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Rowland Cotton
Sir Rowland Cotton (baptized 29 January 1581died 22 August 1634) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1605 and 1629. Cotton was the son of William Cotton, a London draper. He matriculated from St John's College, Cambridge in 1596 and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 13 June 1599. He was a friend and patron of John Lightfoot. He succeeded his father in 1607, inheriting estates in Shropshire and Staffordshire. He lived at Bellaport Hall, Norton in Hales, Shropshire. In 1605, he was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme and knighted in 1608. He was appointed to the bench as Justice of the Peace for Shropshire by 1614 to his death, and as a commissioner of oyer and terminer for Wales and the Marches by 1616 to death. He served as Mayor of Newcastle in 1614–15. He was appointed also High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1616–17 and the following year a member of Council of the Marches for life. In 1626 he was elected MP for 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] |
Shelsley Walsh
Shelsley Walsh is a small village and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, on the western side of the River Teme. For administrative purposes it is presently located in the Teme Valley ward of the county’s Malvern Hills district. In the 2011 Census there was an estimated population of 28 people in 12 households. The site has been farmed since Anglo Saxon times and there are also vestiges of former industry, but it is now best known for its association with the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb. History The name of the settlement was recorded as ''Celdeslai'' in the Domesday Book, with the meaning of "Sceald's clearing": from Old English ''Sceald'' (a personal name) and ''leāh'' (wood, clearing). Other spellings were used in the following centuries, and the location was also known as Little Shelsley to distinguish it from Great Shelsley ( Shelsley Beauchamp) on the opposite side of the River Teme. The village was described in 1831 as being within the upper division of Doddi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Skeffington, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Skeffington, 2nd Baronet (c. 1590 – 19 November 1651) was an English landowner and politician, elected to the House of Commons of England, House of Commons in 1626. He was fined a high sum for supporting the Cavaliers, Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Public life Skeffington was the eldest son of Sir William Skeffington, 1st Baronet of Fisherwicke, Staffordshire, and his wife, Margaret Dering of Surrenden, near Lenham, Kent. He matriculated from Jesus College, Cambridge in the spring of 1603 and was admitted to the Middle Temple on 30 October 1604. He was knighted in August 1624. In 1626, he was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency), Newcastle-under-Lyme. He succeeded to the Viscount Massereene, baronetcy on the death of his father in 1635. From 1637 to 1638 Skeffington was High Sheriff of Staffordshire, Sheriff of Staffordshire. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War and was fined £1,152 in Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Leveson (1598–1661)
Sir Richard Leveson (1598–1661) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. Leveson was the second son of Sir John Leveson of Halling, Kent, and his second wife Christian Mildmay, daughter of Sir Walter Mildmay. In 1605 he inherited property in Trentham, Staffordshire and Lilleshall, Shropshire from his father’s cousin Sir Richard Leveson, Vice-Admiral of England. Leveson's elder brother, John, who was intended to inherit his father's estates, died in 1612, three years before his father. Leveson therefore inherited his father’s estates in Kent as well as the Vice-Admiral’s estates. He rebuilt the family seat at Trentham Hall between 1630 and 1638 at a cost of over £6000. His Staffordshire relatives included Colonel Thomas Leveson, who held Dudley Castle for Charles I from 1643-46 and was one of 25 former Royalists listed by Parliament in 1651 as subject to 'perpetual ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Corbet
Sir Andrew Corbet (1580–1637) of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1629. A Puritan sympathiser, he at first supported the government but became an increasingly vocal opponent of King Charles I's policies and ministers. Background and education He was the son of Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris (editors): History of Parliament Online: Members 1604–1629 – CORBET, Sir Andrew (1580–1637), of Moreton Corbet and Acton Reynell, Salop – Author: Simon Healy Retrieved 18 September 2013. Sir Vincent Corbet (d.1623), of More ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport (7 May 1587 – 8 February 1651). was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1629. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War and was created Baron Newport in 1642. Biography Newport was the son of Sir Francis Newport of High Ercall and Beatrix Lacon, daughter of Rowland Lacon. Newport was educated in Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1604 to 1607 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1614 he was elected member of parliament for Shropshire. He was elected MP for Shrewsbury in 1621. In 1624 he was elected MP for Shropshire again and was re-elected in 1625, 1626 and 1628. He sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. He was appointed High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1626–27. In 1642, Newport provided King Charles I of England with the sum of £6000 in exchange for a barony, enabling him to use artillery in the Battle of Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Needham, 2nd Viscount Kilmorey
Robert Needham, 2nd Viscount Kilmorey (c. 1587/88 – 12 September 1653) was an English Royalist and supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War. Biography Robert Needham was born about 1598, the son of Sir Robert Needham, 1st Viscount Kilmorey and Jane Lacy (daughter of John Lacy of Borston or Borseton). Needham was educated at Shrewsbury School. He was a Member of Parliament of the Addled Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme Staffordshire in 1614. In the same year he was granted the freedom of Shrewsbury. He was a Justice of the Peace in Lancashire by 1627 and held the post until at least 1630. Needham succeeded his father in 1631, inheriting his titles as 2nd Viscount Kilmorey, and 2nd Feudal Baron of Orhera, and his English estate of Shavington Hall at Adderley, Shropshire. His name appears among those having a proxy in the Irish House of Lords on 30 July 1634. Kilmorey supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He served on Commission of Array for both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Wymarke
Edward Wymarke (died 30 September 1634) was an English minor official and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1597 and 1614. Wymarke was the only son of Edward Wymarke of Luffenham, Rutland and his wife Margaret Dudley, daughter of William Dudley of Clopton, Northamptonshire. He was known as "Ned Wymarke".John Nichols, ''Progresses of James the First'', vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 182. Wymarke was a fringe official who collected revenue for the crown from concealed lands and was reimbursed from the proceeds. In 1597, he was returned as Member of Parliament for Chippenham after the elected candidate Thomas Edmunds was sent abroad as an ambassador. He succeeded to the estates of his father in 1599. In 1601 he was re-elected MP for Chippenham. He sold his revenue collection office and register of lands in 1602. In 1604 he was elected MP for Peterborough. He was re-elected MP for Peterborough in 1614. He was also elected MP for Liverpool and Newcastle-under-Lyme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bowyer (died 1605)
John Bowyer may refer to: Politicians * John Bowyer (MP for Penryn) or Bower, MP for Penrhyn, 1563 * John Bowyer (MP for Derby), in 1383, MP for Derby * John Bowyer (fl. 1404), MP for Wells * John Bowyer (died 1605), MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency) *Sir John Bowyer, 1st Baronet (1623–1666), English soldier and MP for Staffordshire 1646, and Newcastle-under-Lyme *Sir John Bowyer, 2nd Baronet Sir John Bowyer, 2nd Baronet (25 April 1653 – 18 July 1691) was an English politician. He was the oldest son of Sir John Bowyer, 1st Baronet, and Mary Milward, daughter of Robert Milward. Bowyer was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and ... (1653–1691), English MP for Warwick and Staffordshire 1679–1685 Others * John Bowyer (cricketer) (1790–1880), English professional cricketer * John M. Bowyer (1853–1912), officer in the United States Navy See also * John Bower (other) {{hndis, Bowyer, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Chetwynd (died 1638)
Walter Chetwynd (died 31 May 1638) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1614. Life Chetwynd was the son of John Chetwynd of Ingestre, near Stafford and his second wife Margery Middlemore, daughter of Robert Middlemore of Edgbaston, Warwickshire. He was educated at Barnard's Inn and at Gray's Inn in 1582. He succeeded his half-brother Sir William Chetwynd to the Ingestre estate in 1612. In 1584, he was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastle under Lyme. He was re-elected MP for Newcastle in 1586. From about 1592 he was J.P. for Shropshire and by 1596 he was JP for Staffordshire. He was commissioner for musters for Staffordshire in 1601. In 1604 he was knighted and was elected MP for Newcastle under Lyme again. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire for 1607–08. In 1613 he rebuilt Ingestre Hall Ingestre Hall is a Grade II* 17th-century Jacobean mansion situated at Ingestre, near Stafford, Staffordshire, England. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberon, The Faery Prince
''Oberon, the Faery Prince'' was a masque written by Ben Jonson, with costumes, sets and stage effects designed by Inigo Jones, and music by Alfonso Ferrabosco and Robert Johnson. ''Oberon'' saw the introduction to English Renaissance theatre of scenic techniques that became standard for dramatic productions through the coming centuries. The text of the masque was first published in the initial folio collection of Jonson's works that appeared in 1616. The show ''Oberon'' was performed on 1 January 1611 at Whitehall Palace, in the Banqueting Hall. Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the son and then-heir of James I, took the title role. (Prince Henry had wanted to stage the masque on horseback, but "his father vetoed the Idea.") The masque was the sixth in the series of extravagant shows that Jonson and Jones produced for the Stuart Court in the Christmas holiday season, a series that had begun with ''The Masque of Blackness'' in 1605 and had continued through the previous ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Speeches At Prince Henry's Barriers
''The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers'', sometimes called ''The Lady of the Lake,'' is a masque or entertainment written by Ben Jonson in honour of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the son and heir of King James I of England. The speeches were performed on 6 January 1610 in conjunction with the ceremony known as Prince Henry's Barriers. Barriers "Barriers" was a stylized martial combat, conducted on foot with swords and pikes; it was something like a joust without horses. Though ceremonial in nature, the practice had some inherent risk (as jousting did), and the sixteen-year-old Prince Henry had to persuade his reluctant father to allow his participation. The ceremonial challenge that initiated the barriers occurred on 31 December 1609; Prince Henry then kept an "open table" at St. James's Palace, which cost £100 per day. The Prince was supported by a team of six nobles and gentlemen: Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox; Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel; Henry Wriothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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