Nathaniel Bacon of Friston (15 May, 1593

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-7 August 1644, Friston) was a committeeman active with the Second Commission of the

Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers The Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers were two committees commissioned by the Earl of Manchester between 24 February and 15 March 1644 in accordance with an ordinance published on 22 January 1644. Manchester had been pressing for authori ...

. Nathaniel was the father of Thomas Bacon, MP.

Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers

This Nathaniel Bacon served alongside another Nathaniel Bacon Recorder of Ipswich on the Second Commission on some occasions attending the same sessions. However, Clive Holmes notes that as the other Nathaniel Bacon was permanent chairman of the standing Committee of the

Eastern Association The Eastern Association of counties was an administrative organisation set up by Parliament in the early years of the First English Civil War. Its main function was to finance and support an army which became a mainstay of the Parliamentarian m ...

, which met on a daily basis during 1644, he was unable to carry out his role as Recorder of Ipswich. Holmes argues that this supports his contention that Nathaniel Bacon of Friston is the committeeman who attend 12 of 13 sessions of the second commission which met in Ipswich of

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