'Estrange, 6th Baro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger L'Estrange
Sir Roger L'Estrange (17 December 1616 – 11 December 1704) was an English pamphleteer, author, courtier, and press censor. Throughout his life L'Estrange was frequently mired in controversy and acted as a staunch ideological defender of King Charles II's regime during the Restoration era. His works played a key role in the emergence of a distinct 'Tory' bloc during the Exclusion Crisis of 1679-81. Perhaps his best known polemical pamphlet was ''An Account of the Growth of Knavery'', which ruthlessly attacked the parliamentary opposition to Charles II and his successor James, Duke of York (later King James II), placing them as fanatics who misused contemporary popular anti-Catholic sentiment to attack the Restoration court and the existing social order in order to pursue their own political ends. Following the Exclusion Crisis and the failure of the nascent Whig faction to disinherit James, Duke of York in favour of Charles II's illegitimate son James, 1st Duke of Monmouth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liturgy
Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. ''Liturgy'' can also be used to refer specifically to public worship by Christians. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activities reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembrance, supplication, or repentance. It forms a basis for establishing a relationship with God. Technically speaking, liturgy forms a subset of ritual. The word ''liturgy'', sometimes equated in English as " service", refers to a formal ritual enacted by those who understand themselves to be participating in an action with the divine. Etymology The word ''liturgy'' (), derived from the technical term in ancient Greek ( el, λειτουργία), ''leitourgia'', which literally means "work for the people" is a literal translation of the two words "litos ergos" or "public service". In origin, it signified the often expensive offerings wealthy Greeks made in ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
