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 Parliamentary History 
 
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 County of Oxford, 
 
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 CITY and UNIVERSITY of OXFORD, 
 
 AND THE 
 
 BOROUGHS OF BANBURY, BURFORD, CHIPPING 
 NORTON, DADINGTON, WITNEY, AND WOODSTOCK, 
 
 From the EARLIEST TIMES to the PRESENT DAY 
 
 1813— 1899, 
 
 WITH BIOGRAPHICAL and GENEALOGICAL; 
 NOTICES of thf, MEMBERS. 
 
 By W. R. WILLIAMS, 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 
 WORCESTERSHIRE MEMBERS," and " GLOUCESTER- 
 SHIRE MEMBERS." 
 
 BRECKNOCK 
 Privately Printed for the Author by Edwin DavibS. 
 
 1899. 
 
Only 125 Copies Printed, of which this is No. /OO 
 
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 TO THE PRESENT 
 REPRESENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT 
 
 OF 
 
 OXFORDSHIRE, 
 THIS RECORD OF THE SERVICES 
 
 OF THEIR 
 
 Predecessors during Six Centuries is most 
 respectfully 
 
 DEDICATED. 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
 THIS Work being the fifth of the series of Parliamentary 
 Histories, little fresh need be said in the way of introduction, 
 otherwise than to point out a few salient features especially 
 relating to the record of Members for the County of Oxford, 
 which important shire, so rich in historical interests, still remains 
 with its County History yet unwritten, as if the abundance of Books 
 describing the history and antiquities of the University and its 
 Colleges had overshadowed all else in the county besides. And 
 yet one branch of the subject alone — its Members of Parliament — 
 cannot but possess for the historian and antiquarian alike objects 
 of the greatest interest, for among its Representatives during the 
 last six centuries Oxfordshire has elected to Parliament members 
 of such ancient families as those of Williamescote, Blsefield, 
 Nowers, Abberbury, Wace, Barentyne, Quatermayns, and 
 Feteplace, now long extinct, Harcourt, Stonor, and' Norreys, 
 Fiennes and Knollys which still exist, and among more modern 
 names those of Doyly, Cope, Wenman, Jenkinson, Dashwood, 
 Spencer, Churchill, Herbert, Stapleton, I^ee, Parker, North, 
 Annesley, and Fane. 
 
 The earlier Knights of the Shire were often literally " belted 
 Knights" for prowess on many a hard fought field or expedition 
 in France or Scotland ; they held their lands by actual tenure of 
 Knight-service, and so doing were granted "Protection when 
 abroad on the King's service," and by their valorous deeds 
 obtained the King's pardon for their slayings and robberies; and 
 at home acted as Sheriffs, Escheators, or Coroners or were placed 
 in Commissions of the Peace, of Oyer and Terminer, of Subsidy, 
 or of Array. Several of them were the " King's Servants," as 
 ■ Esquires ' or ' Yeomen,' and as such shewed themselves thorough 
 courtiers by the grants of forfeited lands or annuities which they 
 obtained from successive Monarchs. William le Marescbal was a 
 Purveyor of the King's Stables. Thomas Chaucer was the King's 
 Chief Butler, as well as an Ambassador, and Speaker of the 
 House. Danvers (a contemporary of Jack Cade), was Chief Justice 
 of the Common Pleas. During those rough and stormy times it 
 is not surprising to find that Ralph Chastiloun died from the 
 effects of a violent affray with another Member, Sir Ralph de 
 Nowers, while Sir Robert Harcourt was slain by the Staffords. 
 
 In later times it was Sir John Williams of Thame who 
 proclaimed Queen Mary at Oxford in 1553, and afterwards took a 
 prominent part in Archbishop Cranmer's martyrdom. His 
 
6 Introduction. 
 
 colleague Sir John Pollard was Speaker in the House. George 
 Owen was Physician to three of the Tudors. Of Courtiers there 
 were Sir Francis Knollys, and his son the Karl of Banbury, Lord 
 Norreys, Edward Wraye, and the Earls of Godolphin and 
 Lichfield. Of Soldiers and Sailors there were Sir John Norris, 
 Sir Andrew Dudley, and Major Weyland, a hero of Waterloo. 
 Lord Charles Spencer was Vice Treasurer of Ireland, and Joseph 
 Warner Henley was President of the Board of Trade. Sir 
 Lawrence Tanfield was made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. 
 Sir Francis Maclean is the present Chief Justice of Bengal. 
 
 Sir Anthony Cope suffered imprisonment in the Tower in 
 1587 for making an unwelcome motion in the House. James 
 Fiennes and Viscount Wen man were secluded by Col. Pride's 
 Purge in 1648, the latter being also imprisoned for some time. 
 More advanced in their opinions were the Commonwealth 
 Members, Sir Charles Wolseley, one of the Major Generals, Dr. 
 Goddard, physician to Cromwell's army, William Lenthall the 
 Speaker of the famous Long Parliament, Lieut. Gen. Charles 
 Fleetwood, Lord Deputy of Ireland and Cromwell's son-in-law, 
 and Nathaniel Fiennes, a Commissioner of the Great Seal. 
 William Knollys and Thomas Horde the Royalists were among 
 those who compounded and were fined for delinquency, and Sir 
 William Walter had to pay an assessment to the Parliament's 
 coffers. 
 
 The most noted of the Oxfordshire elections was that of 
 1754, when each side is said to have expended ^40000, upon the 
 contest and petition which followed. The political opinions of 
 the various Members during the eighteenth century are the result 
 of the special researches of the Rev. A. B. Beavan, M.A., who 
 has also very kindly revised the portion relating to Woodstock. 
 Due mention must be made of the assistance derived from the 
 various parochial histories, and from such standard works as 
 the Dictionary of National Biography, and the Alumni 
 Oxonienses of Wood, and Foster, and the Patent Rolls, Close 
 Rolls, and Calendars of State Papers. 
 
 My friend Mr W. Duncombe Pink has again been kind 
 enough to place at my disposal the results of his many years 
 researches into the subject, and I am very greatly indebted to 
 him for the very great assistance he has rendered me. And in 
 conclusion I desire to return my most grateful acknowledgments 
 to those Noblemen and Gentlemen, who have so kindly 
 comprised the list of Subscribers to this Work, and to express a 
 hope that it may prove worthy of their support. 
 
 W. R. WILLIAMS, 
 Talybont, Brecknock. 
 
 1st June 1899. 
 
MEMBERS FOR OXFORDSHIRE. 
 
 1213, 1226, 1254, 1261, 1265, 1275, Jan. and Sept. 1283. No 
 Returns found. The Parliament of 1265 appears to have been 
 the first complete Parliament consisting of elected Knights, 
 Citizens, and Burgesses, but even in later years, as in 1290, 1294, 
 1297, I 3°°> an d 13 16, the original custom was again adverted to 
 of summoning only Knights of the Shire to form the Parliament. 
 
 1290. Johannes fil' Gwydon'. 
 
 Ricardus de Wyllamescot'. 
 
 The Returns were generally filled in in Latin until the 
 reign of Queen Elizabeth commenced. Sir Robert fil' Guidon 
 was M.P. co. Warwick 1307, as was this Johannes filuis Gwydonis 
 in 1298. Sir Richard de Williamscote of Kiddington, son of 
 Thomas de W., was lord of the manors and advowsons of 
 Kiddington and Asterley, and m. Joan dau. of Robert Foliot, 
 lord of Birckmarsh, co. Warwick. He presented to Asterley 
 1288, was Sheriff of Oxon and Berks for the first half of the year 
 19 Kdw. I. (1291), but died during his Shrievalty. The following 
 references to him appear in the Patent Rolls : — 23 Jan. 1282, 
 Licence for Rd. de Wyliamescote to hold during the minority of 
 the heir, the custody of the lands and of the heir of Thomas de 
 Langele, deceased, tenant in chief, together with the custody of 
 the forest of Wicchewod, in the form in which it was granted to 
 Thomas de Maydenhaith, king's yeoman, who has demised it to 
 the said Richard. 1285, Commission to Rd. de Wylliamescote 
 and three others to deliver the gaol of Oxford of Robert Bone, 
 put in exigent after the last eyre in the county of Oxford for 
 receiving stolen goods, who has since surrendered. Another 
 Commission to him and three others 24 April 1285 to deliver 
 Oxford gaol of Thomas de Rothewell who was put in exigent etc. 
 for harbouring felons: another one 23 Nov. 1285 to deliver the 
 gaol of the castle of Walingeford of William Fowel for larceny ; 
 and Commission 10 Jan. 1287 to R- W. and three others to 
 enforce the articles of the statute made at Winchester (13 
 Kdw. I.) for the preservation of the peace in co. Oxford. 
 
 1294. (Four members). Return lost. 
 
 1295. Robert Pogeys. 
 John de Elsefeld. 
 
8 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Robert Pogeys of Stoke Pogeys was again M.P. Oxon 1302, and 
 for Bucks March 1300, 1301, 13 12, (but in 1301 Gerard de 
 Braybrok was elected in his stead, because '• Robertus Pogeys, 
 miles, qui ad parliamentum ultimo praeteritum venit infirmus 
 est.") He was made a Commr. of the Peace for Bucks 24 Dec. 
 1307, and 17 March 1308, and was one of those appointed to hold 
 an enquiry touching forestalling and other offences in Bucks, 17 
 March, 1 Edw. 2. (1308), and to hear the cases in Beds and 
 Bucks of forestallers and transgressors 16 Dec. 13 10. As Sir R. 
 Pugey Knt. he witnessed in Aug. 1285 the inspeximus and 
 confirmation of a charter of Eleanor, the king's mother, granting 
 to Edmund, the king's brother, houses and land in London, and 
 as Sir R. Pogeys witnessed another grant 14 April 1292. His 
 dau. and co-heir Margaret m. John Mauditt of Somerford. 
 Pardon dated Woodstock 14 May 13 10 to John Brun of 
 Rollondrith for the death of Adam de Sutton, as it appears by 
 the record of John Randolf and Robert Pugeys, justices of gaol 
 delivery of the late King for Oxford, that he killed him in self- 
 defence. 
 
 John de Elsefeld again sat for Oxon 1301, 1302, 1309, 131 1, 
 and was app. a Commr. of the Peace for the county (as Elsefeud) 
 24 Dec. 1307, one of those app. to hold an enquiry touching 
 forestalling and other offences in Oxon 17; March 1308, and to 
 hear the cases in Northants, Oxon, and Berks of forestallers and 
 transgressors 16 Dec. 13 10. Appointment 4 Dec. 1295 of John 
 de Elsefeld Knt. and another to assess and collect in co. Oxford 
 the eleventh and seventh on moveables recently graciously 
 granted in aid of the present war. J. de E. and two others were 
 app. 10 May 1300 in co. Oxford to hear and determine complaints 
 of transgressions against Magna Carta and the Forest Charter of 
 Hen. 3, and to punish offenders by imprisonment ransom or 
 amercement. On 14 April 1308, Commission of oyer and terminer 
 issued to him and Roger de Bella Fago concerning an assault at 
 Abyndon, Berks, and on 18 Dec. 1309 he and Gilbert Wace and 
 another were app. to enquire tonching all prises taken in co. 
 Oxford for the King's use or for the use of other persons, contrary 
 to the statute made in Parliament at Stamford. (Patent Rolls). 
 On 14 May 1308 John and Gilbert de Elsefeld, Knights, were 
 among the witnesses to the Enrolment of a grant by Peter de 
 Gavaston, Earl of Cornwall, to the King, of his manors 
 of Crokham and Leychamsted, Berks. {Close Rolls') 10 
 March 13 12, Grant to J. de E. of 100 marks a year, to be received 
 by him at the Exchequer, until the King shall provide him with 
 lands and rents to the value of 100 marks a year. 18 Oct. 13 12, 
 Grant to J. E. for life in satisfaction of the last grant of the manor 
 of Idenne, Sussex, which is extended at £y 2 n£, and 2^ lbs of 
 pepper, with i£ lb of cumin, and several other lands in 
 Totenham, Middlesex and elsewhere extended at ^54 and 8 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 9 
 
 marks a year, i May 1313, Licence at the request of J. E. for the 
 prior and convent of Great Massingham to acquire in mortmain 
 lands and rents to the value of £10 a year. 
 
 1296. Return lost. 
 
 1297. Henry de Bruyli. 
 
 John de Prewes. 
 
 Henry de Bruilly was made a Commr, of the Peace for 
 Oxon 20 Jan. 1287, and was again M.P. 1298, as was his colleague 
 1301. 
 
 1298. William de Scalebrok'. 
 
 Henry de Bruly. 
 
 On 28 June 1301 William de Scalebrok, Thomas Parco, 
 and Henry de Brully, Knights, were witnesses of Morpeth to the 
 Inspeximus of a Charter dated 5 June, 29 Hdw. I. whereby 
 Ralph Pippard granted and confirmed to Sir Hugh le Despencer 
 his whole manor of Great Haselee, co. Oxford. W. de S. was one 
 of the three app. 1 Nov. 1301 to assess and levy in Oxon the 
 fifteenth lately granted to the King. He again sat for the county 
 1306, 1307, 1309, 131 1, and 1312. Pardon, dated Woodstock 14 
 May 13 10, to William Hert of Hervynton for the death of John 
 Basely as it appears by the record of John de Foxle and Wliliam 
 de Scalebroke, justices of gaol delivery for Oxford, that he killed 
 him in self-defence. {Patent Rolls). 7 Jan. 13 17, Order to the 
 Sheriff of Oxford to cause a Coroner for that county to be elected 
 in the place of William de Scalebrok deceased. {Close 
 Rolls.) 
 
 gS mI;^ } No Returns found. 
 
 1301. John de Klsefeld. 
 
 John de Pratell. 
 
 The latter is given as John de Prewes in the Enrolment of 
 the Writ de Expensis. (See 1297). 
 
 1302. John de Elseffeld. 
 Robert Pogeis. 
 
 1305. Sir Roger de Burghefeld. 
 
 Sir Giles de Insula. 
 
 Sir Roger was M.P. Berks 1301, and Oxon 1305, 1306, and 
 probably derived his name from his property at Burfield, Berks. 
 9 March 1327, Order to Wm. Trussel, escheator, this side Trent 
 not to intermeddle further with the lands of Roger de 
 Burghefeld and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by 
 inquisition that Roger held no lands in chief on the day of his 
 death of the late King, but that he held divers lands of other 
 lords by various services. (Close Rolls.) 
 
io Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Many of the de Insula family are mentioned in the 
 Patent Rolls 1281-1301, and Sir John de Insula was made a 
 Baron of the Exchequer 1295. Several of them were in the 
 Church, one of them being Archdeacon of Exeter and Wells. On 
 28 Nov. 1307 Giles de Insula and Roger de Englefeld were 
 app., together with a clerk to be app. by them, and for whom 
 they were responsible, to assess and collect the twentieth and 
 fifteenth for the county of Oxford granted to the King 
 
 1306. Sir Roger de Burghfeld. 
 Sir William de Scalebrok. 
 
 1307. Jan. John de Hynton. 
 
 William de Skelbrok 
 
 The Sheriff of Oxford and Berks made no Return, but 
 these two came for the county of Oxford. Hugh de Hynton 
 going with Adam de Nortoft to Wales on the King's service, 
 received Protection 24 June 1287. Grant to John de Hynton, 
 King's yeoman, 23 Jan. 1310, of the reversion of the forestership 
 in the forest of Hunts granted for life by the late King to John 
 Pycard, or as soon as for any reasonable cause it falls into the 
 King's hands. Grant to J. de H. of that office 24 Oct. 1310 upon 
 the surrender of J. P. {Patent Rolls.) He was apparently dead 
 before 1 Oct. 131 1, when the Close Rolls makes mention of 
 Margaret late the wife of J. de H. Probably father of John de 
 Hynton, lord of Hynton, who presented Geoffrey Norton to the 
 Church in the manor of Hynton, 5 April 1339 
 
 1307. Oct. William de Scalebrok. 
 
 John de Hynton. 
 
 1308. Return lost. 
 
 1309. John de Elsefeld. 
 William de Scalebrok. 
 
 131 1. Aug. Sir W. de Scalebrok, miles. 
 
 John de Elseieud, or Ellesfeld. 
 121 1. Nov. Sir W. de Scalebrok, miles. 
 Sir John de Elsefeld, miles. 
 
 131 2. July. William de Scalebrok. 
 
 John de Croxford. 
 
 The latter was son of John de C, and was again M.P. 1316, 
 1318, 1320, 1321, 1324, 1345. He was a defendant in a suit, the 
 King versns Croxford and others, in which the King recovered 
 the presentations of the Church of Blechesdon, calends of May 
 131 1. On 1 Dec. 1319 the Close Rolls refers to him as late 
 escheator in co. Oxford. 28 Feb. 1320, Enrolment of obligation 
 of J. de Croxford, sub-escheator in cos. Oxford and Berks, to Sir 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. ii 
 
 Richard de Rodneye, escheator this side Trent, for ^50, to be 
 paid in St. Paul's, London, at Michaelmas and the Purification 
 next. 
 
 13 13. March. John Bardolf. 
 
 John le Myrie. 
 
 5 May 1317, Order to the Sheriff of Oxford to cause a 
 coroner for that county to be elected in place of John Bardolf, 
 lately elected, who cannot conveniently attend to the duties of 
 the office, as he resides in the counties ef Norfolk and Leicester 
 for the greater part of the year. {Close Rolls) 
 
 1 3 1 3- J u ly- John Bardolf. 
 
 Ralph Chasteloun. 
 
 28 Oct. 1319, Order to the Sheriff of Oxford to cause a 
 coroner for that county to be elected in place of Ralph de 
 Chastiloun who cannot attend to the duties of the office as he is 
 continually occupied in the office of verderer in the forest of 
 Wuchewode. (Close Rolls'). 1 Oct. 1337, Appointment of 
 Wm. de Eyte, King's Serjeant at Arms, to take to the King's 
 gaol of Oxford Castle, and there deliver into the custody of the 
 sheriff of the county, Roger de Nowers Knt. (see 1320), and John 
 his son, now imprisoned in the prison of the Marshalsea of the 
 Household for the death of Ralph de Chasteleyn, late one of the 
 King's coroners for the county of Oxford, at Keyngham. 
 Malcolm Chastiloun was M.P. for Bucks 1327, el sequilur. 
 
 1313. Sept. John Bardolf. 
 
 Ralph de Chastillon, or Chastyllon. 
 
 13 14. April. Return lost. 
 
 13 14. Sept. Robert de Arderne. 
 
 John de Chaumpaigne. 
 
 Licence 3 Dec. 13 11 (by fine of 60s.) for Robert son of 
 Adam de Dounhalle to grant a messuage and one carucate of 
 land in Hanebergh held in chief to John de Chaumpagne and 
 Nicholaa his wife for their lives with remainder over to the 
 grantor and his heirs. On 8 Feb. 1323 John Chaumpagne 
 acknowledged that he owed 10 marks to John de Moleyns, to be 
 levied in default of payment of his lands and chattels in Hants 
 and Oxon. 
 
 Robert de Arderne lived at Wickham, and owned Drayton 
 where he had a charter of free warren in 1317, and much other 
 property thereabouts. In 1322 he was app. Commr. to array the 
 forces of Oxon and Berks raised against the confederated nobles 
 who opposed the King in the North under the Karl of Lancaster, 
 and the next year was directed to enforce the general array in 
 the county of Oxford, and was also re-app. Commr. of Array with 
 
T2 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 special powers in 1324. The Bishop of Lincoln's Castle of 
 Banbury was given by the King into the keeping of Robert de 
 Arderne 3 Jan. 1322. In 1329 he had a fair at Drayton and view 
 of frankpledge and other liberties there and the same year 
 received, as Sir R. de Arderne Knt., the King's Pardon for all 
 murders etc. He obtained license to fortify his mansion at 
 Wickham 2 May 1330, and died the next year seised of a very fair 
 estate. 11 May 1315, Order to Robert de Kendale, Constable of 
 Dover Castle and Keeper of the Cinque Ports, to permit Robert 
 de Arderne and John le Leyre whom Bartholomew de Badelesmere 
 is sending to parts beyond sea to buy horses for his use, to pass 
 the sea in the port of Dover. Sir Robert de Ardern was 
 Constable of Northampton Castle on 1 Nov. 13 17 when he was 
 ordered to put 30 fencible men in that Castle at the King's wages 
 which the King had ordered the Sheriff to pay him by Indenture ; 
 and as such he was ordered to repair the houses and gate and 
 other buildings of the Castle 4 May 1318. On 29 May 1318 he 
 acknowledged that he owed Isabella Bardolf (see 1313) ^400 ; to 
 be levied in default of payment of his land and chattels in 
 Northants. This however was cancelled on payment. {Close 
 Rolls.) 
 
 1315. Sir Richard de Bere. 
 
 Thomas Golafre. 
 
 The former was app. 26 Aug. 1309 to assess and levy in 
 Oxon the twenty-fifth upon all movable goods for the war in 
 Scotland. Licence 18 Nov. 13 12 for the alienation in mortmain 
 to the abbot and convent of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, by 
 Rich, de Bere of 46 acres of land and 4 acres of meadow in 
 Liteburne ; and a further similar licence 18 Nov. 1312 of 70 acres 
 and a moiety of a messuage in Gerneweye, which are extended 
 at 30s. a year. {Patent Rolls.) On 13 Sept. 13 12 Wm. West 
 acknowledged at Westminister that he owed to Rd. de Bere 40 
 marks, to be levied etc of his lands and chattels in Middlesex. 
 Order 24 April 13 16 to Wm. Merre, keeper of the Abbey of 
 Westminster, void, and in the King's hands, to cause the ^"io 
 from the manor of Todenham granted by the abbot and convent 
 by virtue of the late King's letters patent dated 3 Aug. in the 
 27th year of his reign, to Wm. de Derneford and Cicely his wife 
 for their lives, to be paid to Rd. de Bere, who married the said 
 Cicely. {Close Rolls.) He again sat for Oxon 1316, 1324, 
 1325, and for Beds 1330. 
 
 Thomas Golafre was also M.P. for Northampton town 
 Sept. 1313, and 1318, and on 6 April 1322 he and another were 
 app. to levy ;£ioo in co. Oxford to bring it into the King's 
 chamber before the Parliament summoned at York in three 
 weeks from Easter next which they ought to have paid before the 
 Purification last. 6 May 1327, Order to Wm. Trussel, escheator 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 13 
 
 this side Trent, not to distrain Thomas Golafre of Cerleden for 
 homage for the lands that he holds of the King, as the King has 
 granted him respite until Easter next. 12 July 1329, Order to 
 the Sheriff of Oxford to cause a verderer for the forest of 
 Whucchewod to be elected in place of Thomas Golofre who is 
 incapacitated by infirmity and age. {Close Rolls.) 
 
 1 3 16. Jan. John de Croxford. 
 
 John de Chaumpaigne. 
 13 16. April. John de Croxford* 
 
 Richard de la Bere. 
 1316. July. (One member only). John de Croxford. 
 1318. John de Croxford. 
 
 Adam de la Fenne. 
 
 30 Jan. 1318, Order to the Treasurer and Barons of the 
 Exchequer to acquit Wm. de Monte Acuto of certain monies, his 
 father's debts, including ioos. for an unjust detinue against 
 Adam de la Fenne. {Close Rolls.) 
 
 ^Z 1 ^ John de Bloxham. 
 Thomas Blaket. 
 
 30 Dec. 1308, Protection during pleasure for John de 
 Bloxham, King's yeoman. Commission of oyer and terminer to 
 certain justices 16 Aug. 1309 on complaint that J. de B. and 
 others by night burned the houses and goods of John de 
 Paskedene at Aylesbury. 10 Nov. 131 1, Order to J. de B. to 
 deliver to Robert de flarwedon the manor of Rokerle, Wilts, 
 belonging to the Templars, and the issues of the same received 
 by him, whose lands in that county the King committed to the 
 said John. In Dec. 131 1 he was keeper of the lands of the 
 Templars in Oxon and Berks, and of Walter de Langeton in 
 Northants and Oxon ; and also keeper of the lands of W. 
 Bishop of Coventry and L,ichfield in Oxon, Berks, Northants, 
 and Wilts, until ordered to restore them to the Bishop 20 Jan. 
 1312. On 13 Sept. 1312 Walter, son of Walter le Ran 'of 
 Agmundesham, acknowledged that he owed John de Bloxham 
 ;£io, to be levied etc. of his lands in Bucks. He received the 
 honour of Knighthood. 15 Oct. 1337, Protection will clause 
 volumus for Thomas Blaket, going with John de Monte 
 Gomeri beyond seas with the King. John Blaket was M.P. for 
 Bucks 1315, 1318, 1327, 1328, as was Thomas Blaket 1332, 1334. 
 
 1320. Roger de Nowers. 
 
 John de Croxford. 
 
 Roger de Nowers was M.P. Oxon 1320, 1327, 1328, 1330, 
 and Beds 1328, and on 20 Feb. 1327 acknowledged that he owed 
 12 marks and 7 shillings to John, Bishop of Ely, to be levied etc 
 
14 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 of his lands and chattels in Oxon : this was however cancelled 
 on payment. He was keeper of the hundred of Chadelyngton 
 until 22 April 1328 when he was ordered to deliver it to Eleanor 
 late the wife of Hugh le Despencer the younger. 27 Sept. 1334, 
 Pardon in consideration of a fine of 40s. made before Geoffrey le 
 Scrope and Robert de Tanton, to Roger de Nowers for the rescue 
 of cattle and goods of his, which had been seized at Churchill, co. 
 Oxford, for money due to the King, whereof he is impeached 
 before John de Stonore and his fellows, justices of oyer and 
 terminer. 20 Aug. 1336, Appointment of John de Broghton and 
 Gilbert de Chasteleyn to take the following suspected persons 
 and imprison them in the Tower of London, namely Roger de 
 Nowers Knt, and Richard and Roger his sons. 
 
 132 1. John de Croxford. 
 
 Richard de Burncestr. 
 
 The latter is mentioned in KenneVs Antiquities as a 
 witness to a deed concerning rents and lands in Burcester 1318, 
 and was of kin to Wm. de Burncestre (Bicester) Mayor of Oxford 
 4 Oct. 131 1, and (as W. de Burcestre) 1317, 1325, 1329-30, 1331, 
 I33 2 . I 333> 26 Sept. 1334, and (as W. Burchestree) 1339. 
 
 1322. May. John de Bloxham. 
 
 Robert de Trillawe. 
 
 The latter acknowledged 22 April 13 17 that he owed Simon 
 de Welles 20 marks, to be levied etc. in Oxon. 3 May 1330, 
 Pardon to Thomas de Beaufou and Robert de Trillowe of a 
 recognisance of 100 marks made to Hugh de Despencer, late 
 Karl of Winchester, on their petition, confirmed by Roger de 
 Mortuo Mari, whereby it appears that they made the same to 
 save their lives when imprisoned in the late reign by reason of 
 the quarrel of Thomas then Karl of Lancaster. 
 
 1322. Nov. John de Harecourt. 
 
 John de la Pole, de Sidenham. 
 
 John son of Richard de Harecurt was app. a Commr. of the 
 Peace for Oxon 24 Dec. 1307. Order on 15 Aug. 1314 to him who 
 supplies the place of the Treasurer, and to the Barons of the 
 Kxchequer to acquit John de Harecourt, lord of Boseworth, ol 
 the service of one Knight's fee for the King's army of Scotland 
 in the seventh year of his reign, as Wm. de Monte Acuto has 
 testified before the King that he had his service in the said army 
 by the King's order. Sir John de Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, 
 was the son of Sir Richard of that place (who d. 1293), and was 
 Knighted, with Kdward, Prince of Wales, at Whitsuntide 1306, 
 and d. 1330. 
 
 1324. Jan. Gilbert de Ellesfeld. 
 
 William le Mareschal. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 15 
 
 Sir Gilbert was brother to the M.P. 1295, ( see Close 
 Rolls 13 13,) and again sat for Oxon 1328. On 21 April 1308 he 
 and Warin de Insula were made Conservators of the Peace for 
 the town of Oxford, and on 1 May writs of aid issued to the 
 Mayor Bailiffs and good men of Oxford, and to the Chancellor ol 
 Oxford University, to assist them in that duty. 25 Feb. 1327, 
 License at the request of Roger de Surimerton, for Gilbert de 
 Ellesfeld to impark his wood at Ellesfeld, co. Oxford. 4 May 
 1327, Writ of aid for G. de E. and Miles de Bello Camfo, app. to 
 arrest Stephen Dunheved and bring him to the castle of 
 Walyngford to be there imprisoned. 24 May 1327, Commission 
 of oyer etc. to G. de E. and others, on complaint that large 
 numbers of malefactors in the counties of Oxford and Berks, 
 confederating together, lately attacked the town and abbey of 
 Abingdon, entered and burnt houses, assaulted and beat the 
 monks and servants of the abbey as well as others, killing some 
 and detaining others in prison until they paid fines for their 
 release, and carried away chalices, vestments, and ornaments of 
 the Church, with other goods. 
 
 William le Mareschal was of Crowemersh, and he and Alan 
 le Mareschal (his father,) were mentioned in a Commission 
 dated 11 Nov. 1308 as being charged with others by Edmund de 
 Chauncy with having assaulted him at Wald, Neuton, 
 Lincolnshire, and carried away his goods. {Patent Rolls.) 
 On 7 June 1309 Herbert de Marisco and William, son of Richard 
 of Ireland, acknowledged that they owed Wm. Le Mareschal 40 
 marks, to be levied etc. on their lands in Somerset and in Ireland. 
 (Cancelled on payment). On 17 June 1309, Order to Irish 
 officials to deliver to W. de M. the bailiwick of the Marshalsea of 
 Ireland of his inheritance. Order 20 July 13 11 to Nicholas de 
 Segrave and also to W. le M. forbidding them to come to the 
 Parliament with an armed force or otherwise than they were 
 wont to do in the late King's time, as the King understands that 
 they are coming armed on account of dissensions between them, 
 His name also appears in the Close Rolls for 13 10, as a Knight, 
 as a witness to a release and enrolment ; he was placed in a 
 commission of oyer and terminer 18 Sept. 1327 ; and the Close 
 Rolls refer to him in June 1329 as " late Sheriff of Berks." On 
 24 February 1328, Writ of aid for one year for W. le M. app. a 
 purveyor for the King's Household ; on 25 Feb. 1329, Writ of 
 aid for W. le M. app. a purveyor for the royal stables : and on 26 
 Oct. 1329, a commission of oyer etc. issued on his complaint that 
 John de Urtiaco, Knt, and others carried away ^30 of the King's 
 money delivered to him for the purchase of provisions for the 
 King's horses, at the parish of St. Clement without the bar of the 
 New Temple, co. Middlesex. His wife was named Elizabeth. 
 
 1324. Oct. Sir Richard de Bere. 
 
16 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 1324. Oct. John le Croxford, senior. 
 
 1325. Richard de la Bere. 
 John de Croxford, senior. 
 
 1327. Roger de Nouwers 
 
 John de Whitefeld. 
 
 23 Sept. 1327, Writ to the Sheriff of Oxford for payment to 
 Richard Nowers (see 1320) and John de Whitefield of £6 160 for 
 their expenses for attending the treaty at Lincoln, to wit for 17 
 days at 4/- a day. On 3 May 13 13 J. de W. who with Aymer de 
 Valence, Earl of Pembroke, is going beyond seas, has letters of 
 protection until St. Peter ad Vincula. It appears from the 
 Close Rolls of 132 1 that J. de W. then held a quarter of a 
 Knight's fee in Loneford, Dorset. He was again M.P. (as a 
 Knight) 1330, 133 1. 
 
 1328. Feb. Roger de Nowers. 
 
 James de Wodestoke. 
 
 The latter acknowledged on 24 March 1327 that he owed 
 Reginald de Evesham, clerk, ^60 ; to be levied etc. on his lands 
 in Oxon. (Cancelled on payment). On 23 May 1329 Richard 
 Talbot going beyond seas with the King has letters nominating 
 William de Holynes clerk, and James de Wodestoke his attorneys 
 until a fortnight after midsummer. Commission of oyer and 
 terminer to try certain cases issued to the same J. de Wodestoke 
 on 28 Sept. 1334, and 1 June 1337 an d on 24 July 1337, he and 
 Rd. Kary of Oxford (see that city 1320) were made Commrs. 
 of oyer on information that Reginald Colt and others 
 broke the sluices of the pond of the King's mills in the 
 suburb of Oxford, and his weir there carried away the timber 
 of the sluices and the earth and stones placed there for the safety 
 of the pond, with the hurdles and palings of the weir. He was 
 again M.P. 1332. 
 
 r328. April. John le Brumpton. 
 
 William le Mareschal. 
 
 The former was Sheriff of Oxon (the last part of; 1318,1319, 
 1320 (the first part of) 1321, 1327, 1328, 1333. On 13 March 1327 
 a commission of oyer and terminer issued on the complaint of 
 Richard de Louches and John his son (see 1331) that J. de 
 Brumpton and others had carried away their goods at 
 Chiselhampton, Baldindon, St Lawrence, Whatele, and Milton, 
 co. Oxford. In a suit between the Prior of St. Frideswide and 
 Sir John Handlo of Borstall (see 1337) for the manor of Pidington, 
 in Easter term 7 and 8 Edw. 3, the Sheriff returned the names of 
 Sir Wm. Harcourt, Sir John de Brumpton, Sir Richard de Beaufo, 
 and Sir John Miry, who attended in Court and upon their oath 
 elected 13 other Knights (of whom Sir Richard de Abberbury, see 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 17 
 
 Oct. 1328, was one,) to attend at York at Michaelmas ; but no 
 determination was given in the case, and so Handlo kept the 
 manor. Sir J. de B. seems to have died before 24 July 1337, when 
 Isabella, " late the wife of J. de B. Knt." is mentioned. 
 
 1328. July. John de Chancy. 
 
 Roger de Nowers. 
 1328. Oct. Gilbert de Elsefeld. 
 
 Richard de Abberbury. 
 
 On 7 June 13 18 Richard de Wyndesore acknowledged that 
 he owed Rd. de Abberbury 50 marks ; to be levied etc. of his lands 
 in Berks. 12 March 1327, Commission of oyer etc. to R. de. A. 
 and three others on complaint of the Abbot of Eynesham and 
 Brother Nicholas de Stanlake of the same Abbey that Thomas le 
 Gay and others assaulted the said Nicholas at Hampton Pule, co. 
 Oxford, and maltreated him. 14 July 1327, Commission of the 
 Peace for co. Oxford to Drew de Barentyn, Richard de Abberburye, 
 and John de Whitefeld (see 1327). The said R. de A. and John 
 de Meriet were app. 12 Oct. 1327 collectors in co. Oxford of the 
 twentieth of movables granted to the King by Parliament for the 
 defence of the kingdom against the Scots. 
 
 1330. March. Sir Roger de Nouwers. 
 
 Sir John de Witefelde. 
 1330. Nov. William de Leghe. 
 
 Robert de Morby. 
 
 William de la Legh on 18 July 1316 acknowledged that he 
 owed ;£ioo to Master Rd. de Clare ; to be levied etc. on his lands 
 in Surrey. 24 May 1327, General Pardon to W. de Legh (? son 
 of Thomas). Protection with clause volumus until Michaelmas 
 for W. de Leghe who is going with the King. 
 
 Robert de Morby was app. Keeper or Constable of the 
 Castle town and land of Breghennogh (Brecknock) in 1322, and 
 on 18 Feb. 1322 was ordered to inform himself of the names of 
 those who lately adhered to the King's contrariants, and of the 
 names of their hostages by whom the King may best be secured, 
 and to certify the King of the same without delay. On 24 Nov. 
 1322 William Byset acknowledged that he owed Robert de Morby 
 Knt. £\o ; to be levied etc. in Yorkshire. 8 June 1328, Writ of 
 aid until Michaelmas for R. de Moreby Knt. and three others 
 Purveyors for Queen Isabella's Household, seut to Berwick upon 
 Tweed. 
 
 1 33 I - John de Whitefelde. 
 John de Louches. 
 
 20 July 1322, Order to the Sheriff of York to receive John 
 de Louches, John de Whitefeld and others as prisoners to be kept 
 
1 8 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 in York Castle. Pardon 3 Jan 1330 to John de pouches (son and 
 heir of Richard de L,.,) an adherent of Thomas Earl of Lancaster 
 in the late- quarrel with Hugh le Despencer the elder — since 
 adjudged by Parliament to have been a good and just quarrel — 
 of the ;£ioo for the payment of which the said Richard was by 
 duress induced to enter into a recognisance with the said Hugh 
 to save his life, and which by reason of the said Hugh's for- 
 feiture, is now demanded by the said John by the Exchequer ; 
 upon testimony of several of the Council to the truth of the 
 premises. — Mandate in pursuance to the treasurer and Barons of 
 the Exchequer. 
 
 1332. March. Richard de Williamescote. 
 
 John de L,eukenore. 
 
 The former was son of the M.P. 1290, and was again 
 Member 1334, 1336, 1339, 1346. The family ceased to be con- 
 nected with Kiddington about 1373. On 3 Feb 1327 Isabella 
 de Clare late the wife of Maurice de Berhele acknowledged that 
 she owed £80 to R. de W., to be leyied etc. in Oxon. Rd Damory, 
 John de Whitfield (see 1329) and Rd. de Williamescote were 
 made the Commrs. of the Peace in Oxon 18 May 1329. 
 
 The latter was again M.P. 1336, 1337, 1338, 1343. 
 John de L,eukenore and James de Wodestok (see 1328) 
 were placed in a Commission of a Oyer 19 July 1337, an d on 24 
 May 1337 another Commission of Oyer issued to Wm. de 
 Shareshull, J. de Leukenore, Thomas de la Mire, John Golafre. 
 and J. de Wodestok, on complaint by Ralph Chastiloun (see 
 1313,) that Roger de Nowers Knt. (see 1320) Burga his wife, 
 Richard, John, Robert, and Roger his sons, and others assaulted 
 him at Keyngham. Ralph died the same year from the violence 
 received in this affray. 
 
 1332. Sept. John de Alveton, or de Aveton. 
 
 Robert de Barton. 
 
 John de Alveton was Sheriff of Oxon 1335, 1337, 1343, 1344' 
 1345, 1346, 1347, and Joint Sheriff 1354 or the first part of that 
 year, and again M.P. 1334, 1335, 1337, 1338, and placed in a 
 commission of oyer (as John de Adveton) 14 Oct. 1335. A 
 commission issued 12 July 1335 to Wm. de Shareshull, J. de 
 Alveton, T. de L,angele (see 1335,) and Hugh de Berewyk to 
 make an acquisition in Bucks touching the dispute of the Abbess 
 of Burnham and Geoffrey de Bulstrode. On 28 Sept. 1338 James 
 le Botiller, Earl of Ormond, staying in Ireland has letters 
 nominating Thomas de Evesham clerk and John de Adveton his 
 attorneys in England. 
 
 There are several references in the Close Rolls for 13 18 
 to Robert de Barton the King's clerk as Keeper or Receiver of 
 the King's victuals in the parts of Carlisle, but on 26 June 1320 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 19 
 
 he is mentioned as the " late Receiver." On 9 Feb. 1328 he is 
 styled " lately receiver of the issues of the Bishopric of Durham," 
 and on 3 Aug. 1328 as ** late keeper of the Bishopric of Carlisle " 
 He was app. 28 Nov. 1334 Receiver and Keeper of the King's 
 victuals of corn wine and other things in the town of Carlisle, 
 and in those parts, during pleasure, and was placed in a 
 commission of oyer with John Giffard de Twyford, and J. de 
 Wodestok 6 Nov. 1334, and in a similar commission with Thomas 
 de Langele 28 Nov. 1334. 
 
 1332. Dec. James de Wodestoke. 
 Hugh de Berewyk. 
 
 20 Aug. 1337, Grant to Hugh de Berewyk, King's yeoman, 
 and Isabella his wife, tenants in fee, of a messuage, 71^ acres of 
 land, 2 acres of meadow, and 3 acres of pasture, in Croumersh 
 and Newenham, of the lands of Wm. de Mareschal, (see 1324,) 
 sometime Constable of the Castle of Walyngford, who at his 
 death owed divers debts to the King. On 3 Oct. 1337, John 
 Tybbetot going beyond the seas with the King on his service had 
 letters nominating John de Sancto Paulo and Hugh de Berewyk 
 his attorneys in Ireland until Easter. 
 
 1334. Feb. John Golaffre. 
 
 James de Wodestoke. 
 
 John Golafre of Golafers in Nafford, son of the M.P. 1315, 
 was placed in commissions of oyer and terminer 24 May 1337, 
 and 10 Sept. 1338, and was M.P. co. Worcester 1337, 1338, co. 
 Gloucester 1337, an( ^ co - Oxford 1334 and 1340. He was one of 
 those app. 21 March 1332 Keepers of co. Oxford to arrest all 
 disturbers of the Peace therein and to hear and determine the 
 trespasses whereof they were indicted. 
 
 1334. Sept. Richard de Williamescote. 
 
 John de Alveton. 
 
 1335. May. Thomas de Langele. 
 
 John de Alveton. 
 
 8 Feb. 1327, License for Thomas West to grant to Thomas 
 de Langele in fee the bailiwick of the forestry of Whichewood 
 Forest, held in chief. It was evidently on account of this 
 transaction that the same T. de L- acknowledged two days later 
 that he owed Thomas West 100 marks ; to be levied in default of 
 payment on his lands in Oxon. He was styled Keeper of the 
 Forest in 1330. On 18 Aug. 1327, Commission of oyer etc. on 
 complaint by Robert de Wilughwys, parson of the Church of 
 Wolfamcote, co. Warwick, that Robert de Langele, Thomas de 
 Langele, and others broke his close at Wolfamcote, burned his 
 houses, and carried away his goods. 24 June 1335, Appointment 
 of James de Wodestoke Rd. de Williamescote, and Thomas de 
 
20 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Langele to assess and levy in co. Oxford (the city of Oxford 
 excepted) 240 marks which certain men of the county have 
 granted before the King and Council in the last Parliament at 
 York for themselves and other men of the county for his services 
 against the Scots, and for relief from 80 hobelers requisitioned 
 from them for the said service. The money is to be paid at the 
 King's receipt at York by St. Peter ad Vincula. 
 
 1336. March. John de L,eukenore, 
 
 Richard de Williamescote. 
 
 1336. Sept. Richard de Alveton. 
 
 Richard de Williamescote, 
 
 1337. Jan. John de Leukenore. 
 
 John de Alvetone. 
 
 1337. Sept. John de Alveton. 
 
 Thomas de Langele. 
 
 By Writ dated at Westminster 18 Aug. 1837, the following 
 persons were summoned to attend this Parliament, for the purpose 
 of giving their advice, namely, for the county of Oxford, John de 
 Handlo, John GifFard of Twyford, and Thomas de Langele. 
 They were of course not regular Members of Parliament. Sir 
 John de Handlo, son of Richard de H. was lord of the manor of 
 Borstal and Muswell, and died 1346. He was sole tenant of the 
 manor of Pydyngton, Oxon, on 20 Sept. 1329, (see Close Rolls), 
 and his wife was named Matilda. On 11 Aug. 1329 John de 
 Handlo Knt. acknowledged that he owed 1006 marks to John de 
 Sancto Amando Knt., for which he pledged his lands in Oxon, 
 1 Feb. i327,Grant to John Giffard, King's Yeoman, for service to 
 Queen Isabella, of the custody of the bailiwick of Gotesle and 
 Dersle in Rokyngham Forest, during good behaviour. 
 
 1338. Feb. John de L,eukenore. 
 
 Thomas atte More. 
 
 1338. July. Thomos atte More. 
 
 John de Alveton. 
 
 1339. Jan. Richard de Williamescote. 
 
 Richard de Hattecoumbe. 
 
 The latter was a witness to the enrolment of an indeuture 
 in London on 5 Nov. 1327, (see Close Rolls.) 
 
 1339. Oct. Richard de Hattecombe. 
 
 John le Peyntour. 
 
 1340. Jan. John Golafre. 
 
 Thomas de la More. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 21 
 
 The latter was probably the same as the M.P. 1338, and 
 again sat for the county 1343, 135 1. He was granted by the King 
 exemption from Knighthood 29 June 1336, and on 3 May 1337 
 was app. (in the place of Thomas de L,angele) to act with John de 
 Handlo, Gilbert de Kllesfield, Thomas Coudray, Robert Achard, 
 and James de Wodestok, lately app. to arrest persons openly sus- 
 pected in cos, Oxford and Berks, and to hear and determine the 
 charges brought against them, as for certain causes the King 
 does not wish T. de Langele to take any further part in the 
 matter. 
 
 1340. March. John Golafre. 
 
 Thomas de la More. 
 
 1341. Richard de Beaufo. 
 John Frelond. 
 
 Beaufo seems to have been a contraction of Bellafago. 
 
 1343. John de L,eukenore. 
 Thomas de la More. 
 
 1344. Thomas Huscarl. 
 
 John de Herdwyk. 
 
 Commission of oyer etc. 8 March 1337 on complaint by the 
 prior of Daventre that whereas he and his predecessors time out 
 of mind have used to have the grinding of all malt for brewing 
 within the town of Daventre and to find a man and horse to carry 
 the malt to and from their mill, John de Herdewyk. Geoffrey de 
 Herdewyk and several others have by force prevented him and 
 his men and servants from the exercise of his right of grinding. 
 John de Heredwyk was made J. P. for Coventry 8 Sept. 1377. 
 
 1346. Richard de Williamescote. 
 
 John I^aundeles. 
 The latter was Sheriff of Oxon 1348, 1349, 1350, 1331, 1352* 
 r 353> I 35^, 1357. 1358, 1359, and was made a Commr. of the Peace 
 for Oxon with John Golafre and Gilbert Wace 2 July 1377, but 
 on 9 April 1378 Edmund de Stonore was app. in # the room of John 
 L,aundels deceased. 
 
 1348. Jan. Richard de Williamescote. 
 
 John I^aundels. 
 1348. March. Richard de Williamescote. 
 Richard de Hattecombe. 
 
 135 1. Thomas de la More. 
 Thomas de L,angeley. 
 
 1352. Jan. John de Trillowe. 
 
 John de Alveton. 
 
22 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Sir John de Trillowe witnessed in 1367 a deed relating to 
 the manors of Borstal and Musewell. (Kennet). 
 
 1352. Aug. (One Member only). John de Whitefeld. 
 
 I 353- (One Member only). Thomas de L,angeleye. 
 
 1354. • John de L,eukenore. 
 
 Thomas de Langeley. 
 
 1355. Thomas de I,angele. 
 
 Adam de Shareshull. 
 
 Sir Adam de Shareshull who was also M.P. Gloucester- 
 shire 1360, was probably brother or son of William de Shareshull, 
 Lord Chief Justice of England 135 1 -8. License 12 May 1337 for 
 the alienation in mortmain by A. de S. Knt. to the master and 
 brethren of the hospital of St. John without the east gate of 
 Oxford of a messuage in the suburb of Oxford, towards the sup- 
 port of the poor and sick in the hospital. Appointment 21 June 
 J 337 °f A. de Shareshull, John de Whitefeld, and Wm. Was 
 (Wace) to arrest and imprison in the Castle of Oxford certain 
 suspected persons. 20 April 1346, Power to Ivo de Clynton and 
 Sir A. de S. to recover the inheritance of Queen Philippa, come 
 to her by the death of the Count of Holland. 
 
 1357. Thomas de lyangeleye. 
 
 John Laundels. 
 x 358. John de Nowers. 
 
 Thomas de L,angeleye. 
 
 John de Nowers, son of the M.P. 1320, was made a 
 Commr. of Array for Oxon with John Golafre and Gilbert Wace 
 1 July 1377, a Commr. of the Peace there with G. Wace and H. 
 Poure 28 June 1378, and a Commr. of the Peace for Bucks 14 
 Dec. 1381 and 9 March 1382. Commission 26 May 1378 to J. de 
 N. and Hugh Poure and three others to enquire touching divers 
 forestallings, re-gratings of wool and other merchandise, con- 
 cealments false weights and measures, and withdrawals of 
 presentments therefor before the late King's ministers at 
 Bureford and other merchant towns adjacent to the marches of 
 Codeswold in cos. Oxford and Gloucester. 
 
 1360. Thomas de L,angelegh. 
 
 Nicholas Poure. 
 
 A member of the family of Power of Blechington, Wilcot, 
 and Shipton. 
 
 1 36 1. Roger de Blmerugg. 
 
 Nicholas Dammory. 
 
 The former was Sheriff of Oxon 1361, 1362, 1366, 1367, 
 1368, 1373, and was of the same family as the Members for 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 23 
 
 Worcestershire 1302, and Herefordshire 13 18. 
 
 The latter was probably son of Sir Richard Damary of 
 Goddington, Oxon, King's yeoman in 1337. Rymer states that 
 on 27 May 1357 the King desires Simon de Sudbury, Chancellor 
 of Salisbury, to assist Sir Nicholas Damory and Sir Thomas de 
 Fulnetby, whom he sends to the Pope. 
 
 1362. Roger de Klmerugg. 
 
 John de Nowers. 
 1365. Roger de Klmerugg. 
 
 Roger de Cotesforde. 
 The latter was Sheriff of Oxon 1363, 1364, 1365, 1369. 
 
 1365. Roger de Elmerugge. 
 Nicholas Dammory. 
 
 1366. Nicholas Dammory. 
 John de Tryllowe. 
 
 1368. Nicholas Dammory. 
 Roger de Klmerugg. 
 
 1369. Roger de Klmerugg. 
 Roger de Cotesford. 
 
 1371. Feb. The same. 
 
 137 1. June (One Member). Roger de Cotesford . 
 
 1372. Sir Gilbert Wace. 
 
 Sir Thomas de Broughton. 
 
 Both styled chivaler. Sir Gilbert Wace of Kwelme, was 
 Kscheator and Sheriff in Oxon and Berks in Dec. 1377, Sheriff of 
 Oxon 1372, 1375, 1379, 1387, and a Commr. of the Peace for Oxon 
 (as G. Was) with John James and Kdmund Stonore 14 Dec. 
 138 1. Pardon 7 Feb. 138 1 to G. W. late Sheriff of Oxford and 
 Berks for all escapes of felons before Nov. 4, excepting those 
 previously adjudged. 20 Jan. 1383, Commission of oyer to 
 Reginald Malyns, G. Wace and three others touching the 
 erection of certain wears mills mill-ponds stakes and kiddles in 
 the Thames between Walyngford and Goryng in cos. Oxford and 
 Berks contrary to the statute of 25 Kdw. 3, and another similar 
 commission to them, J. Nowers and K. Gifford 11 July 1383. On 
 24 Nov. 1383 Rd. Abburbury, Reg. Malyns, T. Harcourt, 
 Thomas Poile, G. Wace, T. Barentyn, and K. Gifford were made 
 Commrs. of the Peace in Oxon. One of the manors of Bwelwe 
 was called Wace's Court. Sir Gilbert made his will in 1407, but 
 was still living in May 1408. 
 
 Thomas Broghton's name appears as one of the King's 
 Clerks in Chancery in 1382. 
 
24 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 1373. Reginald de Malyns. 
 
 Richard de Adderbury. 
 
 Sir Reginald de Malyns of Chinnor, Sheriff of Oxon 1376, 
 was made a Com mr. of the Peace for Oxon 1 July 1377, and 22 
 March 1378, and was placed in several commissions in 1379 He 
 was granted 40 marks yearly at the Exchequer of Chester 18 
 Nov. 1367, and had this grant confirmed 24 Feb. 1377, and 22 
 March 1378. On 24 Feb. 1380 the King granted him exemption 
 for life from being put on assizes juries attaints inquisitions or 
 recognisances, from being trier of the same, and from being 
 made mayor, sheriff escheator coroner collector of tenths, 
 fifteenths, or other tax or subsidy, or other officer or minister of 
 the King against his will. A Commission of Array in Oxon 
 issued to him, Rd. Adderbury, G. Wace, and J. de Nowers 20 
 March 1380. 
 
 Grant 1 Sept. 1377 to Rd de Abburbury, the King's Knight 
 (son of the M.P. 1328, and lord of Gatehampton, 1393) of the 
 custody of the forest of Dertemore, (Dartmoor) for life, with the 
 profits of the herbage, without rendering aught therefor to the 
 King, saving to John Sully, the King's Knight, the yearly 
 rent of ^20, granted to him by Edward, late Prince of Wales. 
 Commission 17 Feb. 1378 to R. de A.* to view the jewels and 
 other goods which belonged to the late King on the day of his 
 death, and to make a true inventory and appraisement of them, 
 swearing all persons to make discovery of the same and of the 
 persons in whose hands they are. 17 March 1378, Grant to Rd. 
 Abberbury Knt of the ship La Alice. 22 March 1378, Exemplifi- 
 cation and confirmation in favour ol R. de A. of letters 
 patent of the King when Prince of Wales 29 Feb, 51 Edw. 
 3, and 6 Nov. 41 Edw. 3, granting him ^40 out of the issues and 
 profits of the lordship of Chester, for what annuity the said 
 Richard is to serve the Prince when summoned in time of war 
 with two squires, without other fees. — Also of a grant dated 18 
 May 51 Edw. 3, for life, as he was the first master of the Prince, 
 of the manors of Helleston in Trig, and Southteng, in Cornwall 
 and Devon. 8 July 1382, Commission of the Peace and of Oyer 
 and terminer in Oxon to Rd. Adderbury, John Nowers, Reg. 
 Malynes, T. Harecourte, G.Waas, T. de la Puylle, John de Herle, 
 Thomas Barantyn, John Haroudon, and Edmund Giffard. R. de 
 A. was the head of a wealthy family at Steeple Aston. 
 
 1376. Sir Thomas Harecourte. 
 
 Robert Symeon. 
 
 Sir Thomas Harcourt of Stanton Harecourt, second but 
 only surving son of Sir Wm de H. who d. 1349, by Jane dau. of 
 Richard Lord Grey, of Coduor, and grandson of the M.P. 1322, 
 was Knighted 1366, Sheriff of Oxon 1407, a Commr. of the Peace 
 there 8 March 1382, and 24 Nov 1383, and a Commr. of the Peace 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 25 
 
 and of oyer and terminer 8 July and 21 Dec. 1382. He m. 
 Maud (or Alice, or Eleanor,) dau. of Robert Lord Grey, of 
 Rotherfield, and widow 01 Sir John Botetourt of Woody, Lord 
 Botetourt, and died 12 April 1417. 
 
 Sir Robert Symeon was again Member 1377, 1378, 1379. 
 
 1377. Jan. Gilbert Wace. 
 
 John James. 
 
 John James of Wallingford was Sheriff of Oxon 1374, 1380, 
 J. P. Berks 1 July and 6 Nov. 1377, 1 Feb. 1378, 14 Dec. 1381, a 
 Commr. of Array for Berks 20 March 1380, Escheator of Somerset 
 in 1378, J. P. Oxon 14 Dec. 1381, a Commr. of the Peace and of 
 oyer for Berks 8 March and 20 Dec. 1382, and on 5 Aug. 1382 
 obtained exemption for life, at the supplication of the King's 
 mother, from being put on inquisitions juries assizes attaints or 
 recognisances, and from being being made trier of them, knight, 
 mayor sheriff escheator, coroner justice of assizes, the peace, or 
 labourers or other justice steward constable, collector of tenths 
 fifteenths or other subsidy, arrayer leader or trier of men at arms 
 hobelers or archers, or other minister of the King against his 
 will. 
 
 1377. Oct. Reginald de Malyns. 
 
 Robert Symeon. 
 
 1378. Sir John Herlee. 
 
 Sir Robert Symeon. 
 
 Sir John Herle was made Commr. of the Peace for Berks 
 14 Dec. 138 1, and for Oxon 26 May 1380, (as John de Herle) 8 
 March, and 21 Dec. 1382, and 12 July 1383, and a Commr. of the 
 Peace and of oyer for Berks and Oxon 8 March 1382, and also 
 again for Oxon 8 July 1382. On the Nov. 1384, Revocation of 
 appointment by letters patent dated 3 Sept. last of Wm Beyvill 
 to the custody of the possessions in Cornwall late of John 
 Trevarthean the elder, because by letters patent long before that 
 date viz. 10 May last John Herle esq. was app. thereto. On 11 
 May 1402 the King order Sir John Herle and ten others to 
 contradict the reports that the King does not intend to observe 
 the laws, and to prevent the circulation of such a report. 
 (Rymer.) 
 
 x 379' John Herle. 
 
 Robert Symeon. 
 1380. Jan. Reginald de Malyns. 
 
 Edmund de Stonore. 
 
 The latter was the son of Sir John S. of Stonor (who d. 
 1361,) and was made Sheriff of Oxon and Berks 1377, a Commr. 
 of the Peace for Oxon 26 May 1380, a Commr. of the Peace and of 
 
26 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 oyer there 8 March 1382. On 8 May 1380 he received a license of 
 alienation in mortmain to the Prioress and Convent of Merlawe 
 of the advowson of the Church of Duddecot (Didcot), held in 
 chief as of the honour of Walyngford. He was Knighted, m. a 
 dau. of — Beville of Ulton, and died (before 27 Oct.) 1382 leaving 
 his son and heir John a minor. 
 
 1380. Nov. John Herle. 
 
 John Harowedon. 
 
 John Harwedon was made J. P. Northants 17 May and 6 Nov. 
 J 377» a Commr. of oyer there 4 Sept. 1377, and i n Hunts 16 Feb. 
 and 3 June 1378, and a Commr. to assess Staunford town 6 April 
 1378. On 29 April 1385 John Harewedon, R. de Adderbury, 
 Edm. Malyns, T. Barentyn, Thomas pouches, and Edm. Gyffard, 
 were made Commrs. of Array in Oxon in view of imminent 
 invasion by the French. 
 
 138 1. John Herle. 
 Thomas Blount. 
 
 It is doubtful if the latter was the same as T. B. made a 
 Commr. of Array in Dorset 1 July 1377 and 20 March 1380, or 
 T. B, senior or junior commissioned 19 Aug. 1382 to arrest those 
 who lately rose in insurroction at L,ynhurst, Hants. 
 
 1382. May. The same. 
 
 1382. Oct. Gilbert Wace. 
 
 Eoger Cheyne. 
 
 Inspeximus and confirmation 6 may 1378 in favour of Roger 
 Cheyne, Yeoman of the late King, of (1) letters patent dated 20 
 March 27 Edw. 3, being a grant to him for life of a messuage and 
 virgate of land called " Wappenhamplace " in Wodestok, within 
 the lordship of Wotton, and (2) of letters patent dated 4 Jan. 41 
 Edw. 3, being an exemplification of others dated 11 Jan. ^ Edw. 
 3, being a grant to him for life of £\o yearly from the issues of 
 counties Oxford and Berks, and a robe yearly of the suit of 
 esquires of the King's Household. Appointment 22 March 1384 
 of Roger Cheyne the King's esquire, and two others until All 
 Saints to take artificers labourers and carriage for the works in 
 progress at the Queen's manor of Wodestok to be paid out of her 
 moneys. 
 
 1383. Feb. Gilbert Wace. 
 
 John Harowedon. 
 
 1383. Oct. The same. 
 
 1384. Apl. Gilbert Wace. 
 
 Edmund Giffard. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire 27 
 
 Edmund Giffard of Thame, was app. 22 Nov. 1377 collector 
 in Berks and Oxon of the subsidy on cloth, a Commr. of the 
 Peace (with John Herle) in Oxon 26 May 1380, a Commr. of the 
 Peace and of oyer there 8 July 1382, and a Commr. of Array there 
 29 April 1385 with R. de Adderbury, Reg. Malynes, T. Barentyn, 
 J. Haroweden, and T. touches. He was escheator of Oxon and 
 Berks in 1381, and having been granted for life 6d daily out of the 
 issues of those counties 3 Jan. 43 Edw. 3, had those letters patent 
 confirmed 6 May 1378. 
 
 1384. Nov. Gilbert Wace. 
 
 Roger Cheyne. 
 
 1385. Sir Gilbert Wace. 
 William Wylcotes. 
 
 William Wilcote of Wilcote was made Sheriff of Berks and 
 Oxon 1391, 1399, had license in 1397 to purchase the manor of 
 Willicotes, co. Gloucester, of the abbey of St. Elnuef, Normandy, 
 and was granted in 1399 Hedington manor, Bullington Hundred, 
 and Northgate Hundred at Oxford, for which he paid ^40 yearly 
 to the King. He m. Elizabeth " called Blaket " dau. and heir of 
 John Tryllowe of Castleton, co. Warwick, (see 1352,). She re-m. 
 to Sir John Blaket of Northleigh. He had the* custody of the 
 royal park of Cornbury in 1409, was granted jointly with John 
 Norbury and Philip la Vache, by Queen Joanna of Navarre, the 
 farm of Woodstock Manor and Wootton Hundred, and died 141 1 
 (M.I. Wilcote Chapel in North I^eigh Church.) Inquisition p.m. 
 1410. 
 
 1386. Richard Abberbury. 
 
 Gilbert Wace. 
 1388. Feb. Thomas Barentyne. 
 William Welycote. 
 
 Thomas Barentyne of L,ittle Haseley, was sheriff of Oxon 
 1378, 1382, 1386, 1394, made a Commr. of the Peace there 26 May 
 1380, and was granted exemption for life 20 June 1380 from being 
 put on assizes juries inquisitions attaints or recognizances, and 
 from being made mayor sheriff escheator collector of subsidy or 
 aid, array er or leader of men at arms hobelers or archers, or 
 other minister of the King against his will. 
 
 1388. Sept. Thomas de la Poyle. 
 
 John Rede. 
 
 Sir Thomas de la Poyle of Hampton Poyle, eldest son of 
 Henry de la P. by Elizabeth dau of Sir Wm. Shareshull, 
 presented to Hampton 27 Nov. 1387, was Sheriff of Oxon 1388, 
 and m. Catherine , but died s.p. 
 
 John Rede was Escheator of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1381 
 and 1383, made J. P. Bucks 14 Dec. 1381, and a Commr. of the 
 
28 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Peace and of oyer for Bucks 9 March and 21 Dec. 1382. On 24 
 June 1384 Reg. Malyns, Thomas Sakevyll, Edra. Malyns, T. 
 Barentyn, and John Reede were app. to arrest and bring before 
 the King and Council the persons found to have entered with an 
 armed force the manor of the King's clerk, Edm. Brudenell, at 
 Wodemondesle, co. Oxford, assaulted his servants and threatened 
 to kill them and burn the manor. On 25 Oct. 1420 Peter Huet, 
 John Rede and others were app. to provide victuals for the 
 King's Household. His wife Cecily gave Gathampton manor to 
 their son Edmund Rede (see 1450). 
 
 1390. Jan. Thomas Barentyn. 
 
 William Wily cotes. 
 
 1390. Nov. Thomas de la Poill. 
 
 Thomas Barantyn. 
 
 1391. William Wyllycote. 
 John Rede. 
 
 1393. Sir Thomas Paynell. 
 Thomas Barentyn. 
 
 The former was made with T. de la Puyle a Commr. of the 
 Peace and of oyer in Oxon 8 March, 8 July, and 21 Dec. 1382. 
 
 1394. William Wilycotes. 
 John Adderbury. 
 
 J 395- William Wilycotes. 
 
 William Bruly. 
 
 Eldest son of Sir Henry Bruly, presented to Waterstock 
 30 Jan. 141 1, and released to Robert James of Boarstall all his 
 right in Oakle manor, Bucks, 12 June 141 7. 
 
 : 397- J an - Thomas Barentyne. 
 
 John Adderbury. 
 1397. Sept. William Wilcotes, 
 
 Janyn Golafre. 
 Sir John Golafre of Fy field, (son of Sir John and Isabella G. , 
 and grandson of the M.P. 1334,) was Sheriff of Oxon 1397, J 39 8 > 
 1414, 1424, and died 1442, (M. I. Fyfield.) 
 I 399- Thomas Barentyne. 
 
 John Wilcotes. 
 1401. John Wylcotes. 
 
 Thomas Chaucer. 
 " Some say that this Chaucer was a merchant man and had 
 about ;£iooo by the year." (Leland.) Thomas Chaucer of 
 Ewelme," Chief Butler of England," Sheriff of Oxon and Berks, 
 1400, 1403, who was born 1367, was not the son and heir of the famous 
 poet Geoffrey Chaucer (the King's esquire and yeoman in 1278, 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 29 
 
 and Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidies in the port of 
 London in 1385.) He m. Maud 2nd dau. and a great co-heir of 
 Sir John Burghersh, held lands in Ewelme, and dying " very 
 rich" 18 Nov. 1434, or 28 April 1436, was buried in Ewelme Church 
 (M.I."> His only dau. Alice m. Wm. de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, and 
 founder of Ewelme Hospital. Rymer mentions that on 4 June 
 1414 Henry Lord de la Scrop, Thomas, Chaucer and three others 
 were empowered to treat with Ralph Major and the other Am- 
 bassadors of the Duke of Burgundy concerning the marriage of 
 the King with the French King's daughter Catherine ; and that 
 on 28 Jan. 1417 the King addressed Thomas Chaucer, " the King's 
 Chief Butler," to deliver 100 tuns of wine, imported for the Duke 
 of Bourbon to the Duke's servants. He was Speaker ( Prolucutor) 
 of the House of Commons in the Parliaments of 1407, 1410, 1411, 
 and 1415, and app. Constable of Wallingford Castle 1400, 
 Ambassador to France 1404, was granted the farm of the manor 
 of Woodstock by Queen Johanna 23 Feb. 141 1, and again after 
 her death, by the King for life 15 March 141 1, and continued 
 Chief Butler by Hen. 6 in 1422. 
 1402. Thomas Chaucer. 
 Thomas Wykham. 
 
 The latter was of Broughton, Sheriff of Oxon 1413, and 
 next heir to the famous William of Wykham, Bishop of Win- 
 chester, and Founder of New College, Oxford. On 12 Oct. 
 1383, Grant for life to Thomas Wykham, servitor of the King in 
 his pantry, of the lands late of Walter Moigne of co. Cambridge, 
 forfeited by his share in the late insurrection, not exceeding the 
 value of 47s. 4d yearly. On 3 May 1384, Grant for life, to T. 
 W. groom of the pantry, of the lands and tenements in Sney- 
 leseswelle, co. Cambridge, forfeited by John Goseberkirke for his 
 insurrection against the King, and extended at 19s 3d yearly. 
 (Patent Rolls). 6 Nov. 1414., Pardon to John de Wykham of 
 Swalcliffe, co. Oxford, adherent Sir John Oldcastell, who had 
 conspired to kill the King and make himself Regent. {Rymer.) 
 1403. William Makkenny. 
 Sir Peter Besyles. 
 
 The former was perhaps brother or son of Robert de 
 Makeny, "Yeoman of the Poultry and chief buyer of victuals of 
 the late King " who was retained in that post by Richard II. in 
 1377. He was otherwise styled Serjeant, and on 8 Aug. 1377 a 
 writ of aid issued, until Easter, for R. M. "one of the buyers for 
 the Household," which post he still held in 1384. 
 
 Sir Peter Besyles of Bessels Leigh, younger son of Sir 
 Thomas B., was Sheriff of Oxon 1408, made his will 23 Oct. 1424, 
 whereby he bequeathed lands for the maintenance and repairs of 
 Burford and Culham bridges, near Abingdon, to the building of 
 which he had been a principal contributor, and dying that year 
 
30 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 was buried in Dantesbourne Church, of which he had been a 
 great patron, having built the south wing and left ^"120 for 
 making six windows therein. 20 May 1384, Pardon, by main- 
 prise of Ralph Waleys of co. Gloucester, and Rd. Brouns of 
 Berks, and by five of 50 marks which Peter de Besils kinsman 
 and heir of John son of John son and heir of Thomas de Besils 
 Knt. deceased, tenant in chief, and Thomas Catewy (Hathewy 
 M.P. co. Gloucester 1373) have made with the Council, (whereof 
 10 marks are to be paid at once, the rest in four years,) to the 
 said Peter, a minor in the King's custody, for marrying Joan, 
 dau. of the said Thomas Catewy without licence. 
 
 1403. Sir John Drayton. 
 
 John Wily cotes. 
 
 Sir John Drayton of Bensington was app. 24 July 1377 to 
 the custody, during pleasure of the King's swans on the Thames, 
 its affluents, and all other waters in the counties of Kent, Surrey, 
 Sussex, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, 
 Berks, Bucks, Lincoln, Somerset, Dorset, and Gloucester. 19 
 March 1378, Inspeximus and confirmation in favour of John 
 Drayton, "Yeoman of the late King, retained" of (1) letters 
 patent dated 7 April 40 Kdw. 3, being a grant to him for life of 
 ioos. yearly at the Exchequer, and (2) of letters patent dated 14 
 Aug. 43 Edw. 3, being a like grant to him of 43s 4d. yearly from 
 the issues of the March of Bray in lieu of the office granted to 
 him by Queen Philippa of hay ward and warrener of that manor, in 
 room of Roger de Yerdle. 30 Oct. 1378, Pardon to the said J. D. for 
 the death of Nicholas Doyngton, killed before Michaelmas 1377. 
 Inspeximus etc. in favour of J. D. for life of letters patent of the 
 King's brother Thomas de Holand, Marshal of England, dated 
 23 Feb. 3 Richard II, granting to the said John, his esquire, the 
 offices of serjeant-marshal and clerk-marshal of Marshalsea of 
 the King's Household. Commission to J. D. 28 July 1382 to seize 
 and bring before the King and Council, Joan and Margaret 
 kinswomen and heiresses of Edmund de Clyvedon, tenant-in - 
 chief, minors, whose marriages belong to the King — (Vacated by 
 surrender, and nothing was done therein.) Commission of 
 Array in Oxon 29 April 1385 to John Drayton Knt. and Wm. 
 Drayton Knt. 
 
 John Wilcote of Great Tewe, (? son of the M.P. 1385,) was 
 Sheriff of Oxon 1401, 1406, 1415, 1419. 
 
 1406. Thomas Chaucer. 
 John Willicotes. 
 
 1407. Oct. 5. Thomas Chaucer. 
 
 John Wilcotes. 
 1410. Jan. William Willicotes. 
 Thomas Chaucer. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 31 
 
 The former was son of the M.P. 1404, and was granted by 
 the King the manor Hedington in fee for ^40 a year rent in 
 1400. 
 
 1411. Oct. J Returns lost. 
 
 1413. Jan. I 
 
 Thomas Chaucer's name however appears as Speaker and 
 Member for Oxfordshire 1412, and he probably was also elected 
 M.P. in Jan. 1413. 
 
 1413. April 27. Thomas Chaucers. 
 
 John Willicotes. 
 
 1414. Feb. 1. William L,yle. 
 
 John Wilycotes. 
 
 Sir Wm Lisle was Sheriff of Oxon 1410, 1420, 1421, 1422. 
 Commission 1 May 1380 to Thomas Sayvill and W. Lylie, Serjeants 
 at arms, and three others to arrest and deliver to the Marshalsea 
 prison John Trevarthian and three others indicted for certain 
 misprisions against the King. 8 Sept. 1384, Commission of the 
 Peace and of Oyer in Beds to Wm L,ile. 
 
 1414. Nov. 8. Thomas Chaucer. 
 
 John Wilycotes. 
 
 1415. Oct. Return lost. 
 
 Thomas Chaucer was however again Speaker and M.P. for 
 Oxon in this Parliament. 
 
 1416. April 27. Sir Thomas Wykeham. 
 
 Thomas Stonore. 
 
 Thomas Stonor of Stonor, Sheriff of Oxon 1423, and 1427, 
 was son of Sir Ralph, and grandson of the M.P. 1380. Hem. 
 Alice dau of Sir John Kirkley of Kent, was M.P. for Oxon 1416, 
 1419, 1425, 1427, 1429, and d. 3 May 1440. 
 
 1416. Oct. Return lost. 
 
 1417. Oct. William Lisle. 
 
 John Willicotes. 
 
 1419. Oct. 5. John Wylcotes. 
 
 Thomas de Stonore. 
 
 1420. Nov. 28. John Danvers. 
 
 Richard Gryvell. 
 
 John Danvers of Cokethorpe presented to Waterstock 16 
 March 1422, and m. (1) Alice dau of Wm. Verney of Byfield, and 
 (2) Joan dau. of Wm. Bruly of Waterstock, (see 1395.) 
 
 1421. April 17. Thomas Chaucer. 
 
 John Wilcotes. 
 
32 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 1421. Nov. 27. John Daumvers. 
 
 Peter Feteplace. 
 
 John Daumvers was of Bannebury, and again sat 1423. 
 His colleagues was of North Denchworth, and Sheriff of Berks 
 and Oxon 1441. A Baronetcy existed atone time in theFetiplace 
 family, which was of ancient standing in Oxon and Berks. 
 
 1422. Oct. 29. Sir Thomas Wykeham. 
 
 Thomas Chaucer. 
 
 1423. Sept 30. Peter Feteplace. 
 
 John Daumvers. 
 
 1425. April 12. Sir Thomas Wykeham. 
 
 Thomas Stonore. 
 
 1426. Feb. 14. Thomas Chaucer. 
 
 William L,yle. 
 
 1427. Sept. 25. Thomas Chaucers. 
 
 Thomas Stonore. 
 
 1429. Aug. 25. Thomas Chaucer. 
 
 Thomas Stonore. 
 
 1431. Jan. 11. The same. 
 
 1432. May 1. Thomas Feteplace. 
 
 Richard Quatermayns. 
 
 Sir Thomas Feteplace of Childrey, Sheriff of Berks and 
 Oxon 1435, " received a great addition of blood and honour" by 
 his marriage with Beatrix daughter of the King of Portugal. 
 
 The Quatermayns were seated and located at the noble 
 domains of Ricot and Thame, in the 14th century, and were 
 possessed of great estates in Oxon, having seats at North Weston 
 and Shirburn Castle. Sir Richard (? son of Thomas who d. 
 1399,) possessed them in 1424, was Sheriff 1436, 1454, and was 
 succeeded by Richard in 1460 Commission 23 April 1463 to 
 Robert Harecourte Knt., Rd. Quatermayns, Edmund Rede, Rd. 
 Danvers, and others to enquire into the breaches in Oxon of the 
 statute of 13 Richard II. enacting that no man shall buy or sell 
 wools at a higher weight than 1410s. for the stone, etc. Com- 
 mission of oyer and terminer 19 April 1464 to the King's 
 kinsman John, duke of Suffolk, John Novell of Novell Knt., 
 Robert Danvers, Robert Harecourt Knt., Rd. Harecourt, Rd. 
 Quatermayns, and Edm. Rede within Oxon and Berks. 
 " Through great mortality all the lands descended to Richard 
 
 the youngest son, a merchant of London," who m. Sybil , 
 
 and dying s.p. 1460, (M.I. Thame Church,) adopted his Godson 
 Sir Richard Fowler as his heir. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 33 
 
 1435. June 25. Stephen Haytfeld. 
 
 Richard Quatermayns. 
 Stephen was Sheriff of Oxon 1434. 
 1435. Sept. 15. Peter Feteplace. 
 
 John Dannvers. 
 1437. Jan. 3. Richard Drayton. 
 
 Robert Daunvers. 
 
 Rd. Drayton of Oxon, was son of the M.P. 1404, and 
 received protection 28 Jan. 1435 in the Duke of Bedford's retinue. 
 He sat again 1453. He sold the manor of Rotherfield Peppard 
 to Mr. Stonor. Commission 27 May 1463 to R.D. and the 
 Sheriff of Kent and three others to enquire what lands and 
 tenements Richard late Duke of York held there on the day of 
 his death. 
 
 Robert Danvers was eldest son of the M.P. 1420, and 
 became a Governor of Iyincolns Inn 1428, Common Serjeant of 
 Ivondon 1422-42, Recorder of IyOndon 1442-50, Serjeant at law 14 
 Feb. 1443, King's Serjeant 1444, M.P. for the City of I,ondon 
 1445, and in July 1450 was forced by Jack Cade to be the head 
 (as the Recorder) of a Commission of oyer and terminer under 
 which several noblemen and gentlemen were tried for "high 
 treason," some of whom were executed. He had the satisfaction 
 however, when the rebellion was put down, of being made 1 
 August a Commr. in Kent for the trial of Cade's adherents. He 
 m. Agnes dau. of Rd. Quatermayns of Rycot, (see 1433,) though 
 Stow calls her Sir Rd. Delaber's daughter. Danvers was a 
 Justice of the Common Pleas 14 Aug. 1450-70. and Chief Justice 
 thereof 9 Oct. 1470, until May 147 1, when his death probably 
 took place, being made K.B. at the coronation of Elizabeth, 
 Queen of Edw. 4, on 26 May 1464. His brother Richard was 
 ancester of the Karl of Danby. 
 
 1441. Jan. 28* John Noreys. 
 
 William Wykeham. 
 
 John Norreys of Ockholt, lord of that manor, was Sheriff 
 1437, 1442 and (as Knt.) 1457, and an Esquire of the body to Hen. 
 6. He m. Milicent dau. and heir of Ravenscroft of Cotton- 
 end, Hardingstone, Northants. As John Nores he was made 
 J.P. Berks 28 Feb. 1463, and 1 Oct. 1464. 
 
 Wm Wykeham was of Broughton Castle, and Sheriff 1449. 
 
 1447. Jan. 12. Sir Robert Harecowrte. 
 Thomas Stonore. 
 
 Sir Robert was of Stanton Harcourt, grandson of the M.P- 
 1376, and son of Sir Thomas Harcourt. He m. Margaret dau of Sir 
 John Byron of Clayton, Lancashire, was made High Steward of 
 
34 Mkmbkrs for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Oxford Univ. 1446, K.G. 1463 Sheriff of cos. Leicester and 
 Warwick 1445, and of Berks and Oxon 1455, J. P. Oxon 17 July 
 1461, 28 Oct. 1462, and 18 Aug. 1466, J. P. Berks 28 Feb. 1463, 
 
 I Oct. 1464, and 18 Feb. 1467, and on 6 May 1467 was empowered 
 with Richard the great Earl of Warwick and three others to treat 
 for peace or a truce with France. He fought in the wars of 
 Hen. 6 and Edward 4, and lost his life in the service of the latter, 
 being slain by the Staffords 14 Nov. 1470, and buried in Stanton 
 Harcourt Church (M. I.) The Harcourts have been settled in 
 Oxon for over seven centuries. Commission 1 April 1463 to 
 Robert Harecourt Knt., Rd. Harcourt, and Thomas Walrond to 
 arrest and imprison one Edw. Bray and others who wander about 
 making confederacies in divers parts of Berks. Pardon 15 Oct. 
 1465 to Robert Harcourt Knt. of Stanton Harcourt, of all offences 
 committed by him before Oct. 5, contrary to the statute of 
 liveries, and all fines issues amercements reliefs scutages debts 
 accounts and arrears due from him to the King. Commission 3 
 May 1464 to R. H. Knt. and three others to array the King's able- 
 bodied subjects of Oxon, Berks, Beds, and Herts for the resistance 
 of the King's enemies. 
 
 Thomas Stonor, son of the M.P. 1416, m. the Duke of 
 Suffolk's daughter Johanna, or Jane, was Sheriff 1455, J. P. 18 
 Aug. 1466, app. to inquire into certain grants of lands in Calais 
 
 II July 1449, commissioned with Rd. Harecourte Esq., John 
 Stokes, and Humphray Foster, 13 Dec. 1464 to enquire into John 
 Mervyn's petition, was granted 100 marks from the issues of Oxon 
 and Berks 20 Nov. 1465, and d. 23 April 1474. 
 
 1449. Jan. 16. Edmund Hampden. 
 
 John Pury, or Pery. 
 
 Hampden again sat 1453, 1459, but shared in the downfall 
 of Hen. 6, for on 15 March 1462 Sir John Wenlok of Wenlok was 
 app. "for such time as her husband is alive," keeper and 
 governor of Anne wife of Sir Edm. Hampden attainted of high 
 treason by authority of Parliament at Westminster 4 Nov. 146 1, 
 and the castles lordships manors lands and possessions which they 
 hold in her right. He is to levy and expend rents to sustain her 
 and four servants in her company and other reasonable expenses, 
 to appoint and remove all servants, and account to the King for 
 the surplus. On 2 Jan. 1462, Grant to the King's servants Rd. 
 Croft, jun. and Thomas Croft and the heirs of their bodies of all 
 reversions when they fall in late of Edmund Hampden Knt. in 
 Oxon and Berks to the value of ^50 yearly. 
 
 John Pury of Camberbouse, Oxon, (son of Thomas Pury, 
 ** servant to Hen. 4," m. (1) Elizabeth sister to Sir John Sylsey, 
 and (2) Isabell Wayne of Beverley. 23 July 1461, General Pardon 
 to John Pury of Chamberhous, Berks, of all offences committed 
 by him before 20 June last. His dau. and heir Anna m. Wm. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 35 
 
 Danvers, Justice of the Common Pleas 1488, half-brother to the 
 M.P. 1437. 
 
 1449. Oct. 23. Sir Edmund Hampden. 
 
 Thomas Stonor. 
 1450 Oct. 21. Sir Robert Harecourt. 
 
 Edmnnd Rede. 
 
 Sir Edmund Rede of Borstall, son of Edm. Rede, Sheriff 
 1438, son of the M.P. 1388, by Christiana, only dau. of 
 Robert James of Chakenden and Boarstall, son and heir 
 of the M.P. 1377, and who gave ^20 to the Abbot and 
 Convent of Dorchester to pray for him 19 Feb. 1438,) 
 was Sheriff of Oxon (as Edward) 1450, J. P. Bucks 19 March 
 1463, and 13 May 1466, app. Sheriff of Beds and Bucks during 
 pleasure 13 May 1461, and was commissioned with three others 
 28 Sept. 1462 to arrest Robert Bunkle, John Dalahowe, Rd. 
 Harreys, and Edmund Warde, and bring them before the King 
 in Chancery. Kennet has much to say about him. He m. (1) 
 Agnes dau. of Sir John Cottesmore, Chief Justice of the Common 
 Pleas, and (2) Katherine widow of Sir John Gaynesford, (see 1491) 
 and died 1487. 
 
 1453. March 8. Sir Edmund Hampden. 
 
 Richard Drayton. 
 
 1455. June Return lost. 
 
 1459. Nov. 8. Sir Edmund Hampden. 
 
 William Eovell. 
 
 Licence by the King 8 Jan. 1463 for ^100 paid in the 
 Hanaper for Alice late the wife of Sir Wm. Lovell of Novell to 
 marry Sir Ralph Boteler of Sudeley. {Patent Rolls). 
 
 1460. Sept. 11. Richard Harcourte. 
 
 John Stokes. 
 
 Sir Richard Harcourt of Combe, m. Emily , and 
 
 inherited Wytham manor Berks, on the death of Alice Denton 
 widow in 1479 as her next of kin aad heir. He was 2nd son of 
 Sir Thomas H., and brother to the M.P., 1447, and m. (1) Edith 
 one of the three daughters and co-heirs of Thomas St. Claire of 
 Wethersfull, Suffolk, (2) Eleanor dau. of Sir Roger Lewknor of 
 Raunton, co. Stafford, and (3) Katherine dau. and heir of Sir 
 Thomas de la Pole, son of Michael, Earl of Suffolk, and built 
 Wytham manor house, and by his will made 15 Sept. and proved 
 25 Oct. i486 he bequeathed £20 to Wytham Church, and directed 
 his body to be buried in Abingdon Abbey. He was app. Sheriff 
 of Oxon and Berks during pleasure 13 May 1461, and 1466, J.P. 
 Oxon 28 Oct. 1462, and 18 Aug. 1466, granted for life 14 May 
 146 1 the Parkership of the King's park of Cornbury, with the 
 
36 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 accustomed fees, and because this proved to be invalid received a 
 fresh grant thereof 10 Nov. i464,receiving 3d daily. Sir Rd. H. 
 Knt. and John Eyres were commissioned 13 Nov. 1466 to arrest 
 Robert Stokes and bring him before the King in Chancery. 
 
 John Stokes was made a Commr. of the Peace for Oxon 17 
 July 1461, 28 Oct. 1462, and 18 Aug. 1466. (He was probably 
 son of John Stokes, Sheriff of Oxon and Berks 1440, who with 
 three others was empowered 8 Dec. 1439 to treat with the 
 Ambassadors of Holland and Zealand for the redress of injuries, 
 had been an Ambassador to the Pope in 1428, and been often 
 employed as an Envoy between 14 10 and 1439.) Grant for life 
 13 March 146 1 to John Stokys esq. of the office of Parker or the 
 custody of the park of Bekkeley, Oxon, which he had of the 
 grant of the King's father Richard, Duke of York, with the 
 accustomed fees. (Fresh grant of this office, on surrender of the 
 last, to J. S. and Wm. Staveley 20 June 1465). Appointment of 
 John Stokes and John Aldey 5 July 146 1 to provide all kinds of 
 victuals for an expedition by sea against the King's enemies. 
 Inspeximus and confirmation 2 July 1463 ( — for 6s. 8d. paid in the 
 Hanaper — ) in favour of J. S. and Alice his wife the present 
 tenants of the manor of Bigenhull in Burcestre, of a charter 
 dated Westminster 20 Oct. 1377 granting to John de Worthe Knt. 
 that he and his heirs shall have a market weekly on Monday, 
 and a fair yearly for 3 days at St James the Apostle, at the said 
 manor. Pardon 28 Aug. 1464 to J. S. of Biginhill, co. Oxford, 
 esq. late Escheator in the counties of Oxford and Berks, of all 
 fines amercements issues reliefs debts accounts and arrears due 
 to the King and all actions for the same. — By the King. 
 
 1467. April 16. Humphrey Foster. 
 John Barantyne. 
 
 Sir Humphrey Foster of Harpenden, Oxon, and Alder- 
 maston, Berks, m. Alice 4th and yst. dau. of Thomas Stonor (see 
 1447) was Sheriff of Oxon and Berks 1475, and dying 18 Sept. 
 1500, was buried in St. Martin's in the Fields, London (M. I.) 
 H. F. was made J. P. Berks 1 Oct. 1464, and 18 Feb. 1467, and 
 with three others was commissioned to enquire by the oath of 
 good men of Kent, Herts, Essex, Surrey, Middlesex, Berks, 
 Bucks, Oxon, and Gloucester into the capture of swans and 
 cygnets on the river Thames, and its tributaries from Cirencester 
 to its mouth, by hooks, nets, ' lymestrynges,' and other engines, 
 and the taking of swans' eggs, and to arrest and imprison the 
 offenders. 
 
 John Barantyne of Little Haseley, was Sheriff of Oxon and 
 Berks 1464, 1484. His family was of long standing and repute 
 in Oxon. 
 
 1472. Sept. 24. Richard Quatermayns. 
 Richard Crost, junior. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 37 
 
 Richard Croft jun. of Chipping Norton, son of R. C. senior, 
 was " the King's servant," on 9 Aug. 1461 when he was granted 
 during pleasure the office of Receiver of all manors lands and 
 other possessions late of John, Earl of Shrewsbury in cos. 
 Gloucester and Hereford, receiving the accustomed fees and also 
 ten marks yearly from the issues of the same. The next day he 
 was granted for life the whole office of the Parkership of the 
 Kin^s park of Wodestock, with fees as in the times of Edw. 3, 
 from the issues of the manor. He was made 27 Nov. 1461 for 
 life Supervisor of the King's manor of Wodestocke and had the 
 custody of the King's garden and the meadows there, and on 
 surrendering this grant received a fresh patent of the same office 
 to him and his brother Thomas Croft " the King's servitor " in 
 survivorship 8 Feb. 1464, Thomas being made Steward or 
 lieut. of the manor 7 July 1467, and confirmed as such 1485. 
 The two brothers also obtained a grant of many manors and 
 lands in Oxon and Bucks 22 April 1465, and were made J.P.s 
 Oxon 1485. 
 
 1477. Dec. 11. Sir Richard Harecourt. 
 
 William Stonour. 
 
 Sir William Stonor of Stonor, eldest son of the M.P. 1447, 
 was High Steward of Oxford in 1492, and m. L,ady Anne Nevill, 
 eldest dau. of John, Marquis of Montagu, and co-heir of her 
 brother George Duke of Bedford, He and Edm. Hampden and 
 two others were appointed Commrs. to examine archers etc. 
 and take the musters in Oxon for the relief of Brittany 23 
 Dec. 1488. 
 
 1483, 1484, 1485, 1487. Returns lost. 
 
 149 1. Oct. Robert Harcourt. 
 
 George Gaynsfield. "V- 
 
 The discovery of the list of Members of this Parliament is 
 entirely due to the private researches of Mr W. Buncombe Pink. 
 
 Sir Robert Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, only son and 
 heir of John H. the eldest son the M.P. 1470, m. Agnes dau. of 
 Thomas Lymerick, and was Standard-bearer to Hen. 7 at the 
 battle of Bosworth 1485, and made a Knight Banneret after the 
 battle of Blackheath 1497. 
 
 His colleague and brother-in-law George Gaynsford of 
 Hampton Poyle, 2nd son of Sir John G. of Chowhurst, Surrey, 
 and Hampton Poyle, by Catherine (who re-m. as 2nd wife to Sir 
 Edmund Rede of Borstall, see 1450,) married three times (1) 
 1471 Isabel (who d. before July 1513,) dau. and sole heir of 
 Thomas Croxford of Kidlington-on-the- Green, (2) Anne dau. of 
 Nicholas Warham of Malshanger, Hants, and widow of Sir Wm. 
 Reade of Borestall, (who d. about 1525, son of Sir Edmund by 
 his first wife,) and (3) Elizabeth dau. and co-heir of Sir Robert 
 
38 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Harcourt K.B. By her will dated 8 June 1489 his mother gave 
 him " her grete salt," and to his wife " a crymson." By deed 
 dated 3 May 1502 George Gaynesford sold Hampton Poyle manor 
 and advowson for ^316 6 8 to Rd. Hungerford. 
 
 J495' H97> I 5 1 °, 1512, 1515, 1523. Returns lost. 
 1529. Oct. Sir John Dauntesey. 
 
 Sir William Barentyne. 
 
 Sir John Dauntsey, Daunce, or Dantsey, M.P. for Oxford- 
 shire 1529-36, was Knighted 1513. There are many references to 
 him in Brewer's Letters and Papers of Hen. 8, from which it 
 appears that he was made a Commr. of the Peace for Oxfordshire 
 12 Feb. 1524 and 24 Jan. 1525, in Middlesex 26 Nov. 1524, and 
 Berks and Bucks 24 Nov. 1530, a Commr. to collect the subsidy 
 in Middlesex 1 Aug. 1524, and a Commr. for searches in London 
 12 Feb. 1525. He was one of the " King's servants," (and quaere 
 a Treasurer of War to Henry 8.) John Dauntsey, J. Barentyne, 
 John Latton (see Oxford city 1529,) and Thomas Denton (see 
 !558,) were made Commrs. of Gaol Delivery for Oxford Castle in 
 cos. Oxon and Berks. 
 
 Sir William Barentyne of L,ittle Haseley, was Knighted 
 15 13, M.P. Oxon 1529-36, and High Sheriff of Berks and Oxon 
 151 1, 1525, and 1542. He was the son of John Barentyne (see 1467) 
 by Mary dau. of Thomas Stonor, and married Anne Gray of Eton, 
 widow, (who died 27 Dec. 1522.) In 1513 Barentyne was Captain 
 of The Trinity Dytton of 100 tons, 259 men, and in June 15 13 he 
 went over with a retinue of 12 with the King to Calais. On 17 
 June 1 5 13, Protection and writs of recoveries in Oxon, South- 
 ampton, and Wilts for W. Barentyne. squire of the body, 
 appointed to serve in the war. He was made J. P. for Oxford 
 city 22 Aug. 1516, and was one of the foremost and most active 
 men of the county, of which he was made a Commissioner of the 
 Peace 12 Feb. 1524, 24 Jan. 1525, and 11 Feb. 1526, and app. a 
 Commr. to collect the subsidy 1 Aug. 1547. He was M.P. for 
 Oxfordshire 1529-36, and in Dec. 1529 wrote from his house at 
 Hasley to f* his heartily beloved friend, Master Cromwell. Hoped 
 to have seen him in those parts before Christmas. Will make 
 him welcome if he will come to his house. Asks his favour in 
 his suit for the ferme of the parsonage of Churchyll. Heard 
 to-day that John Hacker has a new grant of it for 42 years from 
 the Dean of my L,ord Cardinal's College. Hears that the Inden- 
 ture is engrossed, but hopes Cromwell will stop it being sealed. 
 It is very commodious for Barantyne, as it is within his own 
 manor." (Brewer). On 25 April 1539 Sir Wm. Barrentyne, Sir 
 John Brome, John Wellsborne, and John Pollerd (see 1553,) as 
 Commrs. in co. Oxon for taking the musters, certified the same. 
 (Cal. State Papers.) He died 17 Nov. 1546, bis will being proved 
 12 Feb. 1550, and ing. p.m. at Oxford 21 Feb. 1550. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 39 
 
 X ApSi. ) ^turns lost. 
 
 1542. Jan. Sir John Willyams Knt. 
 
 Edward Bridges. 
 
 Sir John Williams of Thame, second son of Sir John 
 Williams Knt. of Burghfield, Berks, by Elizabeth dau. and co- 
 heir of Richard Moore of Burfeilde, was descended from a common 
 progenitor with Sir Robert Williams alias Cromwell, ancestor to 
 the Protector, and was a very powerful personage in the county. 
 He was " servant" to Hen. 8, had a patent of £\o per annum for 
 the keeping of a greyhound 18 Hen. 8, and was Clerk of the 
 King's Jewel Office in 1541, where on Christmas Eve a great fire 
 took place, and many of the royal jewels were burned or stolen. 
 He had a Patent for the office of Master or Treasurer of the Jewel 
 Office, and on surrendering that he afterwards had a joint Patent 
 of the same with Thomas Cromwell. On to May 1545 he was one 
 of the Commrs. app. to suppress St. Frideswide's College, (now 
 Ch. Ch. Oxford,) and the Cathedral Church of Osney, by receiving 
 the surrender of them intc the King's hands. 20 May 1549 
 Warrant to Sir John Williams to send ^3000 to the North. 26 
 June 1552, Conveyance by Sir J. W. (Treasurer of the Court of 
 Augmentations,) to Richard Warde of the lands called Woods 
 Grove in the parish of Hurst. Wilts. He was M.P. Oxon 1542-4, 
 1547-52, Feb. to 31 March 1553, and Sept. to Dec. 1553, was Knighted 
 18 Oct. 1537, H. S. Berks and Oxon 1538, 1544, 1533, High 
 Steward of Oxford (fee ^5 a year) from 1554 until his death, and 
 as sucn received numerous presents from the city. Sir John 
 Williams was one of the foremost to support Queen Mary's claim 
 to the throne, and proclaimed her in Oxfordshire, and was by her 
 created Baron Williams of Thame 2 April 1554, and was Iyord 
 Chamberlain of her Household 1553-7. In 1554 he and Sir Henry 
 Bedingfield were app. Keepers of the Princess Elizabeth. I,ord 
 Williams was present at the martyrdom of Archbishop Cranmer 
 at Oxford on 21 March 1556, in which he took an active and pro- 
 minent part. He purchased in 1539 the manors of Great and L,ittle 
 Rycot, Oxon, and had a grant from the Crown in 1540 of the 
 manors of Wytham, and Botley, Berks, and Weston on the Green, 
 Oxon. He was soon afterwards made chief supervisor of all the 
 swans within the river Thames, and all other waters in England, 
 except those of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Treasurer of the 
 Court of Augmentations. He surrendered the latter office in 1554, 
 and received a grant of ^320 a year from the Crown. On the 
 Queen's marriage he was made L,ord Chamberlain of the House- 
 hold to King Philip, He m. (1) Elizabeth dau. and co-heir of 
 Thomas Bledlow of L,ondon, and widow of Andrew Edmunds of 
 Cressing Temple, Essex, and (2) about 1557 Margery dau. of 
 Baron Wentworth. " Item 28 May 1557, geven unto my I^ady 
 Wyllyams for her welcome into the countre at her comming fyrst 
 
40 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 after maryage, £5, and a pair of gloves/' {Turner). In Feb. 
 1559 Queen Elizabeth app. him to be Lord President of Wales, an 
 office much sought after, and on 17 March following, Lord Paget 
 wrote to Sir William Cecil, stating " Lord Williams of Thame is 
 very sick and not likely to recover. Solicits his office of Lord 
 President of Wales." Lord Williams however recovered at the 
 time, but died 14 Oct. 1559, and was buried in Thame Church. 
 (M.I.) The Barony fell into abeyance between his two surviving 
 daughters, (see 1571 and 1597.) 
 
 Edward Bridges M.P. for Oxon 1542-4, was probably uncle 
 to the first Lord Chandos, and to the M.P. 1559, and in that case 
 would be the son of Sir Gyles Brydges of Cuberley, co. 
 Gloucester. 
 
 1545. Jan. Return lost. 
 
 1547. Oct 4. Sir John Willyams. 
 
 Richard Fener, (Fenys.) 
 
 Sir Richard Fenys or Fiennes, of Broughton, was the son 
 of Edward Fiennes, dejure Baron Saye and Sele, and m. Ursula 
 dau. of William Farmer. 
 
 1553. Feb. Sir Andrew Dudley. 
 
 Sir John Wylliams. 
 
 The former was the second son of Edmund Dudley, and 
 brother to that powerful nobleman John Duke of Northumber- 
 land, who was beheaded for placing his daughter in law Lady 
 Jane Grey upon the throne in 1553. He m. 1553 Margaret 
 Clifford dau. of Earl Clifford. 27 Feb. 1547, Instructions by the 
 Council to A. Duddeley esq. appointed to be Admiral of the Fleet 
 to command the Pauncy, and to cruize in the North Seas off the 
 coasts of England and Scotland. He was speedily engaged with 
 the enemy, for on 12 March he wrote from Harwich to Thomas 
 Lord Seymour, Lord High Admiral, " sending letters taken in 
 the late action, and desiring to know what to do with the 
 prisoners. Repairs necessary for the Pauncy." He was knighted 
 by the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, 18 Sept. 1547, and in 
 1549 was one of the four Knights in attendance on the young 
 King, and Keeper of his Wardrobe. In 1550 he was Keeper of 
 the Palace of Westminster, and was soon afterwards made 
 Captain of Guisnes. He was granted a small pension 17 May 
 
 1551, and made a Knight of the Garter 24 April 1552. On 8 Jan. 
 1552 John Duke of Northumberland wrote from Ely Place to Sir 
 William Cecil, mentioning the dispute between the Lord Deputy 
 of Calais and the Duke's brother Sir And. Duddeley. The 
 upshot was that Sir Andrew was recalled from Guisnes on 6 Oct. 
 
 1552, and on 28 Dec. following Northumberland wrote to Cecil, 
 " Finds the King purposes to employ some ministers abroad. 
 Suggests that his brother Sir A. D. should be sent to the French 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 41 
 
 King." The death of Edward 6, on 6 July 1653, put an effectual 
 bar to Northumberland's power of advancing his brother, but 
 Sir Andrew repaid the Duke's kindness by assisting him in his 
 ambitious design of placing Lady Jane Grey upon the throne, 
 and the two brothers were convicted of high treason. More 
 fortunate than the Duke, Sir Andrew was respited, and even- 
 tually set at liberty 18 Jan. 1555. He made his will 1556, and 
 died s.p. 1559. 
 
 I 553- Sept. Sir John Willyams. 
 John Pollarde. 
 
 John Pollard who was Speaker of the House of Commons 
 during this Parliament and that of Oct. to Dec. 1555, was the 2nd 
 son of Walter P. of Plymouth, and entered the Middle Temple 
 (? 3 June 15 1 5,) where he was called to the bar, and served as 
 Autumn Reader 1535. He became a Sergeant at law 1547, but 
 was relieved by patent of that degree 21 Oct. 1550, in order to be 
 app. Vice President of the Council of the Marches of Wales, 
 and was Justice of the Great Sessions for counties Brecknock, Gla- 
 morgan, and Radnor Nov. 1550-7, and Justice of Chester 1557-58. 
 He was Knighted 2 Oct. 1553, M.P. Oxon. Sept. to Dec. 1553, 
 March to May 1554, and Oct. 1554 to Jan. 1555, Barnstaple March 
 to May 1554, Chippenham Sept. to Dec. 1555 also Exeter Oct. 
 1555, (but preferred Chippenham,) and Grampound 1562-7, 
 Recorder of Gloucester 1553-6, and Recorder of Oxford 15 
 April 1554 until his death, in which capacity he received several 
 gifts from the city. Pollard received a grant of the manor of 
 Nuneham Courtney after 1545 and made his residence there. He 
 m. Mary dau. of Richard Gray of London, and was buried 25 
 Aug. 1577. (See Williams' Welsh Judges.} 
 
 1554. March. Sir Leonard Chamberlen. 
 
 John Pollard. 
 
 Sir Leonard Chamberlain of Shirburn Castle, H. S. Berks 
 and Oxon 1546 and 1552, was the son of Sir Edward Chamberlain 
 K.B., and m. Dorothy dau. of John Newdigate, Serjeant at law. 
 As Esquire he was in the procession bringing Ann of Cleves to 
 London on 3 Jan. 1540. He was Knighted the day 
 after the Queen's Coronation, on 2 Oct. 1553, was M.P. 
 Oxon March to May 1554 and Oct. 1554 to Jan. 1555, 
 and died 27 Aug. 1561. On 7 July 1557 the Queen 
 wrote to the Council giving orders that Sir Hugh Paulet 
 and Sir Leonard Chamberlain, Captains of Jersey and Guernsey, 
 were to repair with all speed to their respective charges. Sir 
 Leonard was still '* a Captain at Guernsey," (that is the Governor 
 thereof,) at the time of his death there in 156 1. He had held 
 the government since 1553, but in 1555 his son Francis 
 Chamber was made Joint Governor with him. He attended the 
 Princess Elizabeth during her captivity at Woodstock 1554-5. 
 
42 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 1 554- Oct. r$. Sir I<. Chamberlyne. 
 
 ♦ John Pollard. 
 
 1 555- Sept. 24. Sir Thomas Wenman. 
 
 Edmund Powell. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wenman was the eldest son of Richard 
 Wenman of Thame Park, and Caswell, H. S. 1562 and 1570, who 
 died 1572, by his wife Isabella dau. and co-heir of L,ord Williams 
 of Thame, (see 1542.) He married (? (1) Ursula dau. and heir of 
 of Thomas Giffard of Twyford, Bucks, and (2ndly) 9 June 1572 
 Hon. Jane West dau. of Wm. 8th. Lord de la Warr, was Knighted 
 in 1553, sat for Oxfordshire Sept. to Dec. 1555, and died 22 July 
 1577. 
 
 Edmund Powell of Sandford, elder son of Maurice 
 Appowel of Guernon, co. Cardigan, married Isabell Banester, 
 and was M.P. L,udgershall Sept. to Dec. 1553, and 16 to 31 March 
 1554, and Oxon Sept. to Dec. 1555. He was the father of 
 Edmund Powell of Oxon, who matric. Hart Hall, Oxford, 
 (entry under date) 20 Dec. 1577, aged 11. Edmund Powell 
 of Sandford received a grant from the King 15 Jan. 
 1542 of " the whole of the house and scite of the 
 Carmelite (White) Friars, commonly called " le white freers" 
 with a tenement and garden adjacent and a way called an 'entre' 
 (i.e. Friar's Entry,) and one close called le tymbre yarde etc." 
 On 20 Feb. 1572 Edmund Powell, prisoner in the Tower, in a 
 letter to Lord Treasurer Burghley " details the progress of the 
 design " made by him and Sir Henry Percy to effect the escape 
 of the Queen of Scots. Requests to be liberated." In 1573 
 appears a " Grant to Edmund Powell of pardon and remission of 
 the fine" of 3000 marks on condition of paying the sum of ^20 a 
 year for his life. 
 
 1558. Jan. George Owen. 
 
 Thomas Denton. 
 
 George Owen of Godstowe, Oxon, was born in the diocese 
 of Worcester, and educ. at Oxford. He became probationer 
 fellow of Merton College 15 19, and took the degree of Doctor of 
 Medicine at Oxford 1527. Soon after his gradation he was app. 
 Physician to Hen. 8, in which office he also served Edw. 6, and 
 Queen Mary. He was adm. a Fellow of the College of Physicians 
 25 June 1545, an Elect 1552, and President 2 Oct. 1553, and 1554. 
 He was one of the subscribing witnesses to the will of Hen. 8, 
 
 who left him a legacy of £100. He m. Letice dau. of of 
 
 Suffolk, and was M.P. Oxon 1558, and Receiver General of the 
 Duchy of Lancaster until his death in October 1558. On 
 22 Nov. 1541 the King granted to George Owen M.D. 
 for ^1174 the manors of Walton and Wolvercote formerly 
 belonging to the dissolved monastery of Godstow. On 7 Aug. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire 43 
 
 1552 the Privy Council wrote to the Mayor and Burgesses of 
 Oxford to " withdrawe theyr sheape from ij pastures Crepley and 
 Portmead and to cease theyre digging and rising of bancks in 
 the sayd pastures until the matter in controversie between them 
 and Mr. Owen for this purpose be had and determined." (Cat. 
 State Papers). He presented to St. Giles' Church, Oxford, 9 
 Pec. 1553, and 2 Oct. 1554. He died 18 Oct. 1558, and was 
 buried at St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London, 24 Oct. On 10 Nov. 
 1558 a Commission was given to Mr. Walgrave and the Auditor 
 of the Duchy of Lancaster, to take the accompt of Dr. Owen 
 late Rec. Gen. of the Duchy. 
 
 Thomas Denton of Sanderfleld, Beselslee, and Hillersdon, 
 Bucks, H.S. Berks and Oxon 1526, was elder son of Thomas D, 
 of Caverfeild, Oxon, and m. Margaret dau. to the Lord Mordant. 
 
 widow to Phetiplace. He was one of the chief means of 
 
 obtainining for the town of Banbury the privilege of returning a 
 Member of Parliament, and was its first Member March to May 
 
 1554, and probably again Oct. 1554 to Jan. 1555, and Sept. to Dec. 
 
 1555, Grant 15 Dec. 1540 to Thomas Denton, a sewer of the 
 Chamber, to be under steward of the lands of the late abbey of 
 Abingdon. {Brewer). He was a barrister of the Middle Temple, 
 and M.P. for Berks 1547-52, Bucks Nov. 1554 to Jan. 1555, and 
 Oxfordshire Jan. 1558 until his death 30 Oct. 1558, being Recorder 
 of Oxford 14 Sept. 1557-8. ''1556, Payd to Mr. Denton for his 
 hallfe yeare feyes — xxs. 1558, Pd. to Mr. Denton — xxs." (Cor- 
 poration Accounts of Banbury). 
 
 J 559- J an - IO - Thomas Bridges. 
 Edmund Ashfilde. 
 
 Thomas Bridges of Corneburye, 2nd son to Sir Gyles 
 Brydges of Cuberkley, co. Gloucester, and next brother to John 
 1 st Lord Chandos. He m. Jane eldest dau. and co-heir of John 
 Sydenham of Orchard, Somerset, and was H.S. Berks and Oxon 
 
 1556, and M.P. Oxon Jan. to May 1559. (The High Sheriff of 
 Berks was also Sheriff of Oxon from 30 Henry 3 to 9 Elizabeth, 
 when a separate Sheriff was appointed for each county). He was 
 granted 10 March 31 Hen. 8, a lease for 21 years of the manor of 
 Fulbroke and Westhall, Oxon, which the King purchased from 
 George Lord Cobham, {Brewer), and died 14 Nov. 1559. 
 
 Edmund Ashfleld or Ashefeld of Heythrop, Northants,and 
 Ewelme, was the second son of John Ashfleld, and m. Eleanor 
 
 dau. of Humphrey of Mouston Park, Northants, and relict 
 
 of William Stafford of Tottneshoo, Bucks. He was app. by the 
 King to be keeper of the royal manor and park of Ewelme 9 June 
 1536, Bailiff for life of Whaddon manor, Bucks, 16 Feb. 1546, and 
 Steward for life of Cuddesdon manor, Oxon, 1 Dec. 155 1, all 
 belonging to the King, and received 22 May 1554 a grant of the 
 Priory and lands of Snellshall, Bucks, for ever, and was granted 
 
44 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 12 Sept. 1559 the office of Surveyor of all manors etc. belonging 
 to the Crown in Bucks. Ashfield must have played his cards 
 well to enjoy office for so long a period under four successive 
 Monarchs, especially during the religious differences of that 
 period. He was Knighted at Eythorpe 1570, H.S. of Berks and 
 Oxon 1558, and of Bucks 1568, M.P. (as Asshefeld and Asschefyld) 
 for Wallingford April to May 1554, and Nov. 1554 to Jan. 1555, 
 and for Oxon Jan. to May 1559. As J. P. for Bucks he made his 
 declaration to observe the Act of Uniformity 17 Nov. 1569, and 
 on 25 Aug. 1571, the High Constable of Ewelme made to Sir 
 Edmund Ashfield and other Justices of Oxon, his certificate of 
 search for rogues and vagabonds in the Half Hundred of Ewelme. 
 (Cat. State Papers). He presented to Wavendon, Bucks, in 1570, 
 which manor he held jure uxoris, but both joined in selling it the 
 same year. He died 24 Jan. 1577, and was buried at Shenley, 
 Bucks, 15 Feb. His will was proved in the Prerogative Court of 
 Canterbury 3 Feb. 1577. 
 
 1562. Dec. 8. Sir Francis Knolles. 
 
 Sir Richard Blunt. 
 
 Sir Francis Knollys of Rotherfield Greys, elder son of 
 Robert K. of that place, who died 152 1, was born in or about 15 14, 
 and married Catherine dau. of William Carey, esquire of the 
 body to Hen. 8, and sister to the 1st IyOrd Hunsdon. This lady 
 was first cousin to Queen Elizabeth which partly accounts for the 
 high position of her husband at Court during that Queen's reign. 
 On 5 March 1547 Knollys writes to Paget, and " declares his long 
 services, which had impaired his estate ; states the amount of his 
 debts," He was Knighted 28 Sept. 1547, M.P. Horsham 1545-7* 
 Camelford 1547-52, Arundel 1559. Oxon, 1362-7, 1571, 1572-83, 
 1584-5, 1586-7, 1588-9, and Jan to April 1593, created M.A. at 
 Cambridge 10 Aug. 1564, and M.A. Oxford 6 Sept. 1566, being 
 then Captain of the Halberdiers, and was made a Privy Coun- 
 cillor and Vice Chamberlain of the Queen's Household 1563, 
 (Treasurer 1572,) Comptroller 1588-90, and Treasurer of the 
 Household 1586-96, and also Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard 
 1569-78. On 23 Sept. 1560 the Queen gave orders to the Marquis 
 of Winchester for a Warrant to make a grant to Sir Francis 
 Knollys and the L,ady Catherine his wife and to Robert K. one of 
 their sons, of the manor of Taunton and Tandene, Somerset, for the 
 term of their lives. On 17 Jan. 1569 Sir F. Knollys writing to the 
 Queen, " Gives advice for the management of her Council. Is 
 himself unfitted for a courtier," and on 8 Oct. following Her 
 Majesty gave him directions to repair to the Duke of Norfolk, 
 and to conduct him to the Tower. He was Constable of 
 Wallingford Castle and Steward of the Honour of Ewelme, and 
 Keeper of its Park 7 March 1551 till April 1578, when he was 
 succeeded in these posts by his son Henry, (see 1572.) He was 
 made High Steward of Oxford iu succession to Lord Bedford 3 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 45 
 
 Feb. 1564, and he and his wife were the recipients of many gifts 
 and presents from the city in return for their patronage and good 
 offices. Knollys was made a Knight of the Garter 25 Jnne 1593, 
 and died 19 July 1596, 
 
 Sir Richard Blount of Mapledurham Gurney was the 2nd 
 but eldest surviving son of Richard Blount of Iver, Bucks, and 
 Maple Durham, H. S. Bucks and Beds 1502, who died 1508, and 
 grand-nephew to Walter 1st Baron Mountjoy, Lord High 
 Treasurer of England, who died 1474. He m. Elizabeth dau. of 
 Sir Richard Lister, Lord Chief Justice of England, was Knighted 
 about 1550-52, and M.P. Oxon 1562-4. Blount was a Gentleman 
 of the Chamber to Hen. 8, and of the Privy Chamber to Edw. 6, 
 and served Queen Elizabeth in various offices, being finally 
 Lieutenant of the Tower of London for a couple of years or so 
 until his death 11 Aug. 1564, being buried in the Church of Peter 
 in Vinculis in the Tower. On 6 April 1564 he wrote from 
 Mapledurham to Cecill, " Perceives that the Queen has granted 
 the Provost of Paris leave to come from Oxford to London. 
 Cannot take upon him to leave the Provost at any place in 
 London but the Tower." 5 March 1540, lease for 21 years to 
 Ric. Blount, of the Household, of Hornesey rectory and manor, 
 Yorkshire. {Brewer). He was father of Sir Michael Blount, H. S. 
 Oxon 1586,1596, who was also app. Lieut, of the Tower 1590, and 
 who unsuccessfully laid claim to the Barony of Mountjoy before 
 the House of Lords in 1596. His eldest son Richard Blount had 
 livery of Bicester Priory 2 May 1592. 
 
 1564 A Member (name unknown), vice Blount 
 
 deceased. 
 
 1571. April. Sir Francis Knollys. 
 Sir Henry Norreys. 
 
 Sir Henry Norreys Knt. of Rycot, Oxon, and Wytham, 
 Berks, was the son of Sir Henry Norreys who lost his head in 
 the cause of Queen Anne Boleyn. He married Margery younger 
 dau. and co-heir of Lord Williams of Thame, (see 1542,) by 
 which he greatly increased his estate, and became one of the 
 most powerful men of the county. He was Knighted at Rycot 
 by the Queen 1566, H. S. Oxon 1561, M.P. 1571, and on his wife 
 conveying to him the manor of Rycote he was summoned to 
 Parliament as Baron Norreys of Rycote 8 May 1572. He was 
 several times sent Ambassador to France, and on 18 Oct. 1564 
 wrote to Sir Wm. Cecill, requesting that he would allow him a 
 reasonable time for despatch of his own affairs. On 8 March 
 1569 Lord Cobham informed Cecill, that the servants of the 
 French Ambassador and of Sir Henry Norreys were gone to 
 Dover on their way to Boulogne. On 22 Oct. 1570 Francis 
 Walsingham (see Banbury 1562,) wrote to Cecill, hoping that the 
 Queen had made choice of some other than himself to succeed 
 
46 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Sir Henry Norris in France. On 9 Feb. 1576, Request of Lord 
 Norreys to the Court of Parliament, to be restored in blood and 
 honours. This was on account of his father's execution and 
 attainder for high treason in the reign of Hen. 8, and was 
 doubtless granted. He died 27 June 1601, and was succeeded as 
 2nd Lord Norreys by his grandson Francis, who was created 
 Viscount Thame and Karl of Berkshire 28 Jan. 162 1, but 
 committed suicide 29 Jan. 1623, when the Earldom became 
 extinct. 
 
 1572. April 15. Sir Francis Knolles. 
 
 Henry Knolles. 
 
 Father and son, Henry Knollys of Kingsbury, co. Warwick, 
 eldest son of Sir Francis K. (see 1562,) was educ. at Magdalen 
 College School, Oxford, and became an Esquire of the Body to 
 Queen Elizabeth. He m. before 11 April 1568 Margaret dau. of 
 Sir Ambrose Cave, and was M.P. Shoreham 1562-7, and Oxon 
 1572-82. He was Constable of Wallingford Castle, and Steward of 
 the Honour of Ewelme and Keeper of its Park, in succession to 
 his father, 4 April 1578, until his death v.p. Dec. 1582, His Will 
 was made 21 Dec. 1582, and proved 14 May 1583. 
 
 1584. Nov. 10. Sir Francis Knollys. 
 William Knollys. 
 
 Father and son again, a most unusual circumstance, and 
 one which shows the great influence of the family in the County. 
 William Knollys was the 2nd but eldest surviying son and heir 
 of the M.P. 1562, and was born 1547, and probably a commoner 
 of Magd. Coll. Oxford in and before 1564. He entered the 
 Middle Temple in 1565, and four year later was a Captain in the 
 army in the North, He was M.P. Stafford 1571, Tregony 1572-83, 
 and for Oxon 1584-5, Jan. to April 1593, Sept. 1597 to Feb. 1598, 
 and Sept. to Dec. 1601, and succeeded his brother Henry (see 
 1572) as Keeper of the manor of Ewelme and Constable of Wall- 
 ingford Castle 20 June 1584, which posts he still enjoyed in 1609. 
 Knollys became a Captain of Horse in the Low Countries in 1585, 
 and was Knighted by the Earl of Leicester 7 Oct. 1586. He was 
 made Colonel of the Oxford and Gloucester regiments of Foot 
 1588, was a Dep. Lieut, of Oxon in 1591, created M.A. Oxford 27 
 Sept. 1592, and was sworn a Privy Councillor 30 Aug. 1596 on 
 being app. Comptroller of the Queen's Household, which position 
 at Court he held until 1602. He was made Joint Lieut, of Berks 
 and Oxon 4 Nov. 1596, sole Lieut. July 1601, Lord Lieut. 22 
 March 1613, Joint Commr. to treat with the Dutch Ambassadors 
 Aug. 1598, Constable of Wallingford Castle and High Steward 
 and Master of the Game in the honour of Wallingford (in 
 reversion) 8 Feb. 1601, Treasurer of the Household 22 Dec. 1602 
 to Dec. 1616, again sworn a Privy Councillor 10 May 1613, and 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 47 
 
 created Baron Knollys three days later. His Lordship was fur- 
 thermore created Viscount Wallingford 7 Nov. 1616, and Earl of 
 Banbury 18 Aug. 1626. He was also Cofferer of the Household 
 to Henry Prince of Wales in 1606, a Commr. of the Treasury 24 
 Jan. to n July 1614, Master of the Court of Wards and Liyeries 
 10 Oct. 1614 to Dec. 1618, Joint High Steward of Reading 1614, 
 was High Steward of Oxford in 1620, made K.G. 24 April 1615, 
 Joint Keeper of Alishott Forest and Chace 2 July 1625, 
 Joint Lord Lieut, of Berks 7 March 1628. and J. P. Oxon and 
 Berks. The Karl m. (1) after 1573 Dorothy (who died 31 Oct. 
 1605) widow of Edmund Lord Chandos, (see Williams' Glouces- 
 tershire Members,) and dau. of Edmund 1st Lord Braye, and (2) 
 23 Dec. 1605 Lady Elizabeth Howard dau. of Thomas Earl of 
 Suffolk. He died 25 May 1632, aged 85, leaving two sons Edward 
 and Nicholas. (See Banbury 1733.) 
 
 1586. Oct. 11. Sir Francis Knowles. 
 
 Richard Fynes. 
 
 Richard Fiennes of Broughton Castle, son of Sir Richard 
 F. of that place, (see 1547,) matric. (entry under date) 1568 Hart 
 Hall, Oxford, aged 13, and ent. Lincolns Inn (as 
 Richard Fynes of Hants) 1 Dec. 1573. He was Knighted 
 in 1592, M.P. Banbury 1584-5, Oxon 1586-7, Whitchurch 
 1588-9, (and quaere 1597-8,) H. S. Oxon 1582, and Berks 1593, 
 J. P. Oxon, D. L. Oct. 1596, and was confirmed Lord Saye and 
 Sele 9 Aug. 1603. His Lordship m. (1) before Sept. 1582 
 Constance dau. of Sir Wm. Kingsmill of Sydmanton, Hants, and 
 (2) Elizabeth dau. and heir of Henry Codenham, Auditor ol the 
 Mint, and widow of Wm. Pawlett of Winchester. He was 
 Lord Attendant on the Ambassador to Brussels 19 April to 20 
 May 1605, made Dept Lieut, of Oxon in 1608, and died in April 
 1613. In 1595 the Queen leased Banbury Castle to his three 
 children, then minors. " He was a worthy gent, and bred 
 fellow, (being the founder's kinsman,) of New College, Oxford." 
 {Wood). On 11 Oct. 1603 he was Keeper of Banbury 
 Castle, when the King app. him to preserve the game of venery 
 and falconry, and to punish all offenders who transgressed the 
 laws by shooting, taking of partridges, etc., in Banbury and 
 Bloxham. 28 Feb. 1608, Letters to the Warden and Fellows of 
 Oxford for Lord Say to have a grant, in reversion, of the farm of 
 Woodmancot, Hants. On 24 Nov. 1609 his Lordship wrote from 
 Broughton to Lord Salisbury respecting " the wilful destruction 
 and robbery of the trees in Needwood Forest, near Tutbury. 
 The Prince wishes to have a breed of horses at Tutbury." 
 William 2nd. Lord Saye and Sele was app. Master of the Court 
 of Wards 1641, and Lord Lieut, of Oxon for the Parliament 
 1642. 
 
48 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 1588. Oct. Sir Francis Knowles. 
 
 Hon Sir John Norris. 
 
 The Hon. Sir John Norris, 2nd son of Henry 1st Lord 
 Norreys (see 1571,) was born about 1547, or in 1559, matric. Hart 
 Hall Oxford (entry under date) 17 Dec. 1576, aged 17, and perhaps 
 Lord President of Munster July 1584, created M.A. 11 April 1588. 
 He was Knighted by the Earl of Leicester in Holland 26 April 
 1586, and was M.P. co. Cork in the Irish Parliament April 1585 
 to May 1586, and Oxon Oct. 1588 to March 1589. He is said to 
 have died in Ireland unmarried in 1597. He was one of the most 
 distinguished generals of the age, and fought hard against the 
 French and Spanish in the Low Countries, being Commander in 
 chief of the English forces in the Low Countries 12 Aug. 1585, 
 until superseded by the Earl of Leicester Dec. 1585. He 
 fought at Zutphen 22 Sept. 1586, and was Marshal of the camp 
 at Tilbury under Leicester in the year of the Armada 1588. He was 
 sent to Ireland as Lord General in 1596, and being disappointed 
 in his expectation of succeeding Lord Deputy Russell, retired to 
 his government of Munster. He is said to have died broken- 
 hearted, on 3 July 1597. 
 
 I 593« J an - Sir Francis Knowles. 
 
 Sir William Knowles. 
 1597. Sept. 27. Sir William Knollys. 
 
 Sir Richard Wayneman. 
 
 Sir Richard Wenman of Thame Park, was the eldest son 
 of Sir Thomas Wenman, (see 1554,) and was born 1573, matric. 
 Oxford Univ. (entry dated) 8 Dec. 1587, aged 14, (" Mr. Case's 
 scholar,") and was Knighted for his bravery as a Volunteer at 
 Cadiz in 1596. He m. Agnes (who was buried 4 July 1617,) 
 eldest dau. of Sir George Fermor of Easton Neston, Northants. 
 He was M.P. Oxon 1597-8, 1620-2, and 1625, H.S. (as of Wilcot) 
 1 601 and 1627, was created Viscount Wenman in the Peerage of 
 Ireland 30 July 1628, and died 3 April 1640, aged 67. He was 
 an overseer of the will of Lord Norreys, (see 157 1,) and was 
 examined in connection with the Gunpowder Plot, on 3 Dec. 
 1605, when he stated his dislike to his wife's intercourse with 
 Mrs Vaux, because the latter tried to pervert her. His brother 
 Thomas left an only dau. Mary who m. Francis Wenman of 
 Caswell, and had a son, the M.P. 1664. 
 
 1 601. Sept. 22. Sir William Knolles. 
 Ralph Warcuppe. 
 
 Ralph Warcuppe of English, near Henley, eldest son of 
 Cuthbert Warcup, was of kin to Sir Edmund Warcup the his- 
 torian of Italy. Several of the family sat in Parliament for 
 Westmoreland. Ralph was app. Dep. Lieut. Oxon Oct. 1596, 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 49 
 
 M.P. Sept. to Dec. 1601, m. Katherine dau. of Alderman Masey 
 of London, but died s.p. On 13 Jan. 1584 Job Throckmorton 
 wrote from Haseley to Ralph Warcuppe, stating that he 
 had " apprehended William Skinner and searched his house, and 
 examined witnesses, who were in great fear of the threats of the 
 Papists." Chamberlain wrote to Carleton at Paris 8 July 1601, — 
 " Mr. Warcup is thought of as Ambassador lieger for France," 
 and Carleton replied Oct. 24 — " We are still in doubt whether to 
 expect Warcup or Parkins as ambassador from you." Cuthbert 
 Warcup was an intended Knight of the Royal Oak for Oxford- 
 shire 1660. 
 
 1604. March 7. Laurence Tanfeild. 
 John Doyleye. 
 
 The former was the son of Francis Tanfield of Gayton, 
 Northants, and having been called to the bar at the Inner 
 Temple in due course, became Reader thereof Lent 1595, Serjeant 
 at law Easter 1603, M.P. Woodstock 1584-5, 1586-7, 1588-9, 1593, 
 x 597> 1601, and Oxon 1604 until made a Justice of the King's 
 Bench 13 Jan. 1606. He was Knighted 14 March 1604, promoted 
 to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 25 June 1607, and pre- 
 sided in that Court until his death. He m. Elizabeth Evans of 
 Loddington, Northants, and resided at Burford Priory, Oxon, 
 which estate, with the manor of Great Tew he had purchased. 
 The Judge died 30 April 1625. (M.I. Burford). Tanfield Court 
 in the Temple was called after him. His only dau. and heiress 
 Elizabeth m. Henry 1st Viscount Falkland, Lord Lieut, of 
 Ireland, grandfather of the M.P. 1659. 
 
 John Doyley of Chislehampton, 2nd son of Sir Robert D. 
 of that place, matric. Univ. Coll. Oxford 1 Dec. 1592, aged 14, 
 ent. Lincolns Inn 12 Feb. 1596, and migrated to Grays Inn 9 
 March 1606. He was heir to his elder brother Sir Robert and m. 
 Ursula sister of Sir Anthony Cope Bart, (see 1606,) was M.P. 
 Oxon 1604-11, and made Dep. Lieut. Oct. 1596. 
 
 1606 (about Feb.) Sir Anthony Cope Knt. and Bart, vice 
 Tanfield made a Judge. 
 
 Sir Anthony Cope of Hanwell Castle, Hardwick, and 
 Grimsbury, one of the foremost men of the county, was the elder 
 son of Edward Cope, and grandson of Sir Anthony Cope who 
 was H.S. 1548, and Vice Chamberlain to Queen Catherine Parr. 
 He was of Oxford Univ. 1551, and m. (1) Frances dau. of Sir 
 Rowland Lytton of Kneb worth, Herts, and (2) Anne dau. of Sir 
 William Paston of Norfolk. In 1584 he obtained a lease of two 
 water-mills in Banbury from the Crown, and received a grant of 
 the manor of Grimsbury. He had great influence at Banbury, of 
 which he was Member 1571, 1572-83, 1586-7, 1588-9, i593> !597"8, 
 and 1601, and he sat for the County 1606-11, and March to June 
 16 14, being H.S. 1581, 1590, and 1603, and made a Dep. Lieut. 
 
50 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Oct. 1596. Cope was a leader of the early Puritans and was com- 
 mitted to the Tower on 27 Feb. 1587 for bringing forward a 
 motion in the House of Commons, " That all laws then in force 
 touching ecclesiastical government should be void." He 
 remained a prisoner until Parliament was dissolved on 23 March 
 following. This however did not prevent him being Knighted 
 by the Queen 1591. Sir Anthony had the honour of entertaining 
 James I at Han well on 20 Aug. 1606, for a day and night, and 
 again on 27 Aug. 1612. He was made a J. P. for Banbury by the 
 Charter 28 June 1608, created a Baronet 29 June 1611, and was 
 buried in Hanwell Church in July 1614. On 12 Nov. 1588 he 
 wrote from Hanwell to Lord Burghley, "desiring to have the 
 wardship of the son of Mr. Ric. Hunston, who lies very danger- 
 ously sick at London, he being indebted to him." On 22 May 
 1589 John Danvers of Cothropp, Sheriff of Oxon, wrote to the 
 Lord Chancellor as follows, — " Has been obliged to acquaint the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury with the bad proceedings of Ant. Cope 
 and others of the town of Banbury who under the plea of religion 
 were practising to abolish most pastimes used in the country, as 
 May -poles, Morris dances, Whitsun-ales, and others to the great 
 discontentment of Her Majesty's loving subjects. Desires that 
 the matter may be considered by the Council." On 24 May the 
 Council wrote to Lord Norris (see 1571,) that " They have been 
 informed that there has been some disorder in the town of Ban- 
 bury about the setting up of a May -pole, and like pastimes of 
 recreation. They see no objection to such pastimes, so that they 
 were not made an excuse for unlawful meetings." 
 
 1614. March. Sir Anthony Cope Knt. and Bart. 
 
 Sir John Crooke Knt. 
 
 Sir John Croke of Chilton, Bucks, was the elder son of 
 Sir John Croke, Justice of the King's Bench 1608-20, by Cather- 
 ine dau. of Sir Michael Blount of Mapledurham, Lieut, of the 
 Tower, (see 1562,) and matric. Univ. Coll. Oxford 18 July 1600, 
 aged 14, and entered the Inner Temple in 1601. He was 
 Knighted 18 April 1609, m. (1) about 1616 Eleanor (who was only 
 aged 14 at her marriage, and died in two years after it aged 15 
 years and 7 months, before 1618,) youngest dau. and co-heir of 
 Jervas Gibon of Kent, and (2) Rachel dau. and heir of Sir Wm. 
 Webb Knt. of Motcomb, Dorset. He was M.P. Oxfordshire 
 March to June 1614, and Shaftesbury 1628-9, and died at Chilton 
 10 April 1640, aged 53. (M.I. Chilton). 
 
 1620. Dec. 20. Sir Richard Wenman Knt. 
 
 Hon. Sir William Pope Knt. 
 
 It is presumed that the former was the same as the M.P. 
 1597. His colleague was probably the elder son of William 1st 
 Karl of Downe, who built a large mansion house near the site 
 
^Embers for Oxfordshire. 51 
 
 and ruins of Witney Priory, and his family resided there a con- 
 siderable time. James I paid a visit to Wroxton on one occasion. 
 Sir William was baptized 17 Oct. 1596, subscribed Oxford Univ. 
 
 I July 1614, was Knighted 28 Aug. 1616, and m. Elizabeth only 
 child of Sir Thomas Watson of Halstead, Kent. He sat for Oxon 
 1620-2, and died v.p. 29 Aug. 1624, being buried at Wroxton. 
 V March 161 1, Particulars of Sir Wm. Pope's lands in Whichwood 
 Forest." (Cat. State Papers.) 
 
 1624. Jan. 14. Sir William Cope Knt. and Bart. « 
 
 Sir Henry Poole Knt. 
 
 Sir William Cope of Han well Castle was the son of the 
 M.P. 1606, whom he succeeded as 2nd Bart, in July 1614. He 
 matric. Queen's Coll. Oxford 22 Feb. 1594, aged 17, and married 
 at Han well in 1602 Elizabeth dau. of (his father's second wife 
 Anne dau. of Sir William Paston, by her first husband) Sir 
 George Ohaworth of Wiverton, Notts, whose sole heiress she was, 
 by which he acquired the manor of Marnham, Notts, and other 
 considerable property. He was Knighted at the Charterhouse 
 
 II May 1603, M.P. Banbury 1604-11, 1614, 1620-2, and 1625 until 
 void, and Oxon 1624-5, and was H.S. 1619. He died 2 Aug. 1637. 
 Grant 26 July 1614, to Sir Wm. Cope on tenure of knight's 
 service, of purchase of certain lands, cos. Oxford and Gloucester, 
 late of the monastery of Brewerne, for the sum of ^1347 6s 8d. 
 Grant to Sir Wm. Cope of the Office of keeping the armoury for 
 life 1 March 161 5. " Win wood has bargained with Sir Phil. 
 Stanhope to pay ^10000 to be made a Baron, Sir Wm. Cope 
 having dallied too long about it." (Chamberlain to Carleton, 
 12 Oct. 1616. 
 
 Sir Henry Poole of Okesey, Wilts, was the son of Edward 
 P. of that place, and matric. Trin. Coll. Oxford (entry under 
 date) 29 Jan. 1580, aged 16. He was Knighted 10 June 1603, 
 M.P. Cricklade 1604-11, Wilts i6i4and 1626, Malmesbury 1620-2, 
 and Oxon 1624-5, and died 3 Oct. 1632. On 17 Nov. 1625 Sec. 
 Conway wrote to Lord Keeper Conway, — I received your letters 
 and the three names submitted for Oxfordshire, viz. Sir Richard 
 Blunt, Sir Gyles Bray, and Sir Henry Poole, of whom His 
 Majesty has pricked Blunt. 
 
 1625. May. Edward Wraye. 
 
 Sir Richard Wenman, 
 
 Edward Wraye of Rycote, was the third son of Sir Wm. 
 Wray Knt. and Bart, of Glentworth, co. Lincoln, and was 
 baptized at Louth in that county 9 Nov. 1589. Early in life he 
 formed the acquaintance of the celebrated George Villiers, after- 
 wards Duke of Buckingham, who became his fast friend, and 
 with whom he was a great favourite. When Villiers acquired his 
 ascendancy over James I, he procured for Wray the appointment 
 of a Groom of the Bedchamber to the King, in 1617, and the latter 
 
52 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 was also in a fair way of becoming a great courtier, until his 
 romantic marriage in March 1622, brought about his downfall at 
 Court, and his dismissal from his office in attendance on the 
 King. Wray had been deeply attached for some time to his 
 future wife, and matters had prog.essed so favourably, that on 13 
 Jan. 1621 Chamberlain wrote to his friend Carleton, — " Lord 
 Norris is to be Earl of Thame, on marrying and assuring his 
 land to Bdw. Wray of the Bedchamber." Norris was made Earl 
 of Berkshire but committed suicide two years afterwards leaving his 
 only daughter one of the richest heiresses at Court. A formidable 
 rival in the person of the Duke's brother Christopher Villiers, 
 had appeared as a suitor for the lady's hand, and the Favourite 
 using his influence over the King to back his brother's suit,there 
 is little doubt but that the heiress would have been forced into 
 the marriage, had not the lovers made a run-away match, in 
 defiance of the King's displeasure. " Mr Wray is put out of the 
 Bedchamber for marrying the Earl of Berkshire's daughter, who 
 was intended for Kit Villiers ; the lady was very cunning and 
 resolute, more in order to be rid of the one than from love of the 
 other," —wrote Chamberlain to Carleton on 30 March 1622, while 
 another correspondent, Thomas Locke, in a letter of the same 
 date gives Carleton a few more particulars of this little romance, 
 which furnished a good deal of gossip at the time :— "The Earl 
 of Berkshire's daughter, who was kept at the Earl of Mont- 
 gomery's, got out of the house early, walked three miles on foot, 
 and was then met and taken to Aldermary Church, where she 
 married Mr Wray, of the Bedchamber ; they thence went to the 
 Earl of Oxford's house in Fleet Street, he being in the plot. Lord 
 Montgomery sent to fetch her away, but Oxford would not give 
 her up. His commission is taken from him, and Wray is put out 
 of the Bedchamber." Lord Oxford was on unfriendly terms with 
 Buckingham, and seems to have borne the brunt of his displeasure. 
 Wray was imprisoned for several months, for on 15 Feb. 1623 
 John Woodford wrote Sir Francis Nethersole that " Wray is set 
 at liberty." He was M.P. for Oxon May to Aug. 1625, and Secre- 
 tary Conway wrote him on 30 Dec. 1625 stating that as there were 
 already more Knights than were necessary, the King was resolved 
 not to make any at his Coronation. A man of great charity and 
 piety, Wray lived thenceforth in retirement at Fritwell, Oxon, 
 until his death 21 March 1658, and was buried at Witham 29 
 March. By his wife Lady Elizabeth Norreys, only dau. and heir 
 of Francis 1st Earl of Berkshire (see 1571,) he left an only dau. 
 and heir Bridget who m. (2) Montagu 2nd Earl of Lindsey, and 
 their son James was created Earl of Abingdon 30 Nov. 1682, and 
 was father of the M.P. 1690. 
 
 1626. Jan. Hon. James Fynes. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wenman Knt. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 53 
 
 The Hon. James Fiennes, Fenys, or Fynes, as his names 
 was variously spelt in those days, was the eldest son of William 
 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, and grandson of the M.P. 1586. 
 Born about 1603, he matric. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and 
 m. before Nov. 1638 Hon. Frances Cecil 4th dau. and co.-heir of 
 Kdward Viscount Wimbledon. He sat for Banbury 19 July to 12 
 Aug. 1625, and for Oxon Jan. to June 1626, 1628 to March 1629, 
 March to May 1640, Oct. 1640 till secluded Dec. 1648, and April 
 to Dec. 1660, presented to Weston under Edge, co. Gloucester, 
 1652, and succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Sa}-e and Sele 14 
 April 1662. His L,ordship was seated at Broughton Castle, and 
 was Lord I^ieut. of Oxon 22 Feb. 1668 until his death s.p. 15 
 March 1674. He and his father sued out a Pardon in 1660. Wood 
 said that " he had always been reputed an honest cavalier and a 
 quiet man." On 13 Feb. 1660 the Declaration of the Gentlemen 
 etc. of Oxon in favour of a free Parliament, and for the peace and 
 settlement of the nation was presented to General Monk by 
 Iyord Falkland (see 1659,) Sir A. Cope (see 1661,) James Fiennes 
 and others. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wenman of Thame Park, eldest son of the 
 M.P. 1597, was born 1596, matric. Balliol Coll. Oxford (entry 
 dated) 23 Nov. 1604 " aged 8," (subscribed as Waynman,) and 
 entered the Inner Temple 1614. He was Knighted 10 Sept. 
 1617, m. Margaret dau. and heir of Edmund Hampden of Hart- 
 well, Bucks, and succeeded his father (see 1597) as 2nd Viscount 
 Wenman of Ireland 3 April 1640. He was M.P. Brackley 1620-2, 
 1624-5, 1625, 1628-9, an d March to May 1640, and Oxon Jan. to 
 June 1626, Oct. 1640 until secluded and imprisoned Dec. 1648, 
 and again April to Dec. 1660. His Lordship died 25 Jan. 1664. 
 He was one of the Adventurers in Ireland when that kingdom 
 was reduced by the English Parliament. He was a Commr. to 
 carry the Propositions for peace to the King at Oxford 1644, and 
 for the Treaty at Uxbridge 1644, and at Newport 1648, and was 
 app. by the Rump as Assessment Commr. for Oxon 2 March, 
 1660. 
 
 1628. March 5. Hon. James Fynes. 
 
 Sir Francis Wenman Knt. 
 
 Sir Francis Wenman of Caswell, son and heir of Francis 
 W. (who d. in Ireland,) and nephew of the M.P. 1554, 
 was Knighted 8 June 1618, and m. Anne third dau. of Sir 
 Samuel Sandys of Ombersley, (see Williams' Worcestershire 
 Members). He sat for Oxon 1628 to March 1629, and March to 
 May 1640, and was cousin to the first Viscount Wenman (see 
 1597). 
 
 1640. March 18. The same. 
 
 1640. Oct. 28. Thomas Viscount Wenman. 
 Hon. James Fiennes. 
 
54 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 This was the celebrated Long Parliament which lasted 
 until it was expelled by Cromwell and his soldiers on 20 April 
 1653. Both of the Oxfordshire Members were however secluded 
 from the House by Col. Pride's famous " Purge " in Dec. 1648. 
 
 l6 53- June. Sir Charles Worsley Knt. 
 
 William Draper. 
 
 Dr. Jonathan Goddard. 
 
 An Assembly, nominated by Oliver Cromwell and a 
 Council of Officers, was summoned to meet at Westminster on 4 
 July 1653, by fetters under the hand of the Lord General 
 Cromwell. This Assembly declared itself a Parliament on 6 
 July, and resigned its powers to the Lord General on 12 Dec. 
 1653. ( Commons Journals.) It was called the "Little Parliament," 
 or " Barebones' Parliament," from the name of its Speaker. 
 Three Members were appointed, (not elected,} for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Sir Charles Wolseley of Wolseley, co. Stafford, was the 
 eldest son of Sir Robert Wolseley, Clerk of the King's Letters 
 Patent, whom he succ. as 2nd Bart. 21 Sept. 1646, and was born 
 in or about 1630, being aged 16 in Oct. 1647, and m. 12 May 1648 
 the Hon. Anne Fiennes, sister of the M.P. 1626, and youngest 
 dau. of William 1st Viscount Saye and Sele. He was an active 
 military and civil supporter of Parliament, and being high- in 
 favour with Cromwell, was made Major General of the counties 
 of Chester, Lancaster, and Stafford, on the division of 
 England into thirteen military districts Dec. 1654. He was 
 M.P. Oxon July to Dec. 1653, and Staffordshire 1654-5, 
 and 1656 until made one of Cromwell's Honse of Lords as Lord 
 Wolseley 10 Dec. 1657, and was added to the Sixth Council of 
 State by Parliament April 1653, and also took the oath as a mem- 
 ber of the Seventh Council of State on 1 Nov. 1653, which lasted 
 till 10 Dec. 1653. On 30 June 1653 the Council ordered the Com- 
 mittee of Whitehall to provide lodgings there for Sir Charles 
 *Wolsely and Mr Draper, but this arrangement fell through, for 
 on 18 July the Committee were again ordered to provide lodgings 
 for Sir Charles. He was placed on numerous Committees, and 
 took a leading part in Council matters. He 1 was elected one of 
 the Lord Protector's Council 16 Dec. 1653, and served as such 
 until April 1658, and was also a member of his Privy Couucil (as 
 it was then or previously called) from May until Sept. 1658, when 
 Oliver Cromwell died. He was app. one of the Committee of 
 Trade 12 July 1655, a Militia Commr. for co. Stafford 14 March 
 1655, and was one of the Privy Council to Richard Cromwell 
 1658 to April 1698. On 15 June 1660 the Attorney General wrote 
 to Secretary Nicholas, " that the Earl of Bedford and Sir Charles 
 Wolsher {sic) also desired Pardons." Wolseley made his peace 
 with the King at the Restoration, and was M.P. for Stafford 
 March to Dec. 1660. He died 2 or 9 Oct. 17 14, aged 84. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 55 
 
 From his fifth son Richard descended Garnet, Viscount 
 Wolseley, the present Commander in Chief. 
 
 William Draper of Nether Warton, may have been the 
 " William Draper (eldest son of Robert Draper,) who matric. Ch. 
 Ch. Oxford 20 May 1636, aged 16." He was an active supporter 
 of Parliament during the Commonwealth, and was a Sequestra- 
 tion Commissioner for Oxfordshire in March 1649 when he wrote 
 to the Council of State concerning the " delinquents " at Oxford, 
 (the Council replying 29 March, " Thanks for your letter mani- 
 festing care to preserve the peace of the Commonwealth,") and 
 in Dec. 1649 when there is a reference to a conspiracy against 
 him. Capt. Wm. Draper was app. by the Conncil to be Captain 
 of the Horse Militia in Oxfordshire 2 April 1650, and as Governor 
 of Oxford there are several references to his activity as such in 
 the proceedings of the Council of State on 9 May 1651 and subse- 
 quent dates. He was made Captain of the Horse Volunteers of 
 Oxford City and University 16 Aug. 1651, and on 17 Sept. follow- 
 ing the Council wrote to Captain Draper, as follows: — " We 
 ordered you to march with your company to Windsor Castle ; 
 but since we have thought it necessary that your company should 
 be appointed to the guard of Wallingford Castle. Therefore 
 march to that Castle and remain there until you receive further 
 order." On 30 June 1653 the Council of State, in their anxiety 
 to house the Members of Barebones' Parliament, ordered " the 
 Committee of Whitehall to provide lodgings there for Sir Charles 
 Wolsely, and Mr Draper." On 5 Aug. following the same Com- 
 mittee was instructed " to assign to Mr. Draper a stable in the 
 Mews," and furthermore on 22 Aug., " to put Mr Draper in pos- 
 session of the lodgings in the Mews late Mr. Berry's, and the 
 stable and coach-house late Mr Simpson's, unless Berry shew 
 cause to the contrary." He was High Sheriff of Oxfotdshire in 
 Jan. 1658. 
 
 Dr. Jonathan Goddard was the son of Henry Goddard, a 
 wealthy ship carpenter, of Deptford, Kent, and was born at 
 Greenwich, in or about 16 17, and matric. Madg. Hall Oxford 11 
 May 1632, aged 15. He took the degrees of B.Med, from St. 
 Catherine's Hall, Cambridge 1638, (aged 21,) and Doctor of 
 Medicine 20 Jan. 1643, was incorporated at Oxford 14 Jan. 1652, 
 and was adm. a candidate of the College of Physicians 22 Dec. 
 1643, of which he was elected a Fellow 4 Nov. 1646, read the 
 Gulstonian Lectures in 1648, was Censor in 1660, 1661, 1664,1665, 
 1666, 1668, 1670, 1672, and was named Elect 7 March 1672. Having 
 practised physic in London for some time, Dr. Goddard became 
 First Physician to the army and to Oliver Cromwell, whom he 
 accompanied as his great confidant to Ireland in 1649, and to 
 Scotland in 1650. He was app. Warden of Merton Coll. Oxon by 
 the Parliamentary Visitors 9 Dec. 165 1, but was removed by the 
 King's letter 3 July 1660. Cromwell as Chancellor of Oxford 
 
56 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Univ. app. Goddard and four others to act as his delegates in all 
 matters relating to grants or dispensations that required his 
 assent, 16 Oct. 1652, during his absence in Scotland, He was 
 M.P. Oxon July to Dec. 1653, added to the Hospitals Committee 17 
 May, and placed on several other Committees, took the oath as a 
 member of the Seventh Council of State 1 Nov. to 10 Dec. 1653, 
 and was placed 8 Nov. on the Committees for Eunaticks, and for 
 the Mint. He was made Professor of Physic at Gresham College 
 7 Nov. 1655, and was " an admirable chymist." ( Wood). 
 Goddard became a member of the First Council of the Royal 
 Society on its establishment in 1663, and is said to have construc- 
 ted the first telescope in this country. He died of an apoplexy 
 24 March 1675, seemingly unmarried. 
 
 1654. Aug. Robert Jenkinson. 
 Charles Fleetwood. 
 Col. James Whitlock. 
 Hon. Nathaniel Fienns. 
 William Eenthall, 
 
 (5 Members). Robert Jenkinson of Walcot, co. Oxon, and 
 Hawkesbury, co. Gloucester, eldest son and heir of Sir Robert 
 Jenkinson Knt. (High Sheriff 1643, who d. 1645,) by Anna Maria 
 only dau. of Sir Robert Eee of Billeslee, co. Warwick, 2nd son of 
 Sir Robert Eee, Lord Mayor of Eondon. He was also 
 descended from the celebrated Anthony Jenkinson who was 
 Ambassador to Sultan Solyman the Grand Turk at Constanti- 
 nople, to the Shah of Persia, Shah Tahmasp 1561, and to Abdullah 
 Khan, King of Hircania 1563, and was the first Englishman to 
 reach Bokhara and Khiva, where he opened up a trade route to 
 Central Asia 1558-9, and was employed by Queen Elizabeth as 
 Ambassador to Ivan the Terrible, Czar of Russia, in 1567, i57i,and 
 April 1572, and opened up a trade route by the White Sea and 
 Archangel. He was born in 1622, aged 12 at the Visitation of Oxon 
 in 1634, and matric. Trin. Coll. Oxford 16 Dec. 1636, " aged 16," 
 was adm. to the Inner Temple " at the request of Master Unton 
 Croke" Nov. 1638, called to the bar 1649, and married Mary 2nd 
 dau. of Sir John Bankes Knt. of Kingston Eacyand Corfe Castle, 
 Dorset, Eord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1640-4, by Mary 
 his wife only daughter of Ralph Hewtrey of Ruislip, Middlesex, 
 the heroine of Corfe Castle. On 26 Jan. 1654 owing to his 
 vigorous remonstrance, the committee for compounding allowed 
 his title to houses in Fleet Street, Eondon, (entailed on him by 
 his father in 1642,) and forthwith discharged the sequestration 
 thereon. He was H.S. Oxfordshire 1649, M.P. Aug. 1654 to Jan. 
 1655, Aug. 1656 to Feb. 1658, and Jan. to April 1659. He was 
 created a Baronet 18 May 1661, and died 30 March 1677, being 
 buried in the chancel of Charlbury Church, Oxon, (in which 
 parish Walcot is situated,) on 10 April. (M.I. on chancel wall 
 
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 and ledger stone on floor). He was the friend of the celebrated 
 philosopher the Hon. Robert Boyle, and of Sir Matthew Hale. 
 His widow died 13 June 1691, and was buried at Charlbury. 
 On 12 June 1654, John Cary, Commissioner for co. Oxon, 
 wrote to the Commissioners for Sequestions, as follows : — " I 
 recommend Thos. Appletree of Deddington, late Commr. for 
 Sequestrations, Rob. Jenkinson, of Walcot, Aid. Nixon, Mat. 
 
 Langley, or Berry of Oxford, all J.P.s., to assist me in 
 
 examining witnesses, for though I should be faithful were the 
 treasure of the nation committed to my trust, that cannot be 
 known to you." — With note in reply 16 June, of a commission to 
 Appletree or Nixon. On 29 March 1658 the Lord Protector's 
 Council referred "the differences w hich have arisen touching 
 the usages in Which wood forest and the deer therein, in relation 
 to Whitney Chase, to Miles Fleetwood (see 1656), Rob. Jenkin- 
 son and John Carey, to enquire what the ancient and latter 
 customs have been, and what is expedient for preservation of the 
 deer, to reconcile the differences if they can, and if not, certify 
 their opinion." (Cat. State Papers). 
 
 The celebrated Lieut. Gen. Charles Fleetwood, was the 
 third son of Sir Miles Fleetwood Knt. of Aldwinkle, Northants, 
 who died 1641, (see Woodstock 1628,) but, unlike the rest of his 
 family, who were staunch royalists, he was one of the leading 
 supporters of Parliament and the Commonwealth. He ent. 
 Grays Inn 30 Nov. 1638, and at the outbreak of the Great Civil 
 War in 1642 entered the Life Guards of the Earl of Essex, and as 
 Captain was wounded at the first battle of Newbury 20 Sept. 
 1643. In 1644 he was Colonel of a regiment in the Earl of Man- 
 chester's army, and fought at Naseby. He was made Governor 
 of the Isle of Wight (with Col. Sydenham,) 14 Aug. 1649, and as 
 Lieut. Gen. of Horse helped Cromwell to win the Battle of Dun- 
 bar 3 Sept. 1650. The next year he was recalled from Scotland 
 and app. to command the forces retained in England, with which 
 he defeated Charles II. at Worcester 3 Sept. 165 1, and received 
 the thanks of the House of Commons. Fleetwood was married 
 three times, his first wife being Frances dau. of Thomas Smith of 
 Winston, Norfolk. She was buried 24 Nov. 165 1, and by his 
 subsequent marriage in 1652 with Bridget, widow of the famous 
 Lt. Gen. Henry Ireton, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and eldest dau. 
 of Oliver Cromwell, he greatly increased his influence. He was 
 M.P. Marlborough May 1646-53, Marlborough and Oxon 1654, 
 when he preferred the latter till Jan. 1655, Norfolk, Oxon, and 
 Marlborough 1656, when he preferred Oxon till made one of 
 Cromwell's House of Lords as Lord Fleetwood 10 Dec. 1657. 
 He was app. by Parliament to succeed his uncle Sir William 
 Fleetwood (see Woodstock 1640,) as Receiver of the Court of 
 Wards May 1644, was one of the third Council of State 13 Feb. to 
 Nov. 1651, and of the fourth Council 1 Dec. 1651-2, app. one of 
 
58 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Cromwell's Council Dec. 1654, was one of the five Commissioners 
 for the government of Ireland 24 Aug. 1652-4, Major General of 
 the counties of Oxon, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridge, Hun- 
 tingdon, and Bedford Dec. 1654, Commander-in-Chief in Ireland 
 10 July 1652 to Sept. 1655, and Lord Deputy of Ireland 27 Aug. 
 1654 (or earlier) to Nov. 1657. For some years previous 
 to 1660 John Lambert, John Desborough, Robert Blake, 
 and Charles Fleetwood were Commrs. to execute the offices of 
 Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. 
 He was chosen one of the Committee of Safety by the Army 7 
 May 1659, one of the Council of State by Parliament 13 May, one 
 of the Committee for Dunkirk Sept. 1659, and Commander in 
 Chief 9 June, but this last appointment was voided by Parliament 
 Oct. 11, though he was made one of the seven Commissioners for 
 managing the army. The army however again chose him Com- 
 mander in Chief on Oct. 28, but on the Rump again getting the 
 upper hand it once more deprived him of that post, and also of 
 his regiment 26 Dec. 1659. He was made Col. of the Bucks 
 Militia 1 Sept. 1659. In The Mystery of the Good Old Cause, 
 briefly unfolded, a Restoration tract, dated 1660, the following 
 character is given of Fleetwood : — " This pitiful Anabaptist 
 was Oliver's son in law, and upon that score, advanced 
 to be Lieut. Gen. of the Army ; for merit he never had 
 any. In the dividing of the murdered King's inheritance, 
 Woodstock and other rich possessions fell to his share. 
 About a year since he with some other officers ungratefully 
 dethroned Protector Richard, restored the Rump for a 
 while, and then unroofed them ; after which during the space of 
 near six weeks, he acted King at Wallingford House, (one of his 
 Palaces,) but the Rump coming to sit again, the tender-hearted 
 mock-prince melted into tears ; and his hypocritical vizard of 
 Religion being pulled off, he went off fhe stage ridiculously." 
 He was excepted out of the Act. of General Pardon and Oblivion 
 for penalties not extending to life 18 June 1660, but having 
 taken no part in the King's trial, was not otherwise punished, 
 though rendered incapable of ever holding any office of trust. 
 Fleetwood buried Bridget his second wife, on 1 July 1662, 
 and on 14 Jan. 1664 he married (3) Mary, dau. of Sir John Coke 
 of Melborne, Derbyshire, and widow of Sir Edward Hartopp Bart. 
 During the last years of his life he lived in retirement at Stoke 
 Newington, Middlesex, where he died 4 Oct. 1692, his Will 
 being made 10 Jan. 1690, and proved 2 Nov. 1692. (Diet. Nat. 
 Biog.) 
 
 Col. James Whitlock of Trumpington, co. Cambridge, was 
 the eldest son of Sir Bulstrode, Whitelocke, (see Oxford 1654,) 
 being the only son by his first wife,and was baptized 28 July 1631, 
 ent. the Middle Temple 1647, and was chosen a Fellow of All 
 Souls College, Oxon, by the Parliamentary Visitors 22 Jan. 1649. 
 
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 He was a Captain and afterwards a Colonel in the Army of the 
 Parliament, was " Knighted " by Oliver Cromwell 6 Jan. 1656, 
 and sat for Oxon 1654 to Jan. 1655, and for Aylesbury Jan. to 
 April 1659. He m. (1) Feb. 1656 (morriage settlement dated 12 
 March 1658) Mary dau. of George Pyke of Trumpington, and 
 widow of Thomas Pritchard, (2) Frances dau. of William Lord 
 Willoughby of Parham, and (3) "the widow Wilson, (nee 
 Carleton.") He died in Oct. 1701, aged 69. On 8 April 1653 the 
 Council of State ordered Col. Mordey to present to Parliament 
 the petition of Miles Fleetwood, (see 1656,) James Whitelock,and 
 two others, for a lease of the gold and silver mines in Ireland, as 
 being a business of public concern. , 
 
 Hon. Nathaniel Fiennes of Banbury, 2nd son ofWilliom 1st 
 Viscount Saye and Sele, and brother to the M.P. 1626, was born 
 at Broughton in 1608, educ. at Winchester, matric. New Coll. 
 Oxford 19 Nov. 1624, aged 16, and was elected a Fellow (as 
 founder's kin) 1624. He m. (1) Elizabeth eldest dau. of Sir John 
 Eliot, and (2) Frances dau. of Richard Whitehead of Tuderley, 
 Hants. He was M.P. Banbury March to May 1640, and Oct. 
 1640 until secluded by Col. Pride's Purge Dec. 1648, Oxfordshire 
 1654-5, and Oxford Univ. 1656 until made one of Cromwell's 
 House of Lords as L,ord Fiennes 10 Dec. 1657. He was also 
 chosen Speaker of that Assembly. Fiennes was a very active 
 supporter of Parliament in its rebellion against the King, and he 
 was elected one of the Committee of Safety 4 July 1642. Taking 
 up arms with the first, he commanded a troop of horse in the 
 Karl of Essex's army, fought at Edgehill 23 Oct. 1642, and was 
 Governor of Bristol from 1 May until 26 July 1643, when he snr- 
 rendered the city to Prince Rupert.. This act brought great 
 odium upon Fiennes at the time, and he was brought to trial at 
 St. Albans Dec. 14 to 23, and condemned to death 29 Dec. 
 1643. The sentence however was not carried into effect, and he 
 received pardon, but his military career was at an end. Resuming 
 his place in Parliament, he was added to the Committee of the 
 Army 23 Sept. 1647, and made one of the Committee of Safety at 
 Derby House 3 Jan. 1648, but was among the Puritan leaders 
 secluded from the House and imprisoned in Dec. following. 
 Fiennes was admitted a member of Cromwell's Council 26 April 
 1654, and continued as such until the Protector's death in Sept. 
 1658. He was a Commissioner of the Great Seal 15 Jan. 1656 to 
 14 May 1659, was called to the House of I^ords as £ord Fiennes 
 Jan. 1658, and was one of the Committee appointed to offer the 
 Crown to Cromwell. Resolved 27 May 1647 " that Mr Nath. 
 Fienis, a member of this House shall have leave to go into the 
 country." {Commons Journals.) He escaped notice at the Restor- 
 ation, and died at Newton Tony, Wilts, 16 Dec. 1669, aged 
 61. His son William became 3rd Viscount Saye and Sele in 
 1674. 
 
60 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 William Lenthall the celebrated Speaker of the Long 
 Parliament 3 Nov. 1640 to 30 July 1647 and 6 Aug. 1647 to 20 
 April 1653, who was again Speaker July 1654 to Jan. 1655, and 7 
 May to 13 Oct. 1659, was the son of Wm. L. of Wilcot, Oxon, and 
 was born at Henley on Thames June 1591, matric. St. Alban 
 Hall, Oxford 23 Jan. 1607, aged 15, bar. at law Lincolns Inn 24 
 Oct. 161 6, called to the Bench 14 and sat as such 23 May 1633, 
 and was Lent Reader thereof 1638. He m. Elizabeth dau. of 
 Ambrose Evans of Loddington, Northants, was M.P. Woodstock 
 1624-5, March to May 1640, Oct. 1640-53, was a candidate for 
 Gloucester Nov. 1640, but was refused a poll, and complained to 
 the House 2 Dec. 1640. He was returned for Gloucester and 
 Oxon 1654, when he preferred to sit for Oxon till Jan. 1655, and 
 again 1656 till created one of Cromwell's House of Lords as Lord 
 Lenthall 10 Dec. 1657, was a Rumper May 1659, and unsucc. 
 cont. Oxford Univ. 1660. Lenthall was Recorder of Woodstock, 
 in 1624 and 1637, Recorder of Gloucester 23 Jan. 1637 till 
 'amoved' Nov. 1660, app. one of the Committee on Ship Money 
 21 April 1640, a Commr. for Gloucester city for publishing scan- 
 dalous Ministers etc. 10 March 1642, recommended by the House 
 of Commons to be added to the Dep. Lieuts. of Oxon 19 March 
 1642, and held the manor of Witney in 1651 and 1658. He was 
 also Chamberlain of Chester 1647-54, restored by Pari, to that 
 office 14 March 1660, Master of the Rolls 22 Nov. 1643-60, one of 
 the two Commrs. of the Great Seal Oct. 1646 to March 1648, and 
 sole Commr. thereof 14 May to 3 June 1659, and 13 to 17 Jan. 
 1660, Joint Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Feb. 1644 to Aug. 
 1649, and Custos Rotulorum of Oxon and Berks 25 June 1659, 
 havingpreviously held that post. He retired into private life at the 
 Restoration, and died at his seat, The Priory, Burford, 3 Sept. 
 1662. " William Lenthall of Lincoln's Inn had ^6000 one time 
 given him by the House, and the rectory and demesne of Burford, 
 with a stately house belonging to the Lord Falkland, with ^500 
 per annum. Oliver once made a spunge of him, and squeezed 
 him out of ^15000, who turning him and his tribe out of doors, 
 he veered about to save himself and his great offices ; and he that 
 had been so long bell-weather in the commons house was 
 thought for his compliance and his money to deserve to be one 
 of the herd of Lords in the other House." ( The Mystery of the 
 Good Old Cause briefly unfolded, 1660.) 
 
 1656. Aug. 20. Charles Fleetwood. 
 William Lenthall. 
 Robert Jenkinson. 
 Miles Fleetwood. 
 Sir Francis Norreys Knt. 
 
 (5 Members again). Miles Fleetwood of Aldwinkle, Nor- 
 thants, was the eldest son of Sir William F. the King's Cupbearer 
 
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 (see Woodstock 1640,) and therefore half-brother to his colleague 
 Iyt. Gen. Charles Fleetwood. He was Knighted, and was app. 
 an Assessment Commr. for Oxon by the Rump 2 March 1660, 
 M.P. Oxon 1656-8, Woodstock 1659, and Northants Feb. 1678 to 
 Jan. 1679. On 29 Nov. 1655 the Treasury Commissioners wrote 
 to Wm. Lenthall, Master of the Rolls, Robert Jenkinson, Miles 
 Fleetwood, and seven other persons of quality in Oxfordshire : — 
 " We beg you to inform us from your knowledge of those parts 
 and from your readiness to his Highness's service, of what he 
 desires to know respecting Whichwood Forest," and a report 
 thereon was accordingly made, and signed by Jenkinson, Miles 
 Fleetwood, and two others. 
 
 Sir Francis Norreys, of Weston-on-the-Green, was the 
 reputed son of Francis 1st Karl of Berkshire, (see 1571,) and was 
 born about 1609, and on the death of his father, who committed 
 suicide 29 Jan. 1623, succeeded to the manors of Weston on the 
 Green, and Yaltendon. He m. Hester dau. of Sir John Rouse 
 Bart, of Rouse L,ench, (see Williams' Worcestershire Members,') 
 was Knighted 27 Aug. 1633, H.S. Oxon 1635, and M.P. 1654 to 
 Jan 1655, and in a Double Return 29 Jan. to 7 Feb. 1659, when 
 unseated. He was app. by the Rump an Assessment Commr. for 
 Oxon 15 Feb. 1660, nominated an intended Knight of the Royal 
 Oak 1660, (his estate worth ^1500 a year,) and died 5 of the ides 
 of July 1669, aged 60. 
 
 1659. Jan. 29. Robert Jenkinson. ) 
 Viscount Falkland. ) 
 
 Robert Jenkinson. 
 Sir Francis Norris. 
 
 This was a double return of the three Candidates, but on 
 7 Feb. 1659, the latter Indenture, containing the names of 
 Jenkinson and Norreys, was taken off the file by Older of 
 the House, and Jenkinson and Falkland were declared duly 
 elected. 
 
 Henry Cary 3rd Viscount Falkland, in the Peerage of 
 Scotland, of Burford Priory and Great Tew, was the only son of 
 Iyucius 2nd Viscount Falkland, the gentle and patriotic Secretary 
 of State to Charles I, who was killed at the first battle of Newbury 
 20 Sept. 1643, and who was the grandson of Sir Laurence 
 Tanfield, (see 1604 ) He m. Margaret dau. of Anthony 
 Hungerford,and on 12 Aug. 1659 was committed to the Tower upon 
 suspicion of being concerned in Sir George Booth's Cheshire 
 Rising. He was M.P. Oxfordshire Jan. to April 1659, Arundel 
 and Oxford City April 1660, when he preferred the latter, until 
 Dec. 1660, and Oxfordshire again 1661 until his death 2 April 
 1663, having been L,ord I^ieut. of Oxon from 11 Sept. 1660, when 
 he was sworn into office. He was one of the Commrs. of both 
 Houses ordered to set off on 18 May 1660 to meet and welcome the 
 
62 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 King at the Eestoration. Lord Chancellor Hyde wrote to Secre- 
 tary Nicholas in July 1660, saying that Lord Falkland desired to 
 be made a Lord of the Bedchamber to the King, and asking for a 
 warrant for Lord F. as Lord of the Bedchamber "Extraordinary, if 
 the number of those in ordinary is full." He was Col. of a regiment 
 at Dunkirk in June 1661, which however was ordered on 4 Nov. 
 to be disbanded before 17 Nov. 1662. Oa 5 Dec. 1661 a Warrant 
 was issued to Lord F. to repair to the house of John Lenthall, son 
 of the M.P. 1654, (see Williams' Gloucestershire Members?) to ex- 
 amine him on the late designs against the peace of the Kingdom, 
 and he received a further warrant on 4 Feb. 1662 to deliver J.L- 
 to Capt. Stuart Walker. 
 
 1660. April Thomas Viscount Wenman (see 1626.) 
 
 Hon. James Fiennes. 
 
 1661. Mar. 10. Viscount Falkland. 
 
 Sir Anthony Cope Bart. 
 
 The latter was born 1632, educ. at Oriel Coll. Oxon, and 
 succeeded his father Sir John Cope of Hanwell as 4th Bart, in 
 1638. He m. his first cousin Hon. Mary Gerard, dau. of Dutton 
 Lord Gerard, of Gerard's Bromley, was an intended Knight of the 
 Royal Oak for Oxon 1660, (his estate worth ^4000 a year,) sat 
 for Banbury April to Dec. 1660, and for the County 1661 until his 
 death about Oct. 1675, aged 43. He received a commission as 
 Captain of a company in the regiment of Lord Falkland (see 
 1659,) at Dunkirk, on 28 June 1661, and on 30 Dec. 1661 Secretary 
 Nicholas wrote to him, — " The King wishes him and all other 
 officers belonging to Dunkirk garrison to repair to their charge 
 within 10 days, on pain of dismissal." On 27 July 1662 a com- 
 mission was given to Wm. Gannock to be Captain of a foot 
 company in Dunkirk in the place of Capt. A. Cope, who retired. 
 He was grandson of the M.P. 1624. 
 
 1663. April. William KnollyS. 
 
 Sir William Walter. 
 
 vice Viscount Falkland deceased. This was a Double 
 Return of both Candidates, and on 14 April 1663 Walter presen- 
 ted a petition against Knollys, to whom however the seat was 
 awarded. 
 
 William Knollys of Rotherfield Greys, eldest son of Sir 
 Robert K. of Grayes, was born 1620, matric. St. Alban Hall, 
 Oxon, 25 Nov. 1636, aged i6 3 and became a student of the Inner 
 Temple 1639. He m. Mary dau. of John Saunders of Thame. 
 On 27 Nov. 1645 he " Begs to compound for delinquency in ab- 
 senting himself five weeks from his House, owing to the violence 
 of the soldiers. Never acted to the disservice of Parliament. 
 The Committee for co. Oxford have had ^500 from him, and the 
 Parliament's garrison at Henley have cut wood worth ^2000,-and- 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 63 
 
 defaced his house by making it a garrison. 7 Feb. 1646, fined 
 ;£noo, ^400 in hand; and the rest in 6 months, if Farringdon 
 and Wallingford garrisons be reduced. 30 Nov. 1648, on payment 
 of the fine, sequestration revoked." He was M.P. Oxon April 
 1663 until his death, being buried at Rotherfield Greys 4 Sept. 
 1664. 
 
 Sir William Walter of Sarsden, was the eldest son of Sir 
 John Walter Knt. L,ord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1625-31. 
 He matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 16 March 1621, aged 17, created 
 D.C.L,. 1 or 2 Nov. 1642, and was called to the bar at the Inner 
 Temple 1630. He was licensed 20 Dec. 1632 to marry Elizabeth 
 dau. of Thomas L,ucas, and was created a Baronet 16 Aug. 1641. 
 Sir William was H.S. Oxon 1636 and 1644, M.P. Weobley 1628-9, 
 and Oxon in a Double Return April 1663 until void, and died 23 
 March 1674. He was one of those Noblemen and Gentlemen 
 who signed the Oxford Exgagement to repay moneys lent there- 
 on for the King's service, and he himself lent^42i is 6d for that 
 purpose. On 28 Nov. 1645 he " Compounds by James L,loyd for 
 delinquency in assisting the King in whose quarters his whole 
 estate lay. For 2\ years has refused all employments in that 
 behalf and submits on the propositions of Parliameut. His 
 estate was worth /^8oo a year, of which ^"100 a year is secured to 
 the Church, It is not now worth more than \ of that sum, and 
 he has 6 small children. 9 July 1646, Fine at one-tenth, ^"1430. 
 Aug. 18, Fine passed by the House. 20 Nov. 1650, Compounds 
 on the votes of 2 Oct. 1650 for undervaluations and concealments. 
 Dec. 3, Fine at one-tenth, £177- Dec. 11, Allowed his rents as he 
 compounds on his own discovery." He was also assessed at 
 ^200 by the Committee for Advance of Money 21 Aug. 1646, but 
 on 23 Sept. following an order was made for his discharge on 
 payment of ^50. On 22 June 1658 he petitioned the Protector as 
 follows : — " Being bound with sureties to keep the peace 
 according to the general order for compounders, I was summoned 
 by Major Crook to Oxford and made prisoner under the marshal's 
 custody. I went on Sunday 6 June to Carfax Church, and was 
 placed where the Mayor and Aldermen sit. After service Sir 
 Ant. Cope Bart, of Tangley (see 1661,) came up and said to me — 
 " Sir William Walter, if I were not a good Christian I would 
 cudgel you ; you are an unworthy fellow."— I made no reply, but 
 appeal to you for relief." The Council then summoned Cope to 
 appear before them to answer the matter, and on his doing so, 
 they ordered on 13 July, that " Fiennes, Fleetwood and the £ord 
 Chamberlain try to compose the differences between him and Sir 
 W. Walter, and report ; also that they consider the information 
 against Cope in reference to Major Sal way, (see William's 
 Worcestershire Members,) and others, reprove him, and admonish 
 him to prevent the like in future." To do them justice the 
 Commonwealth statesmen often attempted to play the part of 
 peacemakers, in settling local disputes. 
 
64 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 1664 Dec. 21 Sir Francis Wenman Knt. and Bart, of Caswell, 
 vice Knollys deceased. Only son and heir of the M.P. 1640, was 
 Knighted, created a Baronet 29 Nov. 1662, and m. Hon. 
 Mary Wenman 4th and youngest dau. of Thomas, 2nd Viscount 
 Wenman, (see 1626,) and niece of the 1st and 3rd Viscounts 
 Wenman. He was named a Knight of the Royal Oak for Oxon 
 1660, (estate ^1500 a year,) and sat for the County Dec. 1664-79. 
 On 11 Sept. 1661 Lord Falkland (see 1659) wrote the Secretary 
 Nicholas recommending Wenman to be made a Dep. Lieut, of 
 Oxon. He died about 1679-80. His son Richard became 4th 
 Viscount Wenman on the death of his great uncle Philip in 1696, 
 by virtue of a new entail dated 30 Jan. 1683. 
 
 1675 Nov. 10. Sir Edward Norreys Knt. of Weston on 
 the Green, vice Cope deceased. Second but only surviving son of 
 the M.P. 1656, he was born 1636, matric. Queen's Coll. Oxford 9 
 Dec. 1650, ent. Lincoln Inn 8 May 1654, and m. Jane dau. of Sir 
 John Clerke Bart, of Shabington. He was Knighted 22 Nov. 
 1662, M.P. Oxon Nov. 1675 to July 1679, and 1701-8, (having 
 failed 1681,) and Oxford city 1689- 1700, app. Dep. Lieut. Oxon by 
 warrant 30 May 1689, and died Oct. 1713, aged 77. 
 
 1679. Feb. 26. Sir Edward Norreys. 
 
 Sir Jone Cope. 
 
 Sir John D* Oyley. 
 
 John Clerke* 
 
 The poll at this contest was kept open for three days, 
 when 3000 voted. John Clerk of Aston Rowant, bar. at law, was 
 J. P. Oxon until left out of the commission 14 June 1685, as 
 obnoxious to the Court. Sir John Cope of Hanwell, third son of 
 Sir John the 3rd Bart., was born at Hanwell 1634, matric. Queen's 
 Coll. Oxford 10 Nov. 1651, and afterwards travelled on the 
 continent. He commanded a troop at Dunkirk in 1660, and 
 married Ann Booth a lodging-house keeper at Dunkirk, dau. of 
 Philip Booth, for which marriage Hanwell was willed away from 
 their children. He succeeded his brother Sir Anthony (see 1661,) 
 as 5th Bart, in 1675, was M.P. Oxon Feb. 1679-81, when 
 defeated, and 1689-90, and Banbury Feb. 1699 to Dec. 1700. He 
 was removed from being a J. P. for Oxon 14 June 1685, but was 
 app. a Dep. Lieut, by warrant 30 May 1689. Sir John long 
 resided at Chelsea, but in 1699 purchased Bramshill Park, 
 Hants. He died 11 Jan. 1721, aged 87, and was buried at 
 Eversley, Hants. 
 
 1679. Aug. 13. Thomas Horde. 
 
 Sir John Cope. 
 
 Sir Philip Harcourt " had the canvas," but did not take 
 a poll. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 65 
 
 Thomas Horde of Cote, eldest son of Sir Thomas H. of 
 Aston, Oxon, married (1) Barbara (who d. 12 Aug. 1671, aged 
 44,) dau. of Charles Trinder, and (2) Susanna — (who d. 12 Aug. 
 1680, aged 37.) " Reasons for an Act to enable T. H. to provide 
 for his younger children by letting leases of certain lands." Cat. 
 State Papers 1 March 1670). Wood described him as "a most 
 ill-natured man and of no religion," who might be compared to 
 Brome Whorwood, (see Oxford 1679). By deed 15 Jan. 1712 he 
 granted a perpetual benefaction for the criminal prisoners and 
 debtors in the common ward of Oxford Castle, (the annual 
 income of which amounted to £24. in 1868). Ke was M.P. Oxon 
 Aug. 1679-81, but was defeated there 1685, 1689, and for the city 
 1690, and died 6 Nov. 1715, aged 92. (M. I. Bampton.) His dau. 
 Juliana m. Peter Wentworth, brother of Lord Strafford. His son 
 Allan Horde was H. S. Oxon 1724. On 13 April 1647 Thomas 
 Hurd senior of Kingsdon, Somerset, compounded for delinquency 
 .in adhering to the King's party against Parliament, and on 13 
 May was fined at one -fifth, £So. On n May 1649 his son Thomas 
 Hurd junior of the same place petitioned to compound for being 
 sequestered for delinquency, and on 10 June was fined ^106. 
 Horde was J.P. Oxfordshhe until left out of the commission 14 
 June 1685. On 21 June 1685 lord Abingdon wrote from Oxford 
 to Lord Clarendon, — I am now sending out warrants to seize 
 Hord, Blake and Bard," as persons suspected of favouring 
 Monmouth's Rising. They were committed to Oxford Castle 
 22 June, and on 29 June, — M I told your lordship Messrs. Hord 
 and Bard had sent for Habeas Corpus, which I hear is now 
 coming." 
 
 168 1. Feb. 23. Thomas Hord. 
 
 Sir Philip Harcourt. 
 
 Sir John Cope. 
 
 Sir Edward Not reys. . 
 
 The poll was kept open two days at this election. 
 
 Sir Philip Harcourt of Sianton Harcourt, was the son of 
 Sir Simon Harcourt Knt., Governor of Dublin, (who was slain 26 
 March 1642 when beseiging Carrickmain, during the Irish 
 Rebellion,) by Anne dau. of William Lord Paget. Sir Philip 
 was Knighted 5 June 1660, m. (1) Anne (who d. 7.3 Aug, 1664) 
 dau. of Sir Wm. WaHer Knt. of Osterley Park, Middlesex, the 
 
 Parliamentary General, and (2) the dau. of Lee, Clerk of 
 
 the Peace for London, sat for Boston Oct. i665 to Jan. 1679, and 
 for Oxon 23 Feb. to 28 March 1681, and was buried 12 April 
 1688. Wood called him " a gentle man but a Presbyterian." His 
 son Simon Viscount Harcourt was Lord Chancellor 1713-14. 
 
66 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 1685. March 18. Viscount Falkland. 
 Thomas Tipping. 
 Thomas Beard. 
 Tho?nas Hoord. 
 
 " Thomas Beard of Fritwell, a phanatic, (son of Alderman 
 Beard of Loudon.) Hoord had many voices but gave no enter- 
 tainment, and because he would not pay for their night's lodging, 
 they went home and he lost it." ( Wood). 
 
 Anthony Cary, Viscount Falkland, was the only son of the 
 M.P. 1659, whom he succeeded as fourth Viscount in 1663. Born 
 at Great Tew, he matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 21 May 1672, aged 15, 
 and m. Rebecca dau. of Sir Rowland Lytton Knt. of Kneb worth, 
 Herts. He was M.P. Oxon 1685-7, Great Marlow, 1689-90, and 
 Great Bedwin 1690 until his death, and was Treasurer of the 
 Navy June 168 1 to April 1689, a Lord of the Bed- 
 chamber to Prince George of Denmark 168 — to June 
 1690, a Lord of the Admiralty Jan. 1691 to April 1693, and First 
 Lord of the Admiralty April 1693 until his death 24 May 1694. 
 He was buried in Westminster Abbey. On 17 Jan. 1694, the 
 House of Commons resolved, that Viscount Falkland, one of its 
 Members, by begging and receiving ^2000 from His Majesty, 
 contrary to the ordinary method of issuing and bestowing the 
 King's money, was guilty of a high misdemeanour and breach of 
 trust, and that he be committed to the Tower. On 30 May 1689 
 a warrant issued to the Earl of Abingdon, Lord Lieut, of Oxon, 
 to appoint Viscount Falkland, Viscount Weunian, Henry Bertie, 
 (see Oxford 1685,) Sir William Walter, (son of the M.P. 1663,) 
 Sir Robert Jenkinson (see 1669,) Sir John Doyley (see 1679,) 
 Sir Wm. Glynne (see Oxford Univ. 1698,) Sir Robert Dashwood 
 (see 1699,) Sir Thomas Tipping, Sir Wm. Whitelock (see Oxford 
 Univ. 1703,) James Herbert, (father of the M.P. 1715,) and 
 Thomas Tipping to be Deputy Lieutenants. 
 
 Thomas Tipping of Wheatfield, eldest son of Sir Thomas T. 
 Knt. was born 1552, matric. Trin. Coll. Oxford, 16 Nov. 1669, aged 17, 
 and ent. Lincolus Inn 1672. V\/ood in his Life arid Times mentions 
 the (false) " News (26 April 1665) that T. Tipping lately elected 
 knight of the shire was killed." He was outlawed under James 
 II, being excepted from the General Act of Pardon 1688, but his 
 outlawry was reversed by William III. He was M.P. - Oxon 
 1685-87, Wallingford 1689-90, and 1695- 1700, made a Baronet 24 
 March 1698, and died 1 July 1718, the title expiring with his 
 son in 1725. 
 
 1689. Jan. 14. Sir Robert Jenkinson T 
 
 Sir John Cope T 
 
 Thomas Hord. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 67 
 
 Sir Robert Jenkinson of Walcot and. Hawkesbury, was the 
 only son of the M. P. 1654, whom he succeeded as 2nd Bart. 30 
 March 1677. Born in 1654, he matric. Bras. Coll. Oxford, 11 
 Nov. 1671, aged 17, and entered himself a student of the Inner 
 Temple in 1672. He married Sarah dau. of Thomas 
 Tomlins, of Bromley, Middlesex, (by Susanna dau. and (in her 
 issue) co-heir of Wm. Cranmer and Susanna his wife, sister of 
 Sir Edward Powell Bart., which Wm. Cranmer was grandson of 
 Edmund Cranmer, Archdeacon of Canterbury, younger brother of 
 Archbishop Cranmer,) and sister and heir to Thomas Tomlins of 
 Bromley, Middlesex, who was murdered by his coachman, dying 
 s.p. buried at St. Leonards, Bromley, 29 Nov. 1686. Sir Robert 
 became D. L,. Oxfordshire 30 May 1689, and was M.P. for the 
 count in 9 Parliaments from 1689 until his death 30 Jan. 1710, 
 being buried at Charlbury 4 Feb. His wife died 8 
 and was buried at Charlbury 15 Aug. 1709. (M.I. in chancel of 
 Charlbury Church.) 
 
 1690. March 5. Lord Norreys T 
 Sir R. Jenkinson T 
 Sir John Cope T 
 
 Montague Venables (Bertie), Lord Norreys, eldest son of 
 James 1st Earl of Abingdon, (grandson of the M.P. 1625,) by 
 Eleanor dau. and heiress of Sir Henry Lee Bart, of Ditchley, was 
 born about 1668, and m. (1) 22 Sept. 1687 Anne (who died 28 
 April 1715) dau. and heir of Peter Venables, Baron of Kinderton, 
 and (2) 13 Feb. 1717 Mary widow of General Charles Churchill, 
 and dau. of James Gould of Dorchester. Lord Norreys became 
 Captain of the Oxford Univ. Volunteers 1685, and was M.P. 
 Berks 1689-90, and Oxon 1690 until he succeeded his father as 
 2nd Earl of Abingdon 22 May 1699. He was High Steward of 
 Oxford July 1699- 1743. and of Banbury, Lord Lieut, 
 and Cus. Rot. of Berks 31 May 1701 to 11 June 1702, 
 a Privy Councillor 21 April 1702 to Sept. 1705, Constable of the 
 Tower 27 May 1702 to Sept. 1705/ Lord Lieut, and Cus. Rot. of 
 Oxon 21 June 1702 to Sept. 1705, and Lord Lieut, of the Tower 
 Hamlets 29 June 1702 to Sept. 1705. He was again sworn a Privy 
 Councillor 9 Feb. 1711, and 1 Oct. 1714, and was Warden and 
 Chief Justice in Eyre of all the royal forests South of Trent 12 
 Jan. 171 1 to 11 Nov 17 15, Lord Lieut, and Cus. Rot. of Oxon 17 
 May 17 1 2- 15, and a Lord Justice of Great Britain during the 
 King's absence in Hanover 1 August to 18 Sept. 17 14. Lord 
 Abingdon, who was "of a black complexion," (Mackfs Charac- 
 ters), died 15 June 1743. 
 
 1695. Nov. 6. The same, re-el. 10 Aug. 1698. 
 
 1699. Nov. 29. Sir Robert Dash wood, Knt. and Bart of 
 Wickham, and Northbrook, (Tory) vice Lord Norreys 
 
68 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 called to the Upper House. This Member was born in or about 
 1662, and was the son of Aid. George Dashwood, of London, a 
 Commr. of Excise. He matric. Trin. Coll. Oxford 19 July 1679, 
 aged 17, ent. the Inner Temple, 1679, and m. 
 Penelope dau. and co-heir of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne 
 Bart, of Wickham. He was Knighted at Windsor Castle 4 June 
 1682, created a Baronet 16 Sept. 1684, M.P. Banbury 1689-98, and 
 Oxon Nov. 1699 to Dec. 1700, H.S. 1683, D.L,. 30 May 1689, and 
 died 14 July 1734. 
 
 1701. Jan. 22. Sir R. Jenkinson, (see 1689.) T 
 
 Sir Edward Norreys, (see 1675.) T 
 
 1701. Nov. 26. The same, re-el. 5 Aug. 1702, and 9 May 1705. 
 
 1708. May 5. Viscount Ryalton W 
 
 Sir R. Jenkinson T 
 
 Francis Godolphin, Viscount Rialton, only surviving son 
 of Sidney 1st Earl of Godolphin, (so created 29 Dec. 1706,) Lord 
 High Treasurer 1702-10, was born 3 Sept. 1678, educ. at Eton, 
 and King's College, Cambridge, and was M.P. East Looe Jan. to 
 Nov. 17.01, East Looe and Helston Dec. 1701, when he 
 preferred to represent Helston, till 1708, became Viscount 
 Rialton by courtesy 29 Dec. 1706, and sat for Oxon 1708-10, 
 and for Tregony 1710 until he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl 
 Godolphin 15 Sept. 17 12. His Lordship m. March 1698 Lady 
 Henrietta Churchill eldest dau. and co-heir of John the great 
 Duke of Marlborough, which lady succeeded her father by 
 special remainder as Duchess of Marlborough 16 June 1722. He 
 was Joint Registrar of the Court of Chancery 29 June 1698 to 20 
 Jan. 1727, a Teller of the Exchequer 6 June 1699 to 1704, was a 
 Dep. Lieut, for Cornwall in April 1701, Coflerer of the Queen's 
 Household 1 April 1704 to June 171 1, Lord Warden of the 
 Stannaries in Cornwall 1705, High Steward of the Duchy ol 
 Cornwall, and Rider and Master Forester of Dartmoor 4 May 
 1705 to April 1708, Recorder of Helston, again Cofferer of the 
 Royal Household 3 Oct. 17 14 to 23 May 1723, Lord Lieut, and 
 Cus. Rot. ot Oxon (sworn in) 29 Nov. 17 15 to Jan. 1735, a Lord of 
 the Bedchamber to the King 12 Feb. 17 16 to 1723, High Steward 
 of Banbury 16 July 17 18, Groom *t>f the Stole and Firs, 
 Lord of the Bedchamber to George I from 25 May 1723 to June 
 1727, and to George II. from 24 July 1727 to 8 Jan. 1735, a Privy 
 Councillor 26 May 1723, a Lord Justice of Great Britain 10 June 
 to 29 Dec. 1723, 9 June 1725 to 3 Jan. 1726, and 3 to 11 June 
 1727, a Commr. of Claims for the Coronation 12 Aug. 1727, High 
 Steward of Woodstock 18 March 1728-66, Governor of the Scilly 
 Islands 7 July 1733-66, a Commr. to inspect the Courts of Justice 
 and inquire into fees in England and Wales 19 Feb. 1734, Lord 
 Privy Seal 14 May 1735 to 25 April 1740, and a Governor of the 
 
Members for Oxfordshire 69 
 
 Foundling Hospital 7 Aug. 1739. The Karl was created Lord 
 Godolphin of Helston 23 Jan. 1735, and died 17 Jan. 1766, aged 
 87, when the Earldom expired. 
 
 1710. Feb. 22. Sir Robert Jenkinson Bart. ofWalcot, and 
 Hawkesbury, vice his father deceased. Born in 1685, he was the 
 eldest son of the M.P. 1689, whom he succeeded as 3rd Bart. 30 
 Jan. 1710. Having matric. Trin. Coll. Oxford 13 Feb. 1703, " aged 
 15," he became a student of Lincolns Inn 22 Oct. 1705, where he 
 was called to the bar 1713. Sir Robert married (just before 7) Feb. 
 1712 Henrietta Maria, (who died 1760, buried at Horsham,) dau. 
 of Charles Scarborough, Clerk of the Green Cloth to Queen 
 Anne, and represented Oxfordshire from Feb. 17 10 until his 
 decease 29 Oct. 1717, aged 32, and was buried at Charlbury 5 
 Nov. His widow re-m. in Westminster Abbey 9 Aug. 1731 as 
 2nd wife to Charles Eversfield M.P. Dene. Sussex, who died 
 17 Jan. 1749. 
 
 1710. Oct. 10. Sir R. Jenkinson T 
 
 Francis Clerke T 
 
 Francis Clerke of North Weston, was the son of Sir John 
 Clerke Bart. ( ? the defeated candidate 1679,) and matric. Magd. 
 Coll. Oxford 31 July 1671, aged 16, demy 1671-6, B.A. 22 April 
 1675, fellow 1676-82, and M.A. 17 Jan. 1678. He was app. Ensign 
 of Capt. Henry Bertie's Troop of Independent Horse 18 June 
 1685, which was disbanded after Sedgemoor the same year. He. 
 m. Catherine 3rd and youngest dau. of Hon. Henry Bertie (see 
 Oxford 1685,) and sat for Oxon 17 10 until death at Hillingdon, 
 Middlesex, 2 May 17 15. 
 
 1713. Aug. 29. The same, re-el. 2 Feb. 1715. 
 
 1715. May 25. James Herbert (Tory) vice Clarke deceased, 
 Son of James Herbert of Tythorpe and Kingsey (who died 1709, 
 by Lady Catherine Osborne 4th dau. of Thomas Duke of Leeds,) 
 and grandson of Hon. James Herbert, 6th son of Phillip 4th Earl 
 of Pembroke and Montgomery K.G. (see Williams' Pari. Hist, of 
 
 Wales.) He m. the dau. of Hallet of Edgware, and sat for 
 
 Oxon May 1715 until his death, being drowned in a pond, 25 
 April 1 72 1. 
 
 1717. Dec. 4. Sir Robert Bancks Jenkinson Bart, of 
 Walcot, and Hawkesbury, (Tory) vice his brother deceased. 
 This Member was the 2nd son of the M.P. 1869, and was 
 baptized Charlbury 24 Jan. 1687, and m. Catherine 3rd dau. of 
 Sir Robert Dashwood 1st Bart, (see 1699.) He succeeded his 
 brother (see Feb. 1710) as 4th Bart. 29 Oct. 1717, sat for Oxon 
 Nov. 1717-27, and died 2 July 1738, being buried at Charlbury 6 
 July. The title descended upon his two sons in succession, Sir 
 Robert who died s.p. 8 Aug. 1766, aged 45, buried at Hawkesbury, 
 and Sir Bankes who died unmarried at Headington 22 July 1790, 
 
70 Members *or Oxfordshire. 
 
 aged 68, buried at Hawkesbury. The third and fourth sons died 
 s.p. The subsequent history of the family is so interesting that 
 it is given in detail : — 
 
 Charles Jenkinson, fifth son of the M.P. 1689, was born at 
 Walcot 1693, bapt. at Charlbury 13 June 1693, and became Lt. 
 Col. of the Horse Guards Blue 27 May 1745. He was Major of 
 the Blues at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745, and commanded the 
 Regiment at Dettingen. He died at Burford Uwn Lodge in the 
 Forest of Which wood, in June 1750, aged 57, buried at Shipton 
 under Whichwood 23 June, leaving by his wife, Amarantha 
 eldest dau. and co-heir of Capt. Wolfran Cornewall, Royal Navy, 
 a dau. Elizabeth, (who married her cousin Rt. Hon. Charles 
 Wolfran Cornewall M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons 
 1780-9, see Williams' Herefordshire Members,) and two sons 
 Charles and John. The latter was M.P. Corfe Castle 176880, 
 a Genleman Usher Daily Waiter to the Queen 5 Sept. 1761-74, a 
 Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to Her Majesty 1774- 
 1805, and Joint Secretary for Ireland, resident in Great Britain, 
 (so in 1778 ) He married Frances dau. of Rear Admiral John 
 Barker, and died 1 May 1805, aged 71. (M.I. Winchester Cathe- 
 dral). His second son John Bankes Jenkinson was Bishop of 
 St. Davids 1825-40, while Charles the eldest son became 10th 
 Bart, in 185 1. 
 
 Charles Jenkinson, the eldest son of the hero of Fontenoy, 
 was born at Winchester 26 April and baptized 16 May 1727, 
 matric. Univ. Coll. Oxford, 14 March 1746, B.A. 27 Oct. 1749, 
 M.A. 24 Nov. 1752, created D.C.I,. 7 July 1773, and ent. Lincolnslnn 
 6 July 1747. He married(i) at St. Marylebone 9 Feb. 1769 Amelia 
 (who d. 12 July 1770, aged 19, buried at Hawkesbury, (M.I.) 
 eldest dau. of William Watts, Governor of Fort William, in 
 Bengal, and Frances his wife, and (2) at 26 Hertford St., Mayfair, 
 by special license 22 June 1782 Catharine dan. of Sir Cecil 
 Bisshopp, 6th Bart, and relict of Sir Charles Cope 2nd Bart, of 
 Brewerne, Oxon, and Orton Longueville, Hunts, who was his 
 first cousin. Jenkinson acquired some literary reputation through 
 the active part he took in the famous election for Oxfordshire in 
 1754, which is alluded to in a letter from his son the 3rd Lord 
 Liverpool to Mr. Croker which is printed in the Croker Corres- 
 pondence and Diaries, Vol. III. 179-180, as follows :— " My father, 
 Col. Jenkinson's eldest son, was bred for the Church. He was first 
 at the Charterhouse and then at University College at Oxford 
 where he took his M.A. degree. A living belonging to his 
 uncle Sir Jonathan Cope of Brewern in Oxfordshire was destined 
 for my father and was held in my recollection, by a clergyman of 
 the name of Lockwood, to whom it was given to hold for my 
 father ; but my father got connected when at Oxford with 
 Charles Duke of Marlborough and the then Lord Macclesfield, 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 71 
 
 adopted their politics (they were Whigs) and took an active part 
 in the famous Oxfordshire election of Parker and Turner, who 
 were Whigs, against Wenman and Dashwood, Tories. It is 
 curious that my father wrote the electioneering verses and squibs 
 for the Whigs at this election, and Sir W. Blackstone for the 
 Tories. There are two copies of verses, each celebrating their 
 rival colours, (blue and green). Blackstone's are by far the best, 
 but my father's not amiss. All this must have made my father 
 give up his clerical pursuits ; and he must have published about 
 this time one if not both of his political pamphlets viz : the one 
 on a National Militia, and the other on Neutral Rights." My 
 father has often told me that he was sent up to London by the 
 then Duke of Marlborough and Lord Macclesfield with a strong 
 recommendation to Lord Holdernese etc. He became confiden- 
 tial secretary to Lord Bute, and was highly esteemed and trusted 
 by him as he afterwards was by Mr. Grenville, the Duke of 
 Grafton, Lord North etc., but I do not believe nay I am certain 
 that he did not carry on any correspondence between the King 
 and Lord Bute for such never existed although on many critical 
 occasions the King consulted him privately of which I have the 
 proofs. He was also in the service, I think they called him 
 Treasurer of the Princess Dowager of Wales until her death. He 
 was very much in her confidence." Mr. Jenkinson, through the 
 good services of the first Lord Harcourt, obtained an introduction 
 at Court, as well as the favourable notice of the Earl of Bute, and 
 during the next 40 years held many successive offices under 
 various Ministries. He was M.P. for Cockermouth 1761 to Dec. 
 1766, and 1768, Appleby Jan. 1767-72, Harwich Aug. 1772-4, 
 Hastings 1774-80, and Saltash 1780 until he was raised to the 
 Peerage as Lord Hawkesbury 21 Aug. 1786. He was Under 
 Secretary of State for the Northern Department March 1761-2, 
 Private Secretary to Lord Bute, the Prime Minister, May 1762 to 
 April 1763, Treasurer and Paymaster of the Ordnance June 
 1762-3, Joint Secretary to the Treasury April 1763 to July 1765, a 
 Lord of the Admiralty Dec. 1766-7, a Lord of the Treasurg Dec. 
 1767 to Jan. 1773, Joint Vice Treasurer of Ireland Dec. 1772 to 
 Oct. 1775, sworn a Privy Councillor in England 8 Feb. 1773, 
 Writer of the Tallies and Counter Tallies and Clerk of the Pells 
 in the Receipt of the Exchequer in Ireland 5 Aug. i775~i8oi,and 
 Secretary at War Dec. 1778 to March 1782, a Lord of Trade and 
 Foreign Plantations 5 March 1784, Chancellor of the Duchy of 
 Lancaster Aug. 1786 to Nov. 1803, and President of the Board of 
 Trade 23 Aug. 1786 to June 1804. His Lordship was created 
 Earl of Liverpool 1 June 1796, having previously succeeded his 
 kinsman Sir Bankes Jenkinson as 7th Bart. 22 July 1790, and had 
 -an augmentation to his coat of arms of the arms of Liverpool 23 
 July 1796. He died at 26 Hertford St., Mayfair, 17 Dec. 1808, 
 aged 81, having enjoyed the sinecure office of Collector of the 
 
72 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Customs, Inwards, in the Port of London, from 1789. Well 
 known to possess the confidence of his Sovereign for many 
 years, he was frequently described by political writers as the 
 secret adviser of the King. On 18 Feb. 1761 he was granted 
 permission to pass on horseback through the Horse Guards 
 into and out of St. James's Park. {Home Office Papers). 
 
 His eldest son, the Hon. Robert Bankes Jenkinson, 
 became even more distinguished in the political world than his 
 father. Born 7 June 1770, he matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 27 April 
 1787, was created M.A. 19 May 1790, and married ft] 
 25 March 1795 the Lady Louisa Theodosia Hervey 
 (who d. 12 June 1821, buried at Hawkesbury) third dau. 
 of Frederick Augustus 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, 
 and (2) 24 Sept 1822 Mary 6th dau. of Charles Chester of 
 Chicheley Hall, Bucks, (formerley Bagot), and niece of the first 
 Lord Bagot, who survived him and dying s.p. 18 Oct. 1846 was 
 buried at Kingston on Thames. Mr Jenkinson assumed the 
 courtesy title of Honourable 21 Aug. 1786, and became Lord 
 Hawkesbury on his father being made an Karl 1 June 1796. He 
 was elected at the age of 20 both for Rye and Appleby in 1790, 
 when he preferred to represent the former, for which he sat till 
 he was called to the House of Lords in his father's Barony of 
 Hawkesbury 15 Nov. 1803. His Lordship may be paid to have 
 passed the whole of his life, after attaining his majority, in the 
 service of his country. He was a Commissioner of the Board of 
 Control for the Affairs of India June 1793-9, sworn a Privy 
 Councillor 13 March 1799, and app. a Member of the Board of 
 Trade the next day, Master of the Mint Feb. 1799 to April 1801, 
 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Feb. 1801 to May 1804, for 
 the Home Department May 1804 to Feb. 1806, and again March 
 1807 to Nov. 1809, and for War and the Colonies Oct. 1809 to June 
 181 2, when he became First Lord of the Treasury and Prime 
 Minister on the assassination of Mr Spencer Perceval, and held 
 that coveted position until 30 April 1827, when failing health 
 obliged him to retire into private life. This was the longest 
 tenure of that office by any Prime Minister since the time of Lord 
 Burleigh, with the exception of Mr. Pitt. Lord Liverpool 
 was made Constable of Dover Castle and Warden Keeper 
 and Admiral of the Cinque Ports 28 Jan. 1806, High Steward 
 of Kingston upon Thames 18 16, a Governor of the Charter 
 House 15 Feb. 1805, an Official Trustee of the Britism Museum, 
 a Fellow of the Royal Society 29 May 1794, a Knight of the 
 Garter 9 June 1 8 14, and held all these honours until his death. 
 He received the rank of Colonel in the army 23 May 1794, so 
 long as his regiment of Militia, the Cinque Ports Regiment of 
 Fencible Cavalry was embodied for active service. He died 
 s.p. at Fife House, Whitehall, on 4 Dec. 1828 aged 58, and was 
 buried at Hawkesbury 18 Dec. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 73 
 
 His Lordship's half-brother, the Hon. Charles Cecil Cope 
 Jenkinson, succeeded him as third Farl of Liverpool 4 Dec. 1828. 
 Born at 26 Hertford Street, Mayfair, on 29 May 1784, this Noble- 
 man matric.Ch. Ch. Oxford 23 April 1801, and was created D.C.L,. 
 15 June 1 841. He was Page of Honour to George III. 1793-4, served 
 as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy 1794-8, and fought in several 
 naval actions, including the glorious 1 June 1784, was app. 
 Cornet in the Surrey Yeomanry 20 Aug. 1803, afterwards entered 
 the Diplomatic Service, and was app. Sec. of Legation at Vienna 
 13 July 1804, joined the Austrian Army as a Volunteer in 1805, 
 and fought at Austerlitz 2 Dec. 1805. He was in charge of the 
 Embassy at Vienna for a time during Sir A. Paget's illness in 
 1 805 -1 806. He was adopted as his heir by his cousin the last Mr. 
 Ottley of Pitchford, Salop, to whose estates in cos. Salop and 
 Montgomery he succeeded on 16 Feb. 1807, when he took up his 
 residence at Pitchford Hall, near Shrewsbury, and became D.L. 
 Salop 8 Dec. 1807. He married at St. George's, Hanover Square, 
 19 July 1810 Julia Evelyn Medley, (who died at 10 (now 13) Port- 
 mann Square, London, 8 April 1814, aged 28, buried at Pitchford 
 24 April 1814,) only child of Sir George Shuckburgh-Evelyn Bart, 
 by Julia Annabella dau. and heir of James Evelyn of Felbridge, 
 Surrey, by Annabella dau. of Thomas and sister and in her issue 
 sole heir of her brother George Medley of Buxted, Friston, and 
 Coneyburrows all in co. Sussex, and had three daughters and 
 co-heirs. He was M.P. for Sandwich 1807-12, Bridgnorth 181 2- 
 18, and East Grinstead 1818-28, and held office (under his 
 brother) as Under Secretary of State for the Home Department 
 Oct. 1807 to Feb. 1 8 10, and for War and the Colonies Oct. 1809 to 
 1 8 10. After the lapse of many years his Lordship again held 
 office as Lord Steward of the Queen's Household Sept. 1841 to 
 July 1846, and he was sworn a Privy Councillor 3 Sept. 1841, and 
 made G.C.B. 11 Dec. 1845. He was Prothonotary of the 
 County Palatine of Lancaster 1S38-51, having been granted 
 the reversion thereof previous to 1830, High Steward of Kingston 
 on Thames from 1829, and a Governor of the Charterhouse 5 
 Feb. 1846. His Lordship, who was patron of two livings, died 
 without male issue at Buxted 3 Oct. 1851, buried at Buxted 9 
 Oct., when the Earldom and Barony became extinct. The 
 Baronetcy however devolved upon his cousin Sir Charles 
 Jenkinson (M.P. Dover 1806-18), as 10th Bart., on whose death 
 without male issue in 1855 it passed to his nephew Sir George 
 Samuel Jenkinson, (M.P. North Wilts 1868-80, unsuccessful can- 
 didate for N. Wilts 1865, and for Nottingham in 1866,) the elder 
 son of the Bishop of St. David's. His son Sir George Bankes 
 Jenkinson the 12th and present Baronet succeeded his father in 
 1892. 
 
 Lady Selina Charlotte, the second daughter and co-heir, 
 (the eldest to leave issue,) of the last Earl of Liverpool, married 
 
74 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 (i) at St. George's, Hanover Square 15 August 1833 William 
 Charles Viscount Milton, (son and heir of Charles Wm. 5th 
 Karl Fitz william K.G.,) who died v.p. and s.p.m. 8 Nov. 1835, 
 and (2) at Went worth in the private chapel 28 Aug. 1845 as 
 second wife to George Savile Foljambe of Osberton Hall, Notts, 
 and Aldwark, co. York, who died 18 Dec. 1869. The elder of 
 their two sons, Cecil George Savile Foljambe of Kirkham Abbey, 
 York, Haselbech Hall, Northampton and Ollerton, Notts, was 
 born at Osberton 7 Nov. 1846, and was educated at Eton, entered 
 the Royal Navy in i860, served with the Naval Brigade in the 
 New Zealand War of 1863-64, (medal, and mentioned in 
 despatches), promoted to Lieut. 8 May 1867, and retired in 1870. 
 He married (1) at St. James's, Piccadilly, 22 July 1869 Louisa 
 Blanche (who d. at Compton Place, Sussex, 7 Oct. 187 1, buried at 
 Scopton,Notts,in the family vault,) eldest dau. of Frederick John 
 Howard of Compton Place, Sussex, (grandson of the 5th Earl of 
 Carlisle and Lady Fanny his wife only sister to the 7th Duke of 
 Devonshire,) and (2) at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, 21 July 
 1877 Susan Louisa eldest dau. of Col. William Henry Frederick 
 Cavendish, cousin of the 7th Duke of Devonshire, by Lady Emily 
 Augusta his wife dau. of John George 1st Earl of Durham, by Lady 
 Louisa Elizabeth his wife, eldest dau. of Charles 2nd Earl Grey 
 K.G., Prime Minister 1830-4. He was M.P. for North Notts 
 1880-5, and for the Mansfield Division 1885-92, a County Alder- 
 man Notts County Council 22 Oct. 189 1-8, and was raised to the 
 Peerage as Baron Hawkesbury of Haselbech, co. Northampton, 
 and of Ollerton, Sherwood Forest, co. Nottingham, 24 June 1893, 
 the former extinct Barony of his grandfather being revived in 
 his person. His Lordship received an additional crest by Patent 
 10 Oct. 1893. He seconded the address in the House of Lords at 
 the opening of the following session 12 March 1894, when Lord 
 Rosebery became Prime Minister, and held office as a Lord in 
 Waiting to the Queen from 30 April 1894 to 16 July 1895. He 
 has issue by both marriages. His 2nd son, (the eldest by his 2nd 
 wife,) was app. Second Lieut. 1st. Batt. Oxfordshire Light 
 Infantry 15 February 1898. 
 
 1721. May 17. Henry Perrot of Northleigh, vice Herbert 
 deceased. Only son of James Perrot, and nephew of Charles 
 Perrot, (see Oxford University 1679,) he was born 1689, created 
 D.C.L. Oxford 11 July 1733, m. Martha (who d. 11 Oct 1741) dau. 
 of Brereton Bouchier of Barnsley, Cirencester. He voted against 
 the employment of the Hessian Troops 1730, and the Excise Bill 
 1733, and sat for Oxon May 1721 until his death in Paris (?6) Jan. 
 1740. In 1740 he paid to Magdalen College a fine of ^69 for 
 certain tenements in All Saints, Oxford. He was churchwarden 
 of Barnsley parish 1732, and patron and lord of that manor, and 
 is supposed to have built the present mansion house in the park, 
 the leaden pipes having his initials and the date 1721. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 75 
 
 1722. April 2. Sir R. B. Jenkinson. 
 
 Henry Perrott. 
 1727. Aug. 30. Henry Perrot T. 
 
 Sir W. Stapleton Bart. T. 
 
 Sir William Stapleton of Rotherfield Greys, matric. Ch. 
 Ch. Oxford 17 April 1714, aged 15, and succ. his father Sir 
 William S. of Nevis, as 4th Bart. He m. 28 April 1724 Catherine 
 dau. and heir of Wm. Paul of Bray wick, Berks, voted against 
 Walpole on the matter of the Hessian Troops 1730, and the 
 Excise Bill 1733, and sat for Oxon 1727 till his death " at the 
 Bath " 13 Jan. 1740. 
 
 1734. May 1. The same. 
 
 1740. Jan 30. Sir James Dash wood Bart, of Kirtlington, 
 vice Stapleton deceased. Eldest surviving son of Robert Dash- 
 wood, he was born 17 15, succ. his grandfather (see 1699) as 2nd 
 Bart. 14 July 1734, and m. 17 Feb. 1739 Elizabeth (who brought 
 him ^70,000,) dau. and co-heir of Edward Spencer of Rendles- 
 ham, Suffolk, and sister to the Duchess of Hamilton. Sir James 
 was H.S. Oxon 1738, M.P. Jan. 1740 to April 1755, when unseated, 
 and 1 76 1 -8, and was a steward of the Anniversary Feast of the 
 Independent Electors of Westminster 1748. He succeeded to 
 the large jointure of his mother (Dorothea dau. and co-heir of 
 Sir James Read Bart, of Brocket Hall, Herts,) on her death 21 
 April 1753. He was created D.CL. Oxford 25 Aug. 1743, and 
 was High Steward of the City of Oxford 1759 until his death 10 
 Nov. 1779. 
 
 1740. Feb. 27. George Henry Lee, Viscount Quarendon, 
 of Ditchley, vice Perrot deceased. This nobleman was born 21 
 May 1718, matric. St Johns Coll. Oxford 1 Jan. 1736, created 
 M.A. 14 Feb. 1737, Hon. D.CX. 25 Aug, 1743, and D.CL- by 
 diploma 27 Sept. 1762, and was M.P. for Oxon Feb. 1740 until he 
 succ. his father as 3rd Earl of Lichfield 15 Feb. 1743. He m. Diana 
 only dau. of Sir Thomas Frankland Bart, of Thirkelby, Yorks, 
 and was Custos Brevium in the Common Pleas, 1743-72, a Lord 
 of the Bedchamber to the King Dec. 1760-2, Captain of the Band 
 of Gentlemen Pensioners July 1762-72, sworn a Privy Councillor 
 14 July 1762, Deputy Ranger of Hampton Court Park July 1762- 
 72, was defeated by the Earl of Westmoreland for the office of 
 Chancellor of Oxford Univ. Jan. 1759, but was High Steward 
 thereof 19 Aug. 1760-2, and Chancellor of the Univ. 23 Sept. 
 1762-73 a Vice President of the Society of Arts, D.L. Oxon 17 
 Oct. 1763, and died 19 Sept. 1772. (M.I. Spelsbury). He founded 
 the Lichfield Clinical Professorship at Oxford by a bequest which 
 took effect in 1780. 
 
 1741. May 20. Viscount Quarendon T. 
 
 Sir James Dashwood T. 
 
Norreys Bertie 
 
 T 
 
 il 17. Lord Wen man 
 
 T 2033 
 
 Sir J. Dash wood 
 
 T 2014 
 
 Lord Parker 
 
 W 1919 
 
 Sir E. Turner 
 
 W 1660 
 
 76 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 1743. March 23. Norris Bertie of Weston on the Green, 
 vice Lord Quarendon called to the Upper House. Norreys 
 Bertie was the son of James B. of Springfield, Essex, (who was 
 the eldest son of Captain the Hon. Henry Bertie, see Oxford city 
 1685,) and was born 1718, matric. Magd. Coll. Oxford 5 Dec. 1734, 
 aged 16, and was created M.A. honoris causd 27 May 1738. He 
 unsucc. cont. Westbury 1741 and 1747, but sat for Oxon March 
 x 743-54» an( * died unmarried at Gwent 25 Oct. 1766, having spent 
 several of the latter years of his life on the continent. " His estates 
 of ^"2000 a year he has bequeathed to his brother Capt. Bertie," 
 {sic, but should be great nephew or kinsman, son to the 3rd Earl 
 of Abingdon). 
 
 1747. July 8. Sir James Dashwood T 
 
 1754. 
 
 This was the great Oxfordshire contest, the poll being 
 open 6 days, at the expense it is said of ^"40,000 each side. (See 
 its " History " by William Wing.) Wenman and Dashwood 
 fought for the Old Interest or Blues, receiving the support of the 
 Duke of Marlborough, and the Earls of Guilford, Harcourt, and 
 Macclesfield, while Parker and Turner were championed by the 
 Earls of Abingdon and Lichfield,— the new Interest or Yellows. 
 A great quantity of amusing literature was produced by both 
 sides, and no expense was spared, but on petition Lord Parker 
 and Sir E. Turner were declared duly elected by order of the 
 House 23 April 1755. 
 
 Thomas Viscount Parker was born 12 Oct. 1723, the eldest 
 son of George 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, whom he succ. in the 
 title 17 March 1764, and matric. Hart Hall, Oxford, 10 May 1740, 
 created Hon. M.A. 23 June 1743. and D.C.L. 7 July 1773, and m. 
 12 Dec. 1749 Mary dau. of Sir Wm. Heathcote Bart. He was 
 M.P. Newcastle under Lyme 1747-54, Oxon 1754-61, and 
 Rochester 176] -4, when he went to the Upper House, and became 
 F.R.S. 19 Nov. 1747, a Governor and Guardian of the Foundling 
 Hospital July 1752, D.L- Berks 22 Sept. 1758, and Oxon 15 Oct. 
 1763, and was High Steward of Henley 1764, until his death 
 9 Feb. 1795. 
 
 Sir Edward Turner of Ambroseden, was born 18 April 
 1719, matric. Ball. Coll. Oxford 7 Oct. 1735, aged 17, created 
 M.A. 24 Oct. 1738, and D.C.L. 23 Aug. 1744, and ent. Lincolns 
 Inn 2 July 1745. He m. April 1739 Cassandra eldest dau. of 
 William, son of Theophilus Leigh of Addlestrop, co. Gloucester, 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 77 
 
 by Mary sister of the Duke of Chandos. He was M.P. Great 
 Bedwin 1741-7, Oxon 1754-61, and Penryn 1761 until his death at 
 Ambrosden 31 Oct. 1766, buried at Bicester. He was the only 
 surviving son of Sir Edward Turner, Chairman of the East India 
 Company, whom he succeeded as 2nd Bart. 19 June 1733. Two 
 of his daughters, Elizabeth and Cassandra, married Thomas 
 Lord Saye and Sele, and the 2nd Lord Hawke, respectively. 
 His son John assumed the surname and arms of Dryden 1791 , 
 and was created a Baronet 1795, the two Baronetcies becoming 
 united in the person of his grandson in 1874. 
 
 Philip Viscount Wenman, elder son of Richard the 5th 
 Viscount, whom he succ. in the title 28 Nov. 1728, was born 23 
 Nov. 1719, matric. Oriel Coll. Oxford 9 June 1737, created D.CL. 
 15 June 1741, and m. Sophia eldest dau. and co-heir of James 
 Herbert of Tythorpe, (see 1740.) He was M.P. Oxford city Nov. 
 1749-54, and Oxon 1754 until unseated April 1755, and died 
 at Thame Park 16 Aug. 1760, aged 41. 
 
 1761. April 8. Sir James Dashwood T 
 
 Lord Charles Spencer T 
 
 Lord Charles Spencer, of Wheatfield, was 2nd son of 
 Charles 3rd Duke of Marborough, and was born 31 March 1740, 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 28 April 1756, created M.A. 22 March 
 1759, and D.CL. 7 July 1773. He was returned for Oxon at the 
 age of 21 in 1761, and sat till 1790, and again 1796 to 1801, and 
 seconded the Address in the House 25 Nov. 1762. He m. 2 Oct. 
 
 1762, Hon. Mary Beauclerk dau. of Vere 1st Lord Vere, third son 
 of the first Duke of St. Albans. Lord Charles was made Deputy 
 Ranger of Windsor Forest and Purveyor of Kensington Gardens 
 Dec. 1762, voted against Wilkes 1769, was made a Verdurer of 
 Whichwood Forest Sept. 1763, and was Col. of the Oxon Militia 
 28 May 1778 to 4 Oct. 1798, and received the rank of Col. in the 
 Army, 2 July 1778. He was sworn a Privy Councillor 20 April 
 
 1763, and was a member of various Ministries lor many years, 
 being Surveyor of Gardens and Waters Jan. to April 1763, 
 Comptroller of the Household April 1763 to July 1765, a Lord of 
 the Admiralty March 1768 to July 1779, Treasurer of the 
 Chamber Sept. 1779, until the abolition of the office, June 1782, 
 a Vice Treasurer of Ireland Sept. 1782 to March 1784, Joint 
 Postmaster General Feb. 1801 to Feb. 1806, Master of the Mint 
 Feb. to Oct. 1806, and a Lord of the Bedchamber 1807 until his 
 death 16 June 1820. 
 
 1763. Jan. 12. Lord Charles Spencer, re-el. on being 
 Out Ranger of Windsor Forest, and surveyor of the King's 
 Gardens. 
 
 1763. April 4. Lord C. Spencer, re-el. on being app. 
 Comptroller of the Household. 
 
78 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 1768. March 30. Lord Charles Spencer T 
 
 Viscount Wen man W 
 
 Philip 7th Viscount Wenman, only surviving son of the 
 M.P. 1754, whom he succeeded 16 Aug. 1760, was born at Thame 
 Park, 1742, matric. Oriel. Coll. Oxford 1 Feb. 1760, aged 17, 
 created M.A. 29 Oct. 1762, D.C.I,. 7 July 1773, and m. 7 July 1766 
 Lady Eleanor Bertie dau. of Willoughby 3rd Earl of Abingdon. 
 He voted for Wilkes 1769, sat for Oxon 1768-96, and died s.p. 
 26 March 1800, when the title became extinct. He and his aunt 
 Mrs Herbert came into a jointure of ^"iooo a year on the death 
 on 36 May 1798 of Mrs Tate of Burleigh House, Loughborough, 
 co. Leicester, dau. of Mr. Butler, and relict (1) of Philip Herbert, 
 and (2) of Tate of Oxon. 
 
 1774. Oct. 19. The same. 
 
 1779. Dec. 22. Lord C. Spencer, re-el. after being made 
 Treasurer of the Chamber. 
 
 1780. Sept. 27. Rt. Hon. Lord C. Spencer T 
 
 Viscount Wenman W 
 
 1782. Dec. 18. Lord C. Spencer, (as a Whig,) re-el. after 
 being app. a Vice Treasurer of Ireland. 
 
 1784. April 7. Rt. Hon. Lord C. Spencer W 
 
 Viscount Wenman W 
 
 1790. June 24. Viscount Wenman W 
 
 Marquis of Blandford T 
 
 George Spencer, Marquis of Blandford, of Blenheim 
 Palace, was the elder of the two sons of George 4th Duke of 
 Marlborough K.G., and was born 6 March 1766, educ. at Eton, 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 14 Jan. 1784, created M.A. 9 Dec. 1786, 
 and D.CL. 20 June 1792. He m. 17 Sept. 1791 Lady Susan 
 Stuart dau. of John 7th Earl of Galloway K.T. Lord Blandford 
 was M.P. Oxon 1790-6, Tregony 1802-4, a Lord oi the Treasury 
 Aug. 1804 to Feb. 1806, was called to the Upper House in his 
 father's lifetime as Baron Spencer of Wormleighton 12 March 
 1806, and took the additional name and arms of Churchill 
 by letters patent 26 May 1807. He was made D.L- Berks 28 July 
 1798, Major 1st Reading Battalion of Volunteers 31 Dec. 1803 
 and 19 Nov. 1805, Lt. Col. Commandant 1st Reading Volunteers 
 1 Sept. 1808, and Lt. Col. Commanding 3rd Royal Berkshire 
 Militia 10 Sept. 1808. His Lordship succeeded his father as 5th 
 Duke of Marlborough 30 Jan. 1817, and was elected F.S.A., 
 High Steward of Oxford 1817, and also of Woodstock 1817, and 
 died 5 March 1840. 
 
 1796. June 3. Rt. Hon. Lord C. Spencer W 
 John Fane. T 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 79 
 
 John Fane of Wormsley, was the 2nd but eldest surviving 
 son (by his third wife) of Henry Fane M.P., Clerk to the Privy 
 Council, who was youngest brother to the 8th Earl of Westmore- 
 land. He m. 16 Nov. 1773 Lady Elizabeth Parker eldest dau. of 
 Thomas 3rd Earl of Macclesfield, (see 1754.) Mr Fane was created 
 D.C.L. Oxford 28 June 1797, app. Major of the Oxfordshire 
 Militia 4 June 1803, (not so in 1807,) Lt. Col. Commandt. 2nd 
 Oxfordshire (Local) Militia 24 April 1809, and was M.P. for the 
 County 1796 until his death in Westminster 8 Feb. 1824, being 
 buried at Lewknor, Oxon. He was an eminent agriculturalist. 
 
 1 801. March 6. Lord Francis Almaric Spencer, of 
 Wychwood Park, vice his uncle Lord Charles Spencer app. 
 Postmaster General. Lord Francis was the younger son of 
 George 4th Duke of Marlborough, and brother to the M.P. 1790. 
 Born 26 Dec. 1779, he matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 20 Feb. 1797, was 
 created D.C.L. 15 June 1803, and m. 25 Nov. 1800 Lady Frances 
 FitzRoy dau. of Augustus 3rd Duke of Grafton K.G. who was 
 Prime Minister 1766-70. Lord Francis became Captain in 
 command of the Oxfordshire Cavalry Volunteers 13 July 1803, 
 Captain in command of the Lewknor Hundred Vol. 3 Nov. 1803. 
 Lt. Col. Cdt. 1st Oxfordshire Militia 14 April 1809, Lt. Col. Cdt. 
 of the 1st or Queen's Own Oxfordshire Volunteer or Yeomanry 
 Cavalry 12 Dec. 1818, and F.R.S. He was a Commr. of Control 
 for the Affairs oi India 13 Nov. 1809 to July 1810, sat for Oxon 
 Feb. 1801 until created Baron Churchill 11 Aug. 1815, was 
 Hereditary Ranger of Wychwood Forest, and died at Brighton 7 
 or 10 March 1845. 
 
 1802. July 14. Lord F. A. Spencer T. 
 
 John Fane T. 
 
 1806. Nov. 8. The same. Re-elected 12 May 1807, and 
 12 Oct. 1812. 
 
 1815. Oct. 12. William Henry Ashurst of Waterstock, vice 
 Lord F. A. Spencer called to the House of Lords. Lord 
 Sunderland, afterwards Duke of Marlborough (see Woodstock 
 1826,) was a candidate, but after a warm contest, retired without 
 a poll. Mr Ashurst was born 19 Oct. 1778, and was the elder son 
 of Sir Wm. Henry Ashurst Knt. a Justice of the King's Bench 
 1770-1800, and twice a Lord Commr. of the Great Seal, who died 
 1807. He matric. Worcester Coll. Oxford 26 Feb. 1796, B.A. 
 1798, created D.C.L- 6 July 1810, (then H.S of Oxon,) and m. (1) 
 10 Dec. 1806 Elizabeth eldest dau. of Oswald Mosley of Boles- 
 worth Castle, Cheshire, and (2) 15 Aug. 1839 Selina widow of Sir 
 Charles Mill Bart., and eldest dau. of Sir John Morshead Bart. 
 Mr. Ashurst became Cornet of the Bullington, Dorchester, and 
 Thame Cavalry Volunteers 1 Aug. 1798, and Lieut, thereof April 
 1806, was J. P. and D,L. Oxon, M.P. Oct. 1815-30, President of 
 the Oxfordshire Agricultural Society 1837-46, a Trustee of 
 
80 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Dr. Radcliffe's Charity, and Chairman of the Oxon Quarter 
 Sessions 1822 until his death at Waterstock 3 June 1846, 
 aged 67. 
 
 1818. June 24. John Fane. 
 
 W. H. Ashurst. 
 
 1820. March 13. The same. 
 
 1824. March 8. John Fane of Wormsley, vice his father 
 deceased. Elder son of the M.P. 1796, he was born 9 July 1775, 
 and m. 6 June 1801 Elizabeth dau. of Win. Lowndes Stone of 
 Brightwell Park, He was created D.C.L. Oxford 30 June 1824, 
 was H.S. Oxon 1835, M.P. March 1824-31, and died 4 Oct. 1850, 
 aged 75. 
 
 1826. June 16. W. H. Ashurst T 1329. 
 
 John Fane T 1268. 
 
 G. F. Stratton W 1058. 
 
 The Poll lasted three days, and 2295 voted. The Plumpers 
 given were for Ashurst 76, Fane 44, Stratton 815. The split votes 
 were, Ashurst and Fane 1117, Ashurst and Stratton 136, Fane 
 and Stratton 107. George Frederick Stratton of Great Tew, who 
 was also defeated at Coventry March 1803, became Major Com- 
 mandant Bloxham and Banbury Cavalry Volunteers 3 Sept. 1803 
 (so in 1825,) and died in greatly reduced circumstances in Long 
 Island, North America. (Wings Annals of Steeple Barton?) 
 
 1830. Aug. 5. John Fane T 1904. 
 
 Lord Norreys T 1618. 
 
 Sir G. Dashwood W 1246. 
 
 2762 voted at this election, the Plumpers being for Fane 94, 
 Norreys 421, and Dashwood 241, while the Split Votes were Fane 
 and Norreys 1001, Fane and Dashwood 809, Norreys and 
 Dashwood 196. Sir George Dashwood 4th Bart., was the grand- 
 son of the M.P. 1699. 
 
 Montague Bertie Lord Norreys, of Wytham Abbey, Berks, 
 eldest son of Montague 5th Earl of Abingdon, was born 19 June 
 1798, educ. at Eton, M.A. Trin. Coll. Cambridge 1829, and m. 7 
 Jan. 1835 Elizabeth Lavinia only dau. of George Granville 
 Harcourt, (see 1831.) Lord Norreys became Lieut. 1st Oxford- 
 shire Yeomanry 9 July 1827, Captain 16 Dec. 1830, and was 
 Mayor * thereof 14 April 1847 to May 1855, D.L- Oxon, Hon. 
 D.C.L- Oxford 11 June 1834, M.P. Oxon 1830- 1, when defeated, 
 and 1832-52, and Abingdon 1852 until he succeeded his father as 
 6th Earl of Abingdon 16 Oct. 1854. He was Lord Lieut, and 
 Cus. Rot. of Berks 28 Feb. 1855 to 11 Aug. 1881, High Steward of 
 Abingdon 1854-84, (both in succession to his father,) and High 
 Steward of Oxford until his death in London 8 Feb. 1884, buried 
 13 Feb. at Wytham Abbey. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 8i 
 
 1831. May 9-12. G. G. V. Harcourt W 1782. 
 
 R. Weyland W 1688. 
 
 Lord Norreys T 1 3 1 6. 
 
 This was the last election of an unreformed Parliament, 
 and 2934 voted, the Poll being; kept open 3 days, and the enthusi- 
 asm of Reform won the two seats for the Whigs. 57 Plumpers 
 were given for Harcourt, 22 for Weyland, and 996 for Norreys, 
 while 1536 split their votes between Harcourt and Weyland, 189 
 between Harcourt and Norreys, and only 131 between Weyland 
 and Norreys. 
 
 George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt of Nuneham 
 Park, eldest son of the Hon. and Most Rev. Edward Vernon 
 Harcourt, Archbishop of York 1807-47, (4th son of the 1st Lord 
 Vernon,) was born at Sudbury, co. Derby, 6 Aug. 1785, educ. at 
 Westminster, matric. Oriel Coll. Oxford 23 May 1803, student 
 1803-14, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1810. He m. (1) 27 March 1815 Lady 
 Elizabeth Bingham, (who died 9 Sept. 1838) eldest dau. of 
 Richard 2nd Karl of Lucan, and (2) 30 Sept. 1847 Frances Eliza- 
 beth Anne dau. of John Braham, and widow (1) of John James 
 Henry Waldegrave of Navestock, Essex, and (2) of George 7th 
 Earl of Waldegrave. (This lady re-m. fourthly in 1863 to Lord 
 Carlingford). On the death of the last Earl Harcourt he took the 
 name of Harcourt by Royal License 15 Jan. 1831, and became 
 tenant for life next to his father of the ancient Harcourt estates 
 at Newnham Courtney and Stanton Harcourt. He was M.P. 
 Lichfield 1806-30, and Oxon 1831-61, and died at Strawberry Hill, 
 Twickenham, 19 Dec. 1861, aged 76, buried 27 Dec. at Stanton 
 Harcourt. 
 
 Richard Weyland of Woodeaton, u a soldier of the finest 
 type," was the 2nd surviving son of John Weyland of Woodrising 
 Hall, Norfolk, (app. Major Oxon Militia 19 April 1779,) by 
 Elizabeth dau. and heiress of John Nourse of Woodeaton Hall. 
 Born 25 March 1780, he spent a short time at St. John's Coll. Cam. 
 bridge, and then entering the army, as Ensign 9th (East Norfolk) 
 Regiment 26 Dec. 1805, he became Lieut, therein 17 Dec. 1806, Lieut. 
 1 6th Light Dragoons 26 March 1807, Brevet Captain 18 July 181 1, 
 Captain of a troop therein 5 Sept. 181 1, and served with that 
 regiment throughout the Peninsular War, in Spain and Portugal, 
 (being A.D.C. to General Sir George Anson,) and at Waterloo, 
 for which he received the Waterloo Medal. He was made 
 Brevet Major 21 Jan. 1819, but retired from the army before 1822. 
 In 1825 he succeeded under the will of his maternal grandfather 
 to the Woodeaton estate, and in 1854 also succeeded his elder 
 brother in the Woodrising property. Major Weyland m. 12 Sept. 
 1820 Charlotte youngest dau. of Charles Gordon of Cluny, co, 
 Aberdeen, and widow of Sir John Lowther Johnstone 6th Bart. 
 M.P. of Westerhall, co. Dumfries. He wasJ.P. andD.L. Norfolk 
 
82 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 and Oxon, H.S. Oxon 1830, M.P. 1831-7, and died 14 Oct. 1864, 
 aged 84. His dau. Joanna m. in 1840 the 2nd Karl of Verulam. 
 The Member must not be confused with another Richard Wey- 
 land, who became Ensign 53rd Foot 31 July 1806, and Lieut. 8th 
 Foot 1 March 1809, (so in 181 2). 
 
 1832. Dec. 17. G. G. Harcourt W. 
 
 Major R. Weyland W. 
 
 Lord Norreys T. 
 
 The celebrated Reform Act of 1832 gave a third Member 
 to the County of Oxford. 
 
 !835. Jan. 12. The same. 
 
 J837- July 29. Lord Norreys T 3002. 
 
 G. G. Harcourt W 2835. 
 
 T. A. W. Parker T 2767. 
 
 Thomas Stonor W 1458. 
 
 This was the first instance in Oxfordshire of the county 
 being divided into polling districts ; 4125 voted out of 5253. 
 Blue and White were the Colours of Lord Norreys, while Mr. 
 Stonor's Colour was Yellow. Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme 
 Parker of Sherborne Castle, only son of Hon. Thomas Parker, 
 (who succ. his brother George, see Woodstock 1777, as 5th Karl 
 of Macclesfield 20 March 1842,) was born 17 March 1811, educ. at 
 Eton, and matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 24 June 1829. He m. (1) 11 
 July 1839 Henrietta (who died 19 Nov. 1839) dau. of Kdmund 
 Turnor of Stoke Rochford, co. Lincoln, and (2) 25 Aug. 1842 
 Lady Mary Frances Grosvenor (Lady of the Bedchamber to the 
 Princess of Wales,) dau. of Richard 2nd Marquis of Westminster 
 K.G. He became Cornet 1st Oxfordshire Yeomanry 24 Jan. 
 
 1831, Captain 9 June 1837 to March 1850, D.L- Oxon 21 Aug. 
 
 1832, M.P. 1837-41, Viscount Parker by courtesy 20 March 1842, 
 and succeeded his father as 6th Karl of Macclesfield 31 March 
 1850, and also as High Steward of Henley, which post he 
 retained until his death 24 July 1896. He was patron of 6 
 livings. 
 
 1 84 1. July 5. Lord Norreys T. 
 
 G. G. Harcourt W. 
 
 J. W. Henley T. 
 
 Joseph Warner Henley of Waterperry, only son of Joseph 
 H. of London, merchant, was born at Putney 3 March 1793, educ. 
 at Fulham, matric. Magd. Coll. Oxford 27 April 1812, B.A. 1815, 
 M.A. 1834, created D.CL- 28 June 1854, and m. 9 Dec. 1817 
 Georgiana 4th dau. of John Fane of Wormsley, (see 1824). He 
 was in his father's office 1815-17, was for some years Vice-Chair- 
 man Oxon Quarter Sessions, then Chairman thereof 1846-63, and 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 83 
 
 M.P. Oxon 1841 until he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds Jan. 
 1878. Mr. Henley was sworn a Privy Councillor 27 Feb. 1852, 
 and held office as President of the Board of Trade Feb. to Dec. 
 1852, and Feb. 1858 to March 1859. He died at Waterperry 8 
 Dec. 1884, aged 91. 
 
 1847, Aug. 3. Lord Norreys L-C. 
 
 G. G. Harcourt L.C. 
 
 J. W. Henley C. 
 
 1852. March 10. Rt. Hon. J. W. Henley, re-el. on ac- 
 cepting office. 
 
 1852. July 12. Rt. Hon. J. W. Henley C. 2328. 
 
 Lt Col. Sidney North C. 2218. 
 
 G. G. Harcourt L-C. 1313. 
 
 Lord No?reys L.C. 681. 
 
 Lt. Col. Sidney North of Wroxton Abbey, was the 2nd son 
 of Lt. Gen. Sir Charles Wm. Doyle GkC.H., and was born at 
 Alnwick 28 May 1804, educ. at Sandhurst, became Knsigne nth 
 Foot 1 Feb. 1821, Captain 87th Foot 22 Nov. 1827, went on half 
 pay 17 April 1835, an d sold out of the Array 1837. He m. 18 
 Nov. 1835 Lady .Susan North younger dau. of the 3rd Earl of 
 Guilford (see Banbury 1790,) in whose favour the abeyance of the 
 Barony of North was terminated n Sept. 1841. He assumed the 
 surname of North by Royal License 20 Aug. 1838, was created 
 D.CL. Oxford 12 June 1839, became J. P. and D.L. Northants, 
 Middlesex, and Oxon, J. P. co. Warwick, D.L, co. Cambridge, 
 H.S. Oxon 1845, Lt. Col. 2nd Tower . Hamlets Militia 1836, Lt. 
 Col. Oxfordshire Rifle Volunteers 1 May 1860-73, and Hon. Col. 
 thereaf 26 March 1873-94. He was sworn a Privy Conncillor 3 
 April 1886, sat for Oxon 1852-85, and died n Oct. 1894, aged 
 90. 
 
 1857. March 30. Rt. Hon. J. W. Henley C. 
 
 Lt. Col. Sidney North C. 
 
 G. G. Harcourt L- 
 
 1859. March 6. Rt. Hon. J. W. Henley, re-el. after ac- 
 cepting office. 
 
 1859. May 2. Rt. Hon. J. W. Henley. 
 
 Lt. Col. Sidney North. 
 
 G. G. Harcourt. 
 1862. Feb. 3. Lt. Col. J. W. Fane C. 1909. 
 
 Sh H. Dashwood L. 1722. 
 
 vice Harcourt deceased. Sir Henry Wm. Dashwood 5th Bart, was 
 the son of the defeated candidate 1830. 
 
84 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Lt. Col. John William Fane of Wormsley, eldest son of the 
 M.P. 1824, was born 1 Sept. 1804, and married four times, (1) 30 
 Nov. 1826 Catherine (who d. 6 Nov. 1828) 12th dau. of Sir 
 Benjamin Hobhouse 1st Bart, and sister to Lord Broughton (see 
 Williams' Gloucestershire Members,) (2) 3 Nov. 1829 Lady Ellen 
 Catherine Parker (who d. 23 Sept. 1844) 3rd dan. of Thomas 5th 
 Earl of Macclesfield, and sister to the M.P. 1837 ; (3) 17 Nov. 
 1845 Charlotte (who d. 19 May 1855) youngest dau. of Theodore 
 Henry Broadhead ; and (4) March 1856 Victoria youngest dau. of 
 Wm. Temple. He was app. Major of the Oxfordshire Militia 2 
 May 1825, Lt. Col. 6 April 1847, Lt. Col. Commandant thereof 18 
 July 1862 to 22 May 1872, and during the Crimean War, he ac- 
 companied the service companies of the regiment to Corfu in 
 1855, and commanded them during their stay there. He was 
 created D.C,L. Oxford 28 June 1854, J.P. and D.L. Oxon, H.S. 
 1854, M.P. Feb. 1862-8, ond died in London 19 Nov. 1875. 
 
 1865. July 17. Rt. Hon. J. W. Henley C. 
 
 Lt. Col. J, S. North C. 
 
 Lt. Col. J. W. Fane C. 
 
 1868. Nov. 18. Rt. Hon. J. W. Henley C. 
 
 Lt. Col. J. S. North C. 
 
 W. C. Cartwright L. 
 
 William Cornwallis Cartwright of Aynho, Northants, 
 eldest son of Sir Thomas Cartwright G.C.H. many years Envoy 
 to Sweden, who d. 1850, was born 24 Nov. 1825, and m. Fraulein 
 Clementine Gaul. He became J.P. and D.L. Northants, H.S. 
 1890, sat for Oxon 1868-85, and is lord of the manors of Aynho, 
 and Hinton in the Hedges. 
 
 1874. Feb. 3. The same. 
 
 1878. Feb. 5. Edward William Vernon Harcourt, of 
 Nuneham Park, Berks, and Stanton Harcourt vice Henley, 
 resigned. Elder son of Rev. Canon Wm. Vernon Harcourt of 
 York, and nephew of the M.P. 1831, he was born 26 June 1825, 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 19 Oct. 1843. student 1843-7, an( * m. 26 
 June 1849 Lady Susan Harriet Holroyd only dau. of George 2nd 
 Earl of Sheffield. He was J.P. Berks, J.P. and D.L. Oxon, H.S. 
 1875, M.P. Oxon Feb. 1878-85, and South Oxon 1885-6, lord of 
 the manors of Nuneham, Stanton Harcourt, Hinksey, North- 
 moor, Coggs, and ShifTord, and Hon. Col. 1st Cinque Ports 
 Artillery Volunteers 7 Aug. 1872 until his death 19 Dec. 1891. 
 
 1880. April 1. Lt. Col. J. S. North C. 
 W. C. Cartwright L- 
 Col. B. W. Harcourt C. 
 
Members for Oxfordshire. 85 
 
 Oxfordshire had 4721 registered electors in 1832, 7663 in 
 1868, and 6784 in 1884. At the Dissolution of Parliament 18 
 Nov. 1885, the provisions of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 . 
 came into operation, whereby Oxfordshire was divided into three 
 Parliamentary Divisions, Mid. or Woodstock, North or Banbury, 
 and South or Henley Divisions, each returning one Member. 
 The High Sheriff of the County is the Returning Officer. 
 
 I. Mid Oxfordshire. 
 
 1885. Dec. 3. Francis W. Maclean L 4327. 
 
 Viscount Valcntia C 4138. 
 
 Francis William Maclean, third son of Alexander Maclean 
 of Barrow Hedges, Carshalton, Surrey, was born 13 Dec. 1844, 
 educ. at Westminster, and graduated B.A. 1866, M.A. 187 1, Trin. 
 Coll. Camb. He entered the Inner Temple 1 Nov. 1864, where 
 he was called to the bar 30 April 1868, and chosen a Bencher 
 Nov. 1892, and became a Queen's Counsel May 1886. He m. 10 
 Aug. 1869 Mattie 2nd dau. of John Sowerby of Ben well Tower, 
 Northumberland. Mr. Maclean was M.P. for Mid Oxon 1885 
 until he was made a Master in IyUnacy April 1891, and from this 
 office was promoted to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
 Judicature of Bengal Oct. 1896, and received the honour of 
 Knighthood 12 Oct. 1896. He was Chairman of the Central 
 Committee at Calcutta for the relief of the sufferers from the 
 famine in 1897-8, and made K.C.I.E. 11 Jan. 1898. 
 
 1886. July 6. Francis W. Maclean Q.C. Iy.U. 
 1891. April 21. G. H. Morrell C 4448. 
 
 G. R. Benson L 3768. 
 
 vice Maclean made a Master in I^unacy. George Herbert Morrell 
 of Headington Hill Hall, eldest son of Rev. George Kidd Mor- 
 rell D.C.I,, of Adderbury, Oxon, vicar of Moulsford, Berks, was 
 born 20 Feb. 1845, educ. at Rugby 1859-63, (winner of Challenge 
 School Athletic Cup 1863,) and matric. Exeter Coll. Oxford 26 
 May 1863, B.A. 1867, B.C.I,, and M.A. 1870, (winner of Univer- 
 sity Pair Oar Race 1866.) He entered the Inner Temple 29 April 
 1868, where he was called to the bar 26 Jan. 1871, and went the 
 Oxford Circuit, and m. 4 Feb. 1874 Emily Alicia only child and 
 heir of James Morrell of Headington Hill. He is author of the 
 " Student's Manual of Comparative Anatomy, and Guide to 
 Dissection." Col. Morrell has spent many years in the Volunteer 
 Service, for he was a member of the Rugby School Cadet Corps 
 21 Feb. 1861 to 16 Oct. 1863, (Ensign 20 Feb. 1862, I^ieut. 20 
 Aug. 1862, Captain 23 Oct. 1862 ;) of the Oxford Univ. Corps 17 
 Oct. 1863 to 11 Feb. 1869, (Ensign 6 July 1864, I^ieut. 21 March 
 1865, Captain 7 Nov. 1665 to May 1868, Quarter Master Sergeant 
 9 May 1868 ;) and of the Inns of Court Volunteers 12 Feb. 1869 to 
 
86 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 13 Nov. 1871. He was afterwards Lt. Col. Commandant of the 
 Oxford Univ. Corps 22 Jan. 1879 to 1 Nov. 1897, receiving the 
 rank of Hon. Col. 1895, an( * was presented the Volunteer Decora- 
 tion by H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge in 1894, (First List). 
 He formed one of the Rugby team which won the Ashburton 
 Shield 1861, and of the Oxford Univ. team which won the Chan- 
 cellor's Plate, against Camb. Univ. in 1866. Col. Morrell was a 
 member of the Oxford Local Board 1871-83, and of the Oxford 
 School Board 1873-7, was President of the Oxford School of 
 Science and Art 1884-91, made J. P. Berks 1876, J. P. Oxon 1877, 
 Dep. Lieut. Oxon Jan. 1885, High Sheriff of Oxon 1885, and has 
 been an Alderman of the County Council since 1889. He was 
 elected for Mid Oxon April 1891, but lost his seat the following 
 year, but has again represented the Division since 1895. 
 
 1892. July. G. R. Benson GX. 4278. 
 
 G. H. Morrell C 4167. 
 
 Godfrey Rathbone Benson, 4th son of William B. of Aires- 
 ford, Hants, was born in 1864, and matric. Ball. Coll. Oxford 16 
 Oct. 1883, aged 18. He sat for Mid Oxon 1892-5, bat was 
 defeated April 1891, and 1895. 
 
 1895. July 19. G. H. Morrell C 4669. 
 
 G. R. Benson L 3740. 
 
 Mid Oxon had 9767 electors in 1895. 
 
 II. North Oxfordshire. 
 
 1885. Dec. 4. Sir Bernhard Samuelson L 4436. 
 
 Llewelyn Malcolm Wynne C 2944. 
 
 Sir Bernhard Samuelson of Bodicote Grange. Banbury, son 
 of Samuel Henry S. of Liverpool, merchant, was born 22 Nov. 
 1820, educ, at Skirlaugh, Yorkshire, and m. (1) 20 July 184 \ 
 Caroline (who d. 16 April 1886,) dau. of Henry Blundell of Hull, 
 and (2) 6 April 1889 Lelia Mathilda dau. of the Chevalier Leon 
 Serena, and widow of Wm. Denny of Dumbarton. He was an 
 extensive ironmaster at Middlesborough, and agricultural im- 
 plement manufacturer at Banbury, a member of the Institution 
 of Civil Engineers, of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, 
 Past President of the Iron and Steel Institute, and became a 
 Knight of the Legion of Honour 1878. He was M.P. Banbury 
 Feb. to April 1859, when defeated, and 1865-85, and for North 
 Oxon 1885-95, and was created a Baronet in 1884, and sworn a 
 Privy Councillor in 1895. Sir Bernhard is a County Alderman 
 of Oxon, and F.R.S. 
 
Sir B. Samuelson G.L. 
 
 3677. 
 
 L. M. Wynne C. 
 
 3184. 
 
 Sir B. Samuelson G.L- 
 
 3640. 
 
 L. M. Wynne C. 
 
 3453- 
 
 Albert Brassey C. 
 
 4057. 
 
 C. Thornton L. 
 
 3047- 
 
 Members for Oxfordshire. 87 
 
 1886. July 13. 
 
 1892. July 
 
 1895. July 22. 
 
 Albert Brassey of Heythrop Park, Chipping Norton, son of 
 Thomas Brassey an eminent railway contractor, and brother to 
 Thomas Lord Brassey, Governor of New South Wales, was' born 
 22 Feb. 1844, and matric. Univ. Coll. Oxford 18 Oct. 1862, B.A. 
 1867. He m. 13 Jan. 1871 the Hon. Matilda Maria Helena 
 Bingham eldest dau. of John 4th Lord Clanmorris. Mr Brassey 
 entered the Army as Cornet 14th Hussars 21 Aug. 1867, and was 
 Lieut, thereof 3 April 1869-71. He became Captain Oxfordshire 
 Yeomany 6 April 1872, (Hon. Major in 1889,) and was Lt. Col. 
 thereof 21 April 1892-4, (rank of Hon. Col. 1893.) He is a J. P. 
 for Oxon, was High Sheriff 1878, Mayor of Chipping Norton 9 
 Nov. 1898, and has been M.P. for North Oxon since 1895. 
 
 North Oxon had 8145 electors in 1895. 
 III. South Oxfordshire. 
 
 1885. Dec. 2. Col. E. W. Harcourt C- 3778. 
 
 Fred. Wm. Maude L. 3258. 
 
 1886. July 15. Hon. Francis Parker C. 3674. 
 
 Sir W. Phillimore G.L. 2600. 
 
 Hon. Francis Parker was born 15 Aug. 1851, the 4th son 
 of Thomas 6th Earl of Macclesfield (see 1837,) and was educ. at 
 Eton, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 13 Oct. 1869, S.C.L. and B.A. 1873, 
 M.A. 1879, entered the Middle Temple 3 Aug. 1871, went to the 
 Inner Temple 6 Nov. 1871, and was called to the bar at the Inner 
 Temple 26 Jan. 1875, and went the Oxford circuit. He m. 16 
 Feb. 1882 Henrietta 3rd dau. of Henry Lomax Gaskell of 
 Kiddington Hall, Woodstock, and was M.P. for South Oxon 
 1886-95. 
 
 1892. July. Hon. F. Parker C 3688 
 
 Sir W. Phillimore G L 3269 
 
 1895. July 24. R. T. Hermon -Hodge C 3831 
 H. Samuel L 3470 
 
 Robert Trotter Hermon -Hodge of Wyfold Court, Reading, 
 eldest son of George Wm. Hodge of Newcastle on Tyne, was 
 born in 185 1, educ. at Clifton College, matric. Worcester Coll. 
 
88 Members for Oxfordshire. 
 
 Oxford 17 Oct. 1870, S.CX. and B.A. 1873, M.A. 1881. Hem. 
 in 1877 Francis Caroline only daughter of Edward Hermon M.P. 
 of Wyfold Court, and assumed the prefix surname of Hermon in 
 1885. He is J. P. for Berks and Oxon, was a County Alderman of 
 Oxon 1889-95, became Second Lieut. Oxfordshire Yeomry 9 Nov. 
 1878, Lieut. 1 July 1881, Captain 5 May 1892, (rank of Hon. Major 
 1894), an< * was ^-P- Accrington Division of North East 
 Lancashire 1886-92, but was defeated there 1885, 1892, and Dec. 
 1893. Since 1895 he has sat for South Oxon. He moved the 
 Address at the opening of the Session in 1891. 
 
 South Oxon had 8932 registered electors in 1895. 
 
THE CITY OF OXFORD. 
 
 The first Parliament of England was summoned by King 
 John to meet at Oxford on 15 Nov. 1213, and since that remote 
 period other Parliaments were ordered to meet in the Loyal 
 City in 1439, and April 1554, (when however the place of meeting 
 was afterwards altered in each instance to Westminster.) Fur- 
 thermore the Royalist Members of the famous Long Parliament 
 held their assembly, called the Junta, at Oxford in 1643-4, an( * 
 11 in consequence of the Great Plague raging in London, the 
 Parliament met in the great Hall of Christ Church in Oxford on 
 9 Oct. 1665, and a gay Court surrounded the King there." And 
 a little later on " a new Parliament met at Oxford 21 March 1681, 
 because the University was devoted to the Crown." For the first 
 three or four centuries most of the City Members appear to have 
 been selected from the ranks of the leading merchants and 
 principal men of Oxford, and included many Mayors, while 
 several of the Recorders were also returned. Since that period 
 however the City went further afield for its Representatives, in- 
 asmuch as it commenced to elect scions of the County Families of 
 Oxfordshire, and during the last century a still greater change is 
 witnessed by the election of distinguished strangers. 
 
 The many disputes between Town and University are 
 instanced in the references to John de Bereford (1344,) and 
 Thomas Wen tworth (1604.) The proverbial loyalty of Oxford 
 was never more exhibited than during the Cival War, when its 
 Members Whistler and Smith were disabled to sit ; but, on the 
 other hand Col. Cooper and Aid. Nixon were staunch Round- 
 heads, and the famous lawyer Bulstrode Whitlocke, and Unton 
 and Richard Croke were also firm supporters of Parliament. In 
 later times among its distinguished Members have been Sir 
 George Nares, Justice of the Common Pleas, Field Marshal Earl 
 Harcourt, General St. John, Sir Charles Wetherell, Solicitor 
 General, Sit William Erie, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 
 Lord Hatherley, Lord Chancellor, Viscount Cardwell, Secretary 
 for War, and Lord Justice Chitty. Oxford in fact has shewn a 
 decided preference for electing distinguished lawyers, which is 
 still further demonstrated by the mention of George Caulfield, 
 Matthew Skinner and Francis Burton, who were Welsh Judges. 
 Sir William Harcourt has been Chancellor of the Exchequer and 
 Leader of the House, and the present Member, Viscount 
 Valentia, is Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household. Mr. 
 Thackeray was the best known of the rejected Candidates. 
 
90 MEMBERS FOR OXFORD. 
 
 1295. Thomas de Sowy. 
 Andrew de Pyrie. 
 
 These are the earliest known Citizens for Oxford, although 
 the City was in all probability previously represented in the 
 Pajliaments of 1265, and Jan. and Sept. 1283. Even after this 
 date instances have occurred as in 1297, May 1300 and 1316, when 
 no Members were summoned for cities and boroughs. In 1285 
 Thomas de Sowy, clerk, held as tenant for the King. {Oxford 
 City Documents, edited by J. E. Thorold Rogers?) He was Mayor 
 of Oxford 1294, x 3 OI > 1302, 1303, and was app. with three others 
 and divers merchants with the Sheriff of Oxford to purchase 
 specified quantities of wool. 30 July 1297. {Patent Rolls). His 
 colleague was Mayor of Oxford 1297, M.P. 1295, 1300, 1301, 1302, 
 1305, 1306, 1309, 1311, 1313, and one of the City Constables in 
 1305. There are references to four members of the Pyrie family 
 in the Patent Rolls 1307-13. 
 
 1298. Christopher de Oxon. 
 John de Weston. 
 
 In the Patent Rolls 1 281 -1292 there are references to 
 Henry, John, Mosseus, and James de Oxon or Oxonia, Chris- 
 topher was one of the two Bailiffs of Oxford on 25 December 
 1298. It is doubtful if his colleague was the same person as the 
 following: — 2 Jan. 1282, Licence at the instance of John de 
 Weston, for Felicia, late the wife of William de Cheney, tenant 
 in chief, to marry whomsoever she will of the King's allegiance. 
 26 April 1286, Protection with clause volumus until All Saints, 
 for John de Weston going beyond seas with the King. 8 Jan. 
 1291, Grant to J. de W. of the marriage of William son and heir 
 of Bartholomew de Brienzun, tenant in chief. 16 Aug. 1297, 
 Protection with clause volumus for one year for John de Weston 
 going beyond seas with Elizabeth Countess of Holland. 2 Nov. 
 1309, Exemption for life for J. de W. of Lybre from being put on 
 assizes juries or recognizances against his will. Master John de 
 Weston was app. Chamberlain and Receiver of Scotland 14 
 March 1309, was Steward of the Household of the King's 
 brothers the next year, and Constable of the Tower of London 
 I323- 6 - 
 
 1300. March. Andrew Pirie. 
 
 John le Orfevre. 
 
 1301. Andrew de Pirie. 
 John Aurifaber. 
 
Members for Oxford. 91 
 
 The latter was given as Lorfevre in the Enrolment of the 
 Writ de Expensis, and was the same as the M.P. 1300, 1302, 1309, 
 13 13, 13 14, and 132 1. He was also M.P. for Newbury 1302. Wood 
 gives him as John Goldsmith. 20 Oct. 1289, Writ de intendendo 
 directed to the bailiffs burgesses and good men of Oxford for 
 Nicholas le Orfevre, elected Mayor, whose fealty the King has 
 taken. Ten of this name are referred to in the Patent Rolls 
 1281-92. 5 Dec. 1285, Commission of oyer etc. on complaint by 
 the Prior of Merton that Amicia de Ewell, having been taken 
 with stolen goods at Molesey within the liberty wherein he has 
 pleas of theft, by Thomas le Sergaunt of Molesey and Wm. le 
 Messier, his servants, and imprisoned, the said prison was broken 
 and the said Amicia taken away by Edw. IyOvekin, John le 
 Orfevre, and several others. 6 April 1327 Order to the Mayor 
 and Bailifts of Oxford to deliver to John, Bishop of Ely, or to his 
 attorney, the ^65 1 o found upon John le Orfevre of Oxford and 
 William le Taillour of Oxford, who with others lately robbed the 
 Bishop of certain sums of money, the said John and William 
 having been taken and imprisoned at Oxford at the suit of 
 Walter atte Hull, the Bishop's servant, and they have confessed 
 certain felonies, as the King has given the above sum to the 
 Bishop. (Patent Rolls J 
 
 1302. Andrew de Pyrie. 
 
 John le Orfevere. 
 
 1305. Andrew de Pirye. 
 Christopher son of Simon. 
 
 1306. Andrew de Purye. 
 Christopher son of Simon. 
 
 x 3°7- Jan. Andrew de Pyrye. 
 
 Christopher son of Simon. 
 
 1307. Oct. Andrew de Pirie. 
 
 William Deveneys. 
 
 Appointment 5 April 1308 of William Deveneys to be 
 Chief Justice of the Bench, Dublin, having the same place on the 
 Bench as he had hitherto held. {Patent Rolls). 
 
 1309. Andrew de Purie. 
 
 John le Orfevre. 
 1311. Aug. Andrew de Pyrie. 
 
 John de Fallele. 
 
 1311. Nov. The same. 
 
 Wood gives Thomas Farthing and William de Carswell as 
 the Members 5 Edw. II., J. Culvere and J. Minekan 6 Edw. II., but 
 if correct, the summonses to Parliament Feb. 13 12, were revoked 
 
92 Members for Oxford. 
 
 before the Return, and the Official Returns mention no Member 
 for Oxford in the next Parliament, Aug. 1312* 
 
 13 13. March. Andrew de Pyrie. 
 
 John le Orfevre. 
 
 13 13. Sept. Andrew de Purie. 
 
 John Aurifaber. 
 
 1 3 14. Sept John Aurifaber. 
 
 John de Fallele. 
 
 1315. John son of William le Spicer. 
 
 John de Falele. 
 
 William le Espicer was Mayor of Oxford 1285. Wood calls 
 the Member J. Fitz William. Fallele was Member 13*11, $314, 
 1315, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1324, and Bailiff 1329. 
 
 1318. John Mymecan. 
 
 John de Cudelynton. 
 
 On 10 June 13 12 Alan son of Wm. Fitz Warin going to 
 Ireland had letters nominating Peter Fitz Warin and John 
 Mymekan his attorneys for one year. Mymecan was again 
 Member 1328, 1332, 1334, 1336, 1338. 
 
 I 3 I 9- John son of William Bost. 
 
 William de Spaldyng. 
 
 The former again sat 1322, 1324, 1325, 1327, 1328, 1336, 
 1337, 1340, 1341. John son of John Bost is mentioned in the 
 Patent Rolls 28 Aug. 1336. On 9 Aug. 1327, Commission to Wm. 
 de Burncestr, John de Oxon and two others to enquire by juries 
 of counties Oxford and Berks touching kidels in the Thames, 
 and cause them to be removed, and the nets and engines to be 
 burned, and to fine and punish offenders therein. On 25 June 
 1309 complaint by Thomas, Abbot of Brunne, (Bourne,) and 
 William de Spaldyng, canon of that house, that certain persons 
 assaulted the said W. de S. at Brunne, co. Lincoln, threw him 
 into a pit full of water, and tore his habit. 26 Jan. 1335, Appoint- 
 ment of Wm. de Spaldyng and three others in Holand, co. 
 Lincoln, to see that the men of that county are duly furnished 
 with arms according to their estate, pursuant to the King's late 
 proclamation and the statute of Winchester ; and to array them 
 for the defence of the realm. W. de S. and two others were app. 
 to keep the King's peace there 26 July 1325. William son of 
 Richard de Spaldyng was returned for Spalding Borough as one 
 of the most discreet wool merchants "to attend the King at 
 York for counsel and advice " 20 Jan. 1328. W. de S. was granted 
 exemption for life from being put on assizes juries or recog- 
 nisances and from appointment as mayor sheriff escheator 
 coroner or other bailiff or minister of the King against his will, 
 
Members for Oxford. 93 
 
 and on 8 June 1336 was granted exemption from Knighthood for 
 two years, and was pardoned 8 July 1336 for not having taken 
 the Order of Knighthood within the times specified in the King's 
 two proclamations, and of any issues forfeited by him on account 
 of the default. 
 
 1320. Richard Cary. 
 
 John de Fallele. 
 
 Cary was Mayor of Oxford 1328, 1335, 1340, 1341, 1343, 
 1345, and on 18 May 1329 he (as Mayor) and Fallele (as one of 
 the Bailiffs) witnessed the Enrolment of an Indenture of a grant 
 to St. Mary's House, Oxford. He was again Member 1335, 1339. 
 6 Jan. 1327, Commission of Oyer to John de Stonore and others, 
 on complaint by the abbot of Abyndon that Thos. de Iyegh *toun- 
 clerc,' Ed. Cary, Thos. de Leghe of Oxford, ' bakere," And. le 
 Wormenhale (1325,) Thos. de Denton of Abyndon, Wm. de. 
 Pirie, Simon de Gloucestr and others, with a multitude of other 
 persons, in warlike manner besieged the abbey, burned the gates, 
 and entering the abbey carried away books chalices vestments 
 church ornaments and other goods and divers charters writings 
 obligatory agreements and other muniments. They took Rt. de 
 Halton the prior then sick within the abbey, and carried him to 
 Baggeleye Wood, in Radeleye, and there threatened him with 
 the loss of his head unless he would do their will, afterwards 
 they carried him back to the abbey, broke a certain coffer in 
 which was the common seal, and under fear of death made him 
 seal three writings obligatory — by one of which the abbot and 
 convent became bound to them in ^1000 — and also other writings 
 of release and quit- claim of all trespasses from the beginning of 
 the world till the date of sealing. 
 
 132 1. John Aurifaber. 
 John de Falele. 
 
 1322. May. John de Falele. 
 
 John son of William Bost. 
 1322. Nov. John Aurifaber. 
 John Fallele. 
 
 1324. Jan. John de Fallee. 
 
 John son of William Bost. 
 
 1325. Andrew de Wormenhale. 
 
 John son of William Bost. 
 
 The former was Mayor of Oxford as Knt. 1327, and again 
 Member 1331, 1332, 1336, 1337, 1339, and was of the same family 
 as Andrew de W. who was Mayor 1279, Robert de W. the Mayor 
 1298, and Philip de W. who was Bailiff on 25 Dec. 1298, and 
 Mayor 13 10. Writ de intendendo for Andrew de W., elected 
 
Members for Oxford. 94 
 
 Mayor of Oxford, on his having taken the oath in the Chancery, 
 30 Sept. 1327. Master John de O. parson of the Church of Wal- 
 pol, going beyond the seas on the King's service has letters 
 nominating A. de Wormenhale and Henry de Todenham his 
 attorneys in England until Easter, 6 Oct. 1337. 
 
 1327. The same. 
 
 131 8. Feb. Andrew de Wyrcestre. 
 
 John son of William de Oxon. 
 
 1328. April. John Culverd. 
 
 John son of William Bost. 
 
 Culverd was a wine seller and coroner of Oxford in 1285, 
 Mayor 1285, 1292, (and as Culvert) 1293, M.P. 1328, 1330, 1331, 
 1332, founded a chantry in All Saints, and died about 1334. His 
 wife was named Christina. 6 Oct, 1337, Pardon to the Carmelite 
 Friars of Oxford for acquiring in mortmain from John de Crox- 
 ford (see County 1312,) John Culvered and three others, for 
 the enlargement of their dwelling place, divers plots in Oxford 
 containing one acre of land, held in chief, and entering therein 
 without the licence of Edw. II. {Patent Rolls). 
 
 1328. July. John Mymkan. 
 
 John son of William Bost. 
 
 Writ to the Bailiffs of Oxford for payment to John Myni- 
 kan and John son of William Bost, burgesses of that city, of their 
 expenses in coming to the treaty at York on Sunday after St. 
 James last, to wit 18 days, 6 Aug. 1328. {Close Rolls). 
 
 1330. March. John Culverd. 
 
 Stephen de Adynton. 
 
 The latter was again M.P. 1337, and Mayor 1338.. 
 
 1330. Nov. Andrew de Wormenhale. 
 
 Henry de Stodlegh. 
 
 The latter was M.P. for Oxford 1330, 1332, 1336, 1339, and 
 Mayor 1337, 1344. Writ dd intendendo in favour of H. de Stode- 
 legh, mayor elect, who has taken the oath of office before the 
 King at Westminster, 1 Oct. 1337. 
 
 133 1. Sept. Andrew de Wormenhale. 
 
 John Culverd. 
 
 1332. March. Andrew de Wormenhale. 
 
 Henry de Stodler. 
 1332. Sept. John Culverd. 
 
 John Mynekan. 
 1332. Dec, The same. 
 
Mkmbkrs for Oxford 95 
 
 3334. Feb. John Mymcan. 
 
 John de Falle. 
 
 The latter was apparently not the same as the M.P. 131 1, 
 bnt was Member 1334, 1346, 1448, 135 1. 
 
 1335. Richard Cary. 
 
 John de Persshore. 
 
 The latter again sat 1338. On 2 March 1328 a commission 
 issued to try John de Pershore for the assault upon Abingdon 
 Abbey, (see under Rd. Cary 1320). 
 
 1336. March. Henry de Stodeleye. 
 
 John Mymkan. 
 
 1336. Sept. Andrew de Wormenhale. 
 
 John son of William Bost. 
 I 337- J an - Andrew de Wormenhale. 
 John Bost. 
 
 It is curious that Oxford was not one of the 17 Towns 
 directed to send Members to the preceding Parliament sum- 
 moned to meet at London 3 Jan. 1337. 
 
 1337. Sept. Stephen de Adynton. 
 
 Andrew de Wormenhale. 
 
 By Writs dated at Westminster 18 August, the Mayor and 
 Bailiffs of Oxford, (among other towns,) were directed to send 
 three or four persons to attend this Parliament, and Stephen de 
 Adynton, Andrew de Warmenhale, and John Mimmecan were 
 accordingly elected. They were however merely summoned to 
 advise wilh the King upon some special matter, and were not 
 regular Members of Parliament. 
 
 1338. Feb. John de Pershore. 
 
 John Mymekan. 
 
 1338. July. John Mymmekan. 
 
 Nicholas de Publesbury. 
 Nicholas again sat 1341, 1344. 
 I 339> J an - Richard Cary. 
 
 Andrew de Wormenhale. 
 
 1339. Oct. Henry de Stodlee. 
 
 John son of William Bost de Oxon. 
 
 1340. Jan. Simon de Gloucestr. 
 
 John son of William Bost. 
 
 Writ de intendendo 23 Sept. 1336 in favour of Simon de 
 Gloucestr elected Mayor of Oxford who has taken his oath of 
 office before the King at Nottingham. {Patent Rolls). 
 
96 Members for Oxford. 
 
 1340. March. John son of William Bost. 
 
 John de Bybury. 
 
 John de Bibury is mentioned In the Patent Rolls 8 March 
 1337. He was again Member 1346, 1348. John Bybury and 
 Alice his wife paid ijs as Poll Tax in 1380. 
 
 1341. John son of William de Oxon. 
 Nicholas de Peblesbury. 
 
 1344. John de Bereford. 
 
 Nicholas de Peplesbury. 
 
 Commission of Sewers 28 Feb. 1328 to John de Bereford 
 and four others for the water of Wythum and the dykes and 
 places by which water, in the parts of Morland, in the Wapentake 
 of Lovedon, co. Lincoln, flows from Claypol to the city of Lin- 
 coln, and thence into the river. {Patent Rolls). Probably 
 however he was not the Member for Oxford, who, according to 
 the Oxford City Dociments, kept a tavern where commenced the 
 famous fray on St. Scholastica's Day 10 Feb. 1354. He it was 
 who organised the attack on the scholars, some of whom were 
 murdered by the mob, the affray lasting for three or four days, 
 and for which Bereford was excommunicated. He however was 
 afterwards elected Mayor the same year, having previously 
 served that office 1348, 1349, 1350, 1351. {Wood's Ancient and 
 Present State). He was M.P. 1344, 1346, 1348, 145 1, and (as 
 Wereford) 1353. 
 
 1346. John de Bybury. 
 
 John de Falle. 
 1348. Jan. John de Falle. 
 
 John de Aleston. 
 1348. March. John de Bereford. 
 
 John de Bybury. 
 135 1. John de Bereford. 
 
 John de Falle. 
 1353. John de Wereford. 
 
 John de Stodle. 
 John de Stodle was seemingly son of the M.P. 1330. He 
 was again M.P. 1358, 1361, 1371, and was Mayor 1353, 1357, 1358, 
 1359, 1360, 1361, 1365, 1368. His colleague was evidently 
 John de Bereford the former Member. 
 
 1355. John de Seynte Fredeswyth. 
 
 Henry de Malmesbury. 
 
 Wood gives John de Fridiswida as Mayor of Oxford 1352, 
 1355, 1356, and there is a reference to him in the Oxford City 
 Documents as Mayor on 17 July 1355 as John de St. Frideswyde. 
 
Members for Oxford. 97 
 
 1358. John de Stodle. . ,. 
 
 John de Sancta Frideswida. 
 
 1360. Peter le Paynter. 
 
 John de Wyndesore. 
 
 The latter was a collector (with John Gibbes, and Win. 
 Codeshale, see 1369,) of a lay subsidy in Oxford temp. Kdw. 3^ 
 and Rich. 2. He again sat for the city 1362, 1363, 1372, and may 
 have been a kinsman of John de Wyndesore, King's clerk, who 
 was Keeper of the King's Exchanges (or Mint) at Canterbury and 
 London in 1335. 
 
 1 36 1. John de Stodle. 
 John de Bereford. 
 
 1362. John de Wyndesore. 
 Galfridus de Brehull. 
 
 Geoffrey Brehull, cordwainer, and Margaret his wife, with 
 their three servants John, John, and Alice, paid the Poll Tax in 
 1380. Perhaps of kin to Henry de Brehull who was ordered to 
 be arrested as a suspected person and imprisoned in Warwick 
 goal 8 Aug. 1336. 
 
 1363. Richard Wydehay. 
 
 John Wyndesore. 
 
 Richard de Wodehay was Mayor of Oxford 1362, 1363, 1364, 
 1366, and again Member 1365. 
 
 1365. Richard Wodehay. 
 John Hertewelle. 
 
 The name of John de Hertwell appears as Mayor 1367, 
 1372. 
 
 1366. John de 
 
 William Northern. 
 
 William Northern was a great benefactor to the city, of 
 which he was Member 1366, 1372, 1382, 1383, and Mayor 1369, 
 and 1376, being Knighted at the Coronation of Richard II, which 
 occurred during his Mayoralty in 1377. Alderman W. le Northern 
 and Margaret his wife, and his servants Peter, John, John, John, 
 John, Richard, William, Alice, Alice, and Alice, were assessed to 
 the Poll Tax in 1380, the sum of xijd. being paid for each man, 
 and iiijd. for each maid-servant. He must therefore have 
 been a person of great wealth and influence at Oxford. He died 
 in 1383, (M.I. St. Peter's le Bayley Church,) being buried with 
 his wife under the same marble. 
 
 1368. John Dadynton. 
 John de Benham. 
 
 John Dadyntone, cutler, and Joan his wife, paid a Poll Tax 
 
98 Members for Oxford. 
 
 of xijs in 1380, and his apprentice Richard Haclitt iiijd., and 
 his servants John and Roesia iiijd. 
 
 1369. William de Codesale. 
 
 John Gibbes. 
 
 The former was a brewer at Oxford, and employed two 
 carters, a brewer, and a maltman. He was again M.P. 1371, 1373, 
 I37 6 > J 377> Mayor 1370, 1371, 1373, 1374, 1375, 1379, and was an 
 Alderman in 1380, when he paid Poll Tax for himself, his wife 
 Alice, seven men-servants, and one maid-servant. 
 
 John Gibbes was one of the most prominent citizens of 
 Oxford of his day. He was member 1369, 1376, 1377, and Mayor 
 i377> J 378, 1383, 1384* (and as Sir 5, Gybbes Knt.) 1413, 1414, 
 1415, (unless the three latter dates referred to his son.) A Com- 
 mission issued to John Gibbes, as Mayor, John Shawe (1388) and 
 Thomos Somerset (1379), as Bailiffs, and others, 15 July 1378, on 
 the information of John de Dodeford, prior to St. Frideswide's, 
 Oxford, that four fellow canons of his seized and put in chains 
 his steward deputed in his absence, and carried away his goods, 
 to arrest and deliver them to the said prior to be chastised ac- 
 cording to the rule of their order. {Patent Rolls.) Alderman 
 John Gibbes, vintner, and Joan his wife were assessed for the 
 Poll Tax in 1380 at xiijs. iiijd, while xijd. and iiijd. were paid for 
 their servants Robert and Matilda. (Oxford City Documents. J 
 On 8 March 1382 John Gibbes, Wm. Dagvyle (see 1373,) Wm. 
 Godesale, (1369) and Richard Mercer (1380,) were made Commis- 
 sioness of the Peace for Oxfordshire. 30 June 1380, Writ of aid 
 for John Gibbes, John Hereford, serjeant at arms, and three 
 others, appointed to arrest and deliver to their prior John Ryal, 
 Richard de Brakley, and John Kent, apostate canons of St. 
 Frideswide's, Oxford. 8 July 1382, Commission of the Peace and 
 of Oyer and terminer in co. Oxford to John Gibbes, Wm. 
 Godeshale, and Rd. Mercer, and again 21 Dec. 1382. Appoint- 
 ment 3 July 1383 of Rd. Forster, J. Gibbes, and others to take 
 stonemasons carpenters and other workmen for the repair of the 
 King's two mills before the castle of Oxford. {Patent Rolls.) 
 
 137 1. Feb. William Coteshale. 
 
 John de Stodle. 
 
 1371* June. William Coteshale. 
 
 (One Member only.) The Sheriff was directed to send certain 
 specified Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, who were at the last 
 Parliament. 
 
 1372. William Northern. 
 John de Wyndesore. 
 
 1373. William de Codeshale. 
 William Dagevyll. 
 
Members for Oxford 99 
 
 William Dagvile was Mayor 1380, 138 1, 1385, 1394, an d 
 Member 1373, 1377, *383, J-JP- for the city and county, and 
 when Mayor 1380 was assessed for the Poll Tax with Juliana his 
 wife at xiij.s. iiijd., and his servants John and Robert at iiijd. 
 
 each. He died " 6 Juyn ," (M.I. All Saints,) and is said to 
 
 have been eight (?) times Mayor. About his time the Oxford 
 Members appear to have been joined in the Commission of the 
 Peace for the county, for Dagvyle was so named 8 March and 21 
 Dec. 1382, with other of his colleagues. 
 
 1376. William de Oodeshale. 
 John Gibbes. 
 
 1377. Jan. Richard de Garston. 
 
 William Dagevyll. 
 
 R. Gerston's name is given by Wood as Mayor 1386, 1395, 
 1396, and as Sir R. Gerston Knt. 1399, 141 1. He was again 
 Member 1390, 1393. 
 
 1377. Oct. William de Codeshale. 
 
 John Gibbes. 
 
 1378. William Dagevill. 
 Alan le Spicer. 
 
 J 379' Thomas Somerset. 
 
 Edmund Kenyan. 
 
 Thomas Somerset, draper, and Ellen his wife paid a Poll 
 Tax of xiijs. iiijd. in 1380, and iiijd. each for his apprentice 
 Philip, and his servant Elizabeth. He was one of the two Bailiffs 
 of Oxford on 15 July 1378, as previously mentioned, and Mayor 
 
 1392. Edmund Kenyan, hosteller, was Mayor (as E. deRenyan) 
 1401, 1404, 1412. He and his wife Elizabeth paid a Poll Tax of 
 iijs. iiijd. in 1380, besides iiijd. each for his servants Joan and 
 Christina. He was again Member 1380, 138 1, 1385, 1386, 1390, 
 1391, 1394- 
 
 1380. Jan. Richard Mercer. 
 
 John Hikkes. 
 
 Alderman Richard le Mercer and his wife Juliana paid a 
 Poll-Tax of xiijs. iiijd. in 1380, and xijd. for his servant Geoffrey 
 and Sarah his wife, besides xiijd. and iiijd. for his other servants 
 Walter and Thomas. He was Major 1382, 1387, 1388, 1390, 1391, 
 
 1393, and made a Commr. of the Peace for the county 8 March, 
 8 July, and 21 Dec. 1382. John Hickes, spicer, and Alice his 
 wife paid a Poll Tax of 14s. 4d. in 1380 besides i2d. for his 
 apprentice John Dobbe, i2d. each for his four men-servants, (one 
 a maltman,) and 4d each for his two maid-servants. He sat for 
 Oxford again in 1383, 1384, 1388. 
 
ioo Members for Oxford. 
 
 1380. Nov. Richard de Adyngton. 
 
 Edmund Kenyan. 
 
 The former was assessed with his wife Margaret at vjs. 
 viijd. for the Poll Tax in 1380, and his servants William, Agnes, 
 and Haubere at 8d. each. 
 
 1381. Edmund Kenyan. 
 Walter Bon. 
 
 Walter Bone, draper, and Agnes his wife paid a Poll Tax 
 of vs. in 1380, and vjd. for his servant Alice. He was Mayor (as 
 W. Bowne) 1397, 1398, 
 
 1382. May. The same. 
 
 1382. Oct. Walter Dagevill. 
 
 William Northerne. 
 Walter was probably an error for William Dagevill. 
 
 1383. Feb. William Northern. 
 
 William Dagevill. 
 1383. Oct. William Dagvill. 
 John Hickes. 
 
 St N P of 1 Sesame. 
 
 1385. • Peter Welynton. 
 
 Edmund Kenyan. 
 
 Peter Welynton, mercer, and Maud his wife were assessed 
 at xijd. in the Poll Tax of 1380, and his servants John and 
 Robert at iiijd. each. 
 
 1386. Edmund Kenyan. 
 Thomas Houkyn. 
 
 1388. Feb. John Hickes. 
 
 Thomas Somersete. 
 1388. Sept. John Shawe. 
 
 Thomas Baret. 
 
 John Shawe, fishmonger, and Maud his wife paid a Poll 
 Tax of 6s. 8d. in 1380, and 4d. each for his servants William, 
 Henry, and Maud. He was one of the two Bailiffs of Oxford on 
 13 July 1378, M.P. 1388, 1414, and Alderman in 1428. On 20 
 April 1385 licence was granted for the alienation in mortmain by 
 Nicholas Spicer and John Shawe both of Oxford of a messuage 
 in Oxford, to the abbot and convent of Oseneye. (Patent Rolls.) 
 Thomas Baret, spicer, and Margery his wife paid a Poll Tax of 
 iijs. in 1380, and 4d. each for his servants John and Robert. 
 
Members for Oxford. ioi 
 
 1390. Jan. Richard Gars ton. 
 
 Alan I^ekenesfeld. 
 
 The latter was a mercer, who with his wife Katherine was 
 rated at vs. for the Poll Tax in 1380, besides 4d. each for his 
 apprentices Thomas and Henry, and his servants Maud and 
 Agnes. 
 
 1390. Nov. Edmund Kenyan. 
 
 Adam de la River. 
 
 The latter with his wife and his servants Robert and Alice 
 were assessed for a lay subsidy in the 14th century. He was 
 again M.P. 1395, 1397, 1401. 
 
 1391. Edmund Kenyan. 
 John Utteworth. 
 
 The latter is written Vyteworth in the Enrolment of the 
 Writ de Expensis. As John Otteworth he was a collector in 
 1409 of one entire tenth and the moiety of a tenth, granted 11 
 Hen. 4 within the town and suburbs of Oxford. He was again 
 M.P. 1397, 1406. 
 
 *393« Richard Garston. 
 
 John Merston. 
 
 John Garston apppears in the Enrolment of the Writ de 
 Expensis, but this was probably a clerical error. John Merstone, 
 chandler, paid xijd. to the Poll Tax of 1380. and was Mayor 1400, 
 1403, and M.P. 1393, 1401, 1404, 1414. Perhaps father of the 
 John Merston who was assessed as " servant " to W. Codeshale 
 (see 1369) in the Poll Tax of 1380. 
 
 1394. Edmund Kenyan. 
 
 John Forster. 
 
 John Forster, shoe-maker, paid xijd. to the Poll Tax 
 in 1380. 
 
 x 395' John I^odelowe. 
 
 Adam de la Ryver. 
 
 John Lodelowe's name appears in the list of those subject 
 to the Poll Tax in 1380, when he was assessed at iiijd. as 
 apprentice to Richard Chichestre, apothecary, Oxford. 
 
 T 397- J an - Adam de la Ryver. 
 Walter Benham. 
 
 Walter Benham, fishmonger, and Emma his wife paid a 
 Poll Tax of 1 2d. in 1380, and 4d. each for their servants Elizabeth 
 and Ellen. He paid ijs. rent for a house. He was again M.P. 
 1402, and was seemingly son of the Member in 1368. 
 
io* Members for Oxford. 
 
 1397- Sept. Adam de la Ryver. 
 
 John Otteworth. 
 1399- John Spicer. 
 
 John Burbrigge. 
 John Spicer, tailor, and Alice his wife paid a Poll Tax of 
 3s. in 1380, and 4d. for his servant Joan. He again sat for 
 Oxford 1402, 1403. 
 
 1400. Thomas Forsthull. 
 
 Adam Ryver. 
 
 The former was perhaps brother to Philip Forsthull, a 
 juror in 1402. 
 
 1402. Sept. John Spicer. 
 
 Walter Benham. 
 
 1403. John Spycer. 
 
 Thomas Co ventre. 
 
 The latter was a hosier in 1380, when with his wife Joan 
 and Juliana her mother, he was assessed to the Poll Tax at xijd., 
 and his servant Isabel at iiijd. He was Mayor of Oxford 14 19, 
 1427, 1427, 1428, 1429, and an Inquisition was made before him 
 as such on 27 April 1428. He again sat for the city 1407, 1410, 
 1413, 1414, 1417, 1419, 1420, 1421, 1422, 1423, 1427, 1429, 1431. 
 
 1404. Oct. 1. John Merston. 
 
 Michael Salesbury. 
 
 1406. Thomas Couele. 
 
 John Otteworth. 
 
 Thomas Couele, hostiler, and Agnes his wife paid a Poll 
 Tax of 5s. in 1380, and 4d. for his servant Agnes. It is very 
 doubtful whether he was the same as Thomas Couele, who was 
 Escheator of Beds and Bucks in 1383 and 1385, and was made a 
 Commr. of the Peace for Bucks 14 Dec. 138 1, and 9 March and 21 
 Dec. 1382. 
 
 1407. Oct. Thomas Coventre. 
 
 Hugo Benet. 
 
 Hugh Benet was a juror at an Inquisition in 1402, and 
 again M.P. 1410. 1413, 1417. 
 
 1410. Jan. 12. ) Thesame> 
 
 1413. April. J ■*«* 
 
 1414. April 24, John Shawe. 
 
 Walter Colet. 
 1414. Oct. 15. John Merston. 
 
 Thomas Coventre. 
 
Members for Oxford. 103 
 
 1416. Feb. William Brampton. 
 
 The Return is torn, and the name of the other Member 
 unknown. Brampton was in 1401 a collector of a tenth granted 
 2 Hen. 4, within the town of Oxford and its suburbs. As Sir W. 
 Brampton Knt. he was Mayor 1420, 1421, 1422, 1425, 1430, 1431, 
 1436, 1439, and again sat for the city 1419, 1421. 1425. 
 
 141 7. Nov. Thomas Covyntre. 
 
 Hugo Benet. 
 
 1419. Oct. Thomas Coventre. 
 
 William Brompton. 
 
 1420. Nov. 20. Thomas Coventre. 
 
 William Offord. 
 Offord was again M.P. 142 1, 1422, 1426, Mayor 1424, 1426, 
 Alderman in 1428, and died 1432, leaving a charity of 6s. 4d. to 
 the city and revenues for the chaplains of St. Peter's in the Baily 
 to celebrate for him and his three wives Alice, Elizabeth, and 
 Margery, all buried with him at St. Peter's. 
 
 1421. April 20. William Brampton. 
 
 Thomas Coventre. 
 
 142 1. Nov. 20. William Offord. 
 
 John Quarame. 
 
 1422. Oct, 20. Thomas Coventre. 
 
 William Offord, or Ufforde. 
 
 1423. Oct. 1. Thomas Coventre. 
 
 Thomas Wilde. 
 Wilde was again Memberr 1425, 1432. 
 
 1425. April 12. William Brampton. 
 
 Thomas Wilde. 
 
 1426. Feb. 4. William Offord. 
 
 Thomas Goldesmyth. 
 
 On 28 June 138 1 a Commission issued to the Sheriff of 
 Berks and others to arrest and imprison Thomas Goldsmyth of 
 Abyndon and others, insurgents against the King, seize their 
 goods and certify the same in Chancery, (Patent Rolls,) but it is 
 very doubtful if he was related to the Member. 
 
 1427. Sept. 12. Thomas Coventre. 
 
 Thomas Swanne. 
 1429. Sept. 12. Thomas Coventre. 
 Richard Wythigg. 
 
io4 Members for Oxford. 
 
 Swanne and Wythigg were the two Bailiffs of Oxford on 
 i4.Feb. 1423. 
 
 143 1. Jan. 8. Thomas Coventre. 
 
 Richard Wythigge. 
 
 1432. May 5. William Herberfeld. 
 
 Thomas Wylde. 
 Herberfield was Mayor 1432, 1433. 
 
 *433- June 20. Thomas Daggevyle. 
 John Kstbury. 
 
 The former was presumably the son of the M.P. 1373. He 
 •was one of the two Bailiffs of Oxford on 27 April 1428, when 
 there was an Inquisition concerning a robbery, and was Mayor 
 1434. 1435. 
 
 I 435- Sept. 24. Thomas Daggevile. 
 Thomas Coventre. 
 1436. Dec. 25. John Buntyng. 
 Thomas Bailly. 
 
 Thomas Bayley was Mayor 1440, 1441, 1442, 1443, and 
 perhaps son of the John Bailly mentioned as a brewer in the Poll 
 Tax of 1380. 
 
 1442. Jan. 12. Thomas Bailly. 
 John Michell. 
 Michell was one of the two Bailiffs on 27 April 1428. 
 1477. J an - 26 - Thomas Dagfeld. 
 Robert Walford. 
 
 The former was apparently the same as the M.P. 1433. 
 Walford was a juror in 1428, and Mayor 1444, 1445. 
 1449. Jan. 29. Alderman Thomas Wythyg. 
 William Dagvile. 
 
 The former was presumably son or brother of the M.P. 
 1429, while the latter bore the same relation to the M.P. 1433, 
 and was seemingly the same as Wm. Dagvile who was a collector in 
 1488 of the second fifteenth and tenth subsidy granted 3 Hen. 7. 
 If he was the same as the M.P. 1467, then he was Mayor of 
 Oxford 1465, 1466, 1467, 1470, 1472, 1474, and made a Commis- 
 sioner of the Peace for the town 20 July 1461. 
 
 1449. Oct. 8. William Newman. 
 Oliver Urry. 
 
 Newman again sat for Oxford 1450, 1453. Pardon of out- 
 lawry dated Westminster 16 Oct. 1461, to Oliver Skynner of 
 Oxford, ■ husbondman,' alias Oliver Urry of Oxford, skinner, for 
 
Members for Oxford. 105 
 
 not appearing to answer Andrew Jamys and Thomas Beleter, 
 citizen and mercer of London, touching debts of 100s. and 
 £\2 15s. 4d. respectively. Pardon of outlawry 3 May 1463 to 
 Oliver Urry of the town of Oxford, skynner, for not appearing 
 before John Prysot and his fellows, justices of the Bench of the 
 late King to answer John Warendorp, merchant, of Almain, 
 touching a debt of ^13 10s. {Patent Rolls.) 
 
 1450. Oct. William Newman. 
 
 John Fitzaleyn. 
 The latter was Mayor 1449, 1450. 
 1453. Feb. 22. Robert atte Wood. 
 
 William Newman. 
 
 Robert Attwode alias a Wode, was Mayor 1454, 1455, 1456, 
 1457, 1458, and M.P. 1453, 1460. 
 
 x 455' June. Return lost. 
 
 1459. Nov. 12. John Kenyngton. 
 
 Reginald Skyres. 
 
 1460. Sept. 28. Richard Spragat. 
 
 Robert atte Wode. 
 
 John Spraget who was Mayor of Oxford 1447, 1448, was 
 probably the father or elder brother of the Member, Richard 
 Spragat, who was Mayor 145 1, 1452, 1453, (and as Sir R. 
 Spraget Knt.) 146 1, 1462, 1464, 147 1, (and if the same, as R. 
 Spraget 1473.) He was made a Commissioner of the Peace for 
 the city of Oxford 20 July 1461. (Patent Rolls.') 
 
 llkl' t^ 6 1 No Returns found. 
 1463. Jan. j 
 
 1467. May 26. William Bedston. 
 
 William Dagvile, 
 
 Commission dated at Westminster 29 May 1461, to Thomas 
 Sakevyle and William Bedston esquires to arrest John Suthwyk 
 esq. and bring him before the King in Council. (Patent Rolls.) 
 
 1470. Nov. Return lost. 
 1472. Sept. 25. John Goylyn. 
 
 Stephen Havell. 
 1478. Jan. 9. John Seman. 
 
 Henry Gay. 
 
 Seman was Mayor 1476, 1477, 1482, i486, and was assessed 
 in All Saints parish at £4. 100, and his 8 men servants at i2d. 
 or 4d. each. Pardon of outlawry 13 Nov. 1465 to Robert Curson 
 of London, ' gentilman/ mainpernor of Wm. Fraunceys late 
 
io6 Members for Oxford. 
 
 of Kymburley, Norfolk, ■ husbondman,' of his outlawry in 
 Middlesex for not appearing before John Prysot and his fellows, 
 justices of the Bench of the late King, to answer for his 
 ransom for not holding the said William before the said 
 Justices one month after Easter 30 Hen. 6, to answer Henry Gay 
 esq. on a plea of debt, provided that he satisfy the King of his 
 ransom, he having surrendered to the Flete prison, as Robert 
 Danby, Chief Justice of the Bench, has certified. {Patent Rolls.) 
 
 1483, 1484, 1485, 1487. Returns lost. 
 1491. Oct. Edward Woodward. 
 Robert Caxton. 
 
 Woodward was Mayor 1480, 1481, 1483, 1487, 1494, and 
 died 20 Oct. 1496, (M.I. St. Martin's Church, Oxford.) " He was 
 the owner of the Inn called the King's Head in this parish, and 
 had several sons and daughters. The youngest dau. Margaret 
 married Wm. Cogan, (son of Wm. Cogan, Mayor of Bristol,) 
 which William and Margaret succeeding Woodward in the said 
 Inn, kept it to the time of their death." Their dau. Agnes 
 married Aid. RafTe Flaxney. Woodward's relict Maude re-m. to 
 Wm. Balcombe, Mayor of Oxford 1503, 1507, 1509, who died 4 
 Oct. — Robert Caxton was perhaps father of Thomas mentioned 
 by Turner as follows, "1523. It', payd to Thomes Caxton for hys 
 Coot xxd. — It', Rec' of hym a byll and a sword." 
 
 1495, 1497, 1510, 1512, 1515, 1523. Returns lost. 
 
 An ordinance passed requiring persons to have a residence 
 of three years within the boundaries before they could be elected 
 Members for the city. (Turner's Records 0/ Oxford.) 
 
 1529. Oct. John L,atton. 
 
 Aid. William Flemyng. 
 
 Fleming was an Oxford " Grosser," (grocer,) and his wife 
 was named Joan. He compounded for the offices of Chamberlain 
 and Bailiff 6 Oct. 1522, was an Alderman in 1524 and 1540, 
 Mayor 1525, 1526, 29 Sept. 1527, and 1528, one of the two 
 Coroners 29 Sept. 1528, an Member 1529 to April 1536. On 6 
 April 1537 the city refused to pay his costs and expenses as a 
 Member, on the ground that at his election in 1529 he had 
 promised, as others did, to pay his expenses himself. He was 
 made a Commr. to collect the Subsidy in Oxford town 1 Aug. 
 1524, and was assessed to such, as an Alderman, in St. Martin's 
 parish, at ^3, and on 26 April 1515 was fined 3s. 4d. on presenta- 
 tion by the Jury — " Item, that he usith contynually unlawfull 
 mesures, that is to say, an unlawful yerde, in the great diseyte 
 of the king's liege people." (Turner.'). He made his will 28 
 April, and it was inrolled 7 May 1540. 
 
 John I^atton of Kingston Bagpuze, Berks, which he 
 purchased 1542, son and heir of Wm. 1,. of Chilton, was made a 
 
Members for Oxford. 107 
 
 Commr. to collect the Subsidy in Berks 1 Aug. 1524, a Commr. 
 of the Peace for Berks 18 Feb. 1525,6 Feb. 1526, and 24 Nov. 
 1530, and a Commr. of Gaol Delivery for Oxon and Berks 20 
 June 1530. He was adm. to the Inner Temple without dispen- 
 sation 20 Feb. 15 10, called to the bar in due course, and was 
 a Bencher thereof in 1529, Autumn Reader 1524-5, I^ent Reader 
 1535, and Treasurer 1534. 
 
 \Ul ApSl ) No Returns found. 
 
 1541. Dec. 26. William I^enthall. 
 
 The name of his colleague is unknown. William Iyenthall 
 ot I^achford and Great Haseley, son and heir of Thomas I,., m. 
 Katherine dau. of John Badly, and sat for Oxford 1541-4- He is 
 styled armiger in the Return, and was " of a reverent age in 1584." 
 
 1545 Jan. Return lost. 
 
 1547. Sept. 15. Aid, Ralph Flaxney. 
 
 Edward Freurs. 
 
 The former was the son of Aid. Richard Flaxney, and m. 
 Agnes dau. of Wm. Cogan. He became one of the Common 
 Council of Oxford 29 Sept. 1531, Chamberlain 29 Sept. 1538, 
 Bailiff 29 Sept. 1542, Alderman 19 May 1549, Member 1547-52, 
 Mayor 29 Sept. 1551, 1552, 1562, and 1577. " He gave a Scarlett 
 cloak unto this citie." 
 
 Edward Freurs was the second son and heir of Wm. F» 
 (Mayor of Oxford 1530, 1531, 1535, 1536, 1541,) and m. Anne dau- 
 of John Bustard of Adderbury. He was elected one of the eight 
 Assistants to the Mayor 18 Sept. 1554, but was dismissed from 
 the Council 19 June 1562, and d. 13 Jan. 1665. 
 
 1553. Feb. 22. Christopher Edmonds. 
 
 Edward Glynton. 
 
 The former is styled armiger in the Return, and was 
 perhaps the father of Sir Christopher Edmonds of I^euknor, who 
 was Knighted 1592, M.P. Wallingford 1584-5, and Buckingham 
 t 586-7, m. Dorothy dau. of Christopher I^idcott of Rushcombe, 
 Berks, and left a sister and co-heir Francisca a Maid of Honour 
 to Q. Elizabeth, who m. John Doyley of Chiselhampton. Glynton 
 or Glymton was admitted to the Freedom of the city 1530, 
 elected a Common Councillor 29 Sept. 1533, compounded for 
 Chamberlain 7 Oct. 1535, Bailiff 1539, M.P. 22 Feb. to 31 March 
 1553, and March to May 1554, Alderman 26 Sept. 1553, and was a 
 Coroner in 1556. 
 
 1553- Aug. 15. John Wayte. 
 
 Aid. Thoma* Wylliams. 
 
io8 Members for Oxford. 
 
 John Wayte, ' Paynter,' (? son of Thomas Wayte, wax- 
 chandler,) was adm. to the Freedom of the city in 1538, Bailiff 29 
 Sept. 1552, Assistant 9 Sept. 1554, 4 Sept. 1561, and 16 Sept. 1562, 
 Mayor 1555, 1561, disfranchised 31 July 1578, was a haberdasher 
 in 1569, M.P. 15 Aug. to 5 Dec. 1553, Oct. 1554 to Jan. 1555, and 
 Sept. to Dec. 1555, and J. P. for Oxford in 1574. 
 
 His colleague was the son of Alexander Williams, and m. 
 Mary dau. of Henry Doyley of Wallingford Castle, 4 councellor 
 at Lawe.' He and Thomas Mallyson (see 1554) and two others 
 were app. to have the custody of the armour in Oxford 26 April 
 1548. He became one of the two Bailiffs 29 Sept. 1546, an 
 Assistant 9 Sept. 1554, Alderman 27 April 1557, Mayor 29 Sept. 
 J557. !565, i57 6 > M -P- Aug. to Dec. 1553, and app. a Vintner 15 
 Sept. 1558. On 27 Sept. 1558 " Thomas Willyams, Mayre, dyd 
 tender one peny gylted according to the old custome, for the 
 wch he shall make one of his children ffre when he comethe to 
 full age, takyng his othe to this Towne." ( Turner?) When 
 Mayor he received the Queen at Oxford 31 Aug. 1566. He was 
 accused in 1576 by Aid. Noble (see 1584) of not doing his duty to 
 the ' Queen and Comon welth,' and appeared before the Privy 
 Council touching the matter on 26 May 1577. He was J. P. for 
 Oxford in 1579, and " gave to the City a paule or burying clothe 
 ofvelvytt." 
 
 1554. March 27. Aid. Thomas Mallynson. 
 Aid. Edward Glynton. 
 
 Aid. Mallynson was adm. to the Freedom of the city in 
 1535, became a Common Councillor 29 Sept. 1541, compounded 
 for Chamberlain 10 Nov. 1542, became Bailiff 1545, 1548, M.P. 
 March to May 1554, and Alderman 19 May 1549 to 27 April 1557, 
 when he seems to have been discharged from office, and on 27 
 May 1557 he was fined 3s. 4d. " for opprobrious words spoken 
 against Mr Mayer at thys day yn the Councell howse." He is 
 said to have given £200 to the city. 
 
 1554. Oct. 23. John Wayte. 
 
 William Tylcock. 
 
 Tylcock was a baker, and was adm. to the Freedom of the 
 city in 1537, became Chamberlain 29 Sept. 1542, Collector 1546, 
 Bailiff 1545, 1548, M.P. Oct. 1554 to Jan. 1555, an Assistant to 
 the Mayor 9 Sept. 1554, one of the two Coroners 29 Sept. 
 1556, Alderman 3 Oct. 1557, and Mayor 1556, 1560, 1568, 1575, 
 was dismissed from the Council (with Freurs and Pantre) 19 June 
 1562, but appears to have remained Alderman, as he is given that 
 rank in his appointment with others to survey the banks about 
 the South Bridge 17 June 1575. He d. 22 June 1578, aged 74. 
 (M. I. St. Thomas's Church.) 
 
Membkrs for Oxford. 109 
 
 1555. Sept. 14. John Wayte. 
 
 William Pantre. 
 
 Thomas Pantre who was bedel 1524, may have been father 
 of this William Pantre, who was adm. to the Freedom of the city, 
 as gentleman, 1544, Chamberlain 1545, Bailiff 1554, Member Sept. 
 to Dec. 1555, but was " dismissed from the Council House and 
 ordered to behave himself honestly amongst his neighbours " 19 
 June 1562. 
 
 1558. Jan. 7. John Barton. 
 
 Richard Williams. 
 
 Both styled generosns in the Return. Barton was adm. to 
 the Freedom of the city as a ■ Bochar,' (butcher,) in 1537, 
 Chamberlain 1541, Bailiff and Collector 1546, one of the eight 
 Assistants to the Mayor 8 July 1556, and M.P. 1556. 
 
 Richard Williams was admitted to the Freedom of the 
 city, in 1536 or 1537, Chamberlain 1547, Bailiff 1550, an Assistant 28 
 May 1554, and 28 May 1557, Mayor March and 29 Sept. 1571, and 
 1578, Alderman 31 July 1577, and died just before his last 
 Mayoralty finished, on 19 Sept. 1579, buried in St. Tole's Church. 
 His wife was named Johan or Joan. 
 
 1559. Jan. 7. Thomes Wood. 
 
 Roger Tayller. 
 
 This Parliament was dissolved 6 May 1559. "Yt ys 
 agreyd at a Cowncell holden the 27 of January, yt Mr May re 
 (John Wayte) and Mr. Wood shall goo unto London a bowt the 
 suete of Saynct Mary Colledg." (Counci/ Minute 27 Jan. 1562.) 
 " Yt ys further agreed at thys Counsell that Mr. Wood shall be 
 rewarded for hys fryndshipp shewed to thys Cytie in the Com- 
 myssyon of Sewers, as by Mr. Mayo r the Aldermen and Assocyatts 
 shalbe thoughte good." {Idem 19 Oct. 1576.) Wood was M.P. 
 Jan. to May 1559. and Dec. 1562 to Jan. 1567. 
 
 Roger Tayller, gentleman, became Chamberlain 1552, 
 Bailiff 29 Sept. 1554, an Assistant 20 Aug. 1560, and 16 Sept. 
 1562, Mayor 1563, 1569, 1574, and Alderman 31 July 1577. In 
 1575 Aid. Noble charged with not doing his duty. 
 
 1562. Dec. 6. William Page. 
 Thomas Wood. 
 
 The Council Minutes for 7 Dec. 1562 contain the following 
 interesting entry : — " Item. William Page, gent, admitted into 
 the liberties of the City etc. at the request of the L,ord the Karl 
 of Bedford, and the same day was elected one of the Burgesses 
 of Parliament.' 
 
 157 1. April 2. Edward Knollys 
 
 William Frier. - ... 
 
IIO M*MB£R3 FOR OXFORD. 
 
 Edward Knollys was the third son of Sir Francis K. (see 
 County 1662,) and was probably a commoner of Magdalen 
 College, Oxford, in and before 1564. He entered the Middle 
 Temple 1565, and was M.P. for Oxford 1571 and 1572 until his 
 death in Ireland in 1575. In order to qualify him for representing 
 Oxford, he was specially admitted to its Freedom, as appears by 
 the following Minute,— "12 March, 1571. And yt ys also agreed 
 at this said Counsell that Mr. Edward Knoles, Esquire, shall be 
 recorded as free w th in this Cyttie, who hath taken his oth and 
 was admytted to be inrowled." The ordinance requiring three 
 years reeidence had prebably become obsolete by this period. 
 
 William Frere or Fryer of Watereaton, (? son of the M.P. 
 1547,) was H.S. Oxon 1597, and had a son Edward who was 
 made a Baronet 1620. 
 
 1572. April 14. Edward Knolles. 
 
 William Owen. 
 
 Both styled esquire in the Return. William Owen, 
 1 carier,' second son of George Owen (? the M.P. for the County 
 1558,) was adm. Hanester in 1566 or 1567, and m. Anne dau. of 
 John Rawley of Billesby, Northants. He sat for Oxford 1572-83. 
 
 1575. Dec. Francis Knolles, vice his brother Edward 
 deceased. The new Writ was dated 24 Dec, and on 29 Dec. it 
 was " agreed at the Council that he shalbe chosen so soone as he 
 shall have taken hys othe to the lyberties of thys Cytie." Francis 
 Knollys was the sixth son of Sir Francis K. (see County 1562,) 
 and was probably a commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 
 and before 1564. He was created M.A. 10 July 1598, entered 
 Grays Inn 1565, was Knighted 1587, and was well known at 
 Court as " young Sir Francis." He married (by license dated 21 
 Dec. 1588) lattice dau. of John Barrett of Hanham, co. Gloucester, 
 and leased from the Crown the manor of Battel near Reading. 
 He was M.P. for Oxford Dec. 1575-83* i5 8 4"5> 1586-7, 1588-9, 
 Berks 1597-8, 1604-11, 1625, and Reading March to May 1640, and 
 Oct. 1640 until his death, his will being proved 5 May 1648. 
 
 1584. Oct. 23. Francis Knollys. 
 
 Aid William Noble. 
 
 Aid. Noble was a well-known citizen of Oxford, where he 
 lived in the house known as ' Le Swynstock ' in St. Martin's 
 parish. He was admitted Hanester in the first year of Queen 
 Mary's reign, (as late apprentice of Robert Cogeyn, mercer,) and 
 became a Common Councillor 29 Sept. 1559, but was dismissed 
 the Council House 19 June 1562, on which date, "It was agreed 
 by the hole Counsaill that William Noble shall go to warde 
 uppon a slaunder agaynst the May re, Aldermen, and ten of Assis- 
 taunce." (Council Minute). Notwithstanding this he was elected 
 Chamberlain 1571, and Bailiff 1573, and when holding the latter 
 
Members for Oxford. hi 
 
 office he led the opposition for the City against the University, and 
 was imprisoned for twelve days by the Vice Chancellor of the 
 University, (for shutting the Guildhall door against him and 
 others when they came to keep a Court L,eet there,) until Sir 
 Francis Knollys (see County 1562,) gave his word for his appear- 
 ance before them. This made him very popular in the city, and 
 on 19 Oct. 1574 he was app. to go to London with the Mayor etc. 
 on City business before the Privy Council. Smarting however 
 under the sting of a false imprisonment Noble commenced suits 
 in the Star Chamber against the University, and presented 
 
 ?etitions both against that body and the Mayor and citizens, 
 n April 1575, he exhibited Articles to the Privy Council against 
 the University, and against the Town, but on 18 Sept. 1583, "he, 
 the Mayor, and Mr Frere made up their quarrels." Noble was 
 one of the three persons licensed by the city of Oxford to sell 
 wines there 13 Dec. 1575, and this monopoly was further 
 increased by a renewal of the license on 11 Nov. 1578 to him and 
 one other person only. He was elected Alderman 5 Nov. 1579, 
 Coroner the next day, Mayor 1581, M.P. 1584-5, and was buried 
 in St. Martin's Church 1593. 
 
 1586. Sept. 22. Francis Knollys. 
 George Calfielde. 
 
 George Caulfeild, Calf hill, or Callfilde, as his name was 
 variously spelt, was the son of Alexander C. of Great Milton, 
 Oxon, and was of Ch. Ch. Oxford 1561, student 1564, B.A, 25 
 June 1566, ent. Grays Inn 1568, called to the bar 9 Feb. 1581, 
 Ancient 26 May 1584, Pensioner 22 April 1594, Autumn Reader 
 6 May 1597, Bencher 15 Nov. 1597, and m. Martha second dau. of 
 Richard Taverner of Woodeaton, (and quaere aunt of the M.P. 
 for Woodstock 1626). Caulfield was a Justice of the Great 
 Sessions for the counties of Brecknock,. Glamorgan, and Radnor 
 (fee ^50 a year,) July 1600-8, Recorder of Oxford, M.P. Wycombe 
 1584-5, and Oxford 1586-7, 1588-9, 1593, 1597-8, and Sept. to Dec. 
 1 601. His dau. Dorothy m. 30 Oct. 1606 R. Coventrie of 
 Cassington, Oxon, at which date Caulfield was still Recorder. 
 His brother Toby was created L,ord Charlemont of Ireland 1620. 
 
 1588. Oct. 10. Sir Francis Knollis jun. Knt. 
 
 George Cawfeild. 
 1593. Jan. Hon Sir Edmund Carye Knt. 
 
 George Calfeilde. 
 
 Sir Edmund Carey was the 7th son of Henry 1st L,ord 
 Hunsdon K.G., who was first cousin to Queen Elizabeth, and 
 IyOrd Chamberlain of her Household, and brother to the wife of 
 Sir Francis Knollys, (see County 1562.) He was adm. an 
 Hanaster of Oxford 1573, adm. (? specially) to Grays Inn 1580, 
 Knighted by the Earl of Leicester when serving as a soldier in 
 
ii2 Members for Oxford. 
 
 the Low Countries 1587, M.P. for Newport, (Isle of Wight) 1588-9, 
 Oxford Jan. to April 1593, Wilts Sept. to Dec. 1601, Calne Jan. 
 1606-11, and d. 12 Sept. 1637, aged 80, having m. (1) Mary dau. 
 of Christopher Cooker of Croft, Lincolnshire, (2) Elizabeth dau. 
 and co-heir of John Lord Latimer, and relict of Sir John Danvers, 
 and (3) Judith dau. of Laurence Humphrey D.D. Dean of 
 Winchester, and President of Magdalen College, and widow of 
 Sir George Rivers of Chafford, Kent. His brother Robert was 
 created Earl of Monmouth. His grandfather William Carey's 
 elder brother Sir John was grandfather of the first Viscount 
 Falkland. The CaL State Papers for July 1588, the year of the 
 Armada, contains a reference to " The number or men appointed 
 to be drawn together out of various shires for an army for 
 defence of Her Majesty's person, with the names of the Colonels 
 appointed to lead them, Sir William Knolles, Sir Francis Knollys, 
 Sir Edmund Carey, and six others." 
 
 1597. Aug. 29. Anthony Bacon. 
 
 George Callfeild. 
 
 Anthony Bacon was the fourth son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 
 Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 1558-79, (being his elder son by 
 his second wife,) and elder brother to the still more celebrated 
 lawyer, Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor 1618-21, who was 
 created Lord Verulam, and Viscount St. Albans. He was adm. 
 to Grays Inn (" de societate magistrorum " 27 June) 1576, M.P. 
 Wallingford Jan. to April 1593, Oxford Aug. 1597 to Feb. 1598, 
 Ambassador to Venice, and d. unm. May 1601. Bacon was evi- 
 dently employed abroad in the service of Government for several 
 years, as is gathered from the following letters in CaL State 
 Papers :— " 15 Jan. 1581. Bourges. Anthony Bacon to Lord 
 Burghley. All the letters he has received from England, 
 mention the honourable and fatherly dealing of Burghley 
 towards him, for which he offers his devoted service. Is grateful 
 for his assistance in prosecuting his right to Pinner Park." 
 There was another letter dated 13 Feb. 158 1, and on 24 March 
 1588 Bacon wrote from Montaubon to Secretary Walsingham : — 
 " Now that I am convalescent I hope soon to be with you." " 6 
 April 1589, Examination of Richard Gest of Chester. Details 
 his services under several masters. Was with Mr. Anthony 
 Bacon two years, under whom he wrote a great volume of matters 
 of importance." On 28 June 1599 John Chamberlain wrote to 
 Dudley Carleton : — " The Queen hears that the Earl of Essex has 
 given Essex House to Anthony Bacon, which displeases her ; I 
 believe it is but instead of ^2000 he meant to give him, with a 
 clause of redemption for the same." " Examination of Henry 
 Cuflfe 2 March 1601.— Often heard that Anthony Bacon was an 
 agent between the Earl of Essex and the King of Scots." 
 
Members for Oxford 113 
 
 Finally on 27 May 1601 Chamberlain wrote to Carleton at the 
 Hague : — Ant. Bacon has died so deep in debt that his brother 
 (Fras. Bacon) is little the better by him. 
 
 1601. Sept. 20. Francis Leighe. 
 George Calfyld. 
 
 Francis Leigh of Newnham Regis, co. Warwick, was the 
 son of Sir William Leigh of Stoneleigh, co. Warwick, and m. 
 Mary dau. of Thomas Egerton, Viscount Brackley, Lord Chan- 
 cellor 1603-17. He was made K.B. at the Coronation of James I. 
 on 25 July 1603, M. P. Oxford Sept. to Dec. 1601, and 1604-11, 
 and Warwickshire Nov. 162 1 to Feb. 1622, and was a member of 
 the Derby House Society of Antiquaries, together with Sir 
 Henry Spelman, Sir Robert Cotton and Camden. He was an 
 intimate friend of the latter, who left him by will £^ for a 
 memorial ring. Grant 12 Feb. 1608 to Sir Francis Leigh and his 
 heirs to keep a weekly market and two yearly fairs at Dunchurch, 
 co. Warwick. He was living 1625. His son Francis was created 
 Karl of Chichester in 1644. 
 
 1604. March 1. Sir Francis Leigh Knt. 
 Thomas Wentworth. 
 
 Son of Peter Wentworth of Lillingston Lovell, Oxon, he 
 matric. Univ. Coll. Oxford 30 Oct. 1584, aged 16, eat. Lincolns 
 Inn 23 Oct. 1585, was called to the bar 9 June 1594, u to be 
 published next moote in this term," called to the Bench of that 
 Society 8 June 1609, " to be published next moote," sat as such 
 17 Oct. 1609, and was Lent Reader 16 12, and Treasurer of Lin- 
 coln's Inn 1 62 1. Wentworth was app. Recorder of Oxford Sept. 
 1607, (until his death,) and as such took a very active part — 
 "behaved himself so turbulently" — in the numerous disputes of 
 the City and the University for which he was discommoned by 
 the University in 161 1, but was restored after two years. He 
 was M.P. for Oxford 1604-11, March to June 1614, 1620-2, 1624-5, 
 April to Aug. 1625, Jan. to June 1626, and 3 March 1628 until his 
 death in or about that year. He was, (said Wood) " a trouble- 
 some and factious person, who was more than once imprisoned 
 in Parliament." Wood says he died in Sept. 1627, an error 
 perhaps for Sept. 1628. He m. Dorothy dau. of Thomas Keble 
 of Newbottle, Northants. 
 
 1614. March. Sir John Ashley Knt. 
 
 Thomas Wentworth. 
 
 Sir John Ashley of Kent, son of John Ashley, Master of 
 the Jewel House, was Knighted at the Charterhouse 11 May 1603. 
 He m. Katherine dau. of Anthony Bridges, and as Deputy 
 Master of the Revels was commissioned 6 May 1622 to take up 
 for the King's service embroiderers tailors and other artificers. 
 
ii4 Members for Oxford. 
 
 Demise 10 Jan. 1608 to Thomas Elliot for the use of Sir John 
 Ashley of the King's two parts of the manors of Broadway and 
 Whaddbn, and other lands in Notts and Dorset forfeit by the 
 recusancy of Mary Gerard, widow. Ashley was granted the 
 reversion of the Mastership of the Revels 1612, and succeeded 
 Sir George Buck (who had gone mad) in that office 22 May 1622, 
 but appears to have sold his interest therein to Henry Herbert 
 by Aug. 1623. He died 13 Jan, 1641. 
 
 1621. Feb. 15. Sir John Brooke Knt. 
 
 Thomas Wentworth. 
 
 Sir Francis Blundell. 
 
 The " Official Returns" state that the name of Sir Francis 
 Blundell Knt. is given on the back of the Writ instead of that of 
 Wentworth. Sir F. Blundell petitioned against Wentworth 8 
 Feb. 1621, but the next day the House resolved "that Wentworth 
 is duly elected, and that the Mayor be sent for to answer for his 
 misdemeanour." Sir F. Blundell was dead before 20 Sept. 1625, 
 when Sir Francis Annesley undertook to pay ,£500 to his widow 
 and executrix. 
 
 Sir John Brook, of Hekington, son of Hon. Henry B. (who 
 was 5th son of George 4th Lord Cobham,) was Knighted Jan. 
 1612, was the senior Teller of the Exchequer in May 1626, M.P. 
 Gatton 1614, Oxford 1621-2, Bedwin 1625, and Appleby Oct. 
 
 1640-3, when disabled to sit as a royalist, and m. (1) Anne 
 
 (who d. Feb. 1625,) and (2) Frances dau. of Sir Wm. Bamfield. 
 He was created Lord Cobham 3 Jan. 1645, and was buried at 
 Wakerley, Northants, 20 May 1660. Dudley Carleton wrote from 
 Paris to John Chamberlain 24 Oct. 1601— "Sir John Brooke, 
 with Coppinger, a Kentish gentleman, lately came to learn the 
 language, and are the logs in our French school." Grant 16 
 June 1607 to Sir John Brook of a pension of ^"ioo per annum for 
 life. On 31 March 1610 he wrote from Carmina to Lord 
 Salisbury, — " Could not bear the seas, and not being allowed to 
 land in Spain for fear of the plague, they put in at a small town 
 in Portugal." On 7 April 161 1 Sir Thomas Lake, Secretary of 
 State, informed Lord Salisbury, that " the Lord Chancellor of 
 Scotland has permission to pass over his pension to Sir John 
 Brook and Sir John Burlacy who have bought it," and accord- 
 ingly they had a grant of ^200 a year each on 21 May 161 1. 
 
 1624. Jan. 19. Thomas Wentworth. 
 
 John Whistler. 
 
 Son and heir of Hugh Whistler of Milton Parva, Oxon, he 
 matric. Trin. Coll. Oxford 14 Oct. 1597, aged 17, B.A. 17 Feb. 
 1601, ent. Grays Inn 4 May 1601, was called to the bar 161 1, and 
 chosen Treasurer thereof 1640. Whistler in 1622 was made 
 Deputy Recorder of Oxford to Wentworth, whom he succeeded as 
 
Members for Oxford. 115 
 
 Recorder on his death on Monday before the Feast of St. 
 Matthew, 3 Car. I. He was M.P. Oxford 1624-5, l62 5» l6 26, 
 1628-9, and Oct. 1640, until he was disabled to sit for his loyalty 
 (probably in Jan.) 1644, and died 1646. On 1 Nov. 1645 he 
 11 Petitions as sometimes an unworthy member of the Commons 
 Ho. of Pari. His delinquency was in being present at the 
 meeting of some members of Oxford, whither he had gone on the 
 commission for regulating of forests, being a member thereof 
 shortly after the battle of Edgehill, was taken prisoner to Oxford 
 and after he had given bail for ^2000, was again imprisoned 7 
 weeks, during which time his house was taken from him. Was 
 released on new bail for ^2000 to appear at the Assizes, but the 
 day before he was again imprisoned and taken to Hungerford, on 
 purpose to cause him to forfeit his bail. Got out of Oxford 1 
 June 1644, was examined by Sir Wm. Waller courteously treated 
 and dismis ed. Went to Combe, co. Hants, and lived with his 
 brother who had served at Kdgehill on the Parliament's side, 
 until he was carried prisoner to Whitchurch near Reading, and 
 thence to London to Mr Speaker, from whom he stands referred 
 to the Committee at Goldsmith's Hall. — No reference." 
 
 1625. April. The same, re-elected 23 Jan. 1626, and 3 
 March 1628. 
 
 1640. March 3. Charles Lord Howard. 
 Aid. Thomas Cooper 
 
 Charles Howard, Viscount Andover, eldest son of Thomas 
 1st Earl of Berkshire K.G., was created K.B. 1 Feb. 1625, and m. 
 Dorothy 2nd dau. of Thomas Viscount Savage. 9 Nov. 1633, 
 Warrant to allow Charles Lord Howard, and Thomas Howard, 
 sons of the Earl of Berkshire, about to travel for three years, to 
 embark with them one horse and two geldings, —With note that 
 they were embarked in the " Mayflower" of Dover on above date. 
 (Cal. State Papers.) He was M.P. Oxford March to May 1640, 
 and Oct. to Nov. 1640, when he was summoned to the House of 
 Lords as Baron Howard of Charlton, and introduced as such 
 Nov. 20. He signed the Loyal Declaration at York 15 June 1642, 
 was impeached by Denzill Hollis the next day, and was a Lord of 
 the Bedchamber to Prince Charles in 1648. On 27 Jan. 1644 he 
 and John Whistler signed at Oxford the Loyal Letter to the Earl 
 of Essex. On 1 May 1649 he "begs to be joined in his father's 
 composition. Left the King's party 4 years since, and went 
 beyond seas, where he still remains. 19 July, Begs to compound 
 for himself on Exeter Articles, his estate being but ^250 a year 
 for life. Sept. 25, Fine ^375. 4 June 1650, Fine increased to 
 ^625, at one-sixth. 26 July, Fine allowed to stand on Exeter 
 Articles at £500, on certificate of Lord Fairfax." He succ. his 
 father as 2nd Earl of Berkshire 16 July 1669, and died and was 
 buried in Paris April 1679. " When does Lord Andover go 
 
n6 Members for Oxford. 
 
 Ambassador to the Emperor?" (Francis Crane to Robert 
 Francis, 14 Feb. 1669.) 9 June 1669, Warrant to the Treasury 
 Commrs. to pay ^500 to Charles, Lord Andover, out of the 
 Privy Seal Dormant of 2 Oct. 1668, as the King's free gift. 
 
 Aid. T. Cooper was of an ancient and respectable family, 
 which had held the manor of South Weston, Oxon, for several 
 centuries, and was Mayor of Oxfor 1630, and M.P. March to May 
 1640. He was one of the seven Assistants or Common Coun- 
 cilmen at the Visitation 12 Aug. 1634, (as Thomas Cowper.) He 
 was an active soldier during the Civil War, and the Cal. Slate 
 Papers contains many references to him as follows : — 25 Sept. 
 1645, Order made at the Committee of the House of Commons for 
 the reduced officers, (under the order of the House of 8th inst. 
 for ,£400 to be disposed of for arrears to the Reformadoes who 
 were with the Lord General Essex in Cornwall,) to pay to Lieut. 
 Thomas Cooper £& 10s. od. His receipt for the same was dated 
 29 Sept. On 9 July 1648 the Committee of both Houses at Derby 
 House ordered that an order be given to Major Cooper to muster 
 the horse under Col. Butler that are app. for the guard of the 
 Parliament from day to day and return the musters to this Com- 
 mittee, for which service he shall be allowed 5s. per diem. The 
 Council of State ordered 27 Jan. 165 1, that — Denis Gauden having 
 contracted to furnish bread for 20,000 men, being 4800 cwt. of 
 biscuit every month, until the end of July next, for the army in 
 Scotland, — license be given to Thomas Palmer, Henry Wright, 
 and Thomas Cooper, who are employed for that purpose, to buy 
 the corn necessary without molestation. The Council wrote on 
 13 Sept. 165 1 to Col. Cooper at Worcester, — " Lord Mordington, 
 now prisoner at Manchester, writes the Lord General that he left 
 a bag with 115 old double pieces in the house of Thomas 
 Demetrius at Worcester. Make diligent search for it, and 
 examine Demetrius about it, and if you can discover it seize and 
 sent it up to the Council." — The money was found. He went 
 with Cromwell's Army to Scotland as Col. of Foot and on 4 Nov. 
 165 1 the letter of Col. Cooper from Hull, with the bill of exchange 
 for transporting his regiment to Scotland, was referred to the 
 Scotch Committee to take order for payment. He was Governor 
 of the Orkney Islands in Dec. 1652 and June 1653. On 29 April 
 1653 the Council ordered T.C. and four others to examine the 
 state of the prison of the Upper Bench and to propound regula- 
 tions for its management, and on 5 May following Colonels 
 Cooper and Pride, Mr. Hyland and Major Allen were ordered to 
 suppress bear baiting, bull baiting, and playing for prizes by 
 fencers in Southwark and other places as great evils and abomina- 
 tions. He was Col of a regiment at Ayr in Feb. 1654, when some 
 curious correspondence took place about the cheese supplied his 
 soldiers. Thomas Cooper app. one of His Hi4hness's Council in 
 Scotland for the government of that nation was given his 
 
Members for Oxford. 117 
 
 instructions as such 30 March 1655. He was Governor of Ayr 
 on 12 March and 7 Aug. 1655, and on 21 Dec. following the 
 Council advised a warrant for £200 to Col. Cooper for his journey 
 to Ireland on the State's service, which Cromwell approved. He 
 was afterwards sent to Ireland, and was M.P. for cos. Down, 
 Antrim, and Armagh 1656, until he was made one of Cromwell's 
 House of Lords as Lord Cooper 10 Dec. 1657. His name after- 
 wards appears under the order for proclaiming Richard Cromwell 
 as Protector 1658, and he petitioned the Protector for his regiment 
 16 Nov. 1658. The Committee for Safety and for the nomination 
 of Officers resolved that T.C. should have a Foot Regiment 16 
 June 1659, and four days later nominated him to be a Corporal of 
 the Guard for Parliament, and on 30 June 1659 added Col. Cooper 
 to the Committee of Officers to whom Petitions were referred to 
 consider who were deserving men and fit for employment in the 
 Army. He was ordered to be made Col. of a Horse regt. (late 
 Lord Fleetwood's) 8 July 1659 and afterwards served in Ireland, 
 as on 14 Sept. following he wrote from Dublin to Col. Clarke. 
 He survived the Restoration. 
 
 1640. Oct. 12. Charles Lord Howard. 
 
 John Whistler, Recorder. 
 
 1640. Nov. 30. John Smith of Oxford, vice Lord Howard 
 called to the Upper House. This Member was third son of Aid. 
 Oliver Smith, Mayor of Oxford 1619, 1624, who d. 13 April 1637, 
 and grandson of Aid. Thomas Smith, Mayor 1585, 1590, 1595, 
 1600, who d. July 1601, (4th son of Robert S. of Cuerdley, Lan- 
 cashire, son and heir of Robert S. of that place, eldest son of 
 Robert S. of Polehouse, who was eldest son to William Smith, 
 Bishop of Lincoln 1495-1513, the Founder of Brasenose College 
 and President of Wales. His eldest brother Aid. Thomas Smyth 
 was Mayor of Oxford 163 1, 1643, and d. 20 April 1646. John 
 Smith ent. Grays Inn 16 March 1641, and was Mayor of Oxford 
 1639, and Member Nov. 1640 until disabled to sit as a Royalist 
 (probably in Jan.) 1644. On 12 Nov. 1646 he " begs to compound 
 on Oxford Articles for delinquency. Sat in the Assembly there. 
 Dec. 3, Fine at one-tenth ^"220." On 26 Sept. 1646 the House of 
 Commons resolved "that this House doth accept of the sum of 
 ^220 for a Fine for the delinquency of John Smith of the City of 
 Oxford, Gent. His offence, that being a Member of the House 
 of Commons he deserted the Parliament. He rendered upon the 
 Articles of Oxford. His estate in fee per annum, in possession 
 ^107 6 8 ; in reversion per annum £$ ; in goods and debts ,£150; 
 
 and he owes ^600. His fine at a tenth is . An Ordinance 
 
 for granting a pardon unto John Smyth of the City of Oxford, 
 Gent., for his delinquency, and for taking off the sequestration 
 of his estate was this day read, and upon the question, passed, 
 and ordered to be sent to the Lords for their concurrence." 
 {Journals). On 27 Jan. 165 1 he was also assessed at ^100 by the 
 
n8 Members for Oxford. 
 
 Committee of Advance of Money, but no further proceedings 
 were taken in the matter. He died 4 Nov. 1657. (M.I. St. 
 Tole's Church, Oxford). His dau. Alice m. R. Holloway of that 
 parish, counsellour at law, who d. 7 Sept. 1672. 
 
 1646. Dec. 14. Aid John Nixon. 
 
 John Doyley. 
 
 vice Whistler and Smith disabled to sit. The former was 
 the son of John Nixon of Blechington, husbandman, and acquired 
 a considerable fortune by much industry. He settled as a mercer 
 at Oxford, where he was adm. a Freeman 3 Feb. 1625, entered the 
 City Council 1627, and of which he was Mayor 1636, 1646, and 
 1654, and M.P. Dec. 1646-53. He was an Alderman in 1657 when 
 John Corbet was sworn Register of Oddington before him as a 
 J. P. at Oxford. He m. Joane Simpson or Stevenson. Nixon 
 was zealously devoted to the Puritans, and was a witness against 
 Archbishop Laud on his trial. He founded the Free School in 
 the Guildhall Yard 1658, and died 14 April 1662, being buried in 
 St. Mary's Church. The House of Commons " continued him " 
 as Mayor of Oxford 29 Sept. 1647, "till the House take further 
 order," added him to the Commrs. of Assessment for the City 24 
 July 1649, and app. him, Richard Croke, (see 1654,) and Aid. 
 Wm. Wright (see 1679,) Assessment Commrs. for the City 16 Feb. 
 1660. The House having ordered " that Mr. Nixon now Mayor 
 of Oxford, have leave to go down to Oxfordshire ; and that the 
 thanks of this House be given to the said Mr. N. for his good 
 service, and good affections testified thereby to the Pari. Mr. 
 Speaker gave the thanks of this House to the said Mr. N. accord- 
 ingly." {Commrs. Journal.) 
 
 John Doyley of Chislehampton, eldest son of Sir Cope 
 Doyley Knt. of that place, was born 1602, matric. Wad. Coll. 
 Oxford 27 Nov. 1618, aged 16, and m. Mary dau. and co-heir of 
 Sir John Shirley Knt. of Isfield, Sussex. He was H.S. Oxon 
 1638, M.P. Oxford Dec. 1646 until secluded Dec. 1648, a Par- 
 liamentary Commr. for the visition of the University, and died 
 about 1660. 
 
 I0 53. June. No Members nominated for Oxford. 
 
 1654. July. Bulstrode Whitelocke. 
 
 One Member only was returned by the Loyal City in 1654, 
 and 1656. The celebrated Bulstrode Whitlocke of Phillis Court, 
 Henley, was the only son and heir of Sir James Whitlock (see 
 Woodstock 1609,) and was born in Fleet Street 6 Aug. 1605, adm. 
 to Merchant Taylors' School 1615, matric. St. John's Coll. Oxford 
 8 Dec. 1620, ent. the Middle Temple 9 Aug. 1619, called to the 
 bar 24 Nov. 1626, elected an Associate to the Bench 21 April 
 1648, and a Bencher of that Society 27 Oct. 1648. He was M.P. 
 Stafford 1626, Great Marlow Nov. 1640-53, Oxford, Bedford, and 
 
Members for Oxford 119 
 
 Bucks 1654, but preferred to represent Bucks till Jan. 1655, and 
 again 1656 until made one of Cromwell's House of Lords as "Lord 
 Whitlock " 10 Dec. 1657. On the outbreak of the Civil War he 
 became Captain of a Troop of Horse for the Parliament, and was 
 Governor of the garrison of his own residence at Phillis Court, 
 which he held against the King's party. Whitlock was held in 
 the greatest esteem and respect as a lawyer by the Parliament, 
 who made him a Dep. Lieut, of Bucks 1642, Attorney of the 
 Duchy of Lancaster 1644, a member of the Assembly of Divines, 
 one of the Committee of the Admiralty 15-28 April 1645, a 
 Serjeant at law in Oct. 1648, (but which appointment was declared 
 illegal 1660,) Lieut, to the Earl of Pembroke as Constable of 
 Windsor Castle, and Forest 1648, Keeper of the King's medals 
 and library July 1649, and a member of the first five Councils 
 of State 14 Feb. 1649 to 15 Feb. 1650, 16 Feb. 1650, to 15 Feb. 
 1651, 17 Feb. to 24 Nov. 1651, 25 Nov. 1651 to 24 Nov. 1652, and 
 1 Dec. 1652, to 19 April 1653. Whitlock was a Commr. of the 
 Great Seal 12 April 1648 to 8 Feb. 1649, First Commr. thereof from 
 then to 30 May 1654, and 14 July 1654 to 15 Jan. 1656, a Commr. 
 thereof 22 Jan. to 14 May 1659, and Lord Keeper thereof 1 Nov. 
 1659 to 13 Jan. 1660. He was also Ambassador to Sweden (^"iooo 
 a year) Nov. 1653 to July 1654, President of the Council of State 
 Aug. 1659, Col. of the Berks Militia 1 Sept. 1659, one of the 
 Committee of Safety Oct. 1659, Speaker of the House of Commons 
 pro tern. 1656, High Steward of Oxford June 1649-60, Recorder of 
 Oxford until 1653, Chairman of the Oxfordshire Quarter 
 Sessions, 1653, and High Steward of Reading 1654-60. Forsee- 
 ing the speedy downfall of the Commonwealth Whitlock retired 
 to the country 30 Jan. 1660, where he lived a quiet life, until 
 his death at Chilton Park, Wilts, 28 Jan 1676. He was buried 
 at Fawley, Bucks. Owing to his moderation, several Members 
 spoke in his favour at the Restoration, and he was allowed 
 the benefit of the Act of General Pardon in June 1660. 
 
 1654. Nov. 16. Richard Croke of Marston, vice Lord 
 Commr. Whitlock who made his election to represent Bucks. 
 This Member was the 2nd but eldest surviving son of Serjeant 
 Unton Croke (see 1659,) was born about 1623, aged "abont 11 " 
 in 1634, and m. Elizabeth dau. of Martin Wright, Alderman and 
 Goldsmith of Oxford. He was adm. to the Inner Temple 24 
 Jan. 1635, where he was called to the bar 5 Nov. 1646, Autumn 
 Reader 1670, Bencher 23 Nov. 1662, was M.P. Oxford Nov. 1654 to 
 Jan. 1655, 1656 to Jan. 1658, Jan. to April 1659, and 1661-79, made 
 a Serjeant at law 21 April 1675, Knighted at Oxford 16 March 
 1 68 1, and was a Commr. to survey and sell the King's manors 
 and lands at Woodstock 1649, Dep. Steward of that manor Oct. 
 1649, a Commr. lor settling the Militia for Oxfordshire 1659, for 
 the Assessment of Oxford City 16 Feb. 1660, and Recorder of 
 Oxford 1653 until his death 14 or 15 Sept. 1683, aged 59 or 60. 
 
120 Members for Oxford. 
 
 " He alwaies ran with the times and his religion was as venal as 
 his tongue. He was hated by many for his smooth, false, and 
 flattering tongue." ( Wood). Richard and his brother Unton 
 Croke were among the Pari. Commrs. who were driven from 
 Woodstock in Oct. 1649 by the strange noises and wonderful 
 achievements of some royalist wags. 
 
 1656. Aug. Richard Croke. 
 1659. Jan. 13. Unton Croke. 
 Richard Croke. 
 
 Father and son. Unton Croke of Marston, near Oxford, 
 was the fourth son of Sir John Croke of Chilton, Bucks, a dis- 
 tinguished Judge of the King's Bench 1607, (see Williams' Welsh 
 Judges?) and was born 1594, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 2 March 
 1610, aged 15, (subscribed as Umpton Croke). He was adm. to 
 the Inner Temple 16 Nov. 1609, where he was called to the bar 
 26 Jan. 1617, Bencher 14 June 1635, L,ent Reader 1639, and m. 8 
 Nov. 1617 Anne dau. and heir of Richard Hore of Marston. He 
 was M.P. Wallingford 1626, and March to May 1640, and Oxford 
 Jan. to April 1659, and rendered great service to the Parliamen- 
 tary cause. He was made a Sergeant at law 21 June 1655, 
 Deputy Steward of Oxford University, (under L,ord Pembroke,) 
 a Commr. for security of the Protector 1656, and for the trial of 
 persons charged with treason without a jury 1656, and J. P. for 
 Oxfordshire. On 2 Oct. 1655 a letter was written to the Protector 
 by Dr. John Owen (see Oxford Univ. 1653) recommending Croke 
 for a Judgeship 1655, but he was never raised to the Bench. He 
 died at Marston 28 Jan. 167 1, aged 77, and was buried there. 
 (M.I.) " Bond 29 Dec. 1660 of Unton Croke of Marston and 
 Unton Croke of Oxford in ^4000 for the peaceable demeanour of 
 the latter." (Cal. Slate Papers). "On 3 July 1654 Edward 
 L,yde, als Joyner, of Horspath parish, and Dorothy, one of the 
 daughters of John Robinson of Whately, yeoman, were married 
 by and with the consent of the said John Robinson in this 
 parish before Unton Croke, Justice of the Peace, according 
 to the Statute. (Signed) Unton Croke." (Marston Parish 
 Register.) The Serjeant at law must not be confused with his 
 second son Major Unton Croke, for whose peaceable behaviour 
 such large bail was given, and who was a very active soldier 
 under the Commonwealth. It is somewhat doubtful in fact 
 whether it was the father or the son who was the Unton Croke 
 elected for Oxford in 1659, but although the author of the History 
 of the Croke Family states it was Major Unton Croke the son, yet 
 it appears on ; the whole more probable that the Member was 
 Serjeant Unton Croke, the father, as otherwise the son would 
 have been distinguished as 'junior.' The latter was made 
 Captain of a Troop of Horse in the early part of the Civil War 
 (or about 1648,) created B.C.!,. Oxford 5 June 1649, and for his 
 
Members for Oxford. 121 
 
 great zeal in suppressing John Penruddock's rising at Salisbury 
 in March 1655 he was made Major and given ^200 a year. As 
 Unton Croke jun. he was app. Captain of the Foot Militia in 
 Oxfordshire 2 April 1650, accompanied his kinsman Bulstrode 
 Whitelocke (see 1654) in his Embassy to Sweden 1653, made a 
 Commr. of Woodstock manor Oct. 1655, and High Sheriff of 
 Oxon 1658. Major Croke proclaimed Richard Cromwell as 
 Protector at Oxford 1658, and was app. by Pari. Colonel of 
 Berry's Regiment 11 Jan. 1660, but with his regiment declared 
 in favour of General Monk, in London 29 Feb. following. He 
 
 m. (1) the dau. of Sir Charles Wise, and (2) the dau. of — 
 
 Mallet of Kxeter, merchant, and was living in or near London in 
 a gouty condition in 1690. 
 
 1660. April 5. Viscount Falkland. 
 
 James Haxley. 
 As to Lord Falkland see the County 1659. James Huxley 
 was M.P. Oxford April to Dec. 1660. " Mr. Huxley, a presby- 
 terian chiefman, lived in the fair stone house behind Pembroke 
 College on the south side " ( Wood.) On 30 May 1660, Request 
 by Col. Alexander Popham and James Huxley to Lord Chancellor 
 Hyde in behalf of Wm. Clewer, that he would present to the 
 King, Clewer's petition for presentation to the rectory of Green's 
 Norton, Northants, who had lost his grant of Blisworth by 
 refusing to keep the thanksgiving day for the victory of Worces- 
 ter, and praying for His Majesty after it had been forbidden. 
 The Member was apparently not of kin to Sir John Huxley H.S. 
 Beds 1666, J. P. Middlesex, who was Knighted at Whitehall 16 
 March 1662, and was the elder son of John Huxley of Katon 
 Bray, Beds., whose other son was named Thomas. 
 
 1661. April 16. Richard Croke, Recorder, 
 
 Brome Whorwood. 
 
 Viscount Falkland and James Huxley also stood Brome 
 Whorwood was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Whorwood Knt. of 
 Heddington, Oxon, and Sandwell Hall, co. Stafford, by Ursula 
 Sde dau. and heiress of George Brome of Halton, and was student 
 and fellow commoner of Trin. Coll. Oxford in 1634, and created 
 D.C.L. 1 (or 2) Nov. 1642. He was licensed at the age of 19 on 
 22 Sept. 1634 to marry Jane Rider dau. -in-law of the Right Wor- 
 shipful James Maxwell, (one of the esquires of H.M.'s bed- 
 chamber.) He was seated at Holton, Oxon, and had also an 
 estate at Sandwall, co. Stafford; for which on 28 Nov. 1645 he was 
 assessed by the Committee for Advance of Money at ^2000. 
 " Nov. 28, Order that he be brought up in custody to pay his 
 assessment. Had lands in counties Worcester and Stafford. 
 Nov. 1645, He petitions that though not conscious of delinquency 
 he has been sequestered during his absence in France, yet wish- 
 ing to take the opportunity of the favour of Parliament, he came 
 
122 Members for Oxford. 
 
 in with the Speaker's pass." Information was laid against him 
 21 Sept. 1646, " That having many arms in his house he refused 
 to part with them for Parliament, said he would keep them for 
 the King and send them to Warwick. When the Earl of North- 
 ampton beseiged the Castle,— some of his neighbours threatened 
 to stop them, and he said, " Let them do so if they durst." He 
 said that he and others had ^500 each in their hands and would 
 spend it all for the King, and when that was gone he would find 
 as much more, for the King was in the right way, and Parliament's 
 courses were destructive, and he would spend his blood before 
 the King should be beaten. He cursed the adherents of Parlia- 
 ment and swore he would lose his whole estate rather than they 
 should prevail." Later on, on 14 Feb. 1648, Being adjudged a 
 a delinquent by the Committee for Sequestrations he begs to 
 compound. Has taken the National Covenant and Negative 
 Oath. Feb. 28, Fine at one-tenth, ^872." On 16 Dec. 1659 appears 
 the following sharp letter from Humphrey Robinson to William- 
 son, — " Mr. Whorwood owes me money, can none of the college 
 persuade him to be honest." He was M.P. for Oxford in four 
 Parliaments 1661-81, was removed from the Commission of the 
 Peace for Oxfordshire 13 Jan. 1680, and died in the Old Palace 
 Yard at Westminster 12 April, and was buried at Hoi ton 24 April 
 1684, aged 69. In 1656 Williamson, (afterwards Sir Joseph, and 
 Sec. of State 1674-9,) was travelling tutor to the sons of Brome 
 Whorwood and Sir Edward Norris. Having separated from his 
 wife, she obtained a decree in Chancery for alimony against him, 
 and there are several references in the Cat. State Papers to the 
 matter, which the King himself endeavoured to settle: — "23 June 
 1669. Whitehall, Petition of Broome Whorwood to the King, 
 showing that in June 1659 he was ordered by a decree in 
 Chancery to pay his wife ^300 a year, from Feb. 1657, during 
 their separation ; that although he filed a bill of error, he was 
 served with process to execute the said decree, when on his 
 petition His Majesty, on 18 Feb. 1664, ordered him to settle ^300 
 a year on his wife, and pay ^1000 for all arrears; that 
 having done this he was again prosecuted for expenses on his 
 wife's petition, and a decree given 12 June 1667 that he should 
 pay all that is still unpaid, on which his opponents advance their 
 bills. Requests a reference and re-hearing of his case that he 
 may not be further molested." (Lord Arlington called him " my 
 old friend " on 7 June 1669.) June 30. Reference to the Lord 
 Keeper of the petition of Brome Whorwood, that a stop may be 
 put to all proceeding in the affair between him and his wife till 
 the Judges report. Whorwood wished the King to personally 
 settle the matter, but his wife would not agree to this. 
 
 1679. Feb. 12. William Wright. 
 
 Broome Whorwood. 
 
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 " Georg Pudsey of Ellsfeild, then stood and received the 
 canvass, which cost him they say about £300." ( Wood* 's Life and 
 Times.') 
 
 Aldermam William Wright was perhaps brother to Martin 
 Wright, Mayor of Oxford 1635, 1655, and m. Mary widow of 
 Edward Dewe (of the Bampton family,) and dau. of John Banks 
 of Abingdon, (by Mary 2nd dau. of Robert Perrot of Northleigh, 
 organist and bailiff of Magdalen College,) or m. (1) Christian 
 dau. of John Smith M.P. (see 1640.) He was a leading man at 
 Oxford, of which he was an Alderman at the Visitation of 1634, 
 Mayor 1656 and 1667, app. an Assessment Commr. 16 Feb. 1660, 
 M.P. in three Parliaments 1679-81, re-app. an Alderman by the 
 new Charter Sept. 1668, and died 26 or 30 Oct. 1693, aged 98. 
 He was H.S. Oxon 1674, and J. P. until left out of the commission 
 14 June 1685. This William Wright was * a great-cocker,' i.e. 
 patron of cockfighting. On 25 June 1683 " Lord Norreys and — 
 Pudsey of Elsfeild with constables searched Aid. W. Wright's 
 house, and King the glover's, for armes." On 17 July the 
 Alderman's house was again searched, an " armour cap a pee 
 for one man " being found there, and he was released on bail 30 
 Nov. Wright appeared in the Court of King's Bench before 
 Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys 16 April 1684, for publishing scan- 
 dalous libels " that the King and Duke are brothers in iniquity," 
 and though he pleaded not guilty, he was found guilty and com- 
 mitted to custody. 
 
 1679. Aug. 25. William Wright. 
 
 Brome Whorwood. 
 
 George Pudsey. 
 
 " George Pudsey lost it by 20 votes." ( Wood.) 
 
 1681. Feb. 7. William Wright. 
 
 Brome Whorwood. 
 
 George Pudsey. 
 
 M Pudsey lost it by nearly an 100 votes," the Duke of 
 Buckingham (who slept at Wright's house,) and Lord Lovelace 
 actively assisting his opponents. 
 
 1685. March 9. Hon. Henrie Berty. 
 
 Sir George Pudsey Knt. 
 
 Captain the Hon. Henry Bertie of Chesterton, third son (by 
 his 2nd wife) of Montagu 2nd Earl of Lindsey, was M.P. Westbury 
 Feb. 1678 to Jan. 1679, Nov. 1701 to July 1702, when defeated, 
 but was seated on petition Nov. 1702 and sat till 17 15. He also 
 sat for New Woodstock Feb. to March 1681, and for Oxford 
 1685-7, and 1689-95. He became Capt. of a company in Lord 
 Gerard's regt. of horse 15 Feb. 1678, which was disbanded in 
 Jan. and March 1679, and was Captain of the Horse Troop of 
 
124 Members for Oxford. 
 
 Militia of Oxon in March 1681 and 1685. He was app. Captain 
 of an Independent Troop of Horse 18 June 1685, but it was dis- 
 banded after the battle of Sedgemoor in that year. He and his 
 half brother Richard (see Woodstock 1685,) had their commission 
 taken from them in Nov. 1685, " because not forward in the 
 parliament to vote up the popish officers." ( Wood). He m. (1) 
 Philadelphia eldest surviving dau. of Sir Edward Norreys of 
 Weston on the Green, (see the County 1675,) and so acquired 
 that estate and (2) Catherine sister of Sir Henry Fetherstone 
 Bart. He was made Dep. L,ieut. Oxon 30 May 1689, and died at 
 a very advanced age at Chesterton 5 Dec. 1734. His grandson 
 was M.P. for the County 1742. 
 
 " The loyall and generous " Sir George Pudsey of Blsfield, 
 who was Knighted by the King at Oxford on 15 March 1681, 
 being then D.L,. for Oxon, and "one of the Captaines of the 
 Militia company," ( Wood) was the son of George P. of Langley, 
 co. Warwick, and kinsman to William Pudsey who succeeded 
 Bulstrode Whitlock as Chairman of the Oxon Quarter Sessions. 
 He " never togated in any University," ( Wood) but ent. the 
 Middle Temple 18 Nov. 1663, bar. at law 25 May 1666, Serjeant 
 at law 23 Jan. 1683, and, having twice unsucc. cont. Oxford, 
 represented it 1685-7, and was its Recorder 17 Sept. 1683 to Sept. 
 
 1688. He was app. a Commr. for the regulation of the city of 
 Oxford 1688, and died about 1691 in the Fleet. He m. the dau. 
 of Sir Thomas Coghill Knt. of Blechingdon, and she d. 12 Feb. 
 
 1689. He was the last of the family to reside at Ellesfield, which 
 manor and estate, of about ^1200 a year, he sold to I^ord North 
 for ^25000. The lordship of Bllesfield came to the Pudseys 
 about the beginning of the reign of Hen. 7, for Edith (aged 40 in 
 
 7 Hen. 8,) niece and heir to the last Gilbert Hore, and dau. of 
 John Hore, m. (1) Thomas Fulthorpe of Bernard's Castle, and 
 (2) Rowland a younger son of Henry Pudsey of Barfold, and 
 Bolton, Yorkshire. Hugh de Pute, or Pudsey, Bishop of Dur- 
 ham 1 153, was of the same family, Gilbert de Ellesfield (see the 
 County 1295,) was lord of the manor temp. Edw. I, and his 
 descendant and heir Johanna married John Hore, de Childerley, 
 
 8 Hen. 4. 
 
 1689. Jan. 11. Hon. Henry Bertie T. 
 
 Sir Edward Norreys Knt. T. 
 As to Sir E. Norreys, see the County 1675. William 
 Wright and Thomas Horde were candidates but apparently did 
 not take a poll. 
 
 1690. Feb. 19. The same. 
 
 1695. Oct. 24. Sir E. Norreys T. 
 
 Thomas Rowney T. 
 
 William Wright W. 
 
 Aid. Henry White. W. 
 
Members for Oxford. 125 
 
 Aid. Henry White, 2nd son of Sir Sampson Wright, was 
 called " Squire White " to distinguish him from his father. He 
 was a draper at Oxford, Mayor 1691-2, and m. Katherine dau. of 
 Aid. Wm. Wright, (see 1679). The other defeated candidate was 
 his brother-in-law, the Recorder of Oxford 1688-1721, (as to 
 whom see Williams' Welsh Judges). 
 
 Thomas Rowney of Oxford, was the son of Thomas R. an 
 Attorney of Oxford, who was on intimate terms of friendship 
 with Anthony Wood. He matric. St. John's Coll. Oxford 15 
 May 1684, aged 16, was H.S. Oxon (as T. R. jun.) 1691, and 
 called to the bar at the Inner Temple 20 May 1694. He was 
 licensed by the Vicar General 27 May 1691 to marry Elizabeth 
 dau of Edward Noel of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex. He sat 
 for Oxford 1695- 1722, and died 26 Aug. 1727. 
 
 1698. July 23. The same. 
 
 1701. Jan. 6. Thomas Rowney T. 
 
 Francis Norreys T. 
 
 The latter was the younger son of Sir Edward Norreys, 
 (see the County 1675,) matric. Queen's Coll. Oxford 31 March 
 1683, aged 17, and entered Eincolns Inn 1684. He was app. 
 Ensign of Capt. Richard Bertie's Independent Troop of Horse 
 18 June 1685, which, after Sedgemoor, was incorporated into the 
 Earl of Peterborough's regt. of horse. He was seated at North 
 Weston, and sat for Oxford 1701 until his death 6 June 1706. 
 
 1701. Nov. 25. The same, re-elected 17 July 1702, and 8 
 May 1705. 
 
 1706. Dec. 11. Sir John Walter Bart, of Sarsden, vice 
 Norreys deceased. This Member was 2nd but eldest surviving 
 son of Sir William W. whom he succ. as 3rd Bart. 5 March 1693, 
 and grandson of Sir Wm. Walter, (see the County 1663). He 
 matric. Queen's Coll. Oxford 21 Aug. 1691, created D.C.Iy. 27 
 Aug. 1702, was a Clerk Comptroller of the Board of Green Cloth 
 Feb. 171 1 to Feb. 1716, and m. Elizabeth dau. of Sir Thomas 
 Vernon Knt. He sat for Appleby Dec. 1694-5, and Dec. 1697 to 
 Dec. 1700, and for Oxford Dec. 1706 nntil his death s.p. 11 June 
 1722. His widow re-m. to Viscount Harcourt, the Iyord Chan- 
 cellor, (see Williams Pari. Hist, of Wales). The title expired 
 with his brother Sir Robert 20 Nov. 1731. 
 
 1708. May 3. Thomas Rowney T. 
 Sir John Walter T. 
 
 1710. Oct. 4. The same. 
 
 1711. Feb. 26. Sir John Walter, re-el. after accepting an 
 office of profit under the Crown. 
 
 1713. Aug. 22. Thomas Rowney. 
 Sir John Walter. 
 
126 Members for Oxford. 
 
 1715. Jan. 24. The same. 
 
 1722. March 22. Sir John Walter T. 
 
 Thomas Rowney T. 
 
 This Thomas Rowney of Dean Farm was the son of the 
 M.P. 1695, and matric. St. John's Coll. Oxford 5 July 1709, aged 
 16, and entered the Inner Temple 1709. He was High Steward 
 of Oxford City July 1743-59, and the Town Hall was built in 
 1751 nearly at his own expense. He m. 10 March 1756 Miss 
 Trollope, voted against the employment of the Hessian Troops 
 1730, and the Excise Bill 1733, and sat for Oxford 1722 until his 
 death 27 Oct. 1759, buried in St. Giles' Church, Oxford, 4 Nov. 
 He and his father held one of the seats for Oxford for a period 
 of 64 years without interruption. 
 
 1722. Oct. 24. Francis Knollys of Thame, vice Walter 
 deceased. This Member was the son of Francis Knollys M.P. 
 for Reading, who died of the small pox 1701, by Elizabeth 
 youngest dau. and co-heir of John Stribblehill of Thame. He 
 sat for Oxford Oct. 1722-34, and died unmarried 24 June 1754. 
 He voted against the Excise Bill 1733, under the following 
 circumstances, — " On the Call of the House his excuse was not 
 allow'd, and he was order'd to be taken into Custody of the 
 Serjeant at Arms ; but being discharged appeared on the Report, 
 and voted against the Bill." 
 
 1727. Aug. 16. Thomas Rowney T 
 
 Francis Knollys T 
 
 1734. April 23. Thomas Rowney T 
 
 Matthew Skinner W 
 
 Serjeant Skinner was the third and youngest son of Robert 
 S. of Welton, Northants, bar. at law, and law reporter, and was 
 born 22 Oct. 1689, educ. at Westminster, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 
 18 June 1709, aged 19, and having entered Lincolns Inn 20 June 
 1709, was called to the bar 21 April 1716. He was one of the 
 four Common Pleaders of the City of Iyondon 1719-22, Recorder 
 of Oxford 30 May 1721-49, made a Serjeant at law 1 Feb. 1724, 
 one of the King's Serjeants 11 June 1728, and His Majesty's 
 Prime (or First) Serjeant 12 May 1734, being Treasurer of 
 Serjeants Inn 1728. He m. 17 19 Elizabeth dau. of Thomas 
 Whitfield of Watford Place, Herts. He unsucc. cont. Andover 
 1727, but was M.P. for Oxford 1734 till made Chief Justice of 
 Chester 26 Nov. 1738, and held that judicial post until his death 
 at Oxford 21 Oct. 1749, aged 60 years all but a day. He resided 
 at Oxford 1722-39. 
 
 1739. Feb. 8. James Herbert of Kingsey, Bucks, (Tory,) 
 mice Skinner made C.J. of Chester. Elder son of James Herbert 
 of Tythorpe and Kingsey, who was drowned 1721, (^see the 
 
Members for Oxford. 127 
 
 County 17 15,) he merely sat for Oxford Feb. 1739 until his death 
 unmarried 21 Nov. 1740, at an early age. 
 
 1740. Dec. 3. Philip Herbert of Kingsey, vice his elder 
 brother James deceased. Third son of James H. of Tythorpe 
 (see the county 1715,) he was adm. to Lincolns Inn 25 Jan. 1735, 
 called to the bar 20 June 1740, m. Mary dau. and heir of Edward 
 Butler (see Oxford University 1737,) and sat for Oxford Dec. 
 1740 until his death s.p. at Kingsey 21 July 1749, aged 32. He 
 left two sisters and co-heirs, Sophia who married the 6th 
 Viscount Wenman, (see the County 1768,) and died a widow 20 
 July 1787, aged 70, and Agnes who died unmarried in 1810, 
 aged 91. 
 
 1741. May 4. Thomas Rowney T 
 
 Philip Herbert T 
 
 1747. June 26. The same. 
 
 1749. Nov. 21. Viscount Wenman (see the County 1754) 
 vice Herbert deceased. 
 
 1754. April 15. Thomas Rowney T 
 
 Hon. Robert Lee. T 
 
 Hon. Robert Lee of Charlbury, 13th and youngest son of 
 Edward 1st Earl of Lichfield, was born 3 July 1706, and m. 21 
 Jan. 1748 Catherine daughter of Sir John Stonehouse Bart, of 
 Radley, Berks. He was nominated D L- Oxon 9 June 1762, was 
 M.P. Oxford 1754-68, and succ. his nephew George (see the 
 County 1740) as 4th and last Earl of Lichfield 19 Sept. 1772. He 
 was Hereditary Custos Brevium in the Common Pleas 1772 
 until his death s.p. 3 Nov. 1776, when the title became extinct. 
 
 1759. Nov. 19. Sir Thomas Stapleton of Bray, Berks, 
 and Rotherfield Greys, vice Rowney deceased. Eldest son of Sir 
 Wm. S. of Grays, (see the County 1727,) whom he succ. as 5th 
 Bart. 13 Jan. 1740, he was born 24 Feb. 1727, matric. St. Mary 
 Hall, Oxford 27 Feb. 1744, created D.CL- 3 July 1754, and m. 27 
 Nov. 1765 Mary 2nd dau. of Henry Fane M.P. of Wormsley, (see 
 the County 1796.) He sat for Oxford Nov. 1759-68, and died 
 1 Jan. 1 78 1. The Barony of Le Despencer was terminated in 
 favour of his eldest son Thomas in 1788. 
 
 1761. March 25. Hon. Robert Lee T 
 
 Sir T. Stapleton T 
 
 In 1768 the Mayor and Aldermen of Oxford offered to re- 
 elect them, provided they advanced £7500 to discharge a debt 
 upon the city. The two Members, however, on 26 Jan. 1768, laid 
 the latter before the House of Commons, who sent ten of the 
 offending persons to Newgate for five days, and only discharged 
 them after a very severe reprimand, upon their knees, from the 
 Speaker. During their brief imprisonment, it is said, however* 
 
128 Mkmbkrs for Oxford. 
 
 that the guilty parties completed another bargain for the City 
 with the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Abingdon, whose 
 nominees were returned. 
 
 1768. March 17. 
 
 George Nares 
 
 T 
 
 592 
 
 Hon. W. Harcourt 
 
 T 
 
 562 
 
 William Craven 
 
 W 
 
 332 
 
 Sir J. Cotter 
 
 W 
 
 80 
 
 Mr. Craven became 6th Earl Craven March 1769, and died 
 1791. Sir James Cotter 1st Bart, of Rockforest, co. Cork, died 
 1770. 
 
 George Nares was the younger son of George Nares of 
 Albury, Oxon, who was Steward to the 2nd. and 3rd. Earls of 
 Abingdon, and was born at Hanwell, Middlesex, in 1716, educ. 
 at Magdalen College School, adm. to New Coll. Oxford, created 
 D.C.L. 7 July 1773, adm. to the Inner Temple 19 Oct. 1738, where 
 he was called to the bar 12 June 1741. He m. 23 Sept. 1751 Mary 
 dau. of Sir John Strange, Master of the Rolls 1750-4. He was 
 Town Clerk of Oxford 8 Sept. 1746 to 5 July 1756, made a Ser- 
 jeant at law 6 Feb. 1759, and a King's Serjeant 1759, Recorder of 
 Oxford 1766-71, voted against Wilkes 1769, M.P. Oxford 1768 
 until sworn in a Justice of the Common Pleas 26 Jan. 177 1, and 
 was Knighted the next day. Mr. Justice Nares sat on the Bench 
 until his death at Ramsgate 20 Jul / 1786. He was buried at 
 Eversley, Hants. His son Rev. Edward Nares D.D., m. 1797 
 Lady Charlotte Spencer 3rd dau. of the 3rd Duke of Marlborough 
 K.G. 
 
 Hon. William Harcourt, 2nd son of Simon 1st Earl 
 Harcourt, (great grandson of the M.P. for the County 1679,) was 
 born 20 March 1743, and m. 3 Sept. 1778 Mary widow of Thomas 
 Lockhart of Craig House, Scotland, and dau. of Rev. W. Danby 
 D.D. of Farnley, Yorkshire. One of the few military men who 
 sat for Oxford, he entered the army at the age of 16 as Ensign 
 i st Foot Guards Aug. 1759, became Captain 16th Light Dragoons 
 27 Oct. 1759, (raised at his father's expense,) and backed by great 
 family interest, saw rap^d promotion, becoming Captain 3rd 
 King's Own Dragoons 30 June 1760, Lt.-Col. 31st Foot (from 
 half-pay) 28 Nov. 1764, Lt.-Col. 4th Light Dragoons 19 April 
 1765, Lt.-Col. 16th Light Dragoons 24 June 1768, A.D.C. to the 
 King with the rank of Colonel 29 Aug. 1777, Col. of the 16th 
 Light Dragoons 20 Oct. 1779, Major Gen. 12 Nov. 1782, Lt.-Gen. 
 12 Oct. 1793, Gen. 1 Jan. 1798, and Field Marshal 19 July 1821. 
 He was M.P. for Oxford 1768-74, an Equerry to the Queen 
 Consort 5 Sept. 176 1-6, Extra Groom of the Bedchamber to 
 the King 29 Nov. 1766 to 1808, Governor of Fort William 29 
 March 1794, Commander of the British Cavalry in the war in 
 Flanders and Holland 1793-4, and of the army there 1794-5, 
 
Members for Oxford. 129 
 
 Governor of Hull 15 July 1795-1801, Gov. of the Royal Military 
 College at High Wycombe and Great Marlow23June 1801-10, 
 Dep. Lieut. Berks 22 Nov. 1801, and Gentleman and Master of 
 the Robes to the King 26 Nov. 1808 to 5 June 1809. General 
 Harcourt succeeded his brother George as 3rd Earl Harcourt 20 
 April 1809, and was Master of the House to the Queen April 1809 
 till Her Majesty's death in 1818, Gov. of Portsmouth 30 July 
 181 1 -30, Keeper of Windsor Great Park 11 Nov. 1815, G.C.B. 20 
 May 1820, Gov. of Plymouth 1 Jan. 1827, Dep. Lieut, of Windsor 
 Forest, Dep. Ranger ot Windsor Great Park, and Lieut, of 
 Windsor Forest 1782, and a Commr. of the R. Mil. Coll. Sand- 
 hurst. His Lordship died 17 June 1830, at his seat St. Leonard's 
 Hall, Berks, aged 87, when the title became extinct. He was 
 A.D.C. to Lord Albemarle at the capture of Havannah 1762, 
 took his regiment to America, and in 1776 took prisoner the 
 American General, Charles Lee. 
 
 1 77 1. Jan. 31. Lord Robert Spencer, vice Nares made a 
 Judge. Third son of Charles, 2nd Duke of Marlborough, he was 
 born 3 May 1747, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 10 April 1762, created 
 M.A. 6 May 1765, and D.C.L. 7 July 1773. He had an extensive 
 Parliamentary career, being M.P. for Woodstock 1768-71, when 
 he resigned h : s seat to stand for Oxford, which he rep. till 1790, 
 and was also M.P. Wareham 1790 till he resigned Feb. 1799, for 
 Tavistock March 1802-7, and March 1817-18, and again for Wood- 
 stock 1818-20. Lord Robert held office as a Lord of Trade Aug. 
 1772 to Dec. 1781, Joint Vice Treasurer of Ireland May 1782 to 
 April 1783, and Surveyor General of Woods and Forests Feb. 
 1806 to Dec. 1807. He m. 2 Oct. 181 1 Henrietta only dau. of Sir 
 Everard Fawkener K.B., and relict of Hon. Edward Bouverie, 
 and died s.p. 23 June 1831, aged 84. 
 
 1774. Oct. 5. Lord R. Spencer T 
 
 Hon. Peregrine Bertie W 
 
 Captain the Hon. Peregrine Bertie of Yattenden, Berks, 
 and Weston on the Green, was the third son of Willoughby 3rd 
 Earl of Abingdon, and was born 13 March 1741. He entered the 
 Royal Navy, and, according to the custom of that day, he at- 
 tained (through family influence) the rank of Captain 6 Nov. 
 1762, and was appointed to the " Shannon." He m. 7 May 1790 
 Miss Hutchins of Yattenden, and sat for Oxford 1774 until his 
 death at his seat at Frilsham, Berks, 20 Aug. 1790. 
 
 1780. Sept. 8. The same. 
 
 1782. June 3. Lord R. Spencer, re-el. on being made 
 Vice Treasurer of Ireland. He was now a Whig. 
 
 1784. March 30. Lord R. Spencer W 
 
 Hon. P. Bertie W 
 
130 Members eor Oxford. 
 
 1790. June 16. Hon. P. Bertie W 
 
 Francis Burton T 
 
 Francis Burton of Ed worth, Beds, was the son of Col. 
 Francis Burton, of St. George's, Westminster and was born 1744, 
 and matric. Ch Ch. Oxford 9 Dec. 1760, aged 16, B.A. 1764, M.A. 
 30 April 1767. He was adm. to Lincolns Inn 4 May 1761, called 
 to the bar there and gave the usual bond 10 Feb. 1768, called to 
 the Bench of that Society 12 Feb. and sat as such 6 May 1778, 
 Treasurer 1792, and was made a King's Counsel in Trinity term 
 1792. He was M.P. Heytesbury Dec. 1780-4, Woodstock 1784-90, 
 and Oxford 1790-1812, Chairman of the Oxfordshire Quarter 
 Sessions 1771-7, Recorder of Woodstock 1780-1802, and of Oxford 
 1797 until July 1801, when he resigned on account of loss of 
 sight. Mr. Burton was Puisne Justice of Chester July 1788 to 
 1817, when he resigned. He m. Jan. 1778 the eldest dau. of 
 Nicholas Halhead of Woodstock, and died in London 28 Nov. 
 1832, aged 88, being then the senior King's Counsel, and having 
 been blind for many years. (See Williams' Welsh Judges.) 
 
 1790. Dec. 21. Arthur Annesley 613 
 
 Ogilvie 103 
 
 vice Captain Bertie who died before the meeting of Parliament. 
 Arthur Annesley of Bletchingdon, was the only son of Arthur 
 Annesley (R.S. 1765,) and matric Ch. Ch. Oxford 27 May 1779, 
 aged 18, was H.S. Oxon 1784, M.P. Oxford Dec. 1790-6, when 
 defeated, and unsucc. cont. Woodstock 1806. He m. 1785 
 Catharine dau. of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy Knt., and died 20 
 Jan. 1841, aged 80. His son Arthur became 10th or nth 
 Viscount Valentia in 1844. 
 
 1796. May 27. Henry Peters T 658 
 Francis Burton T 504 
 Arthur Annesley T 461 
 
 This poll lasted 3 days, when 890 voted. The Plumpers 
 given were for Peters 91, Burton 56, Annesley 10. After this 
 date nearly every election was vigorously contested at Oxford. 
 
 Henry Peters of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, was a London 
 merchant, and a partner in Masterman & Co., bankers. He sat 
 for Oxford 1796-1802, and died in London 21 Dec. 1827. His 
 eldest son Henry m. 25 Jan. 18 14 Caroline Mary Susannah eldest 
 dau. of John Campbell, Master in Chancery. 
 
 1802. July 9. J.A.Wright T 836 
 
 F. Burton T 812 
 
 /. /. Lockhart T 454 
 
 The poll lasted four days, and 1186 voted. The Plumpers 
 were, for Wright 56, Burton 85, Lockhart 126. 
 
Members for Oxford. 131 
 
 John Atkyns Wright of Crowsley Park, son of — Atkyns, 
 of Ketteringham, Norfolk, was created D.C.L,. Exeter College, 
 Oxford, 18 June 1801, having assumed the name of Wright. He 
 was M.P. Oxford 1802-7, and 1812-20, H.S. Oxon Feb. 1798, 
 Major Commandant Henley and Binfield Volunteers 16 Sept. 
 
 1803 to April 1806, Recorder of Henley on Thames, and Chairman 
 of the Oxfordshire Quarter Sessions Jan. 1819 until his death at 
 Crowsley Park 5 March 1822. 
 
 1806. Dec. 9. F. Burton T 836. 
 
 J. A. Wright T 760. 
 
 J. I. Lockhart T 715. 
 
 1353 electors voted, the poll being kept open 6 days. The 
 Plumpers were, for Burton 54, Wright 45, Lockhart 221. 
 
 1807. May 4. Francis Burton. 
 
 J. I. Lockhart. 
 
 John Ingram Lockhart of Sherfield House, Hants, and 
 Great Haseley House, Oxon, }'oungest son of James Lockhart of 
 Melchett Park Wilts, and London, (a partner in Lockhart, 
 Wallace, and Co., bankers, Pall Mall,) matric. Univ. Coll. Oxford 
 5 May 1783, aged 17, created D.C.L 14 June 1820, ent. Lincolns 
 Inn 7 May 1783, bar. at law 14 June 1790, and went the Oxford 
 circuit, of which he became a distinguished member. Mr. Lock- 
 hart possessed great retentiveness of memory. He m. 14 Jan. 
 
 1804 Mary only child and heir of Francis Wastie of Cowley, and 
 Haseley House, and took the name of Wastie in lieu of Ingrain - 
 Lockhart by Act of Parliament 12 Oct. 1831. He unsucc. cont. 
 Oxford 1802, 1806, 1818, and 1830, but rep. it 1807-18, and 1820-30. 
 He was Recorder of Romsey till Oct. 1834, app. Deputy Recorder 
 of Oxford to Sir Wm. Elias Taunton in 1830, and succeeded that 
 distinguished Judge as Recorder of Oxford March 1835, but died 
 at Great Haseley 13 Aug. following, aged 70. 
 
 1812. Oct. 17. J. A. Wright T 863. 
 
 J. I. Lockhart T 828. 
 
 Hon. George Eden W 794. 
 
 H. R. Curzon 104. 
 
 1538 voted, the poll being prolonged for 9 days. Mr. 
 Curzon resigned at the close of the second day's poll. 79 Plum- 
 pers were given to Wright, 142 to Lockhart, and 241 to Eden, 
 while the Split Votes were, between Wright and Lockhart 435, 
 Wright and Eden 308, Lockhart and Eden 229. 
 
 1818. June 22. 
 
 J. A. Wright 
 
 850 
 
 Gen. F. St. John 
 
 675 
 
 /. /. Lockhart 
 
 448 
 
132 Members for Oxford. 
 
 The Poll lasted 4 days, and 1143 voted. The Split Votes 
 were, between Wright and St. John 414, Wright and Lockhart 
 374, St. John and Lockhart 42, while Wright received 62 
 Plumpers, St. John 219, and Lockhart 32. 
 
 General the Hon. Frederick St. John was the 2nd surviving 
 son of Frederick 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, by Lady Diana 
 Spencer eldest dau. of Charles 2nd Duke of Marlborough. Born 
 20 Dec. 1765, he entered the army as Ensign 31 Aug. 1779, and 
 became Lieut. 85th Regt. 7 Feb. 1780, Capt. -Lieut, and Captain 
 88th Regt. 12 Dec. 1780, Capt. 95th Foot 22 Aug. 1781, Major 8 
 April 1783, (then 104th Regt.), on half-pay in 1786, Major 45th 
 Foot 13 June 1789, Lt. Col. of the 2nd. Foot 23 Feb. 1791, Col. 21 
 Aug. 1795, Major Gen. 18 June 1798, (" on full pay of late 117th 
 Foot,") was on half-pay in 1804, Lt. Gen. 30 Oct. 1805, and 
 General 4 June 18:14. He served in the West Indies until 1781, 
 in Jersey and Guernsey until 1783, at Gibralter, throughout (as 
 Brigadier and Major Gen.,) the Rebellion in Ireland in 1798, and 
 afterwards in India under Lord Lake with much distinction, 
 taking part in the two campaigns against the Mahrattas, where 
 he was second in command, being engaged in seven sieges and 
 two general actions, for which he received the thanks of 
 both Houses of Parliament. He m. (1) 8 Dec. 1788 Lady Mary 
 Ker (who d. 6 Feb. 1791) 3rd dau. of Wm. 5th Marquis Lothian ; 
 (2) 6 April 1793 Hon. Arabella Craven (who d. 8 June 1819,) 4th 
 dau. of Wm. 6th Lord Craven, (see 1768 ;) and (3) 14 Nov. 1821 
 Caroline Elizabeth youngest dau. of J. Parsons. General St. 
 John was M.P. Oxford 1818-20, when defeated, and died at 
 Chailey, Sussex, after a few hours' illness 19 Nov. 1845, aged 79, 
 being then the senior General, with the exception of Sir George 
 Nugent Bart. 
 
 1820. March 10. C. Wetherell T 907 
 
 J. I. Lockhart T 737 
 
 General F. St. John 623 
 
 1267 voted at this election, the Poll being open 3 days. 14 
 Plumpers were given to Wetherell, 71 to Lockhart, and 182 to 
 St. John. The Split Votes were as follows, Wetherell and 
 Lockhart 559, Wetherell and St. John 334, Lockhart and St. 
 John 107. 
 
 The distinguished lawyer, Charles Wetherell, was the 3rd 
 son of the Very Rev. Nathan Wetherell, Master of University 
 College, and Dean of Oxford, and was baptised at Oxford 6 
 March 1770, educ. at St. Paul's School, matric. Univ. Coll. 
 Oxford 14 Jan. 1786, aged 15, demy Magd. Coll. 1788-91, B.A. 2. 
 June 1790, M.A. 9 July 1793, created D.CL- 13 June 1834. 
 Entering the Inner Temple 1790, he was called to the bar 4 July 
 1794, became K.C. 23 March 1816, a Bencher 21 June 1816, 
 Reader 1824, and Treasurer of his Inn 1825. Hem. (1) 28 Dec. 
 
Members for Oxford 133 
 
 1826 his cousin Jane Sarah Elizabeth (who died 21 April 1831,) 
 2nd dau. of Sir Alexander Croke Kut. of Studley Priory, Judge 
 of the Vice Admiralty Court in North America, and (2) 27 Nov. 
 1838 Harriet Elizabeth 2nd dau. of Col. Francis Warneford of 
 Warneford Place, Wilts. Wetherell was defeated at Shaftesbury 
 Oct. 1812 but seated on petition Feb. 1813-18, and sat for Oxford 
 1820-6, (where defeated 1832,) Hastings June to Sept. 1826, 
 Plympton Dec. 1826-30, and Boroughbridge 1830-2, and unsucc. 
 cont. Birmingham Jan 1840. He defended Watson for the Spa 
 Field riots 1817, was Knighted 10 March 1824, Solicitor General 
 Jan. 1824-6, and Attorney General Sept. 1826 to April 1827 and 
 Feb. 1828 to June 1829, when he resigned owing to his opposition 
 to Catholic Emancipation. He was Recorder of Bristol from 
 before 1830 to 1846, Temporal Chancellor of the County Palatine 
 of Durham from March 1835 to 1846, Counsel to Magd. Coll. 
 Oxford 1804-46, Counsel to Oxford Univ. 1830-46, and Deputy 
 High Steward of Oxford from May 1846 until his death (from a 
 fall from his carriage ten days before) at Preston Hall, Kent, 17 
 Aug. following, aged 76, buried in the Temple Church 25 Aug. 
 He was said to be worth over ^200000, and to have left no will. 
 During the Reform excitement, Wetherell, although advised not 
 to do so, persisted in attending as Recorder of Bristol to open 
 the Quarter Sessions as usual in Oct. 1831, and being well-known 
 for his opposition to the burning question of the day, his 
 presence gave such offence to the mob, that they broke out into 
 the most serious rioting, which was only quelled, after enormous 
 damage had been done, by the severest exertions. 
 
 1824. Feb. 29. Charles Wetherell, re-el. on being made 
 Solicitor General. 
 
 1826. June 16. J. H. L,angston W 1054 
 J. I. Lockhart W 760 
 W. H. Hughes W 729 
 
 The Poll was kept open for 4 days when 1575 voted. 
 
 James Haughton Langston, son of John Iy. of Sarsden 
 House, (H.S. 1804, who purchased the Sarsden and Churchill 
 estates from Sir Wm. Walter Bart, and d. 1812,) was born 1797, 
 educ. at Eton, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 23 May 1814, aged 17, 
 created D C.L. 23 June 1819, and m. 6 July 1824 the Lady Julia 
 Moreton 2nd dau. of Thomas 2nd Earl Ducie, (see Williams' 
 Gloucestershire Members^) Upon attaining his majority he 
 re-built Churchill Parish Church in 1819. He was H.S. Oxon 
 Oxon 1819, M.P. Woodstock 1829-26, and Oxford 1826-34, an( * 
 1841-63, Verdurer of Wychwood Forest in 1830, and died at 
 Sarsden House, Chipping Norton, 19 Oct. 1863, aged 66. 
 
134 Members for Oxford. 
 
 1830. Aug. 4. J. H. Langston W 1108 
 
 W. H. Hughes W 1054 
 /. /. Lockhart T 750 
 
 Poll prolonged to 5 days, during which 1779 voted. 
 Langston had 85 Plumpers, Hughes 424, Lockhart 137, while the 
 Split Votes were, for Langston and Hughes 520, Langston and 
 Lockhart 503, Hughes and Lockhart no. 
 
 William Hughes Hughes, eldest son of John Hewitt, of 
 Clapham Common, Surrey, was born 1792, assumed the name of 
 Hughes 25 May 1825, ent. Lincolns Inn as W. Hughes-Hewitt 
 (aged 29) on 5 June 1822, and was called to the bar 26 June 1827. 
 He was H.S. Hants, and an Alderman of the City of London for 
 Portsoken Ward March 1832 till discharged upon a writ of quo 
 warranto the same year, and again for Bread Street Ward 18 Oct. 
 1843 till he resigned his gown A ril 1848. He sat lor Oxford 
 1830-2, and March 1833-7, being defeated 1832 and 1837, was a 
 director of the London and Greenwich Railway in 1846, and died 
 at Ilkley Wells House, Yorkshire, 10 Oct. 1874. 
 
 1831. May 2. J. H. Langston. 
 
 W. H. Hughes. 
 
 1832. Dec. 13. J. H. Langston 
 
 Thomas Stonor 
 W. H. Hughes 
 SirC. Wetherell 
 
 Sir C. Wetherell resigned on the first day. 2139 voted out 
 of 2312 on the register. The Plumpers given were, for Langston 
 104, Stonor 109, Hughes 184, and Wetherell 146. The Split 
 Votes were, Langston and Stonor 476, Langston and Hughes 
 456, Langston and Wetherell 224, Stonor and Hughes 207, Stonor 
 and Wetherell 81, Hughes and Wetherell 72. On petition Mr. 
 Stonor was unseated March 1833. 
 
 Thomas Stonor of Stonor Park, eldest son of Thomas 
 Stonor of that place, was born in London 22 Oct. 1797, and m. 25 
 July 1 82 1 Frances dau of Peregrine Edward Towneley of 
 Towneley Hall, Lancashire. He was J. P. and D.L- Oxon, H. S. 
 1836, M.P. Oxford 1832 till unseated March 1833, unsucc. cont 
 the City 1835, and the County 1837, an d was summoned to 
 Parliament by writ dated 14 Sept. 1839 as senior co-heir to the 
 Barony of Camoys, dormant since 1426. His Lordship held office 
 as a Lord in Waiting to the Queen July 1846 to Feb. 1852, Jan. 
 1853 to Feb. 1858, June 1859 to July 1866, and Dec. 1868 to Feb. 
 1874, and died at Stonor 18 Jan. 1881. 
 
 1833. March 18. W. Hughes Hughes W 803 
 
 Charles Townley W 702 
 
 Donald Maclean T 462 
 
 w 
 
 1260. 
 
 w 
 
 953- 
 
 w 
 
 919. 
 
 T 
 
 523- 
 
Members for Oxford. 135 
 
 vice Stonor, whose election was declared void. 1966 voted out of 
 2312. 
 
 i835- Jan. 10. W. H. Hughes T 1394. 
 Donald Maclean T 1217. 
 Thomas Stonor W 1022. 
 2200 voted out of 2424. Hughes had 166 Plumpers, 
 Maclean 320, and Stonor 281, while the Split Votes were, Hughes 
 and Maclean 672, Hughes and Stonor 536, Maclean and 
 Stonor 205. 
 
 Donald Maclean was the youngest son of General Sir 
 Fitzroy Maclean 8th Bart, of Morvaren Argyllshire, and was born 
 in 1800, educ. at Eton, and matric. Ball. Coll. Oxford 6 April 
 1818, aged 18, Snell Exhibitioner 1822, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827, 
 created D.C.Iy. 20 June 1844. He took a leading part in the 
 formation of the Union Societ}^ ent. Lincolns Inn 12 July 1820, 
 aged 20, bar at law 9 Feb. 1827, sat for Oxford 1835-47, having 
 failed March 1833, m. 8 Sept. 1827 Harriet younger dau. of 
 General Frederick Maitland, (grandson of the 6th Earl of 
 Lauderdale), and died at Rome 21 March 1874. 
 
 1837. J u ly 26 - Donald Maclean T 1348. 
 
 William Erie W 1217. 
 
 W. Hughes Hughes T 897. 
 
 21 15 voted out of 2773. The Split Votes were, for Maclean 
 and Erie 492, Maclean and Hughes 672, Erie and Hughes 135. 
 The Plumpers given were 184 to Maclean, 572 to Erie, and 90 to 
 Hughes. 
 
 William Erie was another of the many lawyers returned 
 for Oxford. Born at Fifehead Magdalene, Dorset, 1 Oct. 1793, 
 the son of Rev. Christopher Erie of Gillingham, Dorset, he was 
 educ. at Winchester, matric. New Coll. Oxford 15 Nov. 181 1, 
 B.C.Iy. 1818, D.C.L. by decree of Convocation 18 June 1857, 
 Fellow 181 1-35, and Hon. Fellow 1870-80. He was called to the 
 bar at the Middle Temple 26 Nov. 18 19, adm. ad eundem to the 
 Inner Temple 11 June 1822, and elected a Bencher thereof 18 
 Nov. 1834, Reader 1843, and Treasurer 1844, and m. 30 Sept. 
 1834 Amelia eldest dau. of Rev. David Williams D.C.L,. Warden 
 of New Coll. Oxford, and Prebendary of Winchester. He became 
 a K.C. 7 July 1834, Counsel for the Bank of England 1844, M.P. 
 Oxford 1837-41, a Serjeant at law 7 Nov. 1844, Knighted 23 April 
 1845, a Justice of the Common Pleas 6 Nov. 1844-6, a Justice of 
 the Queen's Bench Oct. 1846-59, and Lord Chief Justice of the 
 Common Pleas 24 June 1859 to 26 Nov. 1866, when he retired 
 from the Bench. Chief Justice Erie became a Privy Councillor 
 6 July 1859, F.R.S. 22 Nov. i860, was a member of the Trades 
 Union Commission 1867-8, and author of the " Law relating to 
 
136 Members for Oxford. 
 
 Trades Union, " 1869. He died at Bramshott Grange, Liphook, 
 Hants, 28 Jan. 1880, aged 86. 
 
 1841. June 30. J. H. Langston W. 1349. 
 
 Donald Maclean T. 1238. 
 
 Neil Ma Icolm T. 1 04 1 . 
 
 2374 voted out of 2787. Langston had 1087 Plumpers, 
 Maclean 30, and Malcolm only 7, while the Split Votes were, for 
 Langston and Maclean 219, Langston and Malcolm 44, Maclean 
 and Malcolm 984. Langston's Colour was Purple, Hughes' Red 
 and Blue, and Maclean and Malcolm's Colours were Blue and 
 White. 
 
 1847. July 29. J. H. Langston L 
 W. Page Wood L 
 
 William Page Wood was the 2nd son of Sir Matthew 
 Wood 1st Bart. M.P. Lord Mayor of London 1815-17, and was 
 born in London 29 Nov. 1801, educ. at Winchester 1812-18, went 
 to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1820, scholar 1822-5, B.A. 24th Wrangler 
 1824, fellow 1824-30 M.A. 1827, created L-L.D 1864, ent. Lincolns 
 Inn 1 March 1824, bar. at law 27 Nov. 1827, elected a Bencher 15 
 April 1845, and Treasurer 1867. He m. 5 Jan. 1830 Charlotte only 
 dau. of Major Edward Moore of Great Barlings, Suffolk. Page 
 Wood became Q.C. Feb. 1845, a Bencher of his Inn 15 April 1845, 
 Vice Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster 7 May 1849- 
 51, Knighted 14 April 1851, M.P. Oxford 1847-42, created D.CL- 
 Oxford 3 July 1851, Hon. Student of Ch. Ch. 1867-81, Solicitor 
 General March 1851 to Feb. 1852, and 28 Dec. 1852 to 10 Jan. 
 1853, a Vice Chancellor Jan. 1853-68, and a Lord Justice of 
 Appeal in Chancery March to Dec. 1868. He was sworn a Privy 
 Councillor 28 March 1868, created Lord Hatherley 9 Dec. 1868, 
 and was Lord High Chancellor of England Dec. 1868 to Oct. 1872. 
 His Lordship was elected F.R.S. 22 Dec. 1834, and became a 
 member of the Council and a Vice President thereof, and died 
 10 July 1 88 1. 
 
 1851. April 3. W. Page Wood re-el., after taking office. 
 
 1852. July 6. J. H. Langston. 
 
 Sir W. Page Wood. 
 
 1853. Jan. 4. Rt. Hon. Edward Cardwell, 
 
 vice Sir W. Page Wood raised to the Bench. This distinguished 
 statesman was born 24 July 1813, the elder son of John Cardwell 
 of Liverpool, merchant, and was educ. at Winchester, matric. 
 Ball. Coll. Oxford 25 March 1831, scholar 1832, B.A. (double first 
 class) 1835, M.A. 1838, fellow 1835, created D.CL. 17 June 1863. 
 He entered the Inner Temple 19 Nov. T833, was called to the 
 bar 16 Nov. 1838, and chosen a Bencher 28 April 1868, and m. 14 
 
Members for Oxfort>. 137 
 
 Aug. 1838 Anne dau. of Charles Stuart Parker of Fairlie, Ayr- 
 shire. Cardwell unsucc. cont. Clithero 1841, but was seated on 
 petition 21 March 1842, and sat till 1847, was defeated at 
 Liverpool 8 July and for Ayrshire 22 July 1852 but sat for 
 Liverpool 1847-52, and for Oxford Jan. 1853-7, when defeated, 
 and July 1857 until created Viscount Cardwell 6 March 1874. 
 He was' Financial Secretar/ to the Treasury Feb. 1845 to July 
 1846, President of the Board of Trade (as a Peelite) Dec. 1852 to 
 Feb. 1855, a Privy Councillor for England 28 Dec. 1852, and for 
 Ireland 5 July 1859, attained a seat in the Cabinet 1859, and was 
 Chief Secretary for Ireland June 1859-61, Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer of the Duchy of Lancaster July 1861-4, Secretary of 
 State for the Colonies April 1864 to June 1866, and for War Dec. 
 1868 to Feb. 1874. As such he re-organised the army by 
 abolishing the purchase system 20 July 1871, and introducing 
 the short service system. Lord Cardwell was a member of the 
 Senate of London University, an Ecclesiastical Commr. until 
 Nov. 1882, President of the Commission on Vivisection 23 June 
 1875 to March 1876, and died at Torquay 15 Feb. 1886. 
 
 1857. March 31. J. H. Langston L 1671 
 
 Charles Neate L 1057 
 
 Rt. Hon. E. Cardwell L.C. 1016 
 
 Serjeant Gaselee L 245 
 
 Serjeant Stephen Gaselee (1807-73), whose father was a 
 Justice of the Common Pleas, also unsucc. cont. Bridgwater 1847, 
 and Portsmouth March 1855 and 1868, but sat for the latter 
 1865-8. 
 
 Charles Neate was the second son of the Rev. Thomas 
 Neate, rector of Alvescot, Oxon, and was born at Adstock, 
 Bucks, 13 June 1806, educ. at the College Bourbon, Paris, matric. 
 Lincoln Coll. Oxford 2 June 1824, scholar 1826-8, B.A. 1828, M.A. 
 1830, fellow of Oriol Coll. 1828-79, lecturer on law and history 
 1856, senior treasurer 1845, ent - Lincolns Inn 30 June 1827, bar. 
 at law 27 Jan. 1832. When engaged in a case as junior to Sir 
 Richard Bethell, (afterwards Lord Chancellor, as Lord West- 
 briry,) Neate took the opportunity of offering frequent suggestions 
 to his learned leader, which so annoyed Bethell, that he said 
 loudly, " Hold your tongue." On the rising of the Court Neate 
 assaulted Bethell, and so ruined his own chance at the bar. He 
 was Secretary to Sir Francis Baring when Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer 1839-41, M.P. Oxford March to June 1857, when 
 unseated for bribery, and again Nov. 1663-8, Drummond Pro- 
 fessor of Political Economy at Oxford 1857-62, and Clerk of the 
 Market until his death at Norham Manor, Northumberland, 7 
 Feb. 1879, buried at Alvescot 13 Feb. Professor Neate was the 
 author of several lectures and pamphlets, and resided at Oxford 
 1868-79, being the senior Fellow at his death. 
 
138 Members for Oxford. 
 
 1857. J ul Y 21. Rt. Hon. E. Cardwell LC- 1085. 
 
 W. M. Thackeray L. 10 18. 
 
 vice J. H. Langston whose election was declared void. William 
 Makepeace Thackeray was the celebrated novelist. 
 
 1859. April 29. J. H. Langston L. 
 
 Rt. Hon. E. Cardwell L. 
 
 1859. June 27. Rt. Hon. E. Cardwell, re-el. after being 
 made Irish Secretary. 
 
 1861. July 30. The same, re-el. after being app. Chan- 
 cellor of the Duchy. 
 
 1863- Nov. 7. Charles Neate, vice Langston deceased. 
 
 1864. April 9. Rt. Hon. E. Cardwell, re-el. after being 
 made Colonial Secretary. 
 
 1865. July 11. Rt. Hon. B. Cardwell L 
 
 Charles Neate L 
 
 1868. Nov. 8. Rt. Hon. E. Cardwell L 2765 
 
 W. V. Harcourt Q.C. I, 2636 
 
 / P. Deane Q.C. C 11 25 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Sir James Parker Deane Knt. Q.C. was born 
 1812, and is Vicar General of the Archbishop of Canterbury. 
 
 William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt of 
 Malwood, New Forest, Hants, was born 14 Oct. 1827, and is the 
 younger of the two son of the Rev. Canon William Vernon 
 Harcourt of Nuneham Park, and brother to Col. E. W. Harcourt, 
 (see the County 1878.) He graduated B.A. 1st clrss classics and 
 Senior Optime 1851, M.A. 1869, Trin. Coll. Camb., ent. the Inner 
 Temple 2 May 1851, was called to the bar 1 May 1854, and made 
 a Queen's Counsel 10 Jan. 1866. He m. (1) 5 Nov. 1859 Maria 
 Th£rese (who d. 31 Jan. 1863) dau. of Thomas Henry leister of 
 Armitage Park, co. Stafford, the first Registrar General 1837-42, 
 and (2) 2 Dec. 1876 Elizabeth dau. of J. Lothrop Motley American 
 Minister at St James', and widow of T. P. Ives. He was made 
 Counsel to the Treasury 1864, Professor of International Law at 
 Camb. Univ 1869-87, a member of numerous Royal Commissions, 
 author of " Letters of ' Historicus ' on International Law," 
 unsucc. com, Kircaldy Burghs 1859, sat for Oxford 1868 to May 
 1880, when he was defeated after taking office, for Derby May 
 1880-95, when he lost his seat, and has represented West Mon- 
 mouthshire from 1895. Sir William Harcourt was Knighted 12 
 Dec. 1873, sworn a Privy Councillor 28 April 1880, and held office 
 as Solicitor General Nov. 1873 to Feb. 1874, Secretary of State 
 for the Home Department April 1880 to June 1885, and Chan- 
 cellor of the Exchequer Feb. to July 1886, and Aug. 1892 to June 
 1895. He became a member of the Council of Education for 
 
Members for Oxford. 139 
 
 Scotland 1881, and succeeded Mr. Gladstone as Reader of the 
 Liberal Party in the House of Commons March 1894, but retired 
 from that position 8 Dec. 1898. 
 
 1868. Dec. 22. Rt. Hon. E. Cardwell, re-el. after being 
 made Secretary of War. 
 
 1873. Dec. 6. W. V. Harcourt, Q.C., re-el. after being 
 made Solicitor General. 
 
 1874. Feb. 3. Sir W. Harcourt L 2332 
 
 Rt. Hon. K. Cardwell L 2281 
 
 A. W.Hall C 2198 
 
 1874. March 16. A. W. Hall C 2554 
 
 /. D. Lewis L 2092 
 
 vice Cardwell called to the Upper House. John Delaware Lewis 
 sat for Devonport 1868-74, when defeated. 
 
 Alexander William Hall of Barton Abbey, eldest son of 
 Henry Hall of that place, by the Hon. Catherine Louisa Hood 
 4th dau. of Alexander 1st Viscount Bridport, was born in London 
 25 June 1838, matric. Exeter Coll. Oxford 15 Oct. 1858, aged 20, 
 from Eton, and m. 27 Aug. 1863 Emma Gertrude 2nd dau. of 
 Edward Jowett of Eltofts, Yorkshire. Mr Hall unsucc. cont. 
 Oxford Feb. 1874 and April 1880, but represented it March 1874- 
 80, May to July 1880 when unseated on petition, and again 
 1885-92. He became J. P. Oxon 1865, Dep.-Lieut. 1867, High 
 Sheriff 1867, and has been County Councillor for the Barton 
 Division since 1889. 
 
 1880. April 3. Sir W. Harcourt L 2701 
 J. W. Chitty Q.C. L 2669 
 A. W.Hall C 2659 
 
 Joseph William Chitty was the 2nd and only surviving son 
 of Thomas Chitty, of London, an eminent special pleader, and 
 was born 27 May 1829, educ. at Eton, matric. Balliol Coll. Oxford 
 23 March 1847, B.A. 185 1, Vinerian scholar, fellow of Exeter 
 Coll. 1852-8, M.A. 1855, and three times stroked the Oxford Eight 
 in the inter- University Boatrace, and afterwards acted as Umpire 
 for some years. Mr Chitty entered Lincoln's Inn 15 Nov. 1851, 
 where he was called to the bar 30 April 1856, made a Queen's 
 Counsel 5 Feb. 1874, and elected a Bencher of his Inn 2 Nov. 
 1875. He m. 7 Sept. 1858 Clara Jessie 6th dau. of Rt. Hon. Sir 
 Frederick Pollock 1st Bart. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 
 1844-66. He was Major of the Inns of Court (14th Middle- 
 sex) Rifle Volunteers 5 Nov. 1869 to Dec. 1876, and M.P. for 
 Oxford from 1880 till he was raised to the Bench as a Justice of 
 the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice 6 Sept. 1881, 
 receiving the honour of Knighthood 7 Dec. 1881. He was ele- 
 vated to the position of Lord Justice of Appeal and was sworn a 
 
140 Members for Oxford. 
 
 member of the Privy Council 15 Jan, 1897, an d died in London 
 15 Feb. 1899, leaving behind him the highest reputation as a most 
 excellent Judge. 
 
 1880. May 10. A. W. Hall C 2730 
 
 Sir W. Har court L 2681 
 
 vice Sir W. Harcourt appointed Home Secretary. On petition 
 this election was declared void July following, and in conse- 
 quence of the report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to 
 inquire into the matter, no further writ was issued for Oxford 
 during the duration of this Parliament. 
 
 1 88 1. Sept. Mr. Chitty was made a Justice of the High 
 Court at this date, but no writ issued to fill the vacancy, the City 
 remaining without a Member till the Dissolution 18 Nov. 1885, 
 when, by the provisions of the Redistribution of Seats Act of 
 that year, Oxford was only allowed one Member. 
 
 1885. Nov. 26. A. W. Hall C 3312 
 
 Chas. Alan Fyffe L 2894 
 
 1886. July 1 A. W. Hall 
 
 1892. July Sir G. T. Chesney C 3278 
 
 Robinson Souttar L 3156 
 
 Robinson Souttar was elected for Dumfriesshire 1895. 
 
 JSir George Tomkyns Chesney, son of Captain Charles 
 Cornwallis Chesney, Bengal Artillery, was born in 1830, and 
 m. in 1855 Annie L. dau. of George Palmer of Purneah, 
 Bengal. Entering the Bengal Engineers as Second Lieut. 8 Dec. 
 1848, he became First Lieut. 1 Aug. 1854, Capt. 27 Aug. 1858, 
 Brevet Major next day, Brevet Lt. Col. R. E. 14 June 1869, Col. 1 
 Oct. 1867, Major Gen. in 1886, and Lt. Gen. 10 March 1887, 
 and fought in the Indian Mutiny 1857-9, present at the battle of 
 Budleekesari, served as Brigade Major of Engineers throughout 
 the siege of Delhi, and was twice severely wounded at the assault 
 (mentioned in despatches, medal with clasp, and Brevet of Major.) 
 He was President of the Indian Civil Engineering College at 
 Cooper's Hill 1870-80, Secretary to the Government of India in 
 the Military Department 1880-6, made C.S.I. 1883, CLE. 1886, 
 C.B. 1887, and K.C.B. 1890. Sir George served in the Burmese 
 War 1886, (medal and clasp,) and was a Member of the Governor 
 General of India's Council 1886-61, and M.P. for Oxford 1892 
 until his death, suddenly, of heart disease, 31 March 1895, having 
 been made Colonel Commandant Royal Engineers 28 March 
 1890. 
 
 1892. April 20. Viscount Valentia C 3745 
 
 /. F; Little L 3143 
 
 Arthur (Annesley,) Viscount Valentia, of Bletchington 
 
Members for Oxford. 141 
 
 Park, only son of Hon. Arthur Annesley who died s.p. 27 Oct. 
 1844, was born 23 Aug. 1843, and succeeded his grandfather as 
 nth Viscount Valentia in the Peerage of Ireland 30 Dec. 1863. 
 His Lordship became Cornet 10th Hussars 10 May 1864, and 
 Lieut. 2 May 1868, but retired 1872, and was made Captain of the 
 Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (Yeomanry) 26 March 1873, 
 (Hon. Major 1887,) Major in 1891, and Lt. Col. thereof 19 Dec. 
 1894, (Hon. Col.) He m. 30 Jan. 1878 Laura Sarah youngest 
 dau. of Daniel Hale Webb of Wykeham Park, Banbury, and 
 widow of Sir Algernon William Peyton 4th Bart, of Swift's 
 House, Bicester. Lord Valentia is patron of one living, J. P. 
 Oxon, High Sheriff 1874, Vice Chairman of the County Council 
 from 1889, and has represented the City of Oxford since April 
 1892. He accepted office as Comptroller of Her Majesty's 
 Household Oct. 1898, when he was sworn of the Privy Council. 
 
 1895. July 17. Viscount Valentia C 3623 
 
 T. H. Kingerlee L 2975 
 
 1898. Nov. 4. Viscount Valentia, re-elected after accept- 
 ing office. 
 
 There were 2312 registered electors for Oxford in 1832, 
 5000 in 1868, 6495 in 1884, and 7637 in 1895. The Mayor is 
 the Returning Officer. 
 
THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 
 
 Although the University was summoned to return 
 Members to the Parliament of 1301, unfortunately the Return is 
 hopelessly lost, and the names of its earliest Members are there- 
 fore unknown. After a lapse however of three centuries the 
 right of representation was again restored in the first Parliament 
 of James I, by diploma dated 12 March 1604, the right of election 
 being granted to "the Doctors and actual Masters of Arts." The 
 voting still remains unaffected by the provisions of the Ballot 
 Act 1872, and may be either by word or mouth, or by proxy, but 
 though it has been said that " the Candidates are put to no 
 expense," this rule only applies to uncontested returns, for where 
 there is a contest the Candidates pay their own expenses as 
 in other constituencies. The poll may be kept open for 
 5 days. The University has returned very many eminent 
 Members, and especially at the first it made an especial 
 point of being represented by Civilians, including such men as 
 Crompton, Marten, Jenkins and Scott, Judges of the Admiralty. 
 Then again Dun, Bennett, Edmondes, Wake, Roe, and Trumball, 
 were Envoys to Foreign Courts, Calvert and Windebank were 
 Secretaries of State, and Stuart was Vice Admiral. Curiously 
 enough though the University was always so eminent for its 
 loyalty, yet one of its Members, the ungrateful Danvers, was a 
 notorious Regicide, and John Selden the lawyer, and Dr. Owen, 
 the Vice Chancellor were strong supporters of Parliament. 
 Other eminent Members were Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief 
 Justice of England, the Earl of Rochester, Lord High Treasurer, 
 the Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor, William Bromley 
 and Lord Colchester who were Speakers of the House of 
 Commons, and Sir Robert Peel and Mr Gladstone the Prime 
 Ministers. The Earl of Cranbrook has been Secretary of State, 
 and Sir John Mowbray was the " Father of the House." Sir 
 Christopher Wren, the first Earl of Liverpool, Sir George Hay 
 and Sir John Nicholl, were among the defeated candidates. 
 
 MEMBERS FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 1 30 1. Return lost. 
 
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 1604. March 16. Sir Daniel Dunne. 
 
 Sir Thomas Compton. 
 
 Sir Daniel Dun was the son of Robert Dun, descended from 
 a Radnorshire family, and became Fellow of All Souls Coll. Ox- 
 ford, 1567, B.CL. 14 July 1572, D.C.L. 20 July 1580, and Principal 
 
Members for Oxford University. 143 
 
 of New Inn Hall 1580. He was admitted an Advocate of the 
 College of Doctors of Laws 22 Jan. 1582, and became an eminent 
 Civilian, entered Grays Inn 9 Aug. 1599, and was a Commr. for 
 the Danish treaty 1602-3, a Master of the Court of Requests 1598, 
 Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1605, (but not in 
 1611,) and Dean of the Arches 1598 — 1617. On 2 Oct. 1602 John 
 Chamberlain wrote to Dudley Carleton in Paris, stating that 
 " Lord Eure, Sir John Herbert, Dr. Dunn, itnade Master of 
 Requests for this voyage,) and Le Sieur, are gone to treat with 
 the King of Denmark and the Hanse Towns at Bremen, where 
 they are safe lodged till spring or longer." He was re-incor- 
 porated at Camb. Univ. 1603, Knighted 23 July 1603, Joint 
 Commr. of the High Court of Admiralty 7 Feb. 1609-17, a Commr. 
 named by James I for adjusting an Union with Scotland, M.P. 
 Taunton 1601, and Oxford Univ. 1604-11, and March to June 
 1614, and died 15 Sept. 1617. He married Joan third dau. of 
 Win. Aubrey LL D. (see Williams' Pari. Hist, of Wales.) 
 Nath. Brent to Carleton 11 Oct. 1617, — "The Spanish Ambassador 
 angry that Sir Hen. Marten succeeds Sir Dan Dun as Judge of the 
 Admiralty, Marten having ever been against him." Commission 
 3 Jan. 1599 to Dr. Dan Dunn, Judge of the Audience Court of 
 Canterbury, and others, to decide without appeal all disputes 
 between the English and the subjects of the French King in 
 reference to piracies and depredations committed at sea. Com- 
 mission 31 July 1599 to him and others to enquire for and punish 
 all offenders in aiding and receiving pirates. Grant 6 Sept. 1604 
 to Sir Dan. Dunn, Master of Requests, of a pension of ^"ioo per 
 annum for life. 
 
 Sir Thomas Crompton of London, son of Sir Thomas 
 Crompton Knt., was born 1558, matric. St. Alban Hall, Oxford, 
 (entry under date 20 Dec. 1577,) aged 19, B.A. from Merton Coll. 
 28 Jan. 1579, M.A. 1 Dec. 1581, B.C.I,, and D.C.L. 11 July 1589. 
 He was adm. an advocate of the Doctor's Commons 25 April 
 1605, " but must have previously acted in our Courts as he was 
 Advocate General to Queen Elizabeth," ( Coolers Civilians,) and 
 was Judge of the High Court of Admiralty 1589- 1608, Judge of 
 the Consistory Court and Chancellor of the diocese of London 
 1607-8, a Master in Chancery 2 June 1608-8, and Vicar General 
 to the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was Knighted 23 July 
 1603, M.P. Boroughbridge 1597-8, Whitchurch 1601, and Oxford 
 Univ. 1604 until his death at the latter end of 1608, being buried 
 in St. Gregory's Church, by St. Paul's. Wood insinuates that 
 he was concerned in the schemes of the Earl of Essex, but 
 adduces no proof of his guilt, and in fact as there were two or 
 three Sir Thomas Cromptons at this period, it is very possible 
 that they may have been confused together. (See Williams' 
 Pari. Hist, of Wales.) It is doubtful if Crompton was married. 
 Grant 31 May 1603 to Dr. Thomas Crompton of the office of 
 
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 King's Advocate General in Ecclesiastical Causes, which he held 
 until his death. He must not be confused with Thomas Cronip- 
 ton of the Middle Temple, Protbonotary of the Common Pleas, 
 whose will was dated 12 Nov. 16 12, with a codicil 15 May 16 14. 
 
 1609. Oct. 21 William Bird, vice Crompton deceased. Son 
 of William Byrd of Walden, Essex, he was born 1561, matric. All 
 Souls Coll. Oxford 28 Nov. 1581, aged 20, fellow 1578 to 22 June 
 1604, B.CX. 4 July 1583, and D.CL. 13 Feb. 1588, and was adm. 
 a member of the College of Advocates 9 Oct. 1590. He was 
 Official Principal and Dean of the Arches Oct. 1618-24, 
 M.P. Oxford Univ. Oct. 1609-11, Knighted at Bedford 22 
 March 1617, a Master in Chancery 1621-4, and Judge of the 
 Prerogative Court of Canterbury 29 June 1622 until his death s.p. 
 28 Aug. 1624, being buried in Christ Church, Newgate, 5 Sept. 
 
 1614. March. Sir Daniel Dun. 
 Sir John Bennett. 
 
 Second son of Richard Bennett of Clapcot, Berks, he 
 became a student of Ch. Ch. Oxford 1573, B.A. 11 June 1577, 
 M.A. 15 June 1580, proctor 1585, B.CL. and D.CX- 6 July 1589, 
 entered Grays Inn 2 Feb. 1599, and was adm. an Advocate 21 
 Jan. 1604. He was a Commr. to repress heresy in the latter part 
 of Queen Elizabeth's reign, was Knighted at Whitehall 23 July 
 1603, Vicar General and Chancellor to the Archbishop of York, a 
 Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (in 161 1), until 
 June 1622, Chancellor to Anne of Denmark Queen to James I, a 
 Master in Chancery 18 March 1608 to July 1621, one of 
 the Councel of the North, Prebendary of Langtoft in the 
 Church of York, and Ambassador to Brussels March 16 17. 
 Sir John m. Ann dau. of Christopher Weekes of Salisbury, and 
 
 (2) Leonora who survived him and died 30 Sept. 1638, (M.I. 
 
 Uxbridge). He was a distinguished speaker in the House, and 
 sat for Ripon 1597-8, and 1604-11, York 1601, and Oxford Uni. 
 March to June 16 14, and 1620 until he was expelled the House 
 24 April 162 1 for receiving bribes and committing various acts 
 of rapacity, (" for divers exorbitant oppressions and bribery.") 
 "Sir John Bennett is convicted of corruption, but he is sick, and 
 his sentence awaits his appearance to answer for himself." (Sir 
 Dudley Diggs to Carleton, 18 April 1621. Cal. State Papets.) 
 Camden says he was fined ^20000 in 1622, but this is doubtful, as 
 the Pari. Hist, of England states that he was merely required to 
 find security in that amount for his appearance to answer the 
 charges against him. Bennett however was pardoned by the 
 indulgent King. He resided at Dawley, Middlesex, and died 15 
 Feb. 1627. His grandson was the celebrated Earl of Arlington, 
 and the Earl of Tankerville now represents the family. On 20 
 
 March 1617 Geo. Gerrard wrote to Carleton, " His Majesty 
 
 then gave the Great Seal to Sir Fras. Bacon, who got it cheaply, 
 
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 Sir John Bennet having offered £30000 for it " ; and on 20 Nov. 
 1617 Sir Horace Vere informed Carleton that Sir Thos. Edmonds, 
 Sir John Bennet, Sir Hum-May etc. were aspirants to the 
 Secretary's place. 
 
 1620. Dec. 20. Sir John Bennett. 
 
 Sir Clement Edmondes. 
 
 Sir Clemont Edmonds of Salop, the son of a yeoman, 
 matric. All Saints Coll. Oxford 8 July 1586, aged 19, B.A. 5 Nov. 
 1589, fellow 1590, M.A. 10 July 1593, and m. by license dated 15 
 Feb. 1598, Mary (an attendant upon the Lady Stafford at Court) 
 dau. of Robert Clerk of Grafton, Northants. He was app. 
 Assistant Remembrancer of the City of London 5 May 1601, 
 succ. Dr. Giles Fletcher as Remembrancer 2 July 1605-9, 
 and was a Master of Requests, Knighted 29 Sept. 
 161 7, and app. Clerk of the Privy Council for life 13 
 Aug. 1609. " Sir Clement Edmondes not sworn Secretary 
 (of State) as expected." (Locke to Carleton, 31 Aug. 1622.) He 
 was promoted to be Sec. of State, but he prevented from 
 entering upon its duties by his death. He sat for Carnarvon 
 Nov. 1609-11, and Oxford Univ. 1620-2, and died of an 
 apoplexy etc. in St. Martin's in the Field 12 Oct. 1622, aged 58, 
 buried at Preston, Northants. He was " a learned person, was 
 generally skilled in all arts and sciences, and famous as well for 
 military as for politic affairs, and therefore esteemed by all an 
 ornament to his degree and profession," ( Wood.) 9 Oct. 1604, 
 Warrant to pay to Clemt. Edmondes, solicitor for the city of 
 London, £20, for relieving and conveying out of the realm 
 certain strangers, long detained as captives, and freed at the late 
 recovery of Sluys, in Flanders. On 30 March 1608 he was styled 
 Secretary of the City of London. On 25 Sept. 1610 he was granted 
 the benefit of the recusancy of Sir Edw. Mansfield of Bucks, 
 Augustine Belson of Oxon, and Charles Town ley and Dorothy 
 Brookesby of Lincolnshire ; and on 4 Oct. the office of Muster 
 Master General for life. He was sent to treat with the States of 
 Holland about the East India trade and Greenland Fishery in 
 Dec. 1614, and in Aug. 1618 was sent down by the Council to 
 survey the drains and outfalls of the Fens. Sir Clement 
 Edmondes and Lord Brooke were Secretaries to the " last Lord 
 Commissioners of the Treasury " before 1618. 
 
 162 1. May 29. Sir John Danvers Knight, of Chelsea 
 (" the Regicide,") vice Bennett expelled the House. Third and 
 youngest son of Sir John Danvers Knt. of Dauntsey, Wilts, and 
 Danby Castle, Yorks, he was born 1585, matric. from Bras. Coll. 
 Oxford, 10 July 1601, aged 16, and was of Lincoln's Inn 1612. 
 He m. (1) Magdalen youngest dau. of Sir Richard Newport Knt. 
 of High Ercall, Salop, and relict of Richard Herbert M.P. of 
 Montgomery Castle, (see Williams' Pari. Hist, of Wales,) (2) 
 
146 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 Elizabeth Dauntsey, and (3) Grace Hawes. He was Knighted at 
 Royston 3 March 1609, M.P. Arundel May 1610 to Feb. 161 1, 
 Montgomery March to June 1614, Oxford Univ 1620-22, April to 
 August 1625, Jan. to June 1626, 1628-9, March to May 1640, 
 Newport (Isle of Wight) 1624-5, an d Malmesbury Oct. 1640 to 
 April 1653. Danvers was for some years a Gentleman of the 
 King's Privy Chamber, but became a Col. in the Parliamentary 
 Army 1642, was one of the Committee of both Houses at Derby 
 House in June 1648, and not only sat as a member of the 
 infamous High Court of Justice which tried and condemned 
 King Charles I. to death, but was one of those who actually 
 signed the death warrant in Jan. 1649. He was one of the first 
 Council of State 14 Feb. 1649 to Feb. 1650, and died at Chelsea 16 
 April 1659, aged 74. Lord Clarendon called him " a proud 
 formal, weak man." His disloyal conduct so offended his 
 brother Henry, Earl of Danby, a most gallant soldier, that at his 
 death in 1644, he left all his estates to his sister Elizabeth 
 ancestress of the Dukes of Leeds. He was attainted at the 
 Restoration. 
 
 1624. Jan. 8. Sir George Calverte. 
 
 Sir Isaac Wake. 
 
 The former was the son of Leonard Calvert, and was born 
 at Kipling, Yorks, about 1579, and matric. Trin. Coll. Oxford 28 
 June 1594, aged 14, B.A. 23 Feb. 1597, a student in municipal 
 law, created M.A. 30 Aug. 1605, and entered Lincolns Inn 16 
 Aug. 1598. After leaving Oxford he travelled for a time, and on 
 his return became Secretary to Sir Robert Cecil when Secretary 
 of State, and was one of his (Lord Salisbury's) executors June 
 1612. He was made Clerk of the Crown in the province of Con- 
 naught and County Clare 10 July 1610, a Clerk of the Council 
 Jan. 1608, Knighted at Hampton Court 29 Sept. 1617, 
 and Secretary of State 15 Feb 1619 to April 1625, when he 
 resigned on becoming a Roman Catholic, but was allowed to sell 
 his office to Sir Albert Morton for ^6000. He was M.P. Bossiney 
 Oct. 1609-11, Yorkshire 1620-2, and Oxford Univ. 1624-5, granted 
 a pension of ^"iooo a year on the Customs 2 May 1620, and was 
 created Lord Baltimore 16 Feb. 1625. He m. Anne dau. of 
 George Mynne of Hertingfordbury, Herts, and she died just before 
 10 Aug. 1622, when Locke informed his friend Carleton of her 
 death. He received a grant on 3 May 1620 of the increased custom 
 on silk for 21 years, and on 30 March 1623 " re-grant to Sec. Calvert 
 of a territory in Northumberland, with alteration and addition of 
 some particular points, for better encouraging that plantation." 
 fCal. State Papers. J His Lordship obtained while Sec. of State 
 a grant of the province of Avalon in Northumberland with the 
 most extersive privileges, and expended ^25000 in settling it. 
 Owing to the encroachments of the French he was obliged to 
 
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 abandon it, whereupon he obtained in 1632 a similar grant of 
 the province of Maryland in America from Charles I, He died 
 15 April 1632, and was buried in St. Dunstan in the West. " Sir 
 Geo. Carew answers the French letters, L,evinus Munch those of 
 the Iyow Countries, Mr Calvert the Spanish and Italian, and Sir 
 Thos. L,ake the home letters." (Chamberlain to Carleton, 17 
 June 161 2.) On 3 Feb. 1614 Chamberlain informed Carleton that 
 he " finds no truth that he (Carleton) is to be recalled (from 
 Paris,) and Calvert to succeed him. Sir Thos. Kdmondes has 
 returned without leave, hoping for provotion in the coming 
 appointments," and on 12 May that " Calvert is spoken of for 
 Holland." 
 
 Sir Isaac Wake of Hants, 2nd son of Rev. Canon Arthur 
 Wake of Oxford, rector of Billyng, Northants, matric. Ch. Ch. 
 Oxford, 25 May 1593, aged 12, B.A. 23 July 1597, fellow of Merton 
 Coll. 1598, M.A. 22 Feb. 1603, public orator 1604-21, and entered 
 the Middle Temple 1604. He travelled abroad until 1609, then 
 was Secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton, (Secretary of State,) being 
 so in 1613, and was Knighted 9 April 16 19, and M.P. Oxford 
 Univ. 1624-5. He was granted the reversion of the Keepership 
 of the Hospital of Ewelme, for life 3 July 1607. " Isaac Wake 
 is to reside at Turin in the place of Albert Morton." (John 
 Chamberlain to Alice Carleton, 6 April 1615.) He was Agent in 
 Savoy in Feb. 1618, and went Ambassador to Venice, Savoy etc. 
 April 1619, and was still there in April 1629, and died in Paris in 
 the King's service July 1632. 
 
 1625. April 16. Sir Thomas Edmundes. 
 Sir John Danvers. 
 
 Sir Thomas Kdmondes, 5th son of Thomas E. of Fowey, 
 Cornwall, was born at Plymouth about 1563, his father being 
 Mayor there 1582. He enjoyed the patronage of Sir Francis 
 Walsingham, (see Banbury 1558,) and was English Agent to 
 Henry 4 at Paris 1592-96, in Oct. 1597, and July 1598 to June 
 1599. He was then made Sec. to the Queen for the French 
 tongue 17 May 1596, a Clerk of the Privy Council 1598, M.P. 
 Liskeard Sept. to Dec. 1601, Wilton 1604-11, Oxford Univ. 
 1625, and Jan. to March 1626, when voided, Knighted 20 May 
 1603, Ambassador at Brussels April 1605-9, and at Paris May 
 1610-16, April 1617, and June to Sept. 1629. 3 May 1604, Grant to 
 Sir T. E. in reversion after Sir Geo. Coppin, of the office of 
 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, (of which office he entered 
 into possession in 1620.) He was French Secretary in 1603. "Sir 
 T. E. thought of as Secretary," (Chamberlain to Carleton 22 Oct. 
 1612 ;) "likely to be Secretary," (ditto 27 Oct. 1613 ;) "it is 
 thought he will have the place of Chancellor of the Duchy of 
 Lancaster," (31 May 1616.) He m. (1) May 1601 Magdalen who 
 died at Paris 31 Dec. 1614, dau. and co-heir of Sir John Wood, 
 
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 Clerk of the Signet, and (2) by license dated 11 Sept. 1626 Sara 
 dau. of Sir James Harrington of Exton, Rutland, and widow of 
 Francis Lord Hastings, and of Edward nth Lord Zouche. He 
 died 20 Sept. 1639, aged about 76. 
 
 1626. Jan. 17. The same. 
 
 1626. March 23. Hon. Sir Francis Stuart K.B. vice 
 Edmondes, whose election was declared void 17 March 1626. 
 On 19 April 1626 it was ordered that the right of election for the 
 University be referred to the Committee of Privileges. Third son 
 of James 2nd Earl of Moray, he matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 15 May 
 1604, aged 15, B.A. 26 Feb. 1606, and was created M.A. 8 July 
 1616. He was granted a pension of ^400 a year 7 March 1617, 
 was Vice Admiral to the Earl of Oxford in Feb. 1622, and on 15 
 April 1623 was made Admiral (on board the St. George, at 20s. a 
 day,) of the two ships sent to Spain. Grant to Sir F. Stewart 
 of the office of keeping the walks in Cranbourne Chace, etc. 
 Berkshire, for life, 17 Sept. 1616. " Sir Hen. Rich and Sir F. 
 Steward have gone over to Calais to fight a duel, but a messenger 
 is despatched by Council to arrest them. (Edw. Sherburn to 
 Carleton, 26 Oct. 1616.) He was made K.B. 2 June 1610, 
 M.P. Iyiskeard 1626, and 1628-9, and Oxford Univ. March 
 to June 1626. On 30 May 1625 Sir John Hippisley informed 
 Sec. Conway that " Sir Francis Stuart has made stay of 
 a ship of Dunkirk in the Downs, laden with corn and 
 bullion," and there are several references to this matter in 
 the Calendar of State Papers for that year. He seemed to 
 be in command of the English ships in the Straits of Dover 
 and the Channel, and to have been an active seaman. On 14 
 Aug. 1625 he wrote to Buckingham replying to the complaints of 
 the Western gentlemen of his negligence in searching the coast 
 which had been molested by Turkish pirates from Sallee. " The 
 Earl of Warwick, with Sir Francis Stewart his Vice Admiral 
 arrived on the 19th April 1627 at Plymouth," (Sir James Bagg to 
 Buckingham.) "The Earl of Warwick sailed from that port on 9 
 May with 5 ships, Sir F. Steward being his Vice Admiral in the 
 " Hector," against the Spaniards." " He was a learned gentle- 
 man, was one of Sir Walter Raleigh's club at the Mermaid 
 tavern in Friday street in London, and much venerated by Ben 
 Johnson, who dedicated to him his comedy of ' The Silent 
 Woman/ He was a person also well seen in marine affairs, was 
 a captain of a ship, and, as I have been informed by those who 
 remember him, did bear the office for sometime of a vice, or 
 rear, admiral." ( Wood's Fasti). 
 
 1628. Feb. 20. Sir Henry Marten. 
 
 Sir John Danvers. 
 
 Sir Henry Marten Knt. of London, the son of Anthony 
 Marten of London, a member of a Berkshire family, was born in 
 
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 London 1563, educ. at Winchester School, matric. New Coll. 
 Oxford 24 Nov. 1581, aged 19, scholar 1580, fellow 1582, B.C.L. 15 
 June 1587, and D.C.L. 5 June 1592. He entered Grays Inn 9 Feb. 
 1581, wasadm. an advocate of the College of Doctors of Laws 16 
 Oct. 1596, and became King's Advocate General 3 March 1609. 
 Official to the Archdeacon of Berks, Chancellor of the diocese of 
 London 1616-27, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty Oct. 
 1617-41. Dean of the Arches Sept. 1624-34, and Judge of the 
 Prerogative Court of Canterbury Sept. 1624 until his death. 
 Marten was an able speaker in Parliament, and sat for Wilton 
 1586-7, Wootton Bassett 1604-11, St. Germans 1625, Oxford Univ. 
 1628 to March 1629, and St. Ives March to May 1640. He was 
 Knighted 21 Dec. 1616, or 16 Jan. 1617, {D.N.B.) was of Lincolns 
 Inn 1623, appointed a Commr. for the repair of St. Paul's 10 April 
 1631, and died " very aged and wealthy" 26 Sept. 1641, aged 81, 
 and was buried at Longworth, Berks. He m (1) Elizabeth (who 
 
 died 19 June 1618,) dau. of — , and (2) a second wife who 
 
 died 1677, and his elder son Henry Marten the Regicide was a 
 leading Member of the Long Parliament. 
 
 1640. March 7. Sir Francis Windebanke. 
 
 Sir John Danvers. 
 
 Sir Francis Windebank Knt. of London, and Hurst, 
 Wilts, son and heir of Sir Thomas W. of St. Martin's in the 
 Fields, matric. St. John's Coll. Oxford (entry dated) 18 May 1599, 
 aged 13, B.A. 26 Jan. 1602, and entered the Middle Temple 1602. 
 He was travelling in France and Germany 1606, was in Paris in 
 Feb. 1606, and in Italy 1607, and returned home Feb. 1608. The 
 Cat. State Papers contain many letters referring to him in 1606. 
 u Grant to Francis Windebank 21 Feb. 1605 in reversion, after 
 Levinus Munck and Francis Gale who are also in reversion, of a 
 Clerkship of the Signet." He had entered into possession of this 
 office before Dec. 1624, and as such was made a Commr. with Sir 
 Robert Pye (see Woodstock 1640,) Sir Henry Marten (see 1628,) 
 and many others for the repair of St. Paul's, London, 10 April 
 163 1. He was Knighted 18 June 1632, (his fees to H.M.'s servants 
 amounting to £56 18 8 by account dated 17 June,) sworn one of 
 the two principal Secretaries of State 15 June 1632, and held 
 this important office till 1641, and was also a Lord of the Treasury 
 1635-6, and a Lord of the Admiralty 20 Nov. 1632, and 16 to 23 
 March 1636. He was J. P. Wilts, M.P. St. Germans 1625, Oxford 
 Univ. March to May 1640, and Corfe Castle Nov. 1640 till he fled 
 the Kingdom the following month, and died in Paris 1 or 11 Sept. 
 1646. He was brother in law to Robert Reade of Linkenholt, 
 Hants. His eldest son was made a Baronet in 1645. 
 
 1640. Oct. 17. Sir Thomas Roe. 
 
 John Selden. 
 
150 • Members for Oxford University. 
 
 Sir Thomas Roe of Cranford, Middlesex, and co. Glouces- 
 ter, son and heir of Robert Roe of London, (by Elinor who d. 
 1629, having re-m. to Richard Berkeley of Stoke and Rendcombe, 
 (see Williams' Gloucestershire Members?) matric. Magd. Coll. 
 Oxford 6 July 1593, aged 12, (then of Bulwick, Northants,) ent. 
 the Middle Temple 1597, and m. Hleanor dau. of Sir Thomas 
 Cave of Stanford, Northants. Roe was Knighted 23 July 1604, 
 Ambassador to the Great Mogul Nov. 1614-17, (being sent at the 
 East India Company's expense, as Chamberlain wrote to Carleton 
 24 Nov. 1614,) and at Constantinople 1621, a Privy Councillor, 
 M.P. Tamworth March to June 1614, Cirencester 1620-2, Oxford 
 Univ. Oct. 1640-4, and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter 5 
 Dec. 1636 until his death 6 Nov. 1644, aged 64. In 1637 he gave 
 a rent-charge of £25 a year to Cirencester out of lands at Mous- 
 well, 40s. for a sermon or prayers on the 13th Sept. in every year 
 for ever, and the rest to apprentice poor children. 
 
 The learned lawyer and antiquary John Selden was the 
 eldest son of John Selden a common fiddler of Salvinton, West 
 Tarring, Sussex, and was born 16 Dec. 1584, bred at Chichester, 
 matric. Hart Hall, Oxford 24 Oct. 1600, entered at Clifford Inn 
 1602, adm. to the Inner Temple May 1604, where he was called 
 to the bar 14 June 1612, fined for refusing to be Reader 1624, and 
 chosen a Bencher 3 Nov. 1633. He was M.P. Lancaster 
 March 1624-5, Hchester and Great Bedwin Jan. 1626, when 
 he preferred the latter, till June 1626, Ludgershall 1628-9, 
 and Oxford Univ. Oct. 1640-53, and was imprisoned by the 
 King for some months in 1628, and was also on 4 March 
 1629 (with eight other Members) sent to the Tower, and 
 he remained a prisoner till May 1631. He was a lay member 
 of the Assembly of Divines 1643, Master of Trinity Hall Aug. 
 1645, Keeper of the Rolls and Records in the Tower, 27 Oct. 
 1643-54, a Commr. of the Admiralty 15 to 28 April 1645, a 
 member of the Committee appointed by both Houses, a Commr. 
 of the Admiralty April 1645, and had ^5000 voted him for his 
 " sufferings " Jan. 1646, but being then very wealthy, he refused 
 to accept, and " kept his conscience." Selden died unmarried 30 
 Nov. 1654, and was buried 14 Dec. in the Temple Church. He 
 was long Steward to Henry Grey 9th Earl of Kent, and after the 
 Earl's death, to the Countess till her death in 165 1, and was 
 author of 'Titles of Honour,' 1614, and the ' History of Tythes,' 
 1617, and many other learned works. His ' Table Talk,' com- 
 posed by his Secretary Robert Mil ward, appeared in 1689. 
 
 I0 53- June. No member was appointed to represent the 
 University in Barebones' Parliament, and only one Member was 
 returned 1654, and 1656. 
 
 1654. June 27. John Owen D.D. 
 
 This reverend gentleman was the only clergyman that 
 
Members for Oxford University. 151 
 
 ever represented an Oxfordshire constituency. Born 16 15, the 
 son of Rev. Henry Owen of Stradham, Oxon, he was educ. at 
 Westminster, matric. Queen's College, Oxford 4 Nov. 1631, aged 
 16, B.A. 11 June 1632, M.A. 27 June 1635, ordained soon after 1635, 
 Dean of Ch. Ch. Oxford, 18 March 1651 until deprived 15 March 
 
 1660, Vice Chancellor of the Univ. 9 Sept. 1652 to Oct. 1658, First 
 Commr. to execute the office of Chancellor of the Univ. 16 Oct. 
 1652, M.P. 1654, but was unseated on account of his orders, (his 
 renunciation of which was invalid,) created D.D. by diploma 23 
 Dec. 1653. He was sometime rector of Fordham, Essex, and m. 
 
 (1) at Fordham, (who d. 1676,) and (2) was licensed as a 
 
 widower 21 June 1677 (then of St. Andrew Undershaft, I/Dndon, 
 to marry Dorothy Doyley of Stepney, widow, of Thomas Doyley 
 of Chislehampton. He was minister of the Congregational 
 Chapel in L,eadenhall Street, and dying at Baling 24 Aug. 1683, 
 aged 67, was buried in Bunhill Fields among the Dissenters. 
 Dr. Owen was app. preacher to the Council of State 8 March 
 1650, and preached Henry Ireton's funeral sermon in West- 
 minster Abbey 6 Feb. 1652. The Council of State on 15 Aug. 
 1659 ordered him to raise a troop of well- affected volunteer horse 
 for defence of Oxford Univ. and parts adjacent. On 16 April 
 1672 Robert Harbin, clerk of the Leathersellers' Company, 
 certified that the freedom of their hall was granted to Dr. Owen 
 and Mr. John Loder to preach there, if they obtained the King's 
 license, which was granted ; and on 28 March Dr. Owen (who 
 was one of the leaders of the Nonconformists,) was one of 
 the Ministers who thanked the King for the Declaration of 
 Indulgence, as to which he is said to have been consulted the 
 year before. 
 
 1656. Aug. 22. Rt. Hon. Nathaniel Fiennes. 
 
 As to this Member, see the County 1654. 
 
 1659. Jan. 4. Matthew Hale. 
 
 John Mills. 
 
 That most pious upright and learned Judge, Sir Matthew 
 Hale, was the only son of Robert Hale of Alderley, co. 
 Gloucester, where he was born 1 Nov. 1609. He matric. Magd. 
 Hall, Oxford, 20 Oct. 1626, ent. Lincolns Inn 8 Sept. 1628, bar at 
 law 17 May 1636, invited to the Bench 6 Feb. 1649, " to be called 
 next Moate," and took his seat two days later. Hale was made 
 Serjeant at law 23 Jan. 1654, M.P. for Gloucestershire 1654-5, and 
 April to Nov. 1660, and Oxford Univ. Jan. to April 1659, and was 
 made a Justice of the Common Bench 25 Jan. 1654, but threw up 
 his post about Sept. 1658. He took an active part in the 
 Restoration, and was made Serjeant at law 22 June 1660, a 
 Commr. to try the Regicides 7 Nov. 1660, Knighted 30 Jan. 
 
 1 66 1, and was L,ord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 7 Nov. 1660-71, 
 and L,ord Chief Justice of England 18 May 1671 until he 
 
152 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 resigned Feb. 1676. Sir Matthew distinguished himself as one 
 of the Counsel for Archbishop Laud Nov. 1643, was placed on 
 the Committee of Law reform 20 Jan. 1652, and on the Com- 
 mittee for Trade 1 Nov. 1655. He m. (1) Anne dau. of Sir 
 Henry Moore 1st Bart, of Fawley, Berks, and (2) after 1664 Anne 
 dau. of Joseph Bishop of Fawley, presented to Alderley 1665, was 
 a great benefactor to Gloucester Abbey Library, and dying 25 
 Dec. 1676, was buried at Alderley churchyard. (M. I.) 
 
 John Mills of Southants, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 12 Oct. 
 162 1, aged 17, student from Westminster School, B.A. 6 Feb. 
 1623, M.A. 13 June 1626, B.CL. 23 July 1631, created D.CL. 5 
 Jan. 1649, a Canon of Ch. Ch. Oxford 1648-51, when deprived, 
 restored 1659-60, when ejected by Charles II, but was Chancellor 
 of Norwich 1661-73. He was adm. an Advocate of Doctor's 
 Commons (as Mylles) 3 July 1650, and was a Parliamentary 
 Commr. to receive the surrender of Oxford 1646, a Pari. Visitor 
 of the Univ. 1647, Judge Advocate of the Pari. Army 1644-51 and 
 1659-60, and M.P. Oxford Univ. Jan. to April 1659, and April to 
 Dec. 1660. He died in London in or about 1676* 
 
 1660. April Thomas Clayton 
 
 John Mills 
 
 Thomas Clayton of La Vache, Bucks, was the son of 
 Thomas Clayton M.D. of Oxford, (Master of Pembroke Coll. 1624- 
 47,) and matric. at that College 25 May 1627, aged 15, B.A. 22 
 Jan. 1629, M.A. 17 Oct. 1631, B, Med. 18 July 1635, and D. Med. 
 19 June 1639. He was of Grays Inn 1633, Regius Professor of 
 Medicine at Oxford Univ. (fee ^40 a year) 1647-65, M.P. April to 
 Dec. 1660, Warden of Merton College 1661-93, and was Knighted 
 27 March 1661. He m. Bridget dau. of Sir Clement Cotterell 
 Knt. and died 4 Oct. 1693. On 6 May 1658, the Council of State 
 ordered "The Trustees for the Maintenance of Ministers to 
 settle an Augmentation of £80 a year on Dr. Clayton, Professor 
 of Physic at Oxford University," which was approved 3 June 1658. 
 He petitioned the King 9 Sept. 1660, having " hazarded his 
 life and spent much money for the Restoration," for a letter to 
 the Sub-Warden and Fellows of Merton College in favour of his 
 election to the Wardenship, and the King in Feb. 1661 asked the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury to elect him. He was however 
 refused admission to the College,' the doors being bolted 
 against him 2 April 1661, and the violent opposition offered by 
 all of the Fellows to Clayton's admission as Warden, gave rise 
 to memorable scenes, and continual disputes afterwards took 
 place between him and them concerning his administration of 
 the College. 
 
 1661. April 1. Hon. Lawrence Hyde 
 
 Sir Heneage Finch Knt. and Bart. 
 
Mkmbkrs for Oxford University. 153 
 
 The former was the second son of Kdward 1st Earl ot 
 Clarendon, the celebrated Lord Chancellor aud historian, and 
 was born in March 1641, M.A. Oxford by diploma 4 Feb. 1661, 
 created D.C.I,. 7 Oct. 1700, and m. 1665 Lady Harrietta Boyle 5th 
 dau. of Richard 1st Earl of Burlington. He became " Honour- 
 able" 3 Nov. 1660, entered the Middle Temple 1660, was M. P. 
 Newport (Cornwall,) at the age of 19, from Aug. to Dec. 1660, 
 Oxford Univ. 1661-79, Wootton Bassett Feb. 1679 to Jan. 1681, and 
 was created Viscount Hyde 23 April 1681, and Earl of Rochester 
 29 Nov. 1682. He was Master 01 the Robes to the King 21 May 
 1662 to July 1675, and "has had in Boons ;£20ooo," {Seasonable 
 Argument etc. 1677,) was Extra Gentleman of the Bedchamber to 
 the King (in 1682 and) till 1685, Ranger to Richmond Park 10 
 Oct. 1683, a Governor of the Charterhouse 24 June 1685, K.G. 
 29 June 1685, Dep. Speaker of the House of Lords 4 Aug. 1685, 
 Postmaster General 13 Aug. 1685-7, Chancellor and Lord Keeper of 
 the Great Seal to the Queen in 1686, a Commr. for Ecclesiastical 
 Causes in England and Wales 22 Nov. 1686 to 12 Jan. 1687, a 
 Commr. of Greenwich Hospital 20 Feb. 1695, a Privy Councillor 
 19 Nov. 1679 to Dec. 1688, and again 1 March 1692, Ambassador 
 Extraordinary to John III of Poland 11 June to Oct. 1676, Joint 
 Ambassador to the Congress of Nimeguen Jan. 1677 to 22 Sept. 
 1678, Secret Envoy to the Prince of Orange Sept. 1677, Envoy 
 Extraordinary to the Hague 12 Aug. 1678, Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer and a Lord of the Treasury 26 March to 21 Nov. 1679, 
 First Lord of the Treasury 21 Nov. 1679 to 9 Sept. 1684, and Lord 
 High Treasurer of England 16 Feb. 1685 to 4 Jan. 1687. Lord 
 Rochester was made K.G. 29 June 1685, Recorder of Salisbury 
 27 Feb. 1685, Lord President of the Conncil Aug. 1684 to Feb. 
 1685, and again Sept. 1710 to May 171 1, app. Lord Lieut, 
 of Ireland Oct. 1684, (but did not proceed there then,) and 
 Dec. 1700 to Feb. 1703, Lord Lieut, of Herts 1686-9, and 
 of Cornwall 15 Sept. 1710-11, and High Steward of Oxford 
 Univ. 20 Nov. 1709, until his de2th 2 May 1711, aged 69. In Jan. 
 1687 he was granted a pension of ^4000 a year for two lives, and 
 of forfeited Irish lands valued at about ^2000 a year in addition. 
 On 30 Oct. 1661, " Pass for Lord Crofts and Lawrence Hyde to go 
 to France on the King's service." "He is of a middle stature, 
 well-shaped, of a brown complexion," (/. Macky, 1704.) " He 
 was thought the smoothest man in the Court, and speaks not 
 ungracefully," [Burnet,') but " had an assuming manner." 
 
 His equally celebrated colleague, Sir Heneage Finch, was 
 born in Kent 23 Dec. 1621, the eldest son of Sir Heneage Finch 
 Knt. of Kensington, and was educ. at Westminster, matric. Ch. Ch. 
 Oxford 18 Feb. 1636, created D.CL- 7 Nov. 1665, and m. 30 July 
 1646 Elizabeth eldest dau. of Daniel Harvey M.P. of Folkestone, 
 a Turkey merchant of London. He was Assessed by the Com- 
 mittee for Advance of Money at ^150 on 10 March 1645, but on 
 
1 54 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 18 April was respited " till his estate comes to him, or till further 
 order, not having ^"ioo, on affadavit." He was called to the bar 
 at the Inner Temple 30 Tan. 1646, Bencher 29 June 1660, 
 Treasurer 1661-72, and was Knighted and made a Baronet 7 June 
 1660, Solicitor General 6 June 1660-70, Attorney General 10 May 
 1670-4, Councillor to the Queen Consort 1670, M.P. Canterbury 
 and St. Michaels April 1660, when he preferred the latter till Dec. 
 1660, Beaumaris and Oxford Univ. 1661 when he preferred to sit 
 for the latter until created Baron Finch of Daventry 10 Jan. 1674. 
 He was Keeper of the Great Seal 9 Nov. 1673-5, and Lord 
 High Chancellor 19 Dec. 1675 till his death. His Lordship 
 was furthermore created Karl of Nottingham 12 May 1681, 
 and was Chamberlain of Chester 1673-6, sworn a Privy Coun- 
 cillor of England 9 Nov. 1673, and again 21 April 1679, when 
 the Council was freshly constituted, a Privy Councillor of 
 Scotland 18 May 1674, made a Governor of the Charterhouse 17 
 July 1674, a Lord Commr. of the Admiralty 14 Sept. 1677 to 14 
 May 1679, and was specially app. Lord High Steward of England 
 for the trials of Charles Lord Cornwallis 30 June 1676, Philip 
 Earl of Pembroke 18 March to 4 April 1678, and Wm. Viscount 
 Stafford 30 Nov. to 7 Dec. 1680. Lord Nottingham died 18 Dec. 
 1682, aged 61. He was a man well versed in the laws, and an 
 official of the greatest probity and discretion, besides being a 
 great orator. 
 
 1674. Jan 16. Thomas Thynne 203 
 
 Sir Christopher Wren 125 
 Sir George Croke " very few" 
 Thomas Bourchier 20 
 
 vice Sir H. Finch made Lord Keeper and a Peer. Of the defeated 
 Candidates, Sir Christopher Wren Knt. P.R.S., the eminent 
 architect who rebuilt St. Paul's, was M.P. Plympton 1685-7, 
 Windsor 1689 and 1690 but unseated each time, Weymouth 1701-2, 
 Surveyor General of the King's Works 1669-1719, and d. 25 Feb. 
 1723, aged 91. Sir George Croke Knt. of Waterstock, H.S. 1664, 
 (whose candidature was hardly known,) d. 1880. Thomas 
 Bouchier D.C.L. was Regius Professor of Civil Law 1672-1712, 
 and Principal of St. Alban Hall 1679 till his death at his ancient 
 seat at Hanborow May 1723, aged 89, John Edisbury also stood 
 in 1674, "but being soundly jeered and laughed at for an 
 impudent fellow, desisted." ( Wood?) 
 
 Thomas Thynne of Kemesford in Agro, co. Gloucester, 
 was the eldest son of Sir Henry Fred Thynne 1st Bart, of Kemps- 
 ford, co. Gloucester, whom he succ. in the title 6 March 1670, 
 and matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 21 April 1657. He m. Lady Frances 
 Finch dau. of Heneage 2nd Earl of Winchilsea, and was approved 
 by the King as Dep. Lieut, of Wilts 12 May 1672, sat for Oxford 
 Univ. Jan. 1674 to Jan. 1679, and for Tamworth in three 
 
Members for" Oxford University. 155 
 
 Parliaments Feb. 1679 to March 1681, and was created Viscount 
 Weymouth 11 Dec. 1682. He was sworn a Privy Councillor 18 
 June 1702, was a Lord of the Board of Trade 1705-6, and died 28 
 July 1 7 14, aged 74. Wood in his Life and Times styled him, — " a 
 gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York, turned from 
 his service for baseness and ingratitude — a person now much 
 against the King's interest in Parliament — a hot head." 
 
 1679. Feb. 27. John Edisbury 245 
 
 Hon. Heneage Finch 243 
 
 Dr. John Lamphire 209 
 
 Dr. Thomas Boucher 7 
 
 Mr. Finch was the 2nd son of the 1st Earl of Nottingham, 
 (see 1661,) and was born 1649, educ. at Westminster School, 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 18 Nov. 1664, aged 15, created D.C.L,. 22 
 May 1683, and m. Elizabeth dau. and heir of Sir John Bankes of 
 Aylesford. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple 23 
 Nov. 1673, Bencher 28 Oct. 1677, King's Counsel 10 July 1677, 
 Solicitor General to the Duke of York, Solicitor General to the 
 King 13 Jan. 1679 to April 1686, leading Counsel for the seven 
 Bishops 1686, Guildford 1685-7, Oxford Univ. Feb. to July 1679, 
 1689-98, and Jan. 1701 till created Lord Guernsey 15 March 1703. 
 His Lordship was sworn a Privy Councillor 20 May 1703, but his 
 name was erased from the Council 20 May 1706. He was how- 
 ever re-sworn a P.C. 14 Oct. 17 14, and held office as Master of the 
 Jewel Office 171 1- 14, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 
 14 Oct. 1714 to 29 Feb. 1716. He was created Earl of Aylesford 
 26 Oct. 1714, and died 22 July 1719. In appearance he was, "a 
 tall thin black man." (J. Mackfs Characters). 
 
 John Edisbury was the son and heir of John E of Pentre- 
 clawdd, Denbighshire, and was born 1646, matric. Bras. Coll. Ox- 
 ford 9 Nov. 1661, aged 15, B.A. 1665, M.A. 1668, B.C.L. and D.CL. 
 1672, and entered Grays Inn 22 Dec. 1654. He was admitted an 
 Advocate of the College of Doctors of Laws 5 Nov. 1672, and was 
 M.P. Oxford Univ. Feb. to July 1679, Chancellor to the Bishop 
 of Exeter 1692, and a Master in Chancery 15 May 1684 till he 
 resigned July 1708. " Dr. Edisbury the civilian 'tis said is to goe 
 Ambassador to Spain and not the Lord Lexington," wrote 
 Luttrell in his Diary 31 Dec. 1691. 
 
 1679. Aug. 19. Charles Perrott 224 
 
 Sir Leoline Jenkins Knt. 204 
 Dr. William Oldys 104 
 
 Hon. James Lane 45 
 
 "The black potman carried it for Perrott, — a thorough 
 paced soaker." (Wood.) Oldys was Admiralty Advocate 17 
 July 1668 to 17 Sept. 1693 and Lane was the Earl of Lanes - 
 borough's son. 
 
156 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 Sir Leoline Jenkins was the son of Leoline Jenkins of 
 Iylanblethian, Glamorgan, and was educ. at Cowbridge School, 
 and matric Jes. Coll. Oxford, 4 June 1641, aged 16, fellow 1660, 
 D.C.I,. 12 Feb. 1661, and was Deputy Professor of Civil L,aw 
 1662, Assessor to the Chancellor's Court, and Principal of 
 Jes. Coll. 1 March 1661 to April 1673. In 1661 he became 
 Commissary of the Deanery of the peculiar of Bridgnorth, Salop, 
 and Registrar of the Consistory Court of Westminster Abbey, 
 and was made by Archbishop Sheldon his Commissary and 
 Official (and probably his Vicar General) for the diocese of 
 Canterbury. During the Civil War he " bore arms among the 
 academic youth," in the royalist army in Wales. He retired in 
 June 1653 to the continent where he spent three years in travel, 
 in France, Holland, and Germany. He was adm. an Advocate 
 of Doctors Commons 11 Nov. 1664, entered Grays Inn 10 Aug. 
 1667, became Deputy to Dr. George Sweit in the Court of Arches 
 1664, and was Knighted 7 Jan. 1670, sworn a P.C. 11 Feb. 1680, 
 Assistant Judge of the High Court of Admiralty 21 March 1665-8, 
 and Judge thereof 1668-73, and Keeper or Master of the 
 Prerogative Court of Canterbury Jan. 1669-85. Sir Leoline who 
 was one of the most capable statesman of the day, was sent upon 
 various diplomatic missions, being a Plenipotentiary to the 
 Congress at Cologne 5 May 1673 to May 1674, and at Nimeguen 
 20 Dec. 1675 to Feb. 1679, Resident Ambassador to the States 
 General 14 Feb. 1679, sole representative at Nimeguen 20 Feb. 
 to 11 July 1679, Secretary of State 26 April 1680 to 14 April 1684, 
 P.C. 11 Feb. 1680, M.P. Hythe Feb. 1673 to Jan. 1679, and Oxford 
 Univ. Aug. 1679-81, and March 1685 until his death unmarried at 
 Hammersmith 1 Sept. following, aged 62. He became a manager 
 of the Univ. Press 1672, and was a Commr. for the suggested 
 Union with Scotland 1678. He received a bounty of ^5000 on 
 quitting office in 1684. He was a munificent benefactor to Jes. 
 Coll. Oxford, in whose chapel he was buried, bequeathing to it 
 the bulk of his property. 
 
 His colleague was the third son of James Perrott of 
 Northleigh, Oxon, and was born 1639, subscribed St. John's 
 Coll. Oxford 29 Oct. 1657, B.A. 1661, fellow (till his death,) 
 B.C.Iy. 10 March 1664, and D.CX. 23 June 1669. He was adm. 
 an Advocate of Doctors Commons 26 May 167 1, and was Clerk 
 to Secretary Williamson in 1670 and Jan. 1672. He sat for 
 Oxford Univ. Aug. 1679-81, and 1685 until his death unmarried 
 in his College at Oxford 10 June 1686, aged 47. (M.I. Fifield). 
 His Will was proved at Oxford 14 July. 
 
 1681. Feb. 3. The same, re-el. 17 March 1685. 
 
 1685. Nov. 23. George Clarke. 
 
 Dr. William Oldish. 
 
 vice Jenkins deceased. Clarke had a majority of about 80 votes. 
 
Members for Oxford University. 157 
 
 ( Wood). Born in 1660, the only son of Sir Wm. Clarke, of 
 London, (who was Secretary at War during the Commonwealth, 
 and to Charles II, till he died of his wounds received in the sea 
 fight off Harwich 4 June 1666,) he matric. Bras. Coll. Oxford 15 
 Dec. 1675, aged 15, B.A. 27 June 1679, fellow of All Souls Coll. 
 Nov. 1680 till his death, M.A, 18 April 1683, B.C.I,. 28 April 
 1686, D.CL. 12 July 1708. Clarke was Judge Advocate General 
 1 684- 1 705, was app. Sec. of War in Ireland 27 May 1690, and 
 acted as Sec. to General de Ginckel during the Irish campaign. 
 He was app. " Secretary at War to all the Forces both Horse and 
 Foot, during the King's absence from England " 3 March 1692, 
 and discharged the duties of that post for Mr. Blathwayte during 
 the latter's absence abroad with the King until Sept. 1695, and 
 was afterwards Acting Secretary at War until April 1704. He 
 was also Secretary to Prince George of Denmark May 1702 to 
 Oct. 1705, Assistant or Joint Secretary to the Admiralty May 
 1702 to Oct. 1705, and a Lord of the Admiralty Dec. 1710 to Oct. 
 17 14, and must therefore have been a most industrious official. 
 He was elected M,P. for Oxford Univ. Nov. 1685, but never sat 
 in that Parliament as the House was prorogued until it was 
 dissolved in 1687. Clarke was afterwards M.P. Winchilsea 
 1702-5, Bast Looe 1705-8, Launceston 1710-13, and Oxford Univ. 
 Dec. 1717 until his death 22 Oct. 1736, aged 75. He was a 
 virtuoso and a man of taste. 
 
 1689. Jan. 7. Hon. Heneage Finch T 
 
 Sir Thomas Clarges Knt. T 
 
 The latter was of Flemish extraction, and the son of John 
 de Glarges or Clarges of Hainult. Hearne says he was an 
 apothecary. In 1654 his sister Anne married General George 
 Monk, afterwards Duke of Albemarle, and in 1658 Richard 
 Cromwell employed Clarges to carry despatches to Monk in 
 Scotland, and the General then gradually communicated to him 
 his intention of restoring the monarchy. Clarges then acted as 
 Monk's correspondent in London, and in Feb. 1660 was made 
 Commissary General of the Musters, and also Clerk of the 
 Hanaper about the same time. On 2 May 1660 he was commis- 
 sioned by Parliament to CBrry the message inviting Charles II to 
 return home and ascend the throne, and leaving England three 
 days later, he reached Breda on 8 May, where the King at once 
 Knighted him. He was sworn a member of the Irish Privy 
 Council 1660, and was re-app. to his office of Muster Master 
 General after the Restoration in Dec. 1660, with a fee of 10s. a 
 day and 2s. 6d. for a Clerk, and still held that post in 1667, but not 
 in Jan. 1670. He m. Mary 3rd dau. of George Proctor and sister and 
 co-heir of Edward P. of Nowell Woodhouse, Notts, Clarges was 
 a frequent speaker in the house, and sat for Ross, Sutherland, 
 and Cromarty 1656-8, Banff, Cullen, etc. and Peebles, Selkirk, 
 etc. Jan. to April 1659, Tregony April 1660 till void, Westminster 
 
158 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 April to Dec. 1660, South wark March, 1666-79 Christchurch Feb. 
 1679-81, and 1685-7, an( i Oxford Univ. 1689 until his death 4 Oct. 
 1695. He was adm. to Grays Inn 7 Aug. 1662, and was of Wad. 
 Coll. Oxford 4 Jan. 1689, D. Med. His son was made a Baronet 
 1674, but the title expired with the 4th Bart. 1734. 
 
 1690. Feb. 19. The same. 
 
 1695. Oct. 21. Hon. Heneage Finch. T 
 
 Sir William Trumball Knt. W 
 
 Trumball was "the eminentest of all our civilians, and 
 was by much the best pleader in those Dourts, and was a learned, 
 a diligent, and a virtuous man." (Bishop Burnet). The son and 
 heir of Wiiliam Trumball M.P. of East Hamstead, Berks, he was 
 born 1638. matric. St. John's Coll. Oxford, 5 April 1655, fellow of 
 All Souls 1657, B.C.L. 1659, D.C.Iy. 1667, and entered the Middle 
 Temple 1657. He m. (1) Katherine dau. of Sir Charles Cotterell, 
 and (2) Judith dau. of Henry 4th Karl of Stirling. Trumball was 
 adm. an Advocate of Doctors Commons 28 April 1668, and was 
 Chancellor of the Diocese of Rochester, Judge Advocate of the 
 Fleet 1683-4, a Clerk of the Signet Jan. 1683 to Jan. 1716, Clerk 
 of the Deliveries of the Ordnance Feb. 1684 to May 1685, Knighted 
 at Whitehall 21 Nov. 1684, Envoy Extraordinary to France May 
 1685 to Sept. 1686, and Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte 1687 to 
 April 1690. He was sworn a P.C. 5 May 1695, M.P. East Looe 
 1685-7, an d Oxford Univ. 1695-8, a Lord of the Treasury May 
 1694 to Nov. 1695, Secretary to the Lords Justices May to Oct. 
 1695, and Northern Secretary of State May 1695 to Dec. 1697. 
 He died 14 Dec. 1716, aged 78. In Aug. 1660 he petitioned 
 Charles II to render effectual a grant made to him by the late 
 King of the fourth reversion of a Clerkship of the Signet, which 
 by death of diver clerks he is made capable to enjoy. 
 
 1698. July 23. Sir Christopher Musgrave Bart. T. 
 
 Sir William Glynn Bart. T. 
 
 Sir Christopher Musgrave of Hartley, Westmoreland, 3rd 
 son of Sir Philip Musgrave 2nd Bart, of Edenhall, in that county, 
 was born in 163 1 or 1632, matric. Queen's Coll. Oxford 10 July 
 165 1, B.A. same date, and entered Grays Inn 18 Oct. 1654. He 
 was Captain of the Guards, Knighted in 167 1, Mayor of 
 Carlisle 1672, Gov. of Carlisle vice his father, deceased, 1677. He 
 suffered imprisonment in the Tower and other places for his 
 loyalty, and was concerned in the rising of 1655, and in Sir 
 George Booth's rising in 1659. His father was Governor of Car- 
 lisle, and Christopher was Lieut, of the garrison in 1661, and on 
 25 Jan. 1662 a commission was given to Simon Musgrave to be 
 Lieut, in the Governor's company at Carlisle in the room of 
 Christopher Musgrave made Captain of a company. His company 
 was however disbanded Sept. 1667, and on the 19th of that month 
 
Members for Oxford University. 159 
 
 he writes from Carlisle to Williamson, " trusting that when an 
 employment offers he will intercede with His Majesty for him, a 
 poor younger brother." As Clerk of the Robes to the Queen 
 (app. 1663) he was on 13 April 1664 " to be allowed immediate 
 livery and ^40, and so each year." He had a grant of the office 
 of Searcher at Berwick in June 1668, and received a commission 
 as Captain in the 1st Foot Guards 5 Nov. 1669. On the 1 April 
 1672 he wrote from Carlisle to Williamson—" Some of our 
 Northern Members, I hear, are Commrs. for Prizes in the North. 
 If I could be crowded in I would act so that the meeting of the 
 Parliament should not frighten me." He was Master of the 
 Robes to the Queen Dowager (Henrietta Maria), and succeeded 
 his brother Richard as 4th Bart, in 1687. He was Governor 
 of Carlisle in 1685, and Captain of an Independent Company 
 forming its garrison till 17 Feb. 1685, when he became Captain 
 of an Independent Company in ' Our Tower of London,' 
 a Commr. to execute the office of Master of the Horse 1679 to 
 July 1681, Lieut. General of the Ordnance July 1681 to July 1687, 
 a Teller of the Exchequer June 1702 to July 1704, and a Comnir- 
 for the Union with Scotland Oct. 1702-4. He was M.P. Carlisle 
 1661-81, 1685-7, and 1689-90, Westmoreland 1690-5, Appleby 1695-8, 
 Oxford Univ. 1698 to Dec. 1700, Oxford Univ. and Westmoreland 
 Jan. 1701, and preferred the latter till Nov. 1701, Totness Dec. 
 1701-2, and Westmoreland again 1702 until his death of apoplexy in 
 London 29 July 1704. He m. (1) 31 May 1660 Mary (who d. at 
 Carlisle Castle 11 July 1664) dau. and co-heir of Sir Andrew 
 Cogan Bart, of Greenwich, and (2) 1671 Elizabeth dau. of Sir 
 John Franklin of Willesden, Middlesex. 
 
 Sir William Glynn of Ambrosden, third but eldest survi- 
 ving son, succeeded his father Sir William as 2nd Bart. He was 
 born 1663, matric. St. Edmund Hall Oxford 5 Dec. 1679, aged 16, 
 created D.CL- 26 April 1703, was appointed Dep. Lieut. Oxon 30 
 May 1689, H.S. 1706, and sat for Oxford Univ. 1698 to Dec. 1700. 
 He m. Mary 2nd dau. and co-heir of Sir Edward Evelyn Bart, 
 of Long Ditton, Surrey, presented to Ambrosden 26 July 1682, 19 
 June 1685, and Sept. 1721, and to Bicester 1 Aug. 1691, and died 
 3 Sept. 1721. Kennett, whose patron he was, gives him an 
 excellent character. The title expired in 1874 on the death of 
 Sir Stephen 9th Bart, brother-in-law to Mr Gladstone, (see 1847). 
 
 1 701. Jan 3. Hon. Heneage Finch. T 
 
 Sir C. Musgrave T 
 
 1701. March 21. William Bromley of Bagington, co. Warwick, 
 vice Musgrave who elected to serve for Westmoreland. Eldest 
 son of Sir Wm. Bromley K.B. of Baginton, he was born there 
 1663, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 12 April 1679, aged 15, B.A. 5 July 
 1681, created D.CL. 27 Aug. 1702, and entered the Middle Tem- 
 ple 1683. He m. Hon. Elizabeth Stawell, 2nd dau. of Ralph 1st 
 
160 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 Lord Stawell. Bromley was a Commr. of Public Accounts 
 Feb. 1696 (probably till April 1705), Chairman of the Committee 
 of Privileges and Elections Oct. 1702 to April 1705, Speaker of 
 the House of Commons 25 Nov. 1710 to July 1713, (for which he 
 had been defeated by John Smith by 43 majority in 1705,) and 
 Northern Secretary of State July 17 13 to Sept. 1714. He 
 presented to Baginton 27 Sept. 1699, was M.P. Warwickshire 
 1690-8, and Oxford Univ. March 1701 until his death 13 Feb. 
 1732, aged 68. 
 
 1701. Nov. 25. Hon. Heneage Finch T 
 
 William Bromley T 
 
 1702. July 17. The same. 
 
 1703. Nov. 22. Sir William Whitelock Knt. of Phillys 
 Court, Henley, vice Finch made a Peer. This Member was the 
 2nd son of the celebrated Bulstrode Whitlock, (see Oxford 1654,) 
 being his eldest son by his 2nd wife, and therefore half-brother 
 to Sir James Whitlock, (see the County 1654.) He was born 
 1636, adm. to the Middle Temple 4 June 1647, called to the bar 6 
 6 Feb. 1654, (when under age,) Bencher 11 Nov. 1671, Lent Reader 
 1676, and Treasurer of his Inn 29 Oct. 1680. He had Phillis Court 
 from his father, and m. 1671 Mary dau. of Sir Thomas Overbury. 
 He was Knighted 10 April 1689, made K.C. to William III 1689, 
 but " turned out " Hilary term 1696, K.C. by Queen Anne 24 
 June 1702, and George I in 17 14, D.L. Oxon by warrant 30 May 
 1689, M.P. West Looe Jan. to April 1659, and Oxford Univ. 1703, 
 until his death, being buried at Fawley Nov. 1717, aged 81. 
 Whitelock was a violent Tory, and greatly attached to old 
 fashions, even to his shoe-strings. Speaking on some question 
 
 in Parliament, he used the words—" as black as ," "As your 
 
 shoe-strings," interrupted a member on the other side. "Sir, 
 I remember when there were more shoe-strings and fewer cox- 
 combs in this assembly," was Whitelock's reply. His 3rd but 
 eldest surving son William m. 11 March 1696 Ann dau. and 
 co-heir of Edward Noel of the Inner Temple, (Sir William 
 having settled upon his son the manor of Remenham by deed 
 the day before,) but d. v. p. and was buried at Fawley 27 
 July 1709. 
 
 1705. May 9. Sir W. Whitlock T 
 
 W. Bromley. T 
 
 1708. May 3. The same, re-elected 4 Oct. 1710, 25 Aug. 
 1713, and 24 Jan. 1715. 
 
 1715. Dec. 4. George Clarke (see 1685,) vice Whitelocke 
 deceased. 
 
Mbmbers for Oxford University. 161 
 
 1722. March 22. W. Bromley T 337 
 
 George Clarke T 278 
 
 William King T 159 
 
 Smith's Parliaments gives the poll as, Bromley 278, Clarke 213, 
 and King 142, and says that King had 75 Plumpers, and the 
 others one each 455 voted. Dr King who was Principal of St. 
 Mary Hall 1717-63, and was a staunch Jacobite, petitioned 25 
 Oct. 1722. 
 
 1727. Aug. 18. W. Bromley. 
 
 George Clarke. 
 
 1732. Feb. 26. Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, vice 
 Bromley deceased. Third but eldest surviving son of Henry 5th 
 Earl of Clarendon and Rochester, and grandson of the M.P. 
 1661, he was born at the Cockpit, Whitehall, 28 Nov. 1710, 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 21 May 1725, and was created D.C.I,. 6 
 Dec. 1728. He m. Nov. 1737 Frances dau. of George 2nd Karl of 
 Lichfield, was made a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the 
 Prince of Wales 1738, and sat for Oxford Univ. Feb. 1732 until 
 summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Hyde of Hindon by 
 writ 22 Jan. 1750, and died s.p. at Paris 26 April 1753, being 
 killed by a fall from his horse. He was buried at Westminster 
 Abbey 12 June. He was a great Jacobite, and entertained the 
 Young Pretender. 
 
 1734. April 26. George Clarke. T 
 
 Viscount Cornbury. T 
 
 1737. Feb. 9. William Bromley of Bagginton, (Tory) 
 vice Clarke deceased. Born 1701, 2nd but eldest surviving son of 
 the M.P. 1701, he went to Westminster School 1714 matric. Ch. 
 Ch. Oxford 27 Feb. 1717, aged 15, went to Oriel College, and 
 
 was created D.C.L. 19 May 1732. He m. the dau. of 
 
 Frogmerton. He sat for Warwich 1737-34, when defeated, and 
 Oxford Univ. 9 Feb. 1737 until his death s.p. 12 March following, 
 aged 35. On 13 March 1734 he proposed the famous motion to 
 repeat the Septennial Act. 
 
 1737. March 31. Edward Butler, vice Bromley deceased. 
 Born 1686, sou of Robert Butler of London, he ( ? entered the 
 Middle Temple 1697,) matric. Magd. Coll. Oxford 13 Oct, 1702, 
 aged 16, demy 1702-10, B.A. 27 May 1706, M.A. 13 May 1709, 
 fellow 1710-22, Bursar 1720, a student of medicine 1722, and 
 D.C.L. 22 June 1722. He m. 9 July 1723 " Mrs. Mary Tate (third 
 dau. of Anthony Tate of Burleigh Park, co. Leicester and sister- 
 in-law to the famous Dr. Sacheverell), a lady of about ^500 per 
 annum fortune," who brought him Burleigh Park. Butler was 
 President of Magd. Coll. 29 July 1722-45, Vice Chancellor of 
 Oxford Univ. 4 Oct. 1728 to 6 Oct. 1732, and M.P. March 1737 till 
 his death 29 Oct. 1745, ._ , 
 
1 62 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 1741. May 4. Viscount Cornbury T 
 
 Edward Butler T 
 
 1745. Nov. 12. Peregrine Palmer, vice Butler deceased 
 Second son of Nathaniel Palmer, M. P. of Fairfield, Stoke Courcy, 
 Somerset, who d. 1717, by Frances dau. of Sir Wm. Wyndham 
 Bart. M.P. of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, he succ. his brother 
 Thomas in the estates early in life, and matric. Ball. Coll. 
 Oxford 3 July 1719, aged 16, B.A. 1723, M.A. from All Souls Coll. 
 1727, and was created D.C.L. 12 April 1749, then of Fairfield, 
 
 Somerset. He m. the heiress of Longman, and sat for 
 
 Oxford Univ. Nov. 1745 until his death 30 Nov. 1762. Being the 
 last survivor of his name and family, he left his estates to his 
 next of kin, Arthur Acland, 2nd son of Sir Hugh Acland Bart, 
 of Columb John, Devon. 
 
 1747. June 27. Viscount Cornbury 
 Peregrine Palmer 
 
 1750- J an - 3 1 - Sir Roger Newdigate T 184 
 
 Harley 126 
 
 Sir Edward Turner 67 
 
 vice Lord Cornbury called to the Upper House. As to Sir K. 
 Turner, see the County 1754. Smith gives his poll as 47. Hon. 
 Robert Harley M.A., 2nd son of the 3rd Earl of Oxford, became 
 a bar. at law Lincoln's Inn 21 Nov. 1751, and was Recorder of 
 Tewkesbury 1756 until his death unm. at Bath 5 Jan. 1760, aged 
 
 32- 
 
 That fine old English gentleman and antiquary Sir Roger 
 Newdigate of Arbury co. Warwick, was the 7th and youngest son 
 of Sir Richard N. 3rd Bart, of Arbury, and was born 30 May 1719 
 adm. to Westminster School 1732, and while there succ. his 
 brother Sir Edward as 5th Bart. 14 April 1734. He matric. Univ. 
 Coll. Oxford 9 April 1736, created M.A 16 May 1738, and D.C.L. 
 13 April 1749, and was M.P. Middlesex 1741-7, and Oxford Univ. 
 Jan. 1750-80. He m. (1) 1743 Sophia dau. of Edward Conyers of 
 Copped Hall, Essex, and (2) 1776 Hester dau. of Edward Mundy 
 of Shipley, Derbyshire. Sir Roger was a Steward of the Anni- 
 versary meeting of the Independent Electors of Westminster 
 1746, and became Major of the Warwickshire Militia on its being 
 embodied, July 1759, (and was so in 1769.) He died s.p. 23 Nov. 
 1806, aged 86, when the title became extinct. 
 
 1754. April 15. Peregrine Palmer T 
 Sir R. Newdigate T 
 
 1761. March 27. The same 
 
 1762. Dec. 16. Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot Bart, of 
 Blythfield, co. Stafford, (Tory) vice Palmer deceased. He was 
 
Mkmbkrs for Oxford University. 163 
 
 born 23 Aug. 1702, ( ? 1704,) matric. Magd. Coll. Oxford 27 April 
 1720, " aged 15," and was created D.C.L,. by diploma 17 May 
 1737. He was the only surviving son of Sir Edward Bagot M.P. 
 whom he succ. as 5th Bart. 171 2, m. 1724 Lady Barbara Legge 
 eldest dau. of Wm. 1st Earl of Dartmouth, and was M.P. New- 
 castle under Lyme Nov. 1724-7, Staffordshire 1727-54, and Oxford 
 Univ. Dec. 1762 until his death 20 Jan. 1768. He voted against 
 Walpole, and was made a Trustee of Dr. Radcliffe's library at 
 Oxford March 1737, and a Governor of the Foundling Hospital 
 Dec. 1739. 
 
 1768. Feb. 3. Sir William Dolben Bart, of Finedon, 
 Northants, vice Bagot deceased. Only son of Rev. Sir John 
 Dolben, Prebendary of Durham, whom he succ. as 3rd Bart. 20 
 Nov. 1756, he was educ. at Westminster, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 
 28 May 1744, aged 17, gained a studentship, and was created 
 D.C.L- 7 July 1763. He m. (1) 17 May 1748 Judith dau. and sole 
 heiress of Somerset English, and (2) 14 Oct. 1799 Charlotte dau. 
 of Gilbert Affleck of Dalham Hall, Suffolk, and widow of John 
 Scotchmer. He sat for Oxford Univ. 3 Feb. to 11 March 1768, 
 and again 1780-1806, and for co. Northampton 1768-74. He voted 
 against Wilkes 1769, (" has a son in the army,") was made a 
 Verderer of Rockingham Forest July 1765, and died 20 March 
 1814, aged 88. The title expired with his only son in 1837. 
 
 1768. March 23. Sir R. Newdigate T 352 
 
 Francis Page T 296 
 
 Charles Jenkinson 1 98 
 
 George Hay 62 
 
 Charles Jenkinson became the first Earl of Liverpool, (see 
 the County 1717.) Dr. George Hay who was Dean of the Arches 
 1768-78, and Knighted 11 Nov. 1773, sat in Parliament for 
 various places 1754 until his death 6 Nov. 1778, and was a well- 
 known politician. 
 
 Francis Page of Middle Aston, was the son of Richard 
 Bourne of Ombersley, co. Worcester, by Isabella only niece and 
 heir of Judge Page, and matric. New Coll. Oxford 29 April 1743, 
 aged 16, created M.A. 1 Aug. 1747, and D.C.L. 14 April 1749. 
 He was H.S. Oxon 1752, M.P. Oxford Univ. 1768 until he 
 resigned in 1801, and died unmarried at Middle Aston 24 Nov. 
 1803. On 1 and 2 Aug. 1740 the estate at Barton of Sir Francis 
 Page Knt. a well-known Judge, was conveyed in trust for Francis 
 Bourne, son of his niece Isabella, on condition of his changing 
 his name to Page. In 1803 the property passed to Francis 
 Page's brother Richard Bourne of Elmsley Castle, co. Worcester, 
 who had previously assumed the name of Charlett. 
 
 1774. Oct. m Sir R. Newdigate. 
 Francis Page. 
 
164 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 1780. Sept. 11. Francis Page T 
 
 Sir W. Dolben T 
 
 1784. April 1. The same, re-el. 21 June 1790, and re-el. 
 28 May 1796. 
 
 1 801 March 23. Sir William Scott Knt. of Univ. Coll. 
 Oxford, vice Page who accepted the Stewardship of the Chiltern 
 Hundreds. Born 17 Oct. 1745, the elder son of William Scott of 
 Heworth, co. Durham, and brother to John 1st Earl of Eldon, 
 Lord High Chancellor 1807-27, (see Williams' Herefordshire 
 Members?) he matric. Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford 3 March 1761, 
 aged 15, scholar 1761, B.A. 20 Nov. 1764, fellow of Univ. College, 
 M.A. 17 June 1767, B.C.I,. 30 May 1772, D.C.L- 23 June 1779, and 
 was Camden Professor of Ancient History 1773-85. He was adm. 
 an Advocate of Doctors Commons 3 Nov. 1779, adm. to the 
 Middle Temple 24 June 1762, where he was called to the bar 
 11 Feb. 1780, Bencher 5 July 1794, Treasurer 1807, and was 
 Knighted 24 Sept. 1788, Admiralty Advocate 21 May 1782 to May 
 1788, Judge of the Consistory Court 30 Aug. 1788 to 14 Aug. 1820, 
 and Vicar General of the Province of Canterbury 24 Sept. 1788 — 
 1821, and Judge of the High Court of Admiralty Oct. 1798 to 
 Feb. 1828. He m. (1) 7 April 1781 Anna Maria (who d. 4 Sept. 
 1809) eldest dau. and co-heir of John Bagnall of Earley Court, 
 Berks, and (2) 10 April 1813 Louisa Catherine, Dowager Marchion- 
 ess of Sligo, and dau. of Admiral Earl Howe. Sir William was 
 sworn a P.C and app. a member of the Board of Trade 31 Oct. 
 1798, elected F.R.S. and F.S.A., Registrar of the Court of 
 Faculties 1783, Master of the Faculties 3 April 1790, Chancellor 
 of London, Official Commissary of the cities and dioceses of 
 Canterbury and London, a Trustee of the British Museum, M.P. 
 Downton April to July 1784 when unseated, and 1790 — 1801, 
 when he resigned his seat in order to stand for Oxford Univ. 
 which he rep. until he was created Lord Stowell 17 July 182 1, 
 (being returned for the University and Downton 1818, when 
 he preferred the former.) His Lordship who was seated at 
 Earlycourt, Berks, died 28 Jan. 1836, aged 90. He held the 
 highest rank as a civilian, and Admiralty Judge, and left 
 personalty sworn under ^200000, and landed property bringing 
 in ;£i20oo a year. 
 
 1802. July 5. Sir W. Dolben T 
 
 Sir W. Scott T 
 
 1806. Nov. 6. Sir W. Scott T 651 
 
 Charles Abbot T 404 
 
 Richard Heber T 275 
 
 Charles Abbot sat for Oxford Univ. 1806 to 3 June 1817, 
 when he was created Lord Colchester. Born at Abingdon 14 
 Oct. 1757, the son of Rev. John Abbot D.D. rector of all Saints, 
 
Members for Oxford University. 165 
 
 Colchester, he was sent to Westminster School March 1763, 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 14 June 1775, aged 17, Vinerian scholar 
 1781, and fellow 1786-92, B.CL. 1783, D.C.L. 1793, and was called 
 to the bar at the Middle Temple 9 May 1783, and joined the 
 Oxford circuit. He m. Dec. 1796 Elizabeth eldest dau. of Sir 
 Philip Gibbes. He was Clerk of the Rules in the King's Bench 
 (^2700 a year) 1794 to May 1801, Deputy Recorder of Oxford 
 till 1801, Recorder July 1801 till he resigned in Nov. 1806, 
 M.P. Helston in a Double Return 21 June to 23 Dec. 1790, 
 when unseated, and again June 1795-1802, and Woodstock 1802-6, 
 Chief Secretary for Ireland May 1801 to Feb. 1802, Keeper of the 
 Signet or Privy Seal in Ireland May 1801 to May 1829, P.C. in 
 Ireland May 1801, and in England 21 May 1801. He was 
 Speaker in the House of Commons 11 Feb. 1802 till he resigned 
 in June 1817, (on a pension of ^"4000 a year for himself, and 
 ^3000 for his immediate successor,) and was then raised to the 
 Peerage. Lord Colchester was F.R.S. and F.S.A., an Official 
 Trustee of the British Museum, an extra Trustee 1817, and a 
 Trustee of the Hunterian Museum, and was seated at Kidbrook, 
 Sussex. He died 7 May 1829, aged 71. As Speaker in 1805 he 
 gave the casting vote in favour of Mr. Whitbread's motion 
 impugning the conduct of Lord Melville as Treasurer of the 
 Navy. He must not be confused with Charles Abbott, created 
 Lord Tenterden 1827, who was Recorder of Reading 181 2- 16, 
 and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1818-32. 
 
 1807. May 8. Sir W. Scott. 
 
 Charles Abbot. 
 1812. Oct. 7. The same. 
 
 1817. June 10. Robert Peel of Drayton Park, co. 
 Stafford, vice Abbot called to the Upper House. This distin- 
 guished statesman was the eldest son of Sir Robert Peel 1st 
 Bart. M.P. of Bury, Lancashire, an eminent cotton-spinner, and 
 was born 5 Feb. 1788, was at Harrow Jan. 1801 to Dec. 1804, 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 21 Oct. 1805, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1814, and 
 created D.C.L- 18 June 1817. He seconded the Address in the 
 House 23 Jan. 1810, and was M.P. Cashel April 1809-12, Chippen- 
 ham 181 2- 17, when he resigned to stand for Oxford Univ. which 
 he rep. till Feb. 1829, when he resigned his seat in consequence 
 of being converted to the principle of Catholic Emancipation. 
 He succ. his father as 2nd Bart. 3 May 1830, and m.. 8 June 1820 
 Julia youngest dau. of General Sir John Floyd Bart. Peel was 
 M.P Westbury March 1829-30, and Tarn worth 1830 until his death 
 in 1850, was sworn a P.C. for England and Ireland 13 Aug. 1812, 
 and held office as Under Sec. of State for War and the Colonies 
 June 1810-12, Chief Secretary for Ireland Aug. 1812 to Aug. 1818, 
 Secretary of State for the Home Department Jan. 1822 to April 
 1827, and Jan. 1828 to Nov. 1830, First Lord of the Treasury and 
 
1 66 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer Dec. 1834 to April 1835, and First 
 Lord of the Treasury Sept. 1841 to July 1846. His action in. 
 repealing the Corn Laws led to the breaking up of the Tory Party 
 into the ' Peelites,' and ■ Protectionists ' or Conservatives. Sir 
 Robert was made an Ecclesiastical Commr. Feb. 1835, an Elder 
 Brother of the Trinity House 1835, and elected Lord Rector of 
 Glasgow Univ. Nov. 1836. He died on 2 July 1850, aged 62, from 
 the effects of being thrown from his horse when riding down 
 Constitution Hill. Owing to the Metropolitan Police Force 
 being established in 1829, when Peel was Home Secretary, the 
 members of the Force have since been familiarly known as 
 1 Bobbies ' or ' Peelers.' Sir Robert Peel was regarded as a most 
 moderate and conscientious statesman, who during many years 
 upheld the highest traditions of his position. 
 
 1818. June 18. Sir W. Scott T 
 
 Robert Peel T 
 
 1820. March 8. The same. 
 
 1 82 1. Aug. 24. Richard Heber T 612 
 
 Sir John Nicholl T 519 
 
 The Poll lasted 3 days. The defeated candidate Sir John 
 Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr, Glamorganshire, 2nd son of John 
 Nicholl of Llanmaes, was born 16 March 1759, educ. at Cowbridge 
 School, and Bristol, matric. St. John's Coll. Oxford 27 June 1775, 
 elected to a founder's kin fellowship, B.CL. 15 June 1780, 
 D.C.L. 6 April 1785, and became a bar. at law of the Middle 
 Temple 3 May 1793. He was adm. an Advocate 3 Nov. 1785, 
 app. a Commr. to inquire into the state of the law of Jersey 1791, 
 was Knighted 31 Oct. 1798, and succ. Sir William Scott (see 1801) 
 as King's Advocate 6 Nov. 1798 to Jan. 1809. Sir John was M.P. 
 Penryn 1802-6, Hastings 1806-7, Great Bedwin and Rye 1807 but 
 preferred the former, for which he sat in 7 Parliaments 1807-32. 
 In Aug. 1 82 1 he vacated his seat for Great Bedwin in order to 
 stand for Oxford Univ., where he was defeated, but was re-elected 
 without opposition for Great Bedwin Feb. 1822, the seat having 
 been kept vacant for him. He was Dean of the Arches and Judge 
 of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Jan. 1809-34, sworn a 
 Privy Councillor and app. a member of the Board of Trade 6 Feb. 
 1809, and was Judge of the High Court of Admiralty May 1833-8 
 and Vicar General to the Archbishop of Canterbury 1834 until 
 his death at Merthyr Mawr 26 Aug. 1838 aged 79. Nicholl m. 8 
 Sept. 1787 Judy youngest dau. of Peter Birt of Wen voe Castle, 
 Glamorgan. He was F.R.S. and F.S.A., app. Lt.-Col. Command- 
 ant of the St. George's, Bloomsbury Volunteers 3 Aug. 1803, and 
 was made a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy 
 Council 14 Aug. 1833. 
 
 Richard Heber was born 5 Jan. 1773, and was the eldest 
 son of Rev. Reginald Heber, rector of Chelsea, and then of Malpas, 
 
Members for Oxford University. 167 
 
 Cheshire, and Hodnet, Salop, and half-brother of Reginald Heber 
 the pious Bishop of Calcutta 1823-6. He matric. Bras. Coll. 
 Oxford 14 Dec. 1790, aged 16, B.A. 1796, M.A. 1797, created 
 D.C.L,. 19 June 1826, unsucc. cont. Oxford Uuiv. 1806, but rep. it 
 Aug. 1 82 1 until he resigned his seat Feb. 1826. He succ. his 
 father in 1804 as lord of the manors of Wicklewood Ampnors, 
 Norfolk, of Hodnet and others in Salop, and of West and East 
 Marton, Stainton, Hartlington, and Buckden in Craven, York- 
 shire, and was Lt.-Col. of a regiment of Yeomanry raised in 
 Craven in 1801, and app. Ensign Salop Volunteers 10 March 
 1804, Capt. 9 July 1803. He was seated at Marton, and Hodnet, 
 H.S. Salop 1821, and dying unmarried 4 Oct. 1833, aged 59, was 
 buried at Hodnet. Heber acquired the reputation of an accom- 
 plished scholar in the literary world, and his library consisting of 
 above 200000 vols, was one of the most extensive and rare 
 collections in Europe. 
 
 1822. Feb. 12. Rt. Hon. R. Peel, re-el. after being made 
 Home Secretary. 
 
 1826. Feb. 22. Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt of 
 Estcourt, co. Gloucester, vice Heber who accepted the Steward- 
 ship of the Chiltern Hundreds. Eldest son of Thomas Estcourt 
 of Estcourt, he was born 3 Aug. 1775, matric. Corpus Christi 
 Coll. Oxford 11 April 1793, created M.A. 15 June 1796, and D.OX. 
 27 June 1827, ent. Lincolns Inn 9 March 1795, and was called to 
 the bar 20 June 1820. He was M.P. Devizes Jan. 1805 to Feb. 
 1826, when he resigned his seat and was elected for Oxford Univ. 
 which he rep. till 1847, being thus a member of the House for 42 
 years. He m. 12 May 1800 Eleanor 2nd dau. of James Sutton of 
 New Park, Wilts. Mr Estcourt was J.P. and D.L. cos. Gloucester 
 and Wilts, Chairman of the Wilts Quarter Sessions till 1837, 
 Recorder of Devizes in 1837, and F.S.A. He died at Estcourt 26 
 July 1853, aged 77. 
 
 1826. June 14. Rt. Hon. R. Peel T 
 
 T. G. Bucknall Estcourt T 
 
 1828. Feb. 4. Rt. Hon. R. Peel, re-el. on being made 
 Home Secretary. 
 
 1829. Feb. 28. Sir R. H. Inglis T 755 
 
 Rt. Hon. R. Peel T 609 
 
 vice Peel who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds on account of 
 his adopting Catholic Emancipation. On seeking re-election he 
 was defeated, but a seat was immediately found for him at 
 Westbury. The Poll was kept open on this occasion for 3 days. 
 
 Sir Robert Harry Inglis of Milton Bryant, Beds, only son 
 of Sir Hugh, whom he succ. as 2nd Bart. 21 Aug. 1820, was born 
 in I,ondon 12 Jan. 1786, educ. at Winchester, matric. Ch. Ch. 
 Oxford 21 Oct. 1803, aged 17, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, created 
 
168 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 D.C.L. 7 June 1826, and was called to the bar at Lincolns Inn 8 
 June 1 8 18. He was Private Secretary to Lord Sidmouth in early- 
 life, a Commr. for settling the affairs of the Carnatic 1814-30, 
 Recorder of Devizes, Chairman Beds Quarter Sessions, M.P. 
 Dundalk May 1824-6, Ripon Feb. 1828 to Feb. 1829, when he 
 vacated his seat and ousted Mr Peel from Oxford Univ., which 
 he rep. till Jan. 1854, when he retired from Parliament. Sir 
 Robert Inglis who was called ■ the Champion of the Protestant 
 Church,' and was an elegant scholar, was elected F.R.S. 4 March 
 1813, and F.S.A. 22 Feb. 1816, (Vice Pres. 1846-54,) was app. a 
 Commr. of the Public Records 12 March 1831, a Royal Commr. 
 to build Churches, a Life Governor of King's College, London, 
 Professor of Antiquity in the Royal Academy 1850-5, sworn a 
 Privy Councillor 11 Aug. 1854, and was a Trustee of the British 
 Museum 1834 until his death in London 5 May 1855. 
 
 1830. July 30. T. G. Bucknall Estcourt T 
 Sir R. H. Inglis T 
 
 Both these Members were re-elected without opposition 2 
 May 1831, 12 Dec. 1832, 8 Jan. 1835, 2 5 July l8 37» an d 29 June 
 1841. 
 
 1847. Aug. 3. Sir R. H. Inglis P. 1700. 
 
 Rt. Hon. W. K. Gladstone L-C. 997 
 
 Charles Gray Round C. 824 
 
 The Poll was kept open 5 days, when 1 851 voted. The 
 Split Votes were, between Inglis and Gladstone 870, Inglis and 
 Round 798, Gladstone and Round 2, while 32 Plumpers were 
 given to Inglis, 125 to Gladstone, and 24 to Round. Mr Round 
 was of Birch Hall, Essex, bar. at law Lincoln's Inn 24 June 1822, 
 Recorder of Colchester, M.P. North Essex 1837-47, and d. 1 
 Dec. 1867. 
 
 William Eward Gladstone of Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, 
 — the leading man of the age — was born 29 Dec. 1809, the fourth 
 son of Sir John Gladstone 1st Bart., an eminent Liverpool 
 merchant, educ. at Eton, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 23 Jan. 1828, 
 student 1829-39, B.A. double first class 1832, M.A. 1834, Hon. 
 Student 1867-98, created D.C.L. 5 July 1848, Hon. fellow All 
 Souls 1858, and became a student of Lincolns Inn 25 Jan. 1833, 
 but did not proceed to the bar. He m. 25 July 1839 Catherine 
 eldest dau. of Sir Stephen Richard Glynne 8th Bart. M.P. of 
 Hawarden Castle, and heir of her brother Sir Stephen the last 
 Bart. Mr. Gladstone was M.P. for Newark (as a Tory) 1832 to 
 Dec. 1845, when he became converted to Free Trade, and vacated 
 his seat, and sat for Oxford Univ. 1847-65, when he was defeated. 
 He also unsucc. cont. Manchester 1837, an d South West 
 Lancashire 1868, but was M.P. for South Lancashire 1865-8, 
 Greenwich 1868-80, Leeds and Midlothian 1880, when he made 
 
Members for Oxford University. 169 
 
 his election to represent the latter, for which he sat until 1895, 
 when he quitted Parliamentary life, owing to failing eye sight. 
 He was sworn a Privy Councillor 3 Sept. 1841, and held in 
 succession the offices of a Lord of the Treasury Dec. 1834 to 
 March 1835, Under Sec. of State for War and the Colonies 
 March to April 1835, Master of the Mint Sept. 1841 to Feb. 1845, 
 Vice Pres. of the Board of Trade Sept. 1841-3, President of that 
 Board May 1843 to Feb. 1845, Secretary of State for War and the 
 Colonies Dec. 1845 to July 1846, Chancellor and Under Treasurer 
 of the Exchequer and a Lord of the Treasury Dec. 1852 to Feb. 
 l8 55, June 1859 to June 1866, Aug. 1873 to Feb. 1874, and April 
 1880 to Dec. 1882, Special Lord High Commissioner to the Ionian 
 Islands Nov. 1858 to Feb. 1859, First Lord ol the Treasury and 
 Prime Minister Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874, April 1880 to June 1885, 
 Feb. to July 1886, and for the fourth time Aug. 1892 to March 
 1894, being also Lord Privy Seal Feb. to July 1886, and Aug. 
 1892 to March 1894. Mr. Gladstone was Lord Rector of 
 Edinburgh Univ. 1859-65, and of Glasgow Univ. 1877-80, elected 
 an Elder Brother of the Trinity House 1861, Professor of ancient 
 history at the Royal Academy March 1876, presented with the 
 freedom of the City of Dublin 1877, of Aberdeen 1871, and of the 
 Turners' Company of London 1876, D.L. Flintshire, a member of 
 the Institute of France 1865, a Governor of the Charterhouse, and 
 a Life Governor of King's College, London. Mr. Gladstone, who 
 declined an Earldom in June 1885, died 19 May 1898, and was 
 accorded a state funeral in Westminster Abbey 30 May. For a 
 great number of years he held an unique position among the 
 politicians of this country, and while his wonderful genius, his 
 stores of learning, and his brilliant oratory attracted the 
 attention of the world, the unequalled power which he possessed 
 in a surprising degree of winning the hearts of the humblest of 
 his followers, made the name of » Gladstone ' a household word 
 in the land. 
 
 1852. July 15. Sir R. H. Inglis C 1369 
 
 Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone L.C. 1108 
 R. Bullock Marsham C 758. 
 
 Robert Bullock Marsham D.C.L. bar. at law Lincolns Inn 
 1813, was Warden of Merton College 1826 until his death 27 Dec. 
 1880, aged 94. 
 
 1853. J an - 20, Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone L.C. 1034 
 
 Dudley Petceval C 885 
 
 Dudley Montagu Perceval, 4th son of Spencer Perceval the 
 Prime Minister who was shot 1812, was Deputy Teller of the 
 Exchequer 1828-34, and died 2 Sept. 1856. 
 
 1854. Feb. 7. Sir William Heathcote Bast, of Hursley 
 Park, Winchestei, vice Inglis who accepted the Stewardship of 
 
170 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 the Manor of Northstead. Born at Worting, Hants, 17 May 1 801, 
 the only son of Rev. Prebendary William Heathcote of that place, 
 he was educ. at Winchester, matric Oriel Coll. Oxford 30 Oct. 
 1817, (where John Keble was his tutor), B.A. 1821, fellow of All 
 Souls , 1822-5* B.C.L- 1824, created D.C.I,. 28 May 1830, Hon. 
 Fellow 1858, and became a student of the Inner Temple 1822. 
 He succ. his uncle Sir Thomas as 5th Bart. 22 Feb. 1822, and m. 
 (1) 8 Nov. 1825 Hon. Caroline Frances Perceval (who d. 3 March 
 1835) youngest dau. of Charles 1st Lord Arden, and (2) 18 May 
 1841 Selina dau. of Evelyn John Shirley of Ettington Park, co. 
 Warwick. He was M.P. for Hants 1826-31, North Hants 1837 to 
 March 1849 when he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and Oxford 
 Univ. Feb. 1854-68. He was for many years Chairman of the 
 Hants Quarter Sessions, was sworn a Privy Councillor 9 Aug. 
 1870, and died at Hursley Park 17 Aug. 1871, aged 80. "A fine 
 old English Gentleman of the best and worthiest type." 
 
 1857. March 27. Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone L C 
 
 Sir W. Heathcote C 
 
 1859. Feb. 12. Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, re-el. after 
 being made Special Lord High Commissioner to the Ionian 
 Islands. 
 
 1859. April 29. Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone L 
 
 Sir W. Heathcope C 
 
 1859. July 1. Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone L 1050 
 
 Marquis of Chandos C 859 
 
 vice Gladstone, made Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord 
 Chandos succ. his father as 3rd and last Duke of Buckingham 
 and Chandos 1861, and was Lord President of the Council 1866-7, 
 Secretary for the Colonies 1867-8, Governor of Madras 1875-80, 
 and Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords 1886 until 
 his death 1889, when the Dukedom became extinct. 
 
 1865. July 18. Sir W. Heathcote C 3236 
 
 Gathorne Hardy C 1904 
 
 Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone L 1724 
 
 Gathorne Hardy of Hemsted Park, Staplehurst, Kent, 
 third and youngest son of John Hardy of Dunstall Hall, Stafford- 
 shire, Recorder of Leeds, and a Bencher of the Inner Temple, 
 who was one of the first members for Bradford 1832-7, and 1841-7, 
 by Isabel dau. of Richard Gathorne of Kirkby Lonsdale, 
 Westmoreland, was born at Bradford 1 Oct. 18 14, educ. at 
 Shrewsbury School, and matric. Oriel College, Oxford, 22 Nov. 
 1832, B.A. Nov. 1836, M.A. 1861, and was created D.CL. 13 June 
 1861. Having entered the Inner Temple 16 Nov. 1831, he was 
 called to the bar 1 May 1840, and elected a Bencher of his Inn 28 
 April 1868. On 29 March 1838 he married Jane (C. I.) dau. of 
 
Members for Oxford University. 171 
 
 James Orr of Hollywood House, county Down. Having un- 
 successfully contested Bradford, 1847, ^ r - Gathorne Hardy sat 
 for Leominster Feb. 1856-65, and his return for Oxford University 
 in that year, when he ousted Mr. Gladstone from his seat, was 
 one of the sensational events of that general election. Accepting 
 office under Lord Derby he was Under Secretary for the Home 
 Department March 1858 to June 1859, sworn a Privy Councillor 
 6 July 1866, and was President of the Poor Law Board July 
 1866-7, Home Secretarv May 1867 to Dec. 1868, Secretary of State 
 for War Feb. 1874-8, and for India April 1878 to April 1880. He 
 quitted his seat for the University on being raised to the House 
 of I^ords as Viscount Cranbrook 4 May 1878, and was further- 
 more created Karl of Cranbrook in August 1892. His Lordship 
 again held office as Lord President of the Council June 1885 to 
 Feb. 1886, and July 1886 to July 1892, being also Chancellor of 
 the Duchy of Lancaster 3 to 16 Aug. 1886. Lord Cranbrook, 
 who assumed the prefix surname and arms of Gathorne by Royal 
 License 11 May 1878, is a J. P. and D.L. for Kent and the West 
 Riding of Yorkshire, and patron of two livings. He was 
 Chairman of the West Kent Quarter Sessions till he resigned 
 Oct. 1867, and was created G. C. S. I. 20 April 1880, and Hon. 
 L-LiD. of Cambridge University. His eldest brother, Sir John 
 Hardy M.P. was created Baronet in 1876. 
 
 1866. July 12. Rt. Hon. Gathorne Hardy, re-elected on 
 appointment as President of the Poor Law Board. 
 
 1867. May 20. The same, re-elected after being made 
 Home Secretary. 
 
 1868. Nov. 18. Rt. Hon. Gathorne Hardy C 
 
 Rt. Hon. J. R. Mowbray C 
 
 John Robert Mowbray of Warenne's Wood, Mortimer, 
 Reading, only son of Robert Stribling Cornish of Exeter, 
 architect, was born at Exeter 3 June 1815, educ. at Westminster, 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 23 May 1833, student 1834-47, B -A. 1837, 
 M.A. 1839, created D.C.L. 30 Nov. 1869, Hon. student 1876, and 
 Hon. Fellow of Hertford College 1875. He was admitted to the 
 Inner Temple 25 Oct. 1834, called to the bar 19 Nov. 1841, and 
 joined the Western circuit, He assumed the name of Mowbray 
 in lieu of Cornish by Royal License 26 July 1847, and m. 19 Aug. 
 following Elizabeth Gray only child of George Isaac Mowbray of 
 Bishopwearmouth, Durham, and Mortimer, Berks. Entering 
 Parliament for Durham in June 1853, Mr. Mowbray sat for that 
 City until 1868, when he was returned for Oxford University, 
 and represented that constituency until his death. He was 
 sworn a Member of the Privy Council 6 April 1858, and held 
 office as Judge Advocate General March 1858 to June 1859, and 
 again July 1866 to Dec. 1868, and was Second Church Estates 
 Commissioner Aug. 1866 to Feb. 1869, and Third Church Estates 
 
172 Members for Oxford University. 
 
 Commissioner April 1871 to Nov. 1892. He was created a 
 Baronet 3 May 1880, elected a member of the Council of King's 
 College, London, 1877, a County Councillor for Berks 1889, 
 and app. a D.L. for Devon. Sir John Mowbray was the " Father of 
 the House of Commons " from 16 Jan. 1898 until his death on 22 
 April 1899, aged 83. 
 
 1874. Jan. 31. The same. 
 
 1874. March 14. Rt. Hon. Gathorne Hardy, re-elected 
 on being app. Secretary of State for War. 
 
 1878. May 17. John Gilbert Talbot C 2687 
 
 Professor H. J. S. Smith L 989 
 
 vice Rt. Hon. Gathorne Hardy, called to the Upper House. 
 
 John Gilbert Talbot of Falconhurst, Kent, elder son of 
 Hon. John Chetwynd Talbot Q.C., M.P., Attorney General to the 
 Prince of Wales, was born 24 Feb. 1835, educ. at the Charter- 
 house, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 18 May 1853, B.A. 1858, M.A. i860, 
 and was created D.C.L. 26 June 1878. He m. 19 July i860 Hon. 
 Meriel Sarah Lyttleton eldest dau. of George 4th Lord Lyttleton. 
 Mr. Talbot is J. P. for Kent, Sussex, Middlesex, and London, 
 D.L. Kent, Chairman of the West Kent Quarter Sessions from 
 1867, and County Councillor for the Sevenoaks Division since 
 1889. He unsuccessfully contested Kidderminster May 1862, 
 and Malmesbury 1865, but was M.P. for West Kent 1868 to May 
 1878, when he vacated his seat in order to stand for Oxford 
 University, which he has since represented. He held office as 
 Secretary to the Board of Trade April 1878 to April 1880, was 
 appointed an Ecclesiastical Commissioner, and was sworn a 
 Privy Councillor 7 July 1897. 
 
 1880. April 1. Rt. Hon. J. R. Mowbray C 
 ' J. G. Talbot C 
 
 1885. Nov. 24. Rt. Hon. Sir J. R. Mowbray Bart. 
 
 John Gilbert Talbot. 
 
 1886. July 2. The same, re-elected July 1892, and 13 
 July 1895. 
 
 1899. May 11. Sir W. R. Anson Bart. L-U. 
 
 vice Mowbray deceased. Sir William Reynell Anson of All 
 Souls' College, Oxford, is the eldest son of Sir John William 
 Hamilton Anson 2nd Bart, of Birch Hall, Lancashire, and 
 Warbleton, Sussex, whom he succeeded in the title 2 Aug. 1873. 
 Born 14 Nov. 1843, he matric. from Balliol College, Oxford, 5 
 May 1862, B.A. 1866, Fellow of All Souls' College 1867, M.A. 
 1869, Moderator 1870, Vinerian Law Reader 1874-81, Public 
 Examiner in Jurisprudence 1876-8 and 1882, B.CL. by degree 
 3 June 1875, D.C.L. 1881, and has been Warden of All Souls' 
 since 1881. Sir William entered the Inner Temple 2 Nov. 1866, 
 
Members for Oxford University. 173 
 
 was called to the bar 17 Nov. 1869, and is author of Principles of 
 the Law of Contract, and Law and Custom of the Constitution. He 
 is J. P. for Oxon, Chairman of the Quarter Sessions from 1894, 
 unsuccessfully contested West Staffordshire 1880, and was Vice 
 Chancellor of Oxford University from 1898 until he resigned 
 in order to enter Parliament for the University in May 1899. 
 
 The University of Oxford had 2522 electors on its register 
 in 1832, 4214 in 1868, 5382 in 1884, and 6154 in 1895. The Vice 
 Chancellor is the Returning Officer. 
 
 BURFORD. 
 
 1306. Thomas de Lincoln. 
 
 Commission of oyer and terminer issued to Justices 5 
 April 1284, on complaint by Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of 
 Hereford and Essex, that, while he was under the King's 
 protection and in his service in Wales, his men were assaulted 
 and imprisoned at Norwich, and his goods carried away by 
 Thomas de Line' and others. 
 
 This is the only instance recorded of a member being 
 returned for the Borough of Burford, and it is presumed, that 
 like other small Boroughs, the privilege was afterwards withheld 
 from it in compliance with the expressed wishes of its principal 
 inhabitants, who in those days considered the wages of two 
 shillings a day paid to their representatives in Parliament as a 
 great burden. For similar reasons the other Oxfordshire 
 Boroughs of Chipping Norton, Dadington, Witney, and Wood- 
 stock, were also disfranchised, and only in the case of Woodstock 
 was the privilege ever afterwards renewed. 
 
 CHIPPING NORTON. 
 
 1300. March. John Mayheu. 
 
 Robert le Hurre. 
 
 Browne Willis gives these names, which do not appear, in 
 the Official Returns at this date. 
 
 1302. John Maheu. 
 
 Robert de la Hurne. 
 
174 Members for Chipping Norton, Dadington & Witney 
 
 The Patent Rolls contain references to John and William 
 de la Hirne in 1298, and to Robert Maheu " sometime King's 
 approver at Warrewyk" on 16 Oct. 1301. On 26 April 1285 
 Gilbert de Bohun staying in England had letters nominating 
 John Mahun and Nicholas de Tykehull his attorneys in Ireland 
 for one year. 
 
 1305. Richard Aleyn. 
 
 William Aleyn. 
 
 DADINGTON. 
 
 1302. Robert de ElsefFeld. 
 
 Henry Durnal. 
 The former was of kin to the Member for the County 1295. 
 x 305- John Tankrevy. 
 
 William Gyllot. 
 
 There are two references to John Giliot or Gylot of York- 
 shire in the Patent Rolls 1283 and 1285. William Giliot of 
 Rothewell was one of the merchants appointed 30 July 1297 to 
 purchase specified quantities of wool in Northants and Rutland. 
 License 28 July 13 12 for the alienation in mortmain to the Abbot 
 and Convent of St. Albans by William Gilot and Cicely his wife 
 of two messuages and i£ acre of land in the town of St. Albans. 
 
 WITNEY. 
 
 1305. John de Hustone. 
 Walter Raulyn. 
 
 1306. Walter Raulyn. 
 131 1. No Return made. 
 
 13 14. Walter de Fores ta. 
 Henry le Plower. 
 
 13 15. John de Stanlake. 
 John Savage. 
 
 William and Thomas de Stanlake were bakers in Oxford 
 on 2 March 1328, when the Patent Rolls mentions them in a riot 
 in Abingdon Abbey. 
 
 1330. Thomas de Munstre. 
 John de Welewe. 
 
THE BOROUGH OF BANBURY. 
 
 Previous to the year 1832 the Boroughs of Banbury, 
 Abingdon, Bewdley, Higham Ferrers, and Monmouth, were the 
 only English Boroughs that returned but one Member each. 
 "By the labor and dilygent sewte" of Thomas Denton, and 
 others, Banbury was granted the privilege of returning a Burgess 
 to Westminster, by Queen Mary's Charter to the town dated 26 
 Jan. 1554, and Mr Denton was in gratitude chosen its first repre- 
 sentative. Several of its Members, of the families of Cope and 
 Fiennes also sat for the County. The Norths afterwards supplied 
 seven Members, including L,ord North the Prime Minister, and 
 his two sons. Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State to 
 Queen Elizabeth, was one of the earliest Members for Banbury, 
 and among the Defeated Candidates, the most famous were Sir 
 John Hawles, Solicitor General, and Edward Miall the advocate 
 of Disestablishment. 
 
 MEMBERS FOR BANBURY. 
 
 1554. March. Thomas Denton. 
 
 The first Member for Banbury also sat for the County 1558. 
 
 1554. Oct. Denton. 
 
 I 555- Sept. Return lost. 
 
 Although the Returns for the two last Parliaments have 
 been lost, yet Bees ley's History of Ba?ibury gives Thomas Denton 
 as the Member in the second and third Parliaments called by 
 Mary, and therefore it seems probable that Thomas Denton also 
 sat for Banbury Oct. 1554 to Jan. 1555, and Sept. to Dec. 1555. 
 
 x 55 8 - J an - John Denton. 
 
 John Denton of Appleton Berks, and Ambroseden, Oxon, 
 was the only brother of the first Member, and the younger son of 
 Thomas Denton of Sunderfield, Bucks. On 25 Oct. 1542 the 
 patronage of the Church of Ambrosden and the manors of 
 Ambrosden and Blackthorn were granted by the King to John 
 
176 Members for Banbury. 
 
 Denton then resident at Blackthorn, who presented to Ambrosden 
 20 July 1547. He was High Sheriff of Oxon and Berks 1557, 
 and m. (1) Margaret dau. of Sir John Brome of Halton, Oxon, 
 and (2) Theodora 2nd dau. of John Blundel of London, mercer. 
 After Denton's death, she re-m. 17 Eliz. (or before) to Justiman 
 Champney. 
 
 I 559- J an - Francis Walsingham. 
 
 The name is supplied by Browne Willis^ and Beesley also 
 give Francis Walsingham as the Member at this date, stating he 
 was then aged 22. 
 
 1562. Dec. 26. Francis Walsingham, one of the most 
 trustworthy and useful of Queen Elizabeth's Statesmen, was the 
 third and younger son of William Walsingham of Scadbury, 
 Chislehurst, Kent, where he was born in 1536. Having been 
 educated at King's College, Cambridge, he spent some time in 
 travelling abroad, where he acquired various languages, which 
 proved of great service to him in his future career. He then 
 became Agent to William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, then Secretary 
 of State and afterwards Lord Treasurer, who discovered his 
 abilities and sent him as Ambassador to France. Walsingham 
 again proceeded to France in Aug. 1570 as Ambassador to treat 
 of a marriage between Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of 
 Alencon, and although this was not brought about, he remained 
 there dealing with other matters until April 1573. After his 
 return home he was made a Privy Councillor, and appointed 
 Secretary of State 1574, which office he discharged with the 
 greatest diligence until 1586. He was also Chancellor of the 
 Order of the Garter 22 April 1578 till he resigned in or before 
 April 1588, one of the three keepers of the Great Seal 15 to 29 
 April 1587, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 15 June 
 1577 until his death. He was Ambassador to the Netherlands in 
 1578, and again to France July to Dec. 1581, was sent on an 
 Embassy to King James of Scotland in 1583, and was a Com- 
 missioner to Mary Queen of Scots Oct. 1586. Walsingham had 
 the honour of entertaining Queen Elizabeth at his house at 
 Barn Elms. He was Recorder of Colchester, Knighted at 
 Windsor Nov. 1577, M.P. Banbury 1559, Banbury and Lyme 
 Regis 1562, but preferred the latter till 1567, Surrey (about) 
 I573-83* 1584-5* 1586-7, and 1588-9. " 17 August 1585, an 
 abstract of the articles passed from the Queen's Majesty to Sir 
 F Walsyngham for the farming of all the Customs subsidy and 
 other duties for all manner of goods within the ports of 
 Plymouth, Exeter, Poole, Bristol, Bridgewater, Gloucester, and 
 other places." Walsingham married Anne elder dau. of Sir George 
 Barne, Lord Mayor of London 1552, and widow of Alexander 
 Car ly ell. On 1 July 1580 Sir Francis Knollys (see the County 
 1562,) wrote to Walsingham, to condole with him on the death 
 
Members for Banbury. 177 
 
 of his daughter. He died in Seething Lane, London, 6 April 
 1590, and, so far from having amassed a fortune, he spent his 
 patrimony in the service of his country, and was buried at night 
 at the expense of his friends, who feared that his body might be 
 arrested for debt. V He was buried the next day in St. Paul's 
 Church, near the body of Philip Sidney his son in law. He died 
 greatly in debt." (Cal. State Papers.) The statement in the 
 Dictionary of National Biography that he was Knight of the 
 Garter, is incorrect. His only surviving daughter married three 
 husbands, the celebrated Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, 
 and the Earl of Clanricarde, in succession. 
 
 I 5^3- (about Feb.) Owen Brereton, vice Walsingham, 
 who made his election to sit for Lyme. Owen Brereton was 
 adm. to Grays Inn 1523. (Quaere son of John B. of Burras, 
 Salop, by Anne sister of Sir Jevan Lloyd of Yale.) 
 
 1 57 1. April. Anthony Cope. 
 
 As to this Member, see the County 16 14. 
 
 1572. April 14. The same. 
 1584. Nov. 29. Richard Fenys. 
 
 As to Mr. Fiennes, see the County 1586. 
 
 1586. Oct. 18. Anthony Cope. 
 
 He was re-elected 4 Oct. 1588, and as Sir A. Cope Knt., 
 Jan. 1593, 16 Sept. 1597, and 3 Oct. 1601. 
 
 1604. March 1. Sir William Cope Knt. 
 
 He also will be found as Member for the County 1624. He 
 was re-el. for Banbury March 1614, and as Sir W. Cope Knt. and 
 Bart. 22 Dec. 1620. 
 
 1624. Jan. 24. Sir Erasmus Driedon Bart. 
 
 Seated at Canons Ashby, Northants, this Member was the 
 second son of John Dryden, by Elizabeth dau. of Sir John Cope 
 Knt. of Canons Ashby. He matriculated from Magdalen Coll. 
 Oxford, (entry under date) 1571, aged 18, demy 1571-5, fellow 
 1575-80, B. A. 11 June 1577, of the Middle Temple 1577, and m. 
 Frances 2nd dau. and co-heir of William Wilkes of Hodnel, co, 
 Warwick. He was H.S. Northants 1599 and 1618, created a 
 Baronet 16 Nov. 1619, M.P. for Banbury 1624-5, and died 22 May 
 1632. In Feb. 1605 he prays the King to be released from prison, 
 as the Northamptonshire petition was only a testimonial of the 
 godliness of the preachers in the county. In Feb. 1627 Sir 
 Erasmus Dryden, Sir Edmond Hampden, Sir Win. Wilmer, Sir 
 John Pickering, and John Hampden, prisoners in the Gatehouse 
 in Westminster for 17 days, "being much afflicted with the sense 
 of His Majesty's heavy displeasure, and much prejudiced both in 
 their health and estates by this restraint," petitioned the 
 Council to mediate with the King "to vouchsafe them his wonted 
 
178 Members for Banbury. 
 
 favour, and to free them from their imprisonment." 
 1625. April 30. Sir W. Cope Knt. and Bart. 
 On petition this election was declared void. 
 
 1625. July 19. Hon. James Fenys, vice Cope unseated. 
 Mr. Fiennes will be found under the County 1626. 
 
 1626. Jan. Calcott Chambre. 
 
 This Member was seated at Williamscott, Oxon, and was 
 the son of George C. of Petton, Salop, by Judith dau. and heir of 
 Walter Caldecott or Calcot of Williamscott. Born in 1581, he 
 matric. Bras. Coll. Oxford 13 Nov. 1590, aged 19, and sat for 
 Banbury Jan. to June 1626. By the Charter granted to Banbury 
 28 June 1608, he was appointed an <k Assistant" of the Corpora- 
 tion for life. He was also of Denbigh and Carnowe, Wicklow, 
 and died 29 Oct. 1635, and was buried at Carnowe. His younger 
 dau. Mary m. 1632 Edward 2nd Earl of Meath, who was drowned 
 in the passage to England 1675. His son Calcot Chambre may 
 have been the personage referred to in the following curious 
 proceedings : — " Calcott Chambers, New Soaphouse, Foxhall, 
 Surrey, 9 Oct. 1648. Depositions to the effect that there was 
 treasure hid in his house, for which he had been offered ^"25000; 
 that it had been a coining place, where money had been coined 
 for the King, and that the Queen had come to mass there 
 weekly, and taken the accounts of the coiners, but that those 
 who had been employed therein, or were likely to discover the 
 treasure, being 12 persons, had been poisoned. Oct. 17, Chambers 
 petitions the Committee for Advance of Money. Overtures were 
 made me by Thomas Wells to discover treasure hidden in my 
 house 14 years ago, and I was at first over-credulous, but finding 
 their vanity and falsehood, I refused to neglect my employment 
 and follow his fancies. Thereupon he and others framed accusa- 
 tions against me and my wife, pretending out of zeal to the 
 State, to discover treasure belonging to Papists hid in my house, 
 whereas he had long sought, by advice oft astrologers and 
 magicians, to find the fancied treasure, and thereupon he 
 accused me and my wife before Speaker Lenthall. We attended 
 Lenthall on summons, and the falseness of the accusation was so 
 apparent that we were released and also Mrs Sherwin, committed 
 on the same matter. But though, by the Speaker's order, a 
 thorough search was made in and about the house for days 
 together, and nothing found, yet a fresh order had been procured 
 (dated 6 Oct.) to dig in my house, which interferes in my 
 employment of soap-boiling, and I and my family are disquieted 
 and plundered It is most improbable that money should be hid 
 in my house 14 years ago, before any rumour of war, therefore I 
 beg to know— 1 st. Who is to repair my house after the digging ? 
 2nd. What is to be the limit of the time allowed for digging in 
 my house, that I may not always be subject to be insulted over 
 
Members for Banbury. iyg 
 
 by malicious people ? 20 Oct. 1648, The officers to proceed no 
 further, and the informers to make good all damage done in the 
 search." 
 
 1628. March 10. John Crew. 
 
 John Crew of Steane, Northants, son and heir of Sir 
 Thomas Crew, Serjeant at Law, and Speaker of the House of 
 Commons, was born in 1598, inatric. Magd. Coll. Oxford 26 April 
 1616, aged 18, B.A. 18 Jan. 1617, ent. Grays Inn 30 Jan. 1615, 
 and was called to the bar 1624. He was app. a Coinmr. to levy 
 the first two subsidies in Cheshire 1 Feb. 1640. He m. about 
 1623 Jemima dau. and co-heir of Edward Waldegrave of Lawford, 
 Essex. He was Recorder of Banbury in 1634, sat for Agmondes- 
 ham 1624-5, an d 1625, Banbury 1628 to March 1629, Brackley 
 Jan. to June 1626, and Oct. 1640 till secluded Dec. 1648, and 
 Northants March to May 1640, 1654-5, and April to Dec. 1660. 
 Although made Chairman of the Committee of Religion by 
 Parliament in 1640, a member of the Derby House Committee of 
 both Houses 3 Jan. 1648, and one of" Cromwell's House of Lords" 
 as Lord Crewe 10 Dec. 1657, he" was Knighted by Charles II in 
 1660, and created Baron Crewe 20 April 1661. His Lordship died 
 12 Dec. 1679, aged 81. He was imprisoned by Cromwell 6 to 29 
 Dec.1648 for opposing the trial of the King, and was a member of 
 the Council of State 23 Feb. to May 1660. 
 
 1640. March 9. Hon. Nathaniel Feines. 
 
 1640. Oct. 21. Hon. Nathaniel Fiennes. 
 
 As to Mr Fiennes, see the County 1654. It is a matter of 
 note that so many of the Members should also represent the 
 County. 
 
 1653. June ) 
 
 1654. Aug. > No Members summoned from Banbury. 
 1656. Aug. ) 
 
 1659. Jan. 3. Hon. Nathaniel Fiennes. 
 
 1660. April. Sir Anthony Cope Bart. 
 See the County 1661. 
 
 1661. April 1. John Holman. 
 
 This Member, who was described as of Banbury, and Wes- 
 ton Flavell, was the 2nd son of Philip Holman who had been a 
 scrivener in London, but in 1629 bought the estates of the 
 Chetwodes at Warkworth and Giimsbnry. He sat for Banbury 
 in the four Parliaments 1661 to 1681, was made a Baronet 1 June, 
 1663, and m. Jane dau. of Samuel Forbes of Kew, but died s.p.m. 
 in 1704, when the title became extinct. His dau. and heiress 
 Mary became the third wife of Sir William Portman, 3rd Bart, K.B. 
 
180 Mkmbkrs for Banbury. 
 
 1679- Feb. 17. ) sir John Holman Bart. 
 1679. Aug. 19. J J 
 
 1681. Feb. 5. Sir John Holman. 
 
 Thomas Wise. 
 
 Mr. Wise petitioned 25 March 1681, but the Parliament 
 was dissolved three days afterwards. 
 
 1685. March 9. Hon. Sir Dudley North Knt. T. 
 
 Sir Dudley, who was seated atGlenham Parva, Suffolk, was 
 the third son of Dudley 4th Lord North, and was born in 
 London 16 May 1641. When a child he was stolen by a beggar in 
 London, but was after some time recovered, and restored to his 
 parents. He was bound as an apprentice to a Turkey merchant, 
 and was afterwards removed to Constantinople, where he became 
 entrusted with the chief management of the English Factory 
 there, as Treasurer to the Levant Company, and made a large 
 fortune. On his return home he became well-known as one of 
 the leading London merchants, and in Parliament he became 
 manager of all the affairs of Government which related to the 
 Revenue. He was Sheriff of London June 1682, Alderman of 
 Farringdon Without Ward 14 Dec. 1682 till he res. Sept. 1689, 
 and nnsuccess fully contested that city 1681, Knighted 11 Feb. 
 
 1683, was a Commissioner of the Treasury 26 July 1684 to 16 Feb. 
 1685, and of the Customs (£1200 a year) 7 March to 1 August, 
 
 1684, and again 2 April 1685 to 20 April 1689. Sir Dudley m. 
 Anne eldest dau. of Sir Robert Cann Bart, of Bristol (see Williams' 
 Gloucestershire Members) and widow of Sir Robert Gunning. He 
 was the author of " Discourses upon Trade," and died 21 Dec. 169 1 . 
 His eldest son Dudley North married Catherine eldest dau. of 
 EHhu Yale, Governor of Fort St. George, and was M.P. for 
 Orford 1722 until his death 4 Feb. 1729. His only surviving son, 
 another Dudley I\orth, was born 1706, and m. 3 Oct. 1730 Lady 
 Barbara Herbert only dau. of Thomas 8th Earl of Pembroke. He 
 died 6 June 1764, and his 2nd daughter and co-heir Mary m. 
 Charles Long, father of the M.P. 1796. 
 
 1689. Jan. 14. Sir Robert Dashwood Knt. and Bart. 
 See the County 1699. 
 
 1690. Feb. 24. Sir R. Dashwood. 10. 
 
 John Hawles. 140. 
 
 Sir John Hawles K.C., was Solicitor General June 1695 to 
 June 1702. On 31 March 1690 Nathaniel Wheatley and others 
 petitioned in his favour, on the ground that he had been denied 
 a poll, but Dashwood was declared duly elected 29 Dec. 1691. 
 
 1695. Oct. 22. Sir R. Dashwood. 
 
 1698. July 23. James Isaacson. W. 
 
Members for Banbury. 181 
 
 This member, who is believed to have been a London 
 stockbroker, sat for Banbury 1698 until he was expelled the 
 House on 10 Feb. 1699, as appears from the following entry in the 
 Commons Journals of that date :— " Ordered that Mr Isaackson, a 
 Member of this House, do attend this House, in his place, imme- 
 diately. • And he, being come into the House, was heard in his 
 place, and then withdrew into the Speaker's Chamber. Ordered 
 that James Isaackson, esquire, having since his being elected to 
 serve in this Parliament been concerned and acted as a Commis- 
 sioner in managing the duties upon Vellom, Paper and Parch- 
 ment contrary to the Act made in the 5th and 6th years of His 
 Majesty's reign for granting several duties upon Salt, Beer, Ale, 
 and other liquors, be expelled this House," and a new writ was 
 ordered the same day. A few days afterwards four other Members 
 were similarly expelled, being adjudged incapable of sitting in 
 the House, on account of being concerned in the management of 
 the public revenues, but of course this did not affect their personal 
 character, and did not bear the construction applied in the present 
 day to the term * expulsion from the House.' LuttrelVs Diary 
 has several references to the subject, but his mention of the 
 rumour that Isaacson intended to surrender his Commissionership 
 in order to stand again for Banbury in Feb. 1699 was not carried 
 into effect. It was James Isaacson who drew up the proposals for 
 managing the duty on parchment, paper, etc., which were laid 
 before Parliament, (Treasury Papers, 1693,) and on the passing of 
 the Act, he was placed in the first Commiission for the Board 01 
 Stamps 21 May 1694, and retained the position until removed, on 
 the King's death, 6 June 1702. He was also 'the King's Warehouse 
 Keeper of the Customes in the Port of London ' in Feb. 1697 and 
 1699. On n Jan. 1700 Luttrell relates that "Sir John Con- 
 way, Sir Richard Middleton, and other M.P.'s have entered a 
 caveat at the privy seal to stop a grant passing of all the marshes 
 and wasts by the sea side in Flint and Denbighshire to Mr 
 Isaacson," (probably as trustee for the Karl of Portland, the King's 
 Favourite). He was afterwards a Commissioner of Customs 
 for Scotland (^400 a year) 5 June 1707 till he resigned in July 
 1710. Perhaps son of Anthony Isaacson, who was Navy Agent 
 and Correspondent at Newcastle to Secretary Williamson in 
 1672, and Collector of the Port of Newcastle in 1690, and kinsman 
 to Sir Charles Isaacson, Clerk of the Green Cloth till April 1702. 
 
 1699. Feb. 23. Sir John Cope Bart. 
 
 Again see under the County 1679. 
 
 1701 Tan 6 * John Dormer W 
 
 1701. jan. o. ( Hon chades North T 
 
 This was a Double Return by two contending Mayors of 
 Banbury, but on petition the Return in favour of Mr. Dormer 
 was taken off the file by order of the House 13 March 1701. 
 
182 Members for Banbury. 
 
 Hon. Charles North was the younger of the two sons of 
 Francis ist Lord Guilford, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and 
 was therefore nephew to the M.P. 1685. He was Member for 
 Banbury in 6 Parliaments 1701-13, and died unm. 10 Dec. 1714, 
 aged 37. 
 
 John Dormer, second son of William D. of Ascot, (H. S. 
 1666, who died 1683, by the sister of Sir Charles Cotterell Knt. of 
 Wylsford, co. Lincoln, Master of the Ceremonies,) matric. Ch. 
 Ch. Oxford 15 March 1678, aged 16, and m. Catherine youngest 
 and 4th surviving dau. and co-heir of Sir Thomas Spencer 3rd 
 Bart, of Yarnton, (see County 166 1.) 29 April 1689, Warrant for 
 the appointment of John Dormer as Assistant Master of the 
 Ceremonies. {Calendar of State Papers?) He had previously 
 been app. to the post in Dec. 1686, and occupied it until May 
 1715. Mr. Dormer died 5 March 1728, and his widow re-m. to 
 Lieut. Gen. the Hon. Henry Mordaunt, brother to Charles 
 3rd Earl of Peterborough, (see 1722.) " Sir Rd. Kennedy was 
 some days since killed by one Mr. Dormer in a quarrel at 
 Woodstock." (Luttrell). Another John Dormer, Lieut. -Col. in 
 the Army, born 1669, eldest son of Robert D. of Rousham, by 
 Anne eldest dan. of Sir Charles Cotterell, M.C., was made a 
 Groom of the Bedchamber to the King May 1699, and was killed 
 at Almanza in Spain 14 April 1707, unmarried. 
 
 1702. July 20. ) 
 
 1705. May 8. Hon. Charles North 
 
 Toby Chauncy 
 
 To. OcT 1. 1 Ho »- Charies North - 
 
 1713. Aug. 25. Jonathan Cope W. 
 
 Jonathan Cope of Brew r erne Abbey, Hanwell, and Ranton, 
 co. Stafford, was the eldest son of Jonathan Cope M.P. of Ranton 
 Abbey, who died 1694, and matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 18 Feb. 
 1708, aged 16. He was created a Baronet at the age of 21, on 1 
 March 1714, and sat for Banbury 1713-22. He m. Mary youngest 
 dau. of Sir Robert Jenkinson 2nd Bart, of Walcot, (see County 
 1689). He inherited the Hanwell estate in 1721, and died at 
 Orton Longville, Hunts, on 28 March 1765, aged 75, and was 
 buried at Hanwell. 
 
 1715. Jan 26. Sir Jonathan Cope Bart. 
 
 1722. March 24. Monoux Cope 
 
 Sir W. Codrington 
 
 Sir William Codrington presented a petition 25 Oct. 1722, 
 but did not proceed with it. Sir John Cope M.P. charged Sir 
 Francis Page, the Judge, with attempting to bribe the electors of 
 
Members for Banbury. 183 
 
 Banbury in order to secure Sir W. Codrington's return, and the 
 matter being brought before the House, the Judge only escaped 
 censure by 128 votes to 124. 
 
 Monoux Cope of Hanwell, Hants, kinsman of the last 
 Member, was the elder son of Sir John Cope 6th Bart. M.P., by 
 Alice dau. of Sir Humphrey Monnoux Bart, of Wotton, Beds. 
 He was M.P. for Banbury 1722-7, and for Newport, Isle of Wight, 
 1741-7, and succeeded his father in the title 8 Dec. 1749. Sir 
 Monoux m. Penelope dau. of Lieut. Gen. the Hon. Harry 
 Mordaunt, (see 1713,) and died 29 June 1763, aged 77. 
 
 1727. Aug. 19. Hon. Francis North T. 
 
 Born 13 April 1704, the eldest son of Francis 2nd Lord 
 Guilford, this Member matric. Trin. Coll. Oxford 25 March 1721, 
 and sat for Banbury 1727 till he succeeded his father as 3rd Lord 
 Guilford 17 Oct. 1729. He married three times, (1) 26 June 1728 
 Lady Lucy Montagu (who died 7 May 1734) only dau. of George 
 2nd Earl of Halifax, (2) 17 Jan. 1736 Elizabeth (who d. 21 April 
 1745) relict of George Viscount Lewisham, and dau. of Sir 
 Arthur Kaye Bart., and (3) 13 June 1751 Lady Mary Finch dau. 
 of Daniel Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, and widow of 
 Thomas 1st Marquis of Rockingham, (and mother of the Prime 
 Minister 1765-6.) Lord Guilford also succeeded his cousin 
 William as 7th Lord North 31 Oct. 1734, and was styled under 
 the senior title as Lord North until he was created Earl of 
 Guilford 8 April 1752. His Lordship was a Lord of the Bed- 
 chamber to Frederick Prince of Wales Oct. 1730 until the Prince's 
 death 20 March 1751, and is said by the Gentleman's Magazine to 
 have been made a Lord of the Bedchamber to the King the 
 following month. If so, he resigned the office previous to 1757. 
 He was also Governor and Tutor to Prince George of Wales 
 (afterwards George III.,) 30 Sept. 1750 to April 1751, and 
 Treasurer and Receiver General to the Queen 29 Dec. 1773-90. 
 He became a Dep. Lieut, for Oxon 17 Oct. 1763, was elected a 
 Vice President of St. George's Hospital, and was High Steward 
 of Banbury 1766 until his death 4 Aug. 1790. 
 
 I 73°- J an - 21. Toby Chauncy. 
 
 Tobias Chauncy of Edgcote, Northants, was the son of 
 Toby C. of that place, and was born 2 Feb. 1674, and matric. 
 Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford 6 Nov. 1690. Having been called to 
 the bar at the Inner Temple 28 June 1699, he was made Recorder 
 of Banbury and Daventry, and m. 1725 Anne 4th and youngest 
 dau. of William Holbech of Farnborough, co. Warwick, and 
 Radston, Northants. Her nephew was elected for Banbury in 
 1794 Mr. Chauncy (or his father) was the defeated candidate 
 and petitioner at Banbury 1705, but represented it Jan. 1730 until 
 his death 27 March 1733. 
 
184 Members for Banbury. 
 
 1 733. April 9. William Viscount Wallingford, vice Chauncy 
 deceased. William Knollis, commonly called Viscount Walling- 
 ford, elder son of Charles 4th Earl of Banbury, was First Major of 
 the 1 st Troop of Life Guards July 1737-40, voted for the Con- 
 vention 1739, being then styled a Major in the Horse Guards, 
 (^■500 a year,) m. Mary Catherine dau. of John Law the 
 Financier, and sat for Banbury April 1733 until his death v.p. in 
 France 6 June 1740. His father Charles Knollys, 4th Karl of 
 Banbury, was the son of Nicholas 3rd Earl of Banbury, (see 
 the County 1584,) and was baptized at Boughton 3 June 1662, 
 and married (1) Elizabeth dau. of Edward Lister of Barwell, 
 co. Leicester, and (2) Mary dau. of Thomas Woods of St. 
 Andrew's, Holborn. On no less than four occasions, on 10 
 June 1685, Jan. 1698, 19 May 1712, and 1727, did he unsuccess- 
 fully petition the House of Lords for a writ of summons 
 as 4th Earl of Banbury. He killed his brother-in-law 
 Capt. Philip Lawson in a duel in 1692, and being indicted 
 for murder 7 Dec. 1692 as ■ Charles Knollys, Esquire ' he 
 petitioned the House of Lords" that as Earl of Banbury he was 
 entitled to a trial by his Peers. After considerable argument, in 
 Trinity term 1694 Lord Chief Justice Holt and the three other 
 Judges of the Court of King's Bench unanimously quashed the 
 indictment and .set the defendant free on the ground that he was 
 the Earl of Banbury, and that his name was wrongly entered. 
 
 1734. April 26. Viscount Wallingford T. 
 
 1740. Nov. 25. William Moore of Pollesden, Surrey, vice 
 Viscount Wallingford deceased. This Member sat for Banbury 
 Nov. 1740 until his death 22 Oct. 1746. 
 
 1 741. May 6. William Moore T. 
 
 1746. Nov. 26. John Willes, vice Moore deceased. 
 Eldest son of Sir John Willes Knt. of Astrop, Northants, Lord 
 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1737-61, (see William? Welsh 
 Judges,) he matric. Worcester Coll. Oxford 3 March 1738, aged 16, 
 and was created M.A. 4 July 1741, and D.CL- 12 April 1749. Mr. 
 Willes sat for Banbury Nov. 1746-7, and for Aylesbury 1754-61, 
 and having been appointed by his father in Dec. 1752 Filazer to 
 the Court of Common Pleas for London and Middlesex, held the 
 office until his death at his seat at Astrop 24 Oct. 1784. 
 
 1747. June 29. John Willes W. 
 1754- April 15. Frederick Lord North T. 
 
 Frederick North, commonly called by courtesy Lord 
 North, of Wroxton Abbey, was the son of the M.P. 1727, and 
 was born 13 April 1732, educ. at Eton, matric. Trin. Coll. Oxford 
 12 Oct. 1749, and was created M.A. 21 March 1750. He m. 20 
 May 1756 Anne dau. and heir of George Speke of White Lack- 
 in gton, Somerset, who brought him a fortune of ^4000 a year, 
 
Members for Banbury. 185 
 
 and was made a Dep. Lieut, of Northants 15 March 1755, of Kent 
 7 Sept. 1757, Somerset 5 June 1758, and of Oxon 9 June 1762. 
 He was created L.L-D. Camb. Univ. 3 July 1769, and held office 
 as a Lord of the Treasury June 1759 to July 1765, Joint Paymaster 
 of the Forces Aug. 1766-7, and Chancellor and Uader Treasurer 
 of the Exchequer and a Lord of the Treasury Oct. 1767-70. Lord 
 North was sworn a Privy Councillor 10 Dec. 1766, and was First 
 Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister for over 12 years from 
 Jan. 1770 to March 1782. It was during his government that the 
 unhappy War of Independence broke out in the American 
 Colonies in 1775. Although a Tory, Lord North was afterwards 
 Home Secretary in the Duke of Portland's Coalition Ministry 
 April to Dec. 1783. He was M.P. for Banbury 1754 until he 
 succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Guilford 2 Aug. 1790. As 
 became a Prime Minister his Lordship was the recipient of 
 numerous honours and offices, for he was chosen Recorder of 
 Gloucester 1770, made a Governor of the Charterhouse 4 Feb. 
 
 1771, Ranger and Warden of Bushey Park 14 June 1771, an Elder 
 Brother of the Trinity House 1771, K.G. 18 June 1772, Chancellor 
 of Oxford Univ. 3 Oct. 1772, created D.CL. by diploma 10 Oct. 
 
 1772, appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of 
 Somerset 15 March 1774, Recorder of Saltash 1774, and of 
 Taunton 26 Nov. 1774, and Constable of Dover Castle and Lord 
 Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports 16 June 1778, all of 
 which he held until his death. He was also President of the 
 Foundling Hospital from 1771, Governor of the Turkey Company 
 from 1777, President of the Asylum from 177 — , and a Vice 
 President of St. George's Hospital. His Lordship died 5 Aug. 
 1792. He had seats at Bushy Park, Middlesex, Dollington, 
 Somerset, and Waldershare, near Dover. 
 
 I 759- June 4. The same, re-elected after being made a 
 Lord of the Treasury. 
 
 1761. March 27. The same. He was re-elected 17 Nov. 
 1766 on being made Paymaster General of the Land Forces, and 
 30 Nov. 1767 after accepting office as Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer. 
 
 1768. March 18. The same. 
 
 1774. Oct. 7. The same. He was re-elected 9 June 
 1778 on being made Warden of the Cinque Ports. 
 
 1780. Sept. 8. The same. On 9 April 1783 he was 
 re-elected after being appointed one of the Principal Secretaries 
 of State. 
 
 1784. April 3. ) Th a 
 1790. June 18. I inesame - 
 
 1790. Dec. 21. George Augustus Lord North W. 
 vice his father become Earl of Guilford. Eldest son of the last 
 
1 86 Members for Banbury. 
 
 Member, he was born i i Sept. 1757, matric. Trin. Coll. Oxford 
 1 Nov. 1774, created Hon. M.A. 4 June 1777, and m. (1) 30 Sept. 
 1785 Lady Maria Anne Hobart (who died 23 April 1794) 4th dau. 
 of George 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire, and (2) 28 Feb. 1796 
 Susan eldest dau. of Thomas Coutts the banker. His Lordship 
 was M.P. for Harwich April 1778-84, and for Wootton Bassett 
 1784-90, and was returned for Petersfield as the Hon. G. A. 
 North June 1790, but accepted the Chiltern Hundreds in order to 
 stand for Banbury, which he represented from Dec. 1790 until he 
 succeeded his father as 3rd Earl of Guilford 5 Aug. 1792. He 
 became Lieut.-Col. Commandant of the Cinque Ports Militia 23 
 July 1779, F.R.S. 17 Jan. 1782, was Secretary and Comptroller of 
 the Queen's Household Jan. 178 1-3, Under Secretary of State for 
 the Home Department (to his father) April to Dec. 1783, and was 
 made a Manager for the House of Commons to impeach Warren 
 Hastings 3 April 1787. His Lordship was Colonel of the Cinque 
 Ports Volunteers in 1793, Captain of Deal Castle 1795-9, became 
 a Dep. Lieut, for Kent 11 Aug. 1797, and was High Steward of 
 Banbury (in succession to his father,) Dec. 1794 until his death 
 at Mr. Coutt's, in Stretton Street, Piccadilly, on 29 April 1802. 
 The long and painful ill state of his Lordship's health arose from 
 a fall from his horse, a few years before, at Cheltenham, owing to 
 the animal taking fright as his Lordship was presenting a basket 
 of fruit to Miss Coutts, afterwards Countess of Guildford. By 
 this accident, it is supposed the spine of his back was affected, 
 which occasioned the bodily sufferings under which he lan- 
 guished during the remainder of his life. He left estates to the 
 amount of ^18000 per annum, which devolved upon his brother 
 and successor Francis. 
 
 1792. Sept. 21. Hon. Frederick North, (W) vice his 
 brother Lord North called to the Upper House. He was the 
 third son of the 2nd Earl of Guilford (see 1754,) and was born 7 
 Feb. 1766, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 18 Oct. 1782, was created Hon. 
 D.CL. 5 July 1793, and D.CL. by diploma 30 Oct. 1819. He was 
 M.P. for Banbury Sept. 1792 till he was made Comptroller of the 
 Customs in the Port of London Feb. 1794, F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1794, 
 and one of the two Chamberlains of the Exchequer 13 Dec. 1779 
 until he surrendered the patent 10 Oct. 1826, when the office was 
 abolished. He was also Secretary of State in Corsica 9 Jan. 1795 
 until that island was restored to France in 1797, Governor of 
 Ceylon 26 March 1798 to Jan. 1805, and Vice Admiral of Ceylon 
 1 799- 1 805. He succeeded his brother Francis as 5th Earl of 
 Guilford 11 Jan. 1817, and as High Steward of Banbury, was 
 made Chancellor of the Univ. of Corfu in the Ionian Islands 
 1819, G.C.M.G. 26 Oct. 1819, L.L-D. Carcb. 1821, and died 
 unmarried 14 Oct. 1827. Lord Colchester in his Diaries, 
 described him as, M A pleasant but very singular man." 
 
 1794. March 5. William Holbech of Farnborough, co. 
 
Members for Banbury. 187 
 
 Warwick, vice Hon. F. North who accepted an office in the 
 Customs. Son of Hugh Holbech of Mollington, who died 
 
 1765, he was born 1748, matric Trinity Coll. Oxford 27 Nov. 
 
 1766, aged 18, created M.A. 30 June 1770, and m. 1772 Anne dau. 
 of William Woodhouse M.D. of Lichfield. Mr. Holbech's aunt 
 was the wife of Toby Chauncy (see 1727.) He succeeded his 
 uncle William Holbech in his estates of Farnborough, co. War- 
 wick, and Radston, Northants, in 1771, sat for Banbury March 
 1794-6, as locus tenens for the Norths, and died 6 July 1812. His 
 grandson Hugh was defeated at Banbury 1841. 
 
 1796. May 30. Dudley North. 
 
 Dudley North of Glemham Hall, Ipswich, was M.P. for 
 Great Grimsby 1790-6, and for Banbury 1796- 1806. He was 
 defeated at Banbury in 1806, but was elected in a Double Return 
 1807, and a fresh election being ordered, he was once more 
 returned Feb. 1808, and sat till 1812. He had however been also 
 chosen for Newtown, Isle of Wight, on 7 May 1807, but accepted 
 the Chiltern Hundreds and vacated that seat in order to stand 
 for Banbury in Feb. 1808. He was M.P. for Richmond, (York- 
 shire,) 1812-18, and again for Newtown 1820 until he once more 
 accepted the Chiltern Hundreds in Feb. 1821. Mr. North was 
 the second son of Charles Long of Saxmundham, Suffolk, (see 
 1685,) and cousin to Lord Farnborough. He was baptized 14 
 March 1748, educ. at Bury St. Edmunds, and graduated B.A. 
 177 1, M.A. 1774, Emmanuel Coll. Camb. Under the will of his 
 aunt who died in 1789, he took the name of North, in lieu of his 
 patronymic, and m. 5 Nov. 1802 Hon. Sophia Anderson-Pelham 
 eldest dau. of Charles 1st Lord Yarborough. On the death 
 however in 181 2 of his elder brother Charles Long of Hurts 
 Hall, he took the name and arms of Long in addition to those of 
 North. He was a friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and died s.p. 
 at Brompton 21 Feb. 1829, aged 80. 
 
 1802. July 7. The same. 
 1806. Nov 1. William Pread W 10 
 Dudley North W 6 
 
 This is the only instance (save 183 1) in which a North was 
 unsuccessful at Banbury. William Praed of Tyringham, Bucks, 
 and Trevethoe, Cornwall, was the son of Humphrey Mackworth 
 Praed M.P. of Broughton, co. Stafford, and grandson of William 
 Mackworth (who took the name of) Praed M.P., third son of 
 Sir Humphrey Mackworth of Gnoll, Glamorgan, (see Williams' 
 Pari. Hist, of Wales.) He was born 24 June 1749, matric. Magd. 
 Coll. Oxford 2 March 1767, aged 17, and m. 19 June 1778 Elizabeth 
 Tyringham, dau. of Barnaby Backwell of Tyringham, Bucks, and 
 St. Clement Danes, banker. He was senior partner in the 
 London banking house of Hallidays, Duntze, Praeds and Co., 
 and also in the Truro and Falmouth banks, and was Recorder 
 
1 88 Members for Banbury. 
 
 of St. Ives in 1792 and 1807, M.P. St. Ives 1774 until void 1775, 
 and 1 780- 1 806, and Banbury 1806 until void 1808 when he was 
 defeated. He died 9 Oct. 1833, aged 84. His grandson Wm. 
 Backwell Tyringham M P. Bucks 1835-7, to ok the name of 
 Tyringham 1859. The Member must not be confused with his 
 kinsman William Mack worth Praed, Serjeant at law, Chairman 
 of the Board of Audit, who was father of the poet. 
 
 ,8*7. May s-lgjJKa I 
 
 There was a Double Return of both candidates, but on 
 petition the election was declared void, and a new writ issued, 
 which resulted 
 
 1808. Feb. 16. Dudley North 5 
 
 William Praed 3 
 
 1812. Oct. 5. Hon. F. S. N. Douglas T. 
 
 Hon. Frederick Sylvester North Douglas, of the Pheasantry* 
 Middlesex, was born 8 Feb. 1791, and was the only son of 
 Sylvester Lord Glenbervie, (Recorder of Banbury,) by Lady 
 Catharine Ann North eldest dau. of the 2nd Earl of Guilford, the 
 Prime Minister, (see 1754.) He matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford, 24 Oct. 
 1806, aged 15, student 1806-18, B.A. and M.A. July 1813, and was 
 of Lincolns Inn 1807. He m. 19 July 1819 Harriet eldest dau. of 
 William Wrighton of Cusworth, Yorkshire, and was Captain in 
 Major Stratton's squadron of Yeomanry Cavalry. This young 
 and talented Member was the means of establishing the Banbury 
 National School Society, of which he became President 18 17. 
 He represented Banbury 1812 until his death in London 21 Oct. 
 1819, aged 28. 
 
 1818. June 19. The same. 
 
 1819. Nov. 22. Hon. Heneage Legge, vice Douglas 
 deceased. Second son of George 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, 
 K.G., by Lady Francis Finch dau. of Heneage 3rd Earl of 
 Aylesford, he was born 29 Feb. 1788, educ. at Eton, matric. Ch. 
 Ch. Oxford 24 Oct. 1805, fellow of All Souls Coll. 1812-18, B.C L. 
 1812, D.C.L- 1818, and was called to the bar at Lincolns Inn 
 1815. Mr. Legge m. 19 July 1821 Mary dau. of Major Johnstone, 
 and sat for Banbury Nov. 1819 until made a Commissioner of the 
 Customs Feb. 1826. He held this office until his death 12 
 Dec. 1844. 
 
 1820. March 10. Hon. Heneage Legge T 
 
 At this date a riot occurred at the hustings, and the 
 Corporation were unable for some time to leave the Town Hall. 
 
 1826. Feb. 10. Hon. Arthur Charles Legge, (T.) vice his 
 brother Heneage made a Commissioner of the Customs. Born 
 on 25 June 1800, the third son of the third Earl of Dartmouth, he 
 
Members for Banbury. 189 
 
 entered the army as Ensign 28th Foot 23 May 1816, became Ensign 
 and Lieut. Coldstream Guards 27 Feb. 1817, when on half-pay 25 
 Dec. 18 1 8, Lieut 1st Life Guards 31 July 1820, Captain thereof 17 
 Jan. 1822 until placed on half-pay 23 June 1837, received the rank 
 of Major 10 Jan. 1837, Lt. Col. 11 Nov. 1851, Col. 28 Nov. 1854, 
 Major Gen. 28 Aug. 1865, Lt. Gen. 26 Jan. 1874, and General 1 
 Oct. 1877, being still on half pay as Captain in 1872. He m. (1) 
 
 14 June 1827 Lady Anne Frederica Catherine Holroyd (who died 
 31 Aug. 1829) third dau. of John 1st Earl of Sheffield, and grand 
 dau. of the 2nd Earl of Guilford, (see 1754,) and (2) 29 Aug. 1837 
 < Caroline 4th dau. of James Charles Philip Bouwens. General 
 Legge became D.L- Kent 1852, Lt. Col. 3rd Battalion Staffordshire 
 Rifle Volunteers i860, and was Col. 1st Staffordshire R. Volunteers 
 8 May 1868 until his death at Caynton, Shifual, 18 May 1890. 
 
 1826. June 10. The same. 
 
 1830. July 30. Henry Villiers Stuart T. 
 
 Henry Villiers-Stuart of Dromana, co. Waterford, was born 
 in London 8 June 1803, and was the eldest son of Lord Henry 
 Stuart the 2nd son of John 1st Marquis of Bute. He enjoyed the 
 North influence at Banbury through his uncle the 2nd Marquis 
 of Bute who married the eldest dau. of the third Earl of Guilford, 
 (see 1790,) and was chosen High Steward of Banbury 1827. 
 Having been educated at Eton, Mr. Stuart matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 
 
 15 Dec. 1820, and took the additional surname of Villiers by sign 
 manual 17 Nov. 1822. He was M.P. for co. Waterford 1826 to 
 Feb. 1830 when he vacated his seat, and for Banbury 1 830-1, and 
 was sworn a Privy Councillor in Ireland 1836, and created Lord 
 Stuart de Decies 10 May 1839. His Lordship married Madame 
 de Ott. He became Col. of the Waterford Art. Militia 30 Dec. 
 1839, and was Lord Lieut, of co. Waterford 1831 until his death 
 23 Jan. 1874, when the title became extinct. 
 
 183 1. May 2. John Easthope W 6 
 
 Hon. H. Hutchinson T 2 
 
 The number of electors at Banbury at this date was 18. 
 Smith says the poll only lasted one day, and that 6 voted for 
 Easthope, and 3 for Hutchinson. 
 
 Lt.-Col. the Hon. Henry Hely Hutchinson of Weston 
 Wedon, Northants, brother of the third Earl of Donoughmore, 
 was born 26 March 1790, married 26 April 1825 the widow of the 
 Hon. F. S. N. Douglas, (see 181 2,) and died 2 July 1874. He 
 fought at Waterloo. 
 
 John Easthope was the 2nd surviving son of Thomas E. of 
 Tewkesbury, where he was born 29 Oct. 1784. He became a 
 London stockbroker in 1818, and made ^150000 in a few years. 
 {Boas J s Modern Biography). He purchased the Mowing Chronicle 
 for ^16500 in 1834 which he owned till 1847, and was made a 
 
190 Members for Banbury. 
 
 Baronet 24 Aug. 1841. He unsuccessfully contested St. Albans 
 Jan. 1821, Southampton 1835, Lewes 1837, and Bridgnorth 1847, 
 but was MP. for St. Albans 1826-30, Banbury 183 1-2, and Leicester 
 1837-47. Sir John m. (1) 1807 Anne dau. of Jacob Stokes of 
 Leopard House, near Worcester, and (2) 19 Sept. 1843 Elizabeth 
 eldest dau. of Col. Skyring R.A., and widow of Major John 
 Longley R.A. He was a director of the London and South Wes- 
 tern Railway in 1846, and died at Fir Grove, Weybridge, Surrey, 
 11 Dec. 1865, aged 8i t when the title became extinct, his son 
 having pre-deceased him. (See Williams' Gloucestershire 
 Members). 
 
 1832. Dec. 11. Henry William Tancred W 
 
 This Member was the 2nd son of Sir Thomas Tancred 5th 
 Bart, of Boroughbridge, Yorks, and was born 1780, B.A. Jes. 
 Coll. Camb. 1804, M.A. 1807, ent. Lincolns Inn 4 May 1799, bar. 
 at law 11 May 1804, invited to the Bench of that Society 14 Nov. 
 183 1, and sat as such 11 Jan. 1833, and became a Queen's Counsel 
 in Trinity Vacation 183 1. He was made a Commissioner to 
 inquire into the state of registers of births marriages and deaths, 
 not being parochial registers, 13 Sept. 1836, sat for Banbury 1832 
 till he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds Jan. 1859, and died at 
 Margate 20 Aug. i860. Mr. Tancred was one of those who rallied 
 around Lord Brougham in his efforts to found the Society for the 
 Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. He was a zealous, upright, and 
 inflexible Whig, a staunch member of Brook's Club, and one of 
 the first to join the Reform Club on its being founded. He was 
 author of several political works. 
 
 1835. Jan. 5. H. W. Tancred W 203 
 
 E. L. Williams T 43 
 
 Edward Lloyd Williams was a barrister of the Midland 
 circuit. Smith's Parliaments of England gives the poll as 
 Tancred 205, Williams 45, and styles the latter a Radical. 
 
 1837. July 25. H. W. Tancred 
 
 Henry Tawney 
 Mr. Tawney was a banker at Banbury. 
 1 841. June 30. H. W. Tancred 
 
 Hugh Holbech 
 
 Henry Vincent 
 
 Henry Vincent the Chartist, was a printer at Bath. He 
 was also defeated at Ipswich Aug. 1842, and 1847, Tavistock 
 March 1843, Kilmarnock May 1843, Plymouth July 1846, and 
 York May 1848, and 1852. 
 
 1847. July 31. H. W. Tancred L 226 
 
 fames Macgregor C 164 
 
 w 
 
 181 
 
 T 
 
 75 
 
 W 
 
 124 
 
 T 
 
 100 
 
 Ch. 
 
 5i 
 
Members for Banbury. 191 
 
 James Macgregor was born at Liverpool 1808, was M.P. 
 Sandwich 1852-7, when defeated, and was Chairman of the South 
 Eastern Railway 1848 until his death in London 5 Sept. 1858. 
 
 1852. July 9. H. W. Tancred. 
 
 1857. March 28. H. W. Tancred E 216 
 
 Edward Yates C 58 
 
 1859. Feb. 9. Bernhard Samuelson L, 177 
 
 John Hardy C 176 
 
 Edward Mia 11 L 118 
 
 vice Tancred resigned. John Hardy of Dunstan Hall, Stafford- 
 shire, unsuccessfully contested Plymouth 1857, and East Stafford- 
 shire 1880, but sat for Midhurst 3 March to 23 April 1859, when 
 Parliament was dissolved, was the last Member for Dartmouth 
 Nov. 1860-8, and sat for South Warwickshire 1868-74. He was 
 brother to the Earl of Cranbrook, (see Oxford Univ. 1865,) and 
 was born 23 Feb. 1809, m. 13 Aug. 1846 Laura 3rd dau. of William 
 Holbech of Farnborough, (see 1794,) and was made a Baronet 23 
 Feb. 1876. He died in 1888. 
 
 Edward Miall also failed for South wark Sept. 1845, Halifax 
 1847, and Tavistock Sept. 1857, but sat for Rochdale 1852-7, 
 when he was defeated, and for Bradford March 1869-74, having 
 been defeated there Oct. 1867 and 1868. He was born 8 May 
 1809, was the well-known advocate of Disestablishment, and died 
 29 April 188 1. 
 
 Sir Bernhard Samuelson will be found under North 
 Oxfordshire 1885. 
 
 1859. April 30. Sir C. E. Douglas L 235 
 
 B. Samuelson L 199 
 
 Sir Charles Eurwicke Douglas Knt. was the son of Rt. 
 Hon. Charles Philip Yorke M.P., and was born 12 May 1806, 
 educ. at Harrow, and graduated B.A. 1828, M.A. 183 1, St. John's 
 Coll. Camb. He m. 1832 Jane Mary Anne eldest dau. of Sir 
 Charles Des Voeux 2nd Bart., and was Private Secretary to 
 Viscount Goderich, Colonial Secretary Nov. 1830 to March 1833, 
 King at Arms of the Order of St. Michael and St. George 1832- 
 59, and a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital 8 Aug. 1845 to 
 July 1846. He was Knighted 12 Oct. 1832, made C.M.G. 1832, 
 K.C.M.G. 1859, M.P. for Warwick 1837-52, unsuccessfully fought 
 Durham June 1853, and sat for Banbury 1859-65, when he lost 
 his seat. He died in London 21 Feb. 1887. 
 
 1865. July 12. B. Samuelson E 206 
 
 Charles Bell C 165 
 
 Sir C. E. Douglas L 160 
 
192 Members for Banbury. 
 
 Charles Bell was elected M.P. for the City of L,ondon in 
 Nov. 1868, but died the following February. 
 
 1868. Nov. 17. B. Samuelson L 772 
 
 /. Stratton C 397 
 
 1874. Feb. 3. B. Samuelson L 760 
 
 Lt.-Col.J.J. Wilkinson C 676 
 
 Col. Josiah Wilkinson was also defeated at Norwich March 
 1875. 
 
 1880. April 1. B. Samuelson L 1018 
 
 T. Gibson Bowles C 583 
 
 Thomas Gibson Bowles also unsuccessfully contested 
 Darlington 1874, and South Salford 1885, but has sat for King's 
 Iyynn since 1892. 
 
 At the Dissolution in Nov. 1885 tne Borough of Banbury 
 ceased to return a Member of Parliament, but was merged in the 
 Northern or Banbury Division of the County. It had 329 electors 
 in 1832, 1529 in 1868, 1952 in 1874, and 1881 in 1884. 
 
THE BOROUGH OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 The most eminent of the Members for the Royal Borough 
 of Woodstock were William Cooke, Judge of the Admiralty, Sir 
 James Whitlock, Judge of the King's Bench, Sir Robert Pye, 
 Auditor of the Exchequer, Sir Edward Atkyns and Sir John 
 Skynner who were both Lord Chief Barons, Sir Thomas Littleton, 
 Speaker of the House, the famous soldier Earl Cadogan, Viscount 
 Bateman, and the Earl of Macclesfield who were Courtiers, Lord 
 Auckland the statesman and diplomatist, and his son the Earl 
 who was Viceroy of India, Lord Henry Spencer, the Envoy to 
 Prussia, Lord Lavington, Governor of the Leeward Islands, the 
 philanthropic Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Chelmsford the Lord 
 Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, Viceroy of Ireland, and 
 his son Lord Randolph Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer 
 and Leader of the House. As might be expected, some of the 
 earlier Members, such as George Whitton and the Fleetwoods, 
 were officials of the Royal Park at Woodstock. Col. Packer and 
 Sir Jerome Sankey were noted soldiers of the Commonwealth. 
 
 MEMBERS FOR WOODSTOCK. 
 
 1302. Edmund de Parco 
 
 John Beneit 
 
 The former Member was probably of kin to Sir Thomas de 
 Parco, (see the County 1298.) It is doubtful whether the follow- 
 ing paragraph in the Patent Rolls refers to the Member for 
 Woodstock : — 20 Oct. 1290, Pardon to John Beneit of Wodenese, 
 detained in the prison of Oxford, for the death of Alice de 
 Wodenose, his wife, and Mariota and Alice his daughters, as it 
 appears by the record of Henry de Rale and his fellows, justices 
 appointed to deliver the said gaol, that he killed them in a fit of 
 madness, while labouring under acute disease. 
 
 I 3°5- John de Wappenham 
 
 Reginald Bene 
 
194 Mkmbers for Woodstock. 
 
 The former may have been a native or resident of 
 Wappenham in Northamptonshire, as his name implies that he 
 or his family were connected with the place. 
 
 After this date Woodstock was relieved of the burden of 
 returning and paying two Burgesses, for two centuries and a half. 
 Henry 6 by his Charter dated 24 May 1453, declared "that the 
 same Mayor and commonalty of the Borough of New Woodstock 
 and their successors shall not be compelled to choose any bur- 
 gesses for the Borough aforesaid to come to any Parliament of us 
 or our heirs hereafter to be held, but shall be exempted for ever." 
 Just a century afterwards, however, when the right of represent- 
 ation was becoming regarded as a privilege instead of a burden, 
 the Borough was again enfranchised in the first year of Queen 
 Mary, to return two Members. 
 
 I 553- Sept. 6. William Cooke 
 
 Sir John Chamberleyn 
 
 William Cooke was one of the many eminent Civilians 
 returned by Oxfordshire constituencies. A member of New 
 College and All Souls College, Oxford, he graduated B.O.I,. 18 
 July 1530, and D.C.I,. 11 Get. 1536, and was admitted a member 
 of the College of Advocates 15 Oct. 1537. (Quaere if he was the 
 William Cooke admitted to Grays Inn in 1528.) He was Rector 
 or Warden of Elmeley, Kent, Principal or chief moderator of the 
 Civil Law School in St. Edward's parish 1537, Dean of the 
 Arches 1545-9. Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 
 1548, Judge of the Admiralty 1554-8, and Custos of Ilford 
 Hospital, Essex, 1551. Cooke was M.P. for Woodstock Sept. to 
 Dec. 1553, and was perhaps the William Cooke who was M.P. 
 for Portsmouth April to May 1554. He was buried 23 Aug. 
 1558, and probaby died unmarried. 
 
 Sir John Chamberlayne was the third son of Richard C. 
 and brother to Sir Edward C. ofShirburn Castle (who died 1543 J 
 and uncle to Sir Leonard, (see the County 1554.) He was 
 Knighted before 1553, M.P. Woodstock, Sept. to Dec. 1553, and 
 had two sons George and Edmund. 
 
 1534. March. Sir Ralph Chamberleyn. 
 
 William Johnsun. 
 
 Sir Ralph was the third son of Sir Edward C. of Sher- 
 borne, nephew to Sir John the last member, and brother to Sir 
 Leonard, (see County 1554.) He m. Elizabeth dau. of Sir Robert 
 Fiennes, was Knighted 1553, and died after 1575. On 15 July 
 1558 the Queen gave directions to Sir Clement Higham and Sir 
 John Sulyarde to take inventories &c. of the goods &c. of Sir 
 Ralph Chamberlayne and others, and to make account of their 
 revenues since the loss of Calais. {Calendar of State Papers. ~) 
 
Members for Woodstock. * 195 
 
 It is doubtful whether his colleague was the William 
 Johnson of Leighton Buzzard who in 1574 married Mary dau. 
 and co-heir of Edmond Harmon of Taynton, Oxford. 
 
 1554. Oct. 24. Anthony Restwold. 
 
 George Chamberleyne. 
 
 The former was M.P. Woodstock Oct. to Dec. 1554, and 
 Aylesbury Oct. to Dec. 1555. He was a son of Edward Restwold 
 of the Vache in Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, by Augusta or Agnes 
 2nd dau. of John Cheyney of Drayton, and died s.p. and v.p. 
 
 George Chamberlayne of Bodington, Northants, elder son 
 of Sir John C. (see 1553,) m. Dorothea dau. of John Butler of 
 Aston in y e Wall, Northants. Oct. 1560, Answers by George C. 
 of Wickham, to interrogatories touching his intercourse with 
 Papists beyond the sea. Letters received by him from Lady 
 Dormer, the Countess Feria, &c. {Cal. State Papers.) Another 
 George C. was 2nd son of Sir Leonard (see County 1554.) Quaere 
 died 10 Feb. 1565, Inq. p. m. 25 Oct. 1565. 
 
 No returns have been found for the Parliaments elected in 
 Sept. 1555, Jan. 1558, Jan. 1559, and Dec. 1562, and Browne Willis 
 expressed his belief that no Members were returned by Wood- 
 stock to those Parliaments. As there is distinct evidence, from 
 a discussion in the House, (see Commons Journals,) that Wood- 
 stock did not make a Return to the Parliament of 1562, it is 
 probable that Willis was correct, and the Borough returned no 
 Member after 1554, until the privilege was again revived in 
 i57i- 
 
 1 571. April. Thomas Penniston. 
 
 Martin Johnson. 
 
 Thomas Peniston of Beaconsfield, Bucks, M.P. Woodstock 
 157 1, m. Elizabeth dau. of Humphrey Ashfield of Heathcop. 
 His grandson was made a Baronet in 1612. On 28 Aug. 1571 the 
 Constables of the Hundred of Wootton certified to T. P. that 
 they had caused privy watch and search to be made throughout 
 the said Hundred, and specified the vagrants apprehended and 
 punished. On 20 April 1592, Exemplification, at the request of 
 Marten Colpeper, widow, upon a bill and answer, in a cause 
 between her and Thomas Penyston, defendant. (Cal. State 
 Papers.) 
 
 Martin Johnson was M.P. Woodstock 1571, and (as 
 Johnsleyne) 1572-83. He was probably son or brother of the 
 M.P. 1554, and father of William J. of Oxford city, whose son 
 Martin Johnson matric. Ball. Coll. 17 July 1640, aged 16. 
 
 1572. April 15. George Whytton. 
 
 Martin Johnsleyne. 
 
196 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 George Whitton was for many years Surveyor of the Royal 
 Manor of Woodstock, and as such was engaged in several dis- 
 putes with his neighbours. Although at first sight it appears as 
 if he was of a tyrannical and cantankerous disposition, yet from 
 the fact that his son or grandson John Whitton was app. Comp- 
 troller and Surveyor of Woodstock 8 May 1607, and held the 
 same office in 1642, it may not unreasonably be inferred that 
 Whitton was a good and faithful servant, and caused offence 
 chiefly by fearlessly discharging his duty. Many references are 
 made to him in the Calendar of State Papers, as follows : — 1579, 
 Petition of John Osbaston and John Preedy to the Council. 
 Complain of the extreme dealings of George Whitton of Wood- 
 stock, in taking unfair advantage of their bonds for money bor- 
 rowed of him. Articles of their suit against Mr Whitton. — 
 Dec. 1580, Complaint by George Whitton, Comptroller and 
 Surveyor of the manor and park of Woodstock against Sir 
 Hen. Lee. Being angry with me for accusing him of 
 deer-stealing 10 years ago, when Fras. Chamberlain was 
 Lieutenant of Woodstock, and later for reproving him for 
 leaving workmen unpaid &c, he declared he would make me 
 weary of my office ; Sir Henry has defrauded me of 20 marks a 
 year, granted by Her Majesty's warrant, and for 6 or 7 years has 
 retained from me the woodwardship of the manor of Spillsberry, 
 given in recompense of service by Edward 6, and worth 20 marks 
 yearly, besides the fees appertaining to my office of comptroller 
 of Her Majesty's manor and park of Woodstock aforesaid. — Dec. 
 1580, Answer of Sir Henry Lee to certain allegations of George 
 Whitton relative to a transaction about some venison and deer 
 stealing 16 years since. Prays to be protected from Whitton's 
 slanderous clamours, and to be released from imprisonment. — 
 1583, The answer of William Skelton, Mayor of New Woodstock, 
 to the complaint of Geo. Whitton touching the election of Mayor 
 and the corrupt dealing of W.S. in that behalf, &c. On 18 May 
 1604 Pardon was granted to Mr Bolton " for killing George 
 Whitton," who may have been this Member. Geo. Whitton of 
 Woodstock Park was the fourth son of William W. of Nethercote, 
 and m. Dorothy, younger dau. of Thomas Peniston, (see 1571). 
 He was M.P. Woodstock 1572-84, and Brackley 1584-5 and 1586-7. 
 
 1584. Oct. 26. Lawrence Tannefeld. 
 Henry Umpton. 
 
 As to Sergt. Tanfield, see the County 1604. Henry Unton 
 or Umpton was the second son of Sir Edward Unton M.P. of 
 Wadley and Farringdon, Berks, by Anne daughter to Edward 
 Seymour, Duke of Somerset, and Protector of England. He m. 
 Dorothy dau. of Sir Thomas Wroughton of Brodhinton, Wilts., 
 was Knighted 29 Sept. 1586, M.P. Woodstock 1584-5 and Berks 
 1593, gained distinction at the siege of Zutphen 1586, and went 
 as Ambassador to France 1591 and 1595, dying there s.p. 23 May 
 
Members for Woodstock. 197 
 
 1596, whenthe male branch of his family became extinct. He 
 challenged the Duke of Guise for making slighting remarks con- 
 cerning Queen Elizabeth. He was buried at Farringdon 8 July 
 1596. Oct. 1582, Considerations to move Her Majesty to grant Mr 
 Henry Unton's suit for the custody of his mother, Anne Countess 
 of Warwick, wife of the late Sir Edward Unton, the said relict 
 having the same month been declared of unsound mind. 15 Jan. 
 1583, Report of Henry Unton and other, arbitrators app. by the 
 Council to settle the controversies between Sir John Conway 
 and Anthony Bowrne. Willingness of both parties to come to 
 agreement. Intermarriage of their children. 
 
 1586. Oct. 11. Lawrence Tanfeild. 
 
 Francis Stoner. 
 
 Francis Stonor of Stonor Park, High Sheriff of Oxford- 
 shire 1592 and 1621, was the son and heir of Sir Francis Stonor 
 by Cecily dau. of Sir Leonard Chamberlain, (see County 1554.) 
 He was Knighted Sept. 1601, sat for Woodstock 1586-7, and 
 built and endowed an alms house at Upper Assendon, near 
 Stonor Park, for 10 poor persons, and endowed it wiih a rent 
 charge of ^61 a year. He and his family were consistent Roman 
 Catholics. Sir Francis was born, in 1553, and married Martha 
 dau. of John Southcote, Judge of the Queen's Bench. He wrote 
 to Lord Salisbury on 22 Feb. 1606, recommending a general 
 survey of the King's woods and offering to rent them at ^"ioooo 
 a year above the present revenue ; and on 18 May 1610 begging 
 that his lease of Watlington Park may be granted according to 
 promise, relying on which he had purchased the land in the park 
 which would be of little value to him without the woods. 
 
 1588. Nov. 4. Lawrence Tanfeilde. 
 
 John Lee. 
 
 Quaere if this John Lee was the 4th and youngest son of 
 Richard Lee of Quarendon, and ancestor of the Lees of Binfield, 
 Berks, or 2nd son of Thomas Lee M.A. and Bachelor of physick, 
 fellow of Magd. Coll. Oxford. A John Lee was adm. to Grays 
 Inn 25 Nov. 1581. 
 
 1593. Jan. ) The same 
 
 1597. Oct. 17 J 1,lesame ' 
 
 1 601. Oct. 5. Lawrence Tan feild. 
 
 William Scott. 
 
 Scott was styled ' gentleman ' in the Return. 
 
 1604. March 1. Sir Richard Lee. 
 
 Thomas Spenser. 
 
 Sir Richard was the son of Sir Antony Lee, and younger 
 brother of Sir Henry Lee K.G. of Ditchley, Master of the 
 
198 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 Ordnance. He m. (1) the widow of Sir Hall, Knt. and (2) 
 
 Lady Croker of Hook Norton, and sat for Woodstock 1604 till 
 his death 22 Dec. 1608. On 25 July 1588, Lord Henry Seymour 
 wrote from ' The Revenge,' in Dover Road, to Secretary Wal- 
 syngham, (see Banbury 1558,) as follows:— Is happy to hear of the 
 beginning of victory, but grieved that he cannot be an actor in 
 it. If Parma intends anything he will now shew his courage. 
 Many gentlemen have come to venture their lives in the Queen's 
 service. Their names are Richard Lee, and three others. 
 On 2 Oct. 1602 John Chamberlain ' wrote to Dudley Carleton in 
 Paris, — The commencement at Oxford was very famous . . . 
 specially for the confluence of cut purses, whereof ensued many 
 losses, Mr. Bodley lost his cloak, Sir Rich. Lea two jewels of 200 
 marks, which he and Sir Harry Lea meant to bestow on the 
 bride, Mr. Tanfleld's daughter. 
 
 Thomas Spencer of Yarnton, a branch issuing from the 
 stock of the noble houses of Marlborough and Spencer, was the 
 elder son of Sir William Spencer Knt. who died 18 Dec. 1609. In 
 Dec. 1604 Thomas Spencer and Sir Rich. Spencer were Keeper of 
 the Writs and Rolls, in the Common Pleas. Thomas Spencer 
 petitioned Lord Salisbury 29 Dec. 1610 for an order to the Wood- 
 ward of Whittlewood Forest, Northants, to allow his right of 40 
 loads of wood yearly, as his " estovers " as lord of the manor. 
 He married Margaret dau. of Richard B rain th wait, Serjeant at 
 law, and was made a Baronet 29 June 161 1, and afterwards 
 Knighted at Whitehall 24 May 161 2. He was famous for his 
 great hospitality, and rebuilt the tower at the west end of 
 Yarnton Church, as also a noble mansion house near the old one. 
 He died 16 or 17 Aug. 1622, and was buried the next day in a 
 chapel he had erected on the south side of the chancel of 
 Yarnton Church. 
 
 1609. Dec. 6. . James Whitelock 
 vice Sir R. Lee deceased. This distinguished Judge was the 
 youngest son of Richard W. a London merchant, and was born 
 23 or 28 Nov. 1570, educ. at Merchant Taylors School, became a 
 scholar of St. John' s Coll. Camb. 1588, B.CL. 1594, and was a 
 Fellow till June 1598. Having been admitted to the Middle 
 Temple 2 March 1593, he was called to the bar 24 Oct. 1600, and 
 served as Autumn Reader 1619. He was Recorder of Bishop's 
 Castle (fee 40s. a year) in 1609, of Ludlow 1621-4, and of Bewdley 
 1621-4, made Reward of the lands of St. John's Coll. Camb., 
 Recorder of Woodstock 1606, Steward and Counsel of Eton 
 College 1609, and also of Westminster School 1610, and was M.P. 
 Woodstock Dec. 1609-11, Woodstock and Corfe Castle March 
 1614, but probably preferred to sit for the former till June 1614, 
 and again 1620-2. On 18 May 1613 Whitelock was summoned 
 before the Council and sent to the Fleet, where he remained a 
 prisoner till 13 June. This however did not bar his promotion to 
 
Members for Woodstock. 199 
 
 the Bench, for he was made a Serjeant at law 18 June 1620, 
 Knighted 29 Oct. 1620, and the same day app. Chief Justice of 
 Chester and of the counties of Denbigh, Flint, and Montgomery. 
 On 9 Nov. 1620 Chamberlain wrote to his friend Carleton, stating 
 that " Sir James Whitelock has brought the Receivership of the 
 Wards." He was an active member of the Council of the 
 Marches of Wales till 18 Oct. 1624, when he became a Justice of 
 the King's Bench, and this judicial post he filled until his death at 
 his mansion at Fawley Court 21 June 1632. He married 9 Sept. 
 1602 Elizabeth dau. of Edward Bulstrode of Bulstrode. (See 
 Williams' Welsh Judges). 
 
 1614. March. James Whitelock, Recorder. 
 
 Sir Philip Carye Knt. 
 
 Sir Philip Cary of Caddington, Beds, and Hunslet, Yorks, 
 3rd son of Edward C. of Berkhamstead, Herts, matric. Queen's 
 Coll. Oxford 22 Feb. 1594 aged 14, and ent. Grays Inn 9 Aug. 
 1590. He was Knighted 23 May 1605, sat for Woodstock March 
 to June 1614, 1620-2, 1624-5, April to Aug. 1625, and was buried 
 at Aldenham 13 June 163 1. Grant to Sir Phil. Carey, Wm. Pitt, 
 and John Williams, in fee simple of the manor and lordship of 
 Minster, Kent, 26 Nov. 161 1. Grant to Sir Philip Carey of the 
 office of keeping Marybone Park, Middlesex, for life, 27 Feb. 
 1615. 
 
 1620. Dec. 7. Sir James Whitlock Knt., Recorder. 
 
 Sir Philip Carye Knt. 
 
 1624. Jan. 14. Sir Philip Cayre. 
 
 William I^enthall, Recorder. 
 
 As to William Lenthall, the Recorder of Woodstock at 
 this date, see the County 1654. 
 
 1625. April 20. Sir Philip Carye Knt. 
 
 Sir Jerrard Fleetwood Knt. 
 
 Sir Jerrard Fleetwood of Crawley, Hants, was the son of 
 Thomas F., and brother to Sir William F. of Missendon, Bucks, 
 M.P. Bucks and Middlesex, Receiver of the Court of Wards. He 
 was therefore uncle to the M.P.'s 1628 and 1640. He was 
 Knighted July 1603 and M.P. for Woodstock April to Aug. 1625, 
 and Jan. to June 1626, and Ranger of Woodstock Park 161 1. On 
 22 Feb. 1646, he " Begs a moderate composition. Resides in co. 
 Hants which was long under the King's forces, and was obliged 
 to be a Commissioner of Array, and sometimes to go to Winches- 
 ter, but disliked the business, and was never in arms. His lands 
 formerly worth ^250 a year, have been sequestered three years, 
 and lie waste and in the King's power, so that he has no 
 maintenance, yet is willing to submit to a fine. 7 April, Fine 
 ^500. In addition to this, he was assessed by the Committee of 
 
2oo Members for Woodstock. 
 
 Advance of Money at ^400 on 29 Jan. 1647, but as it appeared on 
 16 Nov. 1648 that his debts amounted to ^4476, bis assessment 
 was taken off on 24 November " as his debts are much more than 
 the whole value of his estate." 30 Aug. 1625, Warrant to pay to 
 Sir Gerard Fleetwood i2d. a day for looking to the game within 
 the manor of Woodstock and within 10 miles about the same. 
 He was living in 1651. 
 
 1626. Jan. 14. Sir Gerard Fleetwood. 
 
 Edmund Taverner. 
 
 Richard Taverner of Wood Baton was High Sheriff of Oxon 
 1568, while John Taverner of Soundess, (Nettlebed,) was Sheriff 
 1662, and died 1674, aged 85. Edmund Taverner who sat for 
 Woodstock Jan. to June 1626 and 1628-9, was doubtless of the 
 same familp, and was perhaps the son of John Taverner, 
 Surveyor of the King's Woods in 1605. There are many refer- 
 ences to him in the Calendar of State Papers. 2 Nov. 1626, War- 
 rant to pay to Edmund Taverner ^"200 for a diamond sold to His 
 Majesty and given to Mons. Frogan. 24 Nov. 1626, Warrant to 
 pay to E.T. ^400 for provision for the Queen's Masque shortly to 
 be performed. 11 Feb. 1628, Warrant to pay to E.T. ^600 towards 
 the expenses of a Masque to be presented shortly before the King 
 at Whitehall. There are several letters to and from him during 
 1628-31. He was Secretary to the Lord Chamberlain, Philip Earl 
 of Pembroke and Montgomery, in Dec. 1630, and still so in 1637. 
 Sir James Perrott wrote from Haroldston to Secretary Nicholas 
 23 June 163 1, in reference to his Vice Admiralty accounts — " Mr 
 Taverner is so just a man that he will not deny what the writer 
 paid. Taverner dealt then in those businesses as Mr Oldisworth 
 does now." He was cousin to Wm. Strode the merchant, of 
 Barrington, Somerset. 
 
 1628. March. Sir Miles Fleetwood Knt. 
 Edmund Taverner. 
 
 Sir Miles Fleetwood of Ard winkle, Northants, and Cranford, 
 Middlesex, was the eldest of the three sons of Sir William F. of 
 Cranford, Receiver of the Court of Wards, and brother to Sir 
 Wiliam (see 1640,) and to Sir George who was a famous General in 
 Sweden. He was adm. to Grays Inn 9 Jan. 1588, was Knighted 
 at Dublin 29 April 1602, and m. Anne dau. of Nicholas L,uke of 
 Woodend, Beds. He sat for Westbury 162 1-2, Bletchingly and 
 Launceston 1624, but preferred the latter till 1625, Newton (Lan- 
 cashire) May to Aug. 1625, and Jan. to June 1626, Woodstock 
 1628 to Jan. 1629, Hindbn March to May 1640, and Oct. 1640 till 
 his death 8 March 1641. 6 Sept. 1604, Grant to Sir Miles Fleet- 
 wood in reversion after Sir William Fleetwood, of the office of 
 Receiver General of the Court of Wards and Liveries. 22 March 
 1610, Grant to Sir Miles F. of the office of Receiver General of the 
 Court of Wards. He thus succeeded his father in this lucrative office 
 
Members for Woodstock. 201 
 
 in March 1610, and enjoyed it till his death in March 1641, when 
 the office was conferred upon his brother Sir William, (see 1640). 
 March 1610, Notes relative to the value of the manor of Greens- 
 Norton surveyed by Sir Miles F. as under Steward of the honour 
 of Grafton. 16 Feb. 1628, Order of Council for preparing Com- 
 missions of Martial L,aw and of oyer and terminer for co. 
 Northants, addressed to Sir Miles Fleetwood, Sir Guy Palmes, 
 and Sir John Danvers (see Oxford Univ. 1621,) Deputy lieuten- 
 ants. 9 July 1625, Grant in accomplishment of the late King's 
 intention to Sir Miles Fleetwood, Receiver of the Court of Wards, 
 of ^5000, out of debts due in that Court. 
 
 1640. March 12. William L,enthall, Recorder. 
 Sir William Fleetwood Knt. 
 
 Sir William Fleetwood of Ard winkle, Northants, was the 
 2nd son of Sir William F. and brother to theM.P. 1628. He was 
 incorporated M.A. Oxford 13 March 1633, " as he stood at Cam- 
 bridge," being then Controller of Woodstock Park. He married 
 twice, his second wife being a Miss Harvey. He was Knighted 
 20 July 1624, and in May 1642 was, with John Whitton, Comp- 
 troller of Works and Surveyor of Woods at Woodstock. He 
 must have succeeded his brother Sir Miles (see 1628) as Receiver 
 of the Court of Wards and Liveries in March 1641, as on 11 Dec. 
 1643 the House of Commons resolved " That the office of Receiver 
 of the Court of Wards be henceforth sequestered from Sir William 
 Fleetwood." ( Commons Journal.) In May 1624 he was described 
 as late High Sheriff of Bucks. He was Cupbearer to James I 
 and Charles I, and resumed his office to the King in 1660. 
 Sir William was evidently a great favourite with James I, 
 who on 23 Dec. 1624, wrote to Thomas Barley of Elmingham, 
 Essex, " To favour Sir W. Fleetwood who intends to become a 
 suitor to his daughter. Testifies to his discretion and good car- 
 riage. Recommends him as well fitted by birth and fortune to 
 be a good match for her. Requests a reply." On the same day 
 the King also wrote to Henry Wiseman, " To employ his influ- 
 ence with Thomas Barley to give his daughter in marriage to Sir 
 W. Fleetwood ; favours him both for his own and his father's 
 services." He was a Col. in the royal army, a Commr. to 
 surrender Woodstock Manor house 26 April 1646, M.P. for 
 Woodstock March to May 1640, Oct. 1640 till void 5 Jan. i64i, 
 and again 1661 till his death 1674, aged 71. He was assessed at 
 ^"400 on 6 May 1649, and again assessed at ^251 on 1 Sept. 1651. 
 On 23 July 1646, "Col. Charles Fleetwood (see County 1654) 
 informs the Committee for Compounding that Sir William his 
 brother {sic, but should be father) rendered himself to him before 
 1 May 1646. Dec. 1, Sir William petitions to compound for 
 delinquency. Being a servant in ordinary to His Majesty, 
 attended him at Oxford and elsewhere. With certificate by Geo. 
 Bowie that he is suffering from the dropsy. 14 Jan. 1647, Fine at 
 
202 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 one-sixth, ^720. If it be proved that the estate is charged with 
 ;£6o a year for Col. Charles Fleetwood's life, and £30 a year for 
 Ann F., then the fine to be ^585. 18 June 1649, admitted by 
 Order of Parliament to compound on Oxford Articles. Aug. 1, 
 Fine ^510- 6 June 1650, Col. Charles F. having paid £ the fine, 
 writes that he would pay the other £, but cannot go to Norfolk 
 to find the deeds, on which he hopes an abatement for annuities 
 to himself and a sister, being ordered Northwards ; begs delay 
 till his return." On 30 Dec. 1661, Warrant to Sir W. Fleetwood 
 to preserve the game about Woodstock Park, (by procurement of 
 the Duke of Richmond.) He was Ranger there in March 1662, 
 having succ. his uncle Sir Gerrard (see 1625,) in that office, and 
 on 28 July 1665 wrote to Secretary Williamson, " Hopes for his 
 company, as he is so near. Sends him half a buck." By his first 
 wife he had two sons, Sir Miles (see the County 1656,) and Col. 
 William Fleetwood, and by his second wife he had one son the 
 celebrated General Charles Fleetwood, (see the County 1654.) 
 
 1640. Oct. 27. William Iyenthall, Recorder. 
 Hon. William Herbert 
 
 Sir William Fleetwood ) 
 
 Benjamin Mericke J 
 
 This was a Double Return, but on 5 Jan. 1641, the Inden- 
 ture returning Fleetwood and Mericke was taken off the file, by 
 order of the House. 
 
 Benjamin Merrick of Woodstock, was the son of Maurice 
 Meyrick, alias Owen, (born in Anglesea, M.A. and Fellow of 
 New Coll. Oxford, Registrar of the Univ. who married a lady of 
 New Woodstock, and d. 1640,) and brother to Sir Wm. 
 Meyrick, M.P. Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 
 1641, who died 1669. He compounded with Cromwell's Commrs. 
 for his estate at Woodstock for ^35 and died 1675. (M.I. Wood- 
 stock.) " He left his dwelling and went to Oxford and resided 
 there, while it was a garrison holden for the King against the 
 Parliamente, and adhered to those forces, and was in Oxford at 
 the time of the surrender." He held a messuage and lands in 
 Woodstock in fee of yearly fee of £7 On 11 Jan. 1650 he was 
 summoned by the Committee for Advance of Money to shew 
 cause why a debt due to him by Harrington Davers should not 
 be sequestered. Jan. 23, He having refused to appear, Order that 
 he be brought up in custody to answer his contempt. Jan. 31, As 
 Merrick has not appeared on summons, order that unless he 
 shew cause next sitting, Davers pay to the Committee £12, 
 balance of the debt of ^20. Feb. 1650, Davers petitions that 
 Merrick having omitted from his composition a debt of ^20, 
 owing by petitioner as executor to his late father, of which he 
 has paid £8 as an assessment, with £1 bailiff's fees, he has, from 
 good affection, discovered the debt, and begs to compound for it, 
 
Members for Woodstock. 203 
 
 and to have the allowance to discoverers, and also an order for 
 Merrick to bring in the bond. 
 
 Hon. William Herbert of Wilton, Wilts, 5th son of Philip 
 4th Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery K. G., was born in 1621, 
 matric. Exeter Coll. Oxford, 29 Jan. 1635, aged 13, and was 
 created M.A. 31 Aug. 1653. Although only 19 years of age, he 
 was in Oct. 1640 elected for three constituencies, Woodstock, 
 Downton, and Monmouthshire, when he made his election to 
 represent the last named. He took the Protestatem 1641, had 
 leave of absence from the House in June and July 1641, was 
 absent from the " Call of the House" in June 1642, and " dis 
 abled to sit" 5 Feb. 1644, and died unmarrriad before Nov. 
 1644. 
 
 1640. Dec. 2. Sir Robert Pye Knt. 
 
 vice Herbert who preferred to represent Monmouthshire. Sir 
 Robert Pye was a prominent official personage during the reign 
 of Charles I. He was the second son of William Pye of the 
 Mynde, co. Hereford, and brother to Sir Walter Pye M.P., Attor- 
 ney General of the Court of Wards, (see Williams' Pari. Hist, of 
 Wales). He was born in 1585, married Mary second dau. and 
 co-heir of John Croker of Batsford, co. Gloucester, and was 
 Knighted 13 July 1621. He was probably at first an officer in the 
 household of the celebrated favourite George Villiers, Duke of 
 Buckingham , through whose influence he obtained several lucra- 
 tive appointments. 13 March 1617, Grant to Robert Pye of all 
 monies above ^3000 yearly arising by the imposition of 3d. in the 
 pound on Merchant Strangers goods. 7 April 1618, Grant to Sir 
 Richard Young and Robert Pye of the office of Clerk of the 
 Letters Patent in Chancery. (They surrendered this office on 27 
 May 1627.) He became Auditor (or Remembrancer) of the 
 Exchequer in July 1618. On 22 Jan. 1620 Chamberlain wrote to 
 Carleton : — Lady Bingley is gone to Newmarket to solicit against 
 her husband (Sir John's) loss of his place (as Remembrancer in the 
 Court of Exchequer) for which he has a life patent, but she will 
 fail, the place being given to Robert Pye, a creature of Bucking- 
 ham. He was admitted to the Auditorship 24 Jan. 1620. On 21 
 Aug. 1624 the same gossiping correspondent informed Carleton 
 that " Sir Robt. Pye is talked of as Chancellor of the Exchequer," 
 but he never received that appointment. On 5 Nov. 1615 he was 
 a Commr. for the Prizes brought from Plymouth, and on 18 May 
 1627 was made a new Commissioner for French Goods and for 
 the sale of such as are perishable and of ships under 1 00 tons 
 burden. He contributed ^1000 towards the recovery of Ireland. 
 Sir Robert purchased from the Untons the manor and estate of 
 Farringdon, Berks, and during the Civil Wars garrisoned his 
 mansion there for the King, when it was stoutly besieged by his 
 eldest son Sir Robert Pye jun. Knt. His loyalty made him a 
 marked man, and on 17 April 1643 the House resolved, " That 
 
204 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 Sir Robert Pye and three others be enjoined to give their atten- 
 dance on this House, and not to depart without leave" {Commons 
 Journal). On the other hand the King wrote to Francis Lord 
 Cottington, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 28 Oct. 1643, as 
 follows : —You are to sequester the office of Sir Robert Pye the 
 elder of Writer of the Tallies in the receipt of the Exchequer, 
 who upon removal of the receipt of the Exchequer to Oxford has 
 neglected to attend his office, and commit the same to the care 
 of Robert Long, (see Williams' Gloucestershire Members), who has 
 a grant of the reversion, until Sir Robert Pye shall give satisfac- 
 tion to us for his contempt. He however held this office of Writer 
 of the Tallies in the Exchequer, which had been granted him 25 
 Jan. 17 James 1,(1620,) until 30 Jan. 1649, when by " Act of 
 Parliament the kingly government is taken away." This office, 
 which was otherwise known as Auditor of the Exchequer, was 
 resumed by iSir Robert, (at the Restoration,) 25 June 1660. He 
 was M.P. for Bath 1624-5, Ludgershall May to Aug, 1625, West- 
 minster 1626, Grampound 1628-9, Woodstock Dec. 1640 till 
 secluded by Col. Pride's Purge and imprisoned in Dec. 1648, and 
 for Berks 1654-5, an d 1658-9. He died 19 May 1662. His second son 
 John was made a Baronet 1665, which title expired 1734, while 
 his eldest son Sir Robert Pye jun. Knt. M.P. for Berks, married 
 Anne dau. of the celebrated John Hampden, and was an active 
 Colonel of Horse for the Parliament, but afterwards zealously 
 aided the Restoration. His great great grandson Henry James 
 Pye M.P. for Berks was Poet Laureate 1790- 1813. 
 
 I ^53- J u ly- No Members were appointed by Cromwell 
 and his Officers for Woodstock, in Barebone's Parliament. 
 
 1654. July. Lieut. Gen. Charles Fleetwood. 
 
 One Member only returned for Woodstock in 1654 and 
 1656. As to General Fleetwood, see the County 1654. 
 
 1656. Aug. Major General William Packer. 
 
 Packer was probably of the Berkshire family of that name, 
 but he cannot be identified. (Quaere the Wm. Packer of Ryegate 
 in 1642, and one of the Committee for Monmouthshire on 16 Oct. 
 1643, and an Assistant Commr. app. by Sir Thomas Fanfare for 
 the sale of the personal estates of Lord Worcester and others in 
 Ragland Castle). He was J. P. Herts in June 1654, as Major 
 Packer. There are many references to him in the Calendar of 
 State Papers, from which it appears that he was a most active 
 officer for Parliament. 18 March 165 1, Order in Parliament that 
 ^50 be given to Capt. Packer to buy a horse ; the Council of 
 State to order speedy payment. He was M.P. for Woodstock 
 1656-8, and (as Wm. Parker) Hertford Jan. till unseated March 
 1659. He was one of the Committee app. by the Council of State 
 to draft reforms and amendments of the law Jan. 1652, and in 
 Barebone's Parliament 1653, was placed on several Committees 
 
Members for Woodstock. 205 
 
 relating to the army, added to the Hospitals Committee and to 
 the Posts Committee 17 May, app one of the Committee to con- 
 sider the condition of the several prisoners of war 19 May, and 
 on 31 May he and Lt.-Col. Zanchy (see 1659) were app. with others 
 to be a Committee to consider the state of the Savoy Hospital 
 and Ely House, which were intended to be used as military 
 hospitals or prisons. On 7 July 1653. Declaration that the Council 
 (of State) is satisfied concerning the gifts and abilities of Major 
 William Packer and others to preach the Gospel, and that the 
 public exercise thereof will be of great use in the Church, they 
 being eminent for godliness, and that therefore they may have 
 free use of any pulpits to preach in. On 15 June 1654 the Council 
 sent Col. Scrope and Major Packer to co. Gloucester to appease 
 the business touching tobacco planting, which was causing great 
 local uneasiness. On 4 Jan. 1656 he was added to the Committee 
 concerning collections for the distressed Protestants in Piedmont, 
 and on 6 Feb. following the Council decided to advise a warrant 
 to the Lord Deputy (of Ireland, Charles Fleetwood, see the County 
 1654,) to depute Major W. Packer to execute in cos. Herts and 
 Oxon all his powers of Major General and Commander in Chief, 
 and Col. Geo. Fleetwood and the said Major W. P. jointly in co. 
 Bucks. This advice was carried out for there are references to 
 Packer acting as Major General of Bucks on 6 March, of the three 
 counties on 21 March, and of Herts on 1 May 1656. Cromwell 
 however soon abolished the almost despotic powers of these 
 Major Generals. On 11 or 21 Feb. 1658 Secretary Thurloe wrote 
 to Ambassador Lockhart as follows :— His Highness has spent 
 this week about his army and made some alterations. He took 
 notice of dissatisfaction amongst his own regiment of horse, and 
 sending for Major Packer and the five Captains, all Anabaptists, 
 found it as he had heard, and dfsmissed them all six from their 
 command. After Oliver's death, the Committee of Safety and for 
 the Nomination of Officers, when the Army gained the upper 
 hand in June 1659, gave Packer the command of a regiment. 
 The Rump however regained its ascendency in the autumn, and 
 on 12 Oct. 1659 discharged Packer and other turbulent officers 
 from all military employment. On 9 Jan. 1660, Col. Packer and 
 others were ordered by the Council of State " to depart the 
 Town," but as they still lingered in London, the Rump on 14 
 Jan. ordered the Council of State to secure Colonels Lambert, 
 Desborow, Berry, Kelsey, Cobbett, Ashfield, Barrow, Packer, 
 and Major Creed, and any others against whom any orders or 
 warrants have been issued to depart the town to their respective 
 country houses, and who have not obeyed. Packer was some 
 time afterwards apprehended, for on 17 May 1660 the Council of 
 State reported to the House of Commons, " that Col. Wm. Packer 
 was committed and still in custody, which the House approved." 
 Whether he was handed over a prisoner to the new government 
 at the Restoration the same month, or whether he was released 
 
206 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 and again apprehended, is not clear, but at all events he was in 
 custody on 30 Oct. 1661, when his wife Elizabeth petitioned the 
 King;, " for a speedy hearing and release of her husband, for 
 several days confined in the Gatehouse, Westminster, and mean- 
 while to have access to him, he having several suits of law 
 depending and none to look after him." On 10 Aug. 1662 she 
 again petitions Secretary Nicholas, " to peruse her husband's 
 first petition and mediate for his speedy trial. He has been 
 almost 3 months in close confinement with nothing charged or 
 proved against him ; is confident that he has done nothing 
 against His Majesty or the Kingdom's peace since the Act of 
 Grace." A little before this, on 18 May 1662, Secretary Nicholas 
 issued his warrant to the Warden of the Fleet to deliver Colonels 
 Packer and Gladman to the Keeper of the Gatehouse, West- 
 minister, and to the said Keeper of the Gatehouse to receive and 
 keep them close prisoners. The last reference is on 2 Sept. 1662 
 when a warrant issued to " the Keeper of the King's Bench 
 Prison, to deliver up Packer and Gladman to Capt. Fortescue, 
 and to see that they are put on board the ' Colchester.' " This 
 seems to mean that they were banished the country. After this 
 the curtain drops upon Col. Packer. 
 
 1659. Jan. 12. Sir Jerome Sankey Knt. 
 Miles Fleetwood. 
 
 As to Miles Fleetwood, see the County 1656. Wood 
 states that Hierome Zanchy of All Souls College, " lately made 
 Fellow," was made a Proctor of Oxford Univ. in defiance of all 
 rules 4 April 1649, and says of him :— " This Hierome Zanchy, 
 who was born of a genteel family, was bred in Cambridge, but 
 being more given to manly exercises than logic and philosophy, 
 he was observed by his contemporaries to be a boisterous fellow at 
 cudgelling and foot-ball playing, and indeed more fit in all 
 respects to be a rude soldier than a scholar or man of polite 
 party. In the beginning of the rebellion he threw off his gown, 
 and took up arms for the Parliament, and soon after became a 
 captain, a presbyterian, an independent, a preacher, and I know 
 not what. When the war was ceased, and the King's cause 
 declined, he obtained a fellowship of All Souls College from the 
 committee and visitors, and was the first, or senior of those many, 
 that were by them put into the said college in the place of 
 loyalists ejected by them in 1648 and 1649. But before he had 
 served the least part of his proctorship (about a month only) he 
 returned to his military employment, went in the quality of a 
 commander into Ireland to fight against those that were then 
 called rebels ; and doing good service, in short time was made 
 colonel of a regiment of horse, and as a colonel he had ^474 10s 
 per annum for his salary, besides other advantages. In 1651 and 
 1652 I find him commander in chief of the parliament forces in 
 the county of Tipperary, where, as those of his party said, he did 
 
Members for Woodstock. 207 
 
 excellent service for the cause, being then a thorough-paced 
 anabaptist. In 1658, being then a knight by the favour of Henry 
 Cromwell, he was, by the endeavours of Colonel Charles Fleet- 
 wood, a pitiful Anabaptist, and son in law of Oliver Cromwell, 
 chosen burgess for Woodstock, to serve in Richard's Parliament, 
 that began at Westminster 27 Jan. that year, at which time 
 living much as he had done some time before in the house of the 
 said Fleetwood in Westminster, did often hold forth in con- 
 venticles among the anabaptists. It was observed then that he 
 was a dull man, as indeed he was ab origine, for by his rebaptiz- 
 ation when he went into Ireland, and his herding among the 
 anabaptists, he did improve it to the purpose, otherwise had he 
 continued among the presbyterians or independents, who were 
 accounted a more ingenious sort of people, he might have 
 improved himself perhaps in something of ingenuity. He died 
 in Ireland about the latter end of King Charles II as I have been 
 informed by those that knew him." '/ 16 Feb. 1650 the delegates 
 of the Univ. decided to make Hierome Zanchy a D.C.L,. in the 
 beginning of the next year, but whether it was done, or that he 
 was diplomated it appears not." A newsletter from the 
 Parliamentary headquarters near Colchester 19 June 1648 makes 
 mention of him as follows : — Capt. Zanchie who took Mersea 
 Fort found 2 culverings 2 s acres, and 1 drake in it," but 
 previously to this he had been "mentioned in despatches," for on 
 18 Jan. 1645 Sir William Brereton wrote from Nantwich to the 
 Committee of both Kingdoms stating that he had " Defeated 
 Lord Byron there. Capt. Zanchie who is a very valiant man and 
 commands my own troop, being without any arms was wounded, 
 but it is hoped not mortally." He afterwards served with 
 distinction in Ireland for several years and from the Commo?i 
 Journal it appears that on " 8 April 1652 a letter from Col. 
 Jerome Zankey of 26 of March 1652 from Clonmell, with Articles 
 of agreement between him and the Council of War for the 
 Parliament, and Col. O Dwyre Commander in Chief of the Irish 
 Brigades, of 23 March 1652 were this day read etc. Resolved 
 that a letter be written to be signed by Mr. Speaker taking notice 
 of the good service of Col. J, Z. and giving him the thanks of 
 Parliament. — Bills for settling lands in Ireland ^"200 a year on 
 him and his heirs." He was " Knighted " by Richard Cromwell 
 16 Nov. 1658, and was M.P. for cos. Tipperary and Waterford in 
 the Parliament at Westminster 1654-5, and was again so chosen 
 Jan. 1659, but waived his election on 5 March as he elected to 
 serve for Woodstock, for which he sat Jan. to April 1659. As 
 Col. Jerome Sankey he represented Reigate Dec. 1656 to Jan. 
 1658. On 2 July 1659 " Col. Jerome Zanchy presents to the 
 Committee for Safety and for Nomination of Officers a list of 
 commissioned officers for the forces in Ireland, and makes a 
 short speech." On 16 June 1659 the same Committee app. 
 " Hierome Zanchy to have a horse regiment," and accordingly 
 
208 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 he was app. Col. of a Horse regiment in Ireland 8 July 1659, 
 and on the royalist outbreak known as Sir George Booth's 
 Cheshire Rising the following month, Zanchy brought over 
 forces from Ireland, and actively aided in quelling the premature 
 rising. " 9 Sept. 1659, a letter from Col. J. Z. from Chester 6 
 Sept., was read. Ordered that a letter of thanks be sent to him 
 and the forces from Ireland for their services in suppressing the 
 rebellion in Cheshire." Soon afterwards he conveyed his troops 
 back to Ireland, and accordingly his name does not appear in the 
 list of officers who gave the Rump so much trouble, until the 
 Restoration brought about a complete change of government. 
 "4 June 1662, Cradley's information to Secretary Nicholas. 
 There are many disaffected persons in Ireland ; they boast that 
 they have 20,000 men of whom the heads are Sir Bruce 
 Cockram, Col. Duckinfield, Zanchy, and others." 
 
 1660. April. Sir Thomas Spencer Bart. 
 Edward Atkins. 
 
 Sir Thomas Spencer of Yarnton, was the only son of Sir 
 William, whom he succeeded as 3rd Bart., and was therefore 
 grandson of the M.P. 1604. He m. Janedau. of Sir John Gerrard 
 Bart, of Lamer, Herts, and sat for Woodstock April to Dec. 1660, 
 and 1661 to Jan. 1690. He was app. by the House of Commons 
 an Assessment Commr. for Oxon 2 March 1660, and was High 
 Steward of Woodstock 1661-85. He died suddenly of an apoplexy 
 at Whitfield, Northants, on 6 March 1685, aged 46 or thereabouts, 
 and was buried with his ancestors at Yarnton, under a noble and 
 curious monument of white marble erected to his memory, against 
 the north wall of the south chancel. 
 
 Edward Atkins was the younger son of Sir Edward Atkins 
 Knt., Baron of the Exchequer, of Saperton, Gloucestershire, and 
 Cheshunt, Hunts, and was born in 1630, and m. the daughter of 
 — Lucy, of the Strand, brother to Sir Richard Lucy Bart. He 
 ent. Lincolns Inn 19 June 1647, was called to the bar 1653, and 
 became Autumn Reader 1675. On 14 May 1647 he was assessed 
 by the Committee for Advance of Money, but no proceedings were 
 taken thereon. He was M.P. Woodstock April to Dec. 1660, 
 Recorder 1661-2, made a Sergeant at law 7 May 1679, Knighted 
 26 June 1679, and was a Baron of the Exchequer 22 June 1679-86, 
 and Lord Chief Baron of that Court 11 April 1686 till 18 April 1689, 
 when, refusing to take the oath of allegience to William III, he 
 was, curious to relate, succeeded by his brother Sir Robert 
 Atkyns who differed from him in politics, (see Williams' Worcester- 
 shire Members). Sir Edward then withdrew to his country seat 
 at Pickenham, Norfolk, and died in London in Oct. 1698, aged 68. 
 His nephew Sir Robert was the Historian of Gloucestershire. 
 Robert Atkins, the Recorder of Oxford in 1574 was of the same 
 family. 
 
Members for Woodstock. 209 
 
 1661. March 21. Sir Thomas Spencer Bart. 
 
 Sir William Fleetwood Knt. 
 
 1674. March 16. Hon. Col. Thomas Howard. 
 
 vice Fleetwood (see 1640) deceased. Col. Howard was the 2nd 
 son of Theophilus 2nd Earl of Suffolk. He married at the 
 Hague Walbrook or Walburga Vandevall Kirkhoven, dau. of 
 John Vandevall lord of Helin-flete and Kirkhoven in Holland, 
 Chief Forester of Holland and West Friesland, (and had an only 
 son James who married Charlotte dau. of Charles II,) The King 
 to Lord Rutherford 24 Oct. 1661, -He is to confer the first vacant 
 Captaincy of Horse on Thomas Howard for faithful services 
 during the late rebellion. 8 Nov. 1661, Order for a warrant to 
 pay Wallbrook a wife of Thomas Howard a pension of ^500 a year. 
 29 Nov. 1661, Grant to Wallbrooke wife of Thcmas Howard of a 
 pension of ^400. He was Col. and Capt. of the King's Company 
 in the King's regiment of Foot Guards in March 1664, made 
 Lt,-Col. and Captain of a company in the Holland Regiment (the 
 Old Buffs) 27 June 1665, and Lt.-Col. of the Earl of Carlisle's 
 Regiment of Foot 22 Jan. 1673, afterwards disbanded. On 3 
 March 1665 John Carlisle wrote from Dover Castle to Williamson 
 — " Thomas Howard of Suffolk has this day landed," (from 
 Zealand). Pass for 12 horses to Ireland for Col. T. H. 10 April 1665 
 25 April 1667, Reference to the Lord Treasurer on the petition of 
 Col. Thomas Howard for the stones and materials of Newark 
 Castle, and a lease of the site of the same. In A Seasonable 
 Argument for a New Parliament, 1677, he is described as " Thos. 
 Howard esq. the Lord of Suffolk's brother, ^400 per annum pen- 
 sion." He sat for Woodstock March 1674 to Jan. 1679, and died 
 before 1683. 
 
 1679. Feb. 15. Sir Littleton Osbaldeston Bt. 
 
 Nicholas Baynton. 
 
 The former was the eldest son and heir of John Osbaldeston 
 of Chadlington, by Joan dau. of Sir Edward Littleton Knt. of 
 Henley, Salop, {see Williams' Welsh fudges?) He was a demy of 
 Magdalen Coll. Oxford 1647, until ejected by the Parliamentary 
 Visitors 1 Aug. 1648, called to the bar at the Inner Temple 4 
 Nov. 1658, and was created a Baronet 25 June 1664. He m. 
 Catherine dau. of Thomas Browker of Sundridge, Kent, sat for 
 Woodstock Feb. 1679-81, and 1685-7, and died about 1692. The 
 title expired with the 5th Bart, in 1749. 
 
 His colleague and son-in-law was the 4th and youngest son 
 of Sir Edward Baynton Knt. of Bromham, Wilts., and matric. St. 
 John's Coll. Oxford 13 June 1664, aged 15. He m. Joanna Maria 
 only dau. of his colleague Sir Littleton Osbaldeston, and was 
 M.P. Woodstock in three Parliaments Feb. 1679-81, and Chippen- 
 ham 1689-90. 
 
210 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 1679. Aug. 15. The same. 
 
 1681. Feb. 3. Hon. Henry Bertie. 
 
 Nicholas Baynton. 
 As to Hon. Henry Bertie, see the City of Oxford 1685. 
 1685. March 11. Hon. Richard Bertie. 
 
 Sir Littleton Osbaldeston. 
 
 Hon. Richard Bertie of Erston, Lincolnshire, was 3rd son 
 of Montagu 2nd Earl of Lindsey, and half-brother to the M.P. 
 168 1. He was elected for Woodstock 1685, was a Captain in the 
 army in 1672, and was app. Captain of an Independent Troop of 
 Horse 18 June 1685, which was incorporated into the Earl of 
 Peterborough's Regiment of Horse, after Sedgemoor, (now the 
 2nd Dragoon Guards,) but his commission was taken from him 
 for not supporting the Court measures Nov. 1685. He died un- 
 married in Dec. 1685, aged 50. Many of the family represented 
 Oxfordshire and Lincolnshire constituences, for the Berties had 
 great Parliamentary influence. 
 
 1689. Jan. 10. Sir John Doyly Bart. T. 
 
 Sir Thomas Littleton Bart. W. 
 
 Sir John was the elder son of John D'Oyly of Chislehamp- 
 ton, (see Oxford 1646,) and was baptised at Stadhampton in 1640, 
 and matric. Wadham Coll. Oxford 15 June 1657. He m. Margaret 
 dau. and co-heir of Sir Richard Cholmeley Knt. of Whitby Abbey, 
 Yorks, was created a Baronet 7 July 1666, app. a Commr. for the 
 regulation of Oxford City 1688, and sat for Woodstock 1689-90. 
 He was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 1684, and was Captain of the 
 County Troop. Sir John died 13 April 1709, aged 68. 
 
 Sir Thomas Littleton was the younger son of Sir Thomas 
 L- of Stoke Milburgh and Wenlock, Salop, whom he succeeded as 
 3rd Bart (about 13) April 1681. As a younger son he was ap- 
 prenticed to a city merchant, but on the death of his elder brother 
 Edward, he matric. St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, 21 April 1665 
 aged 18, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple 1681. 
 He m. Ann dau. of Benjamin Baun of Westcoate. co. Gloucester. 
 Sir Thomas was a distinguished official. Warrant for a Commis- 
 sion of Prizes to Sir Thomas Littleton and six others 12 June 
 1689. Warrant for granting the place of Clerk of the Ordnance 
 to Sir T. L. 19 March 1690. He was made First Commissioner 
 of Prizes June 1689, Clerk of the Ordnance March 1690 to May 
 1696, a Lord of the Treasury May 1696-9, Treasurer of the Navy 
 May 1696 until his death, also Chairman of Ways and Means 
 (probably from Dec. 1695) to July 1698, and Speaker of the 
 House of Commons Dec. 1698 to Nov. 1700. He was Recorder of 
 Woodstock 1695-1709, M.P. for Woodstock 1689- 1702, Castle 
 Rising 1702-5, (michester 1705-8, and Portsmouth Dec. 1708 
 until his death s.p. 1 Jan. 17 10, when the title became extinct. 
 
Members for Woodstock. 211 
 
 1690. Feb. 19. Sir Thomas Littleton. W 
 
 Thomas Wheate. W 
 
 Thomas Wheate of Glympton Park, only son of Thomas W. 
 of that place, by Francis daughter of Sir Robert Jenkinson Knt. 
 of Walcot, (see County 1654,) was created a Baronet 2 May 1696. 
 He m. Anne dau. and co-heir of George Sawbridge of London, 
 was H.S. Oxon 1696, and was app. a J. P. and Assistant of Ban- 
 bury by the Charter of 16 July 1718. Sir Thomas was M.P. for 
 Woodstock 1690-5, and 1708-21, and was Storekeeper of the 
 Ordnance March 1708 till his death 25 Aug. 1721. 
 
 1695. Oct. 21. Hon. James Bertie. • T 
 
 SirT. Littleton. W 
 
 Hon. James Bertie was second son of James 1st Karl of 
 Abingdon, and was born 13 March 1673, and m. 5 Jan. 1692 (at 
 the age of 19) the Hon. Elizabeth Willoughby dau. of George 
 Lord Willoughby of Parham. He sat for Woodstock 1695-1705, 
 and for Middlesex 1710-34, (being also chosen for Westbury 1722, 
 when he preferred Middlesex), and died at Boulogne in France in 
 Oct. 1735. 
 
 1698. July 23. The same, re-elected, 4 Jan. 1701, and 27 
 Nov. 1701. 
 
 1702. July 18. Hon James Bertie. T 
 
 Sir William Glynn Bart. T 
 
 As to Sir W. Glynn, see Oxford University 1698. 
 
 1705. May 11. Hon Charles Bertie. T 
 
 William Cadogan. W 
 
 Hon Chartes Bertie was the 6th and youngest son of Robert 
 3rd Earl of Lindsey (being the only son by his third wife, 
 Elizabeth daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Pope, Earl of 
 Downe). He was M.P. for Woodstack 1705-8, and died unmarried 
 March 1746. He must not be confused with his uncle Hon. 
 Charles Bertie M.P. Stamford 1689- 171 1. 
 
 The celebrated soldier William Cadogan was born in 1674, 
 the eldest son of Henry C. barrister at law of Liscarton, co. Meath, 
 who died in Dublin 1714, by Bridget dau. of Sir Hardress Waller. 
 He eminently distinguished himself in the exploits of war under 
 William III and the Duke of Marlborough, and having entered 
 the army 4 March 1694 as Captain in the 19th Foot, from which 
 he was transferred to the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, and 15th 
 Lancers, became Colonel in the army 25 April 1694, was Quarter 
 Master General of the British Army in Flanders 1701-2, and Col. 
 of the 5th Regiment of Horse 2 March 1703 to 20 Dec. 1712. He 
 was made Brigadier General 25 Aug. 1704, Major Gen. 1 Jan. 1707, 
 Lieut. Gen. 10 Jan. 1709, and General 12 July 1717, and was 
 Lieutenant of the Tower of London 2 Jan. 1707 to 11 Jan. 1712, 
 
212 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 Envoy on a Special Mission to Hanover April 1716, Envoy 
 Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Hague and Brussels 
 Oct. 1707 to Nov. 17 10, and was appointed Envoy Extraordinary 
 and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague 8 Oct. 1714, and 
 remained there until March 1717, having the rank of Ambassador 
 granted him July 17 16. He was also Plenipotentiary at the 
 Congress of Antwerp Sept. 1714 to Nov. 1715, and was M.P. for 
 Woodstock 1705 until he was raised to the Peerage as Baron 
 Cadogan of Reading 30 June 1716. At the general election of 
 1715 he unsuccessfully contested Reading. Lord Cadogan was 
 Colonel of the Coldstream Guards 15 Oct. 1714-22, made Dep. 
 Lieut, of Berks 30 July 1715, a Knight of the Thistle 22 June 1716, 
 a Privy Councillor 30 March 17 17, Dep. Lieut, of the Tower 
 Hamlets, and was created Earl Cadogan 17 April 17 18. He was 
 Master of the Robes to the King 1 Aug. 1714^ July 1726, Captain 
 and Governor of the Isle of Wight and Carisbrooke Castle 16 Sept. 
 1715-26, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Scotland 25 Feb. 
 to 12 May 1716, High Steward of Reading 1716-26, Ambassador 
 Extraordinary to the Hague 6 July 17 16, and again Sept. to Nov. 
 1717, and May 1718 to June 1720. His Lordship was Commander 
 in Chief of the Forces 18 June 1772 to May 1725, and also Master 
 General of the Ordnance 22 June 1722 to May 1725, and Col. of 
 the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards 18 June 1722 until his death 17 
 July 1726, at the age of 52. Lord Cadogan, who has been styled 
 11 the Duke of Marlborough's right hand," was a Lord Justice of 
 England during the King's absence in Hanover 3 June to 28 Dec. 
 1723. He married Margaretta Cecilia dau. of William Munter, 
 Counsellor of the Court of Holland, but having no son, the Earl- 
 dom became extinct, but the Barony of Oakley descended by 
 special limitation to his brother Charles Cadogan, whose son was 
 created Earl Cadogan in 1800. 
 
 1708. 
 
 May 3. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wheate Bart. 
 William Cadogan. 
 
 1710. 
 
 Oct. 7. 
 
 The .same. 
 
 1713- 
 
 Aug. 27 
 
 . Sir T. Wheate. 
 W. Cadogan. 
 Sir Thos. Sebright Bt. 
 
 
 
 Vincent Oakley. 
 
 Sebright and Oakley petitioned against this return 3 March 
 1714, and the election was declared void, but on a fresh writ being 
 issued, Wheate and Cadogan were re-elected. Sir Thomas 
 Sanders Sebright 4th Bart, of Bidshut, Herts, was M.P. for Herts 
 1715 until his death 12 April 1736. 
 
 17 14. March 24. Sir T. Wheate. 
 W. Cadogan. 
 
void. 
 
 Members for Woodstock. 213 
 
 Re-elected, their previous election having been declared 
 
 1715. Jan. 24. Sir T. Wheate. 
 
 W. Cadogan. 
 
 1716. July 2. William Clayton. W. 
 
 vice Cadogan called to the Upper House. This Member was the 
 only son of William Clayton, and was born in 1672, and married 
 Charlotte sister to Lewis Dyves, of the 2nd Horse Guards. (She 
 was Mistress of the Robes to the Queen May 1735 till the Queen's 
 death Nov. 1737.) Mr. Clayton was app. a Clerk in the Treasury 
 169 — , and was Paymaster of the Pensions (? 1714) to March 
 1718, app. Deputy Auditor of the Exchequer 1716, (to George 2nd 
 Barl of Halifax, who died May 1739,) Auditor General to the 
 Prince of Wales Oct. 1725 to Nov. 1726, and held office as a Lord 
 of the Treasury (^"1600 a year) March 17 18 to June 1720, and July 
 1727 to Feb. 1742. He was M.P. for Woodstock June 1716-22, 
 when he was defeated and petitioned, Westminster 1727-41, when 
 unseated, Plympton Earle April 1742-7, and St. Maws 1747 till 
 his death 29 April 1752, aged near 80. He was created Lord 
 Sundon in the Irish Peerage 2 June 1735, and being a staunch 
 supporter of Walpole, was one of those ordered to bring in the 
 Excise Bill in 1733. He was the manager of the estates of the 
 great Duke of Marlborough, during his absence, and to this 
 circumstance may be attributed his political advancement. 
 
 1717. April 12. Sir Thomas Wheate. 
 
 Re-elected after appointment to an office of profit by the 
 Crown. 
 
 1718. March 29. William Clayton 
 
 Re-elected after appointment as one of the Lords Commis- 
 sioners of the Treasury. 
 
 172 1. Oct. 27. Charles Crisp 
 
 Sir Thomas Wheate 
 
 vice Sir T. Wheate (the father) deceased. The son petitioned 10 
 Nov. 1721, but to no purpose. Charles Crisp of Dornford, U.S. 
 Oxon 1715, sat for Woodstock Oct. 1721-2, when he lost his seat 
 and petitioned in vain. He was the 2nd son of Sir Nicholas 
 Crispe 1st Bart. M.P. of Westerham, Kent, and Hammersmith, 
 (who d. Nov. 1698, and who was the grandson of the celebrated 
 royalist merchant Sir Nicholas Crispe Knt. M.P. who d. 1666,) 
 and succeeded his nephew as 4th Bart. 1 June 1730. He m. 1714 
 (? 5 May) Anne eldest and only surviving child of his great uncle 
 Sir Thomas Crispe Knt. of London and Dornford, (H.8. Oxon, 
 1692,) who died 29 July 1714, having by settlement dated 21 
 April 1714 settled his estates of Dornford and Ludwell upon the 
 young couple, as well as part of his personal estate 5 May 1714. 
 
2X4 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 Sir Charles died 10 July 1740, when the title became extinct, his 
 will being made 16 June 1731, and proved 1 Aug. 1740. 
 
 1722. March 22. Sir Thomas Wheate 
 
 Samuel Trotman 
 
 Charles Crisp 
 
 William Clayton 
 
 Crisp and Clayton petitioned without success. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wheate was the elder of the two sons of the 
 M.P. 1690, whom he succeeded as 2nd Bart. 25 Aug. 1721. He 
 m. Mary dau. and co-heir of Thomas Gould of Oak End, Bucks, 
 and sat for Woodstock 1722-7, having been an unsuccessful 
 candidate and petitioner on his father's death in 1721. He d. s.p. 
 May 1746, and was succeeded in the title by his brother Sir 
 George, who was Recorder of Banbury. Their elder sister 
 Frances married Sir Francis Page Knt., Judge of the King's 
 Bench. The title expired with the 6th Bart, in 18 16. 
 
 Samuel Trotman of Bucknell, who on account of his eccen- 
 tric conduct was called "the mad Trotman," was the eldest son of 
 Lenthall T. and grandson of Samuel T. who d. 1684. He was con- 
 nected with the Fiennes family, and his ancestors had settled at 
 Bucknell in 1638. He was born 7 and baptised 9 March 1686 at 
 Bucknell, was called to the bar at the Inner Temple 26 June 
 1710, and m. 16 Oct. 1712 his cousin Dorothea elder dau. of 
 Samuel Trotman of Syston, who was M.P. for Bath. He was 
 M.P. for Woodstock 1722-34, and d. s. p. 2 Feb. 1748. (M. I, 
 Bucknell.) He was succeeded in the estates by his nephew 
 Samuel Trotman, who was High Sheriff of Oxon 1760. 
 
 1727. Aug. 21. William de Blandford esq. {sic.') W. 
 
 Samuel Trotman esq. 
 
 William Godolphin, commonly called the Marquis of 
 Blandford, was the elder or only surviving son of Francis 2nd 
 Karl of Godolphin, (see County 1708,) by the Lady Henrietta 
 Churchill eldest dau. of John 1st Duke of Marlborough. This 
 Lady became Duchess of Marlborough by special limitation on 
 her illustrious father's death 16 June 1722, when this Member, 
 previously known as Viscount Rialton, became, by courtesy, the 
 Marquis of Blandford. His Lordship was the first of his House 
 to represent Woodstock. He m. 25 April 1729 Maria Catherine 
 dau. of Peter Yong, a burgomaster of the province of Utrecht, and 
 sister to the Countess of Denbigh. He was a member of Balliol 
 Coll. Oxon, and was created D.C.L. 30 Aug. 1730. Lord Blandford 
 was M.P. for Penryn June 1720-2, and for New Woodstock 1727 
 until his early death s.p. 24 Aug. 1731. 
 
 1732. Jan. 22. Hon. John Spencer. W. 
 vice his cousin Lord Blandford deceased. This gentleman was 
 
Members for Woodstock. 215 
 
 the 4th and youngest son of Charles 3rd Earl of Sunderland, a 
 distinguished statesman who was First Lord of the Treasury 
 1718-21, by Lady Anne Churchill 2nd dau. and co-heir of John 
 1st Duke of Marlborough. His eldest brother Charles became 
 2nd Duke of Marlborough on the death of his aunt Henrietta, 
 Duchess of M. in her own right, on 24 Oct.* 1738. John Spencer 
 was born 13 May 1708, and m. 14 Feb. 1734 the Lady Georgina 
 Carolina Carteret, 3rd dau. of John 1st Earl Granville K.G. three 
 times Secretary of State. " The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough 
 gave him on this occasion a fine house newly built at Wimbleton." 
 He was described as of Marlborough House, and (though a 
 Whig) voted against the Excise Bill 1733, and the Septennial Act 
 
 1734. Mr Spencer was app. Ranger of the Great and Little Park 
 at Windsor Nov. 1744, and sat for Woodstock Jan. 1732 till his 
 death 19 June 1746, aged 38. His son John was created Earl 
 Spencer in 1765. 
 
 1734. April 24. Hon. John Spencer. 
 
 James Dawkins. 
 
 James Dawkins of Over Norton, Oxon, 2nd son of Col. 
 Richard D. of Jamaica by his 2nd wife Mrs. Eliz. Masters, matric. 
 Magdalen Coll. Oxford 28 March 1713, aged 16, sat for Woodstock 
 1734-47, an d died unmarried 10 May 1766. He must not be con- 
 fused with his nephew James Dawkins D.CL. born in 1723, the 
 celebrated Eastern traveller who discovered the ruins of Palmyra 
 and Baalbec, and was M.P. for Hindon 1754 till his death Nov. 
 1757- 
 
 1741. May 4. The same. 
 
 1744. Dec. 5. Hon. John Spencer. 
 
 Re-elected after appointment as Ranger of Windsor Great 
 Park. 
 
 1746. July 4. Hon. John Trevor. 
 
 vice Spencer deceased. He was the 2nd son of Thomas 1st Lord 
 Trevor, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1701-14, and m. 31 
 May 1 73 1 Elizabeth only dau. of the celebrated writer Sir Richard 
 Steele Knt. M.P. Mr. Trevor was adm. to the Inner Temple in 
 1691, bar. at law 29 June 1718, Bencher 12 June 1725, Reader 
 
 1735, and Treasurer thereof 1738, K.C. 14 May 1730, and was 
 Chief Justice of the Great Sessions for the counties of Carmar- 
 then, Cardigan, and Pembroke for 28 years, Nov. 1724-53, and 
 M.P. for Woodstock from July 1746 until 22 March 1753, when 
 he vacated his Judgeship and his seat in the House on succeed- 
 ing his brother Thomas in the Peerage as 3rd Baron Trevor. 
 His Lordship, who was a Fellow of the Royal Society, died at 
 Bath 27 Sept. 1764, and was buried in Bromham Church, Beds. 
 His half-brother Richard was Bishop of St. David's 1744-52, and 
 of Durham 1752-71. 
 
216 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 1747. June 29. Viscount Bateman W. 
 Hon. John Trevor. 
 
 John (Bateman) Viscount Bateman in the Peerage of 
 Ireland, was the eldest son of William 1st Viscount Bateman, 
 whom he succeeded -in the title Dec. 1744. He was seated at 
 Shobdon Court, Herefordshire, and m. 10 July 1748 Elizabeth 
 dau. and co-heir of John Sambroke, and niece of Sir Jeffrey 
 Sambroke Bart, of Gubbins, Herts, lord Bateman was a well- 
 known personage in his day. The frankness and gaiety of his 
 disposition rendered his society peculiarly agreeable to his 
 Sovereign. His understanding was good, but he loved pleasure 
 of every description more than business. He was an adherent of 
 Henry Fox in 1755, but afterwards supported Lord North. He 
 was Lord Lieutenant and Cus. Rot. of Herefordshire July 1747- 
 1802, a Lord of the Admiralty Dec. 1755 to Nov. 1756, made a 
 Privy Councillor 19 Nov. 1756, and sat for Orford Jan. 1746-7, 
 Woodstock 1747-68, and Leominster 1768-84. He was a Courtier 
 f° r 35 years, holding the position of Treasurer of the King's 
 Household Nov. 1756 to July 1757, and that of Master of the 
 Buckhounds from July 1757 to June 1782. No other Nobleman 
 ever held the Mastership so long as did Lord Bateman. He died 
 s.p. 2 March 1802, when the title expired with him, having been 
 High Steward of Leominster from Dec. 1759. 
 
 1753. March 31. Anthony Keck. 
 
 vice Trevor called to the Upper House. Anthony Keck of Great 
 Tew, Knstone, (quaere son of Francis Keck of that place, and 
 brother-in-law to Sir John Dutton 2nd Bart. ; see Williams' 
 Gloucestershire Members), was M.P. for Woodstock March 1753-67, 
 and a Gentleman of His Majesty's Privy Chamber 1762 until his 
 death 30 May 1767. His wife, who was aunt to the Duke of 
 Hamilton, died 3 June 1755. He must not be confused with 
 Anthony Keck, Serjeant-at-law, who d. 1782. 
 
 1754. April 13. Viscount Bateman. 
 
 Anthony Keck. 
 
 1755. Dec. 27. Viscount Bateman, re-elected after ap- 
 pointment as one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 
 
 1756. Dec 8. Viscount Bateman, re-elected after ap- 
 pointment as Treasurer of the Household. 
 
 1757. July 7. Viscount Bateman, re-elected after ap- 
 pointment as Master of the Buck Hounds. 
 
 1 76 1. March 27. Viscount Bateman. 
 Anthony Keck. 
 
 1767. June 8. Lt. Col. Hon William Gordon. T 
 vice Keck deceased. This gallant soldier was seated at Fyvie, co. 
 Aberdeen, and was born in 1736, the 2nd son (by his third wife) 
 
Members for Woodstock. 217 
 
 of William, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen. He became L,t. Col. 11 Oct. 
 1762 (on half pay late 105th Foot in 1765), Colonel in the army 
 on half pay 29 Aug. 1777, Major General 19 Oct. 1781, Lieut. Gen. 
 12 Oct. 1793, and General 9 Jan. 1798, and was Colonel of the 81st 
 Highlanders 1778-84, then on half pay till made Col. of the 60th 
 Foot 3 Oct. 1787, Col. of the 7th Foot 29 Oct. 1788, the 71st Foot 
 9 April 1789, and of the 21st Foot 6 Aug. 1803 until his death un- 
 married at Maryculter House, Aberdeen, 25 May 1816, aged 80. 
 General Gordon was M.P. for Woodstock June 1767-74, and for 
 Heytesbury 1774-80, and voted against Wilkes in 1769. Like his 
 colleague he was for many years a courtier, for from April 1775 
 to 1812, a period of 37 years, he was one of the Grooms of the 
 Bedchamber to the King, with a salary of ^500 a year. 
 
 1768. March 18. Lord Robert Spencer. T 
 
 I£ Col. Hon. William Gordon. T 
 
 As to Lord Robert Spencer, see Oxford City 1771. 
 
 1770. April 30. Lord Robert Spencer, re-elected after 
 appointment as one of the Commissioners for Trade and Planta- 
 tions. 
 
 1771. Jan 30. John Skynner K.C. T 
 
 vice Lord R. Spencer, who accepted the Stewardship of the Manor 
 of Bast Hendred, county Berks, and was returned for Oxford. 
 
 John Skynner was born in 1723, and was the eldest son of 
 John S. of London and Great Milton, and of the same family as 
 Matthew Skinner, Serjeant at Law (see Oxford 1734). He was 
 educated at Westminster School, (King's Scholar at the age of 14), 
 and being elected to Oxford, matriculated from Ch. Ch. 19 
 June 1742, aged 18, and graduated B.C.L- 27 Jan. 1751. Having 
 entered Lincoln's Inn 21 Nov. 1739, he was called to the bar 17 
 Nov. 1748, invited to the Bench 19 June and sat as a Bencher 28 
 Nov. 1 77 1. He had an extensive practice on trie Oxford circuit, 
 and was a Commr. of Bankrupts (in 1761 and) until 1768, Attorney 
 General of the Duchy Court of Lancaster 19 Jan. 1770 to 5 Nov. 
 x 777> {Patent Rolls,) app. Recorder of Woodstock 1771, King's 
 Counsel Jan. 1771, Recorder of Oxford 12 April 1776 to 26 May 
 1797, M.P. for Woodstock Jan. 177 1-7, and Second Justice of 
 Chester and of the counties of Flint, Denbigh and Montgomery 
 April 1772-7. He was Knighted 23 Nov. 1777, made a Serjeant 
 at law 27 Nov. 1777, and raised to the Bench as Lord Chief Baron 
 of the Exchequer 27 Nov. 1777, which dignified position he filled 
 with great credit for nearly 9 years, and on retiring from the 
 Bench was sworn a Privy Councillor 23 March 1787. Chief Baron 
 Skynner, who was a great friend of the celebrated Sir Elijah 
 Impey, Chief Justice of India, married 6 March 1778 Martha dau. 
 of Edward Burn (and his wife Margaret Davie), and dying at 
 Bath 26 Nov. 1805, aged 82, was buried at Great Milton with his 
 
218 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 wife. His only daughter married the Rt. Hon. Richard Ryder 
 M.P., Home Secretary, brother to the Karl of Harrowby. (See 
 Williams' Welsh Judges). 
 
 1772. April 10. John Skymer, re-elected after being 
 made a Welsh Judge. 
 
 1774. Oct. 6. John Skynner T. 
 
 William Eden T. 
 
 This able statesman was born 3 or 4 April 1744, the 3rd 
 son of Sir John Eden 3rd Bart, of West Auckland, and co. 
 Durham, and having passed through Eton, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 
 2 April 1762, aged 17, B.A. 1765, M.A. 2 June 1768, became a 
 barrister at law of the Middle Temple 14 June 1768, and was 
 actively employed for over 30 years in the service of his country 
 both at home and abroad. He was Recorder of Grantham, 
 Auditor of Greenwich Hospital 21 March 177 1- 18 14, Under 
 Secretary of State for the Northern Department Aug. 1772 to 
 April 1778, a Lord of Trade and Foreign Plantations (^"iooo a 
 year, and quite a sinecure) 15 March 1776 till the Board was 
 abolished in June 1782, one of the three Joint Commissioners to 
 treat with the American Colonies for Peace 13 April 1778 to Jan. 
 
 1779, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant for Ireland Oct. 
 1780 to April 1782, Under Treasurer for Ireland 21 Oct. 1780 to 
 April 1782, was sworn a Privy Councillor for Ireland 21 Oct. 
 
 1780, and was one of the three Joint Vice Treasurers of Ireland 
 9 April to 19 Dec. 1783. He was M.P. for Woodstock 1774-84, 
 and for Heytesbury 1784-93, app. Envoy Extraordinary and 
 Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris 4 Dec. 1785, and was Ambassa- 
 dor Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid March 
 1788 to June 1789, and at the Hague 28 Nov. 1789 to 29 May 
 1793. He was added to the Privy Councii in England 7 April 
 1783, and was raised to the Irish Peerage as Baron Auckland 18 
 Nov. 1789, and also created Lord Auckland in the Peerage of 
 Great Britain 22 May 1793. His Lordship m. 26 Sept. 1776 
 Eleanor dau. of Rt. Hon. Sir Gilbert Elliot 3rd Bart. M.P., and 
 sister of Gilbert 1st Earl of Minto, Governor General of India 
 1807-13. Lord Auckland was Chancellor of Marischal College, 
 Aberdeen, 1796- 1814, Joint Postmaster General 17 Feb. 1798 to 
 May 1804, and President of the Board of Trade in the Whig 
 Ministry of " All the Talents " 5 Feb. 1806 to 26 March 1807, 
 being furthermore made Joint Commissioner to arrange the 
 differences wtth the United States 20 Aug. 1806. He died 28 
 May 1814. One of his brothers, Sir Robert Eden, Governer of 
 Maryland, was made a Baronet in 1776, while his younger 
 brsther Frederick Morton Eden, who was also Ambassador to 
 Spain, was created Lord Henley in 1799. 
 
 1776. May 11. William Eden, re-elected after being app. 
 a Lord of the Board of Trade. 
 
Members for Woodstock. 219 
 
 1777. Dec. 1. Viscount Parker. T. 
 vice Skynner raised to the Judicial Bench. George Parker, com- 
 monly called Viscount Parker, of Sherborn Castle, was the elder 
 son of Thomas 3rd Karl of Macclesfield, and grandson of the 1st 
 Earl, who was Lord Chancellor 1718-25. He was born 24 Feb. 
 1755, educated at Eton, matric. from Exeter Coll. Oxford 2 July 
 1773, and was created D.C.L. 28 June 1797. Lord Parker m. 25 
 May 1780 Mary Frances dau. and co-heir of Rev. Thomas Drake 
 D.D. rector of Amersham, Backs, and became a Dep. -Lieut, of 
 Oxfordshire 15 May 1778, Major of the Oxfordshire Militia 25 
 May 1778, and Lieut.-Col. thereof 10 Dec. 1778, and was a Lord 
 of the Bedchamber to George Prince of Wales 27 Dec. 1780 to 
 April 1 79 1. He was M.P. for Woodstock Dec. 1777-84, and for 
 Minehead 1790 till 29 Feb. 1795 when he succeeded his father as 
 4th Earl of Macclesfield. He was sworn a Privy Councillor 21 
 April 1791, and was Comptroller of the King's Household 24 April 
 1791 to April 1797, High Steward of Henley 1797- 1842, a Lord 
 of the Bedchamber to the King April 1797-1804, and Captain of 
 the Yeomen of the Guard for the long period of 24 years, in spite 
 of political changes, from 27 June 1804 to 22 Nov. 1830. His 
 Lordship became Captain of the Watlington Troop of Oxford- 
 shire Cavalry 20 June 1798, was President of the Board of 
 Agriculture March 1816 to April 1818, a Vice Pres. of the 
 Veterinary College in 1800, app. Councillor to the Queen (as 
 Custos Personae) July 1818, and being sworn in Lord Lieutenant 
 and Custos Rotulorum of Oxfordshire 27 March 18 17, held that 
 office until his death 20 March 1842, at the advanced age of 87. 
 
 1780. Sept. 6. Viscount Parker. T. 
 
 William Eden. T. 
 
 1783. April 9. William Eden, re-elected after appoint- 
 ment as Vice Treasurer of Ireland. 
 
 1784. April 1. Sir H. W. Dashwood Bart. T. 
 
 Francis Burton. T. 
 
 Francis Burton will be found under Oxford 1790. Sir 
 Henry Watkin Dashwood of Kirklington, was the eldest son of 
 Sir James (see County 1739,) when he succeeded as 3rd Bart 10 
 Nov. 1779. Born on 30 Aug. 1745, he matric. Bras. Coll. Oxford 
 16 April 1763, and was created M.A. honoris causa 29 April 1766, 
 and D.C.L. 8 July 1773. He m. 17 July 1780 Mary Helen dau. of 
 John Graham of Kinross, N.B., and niece to William Cheyne, 
 Viscount Newhaven. Sir Henry unsuccessfully contested the 
 Wigtown Burghs 1774, but gained the seat on petition 23 March 
 1775, and sat till 1780. He afterwards represented Woodstock 
 f° r 35 years, 1784 to 1820. He was app. a Gentleman of the Privy 
 Chamber to the King in 1783, and retained that post for the long 
 period of 44 years, until his death at the age of 8^, on 10 June 
 1828. 
 
220 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 1788. July 9. Francis Burton, re-elected after being made 
 Second Justice of Chester. 
 
 1790. June 17. Lord H. J. Spencer. T. 
 
 Sir H. W. Dash wood. T. 
 
 The talented Lord Henry John Spencer, whose premature 
 death cut short a most promising diplomatic career, was born on 
 20 Dec. 1770, the 2nd son of George 4th Duke of Marlborough, 
 and from Eton, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 14 Nov. 1787, where he 
 was created M.A. 18 March 1790. He was M.P. Woodstock 
 1790-5, and was for a short time Secretary of Lord Auckland's 
 (see 1774,) Embassy to the State General of the United Provinces 
 of Holland Nov. 1789, till app. Minister Plenipotentiary (ad 
 inte?im) there 7 April 1790, and he remained in that post till 1793. 
 He was Minister to Sweden July 1793 to March 1795, and to 
 Prussia from March 1795 until his death at Berlin of fever on 3 
 July in the same year, at the early age of 24. 
 
 1795. Oct. 21. Lord Lavington. T. 
 
 vice Lord H J. Spencer deceased. Sir Ralph Payne K.B. was the 
 son of Ralph Payne, Chief Justice and Governor of St. Kitts, 
 West Indies, where he was born 19 March 1737. He m. 1 Sept. 
 1767 Frances Lambertina Christiana Charlotte Harriet Teresa 
 dau. of Henry Baron Kolbel of Saxony, a General in the Imperial 
 Service. Sir Ralph was sometime a Member of the House of 
 Assembly at St. Kitts, and Chairman thereof. After coming to 
 England he was M.P. for Shaftesbury 1768-71, Camelford Nov. 
 1776-80, Plympton 1780-4, Fowey (in a Double Return) 1790 till 
 unseated March 1791, and Woodstock Nov. 1795-9. He voted 
 against Wilkes in 1769, being then said to be in expectation of 
 the Captain Generalship of the Leeward Islands He was made 
 a Knight of the Bath 18 Feb. 1771, and was Captain General, 
 Governor in Chief, and Admiral of the Leeward Islands May 
 1771 to Oct. 1776, and again Jan. 1799 till his death. Sir Ralph 
 was one of the four Clerks of the Green Cloth G£iooo a year) 
 from June 1777 till the Board was abolished by Burke's Reform- 
 ing Act in June 1782. He was created a Peer of Ireland as Baron 
 Lavington 1 Oct. 1795, and sworn a Privy Councillor 30 Oct. 1799. 
 His Lordship d. s.p. at his seat of government in Antigna 1 Aug. 
 1807, when the title expired with him. From a Whig he became 
 a Tory in 1791. 
 
 1796. May 27. Lord Lavington T 
 
 Sir H. W. Dashwood T 
 1799. Jan. 28. Charles Moore T 
 
 vice Lord Lavington made Governor of the Leeward Islands. 
 This gentleman was the 2nd son of the Right Rev. John Moore, 
 Archbishop of Canterbury 1783 -1805, by the sister of Lord 
 Auckland (see 1774,) and was born at Durham 1771, and matric. 
 
Members for Woodstock. 221 
 
 Ch. Ch. Oxford 22 Dec. 1788, aged 17, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795. He 
 ent. Iyincolns Inn 12 Nov. 1792. In 1800 he and two others 
 were app. by his father Principal Registrars of the Prerogative 
 Court of Canterbury, which office he enjoyed until his death in 
 London 14 Dec. 1826, and he was also in 1813 and 1816 
 Registrar of the Faculty Office. Mr. Moore who in Jan. 1805 
 was a Captain in the Loyal Lambeth Volunteers, sat for 
 Woodstock Jan. 1799-1802, and for Heytesbury Dec. 1802-6, and 
 again Jan. 1807-12. 
 
 1802. July 6. Sir H. W. Dashwood T 91 
 
 Charles Abbot T 80 
 
 William Camac W 27 
 
 The poll was kept open 2 days, during which 107 voted. 
 As to Mr. Abbot, see Oxford University 1806. 
 
 1806. Nov. 1 Sir H. W. Dashwood T 106 
 
 Hon. W. F. E. Eden W 74 
 
 Arthur Annesley T 44 
 
 The poll only lasted 1 day. Hon. William Frederick 
 KHiot Eden was born 19 Jan. 1782, the eldest son of William 1st 
 Lord Auckland, (see 1774,) and having passed through Eton, 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 28 Jan. 1801. He was app. Joint 
 Secretary to the Commissioners to treat with the United States 
 of America Aug. 1806, and was M.P. for Woodstock 1806-10, and 
 one of the four Tellers of the Exchequer (a very lucrative 
 office, executed by deputy,) Sept. 1806 until his mysterious 
 death unmarried 19 Jan. 1810. On that day, the last on which 
 he was seen alive, he transacted some business in connection 
 with his duties as Lieut. Col. of the Westminster Volunteers, but 
 nothing more was heard about him until his body was discovered 
 in the Thames off Lambeth Palace on 25 February, five weeks 
 having elapsed from the time he was missed. The coroner's jury 
 returned a verdict of " found drowned." He was buried in the 
 family vault at Beckenham on 27 February. 
 
 1807. May 4. The same. 
 
 1810. March 10. Hon. George Eden T. 
 
 vice hi? brother Hon. W. F. E. Eden deceased. Born on 25 Aug. 
 1784, the 2nd but now the eldest surviving son of Lord Auckland 
 (see 1774,) George Eden went like his brother to Eton, and 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 3 May 1802, B.A. 25 Feb. 1806, M.A. 17 
 Dec. 1808, and a student till 1815. He ent. Lincolns Inn 7 May 
 1806, bar. at law 13 May 1809, but left the Society in Nov. 1814, 
 unsuccessfully contested Oxford 18 12, but sat for Woodstock 
 March 1810-12, and again Nov. 1813 to 28 May 1814 when he 
 succeeded his father as 2nd Lord Auckland. His Lordship was 
 a Commissioner and Auditor of Greenwich Hospital (in succes- 
 
222 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 sion to his father) June 1814-34. Becoming a Whig in politics he 
 remained in opposition until Karl Grey formed his Ministry in 
 1830. I^ord Auckland was then sworn one of the Privy Council 
 22 Nov. 1830, and the same day appointed Master of the Mint 
 and President of the Board of Trade. He was then First Lord 
 of the Admiralty 28 July to 21 Nov. 1834, and again 22 April to 12 
 Aug. 1835, when he accepted the responsible position of 
 Governor General of India, which he held till 28 Feb. 1842. His 
 Lordship was made G.O.B. 29 Aug. 1835, and created Earl of 
 Auckland 21 Dec. 1839. He was chosen President of the Senate 
 of University College, London, and for the third time was First 
 Lord of the Admiralty from 7 July 1846 until his death unmarried 
 1 Jan. 1849, when the Earldom expired. On 14 Jan. 1834 his 
 Lordship received the lucrative appointment of Auditor of the 
 Receipt of the Exchequer, but the office was abolished October 
 following. He was elected President of the Asiatic Society in 
 June 1843. 
 
 1812. Oct. 5. Sir H. W. Dashwood T. 
 
 William Thornton T. 
 
 The latter was the elder son of Major General William 
 Thornton, 1st Foot Guards, of Brockhall, Northants, who d. 1782, 
 and following in his father's footsteps, became Ensign in the 1st 
 Foot Guards 6 Nov. 1778, Lieut, and Capt. 18 March 1782, and was 
 Captain (and Lt.-Col.) of a company 25 April 1793 to 1804, 
 Adjutant 21 Jan. 1782, (so in 1793,) Third Major of the regiment 
 16 April 1804-8, and Second Major thereof 15 Sept. 1808 till he 
 retired 29 July 1812. He became Colonel in the Army 3 May 
 1796, Major Gen. 29 April 1802, and Lieut. Gen. 25 April 1808. 
 Lt.-Gen. Thornton served with the Guards in Flanders, Holland, 
 and Germany 1794-5, and was on the Staff in various parts of 
 England 1805-8. He sat for Woodstock 1812 till Nov. 1813, when 
 he yielded the seat to the Hon. George Eden, but succeeded that 
 gentleman as Member June 1814-18. He died unmarried 18 Nov. 
 1841, being then the senior Lieut. Gen. (retired). 
 
 1813. Nov. 10. Hon. George Eden 
 
 vice Thornton, who accepted the Stewardship of the Manor of 
 East Hendred. 
 
 1814. June 14. Lt.-Gen. William Thornton. 
 vice Eden called to the House of Lords. 
 
 1818. June 17. Lord Robert Spencer W. 
 Sir H. W. Dashwood T. 
 
 It is an extraordinary fact that Lord Robert Spencer (as 
 to whom see Oxford 1768,) should have been again returned for 
 Woodstock in 1818, a period of 50 years since he had previously 
 been elected for it in 1768. 
 
Members for Woodstock. 223 
 
 1820. March 7. John Gladstone T 
 
 J. H. Langston W 
 
 James Haughton Langston will be found under Oxford 
 1826. He was the last of the several Members for Woodstock 
 who also sat for the City of Oxford. 
 
 John Gladstone of Liverpool, eldest son of Thomas Glad- 
 stones of Leith, corn-merchant, was born at Leith 11 Dec. 1764, 
 and carried on business as a corn-merchant at Liverpool from 
 1788 until he retired in 1843. He m. (1) 1792 Jane (who d. s.p. 
 1798) dau. of Joseph M. Hall of Liverpool, and (2) 29 April 1800 
 Ann dau. of Andrew Robertson, Provost of Dingwall, co. Ross, 
 and Sheriff Substitute of that county. By Royal Licence 10 Feb. 
 1835 he formally dropped the final letter s. in the spelling of his 
 name. He was M.P. for Lancaster 1818-20, Woodstock 1820-6, 
 Berwick on Tweed 1826 till voided 1827, and was defeated at 
 Queenborough 1830, and Dundee 1837. He was made a Baronet 
 18 July 1846, and died at Fasque, co. Kincardine 7 Dec. 1851, 
 aged 87 all but 4 days. Sir Thomas was the proprietor of 
 extensive plantations in the West Indies, and it was in the debate 
 to free the slaves there without compensating the owners, that 
 his second son the celebrated William Bwart Gladstone (see 
 Oxford University 1847) made his " Maiden Speech," and dis- 
 tinguished himself by the vigorous manner in which he 
 denounced the proposal. 
 
 1826. June 10. Marquis of Blandford T 92 
 
 Lord Ashley T 78 
 
 J. H. Langton IV 70 
 
 R. Mc William R 28 
 
 The poll lasted two days. George Spencer Churchill, 
 Marquis of Blandford, was the eldest son of George 5th Duke of 
 Marlborough, (see the County 1790,) and was born 27 Dec. 1793, 
 educated at Eton, and Oxford, and m. (1) 11 or 13 Jan. 1817 his 
 cousin Lady Jane Stewart (who d. 12 Oct. 1844) eldest dau. of 
 George 8th Earl of Galloway, and (2) in Lambeth Palace 10 June 
 1846 the Hon. Charlotte Augusta Flower 3rd dau. of Jeffrey 4th 
 Viscount Ashbrook. His Lordship was made Dep. Lieut. 
 Oxon 1 Nov. 1815, Captain West Oxford Yeomanry 22 May 1817, 
 Dep. Lieut. Norfolk 16 Feb. 1830, M.P. Chippenham 1818-20, and 
 Woodstock 1826-30, 1832-4, and May 1838 till he succeeded his 
 father as 6th Duke of Marlborough and as a Prince of the Holy 
 Roman Empire 5 March 1840. His Grace who resided at his 
 noble seat Blenheim House, was patron of 11 livings, and High 
 Steward of Oxford and Woodstock. He was created D.CL. 
 Oxford 15 June 1841, sworn in Lord Lieut, and Cus. Rot. of 
 Oxon 27 April 1842, and was Lieut. Col. Commandant of the 
 Oxfordshire Yeomanry 19 March 1845 until his death at 
 Blenheim Palace 1 July 1857. 
 
224 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 His colleague, the well-known philanthropist, Anthony 
 Ashley Cooper, Lord Ashley, was the eldest son of Cropley 6th 
 Earl of Shaftesbury, and was born 28 April 1801, educ. at 
 Harrow, and matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 27 Oct. 18 19, B.A. 17 May 
 1823, M.A. 21 June 1832, created D.CL. 16 June 1841. His 
 Lordship m. 9 June 1830 Lady Emily Cowper dau. of Peter 5th 
 Earl Cowper. He was a Commissioner of the Board of Control 
 for the affairs of India Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1830, app. a Com- 
 missioner in Lunacy 6 Aug. 1831, and afterwards became 
 Chairman thereof, and was Lord of the Admiralty 22 Dec. 1834 
 to 18 April 1835, and an Ecclesiastical Commissioner for England 
 29 Sept. 1841 to 18 Dec. 1847. Lord Ashley was M.P. for Wood- 
 stock 1826-30, Dorchester 1 830-1, and Dorsetshire 1831 till Feb. 
 1846, when he vacated his seat on quitting the Conservative 
 party on the question of the repeal of the Corn Laws, and sat as a 
 Liberal for Bath 1847 till he succeeded his father as 7th Earl of 
 Shaftesbury 2 June 185 1. He was sworn in Lord Lieut, and 
 Cus. Rot. of Dorset 24 June 1856, and made a Knight of the 
 Garter 21 May 1862. Gifted with a persuasive eloquence, and 
 fitted by birth, talent, and wealth alike, for a prominent position 
 in the political world, Lord Shaftesbury resolutely put all 
 personal ambition aside, and devoted his life to the amelioration 
 of the lot of the suffering poor. This great and good man died 
 1 Oct. 1885, aged 84. 
 
 1828. Feb. 8. Lord Ashley, re-elected after being app. 
 one of Commissioners for the Affairs of India. 
 
 1830. July 31. Marquis of Blandford T 
 
 Lord Charles S. Churchill W 
 
 Two brothers. Lord Charles Spencer Churchill was the 
 2nd sou of the 5th Duke of Marlborough (see County 1790,) and 
 was born 3 Dec. 1794, and m. 24 Aug. 1827 Etheldred 
 Catherine 2nd dau. of John Bennet M.P. of Pyt House, Wilts. 
 His Lordship sat for Woodstock 1 830-1, and 1835-7 when he was 
 defeated. As Lord Charles Spencer he became Lieut, in the 
 army 9 Sept. 1813, First Lieut. 95th Regt. 9 Dec. 1813, Captain 9 
 March 1815, Capt. 85th Regt. 2 June 1815, and as Lord C. S. 
 Churchill became Captain 75th Regt. 28 Oct. 1824, Lieut. Col. 
 in the army on half-pay 31 Nov. 1827, but retired from the 
 service before 1836, and died 28 April 1840, aged 45. 
 
 1831. May 2. Lord C. S. Churchill 
 
 Viscount Stormont 
 y. 6". Buckingham 
 Charles Richardson 
 
 Poll 1 day. Messrs. Buckingham and Richardson also 
 polled 138 householders, but the votes were not counted, as the 
 
 w 
 
 81. 
 
 T 
 
 74. 
 
 W 
 
 12. 
 
 W 
 
 6. 
 
Members for Woodstock. 225 
 
 right of the election before the Reform Act, was in the freemen 
 only. 
 
 James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) was a distinguished 
 traveller, and a clever but somewhat versatile politician. He sat 
 for Sheffield 1832-7. 
 
 William David Murray, Viscount Storm on t, eldest son of 
 David 3rd Earl of Mansfield, was born in London 21 Feb 1806, 
 educ. at Eton, and matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 14 April 1823. He m. 
 8 April 1829 Louisa dau. of Cuthbert Ellison M.P. of Hepburn 
 Hall, Durham, and was M.P. Aldborough (Yorks) 1830-1, Wood- 
 stock 1831-2, Norwich 1832-7, and Perthshire 1837 till he 
 succeeded his father as 4th Earl of Mansfield (of the 1792 
 creation), and as Hereditary Keeper of the Palace of Scone, on 
 18 Feb. 1840. His Lordship was a Lord of the Treasury Dec. 
 1834 to April 1835, Lieut. Col. of the Stirlingshire Militia 1828-55, 
 and patron of one living. He succeeded his grandmother Louisa 
 Countess of Mansfield as 3rd Earl of Mansfield (of the 1776 
 creation) on 11 July 1843, was made a Knight of the Thistle 13 
 June 1843, Lord Lieut, of co. Clackmannan 1852, Dep. Lieut, co. 
 Perth, and was app. to the post of Her Majesty's High Com- 
 missioner to the General Assembly of the Church of JScotland 
 1852, April 1858, and May 1859. He died " Father of the House 
 of Lords " 2 Aug. 1898, aged 92. 
 
 The Reform Act 1832 deprived Woodstock of one of its 
 Members, and from 1837 till l &$5 every Member returned for the 
 Borough was a Tory or Conservative. 
 
 1832. Dec. 10. Marquis of Blandford T. 
 
 1835. Jan. 7. Lord Charles S. Churchill W. 
 
 1837. July 25. Henry Peyton T. 126 
 
 Lord C. S. Churchill W. 117 
 
 243 voted out of 330 registered electors. Henry Peyton 
 was the only son of Sir Henry Peyton M P. of Doddington and 
 Emnett, co. Cambridge, whom he succeeded as 3rd Bart. 24 Feb. 
 1854, was born in London 30 June 1804, educ. at Harrow, and 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 29 April 1822. He became Cornet 1st Life 
 Guards 1 Nov. 1824, Lieut, on half-pay 15 Aug. 1826, and was 
 afterwards Captain Oxfordshire Yeomanry. He m. 18 April 1828 
 Georgiana Elizabeth 3rd dau. of Christopher Bethell-Codrington 
 M.P. of Doddington Park, (see Williams' Gloucestershire Members?) 
 and sat for Woodstock 1837 till he vacated his seat in favour of 
 Lord Blandford May 1838. He was made Dep. Lieut. Oxon 1853, 
 and was J. P. Bucks, and patron of Dodington, co. Camb. Sir 
 Henry was an accomplished Whip, and a member of the Four-in- 
 Hand Club. He died at his seat Swift's House, Bicester, 28 Feb. 
 1866, aged 61. 
 
 1838. May 11. Marquis of Blandford T. 160. 
 
 Lord John Churchill IV. 155. 
 
226 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 vice Peyton who accepted the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hun- 
 dreds, co. Bucks. The Candidates were Brothers, and the elections 
 of 1837 and 1838 form the only instances in which a Churchill 
 was defeated for an Oxfordshire constituency. Lord Henry John 
 Spencer Churchill was the 4th and youngest son of the 4th Duke 
 of Marlborough. He was born 22 Sept. 1797, became a Captain 
 in the Royal Navy 1826, and died unmarried about 1841. 
 
 1840. March 20. Frederick Thesiger. T. 
 
 vice Lord Blandford called to the Upper House. Mr Thesiger 
 was one of the most talented of the Members for Woodstock. 
 Born in London on 15 July 1794, the third and youngest son of 
 Charles Thesiger, Collector of Customs in the Island of St. 
 Vincent, and descended from a Dresden family, he entered the 
 Royal Navy as a midshipman on board the ' Cambrian ' frigate in 
 1807, and was present the same year at the bombardment of 
 Copenhagen, (where his uncle Sir Frederic Thesiger, a distin- 
 guished naval officer, was Aide de Camp to Lord Nelson.) He 
 however retired from the service on becoming the only surviving 
 son of his father, but on the destruction of the paternal property 
 by the eruption of Mount Souffrier, in St. Vincent's, young 
 Thesiger became a student of Grays Inn 5 Nov. 1813, where he 
 was called to the bar 18 Nov. 18 18, and was adm. ad eunden to 
 the Inner Temple 21 May 1824. His practise increased so rapidly 
 that in 10 years he " took silk" as a King's Counsel 7 July 1834, 
 and was chosen a Bencher of the Inner Temple 18 Nov. 1834, 
 Reader 1842, and Treasurer 1843. He became the recognised 
 "leader" of the Home circuit, was created D.CL. Oxon 8 June 
 1842, and unsuccessfully contested Newark when Sir Thomas 
 Wilde (afterwards Lord Chancellor as Lord Truro) sought re- 
 election on being made Solicitor General in Jan. 1840. He was 
 however returned for Woodstock the following March, and sat 
 till April 1844, when having been app. Solicitor General by Sir 
 Robert Peel, he of course vacated his seat for Woodstock, and 
 Lord Blandford (who was then of age) was returned in his stead, 
 for the Family Borough. Mr. Duffield the Member for Abingdon 
 however accepted the Chiltern Hundreds and Thesiger was 
 returned unopposed for that seat the next month. He was 
 Knighted 23 May 1844, Solicitor General 1844-5, Attorney General 
 June 1845 to July 1846, and again Feb. to Dec. 1852, and M.P. 
 for Abingdon May 1844-52, and for Stamford 1852 to Feb. 1858, 
 when he was app. Lord High Chancellor, and raised to the 
 Peerage as Baron Chelmsford 1 March 1858. His Lordship was 
 added to the Privy Council 26 Feb. 1858, and sat on the Woolsack 
 Feb. 1858 to June 1859, and again July 1866 to Feb. 1868. He 
 m. 9 March 1822 Anna Maria youngest dau. and co-heir of William 
 Tinling of Southampton, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal 
 Society 19 June 1845. His Lordship died in London 5 Oct. 1878. 
 His eldest son the 2nd Lord Chelmsford was in command of the 
 
Members for Woodstock. 227 
 
 forces that effected the conquest, of Zululand in 1879, while the 
 third son the Rt. Hon. Alfred Henry Thesiger Q.C. was Lord 
 Justice of Appeal 1877 till his death in 1880. 
 
 1 84 1. June 28. Frederick Thesiger. 
 
 1844. April 22. Marquis of Blandford T 
 
 vice Thesiger app. Solicitor General Lebbaeus Charles Humfrey 
 (afterwards a Serjeant at law) issued his address, as a Tory, from 
 the Temple 19 April 1844, as follows : — " My excellent and 
 valued friend Mr. Thesiger has been appointed to the office of 
 Solicitor General, and has, consequently, vacated his seat for 
 your Borough. Has the station which he has been called upon 
 to fill in Her Majesty's councils rendered him less worthy to be 
 your representative ? If not, why is he not here ? Is it because 
 his seat is wanted for a young Lord just out of his teens ? Let 
 the noble owner of Blenheim answer this question. I come to 
 rescue you from the thraldom which your hard taskmaster 
 would impose upon you." In spite of this spirited address Mr. 
 Humfrey stated his intention of retiring before the show of 
 hands was taken, alleging as a reason that he should lose by 
 about three votes, owing to his having been late in the field. 
 He was afterwards defeated at Northampton 1847, and Lincoln 
 in March 1848. 
 
 John Winston Spencer-Churchill, Marquis of Blandford, 
 was the eldest son of George 6th Duke of Marlborough, (see 
 1826,) and was born 2 June 1822, educ. at Eton, matric. Oriel 
 Coll. Oxford 15 June 1840, and was created D.C.L- 7 June 1853. 
 He was returned for Woodstock at the age of 21 in April 1844, but 
 retired from the House 12 months afterwards. He unsuccess- 
 fully fought Middlesex 1852, and again sat for Woodstock 1847 
 till he succeeded his father as 7th Duke of Marlborough 1 July 
 1857. He became Dep. Lieut. Oxon 9 May 1842, Lord Lieut, 
 and Cus. Rot. 24 Sept. 1857, Lieut. 1st Oxfordshire Yeomanry 27 
 March 1843, and Captain thereof 22 April 1847. His Grace was 
 sworn a Privy Councillor 10 July 1866, and held office as Lord 
 Steward of the Household 10 July 1866-7, Lord President of the 
 Council 8 March 1867 to 9 Dec. 1868, and Lord Lieutenant of 
 Ireland 28 Nov. 1876 to 28 April 1880, being also Grand Master 
 of the Order of St. Patrick 12 Dec. 1876 to 28 April 1880. He 
 was a very popular Viceroy. His Grace was elected a Knight 
 of the Garter 23 May 1868, a Governor of the Charterhouse 4 
 Feb. 1870, and a Trustee of Rugby School, and was High Steward 
 of Woodstock 1857-83. He was found dead on the floor of his 
 bedroom at his town residence 29 Berkeley Square on 5 July 
 1883, a ged 61. 
 
 1845. May 1. Viscount Loftus P 
 
 vice Lord Blandford, who accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. John 
 Henry Loftus, Viscount Loftus, was born in London 19 Jan. 
 
228 Members for Woodstock. 
 
 1814, the eldest son of John 2nd Marquis of Ely K.P., by Anne 
 Maria eldest dau. of Sir H. W. Dash wood Bart, (see 1784.) He 
 matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 24 Oct. 1832, and m. 29 Oct. 1844 Jane 
 (who was app. a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen 1851,) 
 4th dau. of James Joseph Hope-Vere ofCraigieand Blackwood, 
 N.B., and niece of the 8th Marquis of Tweeddale. His Lordship 
 was defeated at Gloucester 1841, but sat for Woodstock 1 May to 
 26 Sept. 1845, when he succeeded his father as 3rd Marquis of 
 Ely. He was patron of 2 livings, and died in London 15 July 
 1857, aged 43. 
 
 1845. Dec. 18. Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill P. 
 
 vice Lord Loftus called to the Upper House. This Member was 
 the 2nd son of the 6th Duke, and brother of the M.P. 1844. Born 
 24 April 1824, he became Cornet 4th Light Dragoons 1 July 1842, 
 and Lieut. 83rd Foot 30 Jan. 1846, but retired 1848. He m. 5 
 Feb. 1857 Hon. Harriet Louisa Hester Gough-Calthorpe 3rd dau. 
 of Frederick 4th Lord Calthorpe, and was app. Captain Oxford- 
 shire Yeomanry Cavalry 1852, Major 1857, and Lieut. Col. thereof 
 i860 to May 1866. Lord Alfred sat for Woodstock Dec. 1845-7, 
 and 1857-65, and was defeated at Brecon in Oct. 1866. He was 
 J. P. and D.L. Oxon, and J. P. Middlesex, and died in 1893. 
 
 1845. July 29. Marquis of Blandford C. 
 
 1852. July 8. ) Thesame 
 1857. March 27. J inesame - 
 
 1857. July 24. Lord Alfred S. Churchill L-C. 
 
 vice his brother Lord Blandford called to the Upper House. 
 
 1859. April 29. The same. 
 
 1865. July 12. Henry Barnett C 143. 
 
 Mitchell Henry L 119. 
 
 Mr. Henry was also defeated at Manchester Nov. 1867 and 
 1868, but sat for co. Galway Feb. 1871-85, and for the Blackfriars 
 division of Glasgow 1885-6, when he was defeated. 
 
 Henry Barnett of Glympton Park, -was the eldest son of 
 George Henry B. of London, by Elizabeth dau. of Stratford 
 Canning, and only sistei to Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe the 
 eminent Ambassador to Turkey. He was born 1815, elected to 
 Eton 1829, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxford 25 Oct. 1832, aged 17, 
 B.A. 1836, M.A. 1847, and m - l8 3 8 Emily Anne dau. of John 
 Stratton of Chesterton. Mr. Barnett was a London banker, J. P. 
 and D.L- Oxon, Chairman of the Economic Life Assurance Co., 
 and a director of the Provincial Bank of Ireland. He sat for 
 Woodstock 1865-74, was Major Oxfordshire Yeomanry till 1866, 
 Lieut. Col. 8 May 1866-78, and Hon. Col. of the regiment 10 July 
 1878 until his death 5 May 1896, aged 81. 
 
Members for Woodstock. 229 
 
 1868. Nov. 17. Henry Barnett C 502 
 
 Hon. G. C. Brodrick L 481 
 
 The defeated candidate, the Hon. George Charles Brodrick, 
 was born 5 May 1831, and is the 2nd son of William 7th Viscount 
 Midleton, (Dean of Kxeter and Chaplain to the Queen). He was 
 educ. at Eton, matric. Balliol Coll. Oxford 14 March 1850, took 
 a first class in classics 1853, and in law and modern history 1854, 
 B.A. 1854, M.A. 1856, and was created B.CL- and D.C.L. 1886. 
 He also graduated ly.L.B. London Univ. 1858. He entered him- 
 self a student of Lincolns Inn 23 Oct. 1856, where he was called 
 to the bar 10 June 1859, and was elected a Fellow of Merton 
 College 1855, and has been Warden since 1881. He is J. P. Oxon, 
 and F.R.G.S., was a member (for Westminster) of the London 
 School Board Nov. 1876-9, and has been a Governor of Eton 
 College since May 1887. He unsucc. cont. co. Monmouth 1880. 
 
 1874. Feb. 4. Lord Randolph Churchill C 569 
 
 Hon. G. C. Brodrick L 404 
 
 Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill, the well-known 
 politician, who came into notice as "the Leader of the Fourth 
 Party," while in Opposition 1880-5, was the younger of the two 
 sons of the 7th Duke of Marlborough (see 1844,) and was born 13 
 Feb. 1849, entered Ch. Ch. Oxon, and matriculated from Merton 
 Coll. Oxford 21 Oct. 1867, B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874. He m. Jan. 
 1874 Jenny dau. of Leonard Jerome of New York, and became 
 J. P. and D.L. Oxon, Hon. L-L-D. Camb. 1888, was the last 
 Member for Woodstock 1874-85, and sat for South Paddington 
 1885 till his death 24 Jan. 1895. Lord Randolph became 
 immensely popular as a Conservative Democrat, and wielded 
 great influence in the Party. He was sworn a Privy Councillor 
 24 June 1885, and was Secretary of State for India June 
 1885 to Feb. 1886, and Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader 
 ol the House Aug. 1886 till he resigned the following December. 
 
 1880. April 2. Lord Randolph Churchill C. 512 
 
 William Hall L. 452 
 
 1885. July 3. Lord Randolph Churchill C. 532 
 
 Corrie Grant R. 405 
 
 His Lordship was re-elected at this date, after being app. 
 Indian Secretary. 
 
 At the Dissolution of Parliament Nov. 1885, the provisions 
 of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, came into effect whereby 
 Woodstock was deprived of its remaining Member. The Borough 
 had 317 registered voters in 1832, 336 (of whom 37 were " Old 
 freemen") in 1858, 1127 in 1868, and i884 in 1884. The Mayor 
 was the Returning Officer. 
 
Index to the Members. 
 
 Abberbury, John 
 
 Richard de 
 
 Richard de 
 Abbot, Charles . . 
 Abingdon, 2nd Karl of 
 
 6th Karl of 
 Adyngton, Richard de 
 
 Stephen de 
 Aleston, John de. . 
 Aleyn, Richard . . 
 William . . 
 Alveton, John de 
 Andover, Viscount 
 Annesley, Arthur 
 Anson, Sir W. R. 
 Arderne, Sir Robert de 
 Ashf eld, Sir Bdrnund 
 Ashley, Lord 
 
 Sir John . . 
 Ashurst, W. H. 
 Atkyns, Sir Edward 
 Auckland, George Lord 
 
 William Lord 
 Aylesford, Karl of 
 
 Bacon, Anthony 
 
 Bagot, Sir Walter 
 
 Bailly, Thomas 
 
 Baltimore, Lord 
 
 Banbury, Karl of 
 
 Bardolf, John 
 
 Barentyne, John 
 
 Thomas 
 Sir William 
 
 Baret, Thomas 
 
 Barnett, Henrj' 
 
 Barton, John 
 
 Robert de 
 
 Bateman, Viscount 
 
 Baynton, Nicholas 
 
 Beaufo, Richard de 
 
 Bedston, William 
 
 Bene, Reginald 
 
 Beneit, John 
 
 Benet, Hugh 
 
 Benham, John de 
 Walter 
 
 Bennett, Sir John 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 . 28 
 
 • 17 
 . 24 
 . 164 
 
 • 67 
 . 80 
 . 100 
 . 94 
 . 96 
 . 174 
 . 174 
 . 18 
 
 . 115 
 
 . 130 
 
 . 172 
 11 
 
 . 43 
 
 , . 224 
 
 . 113 
 
 . 79 
 
 , . 208 
 
 .. 221 
 
 .. 218 
 
 .. 155 
 
 112 
 
 162 
 
 104 
 
 146 
 
 46 
 
 11 
 
 36 
 
 27 
 
 38 
 
 100 
 
 228 
 
 109 
 
 18 
 
 216 
 
 209 
 
 21 
 
 105 
 
 193 
 
 193 
 
 102 
 
 97 
 
 101 
 144 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Benson, G. R 86 
 
 Bere, Sir Richard de . . . . 12 
 
 Bereford, John de . . . . 96 
 
 Berewyk, Hugh de . . . . 19 
 Berkshire, Karl of .. ..115 
 
 Bertie, Hon. Charles .. .. 211 
 
 Hon. Henry . . . . 123 
 
 Hon. James .. .. 211 
 
 Norreys 76 
 
 Hon. Peregrine . . 129 
 
 Hon. Richard . . . . 210 
 
 Besyles, Sir Peter . . . . 29 
 
 Bird, Sir William . . . . 144 
 
 Blaket, Thomas 13 
 
 Blandford, G. Marquis of . . 7 8 
 
 G. Marquis of . . 223 
 
 J. W. Marquis of . . 227 
 
 W. Marquis of . . 214 
 
 Blount, Sir Richard . . . . 45 
 
 Thomas 26 
 
 Bloxham, John de . . . . 13 
 
 Bon, Walter 100 
 
 Bost, John 9 2 
 
 Brampton, William . . . . 103 
 
 Brassey, Albert 87 
 
 Brehull, Geoffrey de . . . . 97 
 
 Brereton, Owen 177 
 
 Bridges, Edward . . . . 40 
 
 Bromley, Rt. Hon. W 159 
 
 William .. ..161 
 
 Brooke, Sir John .. .. 114 
 
 Broughton, Sir T. de . . . . 23 
 
 Brumpton, John de . . . . 16 
 
 Bruyly, Henry de . . . . 9 
 
 William .. .. 28 
 
 Brydges, Thomas . . . . 43 
 
 Buntyng, John 104 
 
 Burbrigge, John 102 
 
 Burghefeld, Sir R. de . . . . 9 
 
 Burncestr, R. de . . . . 14 
 
 Burton, Francis 130 
 
 Butler, Kdward 161 
 
 Bybury, John de 96 
 
 Cadogan, Karl 211 
 
 William .. .. 211 
 
 Calvert, Sir George . . . . 146 
 
 Camoys, Lord 134 
 
Index to thk Members. 
 
 231 
 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 
 p 
 
 Cardwell, Rt. Hon. Edward . 
 
 • 136 
 
 Culverd, John 
 
 
 Viscount 
 
 . 136 
 
 Dadyngton, John 
 
 
 Carey, Hon. Sir Edmund 
 
 . in 
 
 Daggevyle, Thomas 
 
 
 Sir Philip 
 
 . 199 
 
 Walter . 
 
 
 Cartwright, W. C. 
 
 . 84 
 
 William . 
 
 
 Cary, Richard 
 
 • 93 
 
 William . 
 
 
 Caulfeild, George 
 
 . in 
 
 Dammory, Nicholas 
 
 
 Caxton, Robert 
 
 . 106 
 
 Danvers, John . . 
 
 
 Chamberlayne, George . . 
 
 • 195 
 
 Sir John 
 
 
 Sir John 
 
 • 194 
 
 Sir Robert . 
 
 
 Sir Leonard . 
 
 . 41 
 
 Dashwood, Sir H. W. . 
 
 
 Sir Ralph 
 
 . 194 
 
 Sir James . 
 
 
 Chambre, Calcott 
 
 . 178 
 
 Sir Robert. 
 
 
 Chancy, John de 
 
 • 17 
 
 Daumvers, John . . 
 
 
 Channcy, Toby 
 
 • 183 
 
 Dauntsey, Sir John 
 
 
 Chasteloun, Ralph 
 
 11 
 
 Daw kins, James . . 
 
 
 Chaucer, Thomas 
 
 . 28. 
 
 Denton, John 
 
 
 Chaumpaigne, John de 
 
 11 
 
 Thomas 
 
 
 Chelmsford, Lord 
 
 . 226 
 
 Devenys, William 
 
 
 Chesney, Sir G. T. 
 
 . 140 
 
 Dolben Sir William . 
 
 
 Cheyne, Roger 
 
 . 26 
 
 Dormer, John 
 
 
 Chitty, Sir J. W 
 
 • 139 
 
 Douglas, Sir C. E. 
 
 
 Churchill, Lord Alfred. . 
 
 . 228 
 
 Hon. F. S. N.. 
 
 
 Lord Charles 
 
 . 224 
 
 Doyley, John 
 
 
 F. A. Lord . . 
 
 • 79 
 
 Sir John.. 
 
 
 Lord Randolph 
 
 . 229 
 
 John 
 
 
 Clarges, Sir Thomas 
 
 • 157 
 
 Draper, William . . 
 
 
 Clarke, George 
 
 . 156 
 
 Drayton, Sir John 
 
 
 Clayton, Sir Thomas . . 
 
 . 152 
 
 Richard 
 
 
 William 
 
 . 213 
 
 Dryden, Sir Erasmus . 
 
 
 Clerke, Francis . . 
 
 . 69 
 
 Dudley, Sir Andrew 
 
 
 Cobham, Lord 
 
 , 114 
 
 Dun, Sir Daniel . . 
 
 
 Codesale, W. de . . 
 
 . 98 
 
 Durnal, Henry . . 
 
 
 Colchester, Lord 
 
 . 164 
 
 
 Colet, Walter 
 
 102 
 
 
 Cooke, William 
 
 . 194 
 
 Easthope, Sir John 
 
 Cooper, Thomas 
 
 . 116 
 
 Eden, Hon. George 
 
 Cope, Sir Anthony 
 
 • 49 
 
 Rt. Hon. William 
 
 Sir Anthony 
 
 . 62 
 
 Hon. W. F. E 
 
 Sir Jonathan 
 
 . 182 
 
 Edisbury, John 
 
 Sir John 
 
 . 64 
 
 Edmonds, Christopher 
 
 Sir Monoux 
 
 . 183 
 
 Sir Clemont 
 
 Sir William 
 
 5* 
 
 Sir Thomas 
 
 Cornbury, Viscount . . . 
 
 . 161 
 
 Ellesfield, Sir G. de . 
 
 
 Cotesforde, R. de 
 
 2 3 
 
 SirJ.de 
 
 
 Couele, Thomas 
 
 . 102 
 
 R. de . . 
 
 
 Coventre, Thomas 
 
 . 102 
 
 Elmerugge, Roger de . 
 Ely, Marquis of . . 
 
 
 Cranbrook, Earl of 
 
 170 
 
 
 Crewe, John 
 
 • 179 
 
 Erie, Sir William 
 
 
 Lord 
 
 . 179 
 
 Estbury, John . . 
 
 
 Crispe, Sir Charles 
 
 Croft, Richard 
 
 . 213 
 
 Escourt, T. G. B. 
 
 
 37 
 
 
 Croke, Sir John 
 
 Sir Richaad 
 
 Unton 
 
 Crompton, Sir Thomas 
 Croxford, John de 
 Cudelynton, J. de 
 
 • 5o 
 . 119 
 . 120 
 
 • 143 
 
 10 
 
 • 92 
 
 Falkland, Anth. Viscou 
 Henry Viscoi 
 Falle, John de . . 
 Fallele, John de . . 
 Fane, John 
 John 
 
 nt 
 
 int .. 
 
232 
 
 Index to the Members. 
 
 Fane, J. W 
 
 Fenne, Adain de la 
 Feteplace, Peter 
 
 Sir Thomas 
 
 Fiennes, Hon, James . . 
 
 Hon. Nathaniel 
 
 Sir Richard . . 
 
 Sir Richard . . 
 
 Finch, Sir Heneage 
 
 Hon. Heneage . . 
 Lord 
 Fitzaleyn, John 
 Flaxney, Ralph 
 Fleetwood, Charles 
 
 Sir Gerard 
 
 Sir Miles . . 
 
 Miles 
 
 Sir William 
 Flemyng, William 
 Foresta, Walter de 
 Forster, John 
 Forsthull, Thomas 
 Foster, Sir Humphrey . . 
 Frelond, John 
 Frere, William 
 Freurs, Edward 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 . 84 
 
 • 13 
 
 ■ 32 
 
 • 32 
 
 • 74 
 
 • 59 
 . 40 
 
 • 47 
 . 153 
 
 • 155 
 
 • 153 
 
 • 105 
 . 107 
 
 • 57 
 
 • 199 
 . 200 
 . 60 
 . 201 
 . 106 
 
 ■ 174 
 . 101 
 . 102 
 
 • 36 
 21 
 
 . no 
 
 . 107 
 
 Garston, Richard de . . . . 99 
 
 Richard . . . .' 101 
 
 Gay, Henry 105 
 
 Gaynsford, George . . . . 37 
 
 Gibbes, John . . . . . . 98 
 
 Giffard, Edmund . . . . 27 
 
 Gladstone, Sir John . . . . 223 
 
 Rt. Hon. W. E. . • 168 
 
 Gloucestr, Stephen le . . . . 95 
 
 Glynne, Sir William . . . . 159 
 
 Glynton, Edward . . . . 107 
 
 Goddard, Jonathan . . . . 55 
 
 Godolphin, Earl 68 
 
 Golafre, Janyn 28 
 
 John . . . . . . 19 
 
 Thomas . . . . 12 
 
 Goldesmyth, Thomas . . . . 103 
 
 Gordon, Hon. William.. .. 216 
 
 Goylyn, John 105 
 
 Gry veil, Richard .. .. 31 
 
 Guernsey, Lord 155 
 
 Guilford, Francis 3rd Lord . . 183 
 
 Francis 1st Earl of. . 183 
 
 Frederick 2nd Earl of 184 
 
 Frederick 5th Earl of 186 
 
 George 3rd Earl of . . 185 
 
 Gwydon, John son of . . . . 7 
 
 Gy Hot, William 174 
 
 Hale, Sir Matthew . . . . 151 
 
 Hall, Alexander W. 
 Hampden, Sir Edmund 
 Harcourt, Edward W. V. 
 
 G. G. V. 
 
 Sir John de . . 
 
 Sir Philip . . 
 
 Sir Richard . . 
 
 Sir Robert . . 
 
 Sir Robert . . 
 
 vSir Thomas . . 
 
 Hon. William 
 
 Earl .. 
 
 Rt. Hon. Sir William 
 Hardy, Rt. Hon. Gathorne 
 Harowedon, John 
 Hatherley, Lord 
 Hattecombe, R. de 
 Havell, Stephen 
 Haytfeld, Stephen 
 Heathcote, Sir William 
 Heber, Richard 
 Henley, Rt. Hon. J. W. 
 Herberfeld, William 
 Herbert, James 
 James 
 Philip .. 
 Hon. William 
 Herdwj^k, John de 
 Herle, Sir John . . 
 Hermon-Hodge, R. T. . . 
 Hertewelle, John 
 Hikkes, John 
 Hodge, R. T. Hermon . . 
 Holbech, William 
 Holman, Sir John 
 Horde, Thomas 
 Houkyn, Thomas 
 Howard, Charles Lord . . 
 
 Col. Hon Thomas 
 Hughes, W. Hughes . . 
 Hurne, Robert de la 
 Huscarl, Thomas 
 Hustone, John de 
 Huxley, James 
 Hyde, Hon. Lawrence . . 
 
 Viscount 
 Hynton, John de 
 
 Inglis, Sir R. H 
 
 Insula, Sir Giles de 
 Isaacson, James 
 James, John . ; 
 
 Jenkins, Sir Leoline 
 Jenkinson, Robert 
 
 Sir Robert . . 
 
 Sir Robert . . 
 
 Sir R. Banks 
 
 PAGK. 
 • 139 
 
 34 
 
 84 
 
 81 
 
 14 
 
 65 
 
 35 
 
 33 
 
 37 
 
 24 
 
 128 
 
 128 
 
 138 
 
 170 
 
 26 
 
 136 
 
 20 
 
 105 
 
 33 
 
 169 
 
 166 
 
 82 
 
 104 
 
 69 
 
 126 
 
 127 
 
 203 
 
 21 
 
 25 
 
 87 
 
 97 
 
 99 
 
 87 
 
 186 
 
 179 
 
 65 
 100 
 
 115 
 209 
 
 134 
 
 173 
 
 21 
 
 174 
 121 
 
 153 
 
 153 
 
 10 
 
 167 
 10 
 
 181 
 25 
 
 156 
 56 
 67 
 
 69 
 
Index to the Members. 
 
 233 
 
 Johnson, Martin . . 
 William 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 • 195 
 
 • 195 
 
 Keck, Anthony . . 
 Kenyan, Edmund 
 Kenyngton, John 
 Knollys, Edward 
 
 Sir Francis 
 Sir Francis 
 Francis . . 
 Henry . . 
 Sir William 
 William Lord 
 William 
 
 Langele, Thomas de 
 
 Langston, J. H 
 
 Latton, John 
 Laundels, John 
 Lavington, Lord 
 Lee, John 
 
 Sir Richard 
 
 Hon. Robert 
 Legge, Hon. Arthur 
 
 Hon. Heneage . . 
 Leghe, William de 
 Leigh, Sir Francis 
 Lekenesfeld, Alan 
 Lenthall, William 
 William 
 Leukenore, John de 
 Lichfield, George Earl of 
 
 Robert Earl of 
 Lincoln, Thomas de 
 Lisle, Sir William 
 Littleton, Sir Thomas 
 Lockhart, J. Ingram 
 Lodelowe, John . . 
 Loftus, Viscount 
 Long, Dudley North - 
 Louches, John de 
 Lovell, Sir William 
 
 Macclesfield, 3rd Earl of 
 4th Earl of 
 6th Earl of 
 Maclean, Donald 
 
 Sir F. W. 
 Makkeny, William 
 Mallynson, Thomas 
 Malmesbury, H. de 
 Malyns, Sir R. de 
 Mansfield, Earl of 
 Mareschal, W. de 
 Marlborough, 5th Duke of 
 6th Duke of 
 . - 7th Duke of 
 
 216 
 
 99 
 
 105 
 
 no 
 
 44 
 no 
 126 
 46 
 46 
 46 
 62 
 
 19 
 133 
 106 
 
 21 
 220 
 197 
 197 
 127 
 188 
 188 
 
 17 
 113 
 101 
 
 60 
 107 
 
 18 
 
 75 
 127 
 
 173 
 
 3i 
 
 210 
 
 131 
 101 
 227 
 187 
 17 
 35 
 
 76 
 
 219 
 82 
 
 % 
 
 29 
 
 108 
 
 96 
 
 24 
 
 225 
 
 15 
 
 78 
 
 223 
 
 227 
 
 Marten, Sir Henry 
 Mayheu, John 
 Mercer, Richard 
 Merrick, Benjamin 
 Merston, John 
 Michell, John 
 Mills, John 
 Moore, Charles 
 William 
 Morby, Sir R. de 
 More, Thomas atte 
 T. dela .. 
 
 Morrell, G. H 
 
 Mowbray, Rt. Hon. Sir J. R 
 Munster, T. de . . 
 Musgrave, Sir C. 
 Mymecan, John 
 Myrie, John le . . 
 
 Nares, Sir George 
 Neate, Charles .. 
 Newdigate, Sir Roger . . 
 Newman, William 
 Nixon, John 
 Noble, William 
 Norreys, Sir Edward . . 
 Sir Francis 
 Francis 
 Sir Henry 
 Henry Lord . . 
 John 
 
 Montague Lord 
 
 Montague Lord 
 
 Norris, Hon. Sir John . . 
 
 North, Hon. Charles . . 
 
 Hon. Sir Dudley 
 
 Dudley 
 
 Hon. Francis . . 
 Francis 7th Lord 
 Frederick Lord . . 
 Hon. Frederick.. 
 Geo. Aug. Lord.. 
 Sidney 
 Northern, William 
 Nottingham, Earl of . . 
 Nowers, John de 
 Roger de 
 
 Offord, William . . 
 
 Orfevre, John le . . 
 
 Osbaldeston, Sir L. 
 
 Owen, George 
 
 Rev. John 
 William . . 
 
 Oxon, Christopher de 
 John de 
 
 Packer, William 204 
 
234 
 
 Index to the Members. 
 
 Page, Francis 
 William 
 
 Palmer, Peregrine 
 
 Pantre, William . . 
 
 Parco, Edmund de 
 
 Parker, Hon. Francis 
 
 George Viscount 
 Thomas Viscount 
 
 T. A.W 
 
 T. A. W. Viscount 
 
 Paynell, Sir Thomas . . 
 
 Paynter, Peter le 
 
 Peel, Sir Robert 
 
 Peniston, Thomas 
 
 Perrott, Charles 
 Henry 
 
 Persshore, John de 
 
 Peters, Henry 
 
 Peyntour, John le 
 
 Peyton, Sir Henry 
 
 Plower Henry le 
 
 Pogeys, Sir Robert 
 
 Pole, John de la . . 
 
 Pollard, Sir John 
 
 Poole, Sir Henry . . 
 
 Pope, Hon. Sir W. 
 
 Poure, Nicholas 
 
 Powell, Edmund 
 
 Poyle, Sir T de la 
 
 Praed, William 
 
 Pratell, John de . . 
 
 Prewes, John de . . 
 
 Publesbury, N. de 
 
 Pudsey, Sir George 
 
 Pury, John 
 
 Pye, Sir Robert, 
 
 Pyrie, Andrew de 
 
 Quarame, John 
 Quarendon, Viscount . . 
 Quatremayns, Sir Richard 
 
 Raulyn, Walter .. 
 Rede, Sir Edmund 
 
 John 
 Restwold, Anthony 
 Rialton, Viscount 
 River, Adam de la 
 Rochester, of Earl 
 Roe, Sir Thomas.. 
 Rowney, Thomas 
 Thomas 
 
 St. John, Hon. Frederick 
 Salesbury, Michael 
 Samuelson, Sir Bernhard 
 Sankey, Sir Jerome 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 163 
 109 
 162 
 109 
 193 
 87 
 219 
 
 76 
 
 82 
 
 82 
 
 28 
 
 97 
 
 165 
 
 195 
 
 155 
 
 74 
 
 95 
 
 130 
 
 20 
 
 225 
 
 174 
 18 
 
 14 
 4i 
 5i 
 50 
 22 
 42 
 27 
 
 187 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 95 
 
 124 
 
 34 
 
 203 
 
 90 
 
 103 
 75 
 32 
 
 174 
 35 
 
 27 
 
 195 
 
 68 
 
 101 
 
 153 
 150 
 125 
 126 
 
 132 
 
 102 
 
 86 
 
 206 
 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Savage, John 
 
 Saye and Sele, Lord 
 
 •• 174 
 
 .. 47 
 
 Viscount 
 
 53 
 
 Scalebrok, Sir W. de 
 
 9 
 
 Scott, Sir William 
 
 .. 164 
 
 William 
 
 .. 197 
 
 Selden, John 
 
 .. 150 
 
 Seman, John 
 
 .. 105 
 
 Seynte Fredeswyth, J. de 
 
 .. 96 
 
 Shaftesbury, Earl of 
 
 .. 224 
 
 Shawe, John 
 
 .. 100 
 
 Shareshull, Sir Adam de 
 
 22 
 
 Simon, Christopher son of 
 
 .. 91 
 
 Skinner, Matthew 
 
 .. 126 
 
 Skynner, Sir John 
 
 .. 217 
 
 Skyres, Reginald 
 
 .. 105 
 
 Smith, John 
 
 .. 117 
 
 Somerset, Thomas 
 
 99 
 
 Sowy, Thomas de 
 
 .. 90 
 
 Spaldyng, W. de . . 
 
 .. 92 
 
 Spencer, Lord Charles . . 
 
 .. 77 
 
 Lord Francis A. 
 
 79 
 
 Lord H. J. 
 
 .. 220 
 
 Hon. John 
 
 .. 214 
 
 Lord Robert . . 
 
 . . 129 
 
 Sir Thomas . . 
 
 .. 198 
 
 Sir Thomas . . 
 
 .. 208 
 
 Spicer, Alan le . . 
 
 .. 99 
 
 John le . . 
 
 92 
 
 John 
 
 .. 102 
 
 Spragat, Richard 
 
 .. 105 
 
 Stanlake, John de 
 
 .. 174 
 
 Stapleton, Sir Thomas . . 
 
 .. 127 
 
 Sir William.. 
 
 .. 75 
 
 Stodlegh, Henry de 
 
 .. 94 
 
 John de 
 
 .. 96 
 
 John de 
 
 •• 97 
 
 Stokes, John 
 
 .. 36 
 
 Stonor, Edmund de 
 
 .. 25 
 
 Francis 
 
 .. 197 
 
 Thomas 
 
 .. 3 1 
 
 Thomas 
 
 .. 34 
 
 Thomas 
 
 .. 134 
 
 Sir William . . 
 
 .. 37 
 
 Stormont, Viscount 
 
 .. 225 
 
 Stowell, Lord 
 
 .. 164 
 
 Stuart, Hon. Sir Francis 
 
 .. 148 
 
 H. Villiers 
 
 .. 189 
 
 Stuart de Decies, Lord.. 
 
 .. 189 
 
 Sundon, Lord 
 
 .. 213 
 
 Swanne, Thomas 
 
 .. 103 
 
 Synieon, Sir Robert 
 
 .. 25 
 
 Talbot, Rt. Hon. J. G. . . 
 
 .. 172 
 
 Tancred, H. W 
 
 . . 190 
 
 Tanfield, Sir Lawrence 
 
 .. 49 
 
 Tankreary, John 
 
 .. 174 
 
 Taverner, Edmund .. 
 
 .. 200 
 
Index to the Members. 
 
 235 
 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Tayller, Roger 
 
 109 
 
 Thesiger, Sir Frederick 
 
 . 226 
 
 Thornton, William 
 
 222 
 
 Thynne, Sir Thomas . . 
 
 . 154 
 
 Tipping, Sir Thomas . . 
 
 . 66 
 
 Trevor, Hon. John 
 
 . 215 
 
 Lord 
 
 • 215 
 
 Trillawe, R. de 
 
 • 14 
 
 Trillowe, Sir J. de 
 
 22 
 
 Trotman, Samuel 
 
 . 214 
 
 Trumball, Sir William . . 
 
 . 158 
 
 Turner, Sir Edward 
 
 . 76 
 
 Tylcock, William 
 
 . 108 
 
 Unton, Sir Henry 
 
 . 196 
 
 Urry, Oliver 
 
 . 104 
 
 Utteworth, John 
 
 . IOI 
 
 Valentia, Viscount 
 
 140 
 
 Wace, Sir Gilbert 
 
 23 
 
 Wake, Sir Isaac 
 
 • 147 
 
 Walford, Robert 
 
 . 104 
 
 Wallingford, Viscount . . 
 
 . 46 
 
 Viscount . . 
 
 . 184 
 
 Walsingham, Sir Francis 
 
 • 176 
 
 Walter, Sir John 
 
 . 125 
 
 Sir William 
 
 • 63 
 
 Wappenham, J. de 
 
 • J 93 
 
 Warcuppe, Ralph 
 
 . 48 
 
 Wastie, John 
 
 • 131 
 
 Wayte, John 
 
 . 108 
 
 Welewe, J. de 
 
 • 174 
 
 Welyngton, Peter 
 
 . 100 
 
 Wenman, Sir Francis . . 
 
 53 
 
 Sir Francis . . 
 
 . 64 
 
 Philip 6th Viscoun 
 
 t 77 
 
 Philip 7th Viscous 
 
 t 78 
 
 Sir Richard . . 
 
 . 48 
 
 Richard Viscount . 
 
 . 48 
 
 Sir Thomas . . 
 
 42 
 
 Thomas 2nd Viscou 
 
 n * 53 
 
 Sir Thomas . . 
 
 • 53 
 
 Weutworth, Thomas 
 Weston, John de 
 Wetherell, Sir Charles 
 Weyland, Richard 
 Weymout, Viscount 
 Wheate, Sir Thomas 
 Sir Thomas 
 Whistler, John . . 
 Whitefeld, John de 
 Whitlock, Bulstrode 
 Sir James 
 Sir James 
 Sir William 
 Whitton, George 
 Whorwood, Brome 
 Wilde, Thomas . . 
 Willes, John 
 Williamescote, R. de 
 
 Sir R. de 
 
 Williams, Sir John 
 
 Lord . . 
 
 Richard 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Willicotes, John . . 
 
 William 
 
 William 
 
 Windebank, Sir Francis 
 
 Wode, Robert atte 
 
 Wodehay, Richard 
 
 Wodestoke, J. de 
 
 Wolseley, Sir Charles 
 
 Wood, Thomas . . 
 
 Sir W. Page 
 
 Woodward, Edward 
 
 Wormenhale, A. de 
 
 Wraye, Edward . . 
 
 Wright, J. Atkjms 
 
 William . . 
 
 Wykham, Thomas 
 
 William 
 Wyndesore, John de 
 Wyrcestre, A. de . . 
 Wythigg, Richard 
 Thomas 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 • i*3 
 . 90 
 
 . 132 
 
 . 181 
 
 • 154 
 . 211 
 . 214 
 . 114 
 . 16 
 . 118 
 
 • 58 
 . 198 
 . 160 
 . 196 
 . 121 
 . 103 
 . 184 
 
 7 
 
 . 18 
 
 • 39 
 
 • 39 
 . 109 
 . 108 
 
 • 30 
 ■ 27 
 
 • 3i 
 
 • 149 
 . 105 
 
 • 97 
 . 16 
 
 • 54 
 . 109 
 
 . 136 
 
 . 106 
 
 • 93 
 
 • 5i 
 .. 131 
 
 . 123 
 
 • 29 
 
 • 33 
 
 • 97 
 .. 94 
 
 .. 103 
 
 .. 104 
 
Index to the Defeated Candidates, 
 
 Beard, Thomas 
 Bell, Charles 
 Blundell, Sir Francis . . 
 Bouchier, Thomas 
 Bowles, T. Gibson 
 Brodrick, Hon. G. C. 
 Buckingham, Duke of . . 
 J. Silk . . 
 
 Camac, William 
 Clerhe, John 
 Chandos, Marquis of . . 
 Churchill, Lord John 
 Codrington, Sir William 
 Cotter, Sir James 
 Craven, Earl 
 
 William 
 Croke, Sir George 
 Curzon, H. R 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 . 66 
 
 . 192 
 
 . 114 
 
 • 154 
 
 . 192 
 
 . 229 
 
 . 170 
 
 . 225 
 
 221 
 64 
 170 
 226 
 182 
 128 
 128 
 128 
 
 154 
 141 
 
 Dashwood, Sir George . . . . 80 
 
 SirH. W 83 
 
 Deane, Sir J. P 138 
 
 Doyley, Sir John 64 
 
 FyfFe, C. A 140 
 
 Gaselee, Stephen .. .. 157 
 
 Grant, Corrie 229 
 
 Hall, William 229 
 
 Hardy, Sir John 191 
 
 Harley, 162 
 
 Hawkesbury, Lord . . '. . 70 
 
 Hawles, Sir John . . . . 180 
 
 Hay, Sir George, . . . . 163 
 
 Henry, Mitchell 228 
 
 Holbech, Hugh . . . . . . 190 
 
 Hutchinson, Hon. H. Hely . . 189 
 
 Jenkinson, Rt. Hon. Charles.. 70 
 
 King, William . . 
 Kingerlee, T. H. . . 
 
 Lamphire, John . . 
 Lane, Hon. James 
 
 161 
 
 141 
 
 155 
 155 
 
 Lewis, J. D. 
 Little, J. F. 
 Liverpool, Earl of 
 
 Magregor, James 
 Malcolm, Neil . 
 Marsham, R.B. . 
 Maude, F. W. 
 McWilliam, R. . 
 Miall, Edward 
 
 Nicholl, Sir John 
 
 Oakley, Vincent . . 
 Ogilvie, 
 
 Oldys, William . . 
 
 Perceval Dudlev. . 
 Phillimore, Sir W. G. F. 
 
 Richardson, Charles 
 Round, C. G. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 - 139 
 
 140 
 
 . 70 
 
 . 191 
 
 • 136 
 . 169 
 
 • 87 
 
 • 23 
 
 • 191 
 
 . 166 
 
 212 
 130 
 155 
 
 169 
 87 
 
 224 
 168 
 
 Samuel, Herbert 87 
 
 Selbright, Sir T. S 212 
 
 Smith, H.J. S 172 
 
 Souttar, Robinson . . . . 140 
 
 Stratton, G. F 80 
 
 J. 192 
 
 Tawney, Henry 190 
 
 Thackeray, W. M 138 
 
 Thornton, C 87 
 
 Townley, Charles . . . . 134 
 
 Vincent, Henry . . 
 
 White,' Henry . . 
 Wilkinson, J. J. 
 Williams, E. L. 
 Wise, Thomas 
 Wren, Sir Christopher 
 Wright, William . . 
 Wynne, L. M. 
 
 190 
 
 125 
 192 
 190 
 180 
 154 
 125 
 86 
 
 Yates, Edward 191 
 
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 Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Bengal), 
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 1894-8), Provost of Queen's College, Oxford. 
 
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 The Right Honourable Lord Moreton, Sarsden, Chipping Nortou. 
 
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 copies). 
 
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 M.P. (" Father of the House of Commons,") Warennes 
 Wood, Mortimer, R.S.O., Berks. 
 
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 London, S.W. 
 
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 Majesty's Houseld), 62, Pont Street, London, S.W. 
 
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Works by the Same Author. 
 
 The Parliamentary History of Wales, 1541-1895, price 21/- 
 Herefordshire Members, 1213-1896, (out of print). 
 Worcestershire Members, 12 13- 1897, price 15/- 
 Gloucestershire Members, 1213-1897, price 15/- 
 In preparation— The Welsh Judges, 1542- 1830, price 5/- 
 
 These historical and genealogical studies, which 
 practically form a new Biographical Dictionary for each County 
 of which they treat, open up a previously unexplored branch of 
 Family History, and have met with a most favourable reception. 
 The intention is to give in a clear and concise form as full and 
 exhaustive accounts as possible of the lives and achievements of 
 the Members of Parliament, whose ranks, be it remembered, have 
 ever been supplied from the most learned, the most valiant, and 
 the most eminent of those who have made English History. 
 The Author would esteem it a favour if Gentlemen interested in 
 the matter, would kindly communicate any information in their 
 possession dealing with such Members of their Family as have 
 sat in Parliament, to 
 
 W. R. WII^IAMS. 
 Talybont, Brecknock. 
 
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