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Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl Of Carbery
Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery KB, PC (c. 1600 – 1686), styled The Honourable from 1621 until 1628 and then Lord Vaughan until 1634, was a Welsh soldier, peer and politician. Born the son of a Welsh noble with an Irish peerage, Vaughan initially entered the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Carmarthenshire in 1624. He held the seat until 1629, when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament until 1640. Knighted in 1626, he appears to have little interest in politics, and after inheriting the estates and titles of his father in 1634, retired to the life of a country gentleman in South Wales. The outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 disturbed his peace, and after being courted by both King and Parliament, he declared as a Royalist. He raised troops for the king, and took control of the Southern Welsh counties on behalf of the Crown, for which he was rewarded with titles and responsibilities. Carbery's successes were shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vaughan, 1st Earl Of Carbery
John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery (1574 or 1575 – 6 May 1634) was a Welsh courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601 and from 1621 to 1622. He served Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and later Prince Charles, heir to the throne of King James I. However, his career ended when the Prince acceded to the throne in 1625, and he later estimated that serving the Prince had cost him £20,000, which went unrecompensed. Early life Born to a Carmarthenshire family, Vaughan was the son of Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove, Llandeilo (who died 1597), Walter Vaughan, accessed January 2015 and his wife Katherine, a daughter of Gruffydd ap Rhys of Dinefwr Castle, Dinefwr. His Vaughan grandfather, another John, was the first of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Parliament
The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that was summoned by King Charles I of England on the 20th of February 1640 and sat from 13th of April to the 5th of May 1640. It was so called because of its short life of only three weeks. After 11 years of attempting Personal Rule between 1629 and 1640, Charles recalled Parliament in 1640 on the advice of Lord Wentworth, recently created Earl of Strafford, primarily to obtain money to finance his military struggle with Scotland in the Bishops' Wars. However, like its predecessors, the new parliament had more interest in redressing perceived grievances occasioned by the royal administration than in voting the King funds to pursue his war against the Scottish Covenanters. John Pym, MP for Tavistock, quickly emerged as a major figure in debate; his long speech on 17 April expressed the refusal of the House of Commons to vote subsidies unless royal abuses were addressed. John Hampden, in contrast, was persuasive in private: he s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gray's Inn
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London. To be called to the bar in order to practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these inns. Located at the intersection of High Holborn and Gray's Inn Road in Central London, the Inn is a professional body and provides office and some residential accommodation for barristers. It is ruled by a governing council called "Pension," made up of the Masters of the Bench (or "benchers,") and led by the Treasurer, who is elected to serve a one-year term. The Inn is known for its gardens (the “Walks,”) which have existed since at least 1597. Gray's Inn does not claim a specific foundation date; none of the Inns of Court claims to be any older than the others. Law clerks and their apprentices have been established on the present site since at latest 1370, with records dating from 1381 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Called To The Bar
The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to the bar". "The bar" is now used as a collective noun for barristers, but literally referred to the wooden barrier in old courtrooms, which separated the often crowded public area at the rear from the space near the judges reserved for those having business with the court. Barristers would sit or stand immediately behind it, facing the judge, and could use it as a table for their briefs. Like many other common law terms, the term originated in England in the Middle Ages, and the ''call to the bar'' refers to the summons issued to one found fit to speak at the "bar" of the royal courts. In time, English judges allowed only legally qualified men to address them on the law and later delegated the qualification and admission of barristers t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish House Of Lords
The Irish House of Lords was the upper house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from medieval times until 1800. It was also the final court of appeal of the Kingdom of Ireland. It was modelled on the House of Lords of England, with members of the Peerage of Ireland sitting in the Irish Lords, just as members of the Peerage of England did at Westminster. When the Act of Union 1800 abolished the Irish parliament, a subset of Irish peers sat as representative peers in the House of Lords of the merged Parliament of the United Kingdom. History The Lords started as a group of barons in the Lordship of Ireland that was generally limited to the Pale, a variable area around Dublin where English law was in effect, but did extend to the rest of Ireland. They sat as a group, not as a separate House, from the first meeting of the Parliament of Ireland in 1297. From the establishment of the Kingdom of Ireland in 1542 the Lords included a large number of new Gaelic and Norman lords un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Interregnum
The Interregnum was the period between the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 and the arrival of his son Charles II in London on 29 May 1660 which marked the start of the Restoration. During the Interregnum, England was under various forms of republican government (see Commonwealth of England; this article describes other facets of the Interregnum). Politics The politics of the period were dominated by the wishes of the ''Grandees'' (Senior Officers) of the New Model Army and their civilian supporters. They encouraged (or at least tolerated) several republican regimes. From 1649 until 1653 executive powers lay with the Council of State, while legislative functions were carried out by the Rump Parliament. In 1653 the Grandees, with Oliver Cromwell in the lead, dismissed the Rump, and replaced it with a Nominated Assembly (nicknamed the Parliament of Saints or Barebone's Parliament) made up of 140 nominees, 129 from England and Wales, five from Scotland and six from Irelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Custos Rotulorum Of Cardiganshire
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Cardiganshire. * Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford 1543–1558 * John Price 1558 – aft. 1579 * George Devereux c. 1584 * Richard Price 1590 – 1592, 1594 – 1623 * Sir John Lewis bef. 1621–1623 * Sir John Lewis 1623–1626 * William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton 1626–1630 * Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery 1630–1646 * ''Interregnum'' * Francis Vaughan, Lord Vaughan 1660–1667 * Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery 1670–1686 * John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery 1686–1713 * Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford 1714 * John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne 1714–1721 * John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne 1721–1741 * ''vacant'' * Thomas Johnes 1743–1780 * Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne 1780–1800 For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire. References Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Custos Rotulorum Of Pembrokeshire
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Pembrokeshire. * John Vaughan bef. 1544 – bef. 1558 * Thomas Cathern bef. 1558 – bef. 1562 * Sir John Perrot bef. 1562–1592 * Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex bef. 1594–1601 * Sir James Perrot Sir James Perrot (1571 – 4 February 1636) was a Welsh writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1629. He was the illegitimate son of Sir John Perrot, who was himself falsely rumoured to be an illegi ... 1601 – aft. 1608 * Sir William Wogan bef. 1621–1625 * William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke 1625–1630 * Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke 1630–1643 * Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery 1643–1646 * ''Interregnum'' * Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke 1660–1669 * William Herbert, 6th Earl of Pembroke 1670–1674 * Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke 1674–1683 * Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke 1683&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Custos Rotulorum Of Carmarthenshire
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Carmarthenshire. * Richard Devereux 1543 – bef. 1558 * Sir Thomas Jones bef. 1558 – bef. 1559 * Sir Henry Jones bef. 1562–1586 * Sir Thomas Jones 1586 – bef. 1594 * Edward Dunlee bef. 1594–1595 * Sir Thomas Jones 1595–1604 * Sir Henry Jones 1605 – bef. 1637 * Sir Henry Jones, 1st Baronet 1637–1644 * Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery 1644–1646 * ''Interregnum'' * Sir John Lloyd, 1st Baronet Mar–July 1660 * Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery 1660–1686 * John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery 1686–1713 * Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton 1714–1735 * Sir Nicholas Williams, 1st Baronet 1735–1745 * Thomas Williams of Edwinsford (brother of Nicolas Williams, 1st Baronet) 1746–1762 * George Rice 1762–1779 For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire. References Institute of Historical Research - Cus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Charles I Of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. He was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1612 upon the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Anna culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiation. Two years later, he married the Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France. After his 1625 succession, Charles quarrelled with the English Parliament, which sought to curb his royal prerogative. He believed in the divine right of kings, and was determined to govern according ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English House Of Commons
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 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 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, it developed legislative p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
