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Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 1st Baronet (died 14 October 1669) was an English baronet, landowner, soldier and MP who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659. He fought on the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War. Barnardiston was the son of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston of Kedington ("Ketton"), Suffolk and his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Stephen Soame, Lord Mayor of London.J. Burke and J.B. Burke, ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England'' (Scott, Webster and Geary, London 1838)p. 40 (Misprints "Peter" for "Stephen" Soame.) His brother was Sir Samuel Barnardiston, 1st Bart. of Brightwell, Suffolk. He matriculated from St Catharine's College, Cambridge in Autumn 1633 and was admitted at Gray's Inn on 1 May 1635. Barnardiston was knighted in 1641 but fought on the side of parliament in the Civil War. In 1645, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bury St. Edmunds in the Long Parliament and survived Prid ... [...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 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 legisla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Protectorate Parliament
The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons. In its first session, the House of Commons was its only chamber; in the second session an Other House with a power of veto over the decisions of the Commons was added. Background There were two sessions the first from 17 September 1656 until 26 June 1657 and a second from 20 January until 4 February 1658. The Second Protectorate Parliament was summoned reluctantly by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell on the advice of the Major-Generals who were running the country as regions under military governors. The Major-Generals thought that a compliant parliament would be the best way to raise money to pay for the Army occupation, and the Navy both of which were involved in the Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660). The elections were held under the new written constitution called Instrument of Government. It ... [...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 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl Of St Albans
Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of Saint Albans, (25 March 1605 (baptised) – January 1684) was an English politician and courtier. He sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1643 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Jermyn. He was one of the most influential courtiers of the period, constantly devising and promoting schemes to involve foreign powers in the restoration of the monarchy, both before and after the execution of Charles I. Biography Jermyn was the fourth but second surviving son of Sir Thomas Jermyn (1572–1645) of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, Vice-Chamberlain to Charles I, and his wife Catherine, daughter of Sir William Killigrew of Hanworth, Middlesex (a sister of Sir Robert). He was baptised at St Margaret's Lothbury, London on 25 March 1605. In 1625 Jermyn was elected Member of Parliament for Bodmin, and was re-elected MP for the seat in 1626. He was MP for Liverpool in 1628. He won the favour of Henrietta Maria of France, Queen consort of Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jermyn (died 1659)
Thomas Jermyn (March 1604 – 11 November 1659) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons for various seats between 1625 and 1644. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Early life Jermyn was the son of Sir Thomas Jermyn of Rushbrooke, Suffolk and his wife Catherine Killigrew, daughter of Sir William Killigrew. He was born in Hanworth, the seat of the Killigrews, and raised at the Jermyn seat of Rushbrooke Hall. He was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge on 13 June 1622, and was awarded BA in 1626 and MA in 1629. Through his father and grandparents, Jermyn had close connections to the Stuart royal court. In 1623, he was made a page in the service of Prince Charles, and attended on the Prince during his Spanish journey that year. Career In 1624, Jermyn was elected Member of Parliament for Bere Alston under the patronage of Lord Mountjoy. In 1625 he was elected MP for Leicester. He was subsequently elected MP for Lancas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwardstone
Edwardstone is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The parish contains the hamlets of Mill Green, Priory Green, Round Maple and Sherbourne Street, and Edwardstone Woods, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The parish touches Boxford, Great Waldingfield, Groton, Little Waldingfield, Milden and Newton. History The name "Edwardstone" means 'Eadweard's farm/settlement'. Edwardstone was listed in the ''Domesday Book'' as ''Eduardestuna''. Edwardstone Priory was a priory in Priory Green and was founded by Peter, Bishop of Winchester during the reign of King John, the priory was a cell to Abingdon monastery, before the monks resident were moved to Colne Priory. The priory may be the origin of the place name "Priory Green". The village was the birthplace of John Winthrop, one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Historical writings In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrentham, Suffolk
Wrentham is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the north-east of the English county of Suffolk. It is located about from the North Sea coast on the A12 trunk road, about south-west of Lowestoft, north of Southwold and south-east of Beccles. The village has several shops, two pubs and a village hall. The parish church is located to the west of the village, and near to it is the old circular brick animal pound, used in the 18th and 19th centuries to contain stray animals rounded up in the parish. History The Old Town Hall, which was designed in the Gothic Revival style, was completed in 1862. During the winter of 1916–17 the 2/7th (Merionethshire & Montgomeryshire) Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers was based at Wrentham. The 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay passed through the village on 5 July. The village gave its name to a Ham-class inshore minesweepers called HMS Wrentham (M2779) which was launched on 8 February 1955. A hamlet in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Skippon (1641-1691)
Philip Skippon (c. 1600, West Lexham, Norfolk – c. 20 February 1660) supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War as a senior officer in the New Model Army. Prior to the war he fought in the religious wars on the continent. During the Interregnum he was a member of Parliament, an active soldier and on occasions a government administrator. Life Background Philip Skippon was the son of Luke Skippon (c. 1567–1638), the son of Bartholomew Skippon of Weasenham St Peter, Norfolk. Luke and his elder brother William (born c. 1566) went to school at Dereham and studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. William lived at Tawstock in north Devon where he was Secretary to Lord Bath, and died there on 1 January 1633/34. Luke (born c. 1567) had his seat at West Lexham, Norfolk, and was father of two notable sons, Philip, and Luke (died 1676), who entered Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1614 and made his career there, becoming junior Proctor in 1633–34, and being nomina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 2nd Baronet (c. 1646 – 7 October 1698) was an English nobleman and Whigs (British political party), Whig politician. Life Barnardiston was the son of Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 1st Baronet and Anne Airmine, daughter of Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet. He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 19 June 1667. He succeeded to his father's title on 4 October 1669. Between 1685 and 1690 Barnardiston served as the Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency), Great Grimsby in the House of Commons of England. From 1690 to 1698 he was the MP for Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency), Sudbury. He married Elizabeth King, the daughter of Sir Robert King (Roundhead), Robert King of Boyle Abbey, Roscommon, in the Kingdom of Ireland and his second wife Sophia Zouch, daughter of Sir Edward Zouch and Dorothea Silking. They had four sons, three of whom later inherited their father's baronetcy.Collins, ''The English Baronetage'' III Part II (1741), p. 400. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles II Of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651, and King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France. After Charles I's execution at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War, the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649. But England entered the period known as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth, and the country was a de facto republic led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe. Cromwell became virtual dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland. Charles spent the next nine years in exile in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands. The political crisis that followed Cromwell's death i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnardiston Baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Barnardiston family, both in the Baronetage of England. Both creations are extinct. The Barnardiston Baronetcy, of Ketton in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 7 April 1663 for Thomas Barnardiston, Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds and Suffolk and the son of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston. The second Baronet was member of parliament for Grimsby and Sudbury. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1745. The Barnardiston Baronetcy, of Brightwell in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 11 May 1663 for Samuel Barnardiston, Member of Parliament for Suffolk, with remainder, firstly, in default of male issue of his own to his brother Nathaniel Barnardiston and the heirs male of his body, and secondly, to his brother Peletiah Barnardiston and the heirs male of his body. He was the younger brother of the first Baronet of Ketton. Barnardi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Kesteven
South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Bourne, Grantham, Market Deeping and Stamford. The 2011 census reports 133,788 people at 1.4 per hectare in 57,344 households. The district borders the counties of Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland. It is also bounded by the Lincolnshire districts of North Kesteven and South Holland. History The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, from the municipal boroughs of Grantham and Stamford, along with Bourne Urban District, South Kesteven Rural District, and West Kesteven Rural District. Previously the district was run by Kesteven County Council, based in Sleaford. Geography South Kesteven borders North Kesteven to the north, as far east as Horbling, where the A52 crosses the South Forty-Foot Drain. From there south it borders South Holland along th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
