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Bury Conference (1645)
The Bury Conference was held on 30 January, 1645 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk by committeemen of the Eastern Association to discuss their concerns about the proposed New Model Army. The Eastern Association had provided a major portion of the Parliamentarian Army which had proved victorious at the Battle of Marston Moor in July 1644. However the new proposals for a professional national standing army distinct from the functions of civilian administration was at odds with use of trained bands with which the Eastern Association had played such a major role in meeting the military challenges of the Royalist Army. Participants The conference was a meeting of 35 Deputy Lieutenants and Committeemen from the Associated Counties of Norffolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hartford, Cambridge, Huntington, and Lincolnshire. Norfolk Seven were from Norfolk: *Sir John Palgrave, 1st Baronet * Edward Ashby *Thomas Sotherton * Robert Jermy * John Spelman * Tobias Frere * John Greenwood of Norwich Suffolk Twelve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds (), commonly referred to locally as ''Bury,'' is a cathedral as well as market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk District, West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St. Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: . Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton A2 edition. Publishing Date:2008. The town is best known for Bury St Edmunds Abbey and St Edmundsbury Cathedral. Bury is the seat of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich of the Church of England, with the episcopal see at St Edmundsbury Cathedral. The town, originally called Beodericsworth, was built on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin around 1080. It is known for brewing and malting (Greene King brewery) and for a British Sugar processing factory, where Silver Spoon sugar is produced. The town is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and tourism is a major part of the economy. The built up area had a population of 41,280 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Barrow (puritan)
Maurice Barrow (1597/98–1666) was a puritan lawyer and committeeman active in Suffolk during the English Civil War. He was also noted for his exceeding wealth. Maurice was the son of William Barrow of Westhorpe, Suffolk. and his second wife, Elizabeth Daundy. He attended St John's College, Cambridge matriculating in 1612. He practiced law at Gray's Inn. He was High Sheriff of Suffolk twice, in 1628 and 1643. Barrow married Mary Smythe, a daughter of Richard Smythe of Leeds Castle Leeds Castle is a castle in Kent, England, southeast of Maidstone. It is built on islands in a lake formed by the River Len to the east of the village of Leeds and is a historic Grade I listed estate. A castle has existed on the site s .... Maurice Barrow monument, Westhorpe There is a sculpture of Maurice in a memorial to him in St Margaret's Church, Westhorpe. Although Barrow died in Barningham, he directed that his body should be buried in Westhorpe, leaving £500 for the building of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Brownlow, 1st Baronet
Sir William Brownlow, 1st Baronet (c. 1595–1666) of Humby in Lincolnshire, was an English politician and barrister. Origins He was the second son of Richard Brownlow (1553–1638) of Belton in Lincolnshire, which manor he purchased, Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, by his wife Katharine Page, a daughter of John Page of Wembley in Middlesex. His elder brother was Sir John Brownlow, 1st Baronet (c.1594-1679) of Belton, who was created a baronet "of Belton" one day before himself. Career He was educated at St Mary Hall, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1610 or 1611. In 1617 Brownlow was called to the bar by the Inner Temple. Despite having been created by King Charles I a baronet, "of Humby, in the County of Lincoln", on 27 June 1641, one day after the baronetcy of his elder brother, he became a Parliamentarian during the Civil War. From 1653 he sat in the Long Parliament for Lincolnshire. Marriage and children In about 1624 he married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Mildmay
Sir Henry Mildmay (ca. 1593–1668) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of Charles I of England. Mildmay was knighted in 1617, and made Master of the Jewel Office in 1618. In 1621, Mildmay was elected Member of Parliament for Maldon. He was elected MP for Westbury in 1624 and Maldon again in 1625 and 1628. He sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years He attended Charles I on a visit to Scotland in 1639. In April 1640, Mildmay was elected MP for Maldon in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Maldon in the Long Parliament in November 1640 He supported Parliament during the Civil War and was a revenue commissioner between 1645 and 1652. In 1646, he was left as a hostage in Scotland. He remained in the Rump Parliament after Pride's Purge and was present at the trial of Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Bacon (English Politician)
Nathaniel Bacon (12 December 1593 – 1660) was an English Puritan lawyer, writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1645 and 1660. He was Judge of the High Court of Admiralty 1653 to 1654. Life Bacon was the son of Sir Edward Bacon of Shrubland Hall, Barham, son of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Sir Nicholas Bacon, by his first wife, Jane Ferneley (d.1552). He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1617 he was called to the bar. Bacon was a Parliamentarian, active in support of the New Model Army from 1644, Bacon became Member of Parliament for Cambridge University in 1645, as a recruiter to the Long Parliament until he was excluded after Pride's Purge. Bacon was elected MP for Ipswich for the First Protectorate Parliament in 1654, along with his brother Francis Bacon and the two represented Ipswich together until his death. He also served as an Admiralty Judge and Master of Requests (1657). Works ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brampton Gurdon Of Letton
Brampton Gurdon (1606 – 3 November 1669), of Letton in Norfolk, was an English Member of Parliament (MP), lawyer and a colonel of cavalry during the English Civil War. Gurdon was the son of Brampton Gurdon (of Assington and Letton), Brampton Gurdon (died 1650), an MP and High Sheriff of Suffolk, by his second marriage. His father left him the Letton estate while passing the family's other estate (at Assington in Suffolk) to Brampton's older half-brother, John Gurdon (died 1679), John. Brampton qualified as a barrister, and in 1645 was elected a member of the Long Parliament, filling a vacancy at Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency), Sudbury, though he does not seem to have been an active member. During the Civil War he was Colonel (United Kingdom), Colonel of a regiment of Suffolk Trained Band Horse and served as a member of the court martial which condemned Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle (Royalist), George Lisle to death after the Siege of Colchester. In 1651 and 165 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
