Sir Charles Ingleby (

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

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. He was the third son of John Ingleby of

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, Yorkshire. He was admitted a member of

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in June 1663, and called to the bar in November 1671. He was a Roman Catholic, and in February 1680 was charged by the informers Robert Bolron and Moubray with complicity in the Gascoigne plot, and was committed to the

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, but upon his trial at York in July he was acquitted. Upon the accession of James II he was promoted, and was made a baron of the Irish court of exchequer, 23 April 1686, but, refusing to proceed to Ireland, was made a serjeant-at-law in May of the following year, and on 6 July 1688 was knighted and made a

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 In November, upon the landing of William of Orange, his patent was superseded, and he returned to the bar.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

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. The date of his death is unknown.

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

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

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

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