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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2''d S. VIII. Aug. 6. '5P. 



TITI-ES CONFERRED BY OLIVER CROMWELL. 



(2"^ S.vii. 476. 518.) 



From various sources I am enabled to furnish 

 PrHURiEL with the names of the following Baro- 

 nets and Knights created by the Protector. 

 JBaronets. 



25 June, 1656. John Read, of Brocket Hall.i 



16 Julj', 1656. John Claypole.2 JA.*6^t6t?,/ J*2,v, 

 6 October, 1657. Thomas Chamberlaj'ne of \\ ickham.' 

 5 March, 1657 — 8. Thomas Beaumont of Stoughton 

 Grange.* 

 24 March, 1657—8. John Twisleton. 

 31 March, 1658. Henry Ingolsby, of Lethenborow.^ 

 31 March, 1658. Henry Wright of Dagenham.^ 



26 April, 1658. Edmund Dunch Baron Burnell, 

 28 May, 1658. Griffith Williams of Penrhyn.7 



K7iights. 

 1653. Thomas Vyner, Lord Mayor of London, 1653.8 

 Christopher Pack. 



liichard Tichborne. Sl,'^ (^HcrUwf- ~ h 3<S'^>v. 

 Richard Combs. 

 Edward Ward of Bexley.^ 

 Thomas Andrews. 

 Thomas Atkifis. 

 Thomas Foote.io 

 Henry Ingolsbj-.^i 



Richard Chiverton, Lord Mayor of London, 1657. 

 Henj)' Pickering of Whaddon.i" 

 John Barksted. 

 John Dethick. 

 James Drax. 

 Henry Wright.^s 



1655. Andrew Ramsay, Lord Provost of Edinburgh. i* 

 Colonel William Lockhart, Resident in France.'^ 



1656. Peter Coyett, Resident in France. 

 Bulstrode Whitlocke. 



Thomas Widdrin gton. Speaker, ^i-o . /> \31 »i 

 JolTn Reynolds. 



1657. John Lenthall.16 



Rear A.dmiral Richard Stayner.^^ 



Although Cromwell, towards the end of his 

 life, instituted a House of Lords, he did not assign 

 the members any titles of peerage, those who 

 were not previously Earls, Viscounts, or Barons, 

 having merely the prefix oiLord attached to their 

 surnames. It is remarkable that the only Peer 

 created by him (20 July, 1657), Charles Viscount 

 Howard and Baron Gilsland, was on the Restora- 

 tion elevated to the Earldom of Carlisle (30 April, 

 1661), receiving at the same time the titles of Vis- 

 count Howard of Morpeth and Baron Dacre of 

 Gillesland. Sc^ /, i^^\. R. R. 



* He had been created a Baronet by Charles I., 16 

 March, 1641 — 2, but being according to Cromwell's Act 

 of Parliament, 4 Feb. 1651, which annulled all patents 

 granted subsequent to 4 Feb. 1641, prohibited from as- 

 suming the title, he seems to have accepted a similar 

 honour from the Protector. 



2 He was father of Cromwell's son-in-law, John Lord 

 Claj-pole. 



2 He also had been created a Baronet by Charles I., 

 4 February, 1642—3. 



* Created Baronet by Charles II. after the Restora- 

 tion, 21 February, 1660 — 1. 



* Created Baronet 80 August, 1C61. 



ADENCOROUGH. 



(2"'J S. viii. 51.) 



The question respecting " Adenborough " re- 

 sembles some other historical matters of the nine- 

 teenth century, which are already passing into 

 obscurity. We now know of no such thing as any 

 "constituency of Adenborough." With a view 

 to the solution of the difficulty, we should in the 

 first place bear In mind that the year 1831, when 

 London gave birth to the pamphlet upon Whig 

 lieform which your correspondent cites, was the 

 identical year when a Beform Bill, not unlike 

 that which passed in 1832, was first brought for- 

 ward. 



Your correspondent asks, " What place is meant 

 by Adenborough? " I would suggest Aldborough; 

 either Aldborough in Suffolk or Aldborough in 

 Yorkshire, both of which returned members to 

 Parliament. Aldenburgh in Anhalt is also spelt 

 Adenburgh (Wright's Gazetteer). So Aden- 

 borough may have been used as a way of spelling 

 the English, in conformity with the foreign name. 



Secondly, we must take note that in the Re- 

 form Bill of 1831, as well as in that of 1832, both 

 our English Aldboroughs stood in Schedule A. (to 

 be disfranchised). 



Your correspondent (citing the aforesaid pam- 

 phlet, which exalts Adenborough above Knares- 

 borough, and represents Sir James as speaking 

 contemptuously of the Adenborough constituency), 

 asks what Sir James said, and whe7i. After some 

 search, I can only say with your correspondent, 

 " I cannot find it." Possibly, however, the whole 

 is resolvable into a mistake, and in the following 

 manner. 



In the adjourned debate on the Reform Bill of 



* Created Baronet 11 June, 1660. 



7 Created Baronet 17 June, 1661. 



8 Created a Baronet by Charles II., 18 June, 1661. 

 8 Created Baronet 19 December, 1660. 



10 Created Baronet 21 November, 1660, with remainder 

 to his son-in-law Arthur Onslow, ancestor of the Earl 

 Onslow. 



" Vide anih. 



12 Created Baronet 2 January, 1600—1. He was a 

 relative of Sir Gilbert Pickering of Tichmarsh, Bart, 

 Cromwell's Lord Chamberlain, but in what degree does 

 not appear in any pedigree of the family that I have 



13 Vide antfe. 



1* Knighted by Charles IL, 17 Jul}', 1600. His son 

 Andrew Ramsay of Wauch ton [ Abbots-Hall ? ] was created 

 a Baronet of Scotland 23 June, 1069. * 



15 He was son and heir of Sir James Lockhart of Lee, 

 Knt, Lord Justice Clerk, and married a niece of Cromwell. 



16 He was son of Speaker Lenthall, and was degraded 

 from his knighthood by parliament, 12 Maj', 1660. 



17 He was knighted by Charles II. in September 1660, 

 along with Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson, who probably 

 had also received that honour previously from Cromwell. 

 It is not improbable that Sir Edward Montague, the 

 great Admiral, afterwards Earl of Sandwich, K. G., was 

 also knighted by the Protector. 



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