Sir Charles Ingleby (

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1688, died 1719), was an English barrister and briefly a judge. Ingleby was a descendant of Sir Thomas Ingleby, judge of the king's bench in the reign of

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. He was the third son of John Ingleby of

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, Yorkshire. He was admitted a member of

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in June 1663, and called to the bar in November 1671. He was a Roman Catholic, and in February 1680 was charged by the informers Robert Bolron and Moubray with complicity in the Gascoigne plot, and was committed to the King's Bench prison, but upon his trial at York in July he was acquitted. Upon the accession of

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he was promoted, and was made a baron of the Irish court of exchequer, 23 April 1686, but, refusing to proceed to Ireland, was made a serjeant-at-law in May of the following year, and on 6 July 1688 was knighted and made a

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. In November, upon the landing of William of Orange, his patent was superseded, and he returned to the bar. His is almost the only case in which a judge has resumed practice. In April 1693 he was fined 40s. at the York assizes for refusing to take the oaths of allegiance to William and Mary. The date of his death is unknown.

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, in his 'History of Richmondshire,’ ii. 350, apparently referring to him, but under the wrong name of John, says that he died shortly after the

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at Austwick Hall, and was buried at Clapham, Yorkshire; but the register of Roman Catholic landholders in the

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, 1717–34, is headed by the name of Sir Charles Ingleby, knight, serjeant-at-law.Hist. MSS. Comm. 9th Rep. pt. i. pp. 327 b, 346 a

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